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Spend a bit of time reflecting upon your relative comfort with creativity/divergence thinking versus a more quantitative/convergent analytical approach to problem solving.

After spending some time reflecting on this, develop a 250 word posting that describes a time in your life when you were less than effective because you either over emphasized the creative/divergent dimensions of the problem-solving task or the analytical/convergent components. What aspects of this problem-solving process were well executed and what aspects were less than optimal given your relative emphasis between creativity and a more quantifiable analytical approach?

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Assignment

Week 8 IP has two parts. See below.

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Write a 1000 – 1500 word essay addressing each of the following points/questions. Be sure to completely answer all the questions for each bullet point. Support your ideas with at least three (3) citations in your essay. Make sure to reference the citations using the APA writing style for the essay. The cover page and reference page do not count towards the minimum word amount. Review the rubric criteria for this assignment.

1) Assignment (50%) 1,000+ word essay

What specific best practices have you learned in this course that might be successfully applied to improve existing competitive performance in an organization or industry of interest to you? Try to select practices that offer the most promise but are not yet widely accepted. First describe the industry or organization of interest and then describe two or three of these relevant best practices. Discuss how these practices might need to be tailored to the organization in question. What information technologies might be leveraged to produce higher competitive performance or organizational effectiveness? Why do you think such practices have not been widely deployed in the organization or industry you?

2) PowerPoint Development (50%)– 8 slides

This should be a 4+ minute presentation.

Using current information available on the Internet, develop a PowerPoint (or equivalent) briefing for a group of C-level corporate executives at a company of your choice in regard to information security issues inherent in their e-commerce strategies and operations. Highlight points of potential vulnerability and some of the best practices being deployed to manage the risk of such security issues in the e-commerce context. Assume that these executives are rather lackadaisical about such security issues as they might have a devastating impact upon the company’s brand. Given this attitude, how would you convince the senior managers that this is a problem truly warranting sufficient investment and leadership?

The slide deck should be accompanied with a screencast presentation by you of the presentation materials. Use various free screencast packages that are available (e.g. Screencast-O-Matic https://screencast-o-matic.com/homeor one of the others from an internet search) to make a video presentation of the PowerPoint). And also provide the write-up of the content that you spoke on the video.