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1. BSA 500 Entire Course (May 2020) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com BSA 500 Week 1 Discussion Business Types BSA 500 Week 1 Assignment Aligning Solutions to Business Needs BSA 500 Week 2 Discussion Factors Influencing Business BSA 500 Week 2 Team Assignment Ethics in IT

2. BSA 500 Week 2 Assignment Business Process Re-engineering BSA 500 Week 3 Discussion Software Application BSA 500 Week 3 Assignment Applying Business Data and Intelligence Strategies to Business Systems BSA 500 Week 4 Discussion Choosing an Information System BSA 500 Week 4 Team Assignment Analyzing Financial Documents

3. BSA 500 Week 4 Assignment Analyzing and Aligning Financial Systems with IT BSA 500 Week 5 Discussion SCM Software BSA 500 Week 5 Team Assignment Aligning Enterprise Solutions with Business Needs BSA 500 Week 5 Assignment Exploring Enterprise Solutions

4. BSA 500 Week 6 Discussion Project Management Approaches BSA 500 Week 6 Assignment Applying Project and Risk Management Strategies ============================================== BSA 500 Week 1 Assignment Aligning Solutions to Business Needs For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Calibri an online clothing retailer with over 1,000 employees has experienced rapid growth over the past 18 months. This growth has strained its IT capacity, and leadership suspects that some of its IT solutions aren’t scalable and won’t support the company going forward.

5. The company has contracted you, as a business IT consultant, to research and recommend the best software solutions to support its accounting and financial functions. It has also asked you to choose another function you believe represents the greatest opportunity to contribute to the company’s ongoing success (such as operations/logistics, customer relationship management, supply chain management, support, or another function of your choosing), and research and recommend the best software solutions for that function as well. To complete this assignment: Write a 2-page business recommendation that ties the business’s needs to potential software solutions. Your assignment should include the following for each of your recommendations: Software solution Purpose/description Cost Benefits/drawbacks

6. Format your citations according to APA guidelines. Submit your assignment. ============================================== BSA 500 Week 1 Discussion Business Types For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words: Consider 2 to 3 business systems that you have seen, are interested in, or have been a part of.

7. Review the Week 1 section in the Course Notes, which lists common types of businesses in the U.S.: sole proprietorship, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability partnership, limited liability company, corporation (Inc.), C-corporation, and S-corporation. Discuss a real or imaginary scenario in which you are significantly involved in setting up one or more of the various types of business. For example, you could discuss setting up a home business, a retail business, a start-up company, a small business with a few partners, a C- corporation, S-corporation and so on. Explain why you chose that type of business for your real or imagined scenario. Describe your role in the business (which should be significant), partners (if any), and the implications of the business type on IT requirements. ============================================== BSA 500 Week 2 Assignment Business Process Re- engineering For more course tutorials visit

8. www.tutorialrank.com Note: You will be referring to this completed assignment later in the Week 3 assignment. For this assignment, you are a business IT consultant. You have been contracted by a nationwide taxi service called Carz. The company is looking to modify its service delivery to be more competitive. They want you to examine the feasibility of adopting elements of the Uber® and Lyft® delivery services, and produce a business process re- engineering plan. One of the proposals already being considered is incorporating a web chat interface to entice web-savvy prospective customers to self- schedule taxis (in addition to traditional telephone and email requests). However, the customer pay interface is still the traditional system, fully dependent on drivers/operators calling in to the central booking system office when rides are over and are available for the next pickup. You, as the consultant, will evaluate the proposed addition and also your own modifications to the business process.

9. Management will consider any recommendations, such as incorporating specific, isolated elements of Uber’s and Lyft’s service model to a complete changeover from Carz’s traditional taxi service to an Uber- or Lyft-type peer-to-peer model. To complete this assignment: Research service models employed by Uber and Lyft. Consider the decision-making processes discussed in this week’s readings.

10. Write a 2-page business process re-engineering plan that includes: A recommendation for adding an Uber- or Lyft-inspired element to Carz’ traditional service model. A discussion of the potential benefit of adding a web chat service request component to Carz’ service model. An analysis of the potential negative impact your recommendation(s) may have on the existing workforce and the local communities where Carz operates. Include recommendations to mitigate any negative impact you identify. A summary of the decision-making process you used to determine your recommendations Format your citations according to APA guidelines. Submit your assignment. ==============================================

11. BSA 500 Week 2 Discussion Factors Influencing Business For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words: Read the Week 2 section in the Course Notes, which lists various influences on business due to economic, governmental, legal, and environmental factors. Which of these influences do you believe has the most potential to affect an organization? Why? Share a specific example from the textbook, the web, or your own experience to support your reasoning. ==============================================

12. BSA 500 Week 2 Team Assignment Ethics in IT For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Ethically questionable or unacceptable use of information technology includes individuals who hack into others’ systems and steal information, organizations that collect and use information without checking its validity or their right to use it, and employees who destroy or steal proprietary information. Research an organization that recently experienced an IT-related ethics breach. (Your team could also come up with a scenario of a breach based on instructor assigned topics.) Imagine your team has been brought in as consultants to analyze and explain the consequences of the breach to the stakeholders of the

13. company. Your team should suggest ethical practices going forward to reduce the possibility of a breach like this occurring in the future. Create an 8- to 10-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation that your team will present to the stakeholders of the company. In your presentation, ensure you: Explain why this was an ethical breach. Explain the organizational losses in terms of money, employees, customers, and reputation. Propose ethical practices that the organization should follow in the future to guard against a similar breach. Include any environmental, socioeconomic, political, legal, and global trade factors in your recommendation. Include robust speaker notes on each content slide to demonstrate how you would present the information on the slide.

14. Include a minimum of 2 sources to support your recommendations. Format your citations according to APA guidelines. Submit your assignment. ============================================== BSA 500 Week 3 Assignment Applying Business Data and Intelligence Strategies to Business Systems For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Note: This assignment builds on the assignment you completed in Week 2.

15. For this assignment, you are part of a data auditing team. In anticipation of adapting their process to be more like Uber/Lyft (and less like a traditional taxi service), Carz has retained you to analyze the data associated with the re-engineered business process you submitted earlier. You will be creating a 2-page data analysis report in Microsoft® Word to communicate to leadership the extent to which Carz’ data (including any new data you may have proposed to capture in your Week 2 assignment) currently meets generally accepted quality characteristics. To complete this assignment: 1.Review the business process plan you submitted in Week 2. Consider the business data Carz must acquire, manage, and store to implement your plan. Consider data associated with every aspect of the business, including, but not limited to, customers, services, and drivers. 2.Identify the data sets or groupings (such as driver-related information, customer-related information, etc.) involved in Carz’ business model. 3.For each data set, analyze the extent to which the data can be expected to meet the characteristics of high-quality data as described in Ch. 6 of Business Driven Information Systems. In addition, analyze the risk to the organization posed by the data failing to meet those quality characteristics. 4.Format your analysis report as a Microsoft Worddocument. Format your citations according to APA guidelines. Submit your assignment.

16. ============================================== BSA 500 Week 3 Discussion Software Application For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words: Many software applications are moving from a download-and-own model to an online subscription model. For the business consumer, what are the advantages and disadvantages of this new model? Is the model more suited to some types of applications or uses compared to others? Why or why not? ==============================================

17. BSA 500 Week 4 Assignment Analyzing and Aligning Financial Systems with IT For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com For this assignment, you are a financial IT consultant asked to analyze financial statements and, based on the data they contain, recommend IT solutions that align with the company’s financial and related data requirements. To complete this assignment: Use the University Library to locate a balance sheet and an income statement from a publicly traded company of your choice, such as Facebook, Shutterfly, or another company. Analyze the financial documents you’ve located, and write a 2-page analysis that includes an analysis of the financial health of the company, recommendations for IT systems needed to handle the company’s financial-related data, and any additional systems that will likely need to be integrated with that financial data.

18. Format your citations according to APA guidelines. Submit your assignment. ============================================== BSA 500 Week 4 Discussion Choosing an Information System For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

19. It’s extremely important for organizations to choose information systems that support their accounting, financial needs, and processes so they can understand and use those systems and train employees effectively. In what ways can irregularities in financial reporting (intentional or unintentional) cause problems for a business? Share an example from the textbook, the web, or a personal experience. What was the overall impact on the organization? What could the organization have done differently that would have prevented the problem or mitigated the damage? ============================================== BSA 500 Week 4 Team Assignment Analyzing Financial Documents For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Read the Week 4 section in the Course Notes, which includes a section on how to access and interpret financial information for any publicly listed company of your choice.

20. Imagine your team has been asked to determine the financial health of a specific company and present your findings to the company’s leadership. Research a publicly traded company, and locate their financial statements, which may include a statement of cash flows, balance sheet, an income statement, and more. Evaluate the company’s financial health based on these financial statements. Create a 6- to 8-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation that your team will present to the company’s leadership. Ensure you:

21. Briefly summarize key information from the financial statements used in your evaluation. Explain your process of evaluating the company’s financial health. Describe the findings of your evaluation. Include a references slide with citations and links to the financial statement used. Include robust speaker notes on each content slide to demonstrate how you would present the information on the slide. Format your citations according to APA guidelines. Submit your assignment. ==============================================

22. BSA 500 Week 5 Assignment Exploring Enterprise Solutions For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com For this assignment, you are a systems consultant who has been contracted by Entertainment2U a streaming media company. In its infancy, Entertainment2U offered clips of movie trailers along with discussion boards curated by film critics and experts. Visitors to the Entertainment2U site contributed reviews and ratings used to construct demographic-specific recommendations with payment tiers. Thanks to acquisitions, the site grew quickly and began including crowdsourced reviews and ratings of online news and entertainment outlets, hardcopy books and magazines, videos, music, and games. The company grew so quickly that now, several years after its inception, leadership has realized that it has silos of information stored in legacy systems. The CEO of Entertainment2U is frustrated by the time it takes to get information needed to make strategic business decisions. A prior consulting firm suggested porting information from all of Entertainment2U’s divisions to a company-wide business information (BI) and CRM systems. However, the CEO saw this recommendation would just create additional systems, and they thought there was already

23. too much time being spent shuffling data from one system to another and formatting and reformatting. As the systems consultant, you have been asked to research and recommend an ERP solution for Entertainment2U. To complete this assignment: Write a 3-page business case for moving Entertainment2U to a specific ERP solution. Include at least 2 sources to support your business case.

24. Format your citations according to APA guidelines. Submit your assignment. ============================================== BSA 500 Week 5 Discussion SCM Software For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words: SCM software allows companies to integrate business systems for the acquisition of raw goods all the way through to the manufacture and distribution of products made with those raw goods.

25. What do you think the benefits of a dedicated SCM solution, such as Halo or Logility, are compared to solutions that integrate SCM with other functions, such as SAP SCM? What are the risks and drawbacks of each approach? ============================================== BSA 500 Week 5 Team Assignment Aligning Enterprise Solutions with Business Needs For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Enterprise information systems, sometimes referred to as enterprise- wide information systems, is a relatively broad category of software applications designed to support organizational goals that cross functional boundaries. For example, CRM affects functions ranging from marketing and customer acquisition to sales, production, and accounts receivable, so CRM, solutions fall into the enterprise information system category.

26. For this assignment, collectively construct a table listing 6 specific enterprise solutions. For each, list the name of the solution; the type of the solution (such as CRM, EPR or SCM); at least one competitor; and the business need the solution is designed to meet. Format your citations according to APA guidelines. Submit your assignment. ============================================== BSA 500 Week 6 Discussion Project Management Approaches For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

27. Two popular project management approaches are: The waterfall approach Best suited for well-defined projects with scope and details that aren’t expected to change, such as a project to upgrade existing hardware for all customers The agile approach Best suited for poorly defined projects with a scope and details that are expected to change or develop as the project goes on, such as a project to create brand-new, innovative software What important elements do these two approaches share? In what ways do they differ? ==============================================