Summative Assessment: Leadership Optimization Business Plan

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Complete this worksheet following your interview.

Optimization Vision/Topic

Briefly describe the optimization problem you have chosen to address in the Week 8 assignment.

Your description should reflect the most updated version of your vision. Incorporate faculty feedback as needed.

The aim is to branch out into new geographical territory to increase volume of Google’s products. Additionally, the goal of optimization is to also avoid misalignment between the business and the supply chain strategies while providing visibility across the supply chain and to elevate development and decision-making practices with AI. Although Google employs methods to help various agencies with their cyber security and software efforts among other features, the supply chain for entities that utilize Google products and services must be secure and have the ability to flow and connect with Google. For Google to produce its products its partners such as Deloitte, Accenture, Infosys within its “Supply Chain Twin” and “Digital Twins” efforts that can model potential scenarios, and aid in key features and benefits of Google’s global infrastructure and products for law enforcement and other businesses alike.

Interview Questions

Select 5 of your most impactful interview questions and write them below. Provide rationale for the questions you selected.

Question 1	IS THE SUPPLY CHAIN OPTIMIZED AND EFFICIENT? The aim was to determine how Google aid in not only optimizing their supply chain but that of other agencies and businesses
Question 2	HAS THE SUPPLY CHAIN UNDERGONE STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT? The goal was to make a determination if Google has invested into innovative capabilities to enhance its strategic development to provide quality products, improved security, better scalability, and its overall software solutions services
Question 3	IS QUALITY EMBEDDED IN THE SUPPLY CHAIN? The aim was to determine if Google employ efforts to ensure that the quality of its digital product supply chain is safe from attacks
Question 4	WHERE ARE THERE RISKS? Every supply chain will have specific risk points. Conversely, how does Google aid in identifying where these risks are and how do they implement a strong backup plan
Question 5	ARE SUPPLY CHAIN AND BUSINESS STRATEGIES ALIGNED? The goal is to determine if Google employ data analytics when aligning their supply chain to strengthen business strategies

Interview Responses

Summarize the interviewee responses to your questions in the spaces below.

Question 1	Google is taking advantage of its own AI/ML capabilities for supply chain offerings. Google is using current consumer products like Google Maps to release software that supports supply chain managers like myself to deploy fleets more rapidly and plan more efficiently
Question 2	Google embraces dynamic supply chain approaches that provide accommodations that address ever-changing market demands. Categorically, the operations and supply chain approaches adopted have evidently played an enormous task in enabling Google to be an excellent service provider.
Question 3	Google utilizes secure development and continuous testing frameworks to discover and escape collective programming errors
Question 4	Google's embedded security-by-default tactic also contemplates an extensive variability of attack trajectories on the development procedure and supply chain risks that relate to threats in the context of the source, builds, deployment, and dependencies. Therefore, attack trajectories for software supply chains are a few methods we use to prevent somebody from deliberately or accidentally compromising software because issues like this can result in lost time, money, and consumer trust, whether its law enforcement or any other business.
Question 5	The varied Internet-related products and services have enabled Google to corner diverse Internet users and make them dependent to a certain extent. Google tracks through cookies which collect data related to users' preferences, inclinations, favorites, requirements, etc. Whenever anyone searches for anything on the Google search platform, it incorporates all that data before showing the results in proper rank. Basically, what I'm saying is big data is at the core of Google's business model.