Personal Reflection

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1. Please write one short paragraph (3-4 sentences) for each of the word sets below. The sentences should be as cohesive as possible. You must use all 3 words in each set.

2. You may write about any topic, but do not use I.

3. You may use other word forms of the words given (i.e., you can change them to their adjective form, verb form, the noun form, different tenses, etc.). 

4. Write your paragraphs so that the meanings of the given words are effectively demonstrated. 

5. You may use a dictionary.

6. The time limit is 12 minutes. Do your best.

1.) Haphazard, Aspiration, Discrete

2.) Humanitarian, Ambiguous, Wane

3.) Expansive, Sentiment, Obscure

Strategic IT Planning: Your 3-Step Process

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Strategic IT Planning: Your 3-Step Process

Introduction

What is a Strategic Plan?

It is a roadmap to achieving a goal. It may cover your entire department or responsibility or it may focus on a specific issue or element of your role. It can be long and involved or a simply one-page document that provides guidance and steps you need to implement to achieve a goal.

Making it Happen

There are a few things that are important to your success. While it may seem that developing the Strategic Plan is the hardest part, most plans fail because of the implementation. The key is to keep it small and be successful, then build on that success for the next initiative. Dont bite off too much or try to be too ambitious.

Take your time and keep it manageable

Link your plan to your companys strategy

Justify your initiative and get buy-in and support

Dont re-invent, rebuild

Go slow, manage change

Set aside time from your operational responsibilities to make it happen

Without a Strategic Plan, you and your team wont be effective and you wont be able to get results, get attention and get ahead.

Why you need an IT Strategy:

Redirect from tasks to opportunities and result

Switch from fighting fires to preventing fires

Reduce risk with planning and a longer view

Most Strategic Plans never get written or they fail because they are too involved and complex. Keep them simple and use these three basic steps as your core approach. Ask yourself these questions:

1. Why do you need to do it? What is your goal?

2. What are the things you need to get done to achieve your goal?

3.  How can you make those things happen?

By following the 3 steps above and writing them down, you will have the outline of your Strategic IT Plan. Then, you establish the tactical things that will help you implement your plan.

Implementation Plan

Once you have established your strategic plan using the 3-step process, you need to develop your implementation plan. This includes getting approval and resources as well as the steps you need to take to achieve your strategic objective.

1. Set the objective for each step

2. Analyze internal/external factors

3. Develop solutions

4. Identify and eliminate barriers

5. Allocate resources (people, time, money)

6. Develop detailed tasks

7. Implement your plan!

Step Implementation

What Are The Roadblocks?

How Can You Overcome The Roadblocks?

What Resources Do You Need?

What Are The Timelines?

What Are The Main Steps To Implement Your Plan?

 

References: 

McKeen, J. D., & Smith, H. A. (2015). IT strategy: Issues and practices (3rd ed.). Pearson. 

 

Note: Your initial post will be your answer to the Question and is to be 500 550 words with at least two references. Initial post will be graded on length, content, grammar and use of references. References should always be below each question as they are a different topic and not related in any way.

Please I need this tomorrow

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The company name I chose is “A taste of home cooking”

– A taste of home cooking is not a real company –

You can look at these website because they are similar to the company I chose 

–Goldbelly

– BistroMD

– GreenChef

  – EveryPlate

    

OBJECTIVES

  • Create an infographic to showcase your team’s Distribution and Marketing Plan
  • Highlight the elements professionals seek most in a proposal 
  • Focus on highlights of these elements through visual presentation of your team’s Distribution and Marketing Plan 

INTRODUCTION 

The ability to summarize becomes more and more important as the pace of society continues to increase. One area where it is imperative is in business. The time executives have for focusing on something is shorter than you think. If they tell you that you have two minutes to wow them, they truly need to be wowed within the first minute for them to stay attentive for the second minute.

For example, motion picture executives receive thousands of script pitches every year. To help find the projects that are truly worth their limited time and attention, they hire script readers whose basic job is to summarize and critique each script that comes through their office. These reports are called Coverage. And even though they are only a few short pages compared to the average 120 pages in a script, the executives still only read beyond the first page of the script coverage if the summary makes them believe it is worth their while. Theyll summarize exactly what the executive needs to know upfront in order to decide if they want to continue reading. For scripts, thats the script facts, logline, evaluation boxes, and a grade.

But in this assignment, you will create the 21st century version of a one-minute-wow for executives: An Infographic. Sell your project in a flashy page that can visually summarize highlights of your ideas based on what youve constructed within your plan. The reader’s approach to this infographic will have no preconceptions of what you write about. This is the first time theyre learning about your project. So, it must be created without any assumption of a reader having prior knowledge of the project or your plan. 

INSTRUCTIONS

Construct your infographic. In an infographic, summarize the Distribution and Marketing Plan your team worked on this month in an eye-catching visual manner that will garner the interest of an executive while still providing important detail. Utilize Adobe Illustrator or a web-based tool such as Adobe Spark or Piktochart.  Break it out in the following order from the details you provided in your plan:

COMPANY
Sell your company to the potential client for all the possibilities you foresee based on the strengths of your team.

PROJECT
Sell the potential client’s project based on its premise and appeal.

SALES / ROI
Sell the profitability the client’s project can garner based on your participation.

TARGET MARKET
Sell the ability to hone in on the core audience that youve targeted as best to embrace and subsequently become your social marketing fan base.

DISTRIBUTION STRATEGIES
Sell the multiple channels of distribution that will best provide access to your primary target audience in year one.

MARKETING STRATEGIES
Sell the variety of methods you will utilize to maximize awareness for your primary target audience in year one.

WARNING:  Do not copy and paste any content from a Website without providing the appropriate in-text citation, formatting and reference.  Consequences for plagiarism are harsh. 

Research Paper on “Educating Public Managers and Policy Analysts in an Era of Informatics”

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Write a short research paper(min of 2pages with citations and references) for a peer-reviewed research paper.  This will be a detailed summary of the research paper and what you gained from the research.  Each week, you will find an article/peer-reviewed research paper that pertains to the week’s assignment.

Topic: “Educating Public Managers and Policy Analysts in an Era of Informatics “

Note:  *All outside sources must be referenced and cited in your paper.  All papers will be reviewed with plagiarism software. Any references not properly referenced and cited will result in a 0 on your paper. Multiple violations will result in a failure for the course!