Research Methodology Discussion Response

I’ve provided two discussions that need to be responded. It doesn’t need to be too long. Just, 4 and 5 sentences are enough for each discussion. The following is this week’s discussion topic”In this week’s discussion board, discuss your thoughts about your Research Methodology focusing on:

• What research methodology are you planning to use and why?
• How does your selected research methodology differ from, at least, one other research methodology?

Remember to use a formal writing style and cite where appropriate.”

Discussion1=”My methodology for my traditional research topic, Artificial Intelligence impact on the traditional processes of customer service, will be exploratory methodology. Although Artificial Intelligence has been around since 1955, the usage of this technology is just picking up momentum. With that in mind using an exploratory method of research will allow more “flexibility and investigative approach to my research” (Research Methodology, 2019). I plan to incorporate a mixture of quality and quantitative methods. Existing use cases and articles will provide the data needed to research my topic. There isn’t a need for outside interactions with this methodology. However, Action research methodology requires outside participation (Dick, B., Passfield, R. & & Wildman, P. 1995-2000)

Action research methodology takes on a more hands approach to research. Project management tools are used to test your hypothesis. When conducting an action research, iterations are done in effort to solve a problem. The researcher will need to conduct four steps to test their hypothesis. Plan, act, observe, and reflect are done in phases until an expected outcome is reached. (Dick, B.,2000). With the exploratory method, clear conclusion may not be reached, but a clear overview of the topic is provided to persuade the audience.”

Discussion2=“The research methodology that I am planning to use for my project which is “Insider Threat” will be a combination of exploratory and conclusive research. Exploratory studies are designed to focus only on the research area, and they do not attempt to offer a final and conclusive research questions. Conclusive studies, on the contrary, aim to provide final and conclusive answers to research questions (Research Methodology, 2019). The mixture of both methodologies will allow me to test my formulated hypothesis and find out new problems that haven’t been explored before.

In addition, Insider Threat (a current or former employee, contractor, or other business partner who has or had access to an organization’s network, infrastructure, or data and decided to intentionally missed that access to negatively violate the integrity, the availability, and the confidentiality of the organizations information or information systems (Department of Homeland Security, 2014)) is becoming the main issue of many organization as the problem keep rising. Now how do we solve this problem or prevent this problem from happening? To answer this question, a problem-oriented research methodology will be used. With this methodology, I will be able to understand the exact nature of the problem and find out possible and relevant solutions to the existing problems (Bhat, 2019).

My selected research methodology differ from a basic research methodology which is mostly conducted to enhance knowledge. It covers fundamentals aspects of research. The main motivation of this research is knowledge expansion. It is a non-commercial research and doesn’t facilitate in creating or inventing anything (Bhat, 2019). That being said, this methodology will not help me achieve my goal due to its simplicity and limitation.”

NOTE: If you do not know how to reply to the discussions, please do not apply for the assignment in the first place. I do not want to go over the assignment, after you got it.