The descriptions include an overview and key information about the organization, as well as information about a breach or attempted breach.  Also, read this cybersecurity field overview; be sure you consider how each of the nine roles do or could apply as you review the case study. Your team can choose one of these cases or look for other options.

In response to the case study, your team will write an instructive white paper (6 – 8 pages) that analyzes a company’s management and leadership environment in a particularly challenging period.  Your paper should:

1. review the issues of the case study as background for the events relating to the role of the leadership and teams
2. analyze the leadership practices of the organization in the case study, and define the practices that leaders used to create collaborative and successful teams, or failed to effect successful working relations resulting in negative conditions
3. analyze the impact of the most relevant one or two of the nine cybersecurity role listed in the overview above
4. propose remedial principles and practices that the organization might adopt to enable a better outcome

After the paper is written, you will create a one-page executive summary of the paper and an asynchronous presentation of 12 slides, excluding the references slide and cover slide.

You will have three weeks to complete the following:

• create a team project plan by the end of week 8
• conduct research, develop an analysis of the issues of the case, determine your argument, provide supporting facts, and identify recommendations with an explanation of your rationale
• draft and finalize your paper and executive summary, and create a narrated presentation

In the next step, you will come up with a project plan.

Step 4: Project Plan

In the previous step, your team chose a case study. In this step, you will work with your team to establish how you all will apportion the work and create a single document with participation by all.

Be sure you are using team spaces to exchange ideas and drafts. If you use any outside collaborative tools, keep your instructor apprised and provide access to review, as necessary.

Finish this step by creating and submitting the final version of the team’s project plan to your team space. This step should be submitted by the end of Week 8.

 

Step 5: Conduct Research

In previous steps, you studied organizational behavior, and then the team chose a case and agreed to a project plan. Now it is time to do a closer read of the chosen case and do any additional research. Revisit guidelines on conducting research, if needed. Then look at Table 1, which provides some topics for your search strategies. In your search, you should consult scholarly resources as well as online resources, newspapers, and business blogs and sites for similar contemporary cases.