Prepare:

Watch the GEN103 Scholarly & Popular Resources (Links to an external site.) and How to Read a Scholarly Article (Links to an external site.) videos, and review the Source Types downloadhandout,

Read this scholarly, peer-reviewed article:

Ajunwa, I., Crawford, K., & Ford, J. S. (2016). Health and big data: An ethical framework for health information collection by corporate wellness programs . Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 44(3), 474–480. https://doi.org/10.1177/1073110516667943

Depending on first letter of your last name, read one of the following:

• A-I
  • Ajunwa, I. (2017, January 19). Workplace wellness programs could be putting your health data at risk (Links to an external site.). Harvard Business Review. Retrieved from https://hbr.org/2017/01/workplace-wellness-programs-could-be-putting-your-health-data-at-risk
• J-Q
  • Hancock, J. (2015, October 2). Workplace wellness programs put employee privacy at risk (Links to an external site.). CNN. Retrieved from https://www.cnn.com/2015/09/28/health/workplace-wellness-privacy-risk-exclusive/index.html
• R-Z
  • Hannon, K., & Next Avenue. (2016, May 29). New rules on wellness programs spark privacy worries (Links to an external site.). Forbes. Retrieved from https://www.forbes.com/sites/nextavenue/2016/05/29/new-rules-on-wellness-programs-spark-privacy-worries/#6fc33f205ad5

Reflect:

 You read two articles that address the same topic but are different types of sources. Consider the following questions:

• What characteristics make the sources different?
• How do those differences add to or detract from the credibility of the sources?
• How could you use each of the sources in school, at work, or in your personal life? Think of at least two specific examples.

Write: 

 Based on your learning in the Prepare and Reflect sections above, write at least three paragraphs that fully address the prompt below. Cite any sources you use or refer to.

1. Identify the type of source you read in addition to the scholarly, peer-reviewed article. Who is the audience for each source? How does the intended audience affect the choice of language, images, and organization?
2. Analyze the credibility of the two sources that you read. What specific features of the articles led you to conclude the source was or was not credible? Provide at least one specific example for each source.
3. Explain how each source might be used to address a specific information need. What research situations would be appropriate for each source? What concerns would you have about using the sources in those situations?

Your initial post must be at least 350 words and address all of the prompt’s elements.

You must cite and reference any sources that you use in your posts, including your textbook or any other sources of information that you use. Please refer to the Writing Center’s Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.) and Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.) for help with citing and referencing your sources

Week 1 Case Assignment

Click on Week 1 Case Assignment to submitAfter reading the assigned Week 1 Chapters 1-4, complete the following Case Assignment in a Microsoft Word Document using APA 7th ed. Format. Do not submit your assignment in PDF format.Please read Bloomberg Case in the News, “Amazon Effect” Is Hiking Pay and Fueling Land Rush in U.S., pages 27-28 in the textbook, and answer the corresponding questions (1-3) that follow it.Type all answers in a Microsoft Word Document set up in APA format, and submit it via the assignment link above by Sunday at 11:59 PM ET. Please use the APA 7th ed. format APA Paper Template provided. It is recommended you type directly in this template. Please click on this link below for the template. Be sure to click ‘Save’ when it opens.  MAN1021 APA 7th ed. Format Paper Template for Case Assignments.docx MAN1021 APA 7th ed. Format Paper Template for Case Assignments.docx – Alternative Formats
Please read each question carefully and answer all the questions in their entirety. It is required to support your responses with information from the sources you used by providing APA 7th ed. format in-text citations.Use the questions as your APA Level 1 Topic HeadingsPlease note: It is required to provide all the sources you used in your reference list in correct APA 7th ed. format. It is also required to cite all the information you provided from your sources in correct APA 7th ed. format using parenthetical and/or narrative citations. All sources are required to be published between 2012 and 2021.Please read and follow the grading rubric below in an effort to earn full credit for your work.Case Assignment RubricThoroughly answered all of the questions: 50References and citations to course or other source material: 20Spelling/Grammar at college level: 10Quality and Content of APA formatting: 20TOTAL: 100 points 

Put yourself in the position of a clinician coming to an information technology session. You are asked to present information about the basics of relational database design. Specifically, you are asked to communicate the similarities and differences between the terms entity, table, field, and record as they relate to DBMS systems.

Your audience is clinicians who do not necessarily understand these four fundamental database concepts. Using examples from the health field, create a PowerPoint presentation explaining each of these four concepts for a non-technical audience. Also, explain how these detailed concepts relate to the value of a business intelligence applications such as a data warehouse in a health care setting.

Detailed speaker notes should be used to explain each textual and graphic slide in detail.

In your presentation,

· Articulate the meaning of the term entity relating examples to the types of entities that we might see in a health-related database.

· Discuss the difference between a field and a record in a relational database.

· Articulate the purpose of data tables in relational database design.

· Compose examples of how these concepts might relate to developing a comprehensive data warehouse in a health setting.

The Teaching Database Basics presentation

· Must be six to eight slides in length (not including title and references slides) and formatted according to APA Style 

· Must include a separate title slide with the following:

o Title of presentation

o Student’s name

o Course name and number

o Instructor’s name

o Date submitted

2 scholarly references must be included 

Week 4: Understanding the Industry and Its Environment

Skill #4: Collect knowledge and information about current events, technology, the business environment, the client’s business, your company and consider this when making decisions.

Looking back to week one and the recommendations you made in the week one assessment in conjunction with this week’s material consider EC’s position in the industry, their current customers and those in the future and identify trends, ideas, and technology that you feel Dwight should consider in growing the company. For this skill, Dwight wants to see how well you can judge the external trends for the business by measuring your understanding of a SWOT analysis. For this, he has prepared a SWOT TABLE for you to evaluate. See the Quiz he has prepared under the week four content area for the directions.

Skill #5: Know the basics of knowledge management.

Inga Swanson was one of the first employees Dwight and Ike hired. She runs the customer relations department and now the online returns and rewards programs as well. Recently she has gone to Dwight and Ike with the idea that her commitments to the webstore are getting so demanding that she needs help in several areas. She wants to hire people to take over the customer relations department and online returns so she can focus on the webstore and move into a marketing role. She thinks that Dwight and Ike should consider this move for two important reasons; better decision making and should anything happen to her the whole online and customer relations departments would shut down. Ike agreed immediately and Dwight was right behind him. The problem Dwight realized almost immediately was how would the transition work with all that knowledge in Inga’s head? and all the tools she uses to measure her marketing goals etc. How can we make good decisions without them? 

Dwight wants you to look at the idea of collecting and storing the knowledge Inge and the others have in the business. Using the course material and prior business class experience complete a brief 2-3 page memo outlining the steps a manager might take to make the transition go smoothly. In the outline include:

• Explain how to capture, collect, and store knowledge for the company.
• Explain how these actions will affect performance in the company.
• Describe how you go about collecting knowledge from Inge.
• Explain how the knowledge will affect the hiring decisions for the new departments or should it be teams?
• Explain how it could affect Inge’s new role.

 Type: Individual Project
Unit:  The Role of the Supply Chain  
Due Date:  Wed, 10/10/18  
Deliverable Length:  10-12 PowerPoint slides with speaker notes 

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Assignment:

After the initial report, the owners of Stone Horse Supply Company, John and Michael, have contacted you regarding some information in which they did not understand. They explain to you over the phone that they do not understand the need to modernize the company’s flow regarding its suppliers as part of a new supply chain strategy. They request that you prepare a presentation for them discussing the importance and benefits of an efficient and robust information system as an integral part of an efficient supply chain strategy. For this assignment, you must submit a presentation consisting of 10-12 PowerPoint slides with at least 50-100 words of speaker’s notes per slide in which you discuss the importance and benefits of an efficient and robust information system as an integral part of an efficient supply chain strategy. For full-credit, you must address the following in your presentation:Provide a list of competitive supply chain strategies.Explain the environment and sustainability of supply chain strategies.Provide at least 3 issues that could affect a competitive supply chain strategy?Explain at least 2 growing uncertainties that exist in supply chain management.Explain the importance and benefits of an efficient and robust information system as an integral part of an efficient supply chain strategy.Provide at least 3 recommendations, for John and Michael, for improving their company’s supply chain information flow.For more information on creating PowerPoint Presentations, please visit the Microsoft Office Applications Lab. Please submit your assignment.For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.

Scenario:

In early 1975, brothers John and Michael Phillips founded the Stone Horse Supply Company. John and Michael, both horse riders and horse owners, had developed a horse feed to keep their own horses healthier and happier and found it in demand from other locals and neighbors. In response to that growing local demand, John and Michael converted their small home operation into a rented building in town and went forward with the business of manufacturing and selling specialized horse feeds.   Through the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s, the Rock Horse Food Supply Company enjoyed modest prosperity, providing niche products to the local area with their products selling in most of the nearby counties. However, in early 2006, the situation began to dramatically change. In early 2006, John and Michael were contacted by representative of the largest chain of stores in the region. One of the officers of the large chain was a horse owner and had been buying the special horse feed for his horse. The officer felt that because she enjoyed the product so much and knew that other local customers had used the product and perhaps the product could have success on a statewide or even a national scale. Since its onset, John and Michael had run their business on virtually a manual basis. Suppliers were mostly local with sourcing decisions based on the supplier’s proximity. Forecasting and ordering from suppliers were completed through phone calls and faxes with new orders based on manual counts rather than any systematic process. Stone Horse Supply Company often found itself with either excess material or expediting material in from suppliers at the last minute to keep from missing a customer deadline. Likewise, Stone Horse Supply Company was in the same facility it had started in, a smaller facility that had an unusual layout that John and Michael had made minor modifications to through the years to adapt to problems encountered during those years. While John and Michael were excited about the prospect of the company and its product becoming a mainstream product with vastly increased sales, they both knew that they were already struggling to meet current customer demand and that the current methods used to run the company would be insufficient as it entered this next phase. More specifically, John and Michael were concerned about the company’s ability to order and maintain the correct inventories to meet the new sales projections or even if many of its suppliers could meet the higher volumes. John and Michael also were concerned about how they would get the materials to Stone Horse Supply Company because they currently used a single company truck to pick up most of the local materials. Finally, John and Michael were deeply concerned about inventory levels and the cash required maintaining those inventories because they were already experiencing excess cost and issues in this area. Having decided to move forward, John and Michael’s company faced many questions regarding the new sales opportunity. Both John and Michael knew that while the technology they had to offer was superior to any other product of that type currently on the market, they also knew their company needed help in developing a supply chain strategy to ensure that this fantastic new sales opportunity did not overwhelm the company and end in failure. Your task starts with assisting John and Michael with an assessment of their current and desired situations. You will follow with assisting Stone Horse Supply Company in developing a supply chain that will support its future operations while also knowing that now that John and Michael’s product is going mainstream that there is great likelihood that other competitors will follow and that any strategy must address the future competitive landscape of the company.