Assessment 2 Instructions: Harvard Business Review Article Proposal For this assessment, you will write a 5-7 page preliminary paper as part of an article pitch for Harvard Business Review (HBR) based on a strategic digital transformation topic chosen from one of the industry problem scenarios developed for the course. For this second assessment, you will have the opportunity to demonstrate your expertise related to leading digital transformation, as you will be able to work from a scholar-practitioner perspective. You will have the opportunity to select an overarching business scenario relevant to today's business environment and meaningful to high performance leadership professionals. You will develop an abbreviated project proposal to conceptualize ideas that are relevant to leadership professionals. As you read through and select one of three scenarios to conceptualize a project topic for your assessments in this course, keep in mind that you will be using your chosen scenario to write a preliminary paper and practitioner article proposal. The topic that you explore will later be used to develop a proposed business study. The objective is to apply the concepts you are learning to find a business problem that can be studied, utilizing the same practice you will use to develop your capstone project proposal. Note: Assessments in this course are designed to be completed in the order they are presented in the courseroom. Please make sure you are completing them in order. Overview This is the first of four assessments for this course: Harvard Business Review Preliminary Essay and Article Proposal. Business Project Idea: Developing a Business Study. Designing the Project: Developing a Business Study. Harvard Business Review Summit Virtual Presentation. For this assessment you will prepare an article pitch for Harvard Business Review (HBR) and continue to develop your literature matrix, synthesizing trends in the field of leadership to envision scenarios encompassing emerging problems and gaps in practice. Instructions Select one leading digital transformation topic from the course Industry Problem Scenarios to use as the subject of your article: Scenario 1: Leading Digital Transformation in Retail. Scenario 2: Leading in an Environment Using Artificial Intelligence. Scenario 3: Leading Using Business Intelligence and Knowledge Management Systems. Part 1 Using the course resources and other scholarly, peer-reviewed, or qualitative or quantitative empirical research on leading digital transformation, compare your findings to practitioner articles to write a three-page scholarly essay in which you address the following: Evaluate the positive and negative aspects for leaders who are responding to the digital transformation of the business environment, comparing the findings in the scholarly and practitioner literature. Make sure your evaluation considers the impacts and aspects of business performance. Describe ways leaders are adapting to business problems with business model innovation in the digital age by integrating scientific information, business reports, and company examples. Use the course readings and other resources that you have found in the scholarly and practitioner literature as the basis for your description. Evaluate the effectiveness of leadership strategies used to create a competitive advantage in a digital world based on models, theories, and practices. You will use these scholarly reflections to inform the development of your article proposal for Part 2 of your assessment.  Part 2 Prepare a Harvard Business Review article proposal package based on a leading digital transformation topic. Start by browsing Harvard Business Review articles in the strategy and innovation topics areas and reviewing the Harvard Business Review's Guidelines for Contributors. Write a proposal to the editor for an article that you would like to develop, addressing the following points. It does not need to be in a question-and-answer format. What is the central message of the article you propose to write? What is important, useful, new, or counterintuitive about your idea? Why do managers need to know about it? How can your idea be applied today? What is the source of your authority? On what previous work does this idea build? What academic, professional, or personal experience will you draw on?

This first part of your project focuses on a model of implementing security using layers, segmentation and other basic security techniques to re-design the network accordingly.In this assignment, you are to design a network to incorporate and secure both the Chicago and Denver networks. This is a top-level network design updating the current designs provided. There is a separate design for the current Bering (Chicago) and Unicorp (Denver) sites and you will need to integrate and secure both sites. You will use the following two drawings:Module 01 Network Diagram ChicagoModule 01 Network Diagram DenverFor each network, you will need to add firewalls, routers and connectivity to the internet for site-to-site communications. Assume you have the funds and abilities to add any security measures that you may feel is needed. For your project, you will submit a design proposal in which you:Use Microsoft Visio to design a network diagram, particularly with defense in depth in mind which depicts how you will connect and secure the Chicago and Denver networks.Indicate the following on your drawings:The location of databases. Denver has several databases (customer, product, employee, payroll and manufacturing). Indicate which of these you would consolidate in Chicago and which database or databases would remain in multiple locations (you can assume databases in multiple locations would be synchronized). Explain your decision.All network devices used (routers, switches, hubs, firewalls, VPNs, and / or others)The interconnections between network devices.The end user (client) devices (desktops, laptops, mobile devices)The internet cloud, generically, to represent your network’s interface to the InternetBriefly describe how your network design provides multiple layers of security in a word document.Notes on submission:Insert the Visio diagrams into the body of your design proposal so that THEY are active and editable. You should not be using screenshots.Focus on routers, switches, firewalls, hubs, and interfaces between devices. Do not add wireless connectivity.Your analysis should use professional tone and vocabulary, APA format, and proper spelling and grammar.