It is anticipated that the initial discussion response should be in the range of 250-300 words.

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Students are expected to initially address the discussion question by Wednesday of each week.

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Description

Instructions

It is anticipated that the initial discussion response should be in the range of 250-300 words. Response posts must demonstrate topic knowledge and scholarly engagement with peers. This is not the only criteria utilized for evaluation; substantive content is imperative. All questions in the topic must be addressed. Please proofread your response carefully for grammar and spelling. Do not upload any attachments. All responses need to be supported by a minimum of one scholarly resource. Journals and websites must be cited appropriately. Citation and reference must adhere to APA format.

Classroom Participation

Students are expected to initially address the discussion question by Wednesday of each week. Participation in the discussion forums is expected with a minimum total of three (3) substantive postings (this includes your initial posting and posting to two peers) on three (3) different days per week. Substantive means that you add something new to the discussion, you aren’t just agreeing. This is also a time to ask questions or offer information surrounding the topic addressed by your peers. Personal experience is appropriate for a substantive discussion and should be correlated to the literature.

All discussion boards will be evaluated utilizing rubric criterion inclusive of content, analysis, collaboration, writing and APA. If you fail to post an initial discussion you will not receive these points, you may however post to your peers for partial credit following the guidelines above. Due to the nature of this type of assignment and the need for timely responses for initial posts and posting to peers, the Make-Up Coursework Policy (effective July 2017) does not apply to Discussion Board https://homeworkharbour.info/papers Participation.

Discussion Prompt [Due Wednesday]

o Based on your experiences and readings, analyze the roles, empowerment of patients, and values needed to be an effective nurse advocate and policy player.

o Discuss the APN role as a change agent. 

o Provide an example of a time that you have acted as an advocate or a situation that you are familiar with that involved an APN acting as an advocate.

o Additionally, address how the APN role is implemented at an organizations, state, and national level.

o The text discusses the limited evidence base for the credibility of advocacy, in your opinion does it work?

o Why or why not? Support your thoughts with evidence.

Responses need to address all components of the question, demonstrate critical thinking and analysis, and include peer reviewed journal evidence to support the student’s position.

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format. https://homeworkbay.info/content/

Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets the criteria.

Estimated time to complete: 2 hours

Discussion Peer/Participation Prompt [Due Sunday]

Instructions:

Please respond to at least 2 of your peer’s posts.  To ensure that your responses are substantive, use at least two of these prompts:

o Do you agree with your peers’ assessment?

o Take an opposing view to a peer and present a logical argument supporting an alternate opinion.

o Share your thoughts on how you support their opinion and explain why.

o Present new references that support your opinions.

Responses need to address all components of the question, demonstrate critical thinking and analysis, and include peer reviewed journal evidence to support the student’s position.

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets the criteria.

Estimated time to complete: 1 hour

Instruction Files

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Marketing Research

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1. Which are the steps in developing a sampling plan? Describe them and explain why they are important. 

Student must name and define all the necessary steps and explain why they are used in the marketing field. He/she can use examples or real cases.

 2. Making quality control checks is important in any marketing research? Why? Explain an example of data processing that could go wrong if quality checks are not provided

 Student must answer Yes or No in the first question and has to develop his/her answer explaining why. And then, he/she has to provide a real or imaginary (but realistic) case where marketers don’t use quality checks and its consequences.

 3. Which are the different approaches to observational research? Which advantages and disadvantages observational research has over other methodologies? Chose one approach of observational research and describe an imaginary scenario where you could use it

Student must explain the different kinds of observational research, defining them and providing relevant authors that contributed to them. Then, student must elaborate the advantages and disadvantages of observational research over other methodologies seen in class. Finally, student has to choose one approach and explain a situation where he/she would use it, always thinking in the marketing business. Which objective does he/she intend to achieve with this approach? How many days would he/she need to complete it? What resources would he/she need?

Executive Summary Assignment

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For this assignment, select a topic for the course project and write an executive summary for a project proposal.  The executive summary will summarize the most important information relative to the project.   

  

Overview:

The heart of this course is a multi-unit project that entails the steps involved in planning, designing,

and implementing a CIS system. You will not be required to physically create a system, but rather will

be writing about it. Therefore, no special software is required for this course except, of course, for

word processing software.

You can choose one (1) of the following scenarios for your project:

• A website for a sporting goods retail company

• A database system for a supermarket’s inventory

• A business spreadsheet system for an organization’s human resources department

• A project management system for the construction of a computer training facility

• An advanced computer graphics presentation for a political campaign

• A cybersecurity system for a small company that has neglected computer security issues

Instructions:

For this assignment, you will select your topic from the choices above and write an executive

summary for your project proposal. The executive summary will summarize the most important

information relative to your project. Be sure to review the readings and resources provided on the

topic prior to writing the paper.

Include the following in your executive summary:

• Information on who is writing the executive summary, including their contact information

• A description of the goal(s) of the project

• A short description of the current system

• A brief description of the people and/or organizations who are, or will be, the users

• A description of the proposed changes to the current system

• A list of the problems that the project will solve

• The estimated costs involved in the establishment of a new system or changes to the current

system

• The amount of time each phase of the project will take, including the start and end dates for

each phase

CIS450 – Seminar in CIS

Unit 1 Assignment: Executive Summary

Requirements:

• Your executive summary should be 2-3 pages in length, with additional cover and reference

pages.

• The summary should be double-spaced, written in 12 point Times New Roman font, and use a

1-inch margin.

• Use at least two (2) scholarly sources in your assignment and include all references and

citations properly formatted in APA.

• Use complete sentences and appropriate grammar and spelling.

Operations Management

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General Guidelines for Case Studies

A case study is a short description of a real business situation. Analyzing case studies gives you the opportunity to apply concepts you’re learning to real business problems. Cases are generally written for several types of analysis. Usually, there is not a “right or wrong” answer. Rather, cases provide a vehicle for you to demonstrate your understanding and ability to apply course concepts and theories. You must use appropriate sources (properly cited) to support your position. Check your analysis by assessing how well it demonstrates your subject knowledge. If your answer relies solely on your ‘impressions’ of the topic, it is likely that the analysis is not your best effort.

Simply answering the questions which are part of the case is not enough; consider the questions to be clues to the important concepts and facts. You are strongly encouraged to use the following outline so that your analysis is organized appropriately:

  1. Identify both the key issues and the underlying issues. In identifying the issues, you should be able to connect them to the business principles which apply to this situation.
  2. Discuss the facts which affect these issues. The case may have too much information. In your discussion, you should filter the information and discuss those facts which are pertinent to the issues identified above.
  3. Discuss your tentative solution to the problem and how you would implement your solution. What actions would you propose to respond to the situation, based on the knowledge you have gained in this course? You should draw on knowledge gained in your readings, experience and coursework (in this course and others) to support your response. Be sure to properly cite references in APA format. You should also draw on other references such as business periodicals and relevant journals. Remember that an analysis is more than simply a summary of the Case Study.
  4. Discuss follow-up and contingency plans. How will the organization know that your proposed solution is working? What should they do if it does not work?

Your analysis of each case study should be written in APA format. If you need assistance with APA formatting, the Online Writing Lab at Purdue University has excellent APA-specific resources available here: Purdue OWL APA Style Help.

Evaluation Criteria

  • Have you identified the critical issues/problems in the case and analyzed the key facts related to the issues/problems?
  • Have you discussed a tentative solution that addresses the issues/problems and how you would implement your solution?
  • Is information from the textbook and other sources integrated into your analysis appropriately? For all sources, you must provide complete APA citations.
  • Is the paper professionally presented? Remember your audience. It is important to present your information as clearly and succinctly as possible. Do not sacrifice thoroughness for mere brevity.
  • Have you read it over carefully and corrected any grammar and spelling errors?

Accounting – Due in 6 hours 2/23/18

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Instructions

Financial Accounting

Reading (Required)

Pick A Company

  • http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/tutorials/statements/  (paste in browser)
  • The attached file 2016 week 2 Example Southwest Airlines

The Southwest example is included to show what can be learned from Financial statements.  You will not use that format  for your answers to this assignment.  Per the assignment guidelines, all calculations must be shown in an Excel file..  Your responses should show that you have read and understood the required readings, links and attached files – Provide appropriate citations and references. 
 

Individual Assignment (8%):
 

You should answer all of the questions listed below as they relate to the financial statements of any U.S. public company of your choice in its latest annual report. Please use the Securities and Exchange Commission web site as your primary source for financial statements.  All publicly traded U S companies have their annual reports called the 10-K available through the Securities and Exchange Commission web site.  http://www.sec.gov/
 

Instructions for use of the site are as follows:  About half way down the home page is a box titled Search EDGAR, free access to over 21 million filings.  Enter the company name or ticker symbol.  That brings up a page called EDGAR Search Results.  In the line “filter results”  enter “10-K” in filing type and hit search.  That will bring up recent company annual reports. Note: You have a choice of “Documents” or “Interactive Data.” Both contain all the information.  “Interactive Data” uses Excel and provides the best access to information for questions 1, 2, and 3. “Documents”  provides information that is easy to read for questions 4 through 8.  After you click on Documents, click on the red letters and numbers to the right of the “10-K” heading.
 

Also you can find the financial statements of any U.S. public company by visiting Morningstar, Yahoo Finance or MSN Money, and using the stock market symbol for your chosen company (which can be looked up on Morningstar, Yahoo Finance or MSN Money).  Please be aware that sometimes these services omit some numbers in order to fit their preferred formats. Many companies have links to the Annual Report as filed with the SEC.  It can be found on the Investor relations page of the company web site. 
 

If you work for a U.S. public company, you may want to use the financial statements of your company – but the choice is up to you.

1) What 3 items of important information does the income statement reveal about the financial performance of the company over the last three years? 
 

2) What 3 items of important information does the balance sheet reveal about the financial position of the company over the last two years? 

3) Can you identify the major sources of funding used by the company from the information presented in the company’s annual report?  Please look at the Statement of Cash Flows, formerly called the Source and Uses of Funds Statement.
 

4) Who is responsible for:

      a) the issuance, and

      b) the content

of the company financial statements? (Note: this information may be difficult to find.  Look for statements by management and the independent auditing firm.)
 

5) What assurance, if any, is there that the financial statements are in compliance with GAAP, and are free of material misstatements? 

6) Of what use, if any, are the notes to the financial statements? Give an example of something learned from the footnotes of your company.
 

7) What can you learn from the Business Section of the 10-K?  Give two facts learn from reading this section.

8) What can you learn from the Management Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations (MD&A)?  Give two facts learned from reading this section.

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Post in your individual assignment folder by the due date. . 

Quantitative analysis tied to the financial statement concepts will add value to your work. 

The Power Point (Financial Statements R-2.ppt) should be very helpful.  It is below
 

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Attachments

2016 week 2 Example Southwest Airlines.doc(172.5 KB) 

Product/Audience Match Strategy Draft

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Product/Audience Match Strategy
Part of Final Marketing Yourself Plan – Due at End of Term 

As explained in the PDF reading “Matching the Product with the Audience When Marketing Yourself,” it’s critical to understand your product (i.e., your skills, attributes, personality, core values, etc.) and to determine and understand your target audiences (i.e., potential employers, colleagues, customers, career gatekeepers, etc.). 

For this assignment, you’ll work to outline your potential target audiences, determine what those audiences desire, and then decide how you’ll match your product with your target audiences. Using either a paragraph, outline, or table format, do the following: 

  1. List Current Audiences. List various audiences (at least 8) to whom you currently market yourself on a daily, weekly, or other periodic basis. These might include potential employers, current employers, friends, family, teachers, various societal segments, social groups, customers, colleagues, employees, store personnel, vendors/suppliers, social media audiences, etc. Don’t forget that these audiences might be face-to-face, online, over the phone, etc. For each audience, be extremely specific as to who this audience is. Don’t just say “store employees” when you can say “the early morning employees at the Starbucks that I go to every weekday.” Don’t just say “my co- workers” when you can say “my co-workers Cristina, Derek, and Victoria who work in the cubicles next to mine.”
     
  2. Importance of Current Audiences. For each of the 8+ current audiences, provide some insights as to why each particular audience might be important to you in your marketing yourself efforts. How can impressing each audience help you?
     
  3. What Current Audiences Want From You. Finally, for each of the 8+ current audiences you listed, write down at least three characteristics (features, attributes, skills, traits, values, etc.) that they would desire in a person such as you. Although there may be some similar traits or characteristics across the audiences you listed, each audience likely will desire some unique characteristics as well.
     
  4. List Prospective Audiences. Your next step is to add at least three new “prospective” target audiences to whom you would like to market yourself in the near or distant future. Again, they can be potential employers in a particular industry, friends, social groups, customers, fans, readers, etc. While it’s good to be specific as to the industry, type of people, etc., you don’t have to be as specific as you were in Step 1 because you may not know the details of these audiences yet.
     
  5. Importance of Prospective Audiences. As you did in Step 2 with your “current” audiences, for each of the 3+ “prospective” audiences, provide some insights as to why each particular audience might be important to you in your future marketing yourself efforts. How can impressing each audience help you?
     
  6. What Prospective Audiences Want From You. For each of the 3+ “prospective” target audiences, write down at least three characteristics (features, attributes, skills, traits, values, etc.) that they would desire in a person such as you. Because you may not really know these audiences very well, you may end up estimating this section more than the other ones. Nevertheless, consider what characteristics would be important to each audience.
     

  

  1. Product/Audience Match. Now consider how well you’re matching your Product You with the desired attributes of the (at least 8) current audiences and the (at least 3) prospective audiences that you listed. Discuss the matches as well as the discrepancies (the instances in which you don’t match).
     
  2. Changing Product You. Discuss what you can do to have a better match between your various target audiences and the product (set of attributes, traits, etc.) that you’re offering. How can you change your Product You as well as your Personal/Professional Brand to better market yourself to these various audiences? This section consists of a set of self-improvement recommendations.
     

Assignment Sections 

  1. Cover Page: Name, Panther ID, Major, Minor, Certificate(s), Assignment Title
     
  2. Introduction: Discuss the purpose for a Product/Audience Match.
     
  3. Product/Audience Match Analysis: This is where you’ll put the analysis from the eight steps above.
     
  4. Synthesis and Summary: Discuss what you learned from this exercise. What did you learn about target marketing? What did you learn about your own audiences? What did you learn about yourself? Synthesize your learning from the various parts of the assignment and create a summary that you can review in the future.
     

Assignment Formatting 

Submit as a PDF file upload. Document should use Times New Roman 12-point font with margins not exceeding 1-inch. Length of assignment is approximately 2-4 pages. 

Assignments should be completed and submitted before due date/times. Late penalty is 10% deduction per day (or partial day) late. No plagiarism, copying or cheating. 

Business Tactics

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Implementation Plan: Part 2
In Unit IV, you started to create an implementation plan. You selected a company and analyzed their strategy and mission. In Unit VI, we will continue your work with this company and develop a SWOT analysis.
Remember that a SWOT analysis identifies strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of an organization. This is an important analysis for any organization as it can be used for strategic planning. Your SWOT analysis must be a minimum of two pages in length. Once you have completed your SWOT analysis, write a minimum of one page, explaining how this information could be used by the company.
Please use the template below to complete the SWOT analysis and explanation. Save the template using your last name and student ID. For example, John Smith whose student ID is 12345 would save his assignment as Smith12345. The information you need to complete this analysis can be found in the case studies located in your textbook on pages 372- 636. Outside research is not a requirement.
Click here to access the Unit VI Project template.
Much of the information you will need to complete this segment can be found in the case study in the textbook. However,
you are welcome to conduct further research as needed.
Information about accessing the Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below.

Quality Assurance and Versioning Plan

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Iterative testing is an essential element of Agile. This requires  tracking the changes made and making sure all members of the team have  the correct version of the program.

Quality Assurance (QA) in Systems Development is a set of processes  that ensure the delivered systems meet the pre-defined expectations.  Note that QA is not testing. Software Configuration Management consists  of a set of tasks that track and control changes to the environment.  Configuration management incudes software source version control. 

The Director of Software Engineering has noted that some members of  the team are not following the company’s Quality Assurance and Version  Plan and has asked you to present to the team in order to help them and  your intern understand the importance of the plan.

Part 1:

Create a PowerPoint®  presentation containing 10 to 12 slides, including an introduction and  conclusion slide and detailed speaker notes, that includes the  following:

  • A brief description of Quality Assurance (QA) in Systems Development and why it is important
  • An illustration of the testing process in the Agile model
  • A brief explanation of automated testing
  • A logical description of the processes ensuring that the functionality, security, and performance of the application are met
  • An explanation of what versioning is and why versioning of the program is necessary

Note: Other applications like Adobe® Spark® or Microsoft® Sway® or Mix® can be used instead of PowerPoint®.

Part 2:

Using the Quality Attributes Table document provided, complete the 1-page table of quality attributes.

Cite all sources using APA guidelines.

1.Toulmin Model: Please refer to the article: Will 2022 Bring a Return to ‘Normal’ After Mostly Online 2021 Semesters?

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Toulmin Model: Please refer to the article: Will 2022 Bring a Return to ‘Normal’ After Mostly Online 2021 Semesters?

1.What is the claim of the overall article?

  •  Use textual evidence to support your answer.
  •  Explain your reasoning. 
  • 50-word minimum
  • Worth 10 points

2.Refer to paragraphs two and three. 

  • What is the claim of that section?
  •  Explain why it is the claim. 
  • Provide one piece of Data from the section. 
  • Explain why it serves as data for the claim. 
  • Textual evidence is required
  • 150-word minimum
  • Worth 15 points

3.Refer to paragraphs four, five, and six.

  • What is the claim of that section?
  • Explain why it is the claim. 
  • Provide one piece of Data from the section. 
  • Explain why it serves as data for the overall claim. 
  • Which sentence or sentences serve as warrants in this section?
  • Explain why it/they serve as warrants.
  • Find an example of the writer using a backing.
  • Explain your reasoning. 
  • Textual evidence is required for each part of your response. 
  • 150-word minimum
  • Worth 25 points

4.Locate the qualifier in paragraph 8. 

  • What is it?
  • Explain your reasoning. 
  • 25-word minimum
  • worth 5 points

5.Does the article offer any rebuttals? If so, list them. If not, explain why you feel that the writer did not provide any. 

  • 50-word minimum
  • Worth 5 points

6.Do you think schools will return to normal by 2022? If so, why? Do you think the COVID19 Pandemic has changed our definition of normal when it comes to online education for good? 

  • 250 word-minimum
  • Structure matters–introduction/supporting paragraph/conclusion
  • Worth 15 points

that’s what you have to read before u doing the essay:

 Will 2022 Bring a Return to ‘Normal’ After Mostly Online 2021 Semesters?

 I will upload the file for it just read the file.

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When a company is not performing to its maximum potential, the culture and employees are often considered since employees are the biggest asset of a company. When employees are not engaged in an underperforming company, experimenting with culture changes that directly align with employee preferences may be beneficial. For example, a company that hires many younger employees might consider rethinking the traditional 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. work time structure to create flexibility for more integration between work, life, and personal values. In this discussion, you will explore the impact of changes an actual company made when they reexamined their employees’ needs and satisfaction.

Consider the following scenario:

JA Counter is a $2.5 million insurance and investment firm in New Richmond, Wisconsin. After struggling with several efforts to improve the financial performance of the firm, President Linda Skoglund found that those efforts negatively impacted morale. In response, she implemented a results-only work environment (ROWE) where employees are given autonomy to decide how, when, and where they work, and are not criticized for being out of the office during traditional business hours. As a result of implementing ROWE, both morale and productivity increased. The program applies to every employee in the firm. The keys are to set measurable goals, eradicate toxic language, and have managers set positive examples.

For your initial post, address the following:

  • How do you think this type of culture change was introduced to the employees of JA Counter?
  • If you were leading this culture change, how would you approach it as a leader and why?