**Write a 100-word reply to the 3 individual questions below.** 

To help you with your discussion, please consider the following questions: 

• What clarification do you need regarding the posting? 
• What differences or similarities do you see between your posting and other classmates’ postings? 
• What additional questions do you have after reading the posting? 
• What item you found to be compelling and enlightening.  

1.- Gloria:    Before we get into what activities are involved in strategic management let’s first discuss what it does. Strategic management deals with finding relationships in order to secure that various sector within the company goal to meet what is required by the company. It creates room for objectives, researching the environment where competition is coming from, looking for data within the inside of the organization strategies of evaluation, making sure management gives way for approaches going around the organization at hand. Strategic management uses both short-term and long-term actions: before beginning short term activities a written list of long term activities should be made available so that you can located where the position of the market is. Make a choice as to where your place is, and what will the futuristic vision of the company be in years to come. Give a written history once again of long term goals which offer assistance for you to spot the mission. Carrying out these steps is a vital resource in reaching all purposes with the company as well as getting specified positions in market at an set  time frame. Employees feedback should be a valuable tool in before even writing long term goal and gives clarity to the direction of the vision for the company. Understanding is provided by the manager in charge of what steps will be taken to bring goal formed to come to life. Short term activities are connected to long term activities and have a set time frame as well as being precise and within the bonds of the organization. It give detailed information on how to carryout goals that are long term. Management once again has this responsibility to look after the ins and outs when appointing what goals happen when or to whom it is given to. When business check up on goals that where set and discover such goals have be carried out from different sectors and single persons. If a move occurred within  in the business you have to be willing to work with them as to adjust activities in the short term nature. If and when these goal don’t make the standards of achievement you may want to change around workers from one department to the next and in other functions that give more successful outcomes.

strategic management is a guide that connects to functions with this plan that produce goals set in order. Offers direction in conversations when making choices centered on resources within the cost budget that accomplish standards set which boosts effectiveness in operations. Allows you to look in the future to better prepare for unforeseen risk. When a facility implements strategic management they can prevent high risk situations before they happen, this enables them to adhere to changing trends happening in the market and giving them added advantage from their competition. It defines what the direction is and assist to create real time objectives and goals that connect to the vision and mission charted for it.

2.- Adrienne :            Strategic management includes both long-term and short-term activities as it happens on an ongoing basis. When a health care facility uses strategic management, this allows them to sustain their operations with long term in mind by completing short term goals with all levels of management and employees involved. Strategic management allows the management team to create the vision, mission, and the processes of the business. As the facility environment changes, the focus can be adjusted to help accomplish the strategic goals (Contributor, 2020). By following the business plan, the set deadlines and milestones will be completed as planned while meeting your long-term strategic goals. Strategic management starts with planning the activities for the future now and making sure all departments are aligned with the same plan for success of the whole business. 

            Strategic management is important to the future of a health care facility as you are essentially managing every single area of the facility with the future in mind and doing the absolute best you can in all areas (Contributor, 2020). With the constant changes taking place in the health care industry today, it is wise to have an ongoing plan that will put together the strategy and mission of the facility into play. The standard strategic plan is a three-to-five-year plan with scheduled reviews taking place to ensure the progress being made is correct and changes made as the health industry grows are being added. A strategic management plan is typically made up of these four different areas:

1. Analysis and assessment – allows the facility to review their current and internal environment assessment.
2. Strategy formulation – the development of the strategic plan.
3. Strategy execution – the translation of the plan into a plan of action.
4. Evaluation – completing the elevations of the performance that has been completed.

By continuously planning, analyzing, and monitoring that all areas are meeting their projected goals, this will ensure the success of the facility in the future (The SHSMD Team, 2017). Strategic management has also provided many benefits to the health care industries as it has allowed them to be nimble, focused on performance, future results and more engaged than ever before.  

3.- Word document Located in the attached files

Isaac’s Storm Monograph Analysis

In a well-written and thoughtful essay, answer the following six questions concerning the monograph, Isaac’s Storm, by Erik Larson.

To do well on this essay you must fully answer all of the questions in an essay form. Please do not simply write the question’s number and the answer. Make it an essay.

Important: you must cite specific information in the book that corresponds to your points. A simple parenthesis with a page number is fine for citation, e.g. (175).

Finally, the only material you can reference is the book itself. Please do not use outside sources or summaries. That would do more harm than good since it would be plagiarism. Plagiarism is bad. I have not had too much problem with it so far this semester. Let us not start now.

There is no min or max page limit to this essay, but I think a good essay would probably fall in the range of 3-5 pages. These are large questions, after all.

Please use the standard essay format: double-spaced, 11 or 12pt font, Times New Roman or Arial script (or any other professional script).

Questions to answer:

1. Why did Larson write this book? What was the main point he was trying to get across? Was he effective in convincing you about his point?
2. Besides Mother Nature, of course, who or what do you think was most at fault for the tragedy in Galveston? Was such a large loss of life preventable? How do the ideas of the late Gilded Age and the “certainty” of technology play into the disaster? Give specific examples from the book with citation.
3. Why do you think Larson spent so much time describing the science behind hurricanes and meteorology? Did it help or hinder the book? Why? Explain.
4. Which story or vignette (short account or story) of the hurricane did you find most intriguing, engaging, or perhaps terrifying? Explain what happened with citation. Why did Joseph and Isaac become estranged after the storm? Back this up with details from the book.
5. Besides just being a history of a tragedy, what can be learned from Isaac’s Storm? Is there a lesson or at least a warning in the book?
6. Finally, in a concluding paragraph, briefly write what you thought of the book. Did you like or dislike it? What worked and what did not? Be honest here. I like to get feedback to decide if I will continue to use the book in the future.

SOCW 6530 WK 4 Assignment 2: Application: Process Recordings

A process recording is a written tool field education experience students, field instructors, and faculty use to examine the dynamics of social work interactions in time. Process recordings can help in developing and refining interviewing and intervention skills. By conceptualizing and organizing ongoing activities with social work clients, you are able to clarify the purpose of interviews and interventions, identify personal and professional strengths and weaknesses, and improve self-awareness. The process recording is also a useful tool in exploring the interpersonal dynamics and values operating between you and the client system through an analysis of filtering the process used in recording a session.

For this Assignment, you will submit a process recording of your field education experiences specific to this week.

The Assignment 2 to 4 pages using the process recording templet I provided and the case must include 

THIS IS THE FEED BACK FROM MY LAST PROCESS RECORDING:

INSTRUCTOR STATES

Your process recording provided a very clear transcript of the dialog with the client. You also identified tools and skills utilized during dialog, but no mention of theory. You provided a good explanation of personal reactions to interaction with client and analysis of dialog.

ASSIGNMENT

Provide a transcript of what happened during your field education experience, including a dialogue of interaction with a client.

Explain your interpretation of what occurred in the dialogue, including social work practice or theories, and explain how it might relate to assessment covered this week.

Describe your reactions and/or any issues related to your interaction with a client during your field education experience.

Explain how you applied social work practice skills when performing the activities during your process recording.

This week’s written activity is a three- part activity. You will respond to three separate prompts but prepare your paper as one research paper. Be sure to include at least one UC library source per prompt, in addition to your textbook (which means you’ll have at least 4 sources cited). 

Start your paper with an introductory paragraph.

Prompt 1 “Data Warehouse Architecture” (2-3 pages): Explain the major components of a data warehouse architecture, including the various forms of data transformations needed to prepare data for a data warehouse. Also, describe in your own words current key trends in data warehousing. 

Prompt 2 “Big Data” (2-3 pages): Describe your understanding of big data and give an example of how you’ve seen big data used either personally or professionally. In your view, what demands is big data placing on organizations and data management technology? 

Prompt 3 “Green Computing” (2-3 pages):  One of our topics in Chapter 13 surrounds IT Green Computing. The need for green computing is becoming more obvious considering the amount of power needed to drive our computers, servers, routers, switches, and data centers. Discuss ways in which organizations can make their data centers “green”. In your discussion, find an example of an organization that has already implemented IT green computing strategies successfully. Discuss that organization and share your link. You can find examples in the UC Library.

Conclude your paper with a detailed conclusion section. 

The paper needs to be approximately 7-10 pages long, including both a title page and a references page (for a total of 9-12 pages). Be sure to use proper APA formatting and citations to avoid plagiarism.

Your paper should meet the following requirements:

• Be approximately seven to ten pages in length, not including the required cover page and reference page.

• Follow APA7 guidelines. Your paper should include an introduction, a body with fully developed content, and a conclusion.

• Support your answers with the readings from the course, the course textbook, and at least three scholarly journal articles to support your positions, claims, and observations, in addition to your textbook. The UC Library is a great place to find supplemental resources.

• Be clearly and well-written, concise, and logical, using excellent grammar and style techniques. You are being graded in part on the quality of your writing.

  800 words 

}  READ

}  Read the prompt carefully and more than once. Make sure you understand exactly what kind of text you have to deliver

}  Plan

}  You have no time to revise and go back to your work, so you must spend more time in invention (pre-writing): come up with material, and create an outline for it

}  Outline

}  At a minimum, make sure you have a thesis, and a list of reasons which will support the thesis. The reasons become the topic sentences

}  Introduction

}  You need a short introduction. No need to have a “hook” like in an out of class paper, but it still must create a context rather than make it sound like you are writing the paper with a gun to your head

}  Body paragraphs

}  Start with the topic sentence. Then develop with specific examples. A fully developed example is worth more than a series of superficial references with no depth. You can do some pre-writing at this level, to come up with supporting material.

}  Be frugal with reasons

}  Don’t run through more than a single reason or topic sentence in a body paragraph. That is an indication you are not developing your examples and evidence well enough. Each reason/topic sentence deserves its own body paragraph.

}  Evidence and examples

}  Make sure you provide evidence from the text in every claim you make in body paragraphs.

}  Structure

}  Make sure you have paragraphs. They should be separated by the different topic sentences, not because you felt like skipping a line. Connect the paragraphs with transitions.

}  Focus

}  Always check that a new reason/body paragraph still develops the original topic and thesis

}  Conclusion

}  Short, but again should not be generic. If you know the term, you know better than to start with “in conclusion.”

}  Edit and Proofread

}  If readers cannot read it, they will not. Make it legible. And save time to edit and proofread. Repeated errors and patterns of errors show a student who does not care instead of someone who simply missed something. Your ethos plunges if the readers see you as someone who does not take their writing seriously.