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1. ASH INF 220 Week 2 Assignment Source of
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This team assignment is meant to provide
experience with real-world applicability in
working in teams.
The “Sources of Competitive Advantage” image
above shows the focus of competitive advantage
for seven companies:
Toyota focuses on quality as its competitive
advantage.

2. IBM focuses on service as its competitive
advantage.
Wal-Mart focuses on low cost as its competitive
advantage.
Coca-Cola focuses on its proprietary products as
its competitive advantage.
Apple focuses on innovation as its competitive
advantage.
Nike focuses on brand recognition as its
competitive advantage.
Nintendo focuses on value as its competitive
advantage.
You will develop a five-slide team PowerPoint (not
including title and references slides) that analyzes
the sources of competitive advantage for your
chosen organization. Your analysis content will be
as specified in the chart below. Include citations to
support your points throughout the presentation.
Step 1: Meet your teammates in the designated
Team Project Workspace (below Week Five in the
left navigation bar).

3. Step 2: Check in with your teammates in the
designated Team Project Workspace no later than
Day 2 (Wednesday) of Week Two.
Step 3: You can determine whether to work within
the Team Project Workspace discussion area or
via email,
phone, or Google Hangouts
(https://hangouts.google.com/). Your instructor
may require you to connect in the discussion area
for participation points. Check with your
instructor before deciding this. No matter how you
connect, it is critical that you all participate
equally in this team project.
Step 4: Determine who will be responsible for each
portion of your project. The instructor will not
assign the parts. This is what you are required to
complete as a team:
Research the Ashford University Library and the
Internet as needed
Put the PowerPoint presentation slides together
Write the speaker notes
Create the required citations

4. Upload the assignment to Waypoint (only one
person needs to submit the work for the whole
team. Step 5: Create your team PowerPoint. Your
analysis content will be as specified in the chart
below. Include citations to support your points
throughout the presentation.
Slide 1: Include title of the team PowerPoint,
course name and number, instructor’s name, date
submitted, and names of team members.
Slide 2: As a team, select a company from the list of
organizations listed above that integrates
information systems to support its business
strategies. Describe the business mission and goals
of your chosen organization.
Slide(s) 3-4: As a team, describe how information
systems create competitive advantages for your
chosen organization. Analyze and identify the
types and functions of systems used in the
organization.
Slide 5: What different types of data make up “big
data” for your chosen company? Describe the big
data (what it is and how it is used). Big is a term
that describes extremely large data sets that may
be analyzed computationally to reveal patterns,
trends, and associations. Examples of big data may

5. include data in a company’s customer service
department used to solve customer problems or a
company’s use of stock market or competitive
intelligence data to predict the future (Hint: You
can find examples of big data used by the
organization by reviewing data reports on the
“Investors” or “Our Investors” tab of the
organization’s website). Justify your answers.
Slide 6: Conclusion
Slide 7: Reference list

6. ASH INF 220 Week 2 Discussion 1 Information
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INF 220 Week 2 Discussion 1 Information Systems:
For Competitive Advantage
Kyle Wong, our guest speaker, speaks to how his
organization integrated differentiation,
innovation, and the Internet to gain competitive
advantage (INF220 Week Two Information
Systems - For Competitive Advantage). Using
Michael Porter’s Model of Competitive Advantage,
analyze how you feel Pixlee uses information
systems for its customers’ competitive advantage.

7. Hint: See the Competitive Advantage Strategies in
the “Business Use of Information Systems” chart in
the Weekly Lecture. Give examples to illustrate
your answer. Provide justification and citations for
your points.
Guided Response: Review several of your peers’
posts. Respond to at least two of your peers and
provide recommendations to extend their
thinking. Challenge your peers by asking a
question that may cause them to reevaluate their
evaluation of Pixlee’s use of information systems
for its customers’ competitive advantage. Provide
examples

8. ASH INF 220 Week 3 Assignment The Internet of
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The Internet of Things allows objects to be sensed
and controlled remotely across existing network
infrastructure, creating opportunities for more
direct integration between the physical world and
computer-based systems, and resulting in
improved efficiency, accuracy, and economic
benefit.
The IoT products and solutions in each of these
markets have different characteristics:
Manufacturing:

9. By networking machinery, sensors, and control
systems together, the IoT intelligent systems
enable rapid manufacturing of new products,
dynamic response to product demands, and real-
time optimization of manufacturing production
and supply chain networks.
Media:
The combination of analytics for conversion
tracking with behavioral targeting and
programmatic media has unlocked a new level of
precision that enables display advertising to be
focused on the devices of people with relevant
interests.
Environmental Monitoring:
Environmental monitoring applications of the IoT
typically utilize sensors to assist in environmental
protection by monitoring air or water quality,
atmospheric or soil conditions, and even the
movements of wildlife and their habitats.
Development of resource-constrained devices
connected to the Internet also means that other
applications like earthquake or tsunami early-
warning systems can also be used by emergency
services to provide more effective aid.

10. Infrastructure Management:
The IoT infrastructure can be used to monitor any
events or changes in structural conditions that can
compromise safety and increase risk. It can also be
utilized to schedule repair and maintenance
activities in an efficient manner by coordinating
tasks between different service providers and
users of these facilities.
Energy Management:
It is expected that IoT devices will be integrated
into all forms of energy-consuming devices
(switches, power outlets, bulbs, televisions, etc.)
and be able to communicate with the utility supply
company in order to effectively balance power
generation and energy usage.
Medical and Healthcare Systems:

11. ASH INF 220 Week 3 DQ 1 Information Systems In
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Our guest speaker for this week, Josh Oakhurst,
speaks to Internet of Things (IoT) solutions for
competitive advantage (INF220 Week Three
Information Systems - In a Rapidly Changing
Digital World). After viewing our guest speaker’s
presentation and reading the highlights of “IoT
Benefits and Risks” in the Instructor Guidance,
what is your position regarding the advantages of
IoT integration toward business competitive
advantage? Are you for or against continuous
integration directions of IoT solutions? Give

12. examples to illustrate your answer. Provide
justification and citations for your points.
Guided Response: Review several of your peers’
posts. Respond to at least two of your peers and
provide recommendations to extend their
thinking. Challenge your peers by asking a
question that may cause them to reevaluate their
stance on IoT solutions. Provide examples that
support your peers’ explanations or that provide a
different perspective.

13. ASH INF 220 Week 4 Assignment Software
Development Life Cycle – Personal Task
Application PowerPoint NEW
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In Chapter 9 of our course text, you studied the
phases of the System Development Life Cycle
(SDLC). Use the steps of the SDLC to describe the
process of accomplishing a task that is of interest
to you. Your task can be any task and does not
have to be related to an IT system. Examples might
be to take a trip; buy a house, car, or something
else; get a degree; learn how to do something; plan
a party; bake a cake; or just about anything else.
The idea here is to come up with some concrete
examples of the abstract concepts of the SDLC to

14. show that you really understand what each step
involves.
The SDLC has five primary phases:
Systems Planning and Selection
Systems Analysis
Systems Design
Systems Implementation and Operation
Systems Maintenance
After you have formulated your task and described
each step, present your information in a
PowerPoint presentation with a minimum of six
slides (This is in addition to the title and reference
list slides).
Presentation requirements:
You should have a title slide, a table of contents
slide, and a reference list slide.
You should have at least one slide for each of the
SDLC phases. Use the SDLC phase to title these
slides:

15. System Planning and Selection, Systems Analysis,
Systems Design, Systems Implementation and
Operation, and Systems Maintenance. Include
speaker points in each slide.
Your presentation should have at least two
relevant images in it.
Your summary slide(s) should answer the
following question:
Why is it important to integrate the SDLC process?
The Software Development Life Cycle – Personal
Task Application PowerPoint Assignment
Must have a minimum of six slides (not including
title and references pages) and formatted
according to
APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing
Center.
Must include a separate title page with the
following:
o TitleofPowerPoint
o Student’sname
o Course name and number o Instructor’sname
o Datesubmitted

16. Must use at least two scholarly sources in addition
to the course text.
TheScholarly,PeerReviewed,andOtherCredibleSou
rcestableoffersadditionalguidanceon
appropriate source types. If you have questions
about whether a specific source is appropriate for
this assignment, please contact your instructor.
Your instructor has the final say about the
appropriateness of a specific source for a
particular assignment.
Must document all sources in APA style as outlined
in the Ashford Writing Center.
Must include a separate references page that is
formatted according to APA style as outlined in the
Ashfo

17. ASH INF 220 Week 4 DQ 1 Information Systems
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Our guest speaker, Karla Lewis, described
functionality of a shared services infrastructure
data center (INF220 Week Four Information
Systems - Infrastructure Development Approaches
Part One and INF220 Week Four Information
Systems - Infrastructure Development Approaches
Part Two). The Instructor Guidance discusses six
categories of benefits from integrating shared
services in the organization. Using these
categories, discuss the benefits of the shared
services provided by Karla Lewis’s organization.

18. Give examples to illustrate your answer. Provide
justification and citations for your points.
Guided Response: Review several of your peers’
posts and respond to at least two of your peers.
Provide recommendations to extend their
thinking.
Challenge your peers by asking a question that
may cause them to consider other shared services
benefits experienced by Karla Lewis’s
organization.

19. ASH INF 220 Week 5 DQ 1 Information Systems
Security, Ethical, and Social Impacts NEW
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Regarding the discussion of growing information
systems security impacts, our guest speaker, Dr.
Rajin Koonjbearry, states, “I anticipate it’s going to
get worse before it gets better” (INF220 Week Five
Information Systems - Security, Ethical, and Social
Impacts Part Two). What supporting content does
Dr. Koonjbearry provide to justify his position?
Our Instructor Guidance highlights security breach
predictions provided by the Experian data breach.
Are these predictions in agreement with Dr.
Koonjbearry’s position? After reading and
watching our required course material, do you
agree with Dr. Koonjbearry’s position? Why or

20. why not? Give examples to illustrate your answer.
Provide justification and citations for your points.
Guided Response: Review several of your peers’
posts. Respond to at least two of your peers and
provide recommendations to extend their
thinking. Challenge your peers by asking a
question that may cause them to reevaluate their
explanations. Provide examples that support your
peers’ explanations or that provide a different
perspective.

21. ASH INF 220 Week 5 Final Project IT System
Recommendation NEW
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For the Final Project, you are asked to write an
eight-to ten-page research report (typed, double-
spaced) in which you describe a company of your
choice, the nature of its business, a specific
product or service, and how that product or
service is produced and distributed by the
company and then recommend the information
technology system you think should be in place
and why. Address the following questions in
narrative form (according to APA style). Be sure to
provide examples and supporting rationale
throughout the paper.

22. Company Background and Information Systems
What is the name, nature of business, and specific
products or services of your chosen organization?
How are the products or services produced and
distributed by the company?
Why are information systems essential in
managing the organization’s business?
Describe the existing information systems
supporting the major business functions of the
organization
(e.g., sales and marketing, manufacturing and
production, accounting, human resources, etc.)
Information Technology Recommendation
• What is your recommendation for the
information technology systems you think should
be in place and why? Your recommendation
should include the following: o Information needs:
What types of decisions do users need to make by
accessing the information systems?
What are the different levels of information
groups? o Needforsystemautomation

23. o Benefits of the proposed system (savings, quality
improvements, faster processing, etc.) o Types of
database data elements (data, images,
photographs, sound, video, etc.)
o o o o
Networkingandinteractiveprocessing
Centralizationversusdecentralization End-
usercomputingneeds
Your recommendation to develop or acquire the
system software
Potential Security Threats
• Describe the various threats and security threats
to the proposed information system. What security
controls are required to address the threats?
Social, Political, and Diversity Impacts
Summarize the social and political issues raised by
the proposed information system.
Discuss the impact of diversity to the development
and management of the proposed information
system.
Conclusion
References

24. The Final Project – IT System Recommendation
Must be eight to ten double-spaced pages in length
(not including title and references pages) and
formatted according to APA style as outlined in the
Ashford Writing Center.
Must include a separate title page with the fo