...1. Define why change control management is relevant to security operations in an organization. Change control is a systematic approach to managing all changes made to a product or system. The purpose is to ensure that no unnecessary changes are made, that all changes are documented, that services are not unnecessarily disrupted and that resources are used efficiently. 2. What type of access control system uses security labels? A LBAC Label-base access control 3. Describe two options you would enable in a Window’s Domain password policy. Uppercase letters along with lowercase and numbers 0-9 4. Where would patch management and software updates fall under in security operations and management? The SA or other authorized personnel are responsible for informing local administrators about patches that correspond to software packages included on the organizational software inventory. 5. Is there a setting in your GPO to specify how many login attempts will lockout an account? Name 2 parameters that you can set to enhance the access control to the system. Yes, you can augment the default access privileges for an access level. When you configure a user account, you can give the account one of three privilege levels: full access, port-configuration access, and read-only access. 6. What are some Password Policy parameter options you can define for GPOs that can enhance the C-I-A for system access? A good password policy should require passwords to be at least...
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...Table of Contents Executive Summary 2 Introduction 2 Core Issues 3 Diagnosis 3 Competing Values Framework 3 Evaluation of the Lessons 5 Recommendations 7 Appendix 8 Bibliography 10 Executive Summary CareGroup is a result of a merger between three prominent and large hospitals that include, Beth Israel, Deaconess, and Mount Auburn Hospital. Although the major objective of this merger is to cater the vast population of the region with medical facilities; the first factor that encouraged this merger is the growing trend of merger in the industry, the price war in the industry is becoming highly complex and cost as a combined effort help hospitals to cut the cost significantly and deliver quality that will help them to improve immensely. The major issue that the company is facing is regarding the network collapse that happened due to the improper efforts of a researcher while experimenting with an application. Furthermore, the role of the researcher while testing the new software, the employees that tried to handle the situation without sufficient knowledge, the dependency on the guru and the improper and outdated back system, played a vital role in making the situation more complex for the company. However, in order to tackle these issues or any such issues related to the company’s network is suggested to follow four methods that will help in reducing these issues. The four suggestions include seeking help from external experts in handling network that will...
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...doi.org/10.5465/amj.2009.0530 OFFSETTING ILLEGITIMACY? HOW PRESSURES FROM SECURITIES ANALYSTS INFLUENCE INCUMBENTS IN THE FACE OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES MARY J. BENNER University of Minnesota RAM RANGANATHAN University of Pennsylvania We study how analysts’ recommendations affect firms’ strategies during radical technological shifts. We find, from our study of firms in three industries undergoing technological change, that analysts’ recommendations trigger changes in strategic investments during periods of uncertain technological change. We also find that firms that make high investments despite negative analysts’ recommendations announce a higher value of share repurchases, an action that may offset the growing illegitimacy of these increased investments by signaling alignment with shareholders’ interests. Radical technological changes provide a source of exogenous variation that contributes to explanation of how firms balance technological pressures for adaptation and institutional pressures for legitimacy. The challenges and opportunities for firms faced with technological changes in their environments have been documented in a large body of organization and strategy research (e.g., Agarwal & Helfat, 2009; Christensen & Bower, 1996; Cooper & Smith, 1992; Henderson & Clark, 1990; Tushman & Anderson, 1986). Prior research has explored the difficulties firms face developing the new knowledge and capabilities required to respond to these major environmental shifts. This work has largely...
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...Cash Control Wilmington University June 28, 2015 This paper was prepared for Leadership Development and Change Management MGT 6503 Week 7 Final Project: Cash Control Cash Control In an organization as large as the healthcare system I work for, each clinical department has their own financial group consisting of a Chief Financial Officer and a Director who is supported by two to three accountants. To name a few, some of these many clinical departments are OBGYN, Ophthalmology, Medicine, Radiation Oncology, Dermatology, Surgery, Family Medicine, Neurology and Radiology. All together, the health system is organized into about twenty clinical departments (excluding non-clinical departments such as advertising, accounts payable, legal, human resource, etc) that report to corporation’s centralized Finance department. Some of Finance’s many duties are to book journal entries that are often generic to all departments and review all the submitted P&L from each department. Once the reviews and analyses are completed, the Centralized Finance team consolidates all of the financial statements for the organization as one. My department (OBGYN, Obstetrics & Gynecology) is made up of both full time and part time employees. The department has about eighty physicians and an additional three hundred employees supporting the work of the physicians. The other supporting staff members include practice managers& supervisors, nurses...
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...Reflection Paper Essay 2 02-23-2014 Professor Trenton Taylor HRM 587- Managing Organizational Change Change is something that is always inevitable. It’s a phenomenon that not everyone is ready to accept or be ready to implement it into their daily routine. The world is constantly changing no matter which field we look at. Even naturally, the Earth itself is in a constant motion of change, from day and night, to the different seasons. Human beings are no different. Throughout history we can see how drastically we have gone through changes. Technology today is something that has reached a level people didn’t even imagine fifty to thirty years ago. So whatever the case maybe, change is a constant process in every aspect of our lives. Reading this telegraph case study showed a lot of different views on change. Those who try to resist it, will eventually be left behind their competitors, but those who wholeheartedly embrace it, are usually the most successful and stay ahead of the game. Some companies develop a culture within the workplace, and if they see it to be successful, they stay with the culture that’s established. So in order for any company, or anything in general, you must keep me with the constantly changing and evolving world. Reading this study case, I noticed many things that our book had discussed about when it comes to managing change. Some barriers to allowing change were within the company culture. The first issue the company had was money early on. Even though...
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...My MBA Program and what I have learned Thomas Domino University of Phoenix LAW/531: Business Law June 27, 2012 Michael Tancredi Good evening, my name is Thomas Domino AKA Tommy Tucker. I have been involved in businesses all my life. I’m an Artist. I started when I lived in Fairlawn N.J. with a paper route when I was 12 years old and continued after my family moved the next year to a small town in upstate N.Y. called Washingtonville. My dad being a Cost Engineer for Kellogg heating and coolant equipment designs, and with a large family, he always encouraged all of my 5 brothers and 2 sisters to help with family chores; that included outside projects. One of our family businesses was hand decorated felt family character images glued to ceramic plates. My mother and father would approach friends and acquaintances from our neighborhood and the church as customers. The plate business grew so fast, I had to use my Artistic talents to help my mother design and produce the plates. Years later my mother was still making decorative plates for her “mad money” to spend in Atlantic City, N.J. at the casinos. During my teenage years, I painted signs for local businesses, and also had a lawn mowing business. So I learned the art of dealing with customers, delivering a product or providing a service for the exchange for money values. I also trapped animals, and sold the pelts to middleman fur dealers around Christmas time; used the money...
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...similar is the proposed change to the current contract? And how good is the relationship between employee and employer? When good-faith relationship exists, changes are more likely to be accepted as part of the existing contract because parties are not looking for contract violations and trust creates willingness to be flexible. Improving the employment relationship is a necessary first step in contract change. Changing the Contract There are two ways to change the psychological contract, accommodation and transformation. Accommodations modify, clarify, substitute, or expand terms within the context of the existing contract so that people feel the old deal continues despite changes. However, to be effective, there must be a good relationship between the company and its members. Transformations are radical surgery. It means that new mindsets replace old ones. The purpose of contract transformation is the creation of a new contract that it is hoped engenders commitment. Two circumstances in which people become open to new information are when they are newcomers to the organization or when a disruption occurs which they cannot ignore. It is quite common to find newcomers and veterans working side by side holding different psychological contracts. Transformation Stages Stage 1: Challenging the old contract. It takes a good reason to change a contract and keep people. A core issue in the management of contract change involves how the change is framed. Effective communication...
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...home health, I got to do a dressing change on a man that had fallen on his porch and his knee had gotten infected. His would had opened and needed a wound vac; at this point it was closed and almost healed. I did a sterile, wet to dry dressing. I assisted the nurse in flushing his PIC line and did a dressing change on that also. I assisted the nurse with her assessments and did vital signs for her. We did see one terminal client, and the biggest thing with her was pain control. I found out what the level of pain was and where it was and when it occurred and if it woke her at night and if her pain regime was adequate for her. The nurse called the pharmacy to get refills and then called the MD when there were no refills available. With every client that we saw teaching was very important part of the visit. We taught about weighing everyday and writing it done, and eating right, taking medications as directed, taking blood sugars everyday and writing it down so the nurse can see how things have been progressing since she had been there last. The nurse collaborates with the MD, OT, PT and the family in planning care for client. Once a week they have a meeting to see where the client is at and if the plan of care needs to be changed and if the client should be discharged. They all collaborate to provide the best care for the client. Everyone is focused on empowering the client and family to meet their needs, to give the client control of their lives again....
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...Processing Machines Typical manufacturing system may need to halt if a key design needs to be modified but an FMS will adapt and keep production going during modification. A good example is a company that specialises in manufacturing injection moulded components. The component design may change very quickly but as long as the mould is updated / modified the injection moulding machine can still operate. Computers monitor the supply of materials, monitor the operating temperatures and quality control. Machines of this nature are adaptable and are ideal for FMS. Loading and Unloading Systems Automatic loading and unloading with an FMS or even with stand-alone machine tools requires a correspondingly effective material flow in the loading area. A well-engineered FMS with material functions is well-suited for this purpose. In a system of this kind, materials can be stored so that the control system automatically delivers them to the loading area on time. Finished work pieces can be transferred to other material pallets. Even if changeover of the fixtures is necessary at some point, the changeable parts for the fixtures can be stored in the FMS. Coordinated work schedules FMS can efficiently change the coordinated work schedules when implanted, FMS can have significant impact on a manufacturer’s labour and organisational structure. Securing...
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...The effect of voluntary changes in accounting procedures on earning is also used to test the implications of the theory. Reported changes in accounting procedures are available from two sources: the sample of depreciation switches used by Holthausen and changes reported by accounting trends and techniques. Accounting changes are collected from these sources for the sample companies. Procedure changes are decomposed according to the type of change. This table presents for the full sample 342 changes. There were 242 changes disclosed in the footnotes about changes on effect on earning , but the other 100 cases described the effect of the change as immaterial or not disclosed. These are coded to indicate whether the effect is positive or negative. We had 2 tests to certify the theory, the first one is contingency tests. The contingency tests are replicated using the effect of changes in accounting procedures on earnings available for bonuses as a proxy for discretionary accounting decisions. If the effect of the accounting change on this variable is positive, the change is classified as income-increasing. According to analysis, the results don't support the theory. However, there are several potential explanations of this findings: 1. It is more costly for managers to transfer earnings between periods by changing accounting procedures than by changing accruals, and 2. Changes in accounting procedures affect earnings and the bonus plan lower bound in the current and future years...
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...should be established before coming up with questions. It maybe seems to be hard to deal with establishing connection but in my opinion it is not that hard. Even one or two sentences will be enough most of the time to make this connection. Second suggestion: Complains about the situations don’t bring us the solutions. Instead of complaining, everybody has to do their best. Especially if we talk about the things that affects other people`s life, we should give the highest significance. Even our little mistakes can cost somebody`s life under certain circumstances. Health care workers play the most important role in the life. They should be even more careful than other people. Briefly, we have to be our life coaches ourselves to activate control mechanism. Third suggestion: We can think that numbers and counting process are very easy respect to all other things that we make in routine. However, easiness of something doesn`t mean that it is proportional with importance. In some fields like surgery, counting the operation materials has so much importance as Dr. Atul Gawande said. Complications are severe could be resulted even death. If there is potential risk in an event, we should take advantages of technology. For instance in my senior engineering design project, we have preferred to use automatic valves and controllers when we are capable to adjust them manually. The reason for that we would like to minimize safety concerns and decrease the events that can lead to worst case...
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...To what extent has studying the concept of physical journeys expanded your understanding of yourself, of individual, and of the world? Peter Skrzynecki’s Immigrant Chronicle, Gail Tsukiyama’s Night of Many Dreams and the website www.migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au broaden the understanding of individuals and of the world through exploring the notion of time, experience and change in differing perspectives. This is evident through the way language techniques and visual features are manipulated to create meanings. The presentation of time as a fundamental component of a physical journey has greatly extended the perception of individuals and the world. In Immigrants at Central Station, 1951, time predetermines an individual’s fate and future. “While time ran ahead along glistening tracks of steel” supports this idea. “Tracks of steel” is a metaphor for the journey that the immigrants are about to undertake. Time is personified and because it is ahead of the immigrants, they have no control over their future journey, and are forced to follow the tracks. In Crossing the Red Sea, Skrzynecki uses different time periods of the day to contrast the monotonous reality of the immigrants’ dreams. “The day break took away the magic of dreams” depicts this idea through different language techniques. “The magic of dreams” implies their wonderful hopes which appear in their unreal visions at night. “Daybreak” is a metonymy for reality and it is personified to create an imagery of the immigrants’...
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...done. B. How Information Technology Changes the Nature of Work a. IT has created more types of works b. IT Employment at an all time high c. Supported new ways to manage people C. Changing the way work is Done a. Many traditional jobs are now done by computers b. Jobs once done by art and skill are often greatly changed by the introduction of Its c. Introduction of IT into an organization can greatly change the day-to-day tasks performed by its employees. d. Crowdsourcing is now possible at a very low cost e. Few staff are engaged in order entry any longer f. Sometimes people can perform more strategic tasks g. Sometimes IT disconnects us from the tasks h. Zuboff provides an example of disconnection from the task at a paper mill where the masters could no longer smell and squeeze pulp to make sure of the chlorine content i. Skills of salespeople have turned from order takers and stock counters to marketing consultants. D. Changing Communication Patterns a. More asynchronous and more irregular b. Social networking has provided new opportunities for customer interaction c. Collaboration allows a firm to look big with new tools d. IT is changing the communication patterns of employees. i. Many truck drivers do not interact with others in their organization while driving to their destination. ii. Walmart – drivers therefore use IT to save money E. Changing Organization Decision Making and Information Processing a. IT changes not only organizational decision-making...
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...The awareness of managing changes within an organisation has been aroused recent years. A good change implementation includes a process of planning, organizing, coordinating and controlling the compositions of the environment, internal and external; to ensure that the process changes are implemented according to approved plans and the overall objectives of introducing the changes are achieved with as little disruption as possible. In this essay, British traditional brand Burberry and well-known bargain clothing retailer Primark are the objectives. The triggers of their changes, means they used to change, how their employees reacted, and suggestions about how can the managers implement changes more effectively will be discussed. There is a common triggers for them to change which will be discussed first. For both of them, they are facing the problems of increasing costs. Burberry use to manufacture products in Britain, but along with the higher costs and the boosting demand in China, Burberry was planning to move the factory to China and so they can produce goods at a much lower cost. In 2007, Burberry decided to close down the factory in South Wales which leaded to over 300 job losses. The employees reacted fiercely, there was high-profile protest and they arouse the awareness from the English society saying 'Keep Burberry British'. The management tried comfort the employees, Burberry's chief financial officer Stacey Carwright said, "The most important thing now is to look...
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...thoughts, and represent the core of organizational culture. being involved in numerous groups makes the company as a whole grow faster and be better ready for the economy. 2. After losing billions of dollars, CEO Chambers changed Cisco from a top-down organization to one that encourages collaboration and teamwork at all levels. Chambers grouped executives into cross-functional teams by combining managers in sales with leaders in engineering hoping that this would lead to faster decision-making. The hierarchical element needed to change in order to right the wrongs and move forward as company. Accepting this change took three years, but as Cisco entered new lines of business, they were able to put together deals a lot more quickly, so the end result was that faster decision-making came out of the company restructuring. (Kreitner, Robert & Kinicki, Angelo, Organizational Behavior, 2010.) The company culture changed from a hierarchical one, where control is the driving force and the...
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