Emerging Technologies
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September 11, 2018Emerging Technologies
The post contains two assignments
1 Design an ERP Solution with Emerging Technologies
Due Week 10 and worth 200 points
This assignment consists of three (3) sections: a written ERP solution, ROI analysis PowerPoint presentation, and the project plan. You must submit the three (3) sections as separate files for the completion of this assignment. Label each file name according to the section of the assignment it is written for. Additionally, you may create and / or assume all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment.
Imagine that you are a solution architect that specializes in ERP solutions and implementation. You are assigned to work in a midsize company that has over fifty (50) grocery stores in eight (8) states in U.S. This company started as a single store in a small town. It grew quickly in the past ten (10) years with its competitive price and excellent service. However, in the recent two (2) years, its profit margin reduced, vendor base has increased by 50% and store gross sales declined. Executives in the company have been considering many options to improve its earnings. One of the options is to implement an ERP solution to provide the holistic view of the company’s performance, such as its supply chain, marketing effectiveness, customer services, and so on. Your main task is to find and quantify an ERP solution for this company, and help the management team establish a project plan to implement your solution. You need to consider its organizational maturity and in-house skill sets since it is not a technology company. You also need to evaluate new technologies that can accelerate the implementation with less cost. Since this company does not have a formal project management office, you need to develop a project plan to demonstrate the key tasks, milestones, expected timelines, deliverables, and high-level cost and resources plans. As part of the assignment, you need to include the project charter and conduct a return on investment (ROI) analysis. Finally, you need to construct a systems architecture that shows the interactions among the ERP modules and other existing applications / systems.
Section 1: Written ERP Solution
Write a ten to fifteen 3-4page paper in which you:
Conduct a Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) analysis to identify the values of using ERP solutions as a way to turn around this company.
Establish the project charter through the use of MS Word.
Choose the ERP modules for this company, and explain the assumptions and rationale for each module.
Determine inputs, transformations, outputs, and business processes from each ERP modules in the solution.
Identify at least two (2) new ERP technologies or innovative ideas, and detail their pros and cons in the context of this assignment.
Determine at least two (2) ERP vendors (e.g., SAP, Oracle) that are the best of the breed in the new trends identified and explain why they are the leaders in the field.
Determine the high-level system architecture that will be used to implement the technologies and solutions identified.
Explain how to integrate data and enable analytics for the company in the overall solutions.
Speculate and suggest the organizational changes needed for the successful implementation of the solution.
Speculate on the ethical implications in the solution and how to mitigate the associated risks.
Explain the production support model that needed to be designed to support the ERP system.
Use at least five (5) 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.
Section 2: ROI Analysis PowerPoint Presentation
Additional to your written ERP solution you must present your ROI analysis to the executive team that along with the written ERP solution will convince the group that your solution is optimal.
Create an eight to ten (8-10) slide PowerPoint presentation in which you:
Produce an ROI analysis that can convince the executive team that the solution and project will help the company financially in the long term.
Present the qualitative features and benefits of the solution.
Create bulleted speaking notes for the presentation to the executive board in the Notes section of the PowerPoint. Note: You may create or assume any fictitious names, data, or scenarios that have not been established in this assignment for a realistic flow of communication.
Use a professional technically written style to graphically convey the information.
Section 3: Project Plan
Use Microsoft project to:
Develop your project plan. The project plan should:
Record all tasks, subtasks, resources, and time related to the project.
Outline the planning, analysis, design, and implementation phases.
Identify the key milestones of the ERP project.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
Describe the application of master data to the organization.
Explain the organizational role of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems.
Compare and contrast organizational, master, and transactional data in an ERP context.
Analyze and describe the key process areas in ERP to include: marketing and sales, accounting, procurement, fulfillment, production, inventory and warehouse management, human resources, and material planning processes in ERP systems.
Summarize how ERP systems represent a key source of competitive advantage for organizations.
Demonstrate an understanding of existing and emerging ERP technologies, the functions of ERP, and its impact on the organizational operations.
Evaluate the issues and challenges associated with ERP implementation.
Develop an ERP solution to address and solve a business problem.
Evaluate the ethical concerns that ERP systems raise in a global context.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in ERP.
Write clearly and concisely about ERP topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.
2 Introduction to Descriptive Statistics
• Differentiate types of variables
• Develop a general hypothesis based upon other research knowledge
• Calculate three measures of central tendency
• Calculate three measures of dispersion (i.e., variability)
• Create a frequency table and format in APA style
• Create a scatterplot in SPSS and identify trends in the data
• Interpret results in written form using APA formatting
Step 1: Complete the pre-course survey (due Day 2 of class by 11:59pm MST) available via Blackboard. Very important! Please complete this course survey before you proceed through the remainder of this assignment. You will upload a screenshot of the final page of the survey to earn points for submitting by the deadline. (5 points)
Step 2: Recently, the Huffington Post published an article outlining a set of habits that contribute to greater stress among millennials. Read this article before you proceed: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/caroline-beaton/8-habits-millennials-stressed-anxious-unproductive_b_10035758.html
Step 3: Familiarize yourself with the survey materials, understand the variables, form your initial hypotheses, and plan your analyses. The survey is available as an addendum to this document. Again, please don’t look at the survey until you’ve taken it via Blackboard. This will decrease the likelihood that your responses will be biased.
Once you have reviewed the survey, answer the following questions:
• Which variables are categorical (either nominal or ordinal)? (2.5 points)
• Which variables are continuous (either ratio or interval)? (2.5 points)
• In 2-3 sentences, please explain the ranges of possible scores on the individual subscales? In other words, what are the lowest versus highest possible scores on the social media usage scale, anxiety/dependency scale, and the insomnia severity scale? (5 points)
• In 1-2 sentences, what hypotheses (or guesses) do you have about the results? For example, do you think people will be closely related in age? Will there be more men than women in course? Will the average social media usage be low or high in this course? Will people in this course suffer from low or high levels of insomnia? Remember to include what informs your decision-making process (i.e., why do you think this?) (5 points)
Step 4: Download the dataset for the class data to the pre-course survey (available after 11:59pm EST on Day 3 of the course). You may download your as an Excel spreadsheet and this file can be converted to an SPSS compatible file (.csv) to allow you to conduct your analyses in SPSS.
Step 5: Familiarize yourself with the data set and prepare (i.e., clean) your data for analysis.
• Within SPSS or Excel, calculate total scores for the separate subscales. These will serve as your new variables when calculating measures of central tendency and score dispersion.
• Next, calculate measures of central tendency and dispersion appropriate for each type of variable (e.g., the mode is an appropriate measure of central tendency for a categorical variable whereas the mean is interpretable for a continuous variable). Do this for each of your variables. Do these values make intuitive sense? This is meant as a checks and balance system in case there are any ridiculous high or low values. Hint: this is also why in Step 3 you were asked to calculate “possible” values for each of the measures because there are some values that could (due to input error) be inaccurate/impossible. List out your descriptive results by variable below: (6 points)
Step 6: Create a frequency table to display results of employment and marital status data. Format your tables using APA style (refer to the APA style guide and your textbook for how to format tables appropriately). Include your tables below (6 points)
Step 7: Create a scatterplot in SPSS to compare “general social media usage” and “insomnia.” Watch this video for support in creating your scatterplot in SPSS: https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=creating+a+scatterplot+in+spss&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-002
Copy/paste your scatterplot from SPSS into your submission document and write in one complete sentence what trends you see visually in the data. (6 points)
Step 8: Taking into consideration the original article (step 2), your preliminary hypotheses, and the current sample characteristics, write one paragraph (3-4 sentences) reporting the findings and interpreting the results. In this paragraph, you should include the sample size, demographic information about the participants, measures of central tendency, measures of dispersion, and trends you noticed in the data about social media usage and insomnia. Given these findings, what interpretations can you make about this class? Be sure to include suggestions for future study (i.e., curiosities you have for follow-up study). (12 points)
Pre-Course Survey (available via Google Forms in Blackboard, Week 1):
Demographic Section –
1. What is your age?
2. What is your gender?
• Male
• Female
• Transgender
3. How many college credits have you completed as of today?
4. What is your current employment status?
• Part-time
• Full-time
• Unemployed
5. What is your marital status?
• Single/Unmarried
• Partnered/Unmarried
• Partnered/Married
• Divorced
• Widowed
General Social Media Usage Section –
Do you have a Facebook Account? If yes, continue with questions in this section. If no, skip to next section.
Using the scale below, how often do you do each of the following activities on social networking sites such as Facebook?
Never Once a month Several times a month Once a week Several times a week Once a day Several times a day Once an hour Several times an hour All the time
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
6. Check your Facebook page or other social networks.
7. Check your Facebook page from your smartphone.
8. Check Facebook at work or school.
9. Post status updates.
10. Post photos.
11. Browse profiles and photos.
12. Read postings.
13. Comment on postings, status updates, photos, etc.
14. Click “Like” to a posting, photo, etc.
Anxiety/Dependency Section –
Using the scale below, answer the following questions:
Strong disagree Disagree Neither agree nor disagree Agree Strongly agree
1 2 3 4 5
15. I get anxious when I don’t have my cell phone.
16. I get anxious when I don’t have the Internet available to me.
17. I am dependent on my technology.
Insomnia Severity Section –
For each of the following questions, please rate the severity of your insomnia problems over the past two weeks.
None Mild Moderate Severe Very severe
0 1 2 3 4
18. Difficulty falling asleep
19. Difficulty staying asleep
20. Problems waking up too early
21. Using the scale below, how satisfied/dissatisfied are you with your current sleep patterns?
Very satisfied Satisfied Moderately Satisfied Dissatisfied Very dissatisfied
0 1 2 3 4
22. Using the scale below, how noticeable to others do you think your sleep pattern is in terms of impairing the quality of your life?
Not at all noticeable A little Somewhat Much Very much noticeable
0 1 2 3 4
23. Using the scale below, how worried/distressed are you about your current sleep problem?
Not at all worried A little Somewhat Much Very much worried
0 1 2 3 4
24. To what extent do you consider your sleep problem to interfere with your daily functioning (e.g., daytime fatigue, mood, ability to function at work/daily chores, concentration, memory, mood, etc.) currently?
Not at all interfering A little Somewhat Much Very much interfering
0 1 2 3 4
Survey measures were adapted from the following sources:
Insomnia severity index. Retrieved from: https://biolincc.nhlbi.nih.gov/static/studies/masm/Insomnia%20Severity%20Index.pdf
Rosen, L.D., Whaling, K., Carrier, L.M., Cheever, N.A., &Rokkum, J. (2013). The media and technology usage and attitudes scale: An empirical investigation. Computers in Human Behavior, 29, 2501-2511.
Assignment 1 – Rubric
Worth 50 points
Step 1: Complete the pre-course survey (due Day 2 of class by 11:59pm MST) available via Blackboard. Very important! Please complete this course survey before you proceed through the remainder of this assignment. You will upload a screenshot of the final page of the survey to earn points for submitting by the deadline. (5 points)
• 5 points – student completes pre-course survey by the deadline and uploads screenshot of final survey completion page to Blackboard with this assignment
• 0 points – student does not complete pre-course survey by the deadline and/or does not submit screenshot of final survey completion page with this assignment
Step 2: Recently, the Huffington Post published an article outlining a set of habits that contribute to greater stress among millennials. Read this article before you proceed: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/caroline-beaton/8-habits-millennials-stressed-anxious-unproductive_b_10035758.html
Step 3: Familiarize yourself with the survey materials, understand the variables, form your initial hypotheses, and plan your analyses. The survey is available as an addendum to this document. Again, please don’t look at the survey until you’ve taken it via Blackboard. This will decrease the likelihood that your responses will be biased.
Once you have reviewed the survey, answer the following questions:
• Which variables are categorical (either nominal or ordinal)? (2.5 points)
• 2.5 points – Student correctly identifies a minimum of two categorical variables
• 1.25 points – Student correctly identifies one categorical variable only
• 0 points – Student does not correctly identify any categorical variable
• Which variables are continuous (either ratio or interval)? (2.5 points)
• 2.5 points – Student correctly identifies a minimum of two continuous variables
• 1.25 points – Student correctly identifies one continuous variable
• 0 points – Student does not correctly identify any categorical variable
• In 2-3 sentences, please explain the ranges of possible scores on the individual subscales? In other words, what are the lowest versus highest possible scores on the social media usage scale, anxiety/dependency scale, and the insomnia severity scale? (5 points)
• 5 points – Student correctly provides ranges for the scores on the three subscales.
• 2.5 points – Student correctly provides ranges for scores on only two subscales.
• 1.25 points – Student correctly provides range of scores on only one subscale.
• 0 points – Student does not correctly provide range of scores on any subscale.
• In 1-2 sentences, what hypotheses (or guesses) do you have about the results? For example, do you think people will be closely related in age? Will there be more men than women in course? Will the average social media usage be low or high in this course? Will people in this course suffer from low or high levels of insomnia? Remember to include what informs your decision-making process (i.e., why do you think this?) (5 points)
• 5 points – Student provides a minimum of two hypotheses, or predictions, about the data and explains decision-making process to include reference to article in Step2 and/or any other relevant piece of research. If non-course resource is used, student provides citation.
• 2.5 points – Student provides one hypothesis, or prediction, about the data and explains decision-making process to include reference to article in Step2 and/or any other relevant piece of research. If non-course resource is used, student provides citation. OR student provides two hypotheses, but does not include explanation of decision-making process.
• 1.25 points – Student provides one hypothesis only and does not include explanation of decision-making process.
• 0 points – Student does not provide any hypotheses or any explanation of decision-making process.
Step 4: Download the dataset for the class data to the pre-course survey (available after 11:59pm EST on Day 3 of the course). You may download your as an Excel spreadsheet and this file can be converted to an SPSS compatible file (.csv) to allow you to conduct your analyses in SPSS.
Step 5: Familiarize yourself with the data set and prepare (i.e., clean) your data for analysis.
• Within SPSS or Excel, calculate total scores for the separate subscales. These will serve as your new variables when calculating measures of central tendency and score dispersion.
• Next, calculate measures of central tendency and dispersion appropriate for each type of variable (e.g., the mode is an appropriate measure of central tendency for a categorical variable whereas the mean is interpretable for a continuous variable). Do this for each of your variables. Do these values make intuitive sense? This is meant as a checks and balance system in case there are any ridiculous high or low values. Hint: this is also why in Step 3 you were asked to calculate “possible” values for each of the measures because there are some values that could (due to input error) be inaccurate/impossible. List out your descriptive results by variable below: (6 points)
• 6 points – Student provides all measures of central tendency and dispersion appropriate for each variable AND includes written note that indicates these values make sense given ranges of possible scores on scale measures.
• 3 points – Student provides either all measures of central tendency OR all measures of dispersion or a mix/match of these omitting appropriate measures for the variables of interest. Student includes written note that indicates these values make sense given ranges of possible scores on scale measures.
• 1.5 points – Student provides missing or inaccurate calculations of some or all measures of central tendency and/or dispersion. Student fails to include written note that indicates these values make sense given ranges of possible scores on scale measures.
• 0 points – Student does not complete this portion of the assignment and/or all of student’s calculations are inaccurate based on sample data set. This grade indicates student does not understand process of calculating central tendency and dispersion.
Step 6: Create a frequency table to display results of employment and marital status data. Format your tables using APA style (refer to the APA style guide and your textbook for how to format tables appropriately). Include your tables below (6 points)
• 6 points – Student creates two separate frequency tables and formats them in APA style.
• 3 points – Student creates two separate frequency tables, but does not format in APA OR student creates only one frequency table that is formatted properly.
• 1.5 points – Student creates only one frequency table and it is not formatted in APA style.
• 0 points – Student does not create any frequency tables.
Step 7: Create a scatterplot in SPSS to compare “general social media usage” and “insomnia.” Watch this video for support in creating your scatterplot in SPSS: https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=creating+a+scatterplot+in+spss&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-002
Copy/paste your scatterplot from SPSS into your submission document and write in one complete sentence what trends you see visually in the data. (6 points)
• 6 points – Student correctly graphs scatterplot of two variables and copies output to worksheet.
• 0 points – Student does not correctly graph scatterplot of two variables and/or does not copy output to the worksheet.
Step 8: Taking into consideration the original article (step 2), your preliminary hypotheses, and the current sample characteristics, write one paragraph (3-4 sentences) reporting the findings and interpreting the results. In this paragraph, you should include the sample size, demographic information about the participants, measures of central tendency, measures of dispersion, and trends you noticed in the data about social media usage and insomnia. Given these findings, what interpretations can you make about this class? Be sure to include suggestions for future study (i.e., curiosities you have for follow-up study). (12 points)
• 12 points – Student prepares one paragraph (3-4 sentences) and reports findings, including sample size, demographic information, measures of central tendency and dispersion, and trends in data about social media use and insomnia. Submission also includes a minimum of one interpretive statement about the class and one suggestion for future study. Submission is written in complete sentences and student includes statistical values formatted properly using APA style.
• 8 points – Student prepares a paragraph (3-4 sentences) and reports findings in some (a minimum of 2 areas covered), but not all of the areas mentioned above. Submission may be lacking interpretation or suggestion about future study, but contains at least one. Submission is properly formatted using APA style.
• 6 points – Student prepares a paragraph (3-4 sentences) and reports findings in only one area. Submission contains either interpretation or suggestion about future study; if both are present, student’s ideas may be underdeveloped. Submission mostly follows APA guidelines, but contains a few formatting errors.
• 4 points – Student prepares a paragraph (3-4 sentences) and reports findings in only one area. Submission contains either interpretation or suggestion about future study, but not both and/or ideas are very underdeveloped. Submission has multiple APA formatting errors that make it difficult to read.
• 0 points – Student does not include results or interpretation. If response is present, it is missing detail, is not a full paragraph (3-4 sentences) and/or is not formatted following APA guidelines.
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