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Question:

Use the following scenario to complete your assignment.

Choose a business based in the United States. The business may be fictional or based upon an actual business but must be of sufficient size to need an integrated client-server computer system and appropriate software for the type of business. It may be a startup or existing company but in need of a modern system to manage a business that is data-dependent in many ways. The business may have as its mission manufacturing, distribution or retailing, health care, purely service, or any combination of these purposes.

You will be researching and writing this paper as the newly hired data management steward, reporting to the CIO of the company. Your goal is to write a documented paper that can be used both by management and IT staff, particularly database managers and technicians, to set the tone for the careful setup and management of the company''s data assets. You will be using all concepts and processes you have learned in this course.

Assignment Requirements

For this assignment, research and write a scholarly paper in APA format (approximate body length of 10-15 pages), in which you include the following. See the Communication in Governance and Stewardship Scoring Guide for more information on how your work will be graded.

Describe the core processes of the company and identify how those processes are related to data.

Use a program like Microsoft Visio to model the business flows related to the updated business processes. Include the chart as an inline illustration or as an appendix to this paper.

Evaluate the impact of process flows in developing effective core processes related to data.

Identify the core processes within an organization that involve the use of data.

Explain the governance issues that relate to core processes within an organization that involve the use of data.

Apply governance activities that relate to core processes that involve the use of data within context.

Illustrate an example of data governance.

Identify the range of activities that might fall under the umbrella of data governance.

Research the critical success factors specific to a particular data governance activity.

Apply a specific data governance activity within context.

Apply legal and ethical issues to specific examples of core data processes.

Identify legal and ethical issues that impact governance of core data and related processes.

Describe legal and ethical issues that impact governance of core data and related processes.

Illustrate the impact of legal and ethical issues that impact a specific example of governance related to core data and processes.

Apply information security and privacy regulations.

Identify information security and privacy regulations that impact governance of core data and related processes.

Describe how security and privacy regulations differ across organizational types and industries.

Illustrate the impact of security and privacy regulations within context.

Follow APA (6th edition) style and formatting guidelines, use references and citations, and create a document that is clearly written and generally free of grammatical errors.