Summarize and critique Smith’s assessment.

  • When Cheryl Smith, the new CIO, arrived at WestJet, she was asked by the CEO to advise whether or not the company had an adequate IT infrastructure. What aspects of the WestJet IT situation did she assess in order to respond to the CEo’s concern, and why do you think they are important?
  • Summarize and critique Smith’s assessment.
  • Offer evidence/arguments that major changes in IT at WestJet were essential and that Smith’s governance model would enable WestJet to achieve its strategic goal.
  • Summarize the lessons you learned based on the experiences at WestJet. How might these lessons help your organization evaluate its information technology capabilities and best serve its business strategies and needs?
  • Based on what your colleague observed from the WestJet case, explore ways that your organization might assess its information technology capabilities. What lessons did the case provide that help an organization make a better assessment?
  • Expand upon your colleague’s observations by positing additional problems that a business manager might encounter if a similar assessment were done for their organization.
  • Offer your colleague alternative perspectives, if in fact you drew different conclusions from the case.
  • Describe the IT governance model used in your organization, and explain why it is important to the organization’s ability to achieve its strategic goals.

Identify possible actions psychologists could have suggested to help the defendant before committing the criminal act.

Mental disorders may be caused organically or via chemical or genetic causes. In either case, if left untreated the cost is usually dire. For this case study, use the Internet to identify, research, and explore one criminal case from within the last three years involving a mental disorder that was not properly controlled.

Write a 3- to 5-page paper in which you address the following thoroughly. Cite specifics from the case to support your arguments:

  1. Compare and contrast three key similarities and three differences between mental illnesses and mental disorders. Provide one example of each similarity and difference to support your response.
  2. Examine the potential stressor(s) that could have triggered the defendant to act out in the criminal behavior. Next, hypothesize whether or not the defendant would have been a good candidate for treatment of his/her mental illness. Justify your response.
  3. Identify possible actions psychologists could have suggested to help the defendant before committing the criminal act. Support your response.
  4. Differentiate between the key characteristics associated with functional mental disorders, minor mental disorders (i.e., neuroses), and manic-depressive behavior. Next, support or criticize the notion that one disorder is more severe than the other. Justify your response.
  5. Use at least three quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar types of websites do not qualify as academic resources.