Emerging Technologies

For this assessment you will read the attached case study, which presents the existing technology and needs of a fictional organization. You will propose an emerging technology solution that will benefit the organization in the case study. You will need to discuss the impacts of this technology within the context of the organization.

REQUIREMENTS
Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. An originality report is provided when you submit your task that can be used as a guide.

You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.

A. Summarize an organizational need in the case study, including the scope of the need.

B. Propose an emerging technology solution to address the organizational need from the case study. Include an example that classifies this technology as emerging.

C. Explain the steps of the adoption process that you recommend the organization use to integrate the new emerging technology.

1. Describe why each step of the adoption process is necessary and how each step relates to the organization.

D. Describe both a positive and a negative impact that your emerging technology solution could have on the people or current processes in the organization, providing examples for how to address the negative impact.

E. Compare your emerging technology solution to an alternative technology solution, providing at least two advantages and two disadvantages that each technology may have for the organization.

F. Recommend a method that can be used to determine whether adoption of the proposed emerging technology solution will be successful or unsuccessful, based on the needs of the organization.

G. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.

H. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.