The objective of this study is to select any strategic business unit from a publicly traded multi-national corporation and to analyze the overall competitive environment including market conditions, evaluate the current growth and new business strategies, along with implications, analyze the organization’s primary business model, evaluate the organization’s competencies and resources, evaluate the leveraging of growth strategies through partnerships and alliances and identify future opportunities for innovation based on past success and failure.

Cisco Systems, the self-proclaimed “worldwide leader in networking for the Internet,” has dominated similar firms in its industry. As Wall-Streets’ beloved stock and an essential stock in any investor’s portfolio, with over 35,566 employees worldwide and boasting revenues totaling 22.2 billion in the previous fiscal year the company aims to ensure that networks both public and private operate with maximum performance, security, and flexibility.

The focus on the first part of this project is to select a new innovative technology or application concept (something new and not currently on the market) for a specific technology or application that will be developed and ultimately marketed. The new technology or application concept selected for this paper will be used as focus for the remaining written assignments. You will write a 23 page (350 words per page) paper in APA format addressing the following topics below. You should also include as part of this paper any acknowledgements and resources used (e.g., websites, textbooks, articles). Each written assignment should include three or more references.

– Describe the ideation process (e.g. generating, filtering and validating ideas) to come up with a new specific technology or application
-Alternative solutions or concepts considered through the process
– Overview of the technology or application concept selected

Use Excel to prove your solution and share your Excel workbook.You will need to add your Excel workbook as an attachment to the discussion. Explain your choice, the steps followed to complete the solution, and any challenges you faced while working on the solution.

Scenario: You are responsible for ensuring payments for your family business are received on time. Create a workbook to show the current date and the due date and use an IF statement to determine if a payment is due.

NOTE: The payment due must be an IF statement and the current date must be a function as well.

Paper instructions:
Here is the Intro and work related sections COMPLETED ( see MyPaper attached). Please finish the rest of the sections so it looks like the sample( See PAPER SAMPLE attached as a reference).

In order to do this: You must create a Jupyter Notebook with detailed comments of why you did what you did with each coding block. See Coding Example attached of similar dataset with different research objectives at the links below:

https://github.com/mrinmaisharma/Online-Retail-Dataset/blob/master/script.ipynb

https://github.com/scheckley/online-retail/blob/master/analysis.ipynb

Note: I want mine to be as simple as possible. I want it just enough to fulfill the research paper objective. Hopefully shows choosing the optimal model out of couple of models.

My research topic:

Using transactions data and machine learning model to predict what a customer is going to purchase on their next visit to the store. This is done using point of sale data (sales transactions data) and a machine learning model ( a classifier ).

The data I intend to use for this paper (sales transactions data):

https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Online+Retail+II

Note: It would be better to use real data if you find one (please revise the dataset section in the paper had you decided to do so):

NOTE: See the unfinished paper (attached) . I also want the rest of the sections to look and sound like the (SAMPLE PAPER attached).

Deliverables: MyPaper.doc updated and Juypter Notebook created.

Thank you

Please respond to the following:

Low-fidelity prototypes are mainly used to conduct research on a product and are not integrated into the final product, while high-fidelity prototypes may evolve into a final product. Compare and contrast the final product that evolves from a high-fidelity product and a product built from the ground up after studying and learning from a low-fidelity prototype. Provide one example of each type of product to support your response.

As it stands now, your company “Real Estate, Real Cheap” (or RERC) has 25 users and computers with some smart devices brought in by employees for work use. In the future, your boss hopes to expand the company greatly and maybe bring in up to 150 employees with computers for each and more room for more smart devices. Right now, you have a Windows 2016 domain and all the PCs that user have are clients in the domain. The boss tells you that you need to plan for everything happening within 612 months, but she wants the domain intact, just expanded for more clients and users.

What are some Active Directory (AD) issues you would consider that will make this upgrade possible?

Business Consulting

Remember Bill? He was the gentleman that you helped to start up his business in Lesson 4. Well his business is doing well, but he has come to you with some questions and concerns. You discuss each of these with Bill and promise to send him a written report with your suggestions and recommendations. Bills questions and concerns are as follows:

Bill has set up a spreadsheet in Excel that will help him keep track of expenses. So far, he has this:

Tell Bill how to do the following tasks:
What formula or function does he put in Column F that will show the total expenses for each day?
What formula or function does he put in columns B through F in Row 13 that will give him the total expenses for the week in each category?
Bill wants the entry in Column G to remind him of expenses that require receipts for the accountant. Tell Bill what to put in Column G to do this:
Print the word Yes in any row where the total daily expenses are greater than or equal to $100.00.
If the daily expenses total is less than $100.00, leave the Column G entry for that row blank.
Bills business is already expanding. He thinks that in a few weeks he will need to hire one or two employees to help him. He knows that each new employee will need their own computer. He is also making the necessary changes so that the new employees will be working in a spare room in Bills house. Explain to Bill what networking options he has. Go through each type or configuration of network possible for him, making sure that you explain the pros and cons of each configuration. Finish with your suggestion for the network that he should set up and explain what new hardware will be required to do this.
With the possibility of three business computers in his home, and all of his business records possibly vulnerable, this would be a good time to advise Bill on how to set up a routine plan to protect and defend his new network. Provide a list of the five most important concerns for safety and security of the network and the computers in the network. For each concern, specify the action to be taken, and if applicable, what software you recommend be added to the system. Justify each of your recommendations