1. This Assignment takes place over 2 weeks. In order to complete it, you take on the role of someone who a current CIO is grooming to take over a position in a company. To that end, the CIO is delegating tasks to you to give you practice for the role. Today, the CEO asked the CIO, who in turn asked you, to present a brief at next week's Board of Directors meeting in which you analyze a contemporary technology.
For the meeting, you need to prepare a research-based PowerPoint presentation. You also will need to prepare a separate annotated bibliography document, which is a list of the articles that you have selected and that will help your audience understand the technology and associated issues that you are presenting. This document is important-and expected-as the Board likely will want to read the source material for themselves after your presentation.
This Week, you consider the following presentation topics, purpose, and audience, and create an outline of your presentation to submit to your Instructor for feedback.
• Presentation topic: Bring Your Own Device (BYOD).
(EXAMPLE) Bring your own device (BYOD) is starting to take shape in the federal government. At Department of Treasury, they are already offering this for people who would like to cut down on the number of cell phones they have to carry. All you have to do is let security scan your phone, and the IT department add it to the Enterprise network so all work emails can come to your phone.
• Presentation purpose: The purpose of this presentation is to provide insight to the Board of Directors so that they can make business decisions related to this technology.
• Presentation audience: No one on the Board of Directors has a technical background.
Write and submit a 1- to 2-page document in which you analyze a contemporary technology and outline your presentation. Your outline should include the following headings:
• Overview of the technology
• Implications of the technology
• Risks
• Opportunities.
2. Discussion:
Credibility stems from one's acquired expertise, the conviction of one's words, as well as the integration of authoritative and acceptable sources into one's arguments. Think about a radio talk show host who is a master of inflamed discourse and witty retorts, but is unable to effectively contradict a well-informed expert guest with whom he or she disagrees. While the host may connect better with his or her audience and may even garner more laughs and get the radio station's switchboard to light up, whose advice is the audience going to take when critical decisions need to be made?
As a IT leader, your opinions and insights will carry significance simply because of a certain measure of credibility that will be ascribed to you. To maintain and expand that credibility, you need to inform yourself with resources upon which you would personally bet your professional reputation. Those resources need to be credible and appropriate for your target audience. For this final Hot Topics Discussion, you apply criteria for evaluating credibility and appropriateness of resources.
Post a response of approximately 350-500 words in which you explain how you determine the credibility and appropriateness of a resource for an audience. Describe the criteria you use to evaluate candidate resources for your own expert consideration.