Management - Picture yourself as a new manager hired into a failing division in a company. The product line is outdated and losing market share, inter-departmental communication is adversarial, and competition for corporate funding is fierce. How are you, a new person, going to turn things around? Consider the following example, Symphonic Cooperation (see the attached file), from another "industr...

Business management and leadership - Turning a failing organization around is one of the most interesting activities in management. When organizations see themselves in that downward spiral, their managers may feel that they are unable to stop the pace of negative change. That worry and that downward momentum can be very powerful. At the same time, it sometimes takes only a key impetus to deflect ...

Representative Network Topologies. - What are the different types of network topologies used on a LAN or WAN?

About 2 pages of network design - Sterling Co. wants you to design a network infrastructure for them. They have 5 divisions with several hundred users at each division across the United States. They have many employees who work from home. What kind of network would you suggest? Additional objectives are to discuss networking concepts using the OSI Model as a framework, describe protocols at the ...

Naptster and its legal battles - Do a Web search for stories about Napster and its legal battles at http://www.altavista.com. Why has the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) filed its lawsuit? How is this different from making a VHS copy of a movie or TV show with your VCR? What legitimate uses of Napster’s file sharing abilities can you come up with? What other Web-based sites offer ...