> *WEEK 5 CIS 336 DQ 1*
>>
>> “Business Costs” Please respond to the following
>>
>> – Imagine that you are the head of a department and your organization
>> uses a chargeback funding method. Chargeback systems are popular for
>> managing and controlling IT costs. Determine five IT costs that you
>> would
>> consider to be most critical. Support your reasoning.
>> – Suppose you were asked to determine a method to compute the
>> operational costs of a company’s ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)
>> system.
>> From the e-Activity, determine whether you would apply the
>> Activity-based
>> costing (ABC) model or a different model to calculate the costs.
>> Support
>> your rationale. Examine the risks and benefits of applying the model
>> you
>> chose.
>>
>>
>>
>> The costs of building and maintaining the information systems in an
>> enterprise are a challenge for most organizations. Watch the video titled
>> “Simple Rules for Cost Allocation” (5 min 5 s). Be prepared to discuss.
>> Video Source: CostMatters. (2011, September 26). Simple Rules for Cost
>> Allocation [Video file]. Retrieved from
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ka_kzJk0YE. This video can be viewed from
>> within your online course shell.
>>
>>
>>
>> *WEEK 5 CIS 336 DQ 2*
>>
>> Information Technology (IT) Dashboards” Please respond to the following:
>>
>> – Evaluate the ways that IT dashboards provide meaningful data or
>> information to the organization’s executives. Determine the best ways
>> to
>> use an IT dashboard for this purpose.
>> – Contrast service dashboards and portfolio dashboards. Select the ID
>> dashboard that you consider to be the most important and explain why.
>>
>>
>>
>> submit as two separate word documents
>> each document should be 150 words and include 2 references
>> use subtitles

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Ways that IT dashboards provide meaning data or information to the organization’s executives

There are various ways that IT dashboards offer meaningful information or data to the executives of an organization since they are able to integrate data from disparate, multiple sources, streamline workflows, respond in near real-time or in real-time. These IT Dashboards also assist in the facilitation of decision-making as well as effectively uncover efficiencies (Baschab & Piot, 2007)…

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