Your company has had embedded HR generalists in business units for the past several years. Over that time, it has become costlier, and more difficult to maintain standards, and is a frustration for business units to have that budget “hit.” The leadership has decided to move to a more centralized model of delivering HR services and has asked you to evaluate that proposition and begin establishing a project team to initiate the needed changes. The project team is selected and you must now provide general direction.

Write a five to six (5-6) page paper in which you:

1. Review and define the five (5) steps of strategic planning . Based on the information, provide a statement of overall importance of these steps to your project team.
2. Develop a vision and mission statement for the project team specific to the current project. HINT: It is highly recommended to follow the guidance offered in the textbook about vision and mission statement.
3. Explain to the project team what a project charter is and why it is used. Then, select any 3 charter elements you feel are more important and explain why.
4. Provide a “Statement of Emphasis” to your project team based on the information you provided in the previous 3 sections above. The goal is to ensure your team understands the importance of the information.

Your assignment must:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA format.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

P6-1_3_5_6: Windows & Linux

DO the following Hands-on Projects:

• Project 6-1 (p. 298 from textbook): Use the Add a Device Wizard in Windows 10:
  • Perform Steps 1 & 2 ONLY, and
  • Submit the snapshot of the window on Figure 6-12
• Project 6-3 (p. 301 from textbook): Use Device Manager in Windows 10:
  • Perform Steps 1-4 and “Click the Driver tab” ONLY from Step 5
  • Submit the snapshot of the window on Figure 6-14
• Project 6-5 (p. 304 from textbook) View Devices in Linux:
  • Perform Step 5 ONLY, and
  • Submit the snapshot of its output
• Project 6-6 (pp. 304-305 from textbook): Use the Settings Menu in Linux:
  • Perform Steps 1 & 2 ONLY, and
  • Submit the snapshot of the window on Figure 6-16

Layer 1 – The Physical Layer

The physical layer defines the electrical, mechanical, procedural, and functional specifications for activating, maintaining, and deactivating the physical link between end systems. Characteristics such as voltage levels, timing of voltage changes, physical data rates, maximum transmission distances, physical connectors, and other attributes are defined by physical layer specifications. The physical layer is vulnerable to wire taps and reconnaissance. Fiber media is much more secure, but both copper and fiber media are vulnerable to cutting. This type of vandalism can bring down hosts, segments, and entire networks. Also, power instabilities, natural disasters, and severe storms can affect network devices to the extent that they can become inoperative (see Appendix on Physical Security).

Layer 2 – The Data Link Layer
The data link layer provides reliable transit of data across a physical link. The data link layer is concerned with physical, as opposed to logical addressing, network topology, network access, error notification, ordered delivery of frames, and flow control. Frame-level exploits and vulnerabilities include sniffing, spoofing, broadcast storms, and insecure or absent virtual LANs (VLANs, or lack of VLANs). Network interface cards (NICs) that are misconfigured or malfunctioning can cause serious problems on a network segment or the entire network.

Layer 3 – The Network Layer
The network layer provides connectivity and path selection between two host systems that may be located on geographically separated networks. Packet-level exploits include ping scans, sniffing, DoS, Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) poisoning, nuking, ping of death, and spoofing. DDoS attacks such as SMURF, Stacheldraht, and TFN are especially dangerous to target networks and devices.

Layer 4 – The Transport Layer
The transport layer segments data from the sending host system and reassembles the data into a data stream on the receiving host system. In providing communication service, the transport layer establishes, maintains, and properly terminates virtual circuits. In providing reliable service, transport-error detection-and-recovery and information flow control are used. The transport layer is especially vulnerable to an attack. Many applications and protocols use well-known TCP and User Datagram Protocol (UDP) ports that must be protected. This is analogous to locking the door but leaving all the windows wide open. These windows must also be closed or secured. Segment-level attacks such as DoS, spoofing, and hijacking can be performed. Numerous port scanners are available to perform reconnaissance on a host or network.

Layer 5 – The Application Layer
Application layer attacks can be implemented using several different methods. One of the most common methods is exploiting well-known weaknesses in software commonly found on servers, such as Send mail, Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), and File Transfer Protocol (FTP). By exploiting these weaknesses, hackers can gain access to a computer with the permission of the account running the application, which is usually a privileged system-level account. These application layer attacks are often widely publicized in an effort to allow administrators to rectify the problem with a patch. Unfortunately, many hackers also subscribe to these same mailing lists, a scenario that results in their learning about the attack, if they have not discovered it already. The primary problem with application layer attacks is that they often use ports that are allowed through a firewall. For example, a hacker executing a known vulnerability against a Web server often uses TCP port 80 in the attack. Because the Web server delivers pages to users, a firewall must allow access on that port. From the perspective of the firewall, it is merely standard port 80 traffic. Application layer attacks can never be completely eliminated. New vulnerabilities are always being discovered and publicized to the Internet community. Driven by the demands of the Internet market, companies continue to release software and hardware with many known security issues and bugs. Furthermore, users continue to make security difficult by downloading, installing, and configuring unauthorized applications that introduce new security risks at an alarming rate.

Final Case Study: Consulting for the Caring Angel
Hospital

Imagine that you
are a senior consultant at Practical Health Care Consulting firm. Your
supervisor has instructed you to spend three (3) months at the Caring Angel
Hospital to help improve the quality of care, add value to the organization,
improve employee morale, design an efficient organizational chart, create a
strong team environment, and create the hospital’s competitive advantage. The
hospital has traditionally made losses year after year. Furthermore, it is not
performing well financially, and the banks are not willing to lend it large sums
of money for more effective marketing.

After spending two (2) months
within the hospital, you are very happy with your progress, and you think you
are capable of acquiring more patient base and expanding the hospital market.
However, with a closer look, you notice that your patients are still hopping
from one specialized hospital to another in search of various specialized
treatments. You also notice that the seats are not comfortable in the waiting
area, and the patients continuously show up for appointments on the wrong dates.
The nurses and the employees are not smiling during patient conversations, and
everyone looks for ways to blame others for failures in the patient treatment
process. Everyone seems to work alone and hide what they do from their
colleagues.

At the end of the three (3) month period, you must provide a
report with your recommended strategies designed to help Caring Angel Hospital
achieve its goals.

Note: You may create and / or make
all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this
assignment.

Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

1. From a consulting perspective, propose the major steps that Caring Angel
   Hospital could take to achieve each of the following goals:
   1. Improve the quality of care
   2. Add value to the organization
   3. Improve employee morale
   4. Design an efficient organizational chart
   5. Create a strong team environment
   6. Create the hospital’s competitive edge.
2. Recommend one (1) approach that the hospital could use for acquiring a
   larger market share given the prevailing financial circumstances. Justify your
   recommendation.
3. Investigate at least two (2) value-added services that Caring Angel Hospital
   could offer to strengthen its value proposition. Provide at least two (2)
   examples of the advantages of these value-added services to the hospital.
4. Use four (4) recent (within the last five [5] years) quality academic
   resources in this assignment.
   Note: Wikipedia and other
   websites do not qualify as quality academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch
  margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or
  school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional
  instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s
  name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and
  the reference page are not included in the required assignment page
  length.

*( The book The Great Conversation 7th or 8th edition is required ) The purpose of this assignment is to assess your familiarity with some of the key issues from the Greek mythical tradition in contrast to the distinguishing characteristics of the early Greek naturalist (Pre-Socratics). Examples should be used to illustrate and support your points. The assignment is to be 2-3 pages in length (approx. 1300 words or 100 lines) using standard 12″ font size with 1.5 spacing. You may use bullet lists sparingly for only part of your essay. The essay is your comparison and contrast of Greek myth to the logos of the early Greek naturalist that lead to Socrates.