Review the COBIT Governance and Manage objectives document. For this forum, discuss how the governance domain Evaluate, Direct and Monitor (EDM) relates to the adoption of a cloud strategy.
Reflect on the current state of your critical thinking competencies. Consider your thinking processes when you started the course. How have they changed? In what ways have you internalized the techniques and concepts you learned? What interventions will you take to make lasting changes to your thinking habits? How might you use a thinking partner or coach to help you advance your goals? Make sure to reflect on the distinction between intellectual virtues and barriers to thinking.
Use your leadership blog to reflect on these questions and to discuss how you will continue to advance your critical thinking skills.
Describe the ethical challenges faced by organizations operating globally.
Some historians have suggested that the course of American history has been based upon the divergent beliefs of Jefferson and Hamilton. State whether you agree or disagree and provide support for your choice.
According to recent surveys, China, India, and the Philippines are the three most popular countries for IT outsourcing. Write a short paper explaining what the appeal would be for US companies to outsource IT functions to these countries. You may discuss cost, labor pool, language, or possibly government support as your reasons. There are many other reasons you may choose to highlight in your paper. Be sure to use your own words.
Which is more detrimental to a firm, pricing your product or service too high, or pricing your product or service too low?
The courts have one of the most important roles in the criminal justice system. They are responsible for the interpretation and application of law when crimes are committed, They exert some of their greatest influence when it involves due process under the law. The due process model argues that the greatest concern of the justice system should be providing fair and equitable treatment to those accused of crime. This perspective is demonstrated through the courts’ involvement with the police in controlling search and seizure and interrogation, protecting the rights of the accused, in cases like Miranda v. Arizona and Weeks v. United States. Have concerns over due process and protecting the “allegedly” innocent led to the guilty also being spared, as the crime control model would argue?
Criminologist Herbert Packer’s assembly line concept finds that although there are many people who commit crime and are arrested and charged, only about 21 adults are incarcerated for every 1000 serious crimes committed. Additionally, 80 percent of all felony cases and over 90 percent of misdemeanors are settled without trial.
On the other hand, over time, the Supreme Court has been diminishing the scope of the exclusionary rule. This normally excludes improperly obtained evidence by permitting more exceptions, thus allowing more “improperly obtained evidence” into court. For example, evidence is now admissible in court if the police officers acted in good faith by first obtaining court approval for their search, even if the warrant they received was deficient or faulty. This has come to be known as the good faith exception.
Based on your understanding from the readings in chapters 6-8, and keeping in mind the due process and crime control models, write a 2- to 3-page paper in which you discuss:
Use your textbook and at least two (2) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as quality resources.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
Discuss the relationship between cyber security and risk management.
As an IT manager, discuss how you will use the concepts discussed in the four articles in the management of IT risks within a company.
Chapter 32: Constructive Dialogue and ERM: Lessons from the Financial Crisis Case and provide response for following questions.
1. What are the preconditions for conducting constructive dialogue in an organization?
2. Is effective risk management possible without constructive dialogue?
3. What are the forces that tend to undermine effective risk management in an organization?
4. Given its obvious value in helping an organization to understand the major risks that could prevent it from accomplishing its mission and objectives, why was the financial sector, including a risk-sensitive organization such as Goldman Sachs, so slow in adopting ERM?
1. Based on the article (Hiring The Very Best), consider the approaches to organizational design. Analyze the effects and applications of the various organizational structures and levels of authority. Given the benefits and motivations mentioned in the article, share an analysis of the referenced company’s impact on employee motivation, morale, and organizational culture.
