Assignment:

Resource: Patton-Fuller Community Hospital Networking Virtual Organization, or, an organization you are familiar with that you can research to discover the cabling, network equipment and structure

Create a 3-year organizational systems management plan incorporating current trends and security concerns.

Include the following:

• Strategic goals that the 3-year plan must support or align to 

• An ability for the organization to upgrade its network transmission speed or bandwidth during the 3-year plan and beyond 

• Change management plan 

• Replacement schedule for networking and computing devices 

• Configuration management processes 

• Network and application software upgrades and replacement 

• Contingency planning when unforeseen future hardware, software, and networking technology or processes that may be disruptive must be procured for the organization to remain competitive 

• Upgrades to network and application security, if appropriate, to include any missing network devices that provide security over several layers of the OSI model 

• Upgrades to wireless technology if appropriate 

• Upgrades or procurement of specific network components that will enhance transmission speed, accuracy, or availability, based on an analysis of the network

• Priority list of the items that must be procured or require funding so that the budget execution authority can cost and plan for procurement