ToolsCorp Corporation is a fictitious company that does exist anywhere. For the purpose of this course, it is located it in Tennessee. As members of the senior management team of ToolsCorp Corporation, your group has been asked to prepare a neat and organized report for the Strategic Officers Steering Committee (SOS-C) of ToolsCorp Corporation. The purpose of this paper is to obtain permission from them to go forward with the next step (developing a full-blown business plan) for ToolsCorp’s strategic initiative to break into the global marketplace.

Your group’s paper should discuss the following (at a minimum):

• A complete strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis (including at least 5 factors from each category and full explanations of why each factor is important and why it was placed in the category) of the environment that exists within ToolsCorp and the environment that ToolsCorp is proposing
• An outline of the business plan to be developed for ToolsCorp’s strategic initiative
• A full mission statement containing the nine components and presented in a well written paragraph
• Key operating principles as you will apply them
• A preliminary market analysis
• The one-year, five-year, and ten-year strategic objectives of the strategic initiatives presented as one strategic proposal for each time frame (3 strategic proposals in all), complete with implementation plans, potential ramifications, and feedback mechanisms
• The additional material that your group considers necessary to support the case for going forward with ToolsCorp’s global strategic initiative (This is not optional, you must input additional material.)

Background Information

ToolsCorp Corporation is a fictitious company that does exist anywhere. For the purpose of this course, it is located it in Tennessee. It builds power tools, lawn mowers, lawn furniture, microwaves, and ranges. All products are manufactured locally and sold through large retailers. They have sale papers inserted in every Friday and Tuesday paper. Although they have a thriving business in the United States and Canada, ToolsCorp is trying to break into the global marketplace.

Deliverable Length

The deliverable length is at least 15 pages (cover page and reference page not included). As graduate business students, you are required to provide a well-researched and analyzed comprehensive response to every assignment question. Brief, vague, generic, or nondefinitive responses will not earn good grades.

This group project requires a minimum of 15 scholarly sources, a minimum of 1 per page. You are welcome and encouraged to use the David textbook and the course materials for this course.

For references, use the APA guide that is available as shown in the Virtual Campus under “Interactive Learning.”

Remember that any paper longer than 10 pages requires the submission of an abstract.

Submit your group’s Word document to your instructor via the Small Group Submitted Assignment area in APA format.

Objective

The Objective of the Unit 5 Group Project Assignment will involve the following the course outcomes and grading criteria with their respective percentages for the grading rubric:

• Identify examples of good and bad business practices in the use of strategy design components (30%).
• Research and discuss some of the changes occurring in the way that organizations structure themselves and their work (30%).
• Develop plans to improve business operations (20%).
• Use effective communication techniques (20%).

For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.

This assignment will be assessed using additional criteria provided here.

Grading Criteria	Percentage
Deliverable requirements addressed; understanding of material and writer’s message and intent are clear	35%
Scholarly research which supports writer’s position properly acknowledged and cited direct quotations may not exceed 10% of the word count of the body of the assignment deliverable (excluded title page, abstract, or table of contents if used, tables, exhibits, appendices, and reference page(s)). Inclusion of plagiarized content will not be tolerated and may result in adverse academic consequences.	20%
Critical thinking: position is well justified; logical flow; examples	20%
Structure: includes introduction and conclusion; proper paragraph format and reads as a polished, academic paper or professional presentation, as appropriate for the required assignment deliverable	10%
Mechanical – no spelling, grammatical or punctuation errors	10%
APA – deliverable is cited properly according to the APA Publication Manual (6th ed.)	5%

Due Week 8 and worth 100 points

Review the case titled: “ U.S. v. AOL” found in chapter thirteen (13) of the textbook. Then, refer to the report titled  “ Investigations Involving the Internet and Computer Networks” dated January 2007 by the Department of Justice located at https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/210798.pdf.

Write a 3-4 page paper in which you:

1. Interpret how you believe a computer was used to commit the crimes they were being accused of.
2. Suggest at least two (2) examples of certified professionals that could have been used for this case and the influence they would have provided for the prosecutions testimony.
3. Determine the type of computer forensic skills and procedures or tools that could have been used to extract and preserve the data.
4. Determine the documentation procedures that could have been used to document the evidence , and argue whether this would have changed the outcome of the trial.

Research the Internet and other media sources for cases that lost due to not having accurate or sufficient digital evidence.

1. Compare and contrast the various circumstances that were available in each case.
2. Use at least four (4) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Categorize the civil matters related to computer crime.
• Evaluate and explain the various methods of computer forensics and evidentiary gathering techniques.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in the investigation of computer crime.
• Write clearly and concisely about computer crime investigation topics  using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.