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Five Principles Of Delivering It Value

Select one of the following companies: Apple Corp., Microsoft, Amazon, or Dell  and describe each of the five principles for delivering IT value as outlined in chapter one and articulate how that company implements each of the five principles.  Additionally, state which of the principles is most critical to the organization and why.  Be sure to incorporate concepts from the reading, intext citations, and a reference list to support your post. 

the five principles are:  

1.Have a clearly defined portfolio value management process.

2.Aim for chunks of Value.

3.Adopt a holistic orientation for technology value.

4.Aim for joint ownership of technology initiatives.

5.Experiment more often

Payback Time , Levelized Cost Of Energy And Internal Rate Of Return


  1. A homeowner paid $4000 for a solar water heater and received a tax credit of 30%. The system saves $450 per year. Find a simple payback time. Assuming a discount rate of 5%, find the payback time based on the Present Worth analysis.
  2. A solar power company plans to build a 50 MWe solar power plant with the following information. Find the LCOE and IRR for this investment.
    Location: Daggett, California (Lat. 34° 51.8′)
    Capital costs, including site prep and construction = $125 M (30%
    equity, 70% debt at 5%)
    Repairs and maintenance = $150,000/year (plant shutdown 10 days/ year for maintenance and repairs)
    Yearly electrical output = 300 MWhe/day
    Tariff received = $0.15/kWhe for the first year, with 5%/year escala- tion after that
    Life of system = 25 years
  3. Calculate the IRR(internal rate of return) if the power company gets a fixed feed-in tariff of $0.25/kWhe for 20 years and the salvage value of the plant after 20 years is $20 M

Analysis

Analysis Assignment 1

1. Discover additional materials that survey the current state of cyber threats and vulnerabilities, such as annual online survey reports from SANS Institute, McAfee, and Verizon. Describe your findings.

2. Select an antipattern and define the organizational policies that would mitigate the vulnerabilities.

3. Why is network administration an essential skill for a hands-on cybersecurity professional?

4. On a cybersecurity testing project, which network administration skills are you mostly likely to use?

5. Create a version of Backtrack to run on a thumb drive, bootstrap it, and explore the main menu options. What interesting tools can you find? Explain what the tools do.

6. The Backtrack updating and upgrading procedure often leads to operating system crashes. What are the potential causes of these crashes?

7. Define a security testing tool configuration that is based upon virtual machines rather than disk partitions. What are some advantages of your new architecture?

8. Choose a set of vulnerabilities, perhaps based on an antipattern in Chapter 2. Which types of cybersecurity evaluations would be the most effective for diagnosing and mitigating the problems? Why?

9. Find examples of Certification Test Plans, System Security Plans, and other common security documents on the Internet. What types of enterprises have released these plans? For what kinds of systems?

10. Which forms of cyber-attacks would you use to test web applications and databases on the web? Why? How?

ANALYSIS ASSIGNMENT 1

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2. Question 4 Page 35 from Textbook

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