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PSYC Disorders of Early Development-Over the years, professionals and parents have engaged in what has been termed "The Mommy Wars," a battle between working and stay-at-home moms regarding which is best for child outcomes

Over the years, professionals and parents have engaged in what has been termed “The Mommy Wars,” a battle between working and stay-at-home moms regarding which is best for child outcomes. Using your knowledge of attachment and models of early child development, as well as using a biblical worldview, address your opinion regarding this battle. Specifically, reflect on the impact of daycare and/or different parenting styles of stay-at-home moms on attachment.
This article  offers additional research on the topic.
https://www-sciencedirect-com.ezproxy.liberty.edu/science/article/pii/S0193397307000664
For the Discussion Board Forums, you are required to write 1 thread and 1 critical analysis reply. You will discuss each topic with reference to course content and a biblical worldview. Present an opinion as well as a brief summary of research in the area (citing the textbook or other course content) and integrate your perspective with a biblical worldview (citing Scripture). There is not necessarily a right or wrong answer for these discussions; therefore, you will not be graded on your opinion but on the quality of your support of and reflection on that opinion.
Each thread must be at least 400 words and be written in current APA format. The thread must include 1 textbook or research citation and 1 biblical citation.

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For the Discussion Board Forums, you are required to write 1 thread and 1 critical analysis reply.
You will discuss each topic with reference to course content and a biblical worldview. Present an
opinion as well as a brief
summary of research in the area (citing the textbook or other course
content) and integrate your perspective with a biblical worldview (citing Scripture). There is not
necessarily a right or wrong answer for these discussions; therefore, you will not be gr
aded on
your opinion but on the quality of your support of and reflection on that opinion.
Each thread must be at least
400 words
and be written in current APA format. The thread must
include 1 textbook or research citation and 1 biblical citation.
DUE BY 2/8/18 7 pm eastern time
Over the years, professionals and parents have engaged in what has been termed “The Mommy
Wars,” a battle between working and stay-at-home moms regarding which is best for child
outcomes. Using your knowledge of attachment and models of early child development, as well
as using a biblical worldview, address your opinion regarding this battle. Specifically, reflect on
the impact of daycare and/or different parenting styles of stay-at-home moms on attachment.
This article offers additional research on the topic.
https://www-sciencedirect-com.ezproxy.liberty.edu/science/article/pii/S0193397307000664
For the Discussion Board Forums, you are required to write 1 thread and 1 critical analysis reply.
You will discuss each topic with reference to course content and a biblical worldview. Present an
opinion as well as a brief summary of research in the area (citing the textbook or other course
content) and integrate your perspective with a biblical worldview (citing Scripture). There is not
necessarily a right or wrong answer for these discussions; therefore, you will not be graded on
your opinion but on the quality of your support of and reflection on that opinion.
Each thread must be at least 400 words and be written in current APA format. The thread must
include 1 textbook or research citation and 1 biblical citation.

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TMGT 361 Assignment IV Instructions-Describe a SS problem solving situation.* Describe specifically what would happen at each step of your example (not just generically, what happens at each of the DMAIC steps)

IV. Problem solving and improvement.
a. Describe a SS problem solving situation.* Describe specifically what would happen at each step of your example (not just generically, what happens at each of the DMAIC steps).
b. Summarize Lean; what’s the point of Lean?
c. Prepare an activity network diagram.* The task length doesn’t have to be days.
d. Outline a project using PERT, CPM, or Gantt chart*.
e. Define the following terms per Taguchi and describe how they relate to one another: parameter, signal, noise, and robust. Pick a process and list the parameters of the process; which parameters are signals and which are noise?
 
TMGT 361
Assignment IV Instructions
Lecture/Essay
DMAIC
Though touted as something new (even though the acronym has been around for decades), DMAIC is one of many ways of stating the classic problem solving technique. This doesn’t diminish the importance of problem solving (labeled DMAIC or otherwise). Research shows that when you give food new titles more people will eat the food. Rebranding works with consumers. But hey, if you can’t get someone to eat their spinach but you can if you call it hand-foraged greens, go for it. DMAIC doesn’t do anything bad. Quite the opposite, by whatever name, Lean, Six Sigma, DMAIC, and others are important things to do. Maybe we need more rebranding to get more organizations to follow basic principles of management, quality, efficiency, and safety.
In case you didn’t know it, DMAIC stands for the following.
· Define: define the problem, the gap between what is and what should be.
· Measure: collect data. To make very clear the current state (the what is) and the desired state (the what is should be) to further refine the problem, and to collect other data to be used in analyzing, improving, and controlling.
· Analyze: analyze the data. This step focuses on zeroing in on what will likely eliminate the problem (close the gap). Various decision-making tools, e.g., Pareto, risk analysis, and others, are used to identify important quality characteristics (variables) and what the levels should be. Experiments are common at this stage, which usually require more measurement and data analysis.
· Improve: formulate and implement a plan to close the gap, to make the new current state match the desired state.
· Control: maintain the desired state. This requires a plan and monitoring.
All the problem solving schemes follow the pattern above. The number of steps and their names change but every problem solving method starts with a problem and works through the steps of figuring out what to do to solve the problem, then doing it, then checking to see how well the problem was solved.
Lean
Lean (L) is a view of efficiency that focuses on work vs waste. Work includes doing all the things that need done using the resources in the best way. Waste includes doing what doesn’t need done. In practice it is common to focus on the waste part of equation; the less waste, the more Lean. Assigning waste decreases efficiency and can lead to lower job satisfaction. You can also raise efficiency by doing more work. However, efficiency and job satisfaction declines when more work is required than can be accomplished. As Figure 1 displays, there is a human side to efficiency affected by management practice. The callouts are to highlight that you cannot arbitrarily state the denominator or numerator; you have to see what’s possible; you have to work at it. Also, values of the denominator and numerator and the methods to achieve those values are not all equal—there are legal, ethical, and physical constraints to what is possible.
Figure 1. Efficiency formula
Individuals have a limit. Can be structured to have greater or less job satisfaction.
Can result in lower job satisfaction by merely doing it.
In the context of LSS, work does not merely refer to activity or accomplishment. “Work” means adding customer-desired value. “Waste” is whatever is not work. Those definitions may appear simple but there are several nuances with important ramifications that must be understood in order to be more efficient. Adding means that something was transformed; there was some kind of change. If an activity or the use of a resource does not add something, it cannot be work; it must be waste. For example, waiting that does not produce a change cannot be work, therefore, it must be waste.
Customer-desired means that the end-consumer wanted it and was willing to pay more for it. Though viewing internal personnel as consumers can be a useful metaphor, the true consumers are outside the organization. Regardless of a manager’s desires, an organization’s goals, or laws or regulations, if the end-consumer does not desire it, it is waste.
Desired means that customer wants it (not must accept it nor has no better choice). Value means that the thing is something that the customer wants to pay for; it has an economic value. The thing can take many forms, e.g., a product purchased or leased, a result, an experience, a guarantee of future use, an option, insurance against an event, and many others. The best evidence of desire is when the customer offers to pay for it, e.g., the customer offers to pay for an additional feature or function. If the customer doesn’t want to bid for it, it is a waste. Pay doesn’t have to be money; the customer can pay by trade, or with time, attention, or other personal resource.
Following is a taxonomy of typical work and waste categories. The callouts provide advice about how to increase the work and reduce the waste.
Focus on quality, standardization, and efficiency.
Just quit doing it!
Short of being fired, say no!
Eliminate by recognizing.
Activity Network Diagram (AND)
The book does a good job of explaining an AND. I want to point out that it is a type of flow chart that has the following added to the activity nodes.
· Earliest and latest times an activity can start.
· Earliest and latest times an activity can finish.

· The time it takes to perform the activity.

From the above, it is possible to determine the critical path, the longest time path through the chart/network when every activity on that path happens as soon as possible. The critical path tell you or helps you with the following.

· Defines how quickly it is possible to complete the process.

· By identifying the critical path, tells you what cannot be delayed if you want to finish as soon as possible.

· Tells you how much slack or delay you can have for activities not on the critical path.

· Helps you analyze if you can crash (speed up) some activities to finish sooner. Note that it only makes sense to crash the critical path. Note that crashing requires expending more resources (money, overtime, new equipment, outsourcing, etc.). A cost-benefit analysis is needed to determine if crashing is worth it. Note that crashing the critical path can create a new critical path (which may or may not be able to be crashed or may or may not be worth crashing).

Project Planning Charts

PERT, Gantt, CPM (which is essentially an AND chart), and many other planning charts are all variants of the basic flow chart. For some, the nodes are activities; for some the nodes are milestones or results. Some focus on the progress of the project, e.g., a snapshot of the actual progress or various steps/nodes compared to the planned progress. Often, more than one chart is used. A Gantt, is often used to chart progress and a PERT or AND is used to show the path. Though the charts are very useful and can contain a lot of information in themselves, a complete plan will have rationale, budget, and other elements as discussed in a previous assignment.

Taguchi

Taguchi’s main contribution is to realize, incorporate into quality engineering, and to teach the following.

· Tolerancing is really about hitting the target. There is greater quality loss the more the target is missed. The target (the nominal value) is the aim.

· Some targets are more is better, some are less is better, some are nominal is best. But even when more or less is better, there is usually a target.

· Processes have parameters (characteristics, variables, factors). Designing a product or process is essentially figuring out what the values (levels) of the parameters should be.

· Some parameters are more important than others.

· The value of some parameters are harder to achieve or control than others.

· Some parameters have a big influence on other parameters.

· Some variables outside of the system (noise, environmental factors) have a big influence on parameters of the process.

· It is often possible to control certain parameters (sometimes easily, sometimes not so easy; easy is the goal) to make a process robust, i.e., where the noise factors have less or little affect and you do not have to be as careful with other process parameters.

Initial Post

See the general assignment instructions for information about the quality and quantity expectations and evaluation criteria.

IV. Problem solving and improvement.

a. Describe a SS problem solving situation.* Describe specifically what would happen at each step of your example (not just generically, what happens at each of the DMAIC steps).

b. Summarize Lean; what’s the point of Lean?

c. Prepare an activity network diagram.* The task length doesn’t have to be days.

d. Outline a project using PERT, CPM, or Gantt chart*.

e. Define the following terms per Taguchi and describe how they relate to one another: parameter, signal, noise, and robust. Pick a process and list the parameters of the process; which parameters are signals and which are noise?

*Remember that though you are supposed to learn from the book and other sources, you are to use your own experiences and real life examples to supply information for the assignment. For any assignment, you cannot merely copy or pattern your example after an internet or text book example (unless you are instructed to do so).

For a, c, and d above, you have to use a real situation with which you are familiar (and not copy or pattern something from the internet or any other source).

Activity

Work

(value-added)

Waste

(non value-added)

Recognized

Unrecognized

Mandated

Voluntary

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Evaluating and Sustaining Improvement-You evaluate measurement mechanisms and explore strategies that leadership and improvement teams can use to sustain improvement efforts.

Evaluating and Sustaining Improvement
The downfall of many quality improvement initiatives is the inability to sustain improvements. Last week, you considered the use of evidence-based practice models as a method for sustaining practice changes to improve quality. This week’s Discussion builds on those concepts of sustainability. You evaluate measurement mechanisms and explore strategies that leadership and improvement teams can use to sustain improvement efforts.
To prepare:

  • Review      the evaluation tools presented in the Learning Resources and how the tools      can be used to promote sustainability.
  • Select      a measurement mechanism that can be used to evaluate your quality      improvement initiative. You may wish to conduct additional research on the      use of measurement mechanisms to sustain outcomes of improvement      initiatives.
  • Consider      the influence of leadership and improvement teams in sustaining      improvement efforts. Ask yourself: What specific strategies can leaders      and my improvement team use to sustain our improvement initiative?

By tomorrow Wednesday February 7, 2018 by 12 noon, post a minimum of 550 words essay in APA format with at least 2 references from the list below. Include the levels one headings as numbered below:
post a cohesive scholarly response that addresses the following:
1) Evaluate the influence of leadership and improvement teams in sustaining improvement efforts.
2) Present a succinct analysis of three or more strategies leaders and teams can use in your response.
Required Readings
Richardson, A., & Storr, J. (2010). Patient safety: A literative review on the impact of nursing empowerment, leadership and collaboration [corrected] [published erratum appears in INT NURS REV 2010 Mar;57(1):158]. International Nursing Review, 57(1), 12–21. doi:10.1111/j.1466-7657.2009.00757.x 
This article analyzes how nurses can improve patient safety. It identifies certain knowledge gaps that inhibit nurses’ ability to improve patient safety that must be addressed before they can effectively make contributions.
Bigelow, L., Wolkowski, C., Baskin, L., & Gorko, M. (2010). Lean Six Sigma: Sustaining the gains in a hospital laboratory. Clinical Leadership & Management Review, 24(3), 1–14.
In this article, a health care organization uses Lean Six Sigma to improve performance, but it does not initially achieve the desired results. It then utilizes an Operational Performance Improvement office from within the organization to receive better training in Lean Six Sigma and it is finally able to improve performance.
Murphree, P., Vath, R. R., & Daigle, L. (2011). Sustaining Lean Six Sigma projects in health care. Physician Executive, 37(1), 44–48.
The authors of this article consider ways to keep Lean Six Sigma projects operating instead of closing them. They distinguish between closing and controlling, the latter being the last phase in Lean Six Sigma. According to the authors, many organizations close Lean Six Sigma projects when they should be controlling them.
Required Media
Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2011). Organizational and systems leadership for quality improvement: Organizational change. Baltimore: Author.
Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 10 minutes.
This video examines factors that enhance and impede organizational change. Dr. Wooden and Dr. Freshman discuss change models that can be used to manage the change process and to assist individuals through the transition period

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Psychology of Disaster Final Essays Week 8 Final Essay Exam-The psychological phases of disaster response provide a useful framework for behavioral health providers and other agency professionals and community members to understand the psychological and emotional transitions throughout the disaster recovery process.

Psychology of Disaster Final Essays

Week 8 Final Essay Exam
Each response must be a minimum of 200 words, include APA formatted, in-text citations, and a full reference list at the end of each response. For assistance and resources on APA formatting style.
The total possible points for the Essay Exam is 200; each short essay response is worth 50 points. Please see the assignment rubric for complete point breakdown and contact your professor with additional questions or concerns.
1. The psychological phases of disaster response provide a useful framework for behavioral health providers and other agency professionals and community members to understand the psychological and emotional transitions throughout the disaster recovery process.

· Below, identify and explain, with detail, a disaster response phase.

· Select a disaster, either historic or modern day, and describe the selected psychological phase of disaster response exemplified in the chosen disaster.

 

 

1. Individuals present with physical complaints more in the case of chemical or biological events, these are often seen secondary to any psychological symptoms that may be present.

· Discuss the phenomenon that is described above and how effective disaster behavioral health methods can be used to mitigate the strain on resources in disaster response circumstances when such presentations emerge.

 

 

1. Discuss the roles of risk and protective factors in disaster resilience as they are advanced in resiliency theory. Explain the most notable differences that might be observed in disaster response situations by behavioral health providers applying ideals of resiliency theory. Share your thoughts on whether resiliency theory offers an enhanced approach to disaster recovery for most communities.

 

 

 

1. Social support is a critical element in the disaster recovery process for each affected individual. Indeed, social support serves as a significant protective factor against PTSD and other psychological effects of disaster.

· Discuss the concept of the social support network and its importance to the larger community following a disaster event.

· How do benefits of the social support network compare to those of the social support seen at the individual level?

 

 

 

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Week 7 Psychology of Disaster Course Project-Secondary Traumatic Stress (Effects of disasters on first responders/BH providers)

Week 7 Psychology of Disaster Course Project
Many topics of interest and importance are covered during the course; Week 7, especially, provides an opportunity to explore several, often overlooked topics that are critical to our understanding in the discussion of the psychology of disaster.
For your course project, you are tasked with selecting one of the following areas, presented during week seven of the course, and examining a disaster event, using the selected area as the foundation of your work. The areas from which you may select include:
· Secondary Traumatic Stress (Effects of disasters on first responders/BH providers)
· Environmental Vulnerabilities and Considerations
· Critical Infrastructure Failures
· Disaster in School Environments
· In a 10 to 15 slide PowerPoint presentation, identify a recent disaster event (within the most recent 10 years), providing a description of the major events of the disaster leading up to, during, and after the event, to the extent possible.
· Incorporating the selected area above, discuss, with detail and support, how the area is illustrated in the disaster event.
· Explore how the selected element influenced disaster response efforts.
· Provide details of the ways in which these influences were observed.
· Discuss any barriers presented by the selected element in providing effectual behavioral health interventions.
· Prepare a plan describing how the challenges experienced might be more effectively navigated using the principles of disaster behavioral health learned throughout the course.
· Share the steps and resources you would deploy to overcome or avoid the challenges faced in the selected element.
In developing your work, be sure to rely upon academic, scholarly sources to support the definitions and recommendations provided. Ensure the plan presented is based upon evidenced based practices established in the field as effective in addressing psychological needs in disaster settings.
Work should be submitted in a PowerPoint file or other compatible file, and be 10 to 15 slides in length, excluding the required title slide and separate reference slide. Detailed speaker notes should accompany slides containing mostly bullet point data to include the details expected in the instructions above.
Scholarly sources should be cited both in-text and on the reference page of the submission. A minimum of three academic, scholarly sources are required to be cited in the work.

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Comprehensive Health Assessment-URINARY TRACT INFECTION (UTI

Select a patient that you examined during the last four weeks. With this patient in mind, address the following in a SOAP Note:

  • Subjective: What details did the patient provide regarding or her personal and medical history?
  • Objective: What observations did you make during the physical assessment?
  • Assessment: What were your differential diagnoses? Provide a minimum of three possible diagnoses. List them from highest priority to lowest priority. What was your primary diagnosis and why?
  • Plan: What was your plan for diagnostics and primary diagnosis? What was your plan for treatment and management, including alternative therapies? Include pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic treatments, alternative therapies, and follow-up parameters, as well as a rationale for this treatment and management plan.
  • Reflection notes: What would you do differently in a similar patient evaluation?

(THE TOPIC HERE IS URINARY TRACT INFECTION (UTI) )
please use this format
 
Comprehensive SOAP Template
Patient Initials:  Age:  Gender: F
Introduction –Purpose:
SUBJECTIVE DATA: 
Chief Complaint (CC):
History of Present Illness (HPI): 
Medications: 
Allergies: Seafood, iodine
Past Medical History (PMH):
Past Surgical History (PSH): Denies.
Sexual/Reproductive History (Obstetric):
Personal/Social History:
Immunization History and Preventive Care: 
Significant Family History:
.
Review of Systems: 
General:
HEENT:
Respiratory:
Cardiovascular:
Breasts: 
Gastrointestinal:
Genitourinary:
Musculoskeletal:
Psychiatric:
Neurological:
Dermatological:
Hematological and Lymphatic:
Endocrine:
Allergy and Immunology:
OBJECTIVE DATA: 
Physical Exam:
Vital signs:
General appearance:
HEENT: 
Neck: 
Lymphatics: 
Breasts: 
Chest:
Heart: 
Abdomen: 
Neurological:
Musculoskeletal:
Extremities:
Skin:
Labs, X-rays, and Diagnostics
ASSESSMENT:
Priority Diagnosis 
Differential Diagnosis
For each priority diagnosis, list at least three differential diagnoses, each of which must be supported with evidence and guidelines. For holistic care, you need to include previous diagnoses and indicate whether these are controlled or not controlled. These should also be included in your treatment plan.
PLAN:
Treatment Plan: If applicable, include both pharmacological and non-pharmacological strategies, alternative therapies, follow-up recommendations, referrals, consultations, and any additional labs, x-ray, or other diagnostics. Support the treatment plan with evidence and guidelines.
Health Promotion: Include exercise, diet, and safety recommendations, as well as any other health promotion strategies for the patient/family. Support the health promotion recommendations and strategies with evidence and guidelines.
Disease Prevention: As appropriate for the patient’s age, include disease prevention recommendations and strategies such as fasting lipid profile, mammography, colonoscopy, immunizations, etc. Support the disease prevention recommendations and strategies with evidence and guidelines.
REFLECTION:Reflect on your clinical experience, and consider the following questions: What did you learn from this experience? What would you do differently? Do you agree with your preceptor based on the evidence?
 

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Organizational Communication-HRMN302

Activity 1: Informative Speech
Write a short informative speech, just two pages long, using any one of the following speech types: (1) explanation, (2) report, (3) description, or (4) demonstration. You want to draw on the concepts in Chapter 13 to guide your efforts.
Activity 2: Persuasive Speech
Write a short persuasive speech, just two pages long, using any one of the following five speech types: (1) stimulate, (2) convince, (3) call to action, (4) increase consideration, or (5) develop tolerance of alternate perspectives. Use the Principles of Persuasion in Chapter 14 to develop your speech.

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o conduct a global industry comparative analysis that will help develop the strategy for expanding your organization's products into a new country (Netherlands)

Your task is to conduct a global industry comparative analysis that will help develop the strategy for expanding your organization’s products into a new country (Netherlands). Note that the term products will refer to products, services, or a combination of the two.
In this fictional market expansion, your analysis will examine a real-life organization. To accomplish this task, you need to identify and assess the risks that your organization may encounter, such as market barriers and competition, as well as opportunities for success in the selected country. As the general manager for strategy, you have been tasked with the following:
· Analyze your organization’s resources and capabilities (organization profile).
· Evaluate the external environment, specifically the industry in which your organization operates (industry analysis).
· Select a new country as a market for expanding your organization’s products (country risk assessment). You will select one country from the provided list and assess the risks associated with doing business in that country, including risks presented by its economic, political, and cultural environments.
Based on your research, in three weeks you will make a recommendation to your senior vice president and CEO on expanding into this new market. Be sure to budget enough time for each of the 13 steps.
When you submit your project, your work will be evaluated using the competencies listed below. You can use the list below to self-check your work before submission.
Subject: targetting an 8-10% annual revenue increase
Hi,
Thanks for taking on this task for me. Here are the details—
This project will have three parts. Your first task is to conduct a thorough analysis of our resources and capabilities. This organization profile needs to address our existing strategy, people, skill sets, and what we can do to increase our market share and profitability. We know we won’t be able to make that 8 percent target domestically, so we need to set up shop overseas and tap into foreign customers. We’ll need a strategy, an analysis of the global competitors trading in our target market today, an overview of potential stakeholders, and an evaluation of our own capabilities. Finally, we must lay the analytical groundwork for what could become a fully developed business plan.
Although this is a major initiative, keep in mind that cost reduction is important. Assess what resources and personnel in the organization today can facilitate this move.
The second part of this project is to conduct an industry analysis to evaluate the external environment, including international competitors across our industry. How difficult will it be to enter a new international market from a position of strength? What should we produce that is both attractive to our customers and competitive in the new market? Are there any legal and regulatory issues we need to be aware of in the United States or abroad? In short, how can we best compete against those firms already doing business in our proposed area? How do we differentiate ourselves from them? What can we produce that our new country’s customers will want to buy? What about the potential to export from that country?
Finally, we’ll need a new country risk assessment. Which is the best country to expand into? Our strategy people have created a list of possibilities, but you will direct the analysis. It will be a new market for us—do not assume we have any infrastructure there. What are the risks in the proposed area and how can we mitigate those risks?
We need to be aware of legal, cultural, and market forces. You can recommend an expansion of our products into your chosen country, establish new value-chain activities, or strategize some combination of the two. That’s your call. You need to choose a country that will be the best fit for what we do and who we are.
Keep in mind that cost reduction is important. Let’s also look at countries that don’t demand wholesale re-engineering of our organizational processes. We need to expand, but let’s minimize risk and avoid needless costs where we can.
I’d like to see your report in three weeks.
Best,
Gustavo
1. Executive summary (see note below). 1 page. (Netherlands).
o summarizes the results of your analysis and how you arrived at the recommendation.
o What benefit can the company expect from this finding?
o What risk does this finding expose?
o What opportunity does this finding reveal?
o How does this finding relate to the ultimate success of what is being proposed?
2. Introduction (first page of paper body) 1-2 pages.
o states the purpose of the paper
o tells what the paper will do
o introduces the industry, country, and organization by name
Organization profile. 6–7 pages.
1. Analyzing organization’s resources and capabilities
· choice of organization
· organization profile
· Introduce the organization. What business is it in? For help, see Finding Company Information.
· Describe the company’s recent financial performance. Consult Finding a Company’s Annual Report for help.
· State where the organization is located and who its major customers are.
· Provide a brief history of the organization.
· State the size of the organization in terms of employees and revenues.
· Describe the organizational structure and identify major roles or functions of key individuals in the organization. For help, read Finding a Company’s Leadership Information
· strategy and competitive position of the organization
· organization’s competitive strategy statement
· market and financial performance
Industry analysis. 6–7 pages.
Understanding your organization’s industry
o trends in your industry
o Perform a detailed assessment of your organization’s current business strategy and recommend specific actions to gain and sustaining superior performance in relation to your organization’s competitors.
o Locate and review your organizations’s mission, vision, and core values. Review Global Strategy as Business Model Change. Then, apply what you have read to aid your evaluation of the strategic intent of your organization.
o Determine the strengths and weaknesses of your organization. In addition, determine the core competencies your organization can build on to create competitive advantage in the global environment. Read Global Competitive Advantage.
o Provide a clear picture of the organization’s operations (value chain), products, and position in the marketplace. Provide a summary of the core competencies, sales history, corporate structure, current leadership of the organization, and its global and domestic operations.
o analysis using Porter’s five forces Review and apply Porter’s five forces model to your analysis. Tailor the Porter model to the industry and integrate the complete figure of the model within the narrative of the report. What is the competitive structure of the industry? Describe the following:
· Entry barriers—How difficult is it to enter this industry? Are there several players competing for profitability? Are there significant threats of new entrants?
· Intensity of rivalry—Identify your organization’s top three competitors. Discuss industry rivalry. Is competition intense?
· Bargaining power of buyers—Who are the buyers in this industry? What kind of influence do buyers have on the competitors in the industry? Globalization makes it easier for buyers to source products worldwide. Is this the case in this industry?
· Bargaining power of suppliers—Provide a profile of the suppliers. Suppliers with significant industry influence can play a major role in the marketplace. For instance, DeBeers, the world’s leading supplier of diamonds, has enormous bargaining power in the diamond industry.
· Threat of substitutes—Carefully distinguish between similar products in the same industry. A substitute product for eye glasses would be contact lenses. Train travel is a substitute for travelling by car.
o
Country risk assessment. 1 page.
o Gustavo is seeking your advice regarding the international expansion and global market opportunity assessment. Review the blueprint for international expansion in the business journal article, Going International.
o You should also consider principles of international strategy for doing business in your selected country. What products are good candidates for generating additional revenue for your organization from expansion into the selected country? Please provide a detailed analysis as per final report format guidelines.
Analyzing country’s external environment 6-8 pages.
o selection of a new country for market expansion
o international expansion and global market opportunity assessment
o PESTEL analysis- do a pastel analysis
o global value chain: cultural issuesInclude information about the following cultural issues in your analysis:
· What cultural differences are likely to influence your organization’s operations (e.g., marketing, human resources, etc.) in this country? For background and guidance, consult International Cultural Differences and read about the impact of culture on best-practice production and operations management.
· Would your organization’s products need to be localized or marketed differently in this country? Explain why or why not. See Conducting Market Research for help.
· Are there any issues that your organization’s corporate social responsibility or compliance program may need to address while operating in this country?
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Conclusion
o One- or two-page summary of your recommendations and your rationale

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Formal Letter-Think of a realistic problem/situation in your job that would require you to write a formal letter. The letter's audience is a specific person in another organization

1. Formal Letter

Think of a realistic problem/situation in your job that would require you to write a formal letter. The letter’s audience is a specific person in another organization.
Write a formal letter (minimum one full page; maximum two pages) to that person, and request a specific action. Your letter should be fairly detailed concerning the scenario and specific technology you’re writing about.
Here are some possible scenarios based on the Knoy reading assignment:

  • seek cooperation from another organization on a technology-specific project
  • provide information to see if another organization is compatible with yours
  • suggest ways to start a cooperative venture
  • suggest/set up a visit from your organization to another organization (or vice versa)
  • request that your organization be included on a vendor’s list
  • set up details of a training program for outsiders involving technological matters
  • request information about another organization’s technology
  • provide information about your organization’s technology to an interested outside party
  • report project status to a client who contracted your organization to run a project