What is an IT project management methodology? Why do organizations need to tailor project management concepts, to create their own methodologies? When should you use a more prescriptive or agile approach? What are some pros and cons of each approach?
Please respond to the following discussion topic and submit it to the discussion forum as a single post. Your initial post should be 200 words in length.
Purpose of Assignment
The purpose of this assignment is to give learners hands on experience working, mission, and vision statements and to increase learner’s knowledge of an organization’s core competencies.
Assignment Steps
Resources: Management: A Practical Introduction, Table 6.1; chosen organization’s mission, vision, and value statements, and strategic plan, BLS Industries at a Glance.
Examine the mission and vision statements of your place of employment or an organization with which you are familiar. Then, use the internet to locate and examine the mission and vision statement of a comparable organization.
Use the Mission and Vision Comparison Table provided to compare your organization’s mission and vision statement to the one you found on the internet.
Create a 1,400-word analysis including the following:
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Now that you have defined your goals and conducted your situation analysis, it’s time to create a strategy to help you to achieve your goals. Next, you will complete your Marketing Strategy. In the Marketing Strategy, the marketing manager defines the company’s strategies for increasing sales and gaining a competitive advantage.
Complete Marketing Strategy by providing 1-2 paragraphs about each of the following items:
Marketing Strategy
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Unit 1 Assignment
Assertiveness:
Choose the best-fit response for each of the four questions in the assessment. Once you have chosen one response per question, support your choices with real-world experiences either from the workplace or other group-related situations.
The paper should be 2–3 pages in length, not including the title and reference pages. Use the current edition APA format, and citation style.
Assignment Checklist:
Unit 2 Assignment 1: The Hanston Township Crisis Case Study
You have been practicing with analyzing your own strengths and weaknesses as regards being able to effectively function in a team. Now you will apply what you have learned to analyze a case scenario.
Please read the Case Studyand prepare an APA formatted 2–3-page paper discussing the following:
Assignment 1 Checklist:
Remember to use the current edition APA edition format and citation style. Include a formal title page, 2–3 full written pages for the body if the paper, and a reference page (there should be a reference for each citation.)
Please write a
paragraph with your opinion based on the text bellow. Please include citations
and references in case you need to used for the question.
A premature birth is when a baby is born before 37 weeks of completed pregnancy. A full-term pregnancy occurs at 40 weeks. Almost 1 of every 10 infants born in the United States are premature, or preemies (MedlinePlus). When babies are born prematurely they weigh less then full-term babies and can also have health problems to include breathing problems, feeding difficulties, cerebral palsy, vision and hearing problems, and developmental delays (MedlinePlus). Having premature babies is even more of a challenge for those with different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. According to Health Literacy and Patient Safety: Help Patients Understand from the YouTube Channel, “1 in 5 patients lack literacy skills and the ability to read, understand, and act on medical information”. In many cases, this applies to many diverse patients from ethnic backgrounds other than white patients. The video goes on to state a way to help patients with literacy problems is to create a “shame-free environment”, to make all patients feel more comfortable. In some cases, they lack financial resources, have lower educational levels, and minimal support from family or friends. This creates even more problems for these families trying to take care of a premature baby, already faced with many challenges. Cultural competency includes the attitudes, knowledge, and skills necessary for providing quality care to diverse populations (Jarvis, 2016). Physicians must consider the cultures of all mothers and their backgrounds when giving them education on caring for babies born prematurely. The March of Dimes website has data on premature births based on race and ethnicity from the years 2013-2015. They are as follows:
American Indian/Alaskan Native 8.2%
White 9.2
Hispanics 9.4
Asian/Pacific Islander 10.9
Blacks 13.7
In the state of Nevada, blacks are 46% higher to have a preterm baby than any other woman. In addition to the many medical problems previously mentioned with premature babies, many of these parents may not have medical insurance or money to properly get adequate medical attention or nutrition for these babies. Every year, the March of Dimes has a walk called “March for Babies” to raise money for babies that are premature or have birth defects. One example of a family they help and listed on their website is the McBrides family that is black and had a premature baby born at 25 weeks and 4 days. The baby weighed 1 pound, 11 ounces at birth and spent 10 weeks in the in NICU before being transferred to a secondary hospital for more neurological care. This is an example of the emotional and financial strain put on many families that have premature babies. In the short-term, parents with different ethnic and cultural backgrounds must find ways to care for their premature baby. After leaving the hospital they must see their doctor as soon as possible for a follow up checkup. Talk to their doctor about ways to feed their baby. Breastfeeding is the best food for babies and if mom can’t or won’t breastfeed, ask the doctor where they can get help for donations for baby food. Parents need to also monitor the babies weight, especially in the first few months. It may take time before they catch up to the weight of full-term babies. Parents should check their vision and hearing often. Finally, parents need to stay up to date with the baby’s immunizations. In the long-term, parents need to continue to monitor their child’s growth and development. The child’s educational level may be less and consideration to hold the child back a grade may be a possibility. Most importantly, preterm babies are more susceptible to diseases and it is imperative to take the child for doctor visits and checkups. Cerebral palsy occurs higher in preterm babies. A big challenge for these families is the financial burden that comes with the medical bills. Families need to find local resources in their communities for help. Places for help would be local shelters, WIC programs, March of dimes, etc.
A local support service for families of premature babies in the Las Vegas area is the March of Dimes: Here is a link there have for supporting these families:
https://www.marchforbabies.org/EventInfo?EventID=19722
The March of Dimes helps many families in the Las Vegas community. Donations raised go to many local families with monetary needs for food or medical bills. Donations also help go towards research for Prematurity Research Centers to find solutions to the biggest health threats for these families.
References
Health Literacy and Patient Safety: Help Patients Understand. (2010) YouTube Channel.
Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGtTZ_vxjyA
Jarvis, Carolyn, (2016). Physical Examination and Health Assessment. 7th Edition. St.
Louis, MO: Elsevier.
Medline Plus: Trusted Health Information for You. Retrieved from:
https://medlineplus.gov/prematurebabies.html
March of Dimes: A Fighting Chance for every Baby. Retrieved from:
https://www.marchofdimes.org/peristats/tools/reportcard.aspx?frmodrc=1®=32
Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:
Social media provides many advantages and opportunities for multi-national businesses to connect with their customers. In responding to the following, reflect on the use of social media to develop the coffee franchises in each country. Write at least 3 paragraphs on the following:
You will wright a three-page play with the following criteria:
1.Use only two characters. Make sure the protagonist/antagonist relationship is clear. With only two characters, this should be easy to do.
2.Follow PASTO. Make sure every element is represented.
3.Use 12-point font, one inch margins on all sides, and double-space (publisher’s format, like the plays in your text).
I will attach my first part of my paper(which is part 1 that needs nothing done to it) all that needs to be added to the paper is part 2!
Assignment 4: Persuasive Paper Part 2: Solution and Advantages
Due Week 7 and worth 200 points
Using feedback from your professor and classmates, revise Part 1 and develop the solution and identify the advantages of the solution. Note: The disadvantages or challenges with your answers will be in Part 3.
Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:
Provide Part I: Revision of A Problem Exists (3-4 pages)
1. Revise, using feedback from the professor and classmates, your Persuasive Paper Part I: A Problem Exists.
Develop Part 2: Solution to Problem and Advantages (3-4 pages for 6-8 pages total)
2. Include a defensible, relevant thesis statement clearly in the first paragraph. (The thesis statement may need to be modified to reflect added information and purpose of this part.)
3. Explain a detailed, viable solution that supports your thesis. This should be one or two (1-2) paragraphs.
4. State, explain, and support the first advantage (economic, social, political, environmental, social, equitable, ethical/moral, etc.) to your solution. This should be one or two (1-2) paragraphs.
5. State, explain, and support the second advantage (economic, social, political, environmental, social, equitable, ethical/moral, etc.) to your solution. This should be one or two (1-2) paragraphs.
6. State, explain, and support the third (and fourth if desired) advantage (economic, social, political, environmental, social, equitable, ethical/moral, etc.) to your solution. This should be one or two (1-2) paragraphs.
7. Use effective transitional words, phrases, and sentences.
8. Provide a concluding paragraph / transitional paragraph that summarizes the proposed solution and its advantages.
9. Develop a coherently structured paper with an introduction, body, and conclusion.
10. Use one (1) or more rhetorical strategies (ethos, logos, pathos) to explain advantages.
11. Support advantage claims with at least three (3) additional quality relevant references. Use at least six (6) total for Parts 1 and 2. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.
Look up the definitions listed below. Several of them can be found at http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/glossary-of-critical-thinking-terms/496, select one quality you feel you possess and describe how you embody this quality.Characteristics of Fair-Minded Thinkers:
HU260 Week 3 Lecture
Welcome to critical thinking, week three!
Intellectual autonomy is a big part of critical thinking. It means having rational control of one’s beliefs, values and inferences. The ideal of critical thinking is to learn to think for oneself to gain command over one’s thought processes. This means that you have developed and studied topic or industry enough that you’re comfortable and can come to a place where you can have your own beliefs, values and inferences. That doesn’t mean that you are biased. It means that you have studied the topic and you have a belief about what should be done to create a solution that might be needed relating to the topic. You have an opinion about which direction people should go as far as different choices around a topic. It’s not coming with an uneducated bias based only in experience. It’s coming with an understanding of the topic after having studied it in depth. It is being able to infer a solution, direction or an argument based from a higher level of thought and opinion. That comes from an academic background. That comes from being part of an industry for a while and having a deep understanding of it before any inferences or beliefs are made about it.
This leads to intellectual courage which is the willingness to face and fairly assess ideas, beliefs or viewpoints to which we have not given a serious hearing, regardless of our strong negative reactions to them. This means that you may feel very passionately about the topic you are exploring. You may feel that you are right and that the arguments and thinking critical thinking that you’re presenting are 100% percent true and correct to be based upon a lot of academic knowledge. But you still will have the willingness to face and fairly assess differing beliefs and viewpoints. Mostly because you just have not really given that viewpoint or belief a serious hearing or serious time to really look into it. It’s not a seeing it as you’re wrong or right but seeing the gray area, the in between area, where different ideas can help and support each other. This is how science works. We could not have developed so many different things if scientists were not open to their theories being disproven. That’s how theories are tested, how they stand up and how they are adopted by so many people. They have considered all angles and options that might happen of the idea with a study or with a formula, etc. They have to consider the other side they have to consider side effects. That’s the only way you can really understand and know what you’re presenting is right. If you don’t consider the other side then it is not really intellectual discourse. you really need to be open and have the courage to face the possibility that maybe what you put out is not 100% correct and you may need to revamp what you’ve been doing based on new information. Intellectual courage is a big part of being respected and of help in your industries.
Intellectual empathy is an understanding the need to imaginatively put oneself in the place of others to genuinely understand them. You must recognize our egocentric tendency to identify truth with our immediate perceptions or long-standing beliefs. We need to understand where other people are coming from in their arguments and be able to identify with them. So our work can be of use to others we need to understand where they’re coming from and what information that they may need surrounding a topic to help them either understands it or adopt it to make it a helpful part of their life.
Intellectual humility is awareness of the limits of one’s knowledge, including sensitivity to circumstances in which one’s native egocentrism is likely to function self-deceptively; sensitivity to bias and prejudice in, and limitations of one’s viewpoint. It’s being able to know that you don’t know it all and there will always be something more to learn. This is great because you want to keep developing your ideas, theories and arguments. We tend to have a desire to know it all and be right about what we are saying and discussing. It gives us a real feeling of control when we know what’s right and what’s wrong. but if it’s in this kind of field, in this kind of work, you need to be able to be more fluid than that and be open to other ideas, thoughts, beliefs, opinions, theories and arguments that are out there. This will help keep you from becoming rigid and limited in what you are presenting. If you become rigid everyone else will just pass you by. Things are always growing and changing. There is always new information coming out and you have to be able to roll with the times and grow. You need to be able to grow your theories and arguments in the process as well. Intellectual integrity is the recognition of the need to be true to one’s own thinking, to be consistent in the intellectual standards one applies, to hold oneself to the same rigorous standards of evidence and proof to which one holds one’s antagonists and to practice what one advocates for others. You need to do be able to stand behind what you have said. But you also need to make sure that you open yourself to the standards that you’re holding everybody else to. You need to make sure that you have a certain set of values and standards about what you are presenting and doing. You need to apply that set of standards not only to people who are your adversaries are people but also apply them to yourself and your work. You need to have evidence and proof of your points, opinions and theories just as you would expect of other people who are also presenting in your topic or in your field. You need to be sure that your work holds up and that you have a sense of integrity so you can stand behind it. You don’t want to fall like a house of cards and someone else comes in and starts picking apart your argument. Because that’s what all is in a critical thinking. It is about challenging each other on some levels and sort of keeping an eye at each other’s integrity standard.
Intellectual perseverance is the willingness and consciousness of the need to pursue intellectual insights and truths despite difficulties, obstacles and frustrations; the firm adherence to rational principles despite irrational opposition of others; a sense of the need to struggle with confusion and unsettled questions over extended period of time. You need to be able to first skip through all of the difficulties and obstacles just from trying to find the information you need to develop your argument. You need to sift through that and make sure you are using sources that are up to standards and be very critical of that as you’re going. Then you need to be able to deal with irrational opposition. There will always be someone willing to just oppose you that may not necessarily have a set of standards or solid evidence. They may just be coming from an emotional reaction to what you’re saying. They may just be going off their personal bias, beliefs and experiences and they may not be making much sense. They may even get more press or be in front of people more than you. So you need to know that your work stands up well and be able to, in some ways defend what you have presented. You need to have the perseverance to know what you have done stands on its own and to also stand up for it. Then is there also may be a sense of unsettled questions that come up later after you have presented your opinion. Say you presented an argument and it’s really good it, it stands up well. Someone else comes out with something that somewhat opposes your argument. That can lead you to question everything that you have presented your argument. You need to be able to work through that and see if there really are holes in your argument now that this new information has been brought out. You need to revise what you’ve done and be able to do that without a lot of emotional involvement, but be able to move and change with the times. Or perhaps it doesn’t really poke holes in your argument. It’s the same thing, just presented in a different way. That happens a lot as well. You just need to be grounded and centered enough to hear the opposition for what it is and be able to neutrally look at it, examine it and see how it affects your previous work, if at all.
With an intellectual sense of justice you need to have the willingness and consciousness of the need to entertain all viewpoints sympathetically and assess. Them with the same intellectual standards, without reference to one’s own feelings or vested interests. You need to see you be able in the beginning to use sources that hold up to this. That always helps. But you want to consider other opinions and ideas just to see how it could affect your argument or not. You should entertain them with intellectual standards because some of them may just be an emotional response. You don’t want to waste a lot of time with every single opinion and belief in things about a topic. You want to limit it to those with a set of standards and academic background. But you also want to make sure that you’re not selectively taking certain sources because they support your argument 100% you want to be sure you have a variety of sources and are being balanced and fair in the way you are pursuing your work.
Next, select two qualities you feel you need to improve upon.
Using the five step decision making process outlined below, create a plan of action to improve in those areas. Please be sure to outline the specific steps you’ll take to overcome any obstacles you face.
Your completed assignment should be written primarily in first person and should be 500-750 words in length. If you use sources in your writing, be sure to identify them. If you use any direct language from a source, be sure to place those words in quotation marks.
Decision Making Process
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