Company Analysis

1. Using the assigned readings and your own outside research, identify common supply chain analytics problems that occur within contemporary organizations. Provide links to relevant articles and resources and discuss the role of the IT analyst in helping to solve these types of organizational problems.

2. Using the “Supply Chain Brief” Topic Material, research the role of ethics in supply chain analytics and provide two examples of ethical issues that IT professionals working in this area could encounter in the workplace. Include discussion of the consequences that could result from failing to recognize or address these issues appropriately. https://www.supplychainbrief.com/predictive-analytics/supply-chain/trends/

3. Discuss one data collection and one data analysis technique that is frequently used in addressing supply chain analytics problems. Provide current industry examples to illustrate your ideas.

4. Review the assigned reading, “The Ethical Data Scientist.” Using the assigned ITOA News website, conduct research to learn about how analytics can be used to gain competitive advantage in operations. Provide specific industry examples. Discuss the ethical dilemmas that could be associated with using operations analytics in this way. https://slate.com/technology/2016/02/how-to-bring-better-ethics-to-data-science.html

5. Using what you learned from the assigned readings and your own research, provide two examples of common service analytics problems the can occur in business organizations. Discuss the ethical issues that must be considered by IT professionals in addressing these problems and specific steps IT professionals can take to ensure that ethical standards are being upheld when problem resolutions are selected.

6. Using the assigned reading and your own research, discuss the role of ethics in human resources analytics and provide two examples of ethical issues that IT professionals working in this area could encounter in the workplace. Include discussion of the consequences that could result from failing to recognize or address these issues appropriately.

7. Consider what you learned about the role of analytics in human resources, and identify the two most important ways analytics are being used in this area of business. Justify your selections by discussing how the use of human resources analytics contributes to the strategic management, operations and competitive advantage of a business organization.