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    This document provides guidance for a 2000 word research paper on how an organization approaches information management. It instructs the reader to consider their case study organization and reflect on the history of computing and information security. The paper should address two key areas: 1) how the organization's computing history resembles early issues in the field, and 2) the extent to which current computing infrastructure and security problems have evolved. It also provides specific questions the paper must answer, such as whether there are independent information processing areas in the organization, and how decentralization may cause problems. Finally, it suggests exploring two additional significant information management issues, and defending positions with references and organization interviews.

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    This document provides guidance for a 2000 word research paper on how an organization approaches information management. It instructs the reader to consider their case study organization and reflect on the history of computing and information security. The paper should address two key areas: 1) how the organization's computing history resembles early issues in the field, and 2) the extent to which current computing infrastructure and security problems have evolved. It also provides specific questions the paper must answer, such as whether there are independent information processing areas in the organization, and how decentralization may cause problems. Finally, it suggests exploring two additional significant information management issues, and defending positions with references and organization interviews.

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    This document provides guidance for a 2000 word research paper on how an organization approaches information management. It instructs the reader to consider their case study organization and reflect on the history of computing and information security. The paper should address two key areas: 1) how the organization's computing history resembles early issues in the field, and 2) the extent to which current computing infrastructure and security problems have evolved. It also provides specific questions the paper must answer, such as whether there are independent information processing areas in the organization, and how decentralization may cause problems. Finally, it suggests exploring two additional significant information management issues, and defending positions with references and organization interviews.

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    Research Paper Topic 1 - An overview of how your organization or industry approaches information

    management (2000 ±200 words)

    Be sure to read Section 8 in the Program Guidelines (Resource tab). Pay particular attention to the
    bullet item about required outside references.

    Organization-Specific Case Study:

    Consider your case-study organization and reflect on the history of computing and of information security that
    you have begun studying in the first three weeks of your course. Ask yourself and others in your organization:

    1. Depending on the age of your organization,

    a) If your organization’s computing history is at least 20 years old, to what extent you see holdovers
    from the early days of computing?

    b) If your organization’s computer history is less than 20 years old, what problems or issues in your
    organization’s early days resemble those that you have been studying? Or, what issues from those
    early days still influence your organization’s approach to information technology and information
    processing?

    2. To what extent have your computing infrastructure, and the security problems you face, moved beyond
    the fundamental problems described so far?

    Your paper must include a response to this:.

    • Are there islands of independent information processing in your organization? Do some of the
    problems you have read about and discussed crop up because of decentralization of this kind? Be
    specific.

    In addition, explore at least two other significant information management issues for your organization.
    Describe successes and failures that you have experienced or observed, or that have been documented or
    publicized. Suggestions include:

    • Centralization/decentralization of information management


    • Management of application development and/or procurement
    • Management of information sharing within your organization and between your organization and other
    entities
    • Any other issue that you identify

    Take positions and defend them with specific examples from publications (references!) and from interviews
    within your case study from both functional and financial perspectives.

    Remember that the research you do for these essays will serve as the foundation for your end-of-seminar
    report. You are not required to include detailed recommendations for improvement in these interim reports.

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