Thinking Strategically

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.Primary Discussion Response is due by Friday (11:59:59pm Central), Peer Responses are due by Tuesday (11:59:59pm Central).

Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

Part 1 (post this response in the main U2 DB thread “Unit 2 Discussion Board”)

In the Unit 1 Discussion Board, you reviewed a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, and trends (SWOTT) analysis of a fast-food franchise that was done in 2013. There have been many more recent changes with the fast-food giant toward improved business results. Read this article on these changes, and conduct a brief SWOTT analysis based on these new changes that includes the following:

  • Strengths: The internal and external characteristics of a company that are stronger than its competitors
  • Weaknesses: The internal and external characteristics of a company that are weaker than its competitors
  • Opportunities: The issues internal and external to a company that can affect the company and its competitors in a favorable way
  • Threats: The issues internal and external to a company that can affect the company and its competitors in an unfavorable way
  • Trends: The internal and external patterns in the organization, market, or industry

Part 2 (post this response in the appropriate topic within U2 DB (labeled “for” and “against”)

Based on the first initial of your last name, complete the following:

  • First initial A-L: Provide an argument for the success of the strategies that a fast-food franchise has instituted. Submit your position by posting in the Unit 2 Debate forum under the for topic.
  • First initial M-Z: Provide an argument against the ability of a fast-food franchise to succeed with these strategies. Submit your position by posting in the Unit 2 Debate forum under the against topic.

In both considerations, provide research that supports your assertions.

Health Care Financial Management

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You have been hired in the finance department at a large, metropolitan for-profit hospital. Your duties are very important to the entire hospital in terms of financing operating costs. Additionally, you are also in charge of 3 employees who work under you to help with the day-to-day accounting activities. Your role includes budgeting, managing the general ledger accounts, utilizing financial formulas to perform accounting activities, and training and development of your 3 employees. This professional career is exciting and challenging for you but is also enjoyable and rewarding as you work your way up the career ladder toward reaching your goal of becoming the chief executive officer (CEO) of the hospital. Due to scarce resources, your organization is faced with the decision of choosing between mutually exclusive projects (I.e., Build a Rehab. Center or Build a Neonatal Wing). You have been asked to develop a financial analysis of two projects and based on Net Present Value (NPV), Return on Investment (ROI), and Profitability Index (PI), Briefly explain the following concepts and their use/value in assessing the validity of the two mutually exclusive projects:

NPV

ROI

PI

payer (aka case) mix

Submitting your assignment in APA format means, at a minimum, you will need the following:

1. TITLE PAGE. Remember the Running head: AND TITLE IN ALL CAPITALS

2. ABSTRACT. A summary of your paper, not an introduction. Begin writing in third person voice.

3. BODY. The body of your paper begins on the page following the title page and abstract page and must be double-spaced (be careful not to triple- or quadruple-space between paragraphs). The type face should be 12-pt. Times Roman or 12-pt. Courier in regular black type. Do not use color, bold type, or italics except as required for APA level headings and references. The deliverable length of the body of your paper for this assignment is 3-4 pages. In-body academic citations to support your decisions and analysis are required. A variety of academic sources is encouraged.

4. REFERENCE PAGE. References that align with your in-body academic sources are listed on the final page of your paper. The references must be in APA format using appropriate spacing, hang indention, italics, and upper and lower case usage as appropriate for the type of resource used. Remember, the Reference Page is not a bibliography but a further listing of the abbreviated in-body citations used in the paper. Every referenced item must have a corresponding in-body citation.

Please submit your assignment.

Your assignment will be graded in accordance with the following criteria. Click here to view the grading rubric.

For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.

This assignment will also be assessed using the Common Assessment criteria provided here.

Create a patient education tool (online module, or brochure ) for any ailment you like

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Guiding Patient Education

Patient education sessions need to evolve with the health care industry. This assignment challenges you to rethink patient education by looking at adult education principles as you guide patients to reputable sources for further review.

Create a patient education tool for any ailment you like. The tool should promote patient competency and e-health literacy. Consider:

How patients can/will use the tool

Patient experience managing this ailment

Community resources such as public libraries, parks and recreation community centers, and neighborhood service centers for free computer and internet access

Patient ability to perform basic computer functions

Graphs, charts, labels, or other visual information the consumer is likely to see

Direction for how to search and apply relevant online information

Format your assignment as one of the following:

online module

trifold brochure

another format approved by your instructor

Include a minimum of three scholarly sources and develop an APA-formatted reference page.

Explain your rationale for choosing the format on a new page in your reference page document.

Community Strengths, writing homework help

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After completing your readings for this week and watching the film, McFarland, U.S.A., briefly describe the community prior to Coach White’s arrival and at the end of the film, identifying strengths and challenges. Identify at least three ways that White learned about his new community that helped him ultimately be successful in creating community change. Next identify and give a brief description of your community, including name, and if a geographically-placed community, its location. Then describe your community in terms of its challenges and strengths. If you were a macro social work practitioner hired to work in your community, name three things that you would do to learn more about it. Given what you already know about the community, what community strengths and challenges do you think you would discover as a newly-hired social worker

Please submit one original post (400-500 words)

Cite the text when appropriate for the discussion prompt above. To receive maximum credit for this assignment, you must integrate and cite content from Kirst-Ashman and Hull chapter 1, the Homans chapter, and the film. You can also cite at least one additional relevant peer-reviewed journal article if you wish (optional), but you will not receive full points unless you also cite the required readings. (Readings may be cited in either your initial posting or your responses to peers.) Be sure that you have addressed all parts of the required response.

Project Analysis (BSHS/455)

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This assignment allows you to apply what you have learned in the course material by choosing an assessment and administering it.

Select an assessment from Ch. 5 of Chemical Dependency: A Systems Approach with faculty approval and administer the instrument to someone you know who drinks, uses drugs, or both.

Write a 350- to 700-word analysis regarding the following:

  • Identify what assessment was used.
  • Did you find the assessment useful?
  • What additional questions might need to be asked to accommodate particular special populations?
  • Include a summary of findings and a recommendation for treatment options.
  • Do not disclose the interviewee’s identity in your analysis.
  • Include peer-reviewed research as support for your answer regarding your recommendation for treatment options.

Format your assignment according to appropriate course-level APA guidelines.

Business Model and Strategic Plan

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Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word strategic objectives summary. Include your balanced scorecard and its impact on all stakeholders, and the communication plan.

Identify key trends, assumptions, and risks in the context of your final business model.

Develop the strategic objectives for your new division of the existing business in a balanced scorecard format in the context of key trends, assumptions, and risks. The strategic objectives are measures of attaining your vision and mission. As you develop them, consider the vision, mission, and values for your business and the outcomes of your SWOT analysis and supply chain analysis.

Consider the following four quadrants of the balanced scorecard when developing your strategic objectives:

  • Shareholder Value or Financial Perspective, which includes strategic objectives in areas such as:
    • Market share
    • Revenues and costs
    • Profitability
    • Competitive position
  • Customer Value Perspective, which includes strategic objectives in areas such as:
    • Customer retention or turnover
    • Customer satisfaction
    • Customer value
  • Process or Internal Operations Perspective, which includes strategic objectives in areas such as:
    • Measure of process performance
    • Productivity or productivity improvement
    • Operations metrics
    • Impact of change on the organization
  • Learning and Growth (Employee) Perspective, which includes strategic objectives in areas such as:
    • Employee satisfaction
    • Employee turnover or retention
    • Level of organizational capability
    • Nature of organizational culture or climate
    • Technological innovation

Evaluate potential alternatives to the issues and/or opportunities identified in the SWOT Analysis paper and table you completed in Week 3.

Create at least three strategic objectives for each of the four balanced scorecard areas. Base your solutions on a ranking of alternative solutions that includes the following:

  • Identify potential risks and mitigation plans
  • Analyze a stakeholder and include mitigation and contingency strategies.
  • Incorporate ethical implications

Develop a metric and target for each strategic objective using a balanced scorecard format.

  • Example: a strategic objective in the shareholder or financial perspective is to increase market share. A metric to actually measure this strategic objective of market share increase is, “The percentage of increase in market share.” The target is the specific number to be achieved in a particular time period. The target for the metric of “Increase market share” could be “Increase market share by 2% for each of the next 3 years” of an increase of 2% per year for 3 years.)

Outline a brief communication plan discussing how you will communicate the company’s strategic objectives that includes the following:

  • Define the purpose.
  • Define the audience.
  • Identify the channel(s) of communication and why you selected that channel.

Format paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.

Career-Interest Presentation

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Part 1: For the final presentation, include the following:

Select and use a presentation tool such as PowerPoint, Prezi, or another choice discussed during this term.

For your content, choose a career interest that you might pursue after completing your degree program or a field of study interest that you might pursue within your degree program.

The presentation should include the following:

A title slide that includes your name as author, the date, and your course name/section number/session/year.

An introduction slide that introduces your topic, why you chose it, and your thesis statement.

A slide describing your career interest or field of study that connects how this topic relates to your degree plan or career interest.

Then, use your concept map to create slides that address each of your critical thinking questions using details from your research; cited, in-text, and referenced. This should include cited facts about potential salary, work conditions, type of activities included, or other details you have selected, using four (4) or more different sources (book, journal article, website, video, etc) of which 2 are scholarly sources. Bullet the key points on your slides.

Use, cite in-text, and reference at least four (4) source citations and at least two (2) of the sources must be scholarly sources from the APUS library. Do not include generic web sources such as Wikipedia or About.com

Reference all sources, graphics, and videos in a chosen format style (APA, MLA, or Chicago) at the end of your presentation.

Create a script, rehearse, record, and properly embed narration for your entire presentation.

Include a minimum of two (2) different media forms to enhance your presentation that include video, images, graphics, animation, or additional audio.

Use at least one (1) advance feature of your presentation tool. This may include slide transitions, animation, or automatically playing videos or narration.

Part 2: In addition to your presentation, in the text box of the assignment, write a 5-8 sentence paragraph reflection on the finished presentation and the overall process of completing your presentation. This should address how you used the Big 6 Model in its creation.

Library Scavenger hunt

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LIBRARY SCAVENGER HUNT

Answer the following questions using library or online sources. Respond to each question with one or two complete, correct sentences. Document your sources using MLA documentation guidelines. Reference the Works Cited document located in Week 5’s Assignment instructions to complete questions 1-10.

1. Who was president of the United States when the Federal Reserve was created?

ANSWER:

DOCUMENTATION:

2. What amendment to the U.S. Constitution gave women the right to vote, and in what year?

ANSWER:

DOCUMENTATION:

3. What is the origin of the word “boycott”?

ANSWER:

DOCUMENTATION:

4. Who coined the term “pandemonium,” and in what famous literary work?

ANSWER:

DOCUMENTATION:

5. Who won the Academy Award for best actor in 1982, and for what film?

ANSWER:

DOCUMENTATION:

6. What famous twentieth century American author wrote The Old Man and the Sea?

ANSWER:

DOCUMENTATION:

7. What is the name of the nearest major galaxy to our own Milky Way galaxy?

ANSWER:

DOCUMENTATION:

8. When did the famous English poet and playwright William Shakespeare live?

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DOCUMENTATION:

9. What large library existed in ancient Egypt?

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DOCUMENTATION:

10. What city hosted the first ever Winter Olympics, and in what year?

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DOCUMENTATION:

Chapter 16: The Judiciary, political science homework help

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Each EQ should be 2-3 pages in length. So this assignment will be 8-12 pages in length handed in

Chapter 16: The Judiciary

  • Do you think federal judges should exercise restraint or be activists judges? Explain.

Chapter 5: Civil Liberties

  • Consider the issue of privacy and governmental searches of individuals’ computer files. Describe in this case how you would balance civil liberties with the need for government authority. When or under what circumstances do you think government should be able to access and search an individual’s computer files without his or her knowledge or consent? What limits, if any, would you place on government’s ability to do this?

Chapter 6: Civil Rights

  • What is the social purpose of the government recognition of the institution of marriage? Why does the government sanction this form of contract? How does the issue of the gender of each participant in a given marriage fit into the discussion?

Chapter 17: The Politics of Public Policy

  • What are TWO (2) advantages and what are TWO (2) disadvantages to instituting term limits on members of Congress? Which side do you support? Explain.

​Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies and Evidence-Based Practice

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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies and Evidence-Based Practice

In cognitive-behavioral therapy, there is no concept of the unconscious because all thought patterns are readily available. Emotions play a central role in CBT; it is not accurate to say that CBT focuses only on cognitions and behaviors. Emotions are critically important because the emotional experience provides rich information about the quality of a person’s thought patterns and beliefs. Emotions also provide cues or signals that a “faulty” cognitive schema or pattern is in place and in need of review.

Over the past few weeks, you considered information regarding empirically supported treatments and evidence-based practice. By now, you probably appreciate the value of researching interventions in support of one intervention as being more or less effective than another in treating a specific presenting problem, diagnosis, and/or population. You already completed assignments connecting both empirically supported treatments and evidence-based practice to short-term psychodynamic therapy. This week, you study evidence-based practice from a cognitive-behavioral perspective and explore empirically supported treatments for this theoretical orientation. Remember, it is important to think about the criteria used to measure treatment outcomes when you are using research to assess effective interventions. You will find that cognitive-behavioral therapies and interventions are well documented in empirically supported treatments and evidence-based practices.

To prepare for this Discussion:

• Review the course media, “Cognitive-Behavioral Orientation.”. Pay particular attention to Dr. Norcross’ presentation on the current state of cognitive-behavioral therapies and evidence-based practice.

• Review this week’s assigned journal articles and pay particular attention to how each article reviews, considers, and defines “success” in cognitive-behavioral therapy.

• Consider what CBT theorists and therapists believe is the etiology of psychological difficulty. For example, how does a condition like depression originate?

• Consider how the cognitive-behavioral approach defines and measures successful client outcomes.

With these thoughts in mind:

Post by Day 4 an explanation and analysis of three benchmarks/observable measures of client success when using cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). Then link these measurements to the CBT conceptualization of how psychopathology or “problems in living” occur. Provide specific examples and justify the examples with research.

Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to the Learning Resources and use empirically supported research to support your points of view. Follow proper APA Style guidelines.