University of The Cumberlands Tools for Competitive Strategies

Pick any ONE of the objectives below and develop a full Research Paper around the selected objective.

• Develop an understanding of public policy and how it impacts IT from a business and development standpoint.
• Demonstrate the ability to perform analyses related to trade policy, standards, domestic and international regulatory policy, and the impacts of changes in policy on the IT structure of a business.
• Describe an example of: (1) a public policy that had a positive impact on IT, and (2) a public policy that had a negative impact on IT.
• Discuss the current trends in the global IT arena ranging from technology, hardware, policy, software, and available services including out-sourcing.
• Define the activities and tools required to develop a sophisticated national and international strategy for IT.
• List and describe available tools to assist business organizations in the development of a competitive strategy.
• Understand how international and developing markets play an ever-changing role in IT; and integrate that understanding into an existing strategy to develop reasonable estimates of the effect of new products, services and vendors.
• Describe an example of the effect of an emerging market on global IT competition.

To complete this assignment, upload a Microsoft Word document (.doc or .docx) that contains your complete paper. Remember that your paper, including your list of sources, must be in APA format, and you MUST cite your reference in the body of the paper using APA in-text citation format. Keep in mind, a source is any paper or article that you will reference in your paper. If you need more information on APA format (for references list AND in-text citations), visit this reference:

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01…

Plagiarism detected in your work will result in a grade of zero for the entire paper.

Here are a few details about the overall research paper Please look at the attached rubric for details on how the paper will be graded.

You must reference two (2) peer-reviewed articles or papers that support your thesis statement. One of these papers may be from your annotated bibliography assignment. The final paper must be at least 750 words in length & DO NOT exceed 1000 words. Excessive words or too many references will NOT impress me.). You must have a minimum of FIVE (5) peer review papers to support your arguments for the entire paper. Also, note cited sources MUST directly support your paper (i.e. not incidental references)

If you are not sure how to identify peer-reviewed papers or articles, please visit the following resources:
http://diy.library.oregonstate.edu/using-google-sc…