Review two organizations — one for-profit and one

not-for-profit site of your choice — to gather data that you will use

to prepare a presentation of “best practices” and “recommendations” for

the organization, for the consumer, or for the industry at large.

The project will consist of these parts (specific instructions will follow):

PART I — BACKGROUND and LITERATURE

• Description of the organizations and their digital/social media platforms
• Overview and history of the industry using literature
• Frame the project (put it in context) — what were you hoping to find out?

PART II — DATA METHODS AND FINDINGS

• Data from your follow time frame (10-15 days) — use the content analysis process to review for content, behavior, interaction, style, etc.
• Explain how you approached the research process, how you collected data
• Include summary of data (chart/table)
• Describe and analyze your data in a narrative that discusses themes or patterns

PART III — CONCLUSIONS and RECOMMENDATIONS

• Your conclusions about the data and what these mean to the industry of social media practice
• Your best practices and recommendation drawn from what you learned

This project should be prepared as a Word Document with a cover page, table of contents. (700 words)

Evaluate your peer’s paper. Read the entire essay and mark any obvious mistakes, such as:
1. Typos (misspellings and inconsistent spaces, punctuation, formatting, etc.)
2. Misuse of quotes (less than 10 percent of the paper should be made up of quotes)
3. Sentences that are difficult for you to understand, for any reason
When you’re done, give your overall impression of the paper by answering the following questions. Make sure
you explain your opinion in each answer.
1. What is the essay’s biggest strength? What does your peer do well in the essay? (2-3 sentences)

2. What does your peer most need to work on in the essay? What does the essay lack, or what might the
essay do better? (2-3 sentences)

3. What is the essay’s claim, and what are all the supporting reasons for the claim? If you have trouble
answering this question, explain why it isn’t clear in the essay.
Claim:
Reasons:

4. What counterclaim does the essay address? How does your peer address the counterclaim? If you have
trouble answering this question, explain why it isn’t clear in the essay.

5. What is at least one example of evidence that your peer uses to back up one of his or her points? Is there a
section in the essay that doesn’t seem to have enough evidence, and where is it?

Using the 10K report for Boeing, describe the capital structure of the firm. How much of the firm is financed with debt versus equity? Please answer this question in dollar and percentage terms. Calculate the degree of financial leverage of the firm.

(Link for 10K report)

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/12927/0000…

Please cite all work

short paragraph answer

Pick two questions to answer from each of the questions below. – 600 words or less. Additional research on your part is required for this forum.

1. Why are contracts necessary when conducting procurements and what do they represent? Discuss the major types of procurement contracts. Is there any situation where you would not use a contract for procuring goods or services – please explain why or why not? Is a verbal agreement or a handshake considered a valid contract? Please include a minimum of one resource in addition to your required or optional reading/viewing resources.
2. Research an example of a bad procurement or poor procurement management in any organization (including from your experience). Describe the situation and explain why you believe this as an example of a bad procurement or poor procurement management. Be specific and remember, others are not familiar with the situation and need to understand the backstory. What made the procurement management ineffective and/or what were the factors that led to the poor outcome? Please include a minimum of one resource in addition to your required or optional reading/viewing resources.
3. Describe the different types of Fixed-price contracts and why you would use one over another. Who bears the most risk in this contract type – the ‘buyer’ or the ‘seller?’ Provide an example from your experience, from your research, or create a scenario to illustrate. Please include a minimum of two resources in addition to your required or optional reading/viewing resources.
4. Describe the different Cost-reimbursable contracts and why you would use one over another. Who bears the most risk in this contract type – the ‘buyer’ or the ‘seller?’ Provide an example from your experience, from your research, or create a scenario to illustrate. Please include a minimum of two resources in addition to your required or optional reading/viewing resources
5. Describe Time and Material contracts – please discuss any variations of these. When would you use this type of contract? Who bears the most risk in this contract type – the ‘buyer’ or the ‘seller?’ Provide an example from your experience, from your research, or create a scenario to illustrate. Please include a minimum of two resources in addition to your required or optional reading/viewing resources.
6. How do contracts create and/or mitigate (reduce) problems? Please explain and justify your response. What are some important items to consider when choosing a type of contract and are there certain provisions that should be included within the contract? As a project manager for a team who procured services from an external vendor, you experience noncompliance with delivery of these services. This is the first time you have experienced this issue, but the deadline has been missed by 2 weeks. Explain how you would handle the situation. Draw upon your experience and research to develop your response. Please include a minimum of one resource in addition to your required or optional reading/viewing resources.
7. What are some of the risks to the ‘buyer’ (client, customer) associated with the various procurement contracts? What are some of the risks to the ‘seller’ (contractor, supplier, vendor) associated with contracts to the contractor? What can you do in each role to mitigate risks before the contract is developed and signed? Please explain your response by including examples or scenarios. Please include a minimum of two resources in addition to your required or optional reading/viewing resources.
8. What goes into a “make-or-buy” analysis and when should this be conducted? Provide an example from your experience, from your research, or create a scenario to illustrate. What other “tools” are available to make this same determination in addition to a “make-or-buy” analysis? Please include a minimum of one resource in addition to your required or optional reading/viewing resources.