Why is it important to document change requests? What happens if a development team doesn’t? * Database administrators usually support different business units with each unit having their own set of unique procedural requirements. Formalizing and documenting the change request process minimizes the potential for miscommunication between the business units, application development areas and the database administration unit. This is even more important to remote database services providers, meaning that if an organization doesn’t have a formal change request process in place, they’d have to create their own.
Unit 218 – Research Information 1.1: Give reasons for agreeing objectives and deadlines for researching information. Agreeing on objectives and deadlines is key to any team or person as they can focus on one specific task and not waste resources and time. Deadlines can have a very direct impact on the research being carried out. One example of this is if a magazine writer has agreed a one-week deadline, they would not include the start day’s news, as the news will be outdated by time the magazine is published. 1.2: Give reasons for identifying and agreeing sources of information.
This plan will also extenuate the legal risks of you the directors and officers of Riordan and the plan will also address the specific laws or aspects of the law that must be adhered to by Riordan as well as an outline of these steps for employees to adhere to these laws. Risk Management Enterprise There are eight components of the enterprise risk management system that includes internal environment, objective setting, event identification, risk assessment, risk response, control activities, information and communication, and monitoring (COSO.org). The first step in ERM process is to ensure that Riordan has a comprehensive understanding of its internal environment. Riordan and its associates must be able to identify their operating strategies and the way that they are viewed by individuals as well as other companies. Riordan should have a clear understanding of the benefits of operating with integrity and following all ethical guidelines associated with running a successful business.
Identify types of disruptive events. Outline the contents of a business impact analysis (BIA). Discuss recovery strategies and the importance of crisis management. Explain backup and recovery techniques including shared-site and alternate site agreements. Introduction Upon reading this chapter, you may feel like you are preparing for a project management role rather than an information security role, but you’ll soon see that the interests of those who manage the business and those who safeguard it are intertwined.
This type of culture provides an excellent foundation to breed innovation. Riordan uses business ethics to interact with other companies to sustain healthy relationships. Most of these ethical considerations are seen as common courtesy. Some unethical behaviors that Riordan are trying to avoid are lying, falsifying information, and stealing/theft. HRM plays a major part in resolving these issues in order establish an ethical
Ethical standards are the code of conduct required by the organization for workers to follow. The relationship between organizational culture and ethics is that the organizational culture guides workers when faced with ethical problems. If the organization culture counters what they are required to do ethically, workers may put the organization in jeopardy by not act ethically. When a worker is faced with a decision that others within the organization think as appropriate, though it is unethical, the worker may follow what is acceptable as per the culture. It is the relationship between organizational culture and ethics that can get businesses into significant trouble in the long term.
This strategy emphasizes the company’s ability to utilize its existing internal resources and focuses on streamlining operation through proper sizing and cost reduction. Even though this way could create short-term benefits to shareholder, this approach could negatively impact the company’s ability to adjust to external changes, especially rapid market and competitors’ changes. * Outside-in strategy: which is external market oriented strategy. Company makes the business decision according to the customer needs and market trends. It is “outside –in” thinking, which could help company to catch up with the market trend and develop products and services that meet the needs of customers.
Their ownership allows them to have a legitimate claim over many company matters. Shareholders have power to make changes in the company due to their ownership. Shareholders have urgency because the company must answer their inquiries and demands immediately. Responsibility: Darden Restaurants has ethical, legal and economic responsibilities to its shareholders. Shareholders have an ethical duty to step in and make demands if the company is acting unethically.
MIS 589 – Week 3 Mini case Chapter 4 – Mini Cases (Smith, Smith, Smith, and Smith) Smith, Smith, Smith, and Smith is a regional accounting firm that is putting up a new headquarters building. The building will have a backbone network that connects eight LANs (two on each floor). The company is very concerned with network errors. What advice would you give regarding the design of the building and network cable planning that would help reduce network errors? My recommendation for the design of the building and network cable planning is that your company should not skimp on the quality of the wire purchased or the planning of wire placement.
Strategic Architecture To bring a corporation to real future from foresight, the two theorists Gary Hamel & CK Prahalad say it is the next action should be done to craft a ‘Strategic Architecture’ instead of strategic planning. Strategic architecture should describes “which new benefits, or ‘functionalities’ (not present product) will be offered” for the future, and “on what new competencies will needed to create those benefit,” and “how the customer interface will need to change to allow customers to access those benefits most effectively”. They also indicate it is impossible to create a detailed plan for a ten- or fifteen-year competitive, which is traditionally considered in a strategic planning. They cite NEC, a Japanese electronics company, as an example of a strategic architecture. NEC, initially a supplier of telecommunications equipment, dreamed being a leader in ‘C&C,’ computers and communication in 1980s.