The biggest challenges I saw for this position were the same ones NAO was facing: reducing vehicle development time and structural costs, increasing market share, achieving world class levels of customer enthusiasm, and integrating the various functional departments of NAO. We expected to know we had been successful when 99% of the projects were delivered on time, on budget, and with expected benefits, and when the people in NAO took great pride in this organization. Of course, we are all also working to increase profitability and market share. That was to be done by working with the process information officers, the sector information officers, and with the regional information officers. Our virtual teams had to be flexible to really understand the needs of our internal customers and to help them figure out ways to meet those needs.

One of the Business Unit Information Officers was Maryann Goebel, CIO of the Truck Group. She had over 24 years of experience in information systems, gained from working in 10 different large companies first as a programmer/analyst, and later as an IT executive or in a functional area as an IT specialist. She came to GM in April, 1997 from Bell Atlantic/NYNEX Mobile, where she helped a relationship with an outsourcer turn around. She described her GM job.

The challenge was to make GM number one again. Management believed in the right value set, and consistently delivered the right message. Ralph was the perfect leader for the challenge because there was a lot of history between EDS and GM. In the Truck Group, I found a team who had embraced the GM 5 core values that worked for me: continuous improvement, customer enthusiasm, teamwork, integrity, and innovation. As the CIO of the Truck Group, I reported to two people, Dan McNicholl, the CIO of NAO and Tom Davis, the head of the Truck Group. This business had 45,000 people on the payroll, and I had about 16 employees and 17 contractors reporting to me. There were some other people in the sector that look like IT people, and we often worked with them. We bought services from EDS, and they supplied whatever individuals were needed to meet the service levels we agreed to.

The job of CIO of this sector was a new position. No one focused on this job before me. The reception was very positive, in fact some managers welcomed me with open arms. Most of the managers were interested in my views as an outsider and helped me get to know their organization. I knew I was getting the right message across when several individuals who were initially afraid, I was there to "steal their resources" called me up to ask for my involvement in their IT projects. They finally trusted me.

Some of the tasks I was initially asked to do were to evaluate a proposal for services from EDS where the Truck Group manager wanted to know if this was a realistic reasonable cost for the services offered. I had to really evaluate what was in the numbers in the proposal. Another service I offered was to bring an outside perspective to the Truck Group. I was not afraid to ask a lot of questions, and since I was new to GM, I didn't take for granted many of the things more experienced managers do. I was also a participant in decisions on how the business should be run. I believed that unless you were participating, you were only an order taker. But there is much to do to be a participant. I read briefings, networked with knowledgeable individuals and asked lots of questions to get up to speed.

The biggest challenge I saw in August 1997 was achieving globalization of the IT functions that supported the Truck Group. The structure had the US and Canadian organizations reporting up through the truck team. But other international operations didn't report in the same way. The challenge was to help management of this group understand the global picture, which meant figuring out how to collect, process, and disseminate the management information. I'll know I will have been successful through metrics on customer satisfaction, not on internal efficiency. Establishing the metrics was another challenge.

Cherri Musser joined IS&S as the IO of Business Services which included human resources, finance, legal and purchasing. Musser spent 23 years working in information systems at Texas Instruments, then came to GM in November 1996. When she left TI, she was the VP for research and development for the Texas Instruments Software Business. She joined the new GM IS&S team because,

Ralph wanted to keep information systems efforts focused on the customer and business value. The opportunity to address the IT needs of a company the size of GM—and to build a new IT team to do it— was too good to pass up.

I saw my job as working with the functional areas such as human resources, finance, purchasing, legal, facilities management, etc. to look for synergies across the company. I was looking for ways to drive common systems. We already had a purchasing systems project underway. We were thinking about how to transition to supply chain. For every plant that GM brought up, the plant manager had selected his or her own administrative system.

We worked on convergence. This was done by convening a strategy board for each functional area. For example, the strategy board for finance consisted of the corporate CFO, the CFOs for NAO, GMAC and Delphi, and the corporate comptroller. We met once per month to discuss the process we were using to reach common systems. A similar board was set up in human resources, and that one included the president of GM University and the top human resources individuals in each business unit. Another board was set up for procurement and materials management.

Describe in detail how General Motors leveraged IS to enable global collaboration. What were the challenges encountered at General Motors by enabling global collaboration, and how would you suggest to resolves these challenges?

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Read the scenario, reflect and write down your reactions on the dilemma:

A woman was on her deathbed. There was one drug that the doctors thought might save her. It was a form of radium that a druggist in the same town had recently discovered. The drug was expensive to make, but the druggist was charging ten times what the drug cost him to produce. He paid 200fortheradiumandcharged2,000 for a small dose of the drug. The sick woman's husband, Stans, went to everyone he knew to borrow the money, but he could only get together about $1,000 which is half of what it cost. He told the druggist that his wife was dying and asked him to sell it cheaper or let him pay later. But the druggist said: “No, I discovered the drug and I'm going to make money from it.” So Heinz got desperate and broke into the man's laboratory to steal the drug for his wife. Should Heinz have broken into the laboratory to steal the drug for his wife? Why or why not?

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GCU’s Statement on the Integration of Faith and Work states, “We recognize and embrace the potential of human work for furthering the greater good and strive to further the good of the culture and the society.” Consider how you might approach the following scenario in a manner that is in accord with the spirit of GCU’s perspective of the integration of faith in one’s workplace.

Scenario:

Tones Company purchased a warehouse in a downtown district where land values are rapidly increasing. Gerald Carter, controller, and Wilma Ankara, financial vice president, are trying to allocate the cost of the purchase between the land and the building. Noting that depreciation can be taken only on the building, Carter favors placing a very high proportion of the cost on the warehouse itself, thus reducing taxable income and income taxes. Ankara, his supervisor, argues that the allocation should recognize the increasing value of the land, regardless of the depreciation potential of the warehouse. Besides, she says, net income is negatively impacted by additional depreciation and will cause the company's stock price to go down. (Based on Concepts for Analysis 10-6 from Intermediate Accounting.)

Write a paper (500‐750 words) that addresses the following:

Recommendation of an ethical decision in the scenario.

Explanation of how the ethical decision supports the good of the culture and the society.

Implications of applying a Christian worldview within the accounting workplace, in general.

As the head of a small insurance company with six employees, you are concerned about how effectively your company is using its networking and human resources. Budgets are tight, and you are struggling to meet payrolls because employees are reporting many overtime hours. You do not believe that the employees have a sufficiently heavy work load to warrant working longer hours and are looking into the amount of time they spend on the Internet. Each employee uses a computer with Internet access on the job. Review a sample of your company’s weekly report of employee Web usage, which can be found as follows: User Name Total minutes Legitimate minutes Suspect minutes Kelleher, Claire 248 96 152 McMahon, Patricia 127 44 83 Milligan, Robert 155 155 Olivera, Ernesto 40 40 Talbot, Helen 260 35 225 Wright, Steven 38 15 23 • Calculate the total amount of time each employee spent on the Web for the week and the total amount of time that company computers were used for this purpose. Rank the employees in the order of the amount of time each spent online. • Do your findings and the contents of the report indicate any ethical problems employees are creating? Is the company creating an ethical problem by monitoring its employees’ use of the Internet?

Case Study

Nicole is a care worker at Darley Road Residential Care. One of her clients is a young man, Amrik, who has a significant acquired brain injury that has resulted in his ability to complete daily tasks for himself. He is unable to move around in his wheelchair and requires someone to push him from place to place.

1. One morning as she arrives for her shift, Nicole finds Amrik has been left in the full sun without water. It looks like he has been here for some time. Explain Nicole’s responsibility of duty of care and suggest an action she needs to take in this situation. (Approx. 60 words).

2. Explain the principles behind the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and outline how this will impact the way that Nicole provides care for Amrik. (Approx. 60 words)

3. During her shift, Nicole notices a young family arrives at the residential care facility. One of the children is bouncing on his chair and Nicole observes him flinching as his mother reaches over to him. He has to bruise on his arms and legs. Explain Nicole’s responsibility for mandatory reporting and suggest the appropriate action for her to take. (Approx. 30 words).

2. The data below are from the 2016 General Social Survey. Respondents were asked to describe whether their religion was (1) fundamentalist, (2) moderate or (3) liberal. Respondents were also asked whether they believed in evolution from the statement “Human beings developed from animals.” Respondents not believing in evolution said (1) “false” while supporters of evolution said (2) “true”. Which variable below is the independent variable? The dependent variable? Correctly percentage the data in the table. (Do not calculate the marginal percentages) Conduct a Chi-square test to determine if the two variables are associated. State the research and null hypothesis. What table value is needed to establish an initial alpha value of 0.001? Work out your computations to at least 3 places to the right of the decimal point. Do you reject or not reject the null hypothesis? Explain why. What is the observed level of statistical significance for the calculated test statistic? Interpret the value of the Somers d associated with the table which is 0.342 (sig. = 0.000). Using all the information from the analysis, what do you conclude about the relationship between the respondent religion and view of evolution? Humans evolved from animals Religion Fundamentalist Moderate Liberal False 109 108 35 True 39 138 153

Begin by re-writing the problem. Minitab is required; attach or include your output. Type (use Word) your assignment; you may handwrite equations.

1. Semester GPAs are compared for seven randomly chosen students in each class level at Oxnard University. Do the data show a significant difference in mean GPAs?

1. At the 0.05 level of significance, determine if there is a difference in the mean GPAs by the four business majors. State your hypotheses and show all 7 steps clearly.
2. Give and interpret the p-value.
3. Should Tukey pairwise comparisons be conducted? Why or why not?
4. If appropriate, use Minitab to produce Tukey pairwise comparison. Write a few sentences with your conclusions from those comparisons.
5. Use Levene’s test to determine if the assumption of homogeneity of variances is valid. Give hypotheses, test statistic, p-value, decision and conclusion. Use the 0.05 level of significance.
6. Verify with Minitab by attaching or including relevant output.

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