Scenario: A company called Colony Nursery and Landscaping opened a new store located a few hundred miles away from its original location. The company wants to implement an award system that awards their customers with points whenever the customer makes a purchase, but the two stores are not able to share information. Colony Nursery and Landscaping will need to implement an enterprise resources planning (ERP) system that will solve the information silo problem by collecting and making available this user data. Colony Nursery and Landscaping is hoping that by providing customers with this award system, they will be able to maintain competitive advantage. Colony Nursery and Landscaping cannot afford to purchase, develop, or maintain this system on-site, so they are investigating cloud solutions.In addition, for many organizations, Cloud Nursery and Landscaping included, information silos make it difficult to tap into needed information. Discuss whether or not the problem of information silos can be solved by using the cloud. Some organizations do not have the resources to construct or maintain their computer infrastructure, so they utilize cloud services instead to reduce costs and improve scalability. In this assignment, you will discuss whether or not the cloud offers solutions for Colony Nursery and Landscaping and identify an application the ERP system could provide. Compose an essay that includes the following elements: Define what an information silo is. Explain why information silos are a problem for organizations. Discuss why organizations are moving to the cloud. Determine whether or not using cloud services such as a cloud-based host for data storage would solve the ERP information silo problem at Colony Nursery and Landscaping. Explain how using the ERP system and awards program would provide a competitive advantage for Colony Nursery and Landscaping. Discuss why the implementation of an ERP system might require business process reengineering for Colony Nursery and Landscaping. Be sure to explain the business processes that will be affected such as the customer awards system as an example. Use diagrams or tables as needed, but this is not required. Your essay must be a minimum of two pages long (not counting the title and references pages), and it must be formatted in APA style. You should include an introduction section that gives background and context to your reader. You must use at least two scholarly resources as references. Any information from these resources must be cited and referenced in APA format.

CompetencyEvaluate and revise ethical issues in visual media communication to improve awareness of social perceptions.ScenarioYou are the campaign manager for a well known environmental outreach organization. The current campaign is to bring awareness to the organization's Ohio River Clean-Up Project. As the manager, one of your tasks is to review all content and visuals used by the campaign. You actively evaluate and revise any ethical issues that may be detrimental to the project, your organization, or society in general.As you meet with one of the campaign designers, you identify several ethical problems with the new poster he has created. His poster includes the following elements:The poster image shows a group of poor, urban, African-American children playing alongside the Ohio River.The poster text states: "Let's help them clean up."The poster has several overlaid images in the corner of a few celebrities, which gives the impression of celebrity endorsement.There are no sources acknowledged anywhere on the poster.The poster has been digitally altered to make the African-American children appear thinner, darker, and dirtier.Since you are flying out to a campaign meeting in one hour, you ask this campaign designer to hold this poster and wait for your video review.You plan to take time tomorrow to create a seven minute or less video analysis. Using screen share, you can present the poster image visually and verbally instruct this designer how to correct several ethical visual issues. You realize you will not only have to identify the ethical visual issues and explain how to revise and change them, but you will also need to clearly describe to him the effect these unethical media issues will have on society.I WILL CREATE THE SCREENCASTIC VIDEO PORTION. Just need the dialogue on what to say!

There are two different future directions in which US agriculture in US is going. One is a movement toward organic food and locally grown food (often called "alternative agriculture"). Apply three concepts related to social movements from week 11, explain them, and apply them to the alternative agricultural/food movement.Whenever you refer to a concept from the lectures, be sure to provide a brief definition (preferably, in your own words, not simply copying over a definition from the lectures) and then use it to help answer the discussion question. In other words -- "define it and then apply it."A suggested length to your answer is 100-200 words. You may apply personal examples (about you, your family, your community, your friends and your society), but you must be sure that you link these examples to the subject matter of the lectures in this course. Otherwise, the examples are extraneous and will lower your grade.Our goal (the instructors) in this course is to respond to each of your posts. If we do not, it is either because we inadvertently skipped you or something has happened that has caused us to fall far behind in our work (we will try mighty hard to catch up). The longer into the week you wait to respond, the less likely we will have time to respond.Your grade (2 points)The rubrics for this discussion question, which is also stated in the syllabus, apply to how you will be graded. Here is a restatement of the rubrics:Connectedness-- The discussion post demonstrates an ability to cite/connect specific concepts, examples and content from the lectures when answering the discussion question;Relevance-- The discussion post shows how the topics relate to either/or your life, current events, or the content, concepts and examples from the previous two weeks of lectures in RS 1500;Thoughtfulness-- The discussion post exemplifies thoughtfulness, originality, and critical thinking. It is not merely a regurgitation or mimicking of the words in the lecture slides, but rather connecting the topic to course content and/or examples outside of class, using your sociological imagination; andQuality-- The discussion post shows you invested some time and effort in your answer. It addresses the discussion question fully. It is not full of typographical errors, misspellings, or poor sentence structure. A good idea is to write the post in Word with the spelling and grammar checker on, and then copy over for the purposes of posting on Carmen.We will grade your post based on how well you demonstrate that you have viewed/listened to the audio lectures on powerpoint.