...Source: Marin County sues Deloitte: Alleges fraud on SAP project The success or failure of implementing ERP software depends on a number of factors. I will look at the case Marin County sues Deloitte: Alleges fraud on SAP project. Marin County filed a complaint against Deloitte Consulting for its role in an over-budget SAP implementation. The lawsuit alleges Deloitte committed fraud and misrepresented its skills and experience. One of the reasons why this ERP system failed was Deloitte knew the County didn’t have any prior ERP or SAP implementation experience and knew it would be depending on Deloitte to guide and manage the project. The complaint also states that Deloitte mishandled staffing, project management, risk management, and testing. When implementing ERP software customers, software vendors, and system integrators typically share responsibility for project success of failure. However, customers purchasing complex systems, such as ERP software, do have a high responsibility that their own projects outcome is successful. In Marin’s contract suggested the County was concerned about its own ability to manage the project properly. Being concerned with your own company’s ability to manage a project in the early stage of implementation is not a good thing and Marin County should’ve controlled the conversation with their system integrators and lead from that premise. It’s up to the customer such as Marin County to lead and drive the result of their ERP implementation project...
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... March 11, 2013 Bhupinder Singh Failures Paper The distributed systems are unique in that it’s executions of the application of the protocols are to coordinate on multiple processes on the network, they have their own local memory and it communicates in entities with each of them using a massage passing mechanism. They also have their own personal users to them that they can use for personal uses. What are shared across the distributed systems are the data, processor, and the memory that can achieve those tasks when processing information. The distributed system has features to help achieve in in solving problems and issues with software and programs, when being useful with the distributed system is not very easy; its capabilities are the components, than just the stand alone systems that are sometimes not as reliable. Because of the complexities of interactions between running the distributed systems, it must have special characteristics like the fault tolerant; this can recover from component failures without performing incorrect actions. Recoverable is where failed components can restart and then rejoin the system after the cause failure has been repaired. The failure on a distributed system can result in anything from easily repairable errors to a catastrophic meltdown. Fault tolerance deals with making the system function in the presence of defaults. Faults can occur in any one of components. In this paper we will look at the different faults in...
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...Heart failure (HF) is one of the most common manifestations of heart disease. In the US, the lifetime risk of developing HF at age 40 is one in five for both men and women, and continues at this level through the age of 80, despite the reduction in life expectancy.{Roger, 2012 #1789} Chronic HF in particular has increased in prevalence, even as control of other common cardiovascular syndromes, such as myocardial infarction (MI), has improved in recent years.{McCullough, 2002 #1851;Roger, 2012 #1789} HF is a disease of the elderly, affecting 10% of men and 8% of women above the age of 60 years, and its prevalence rises with age.{Roger, 2012 #1789} Given the expected aging of the population, if the incidence of new HF cases continues to increase...
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...Introduction Heart failure is a condition in which the heart does not fill or pump enough blood and oxygen to support your body and its functions. Heart failure is a long-term (chronic) condition. Living with heart failure can be challenging. However, following your health care provider's instructions about a healthy lifestyle may help improve your symptoms. This includes choosing the right exercise plan. Doing daily physical activity is important after a diagnosis of heart failure. You may have some activity restrictions, so talk to your health care provider before doing any exercises. What are the benefits of exercise? Exercise may: Make your heart muscles stronger. Lower your blood pressure. Lower your cholesterol. Help you lose weight....
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...Heart failure occurs when cardiac output is insufficient to effectively perfuse the tissues, despite normal filling of the heart. Usually causes include hypertension, cardiomyopathy, and coronary heart disease. In heart failure, the increase in the resistance against which the heart pumps (afterload) further depresses cardiac output. A reduced renal blood flow induces renin secretion and increased plasma aldosterone and angiotensin concentrations. Water and sodium retention increases blood volume causing central venous pressure to increase. These changes overall first help to maintain cardiac output however in the long term they eventually cause morbidity and mortality (BOOK). Treatment of heart failure begins with angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor and as severity increases a diuretic is added which supports the excretion of sodium and water (book). In very severe heart failure, the addition of β-blocker further decreases mortality in patients on ACE inhibitors and diuretics. Valsartan/ Sacubitril is a combination drug approved for use in heart failure. It has a brand name of Entresto and is also previously known as LCZ696....
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...Introduction Heart failure is a condition in which the heart cannot pump enough blood through the body. When this happens, parts of the body do not get the blood and oxygen needed for them to function properly. This can cause symptoms such as shortness of breath, fatigue, and confusion. There is no cure for heart failure. However, following your health care provider's instructions about a healthy lifestyle and being treated with medicines can help you stay active and live longer. The types of medicine you are prescribed will depend on your symptoms and what is causing the heart failure. In some cases, you may need to take more than one medicine. It is important to talk to your health care provider about all the medicines you are taking, how...
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...great summarization post of congestive heart failure, my grandfather had congestive heart failure so I know first hand the effects it has on a person’s life. I thought it was very interesting that you pointed out one the first symptoms being not able to exercise without experiencing discomfort because not many individuals think of that as being a symptom they go to the go to symptoms like shortness of breath, coughing, and fatigue. In the beginning, before my grandfather was diagnosed with congestive heart failure he experienced difficulties lying down flat. Lying down flat causes parts of the lung to be in a more ¬¬¬dependent position. Another symptom to keep in mind for an individual with congestive heart failure is waking up with severe shortness of breath, and immediately needing to sit up to get their breath, and this is known as “paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea”. The reason why there is a fluid build is when the heart’s output decreases; the body tries to compensate for it by releasing hormones that make the heart beat faster and stronger. This reflex though is only a short-term gain, and in the long run it really damages the heart’s function. The kidneys also sense the heart’s decrease in blood output, and they release hormones into the body, which cause sodium and...
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...Running Head: THE BREACHING OF TARGET 1 The Breaching of Target: What Happened and How It Could Have Been Prevented THE BREACHING OF TARGET 2 The Breaching of Target: What Happened and How It Could Have Been Prevented In December of 2014, hackers infiltrated Target’s credit card system. These hackers obtained over 40 million customer’s credit card information along with 70 million customer’s personal information. What should have been Target’s most profitable season, actually turned into its worst. They lost many loyal customers while obtaining numerous lawsuits. Before this catastrophe, Target was known for being an extremely technologically advanced and secure corporation. This is why many customers are left wondering what happened and how it could have been prevented. The hackers that breached Target’s system supposedly used a piece of software called BlackPOS (Monocello, 2014). This piece of malware obtained its information from the black magnetic stripe on the back of each credit card as it was swiped. Stores use a POS system to swipe credit cards. This is how they obtain required information. However, the information does not come encrypted, so it is easy information for an advanced hacker to receive. A simple way to encrypt this information is by using an EMV chip and EMV chip reader. According to Rash (2013), “The EMV chip that's embedded...
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...1 Research Paper: ENO Research Paper: ENO- The Last Days of ENO Small Business Management and Entrepreneurship SBE 310 Devry University Trena Render 2 Research Paper: ENO Table of Contents Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………...3 ENO (restaurant)………………………………………………………………………………...3 Business Mission/Vision…………………………………………………………………………3 ENO Competition………………………………………………………………………………..4 The Beginning and End of ENO/ENO by Zaza……………………………………………..4-5 Business Failure for ENO/ENO by Zaza…………………………………………………….6-7 Trying to Revive ENO by Zaza ………………………………………………………………7-8 Conclusion………………………………………………………………………………………..9 References……………………………………………………………………………………….10 3 Research Paper: ENO ENO: The Last Days of ENO ENO Restaurant & Wine Bar was on the Atlanta, Georgia circuit for 10 plus years. It was a hit until the new owner step on the scene and the original owner had to give up on his passion since a teenage boy. ENO struggles to stay alive and revive itself with a new name, menu and swagger for the Elite socialite. In the mind of an entrepreneur failure is never an option. No entrepreneur wants to hear the word or talk about it. ENO got a second chance to shine in the spot light keeping its original name to include the new owner first name ENO by Zaza. Many would be impression that the new owner is a celebrity basketball player but was his star status good enough to score points to keep a business from failure. ENO was a European-Mediterranean...
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...department’s or even a single officer’s success through purely statistical measures. Specifically, the use of the rise or fall of crime rates, clearance rates of cases, response times to calls for service, and general enforcement productivity, (i.e. Arrests, citations, reports written, and calls for service cleared). These measuring tools have been used, as the sole source, to determine the overall success or failure, of both the officer and the entire department. While these measuring devices should not be completely abandoned by police agencies, there importance should be re-evaluated. The goal of this paper is to show that statistical measures should never be the sole method of judging success. Instead, overall community satisfaction, officer investment in the community, community involvement in problem solving, officer skill level and proper use of discretion, and basic understand of the primary mission of keeping the peace, should be the main methodology of supervisors and departments to determine officer and department success. This paper will first document some of the failures that have occurred when overreliance of statistics and hard numbers was the only measuring tool for officer production and officer success. Secondly, the use of a broader based metric will be proposed that when used with statistical information will lead...
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...Performance Appraisal Before I start with my paper about performance appraisal, I would like to give you a definition of it and describe it a little bit. In the text book it defines performance appraisal as a process, typically delivered annually by a supervisor to a subordinate, designed to help employees understand their roles, objectives, expectations and performance success. This would help employee’s build more team work, continuous improvement, learning, and motivation for their job. But as we all know there are disadvantage to this program because people would start finding ways to get around it. For example, my job has this program and it became a little hostile. The first aspect that selected for this paper is strategic relevance. In the textbook strategic relevance refers to the extent to which standards relate to the strategic objectives of the organization. For example, my job is like General motors and whirlpool. They do keep metrics of performance. My job as at least 2 people on each cell and we have tons of metric, and we evaluate it every day. I have a metric that I have to keep track of and this count towards the employee. We have metrics of their hourly production, their total for the day, and out of the box failure. We do hold the employee responsible for all the failures and mistakes. This does affect their performance appraisals. The draw back to that in my company is that there are more than one people working in the cell and how do we know who is...
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...subject to access authorization control to access a resource. The resource can be anything, including hard assets or soft (information) assets. Also, it could be a non-financial or financial (accounting) resource. Examples: Access to a dorm or an apartment building, access to controlled parking lots, buildings (such as a hospital, especially outside normal hours of operation, including weekends), cafeteria, a controlled ATM facility, library or lab facilities, computer operating room, a restricted event, class rooms (such as BA 111), fitness center. It could even be something quite unique. For example, on the back of my credit card, in place of the signature, I have “Request ID.” I could track all charge card transactions and track failures to ask for my ID, that is, incidences where I used the card but the provider of products or services did not request my ID (some businesses do not care if the charge is less than $25). Another example: Compliance test of a check on ID where age limit requirements exist (e.g., purchase of beer or cigarettes, ordering a drink at a bar). B. Risk: Unauthorized access resulting in unauthorized use of resources or other unintended consequences. ADD other risks to this list in the table below. C. Complete the following table: (Note: You may complete the document right here. The table is “extensible.” Keep your...
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...Failures of a Distributed System POS/355 July 25, 2013 Failures of a Distributed System In the words of Adam Savage from Mythbusters, “failure is always an option”. This holds true when talking about a distributed system, which is a computer network like a Wide Area Network (WAN) or a Local Area Network (LAN). Distributed systems is defined as a software system in which components located on networked computers communicate and coordinate their actions by passing messages (Coulouris, Dollimore, Kindberg, & Blair, 2012). This allows the computers or even devices like smart phones and tablets, to share resources like printers, hard drives, and even internet access. A centralized system is a computer that is by itself, one that is not connected to a laptop. Think of a centralized computer as one of the spy computers in movies, like Mission Impossible. These systems can and will fail, while sharing some failures; a distributed system has more components that could fail, leading to them having more problems. There a many things that could fail on a distributed system, this paper will cover four of them, starting with hardware failure. Video cards, network access card, hard disk drives, solid-state drives, memory, and power supply units (PSU), these are all pieces of hardware that are in most of the computers sold today, and they can all die at a moment’s notice. Some of these items, if they failed would not affect the network or distributed system at all, like a video card...
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...Business Research Decisions Team success or failure is caused by many factors. Even with the best efforts of organization leadership and team members, team success is not guaranteed. Organizations desiring success will study team failures within the organization for the health of future projects. Analyzing failure is important because it affects employee morale and also has financial implications (Team, 2013). There are five major categories attributed to team failure. In this paper we will examine and discuss the five categories identified as environmental influences, goals, roles, processes, and relationships. Failure in any or all of these categories leads to failure of the organization as a whole (Team, 2013). The hierarchy of business decision makers categorizes organizations based on how they use business research to make decisions. List and explain the three levels in the hierarchy. Environmental influences can be described as external factors such as team members working in different locations or teams having to straddle different time zones making it difficult to communication quickly and effectively(Team, 2013.) In the world of today’s communication options, this could be remedied by using Skype® or instant messaging, along with Google Docs® for group efforts. Communication is the most important part of successful teams. Another environmental influence is that a team may not be given sufficient resources to do the job. A team that does not have the necessary...
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...Bookshop Introduction As the world is changing with Technology, many companies are finding themselves struggling to stay afloat in competitive market. Whenever new business strategy is introduced in a company, a change has to take place. The way changes are introduced and implemented, determines the success of the change. Before change is introduced, there must be need for change and after implementation of change; there is expectation (Vaughn, 2012). Change is not an easy process; it requires team work in planning, organizing and implementation. Organizational change is successful when it is effective and yield growth, but a failure when is unproductive. This paper will discuss the phases in the organizational change process and what lead to the change failure at the Concord Bookshop. Phases of Organizational Change Process Change is trying to do things in a different way for a better result or outcome. (Spector, 2010). Kurt Lewin’s three stage theory of change are Unfreeze, Change and Freeze. The Unfreezing stage is the understanding of the need for change and preparing for it. It requires moving away from the comfort zone of the old norms. The Change stage or Transition is the most difficult time of the change. At this stage reaction to change are displayed, people are frustrated and fearful. Support is need at this stage either in form of training, or in-services and mistakes are expected. The last stage...
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