Part 1
Purpose:
For this assessment, you will investigate migration plans and post-implementation activities. You will then create a PowerPoint (or other presentation software) presentation that you will present to your clients. You will need to recommend a conversation strategy, negotiate a business contingency plan, and assess costs and benefits. Prepare a statement for post project assessment. Once have completed your analysis, you will present your analysis, recording it, to demonstrating your ability to interact with others in a professional manner.
You must record a video to go with your presentation and can create a video of yourself giving the presentation. You can use the Record Slide Show capabilities in PowerPoint to record yourself giving the presentation. You can also use a screen recording program such as Screencastify (www.screencastify.com) or Screencast-o-matic (https://screencast-o-matic.com/) to record and create your video. Save your video as a separate file so it can be submitted to your instructor as part of the assessment. You will submit both your presentation and the media file that you create to go with it.
If you have a video camera and would like to record yourself giving your presentation, that is acceptable as well. Be sure both you and the presentation are visible in the video. Other video capture mechanisms are acceptable: the end goal is an appropriate .MP4 video file that your instructor can play.
Assessment Instructions:
Part one: PowerPoint presentation: Create a PowerPoint (or other presentation software) presentation that you will present to your clients. The presentation should include the following components
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Title Slide, Template, and Layout
Your first slide is the cover slide. Be sure to include your name, your clients, and your project.
Choose an appropriate graphical template for your presentation. Images and other data visualization techniques are encouraged for your presentation.
Conversion Strategy
In the next 1–3 slides, select a conversion strategy right for this system conversion. Explain the types of conversion strategy options. Make a recommendation and highlight the choices as it reflects the cost, time, and risk associated with elements of the transition. Explain which system conversion recommendation you selected and why.
Business Contingency Plan
In the next 1–2 slides, address the business contingency plan. Explain what a contingency plan is on one slide and make a recommendation for consideration for this system.
Assess Costs and Benefits
This is the most important thing for your client! They want to really make sure that your system makes sense and they can understand and measure the results as they expand their business.
Address the following:
- Benefits of to-be System
- Certainty/measurement of benefits
- Costs of Transition
- Certainty/measurement of costs
Use Figure 13-6 Major Factors in Successful Change from your textbook to help guide this portion of your analysis.
Figure 13-6 Major Factors in Successful Change
You can extrapolate figures and make other logical assumptions based on the information presented in the scenario. Make up appropriate details to support your presentation. The key to this portion of the assessment is to identify the types of information and measurements that could be used.
There is too much information in the table to go on ONE slide. You will need to practice your data visualization skills to format the information in a suitable professional manner to address each of the areas – for example, you may choose to dedicate one slide to each topic. You could include charts or graphs that measure the types of things your clients are looking for.
Project Assessment/Post-implementation
Finally, prepare a statement for post-project assessment. How will you know what was successful about the system and the project activities (and therefore should be continued in the next system or project), and how do you determine new requirements to feed back into future systems for improvement?
Include a final slide with references slide of complete APA entries.
Part Two:
The Assignment has two Sections.
SECTION 1:
You will compose a quest narrative from your life. You may write this as a letter to another person considering the same quest. You will aim to tell the person your story and call him or her to action as well. You should be writing this as a leader who wishes to inspire the person reading your narrative.
You must employ at least two of the concepts from the assigned reading on literature, such as a metaphor, image, or symbol.
This narrative may be about your return to acquire your degree, about a decision to change your life or pursue a relationship or career, or about an opportunity to reinvent yourself. The narrative should have objectives, and should give the reader a sense of the impact of your journey — both on yourself and those around you.
Draw a connection between your journey. You may have taken action without thinking it through, but take this opportunity to analyze the decision as a part of self-awareness, finding your potential, and becoming inspired to improve your situation. What may be the impact of that inciting action and your efforts to go on the quest? Do include the highs and the lows of that quest along with insight into why you kept moving toward your goal.
Instead of a letter, you could write the narrative as a poem, a dialogue, or a work of creative fiction. However, the work must be an original composition for the Assignment, related to your own experience, and offering a call to action toward a reader.
The narrative must be at least 1 page, but can be longer.
SECTION 2:
In at least 500 words, you will evaluate the narrative from above.
- Explain how you used the two concepts of literature in creating your narrative. Use and cite the text to explain each concept that was used, and to explain how you interpreted and employed this concept in your narrative.
- Clarify for the reader how you demonstrated leadership in your call to action for the reader. How did you organize the ideas? How did you communicate your vision, and what techniques of persuasion did you use? What are the objectives of this vision? How can you measure success in the impact of the narrative? Consider the impact of this narrative on those who may need it. What will it help them to discover about uncovering their own potential as a human being? Why would a narrative be an effective way to call another person to self-reflection and change?
- Reflect on telling the story and the process of writing section 1. Was it a difficult process? What helped you to get inspired? What made you tell this particular story?
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