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Constructive Conflict Management

March 25, 2010

Include all: 1.  Develop supportive environment 2.  Agree on goal/agenda/time limits 3.  Approach conflict as a mutual problem 4.  Acknowledge and reach understanding of the other ideas 5.  State your ideas after the other person has stated ideas 6.  Think of options 7.  Reach agreement    Conflict Resolution Options:...

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Ingredients for Productive Team Meetings

March 25, 2010

There are simple steps which can increase the productivity level of team meetings. Check off the appropriate items as you prepare for your next meeting. During team formation 1. Ensure that all members have a joint understanding ___ Make sure each person understands the mission ___ Define the problem...

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Goal Setting Info

March 25, 2010

Healthy organizations have goals at all levels. Both organizations and individuals need to manage their affairs against goals Explicit Measurable Obtainable Hard, specific goals, if accepted by the individual, will lead to increased team performance. Teams Teams outperform individuals acting alone or in larger organizational groupings, especially when performance...

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IT Workforce Performance

March 24, 2010

Key Issues What are the emerging, most critical 21st century IT professional skills ¾ the hot skills ¾ necessary for optimal performance? Which issues and practices will affect the alignment of IT workers with business goals? How are IT skill models and job roles changing to accommodate business needs?...

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Challenges of IT Infrastructure

March 24, 2010

The development of the internet has been seen as the most significant advance in IT for many years. In essence, what it does is to allow any computer with a communication channel to offer its contents to anyone else and to get material back from any other connected computer...

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Business Rule Considerations

March 24, 2010

Isolate Business Rule Processing Create “Library” of Business Rules Create Infrastructure Ability to “select” rules Ability to generate a process with multiple rules Self Documenting Current Direction Bridge ALL functionality using messages for bridging Isolate Single Module for Single Function Separate Data Layer Establish Extensive Re-Use Build Libraries Re-Use...

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Help Control Your Personal Information Online

March 23, 2010

Help Control Your Personal Information Online Most of us don’t even pause before filling out a contest entry form at a shopping mall and leaving personally identifiable information in a jar. But many people feel more protective of their privacy when they go online. When you are asked to...

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HIPAA Documentation

March 22, 2010

HIPAA Documentation writing provides you with professional consulting and advisory services including: Management Systems Overview Manual Development Procedures Development Procedures Implementation Internal Audit Assistance Corrective Action Assistance Pre-assessment Pre-Gap Analysis Consulting During Pre-Accreditation Audits Benefits Improved efficiency; Documents are instantly accessible and distributed right from your workstation. Reduced costs;...

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The Ethical and Legal Environment of Business

March 22, 2010

Source: Research Paper we completed, this is just an opinion as all of our material. What is the relationship between law and justice? Law is defined as established standards or guidelines for action or behavior in a society.  Justice is defined as moral rightness. Laws establish rules to maintain...

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Personal Identifiable Information (PII)

March 22, 2010

Today, priority must be placed on protection of new applications, current system infrastructure and data integrity in addition to the implementation of privacy practices. New reports on unauthorized access, interruption of service, privacy invasion and denial of service, have heightened public awareness of the vulnerability of electronic data on...

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Adequacy of Privacy Policies

March 22, 2010

There are many different privacy policies, but all good policies share certain characteristics. A good privacy explains the responsibilities of the organization that is collecting the information and the rights of the individual who provided the personal information. A policy statement should typically, contain why an organization is collecting...

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Wireless Spectrum

March 20, 2010

  WLAN (Wireless LAN) Architecture • Ad hoc WLAN – Wireless nodes transmit directly to each other– Use wireless NICs • No intervening connectivity device – Poor performance • Many spread out users, obstacles block signals • Access point (AP) – Accepts wireless signals from multiple nodes • Retransmits...

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Legal Compliance and E-Discovery

March 19, 2010

Aurthor unknown. Always verify your research. Targeted audience: (Attorneys and legal practitioners) New rules for electronic discovery adopted as part of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) went into effect December 1, 2006. The purpose of these rules is to streamline e-discovery requests. In an attempt to minimize...

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Help Desk Support Service Process Analysis Part 1

March 18, 2010

Executive Summary  Purpose The purpose of this document is to outline the business objectives and scope of the Process Analysis effort within Help Desk Support Services (HSS). It is presented to ensure a mutual understanding of the project’s goals, responsibilities, requirements and milestones.  It will be reviewed and updated...

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Document Sets and Strategies that you should consider for your Organization

March 17, 2010

All security domains integrated strategy All security domains strategy documentReview of all security domains integrated security documentManagement commitment to information securityManagement commitment to securitySupporting security philosophy & valuesSecurity a business enablerSecurity integrated across all business functionsAll security domains security program design Domains security program design All security domains program...

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HIPAA Legislation

March 16, 2010

Title I: Guarantees health insurance access, portability and renewal Title II: Cost reduction provisions Fraud and abuse controls Administrative simplification Medical liability reform Title III: Tax provisions principally for medical savings accounts Title IV: Enforcement of group health plan provisions Title V: Revenue offset provisions Administrative Simplification Purpose of...

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Sample Access & Authentication Scope

March 16, 2010

A high-level outline was developed with input from the each discipline.  The outline centers on the ability to identify data classifications and the assignment of access controls. The documents that will be generated are: 1.  Summary document in outline form 2.  Authentication and Access Control Strategy 3.  Network Access...

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Sample Modem Security Policy

March 16, 2010

Executive Summary Policies are management instructions indicating how an organization is to be run. This policy is designed to be an addition to an existing corporate security policy. It can be an addition to a Remote Access Policy, if one exists, or to simply stand alone as a Modem...

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HIPAA Defense in depth

March 15, 2010

HIPAA Compliance: Section                              Standard                                                      Specification 164.308(a)(1)              Security Management Process            Risk Management 164.308(a)(5)              Security Awareness Training              Log-in Monitoring 164.308(a)(6)              Security Incident Procedures              Response and Reporting 164.312(b)                   Audit Controls                                                Encryption and Decryption 164.312©(1)                Integrity                                              Mechanism automating PHI Scope: Data Applications Servers Subnets DPA policy control Network Requirements: 1) Triple factor Authentication 2) Access...

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Common Medical Applications – Information

March 14, 2010

  Common Medical Apps – Info Vendor Name Mainframe (MF), Mini (MN), Micro (MC) Application Software In-House Workstation (WS) Accounts Receivable HBOC MF Accounts Payable GEAC (AP:M) MF Acuity (Patient Classification) Medicus MF/MC Biomedical Equipment Maintenance In-House MF Blood Bank/Pathnet Cerner MN Cardiology Seattle WS Case Mix Management TSI...

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Healthcare Industry Segmentation

March 14, 2010

Healthcare Payers National Health Insurance Plans Federal Government (CMS – Medicare) State Government (DHHS – Medicaid) Healthcare Providers Hospitals Long-Term Care Facilities Physician Medical Practices Specialty Care Providers (Outpatient, Oncology, etc) Affiliated Organizations Clearinghouses, Third Party Administrators, etc. Key Business Drivers The revenue source of a hospital is driven...

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HIPPA Setting Best Practices

March 14, 2010

HIPAA legislation does not lay out a specific, standardized course of action or “best practice.” Rather, the language often suggests “reasonable and appropriate” action to protect and secure business assets and protect private data. This openness puts the burden on providers and payers to chart new territory and implement...

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Sample End-to-End Performance Goals

March 13, 2010

End-To-End Performance                 Performance Goals System and Application Windows SAP GUI  End-to-end Performance ([Client] will consider these as goals and monitor the actual results): Macintosh JAVA GUI 90% of identified representative transactions complete:   <  3 seconds Windows HTML GUI 90% of identified representative transactions complete:   <  6 seconds  

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Consderations for Securing your environment

March 13, 2010

Identify Access Points In the electronically open organization… • Who has access to your internal network? – Employees in the office or remote, using VPNs – Contractors, consultants, temporary workers – Customers, suppliers, and partners via extranet – Outsiders who have penetrated the perimeter • Operations and resources are becoming more distributed –...

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Sample IT Wide Status Definitions

March 11, 2010

GREEN:  Project on schedule with no gating issues.  AMBER:  Significant issues with interim deliverable(s), possible Interim deliverable slips. However, final deliverable(s) is/are still achievable with proper attention/involvement. RED:  Serious issues.  Unlikely to make final deliverable MIS Status Amplifications: Amplification on status for MIS Integration Test Leads and Release Leads: ...

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Regulation Impact by IT Technology Domains

March 11, 2010

Sarbanes Oxley Act HIPAA Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act SEC 17a-4 and NASD and NASD Financial compliance, business process measurement applications X Enterprise resource planning X Business intelligence and data warehousing X Content/document  management and search X X X X Data/application integration X Business process automation X X Records management and email...

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Sample Architectural Key Components Planning Document

March 11, 2010

Introduction Technology Component Name: Initiator: Problem/Opportunity Definition This is the problem or opportunity that caused the inception of the project. Business Drivers This section contains any business drivers that are associated with this component (if applicable). High Level Business Requirements This section provides the “what” of the business need....

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Sample Visio – MIL-STD-100 and DOD-STD-1000

March 11, 2010

Free Visio Document download MIL-STD100_Sample.vsd The MIL-STD-100 and DOD-STD-1000 standards suck, they are vague and generally interpretive and un-atainable. Below are some recommendations for at least good guidelines. Items necessary for good network documentation Identification of servers, workstations, printers, routers, switches, etc. IP addresses NetBIOS/Host names MAC addresses Description...

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Wireless Security Checklist

March 10, 2010

Data collection: via Kismet. (freeware): · Is the access point (AP) beaconing? (Is the AP configured to send beacon packets?) · Is the access link layer encryption enabled? (Wireless Encryption Protocol) · Is strong link layer encryption enabled? (128 bit WEP) · What channel is the traffic broadcast on? · Is the network...

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Sample MIL-STD-100 Objectives

March 10, 2010

The primary objective of the Standard Operating Environment was to develop the platform baseline for the Network Management Systems for Corporate campuses (Corporate NSM).   This standard methodology would then be applied to all campuses in the implementation of the Enterprise Network Management Platform. · Detail the NSM solution including...

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Information system Catalog service management Considerations

March 8, 2010

Configuration and asset management Release Management Development Integration  Service Desk / Help Desk    Capacity management Create and maintain a capacity plan Operational procedures and responsibilities Documented operating procedures Change control procedures Technical review of applications after operating system changes Restrictions on changes to software packages Change management Information...

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