Author: Joyce

Companies that collect data on citizens in European Union (EU) countries will need to comply with strict new rules around protecting customer data by May 25, 2018. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is expected to set a new standard for consumer rights regarding their data, but companies will be challenged as they put systems and processes in place to comply.

GDPR compliance is complex in the cloud. Businesses that use cloud services, such as Salesforce, must ensure that the data practices at each of them are compliant with GDPR.

 

• Describe and discuss three challenges that cloud organizations could face regarding GPDR compliance.
• What impact do these new rules have on the future of cloud computing as it relates to the three challenges you listed?

• Explain why women are more emotionally expressive than men, on average.  What accounts for this difference?
• Would you share your negative and positive emotional experiences on social media? Explain some of the benefits and drawbacks of sharing emotional experiences on social media?
• Describe how the disinhibition effect may contribute to conflict in computer-mediated communication?
• Which of Gottman’s four horsemen would you find the most distressing if enacted in your own relationship?  Why?
• How does the documentary, “The Human Face,” inform our understanding of emotional expression?

1. How do retailers add value to the products purchased by consumers?
2. Is the current consumer purchase trend away from local retailers to “big box” stores or Internet sites a good or bad trend? Why?
3. Why is Walmart the largest retailer in the world? What can it do to accelerate growth?
4. From a customer’s perspective, what are the benefits and limitations of stores? Catalogs? Retailer websites?

Every day we see more and more impact locally from international business decisions. In your community, how do you see one or more of the international business strategies of franchising, management contracts, and e-business changing how local businesses conduct business? Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each of those entities in your local business community.

Define the fundamental responsibilities and key characteristics of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) within health care organizations. Make one (1) recommendation where they can utilize their expertise to assist with employee and patient satisfaction. Support your response with related examples of such expertise in use.
2.Suggest two (2) developing technologies that health care systems should use in order to improve health care processes and thus increase the quality and lower the cost of health services. Provide a rationale to support your response.
3.Determine two (2) significant methods that health care systems should use in order to prevent misuse of information and protect data privacy and thus achieve a high level of security of health information. Provide a rationale to support your response.
4.Suggest one (1) strategy for health care organizations to train providers in using technology in health care.