Using the topic and research question you developed in week 1, you will design a quantitative instrument that could potentially answer your topic/research question if it were to be applied to a quantitative study. Keep in mind, this may take some stretching if you wrote your question leaning quantitatively. The purpose here is not to box you in but to ensure that you have a […]

If you want to become a programmer, you will need to study one or more languages. You have a variety of options available, including online materials, in-person classes, and study guides. While this chapter certainly didn’t teach you everything you need to know to become a programmer, you did learn some concepts and a bit about how to read and understand code. For this lab, […]

Chapter 5. Scope Management Initial Postings: Read and reflect on the assigned readings for the week. Then post what you thought was the most important concept(s), method(s), term(s), and/or any other thing that you felt was worthy of your understanding in each assigned textbook chapter.Your initial post should be based upon the assigned reading for the week, so the textbook should be a source listed in […]

  Project OverviewYou have been retained by Widget Sales Company (for more information, see Widget Sales Company Project Overview [DOCX]), an international company with offices in 25 countries, to develop a website that will allow its employees to enter travel expenses incurred on a business trip and store that data for reporting purposes. It is estimated that, initially, only 100 employees in the United States will […]

Tony Prince is the project manager for the Recreation and Wellness Intranet Project. Team members include you, a programmer/analyst and aspiring project manager; Patrick, a network specialist; Nancy, a business analyst; and Bonnie, another programmer/analyst. Other people are supporting the project from other departments, including Yusaff from human resources and Cassandra from finance. Assume that these are the only people who can be assigned and […]

 You will review both quantitative and qualitative research. The topic is up to you as long as you choose a peer-reviewed, academic research piece. I suggest choosing a topic that is at least in the same family as your expected dissertation topic so that you can start viewing what is out there. There are no hard word counts or page requirements as long as you […]

 Write a JavaScript program that calculates the sales tax and total price of an item. Assume a sales tax rate of 8%, which means you will multiply the cost of the item by .08 in order tocalculate the tax amount. Use prompt and parseFloat to ask the user to input the item’s cost and convert it to a numeric format. Declare a variable salesTax and use the formula […]

Decision modeling with spreadsheets is regarded as clearly the most popular end-user modeling tool. Explain vividly why this is so, i.e. why a spreadsheet is so conducive to the development of Decision Support Systems (DSS). In your discussion, please include what a spreadsheet is, what a spreadsheet add-in means and how can a spreadsheet add-ins help in DSS creation and use? 

Discussion 2.1 – Six Men and an Elephant (This is an individual assignment.) Business environments are often marked by uncertainty and complexity, meaning that the relationships between and among decisions which impact on a company’s financial performance are often times difficult to predict.  After reading the Kaplan & Norton articles for the week–particularly the original article on the Balanced Scorecard–how do you think that a […]

 Activity I – The data in the file attached contains information on your firm’s sales per capita, advertising expenditure per capita, and average local income.Regress sales per capita on advertising expenditure per capita, controlling for local income as an interval variable, where intervals are <$35,000, $35,000–$44,999, $45,000–$54,999, and $55,000+, and <$35,000 is the base group.For the remainder of the question, assume the data-generating process isSalesperCapitai […]