ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS: You are tasked as the Cybersecurity Director to develop an Organizational Strategic Security Plan to defend against Cyber Attacks. This plan includes strategies and plans for security architecture consisting of tools, techniques, and technologies to detect and prevent network penetration, and to design effective Cybersecurity countermeasures. For the purpose of this assignment, your…

Instructions When considering performance measurement processes, many considerations come to mind (e.g., which measures to include, how to measure them, who should measure them, when to measure them). In the last unit, you began to work on your strategic planning project. Looking ahead, which areas seem like the most appropriate candidates for performance measurement, and…

Instructions Strategic Plan: Part 3 In this third part of the final strategic plan development assignment, you will follow up on the content that you developed during the first two sections by adding content that will complete your strategic plan. Additionally, you will make some observations regarding how your plan compares with a private sector…

Instructions In this unit, we have discussed the importance of leadership in relation to strategic planning efforts. Specifically, more hands-off approaches were discussed, and these approaches take into account the work that leaders do behind the scenes in strategic planning processes. Do you think that these types of approaches are the most appropriate for strategic…

Instructions Strategic Plan: Part 2 In this second part of the final strategic plan development assignment, you will follow up on the introductory activities that you completed during the first portion in order to further develop your strategic plan. Please be sure to make adjustments as necessary based on some of your own desired adjustments…

Instructions Strategic Plan: Part 1 In this first part of the final strategic plan development assignment, you will work on some of the introductory activities related to plan development that we have discussed throughout the course. You should think about an organization that you are interested in and how a strategic planning effort could affect…

Instructions In this case study, you serve as the executive director for a local nonprofit organization in your city that serves the needs of homeless veterans in the community. Your organization has decided to engage in strategic planning in order to improve some of the processes associated with maintaining relationships built between volunteer workers and…

Instructions In this lesson, we mentioned how the creation of a dedicated strategic planning office within an organization can help to assist with facilitating strategic plan development processes. Does this seem like a viable option for established organizations? Do you think it would work at your current place of employment or in an organization that…

Instructions Identifying strategic issues occurs after conducting the SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analysis. Although planners will generally all be looking at the same information (from the SWOT), there are differing opinions on which issues classify as being strategic in nature. Within the specific context of this process, what are some techniques that you…

Instructions In this unit, we have discussed the importance of assembling a group of key actors into the development of initial agreements. If you were developing such a team, what criteria would you look for when reaching out to people both inside and outside of your organization? To what degree would you rank possible team…