Systems analysts are accountable for identifying, studying, and developing solutions to business problems. As a result, a systems analyst will collaborate with the stakeholders in the definition of systems requirements. Also, systems analysts are involved in managing the implementation of information systems that address business problems.

Consequently, this class’s final project focuses on delivering a system analysis of a business scenario (real or hypothetic) that can be addressed with the implementation of an information system. Hence, you will use the systems development life cycle (SDLC) as your project’s core methodology.

At a minimum, the project will have the following deliverables:

1. Title Page

2. Table of contents and page numbers indicating where the content it

3. Abstract (Executive Summary / Project Scope) (200 to 300 words)

It contains a summary of the project, including the conclusions and recommendations. Several paragraphs are generally used and should not exceed 500 words

4. Project Plan

a. Company Background (real or hypothetical). It must include a mission statement and the description of the organization or scenario under analysis

b. System Description

i. Problem Statement

ii. Describe the Purpose of the System 

iii. Describe the Objectives and Scope of the System[JC1]  

iv. Proposed Alternatives, [JC2] 

v. Recommended solution (explain the rationale for choosing it) and conclusion

c. Feasibility Statement

i. Economic feasibility (Calculations in Excel/summary figure included in the written report)[JC3] 

ii. Technical feasibility[JC4] 

iii. Operational feasibility[JC5] 

iv. Legal and contractual feasibility

d. Management Plan

i. Team setup

ii. Communication plan

iii. Resource requirements (time, personnel, tools, budget)*

iv. Risk Analysis

1. Type of Threats and quantitative or qualitative evaluation/classification or risk. A chart summarizing the risk analysis (Impact vs. Likelihood of unmitigated risk)

2. Events that can generate those threats

3. Actions that will be taken to mitigate or eliminate threats

e. Requirements & Analysis

i. Plan for requirements definition (interviews, surveys, meeting sessions)

ii. High-level functional and non-functional requirements described

f. Modeling 

i. data flow diagrams context, and level 0, and additional level(s) (only if required by the instructor) and data dictionary description of functional primitives

ii. Use case and written description of the main system

iii. BPMN[1]  diagram of the process

iv. Decision table(s) and description of the table if needed (processes that apply / at least one)

v. Sample design of user interface (at minimum, assume you are designing for a desktop/notebook device). Wireframes and storyboards will be used

vi. Sample Design of output(s), report(s)

g. Implementation plan

i. Description of the implementation plan

ii. Gantt chart illustrating the project that supports your development

iii. Network Diagram and Critical path (CP)

iv. A description of how you will manage the CP

v. Test/conditions that you will need to include in a testing plan

vi. Security Considerations

vii. Maintenance activities that will be required

You will upload:

1. Word document with the project info

2. Excel file with economic feasibility

3. MS Project or ProjectLibre file with Gantt and Network Diagram

4. MS Visio or Draw.IO files

Please use MS-Word and format your document using Arial, Calibri, or Times New Roman font, 12 pts, 1-inch margins on all sides, and two spaces between lines. APA citation style will be employed

    

[1] Business Process Management Notation

    

[JC1]I changed the word goals for objectives to make it more specific.

Scope description

Use a high level perspective and list what is this project supposed to achieve.  If there are things that are closely related describe why you did not include them in the scope. 

Then list and describe the specific objectives to achieve and the functionalities of your project that will have to support those objectives 

 

[JC2]For the given scenario there might be different alternatives. If that is the case describe what are those alternatives

 

[JC3]What tangible and intangible benefits are we getting?

What tangible and intangible costs are we incurring?

Present an economic analysis

 

[JC4]Do we have the know how of

Programming Languages

Database management Sysems

Web Development

Things that we will have to do to overcome. 

· Do we get training, do we hire consultants?

· Is this intended to be outsourced for development or are we to  hire cloud services. 

· Is our current software and hardware platform adequate>

If cloud services are going to be hired, what type of services IaaS, PaaS, SaaS? Provide and explanation for our choices

 

[JC5]Is the project supported by management?

Will we reduce our headcount? How do we manage the affected employees?

How will we organize training fo the users>

Do we have users involved in the development process? In what stages?

Do we need to change our operating procedures to implement the new system?

Will there be negative effects that could be experienced by users?

What risks are going to face? Make a matrix with the most important risks and impacts. (Included in section D)

“Ethical Aspects of Sustainability” by Bruce Jennings, he defines our moral responsibility to natural resources and the climate crisis in this way, “A sustainable society lives within the carrying capacity of its natural and social system. It has a system of rules and incentives that promote replenishing and limit depletion and pollution. A sustainable society builds upon the commitment of its members to conform to these rules voluntarily, and it enforces them when necessary”.

1.  In your own words, explain what he means by  “the carrying capacity of its natural and social system”? What is the implied relationship between the planet, society, and our natural resources, according to Jennings? Then, can you point out other authors whom we have read in this course who echo this sentiment or idea regarding natural resources? Who are they and what are the common ideas?  

2. Jennings describes three kinds of philosophical orientations. I like to call them points of view –  that occur when engaging in ethical or moral debates, such as those that exist around and within the moral responsibility discourse of sustainability. How we respond to our responsibilities, then have everything do to with the way we frame or view our relationship to me ( what directly concerns me, and the not-me, those things that are indirectly related to me). Please define all 3 of them as he defines them in his post. Then, consider which frame or lens is the best one, the one most necessary for sustainability discussions and outlooks? In contrast, which one is the most detrimental to conversations regarding sustainability and responsibility? 

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Make sure that your selected product is a B2C Product Line and not the products of the entire company that you selected in week one.

Assignment Steps 

To develop effective relationship marketing, a company must first understand its targeted consumers’ buying influences and behaviors.  

Create the research section of your marketing plan in minimum of 700 words.

• Week Two Individual Paper Format

  1 – Use your  Week One researched Company and select/describe a Product or Service

  Restate the Company and the selected B2C Product/Service Line

  One product/service for the domestic market and one (modified as needed) for the selected foreign market.

  2 – Develop two typical buyer’s profiles using demographic variables for your target market (see document posted in the Classroom Message Area – one buyers profile is for your domestic market, one additional buyer’s profile is for your selected foreign target market))

  a – Domestic

  Your findings 

  b – Foreign Market 

  Your findings 

  3 – Identify your two desired geographical areas (one domestic and one foreign)

  a – Brief Domestic Market Description of 10 Economic Factor and 5 Population Factors

  b – Brief Foreign Market Description of 10 Economic Factor and 5 Population Factors

  4  – Using the Bureau of the Census data, how many people with your buyer’s profile live in your two geographical areas – to compute this number you must first find out the total demographics of each one of your two geographical areas, and then find out how many in each one of your geographical areas have your same/similar buyer’s profile.  Check your Classroom Message Area for assistance.

  a – Your findings for the domestic market

  b – Using other foreign research data, compute how many people with your buyer’s (demographic) profile live in your selected foreign geographical area

  Your findings for the foreign market

  5 – Using Nielsen Claritas, provide a description of the Psychographics for the demographic profile you selected in your geographical area in the U.S; using secondary research, describe the psychographic of your foreign target market.

  a – Your findings for the domestic market

  b – Your findings for the foreign market

  6 – Explain the insights you have gained from your inspection and analysis of the demographic and psychographic information you have found.   What differences have you noted between your domestic and foreign target markets?

  Please, make sure that your paper contains 6 Titled and numbered Sections to reflect the assignment titles and numbers as they are listed above.

  Please, retain the a and b sub-sections for each titled section. 

  Not properly formatted papers will be returned to be formatted in six titled sections.

  By completing items 1 to 5, you will have conducted:  secondary research, establish a customer profile and conduct a consumer analysis.

  This assignment will be incorporated into your overall marketing plan for Week 6.

Cite a minimum of three peer-reviewed references.

Format your assignment consistent with APA guidelines.

Required Resources
Read/review the following resources for this activity:

• Textbook: Chapter 13
• Lesson
• Minimum of 1 scholarly source (in addition to the textbook)

Introduction
Some people believe that you can tell who a person is by what they do when no one is looking. Let’s look at the following case. John Doe, a nurse, has downloaded an application to her phone that allows him to download copyrighted textbooks for a nursing course (that Doe is going to take) without his Internet Service Provider knowing it. The application is called “Cloak” as in cloak of invisibility (a hooded coat one wears to make it so others cannot see you). The application disguises his phone and makes it so the information on it is inaccessible. John is aware that other people who are of a lower socio-economic status (like him) also use this software program for the same reason (and to save money). John Doe knows that his religion forbids him from using this application to download in this manner. John Doe is focused on his own economic situation and does not consider the publisher, author, and others involved in the books. Think about a course of social action; what social values should be used to address this moral issue and conflict.

• Initial Post Instructions
  Create a personal ethical philosophy and explain from which philosophy or philosophies (it must include at least one of the following: virtue ethics, Kantian ethics, utilitarianism, virtue ethics, or social contract ethics) you created it and why the contents are important and meaningful for you. List its precepts.
• Take your personal ethical philosophy statement and use it to work through John Doe’s case. What is moral and immoral per your theory?
• How would the veil of ignorance or a different theory of justice address John Doe’s case?

Follow-Up Post Instructions
Respond to at least one peer. When possible, respond to a peer who chose a different ethical theory than you did in your posting. Further the dialogue by providing more information and clarification.

Writing Requirements

• Minimum of 2 posts (1 initial & 1 follow-up)
• Minimum of 2 sources cited (assigned readings/online lessons and an outside scholarly source)
• APA format for in-text citations and list of references

Answers1:

Hello Professor and Class, 

My personal philosophy is that I always make sure people are happy and put people before myself because in the long run when I am in need of help, they will remember the time I helped them and gave them happiness. “Kantian ethics provide a human-centric ethical framework placing human existence and capacity at the centre of a norm-creating philosophy that guides our understanding of moral conduct” (Ulgen, 2017). I believe Kantians ethics follows this philosophy I have because it is the moral thing to do in my mind to put people first and make sure happiness is covered all around. Helping and ensuring a person is a way of making that person the center and making sure they know they are existing. 

John Doe in my personal philosophy wouldn’t work out. Knowing it is against his religion, he went ahead and downloaded the app because he cant afford the books by himself. He cared more about himself and passing his classes than his religion and that I believe is morally right. The morally wrong thing to do is knowing other low income people have it and it works, then not downloading the help that he needs and failing his classes. Although downloading an app that disguises a phone is wrong, it’ll help John Doe in the long run. 

“The political philosopher John Rawls is well known for his thought experiment of the “veil of ignorance.” The thought experiment goes something like this: when designing rules for your society, you should be ignorant of what social position you yourself will occupy” (Gobry, 2015). This addressed John Doe’s case by doing what is best for himself. He knows he is low income and needs these books to be able to get through the classes but cant afford them. He knows other people have the same app and it works well for them. John Doe knows he needs this to succeed so he got the app so he won;t fail.