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Write an essay about a time a teacher or some inspired you to write when you were having trouble.

Reflect upon the concepts, ideas, and thoughts on the value and importance of identifying issues that affect quality and management within a governmental agency. Then, identify a government agency that needs an improvement in the service it provides. In a letter to the agency’s leader assess the reasons for the deficiencies and explain the reasons changes are needed.

Your letter should include the following:

Identify the service and the opportunities the agency provides.
Examine the issues and deficiencies impacting the service. Determine the most prominent challenges.
Recommend steps to address the deficiencies.

Discuss the intricacies of your customized checkering pattern. Have you decided to use a traditional pattern based upon the template, or have you decided to make a customized pattern? Explain your choice.

Eight studies of data warehousing failures are presented. They were written based on interviews with people who were associated with the projects. The extent of the failure varies with the organization, but in all cases, the project was at least a disappointment.

Read the cases and prepare a 1000-word minimum (excluding title page and references) discussion of the following:

What’s the scope of what can be considered a data warehousing failure? Discuss.
What generalizations apply across the cases?
What do you find most interesting in the failure stories?
Do they provide any insights about how a failure might be avoided?

Research three different information technology integration processes and create a best practice framework that can be used by organizations regardless of the type of business. In addition, the developed framework should be technology neutral. Include the requirements of any framework for information systems integration to insure success. Compare and contrast the adoption of new technology and integrating it with existing technology infrastructure compared to not integrating with existing.

Please note: Write the paper from the paradigm of a consulting firm, trying to sell the process to perspective organizations.

Objectives
1. Assess framework requirements for information systems integration processes
2. Explain the importance of establishing strategies for information sourcing strategies across various industries
3. Contrast system integration processes related to merger and acquisitions with integrating new technology with existing information systems

Read
1.Antecedents of information systems sourcing strategies in U.S. hospitals: A longitudinal study (http://ezproxy.sckans.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=buh&AN=125996708&site=eds-live&scope=site)
2. Beyond integration readiness level (IRL): A multidimensional framework to facilitate the integration of system of systems. (http://ezproxy.sckans.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=126959401&site=eds-live&scope=site)
3. Understanding information systems integration deficiencies in mergers and acquisitions: A configurational perspective. (http://ezproxy.sckans.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=buh&AN=121235105&site=eds-live&scope=site)

ASSIGNMENT

Why would firms still pursue mergers and acquisitions if the integration of technology is difficult and the results unsatisfying?

Participation Requirements:

Consult the grading rubric in the Faculty & Course Info section for the grading criteria.

Select a time past School bond issue (or other public education issue) in your hometown and describe it. How successful was it? What went right or wrong? How would you have handled it?

Write an essay explaining the role of management in ensuring the mission and vision of a department. Incorporate the following in your paper:

Describe each of the following four managerial responsibilities needed to be successful in public safety service. Provide a specific example in the department that illustrates each of these responsibilities.
Planning
Organizing
Directing
Controlling
Describe how management can ensure the mission and vision of the department is being met.
Apply the concepts of efficiency and effectiveness by measuring performance in the organization.

Now that you have seen that digital technology has affected sociology, it is time to try your sociological skills and knowledge on the concept of privacy.

In a 3-4 page paper please do the following:

Explore how privacy has changed in response to digital technology and dataveillance;
Describe what the future of privacy looks like
Discuss whether or not there a need to rethink the concept of privacy in the digital age? Why or why not?

Identify the theoretical orientation you have selected to use.
Describe how you would assess the problem orientation of the client in your selected case study (i.e., how the client perceives the problem). Remember to keep the theoretical orientation in mind in this assessment stage.
Discuss the problem definition and formulation based on the theoretical orientation you have selected.
Identify and describe two solutions from all the solutions possible. Remember, some of these solutions should stem from the theoretical orientation you are utilizing.
Describe how you would implement the solution. Remember to keep the theoretical orientation in mind.
Describe the extent to which the client is able to mobilize the solutions for change.
Discuss how you would evaluate whether the outcome is achieved or not. Remember to keep the theoretical orientation in mind.
Evaluate how well the problem-solving model can be used for short-term treatment of this client.
Evaluate one merit and one limitation of using the problem-solving model for this case.