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It is not hard to see how important and necessary the agent of change is. Base on stakeholders and designers’ need for the agent of change, it shows it is an essential anchor for system success improvement....

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Q1 As long as a systems analyst participates and contributes to a project for a period of time, he or she may can be considered as an agent of change. As well, interacting with users and management actively runs through the whole project would be a determinate to be a agent of change. [1] The very first thing for an agent of change need to do is developing the business with a appropriate information system after confirming it need to be changed by a series of analyses. The next step is construct a plan for improvement with the people who also should make change. In this process, the agent of change acts as a core leader of the whole project and continually communicating with the users, management and programming developers. Playing a role of agent of change, there are many skills are required. For example, having a vast extent of business functions, the capability of communication, comprehending some programming technology. Therefore, a agent of change is the bridge between the users and business personnel. With those abilities, the agent can be trusted by both users and developers. Agent of change draws on avoiding language comprehension bias by logical diagrams or some other digital information technology ways. On the one hand, it helps business personnel and users to easily realize the applications or other information technology staffs to what degree. On the other hand, it improves the accuracy of meeting users’ needs for designers. For information technology department, the agent of change is theirs bridge to the ‘outside world’. They rely on agents to transfer information from jargon one to readily comprehensible and then convey to the business personnel. At the same time, business personnel can only count on the agent of change to made appropriate demands. It is not hard to see how important and necessary the agent of change is. Base on stakeholders and designers’ need for the agent of change, it shows it is an essential anchor for system success improvement. [1] Roles of the Systems Analyst – what does a systems analyst do; Chapter: Systems, Roles, and Development Methodologies

Q2 a. Social contract: Base on what Stephen Pearson said, his son just does undertake part-time casual work in Sinapse. Which means, we cannot tell the contract which Pearson signed off benefit his son. Crime of misappropriating public funds defines lending public funds to others or institutions in the name of an individual in order to receiving money or

other benefits back but without occupying the public funds on his own. In this case, Pearson and his son did not take the funds. Therefore, it is a normal and appropriate trade. We decided not to declare the conflict of interest use to defend their decision. b. Deontology: First, as Stephen Pearson said, ‘on reflection I did not do that prior to the contract being awarded Senator’. He realized there was a chance for him to declaring that his son worked at Dinspse before he signed off the contract. He could declare his son does undertake part-time casual work in Sinapse and then listened to Rebecca Skinner’s decision. Which means, Pearson understood it will be a mistake but he still made the mistake. Second, Person is defense chief information officer. As a government official, one of his duty is to be honest to the public and take responsibility for the society. Pearson’s behavior is wrong and we decided to declare the conflict of interest use to defend their decision. c. I find more convincing from argument a. Base on social contract, I can judge Stephen Pearson’s actions with evidence from law persuasively. However, I cannot convinced myself totally with deontology. On the one hand, everyone has their own standard of moral judgement. On the other hand, I have no idea if my standards as appropriate as well to judge Pearson. Therefore, I do not have enough confidence when I argued in deontological opinions....