Every year, organizations must use discretion in determining how to allocate limited financial resources between competing capital purchases and projects. Generally, annual CapEx budgets consist of both new and maintenance components, which could be equally important, because many CapEx items arise from the tactical plans and support the institution’s overall organizational strategy. In an initial…
DATA VISUALIZATION This week, you will analyze the value of implementing GIS (geographic information system) solutions in various industries. You will also review the real-world applications of GIS and discuss how it helps in improving business processes. This Discussion is designed to help you identify various cases of potential improvement by using GIS solutions in…
MAT 240 Project Two Guidelines and Rubric Competency In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competency: Apply statistical techniques to address research problems Perform hypothesis testing to address an authentic problem Overview In this project, you will apply inference methods for means to test your hypotheses about the housing sales market…
Question 1: 1. Should dissatisfied consumers have the right to establish gripe sties that use the trademark of the offending company in the domain name? How likely is it that consumers will be confused as to the “origin, sponsorship, or approval” of the gripe site by the offending company? Whether or not you think that…
For this discussion assignment, choose an article that you have read for your final project or from a popular news source. Using what you have learned, use the following to guide your discussion: Provide an overview of the article. Describe how the research findings could be misinterpreted by a popular news source. Create a misleading…
Touchstone 1.2: Write a Research Question, Thesis, and Outline ASSIGNMENT: Following the Topic Selection Guidelines below, choose an argumentative topic to research. This will be your topic throughout the entire course (excluding Touchstone 3.1), so the activities required for this assignment will provide the foundation for your future Touchstones. The topic for an argumentative research…
In real-life applications, statistics helps us analyze data to extract information about a population. For this module discussion, you will be helping Susan, a high school principal, work through an event at her school. She is planning on having a large movie night for the high school. She has received a lot of feedback on…
Module 1: Discussion — Introduction to Scholarship – Section 005: Dr. Garvey image.pngOnline Discussion Prompt: The Discussion Board posts will constitute the class participation portion of the final grade. The Discussion board will start each week on Monday at 12:00 AM EST and end on Sunday at 11:59 PM EST. Read all materials and submit…
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT METHODOLOGIES The systems development life cycle (SDLC) is the traditional approach used by organizations to plan large IT projects, such as IT infrastructure. The SDLC is a structured framework that consists of sequential processes by which information systems are developed. Whether companies use a structured method, such as the traditional waterfall approach, or…
DMAIC and Six Sigma Explain the five steps of DMAIC and its association with Six Sigma. How could you determine when and when not to use DMAIC?