UMUC Technology Selection Exercise Discussion Create an MS Word document containing your “short paper” (response) for the discussion topic. Use MS Word to

UMUC Technology Selection Exercise Discussion Create an MS Word document containing your “short paper” (response) for the discussion topic. Use MS Word to spell check and grammar check your work! Then, submit this file to the Discussions item in the assignment folder so that a Turn It In scan report is generated.

This discussion question is part of the Analysis of Alternatives evaluation exercise.

This week, you are acting in the role of “staff members” who are writing technology selection recommendations for consideration by the Chief Technology Officer and Chief Security Officer. They will, in turn, choose the best of the best for presentation to the company’s senior managers as part of the approval and funding process for pilot implementations and other formal evaluations of the selected technologies.

1. On FRIDAY: Post your draft Technology Selection Study Recommendation Paper as a reply to this Discussion Topic. (You may make changes to this draft prior to submitting it for grading via your assignment folder.)

2. Review the papers posted by your peers. From these papers, choose two (2) different papers (technology alternatives) to recommend for further study (“selection”).

Post your recommendations as follow-up postings to your peers (two separate threads). Make sure that you EXPLAIN why you are recommending these technology alternatives (what makes them worthy of further study). At the end of the week, your instructor will review the student recommendations and select three or more technologies for students to use in writing their technology study plans (due at the end of Week 8).