Paper- Proposal -IT
C850 Document Checklist
Make sure you use this checklist while you are writing your paper and prior to submitting to a course instructor for review.
|_| Primary learning resource has been completed (located in the course of study)
|_| Entire case study has been read prior to starting the paper (located in tips document)
Rubric points to be met:
A. Summarize an organizational need in the case study, including the scope of the need.
a. |_| Case study has been summarized
b. |_| One problem in the case study has been identified for solving
B. Propose an emerging technology solution to address the organizational need from the case study. Provide justification that classifies this technology as emerging. (Will this new technology solve the problem TechFite is currently experiencing?). Remember you have to research and find an emerging technology as well as find a vendor that provides it.
a. |_| Technology to solve the problem has been identified
b. |_| Vendor/product that provides technology has been identified
i. You HAVE to provide a vendor that provides the technology..you cannot just say firewall or IDS/IPS you have to select a vendor that provides the technology/product.
c. |_| Examples of organizations using vendor/product successfully have been given
d. |_| Choose one area to justify being emerging technology
i. Technology has aspects of being embryonic or emerging according to Gartner Maturity Level Matrix
1. Embryonic – currently in labs, no vendor adoption yet
2. Emerging – technology has been commercialized by vendors and deployed by industry leaders
ii. |_| Technology has aspects in one of the first three areas of the Gartner Hype Cycle
1. Innovation Trigger
2. Peak of inflated expectations
3. Trough of disillusionment
e. |_| Aspect that makes chosen technology emerging has been discussed
i. Artificial intelligence
ii. Machine Language
C. Explain the steps of the adoption process that you recommend the organization use to integrate the new emerging technology, including a description of why each step is necessary and how each step relates to people or current processes in the organization.
a. |_| Gartner STREET process has been used and each step has been related to the organization and the adoption of the chosen technology/product
D. Describe a positive and a negative impact that your emerging technology solution could have on the people or current processes in the organization.
a. |_|Positive impact of the technology on the people and processes in TechFite
b. |_|Negative impact of the technology on people and processes in Techfite
i. |_|Two ways to overcome the negative impact have been addressed
E. Compare your emerging technology solution to an alternative technology solution, providing at least two advantages and two disadvantages that each technology may have for the organization.
a. |_| Discuss the technology you chose and provide two advantages and disadvantages of using the chosen technology.
b. |_| Discuss an alternative technology that wasn’t chosen and provide two advantages and disadvantages of using it in the organization.
F. Recommend a method that can be used to determine whether adoption of the proposed emerging technology solution will be successful or unsuccessful, based on the needs of the organization.( Assume that Techfite currently scans 10,000 log files manually per week with a 30% success rate in identifying intrusion signature patterns and only has 4 terabytes of storage allocated locally for log storage)
a. |_| A time frame for testing has been clearly identified (30, 60, 90 days…)
b. |_| Metric to be measured against old methods has been clearly identified
c. |_| Metric baseline for test to be considered successful has been established
d. |_| Steps to take if test is a failure are outlined
Other points to check
A. Sources are clearly defined and used in the document and in the reference section
b. |_| APA formatted in paper citations and end of paper in reference section
B. |_| Grammar/punctuation/spelling have been checked
a. Contact WGU Writing Center if you are struggling with this
C. |_| Paper has been submitted for originality report check and has less than 30% on the originality score
a. Upload paper for grading
b. Wait 1-3 minutes and refresh screen
c. Similarity report shows, click link view
d. Delete paper (click trash can icon next to file name)