ITM490 Capstone in Information Technology Management Discussion Questions

Information Technology Management
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Question 1
In relation to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Organization have a statute responsibility to measure and curtail any uncertainties in its operations that could damage the society or the environment to protect its stakeholders. Companies practices CSR with the objective to enhance the legal, ethical and international norms to protect the planet and people while managing the profits (Kohli & Jasmeet Singh, 2010). Organizations have achieved this objective with the aid of IT which plays a crucial role in delivering effect CSR activities. Through IT, businesses are able to make profits as improve the workplace, establish a setting favourable to disabled employees, create educational employees, help the society, enhance business ethics and bridge the digital device. For example, IT has can be used in installing effective and organized wellness, safety, and social health, which in turn helps the companies to boost their brand images (P D Jose & Mehra, 2013). For example, Salesforce a cloud computing company created the Salesforce’s 1-1-1 community service model that runs campaigns urging IT companies as well as others to donate funds to foundations that commits to alleviation poverty in the society. Thus, IT is essential tool in computerizing project and programs that aims to protect and help the both society and the environment
Question 2
A firm has to consider the following factors when evaluating a move from a client/server system to a cloud computing environment. First, cloud computing performance in terms of network performance and geographical proximity is essentials because the delivery of an end-to-end view of the application request-response path and access of multiple tiers of data stores requires a high-speed cloud computing server (Dennis, Wixom, & Roth, 2014). Second, it is essential to consider technology software stack that comes with the cloud computing, A good cloud computing is the one that offers multiple software stacks such as Microsoft's Windows Azure for .NET and PHP Fog for PHP. An application with several stacks reducing expenses and saving time but not at the expense of quality of delivery and the level of and infrastructure setup and configuration (Shroff, 2010). Third, it is important to consider the level of Security and compliance and cloud computing. Many firm are even more concerned by risks of inability to achieve compliance with security-related standards such as PCI than the security th...