Provide environmental scanning of current conditions in the area of expansion including economy

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Consider the following scenario:

PPQ Parts has determined that for the company to expand globally over the next several years, its managers must be properly trained in multiculturalism and diversity management. PPQ Parts executives must be aware of any political and economic concerns that may arise during the expansion.

You have held conversations with Precision Part’s leaders and obtained the following information, which you want to use in the development of a 4-year strategic management plan.

  • PPQ Parts employees now number 5,000, and all are currently employed in the United States. It plans to grow to 10,000 employees in 4 years.
  • New facilities will be needed in international expansion, and PPQ Parts anticipates building most of those (80%) outside the United States.
    PPQ Parts holds 5% of the world market share on small SUVs, but its goal is 9% in 4 years.
  • Current stock price is $10 per share. The goal is $22 a share.
    Profit margin 3-year average is 6%. Industry average during this time has also been 6%. The company goal is 13% in 4 years.
  • PPQ Parts has averaged 28% employee turnover during the last 3 years. This is compared to an industry average of 25%. The goal of the company is to increase employee retention by lowering annual turnover to 17%.
  • PPQ Parts contributes to all the local communities in which it is doing business. This is one of its corporate values. Current charity is 0.5% of total profits, but the company would like to raise that to 5% in 4 years.

Assignment

A strategic management plan is vital for the company business today. Review the company scenario at the beginning of the course for additional information regarding growth goals. Create a basic strategic management plan for PPQ Parts including quantifiable goals and measures. Include the following in your report:

  • Provide environmental scanning of current conditions in the area of expansion including economy, competition, political stability, and so forth.
  • Address internal resource analysis such as managerial and financial strengths and weaknesses.
  • Please include short-term and long-term strategic goals.
  • Location consideration for implementation is vital. Please explain the benefits and limitations for expansion in your chosen area.

Be sure to reference all sources using APA style. For more information on APA, please visit the APASTYLE Lab.

Individual Project Rubric

Management Information System MIS 201

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Assignment Details

Prepare an in-depth analysis of four case studies during the semester. Here are some guidelines:

  • This is an individual assessment, which is a part from your course score. It requires effort and critical thinking
  • This assignment will worth 25 mark (Case Study Questions 15 Marks/ Presentation 10 Marks)
  • Answer all the questions listed below for each case.
  • The ‘answers’ to the questions are best formulated by reviewing the case and the reading materials up and including the current week in the course.
  • The questions are worded to help you apply the readings to the case, so don’t limit yourself to the case’s terminology and perspective. The best analysis will abstract the case content by applying the reading materials to draw broader lessons about the material
  • As for the Presentation you should summarize your analysis of only one case study in a set of PowerPoint slides

Case Study 4: Zappos

  • Define SCM and how it can benefit Zappos. (1 Mark)
  • Explain CRM and why Zappos would benefit from the implementation of a CRM system.(1 Mark)
  • Demonstrate why Zappos would need to implement SCM, CRM, and ERP for a connected corporation. (1 Mark)
  • Analyze the merger between Zappos and Amazon and assess potential issues for Zappos customers. (1 Mark)
  • Propose a plan for how Zappos can use Amazon’s supply chain to increase sales and customer satisfaction. (1 Mark)

Case Study 4: Zappos

Tony Hsieh’s first entrepreneurial effort began at the age of 12 when he started his own custom button business. Realizing the importance of advertising, Hsieh began marketing his business to other kids through directories, and soon his profits soared to a few hundred dollars a month. Throughout his adolescence, Hsieh started several businesses, and by the time he was in college he was making money selling pizzas out of his Harvard dorm room. Another entrepreneurial student, Alfred Lin,bought pizzas from Hsieh and resold them by the slice, making a nice profit. Hsieh and Lin quickly became friends. After Harvard, Hsieh founded Link Exchange in 1996, a company that helped small businesses exchange banner ads. A mere two years later, Hsieh sold Link Exchange to Microsoft for $265 million. Using the profits from the sale, Hsieh and Lin formed a venture capital company that invested in start-up businesses. One investment that caught their attention was Zappos, an online retailer of shoes. Both entrepreneurs viewed the $40 billion shoe market as an opportunity they could not miss, and in 2000 Hsieh took over as Zappos’ CEO with Lin as his chief financial officer.

Today, Zappos is leading its market and offering an enormous selection of more than 90,000 styles of handbags, clothing, and accessories for more than 500 brands. One reason for Zappos’ incredible success was Hsieh’s decision to use the advertising and marketing budget for customer service, a tactic that would not have worked before the Internet. Zappos’ passionate customer service strategy encourages customers to order as many sizes and styles of products as they want, ships them for free, and offers free return shipping. Zappos encourages customer communication, and its call center receives more than 5,000 calls a day with the longest call to date lasting more than four hours. Zappos’ extensive inventory is stored in a warehouse in Kentucky right next to a UPS shipping center. Only available stock is listed on the website, and orders as late as 11 p.m. are still guaranteed next-day delivery. To facilitate supplier and partner relationships, Zappos built an extranet that provides its vendors with all kinds of product information, such as items sold, times sold, price, customer, and so on. Armed with these kinds of details, suppliers can quickly change manufacturing schedules to meet demand.

Zappos Culture
Along with valuing its partners and suppliers, Zappos also places a great deal of value on its employee relationships. Zappos employees have fun, and walking through the offices you will see all kinds of things not normally seen in business environments—bottle-cap pyramids, cotton-candy machines, and bouncing balls. Building loyal employee relationships is a critical success factor at Zappos, and to facilitate this relationship the corporate headquarters are located in the same building as the call center (where most employees work) in Las Vegas. All employees receive 100 percent company-paid health insurance along with a daily free lunch.
Of course, the Zappos culture does not work for everyone, and the company pays to find the right employees through “The Offer,” which extends to new employees the option of quitting and receiving payment for time worked plus an additional $1,000 bonus. Why the $1,000 bonus for quitting? Zappos management believes that is a small price to pay to find those employees who do not have the sense of commitment Zappos requires. Less than 10 percent of new hires take The Offer.
Zappos’ unique culture stresses the following:
1. Delivering WOW through service
2. Embracing and driving change
3. Creating fun and a little weirdness
4. Being adventurous, creative, and open-minded
5. Pursuing growth and learning
6. Building open and honest relationships with communication
7. Building a positive team and family spirit
8. Doing more with less
9. Being passionate and determined
10. Being humble
Zappos’ Sale to Amazon
Amazon.com purchased Zappos for $880 million. Zappos employees shared $40 million in cash and stock, and the Zappos management team remained in place. Having access to Amazon’s world-class warehouses and supply chain is sure to catapult Zappos’ revenues, though many wonder whether the Zappos culture will remain. It’ll be interesting to watch!19

Literacy Narrative Rough Draft, English homework help

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See the page from last week outlining steps to think about when drafting your literacy narrative. Remember to Include vivid description and, when applicable, dialogue, to put your reader in the experience. Remember that a personal narrative gives the reader both a sense of how the experience felt at a time, and a sense of the writer’s reflection looking back from the vantage point of the present. Delve into the past to understand the present, but don’t forget to bring the reader into your present experience. (You may want to bring us into your experience in English 101.)

If you are struggling to get started on your essay, here are some more ideas, adapted from Writing About Writing, that may be helpful:

Examine your own literacy history, habits, and processes. the purpose of this inquiry is to get to know yourself better as a reader and writer as you embark on your college experience. As Malcolm X argued, awareness gives power and purpose, the more you know about yourself as a reader and writer, the more control you are likely to have over these processes.

  • What are your current attitudes or feelings toward reading and writing? What is your approach to reading and writing assignments? Do you start on them as soon as they are assigned or procrastinate? How much time do you spend on each part of the process?
  • Where do you think your feelings about and habits of writing and reading come from? What in your past has made you the kind of reader and writer you are today?
  • What have any of the readings we’ve done reminded you of experiences from your past and present as a reader and a writer?

As you remember what these memories and experiences suggest, you should be looking for an overall “So what?” — a main theme, a central understanding, an overall conclusion that your consideration leads you to draw. Below are some possible examples:

  • An insight about your present relationship with reading and writing based on prior experiences
  • An argument about what works or what doesn’t work in literacy education on the basis of your experience
  • A description of an ongoing conflict or tension you experience when you read and write, and perhaps, the story of how you solved that tension
  • A story of how you negotiate multiple literacies and code switch between different types of language in different situations
  • A story of your relationship with digital literacy, and or your awareness of disparities in the level of digital literacy in people close to you

This assignment asks you to think carefully about your history with literacy… either reading and writing or digital literacy; to tell a story that helps make a point; and to write an interesting and readable piece. Be sure your essay–

  • tells a story or stories about your personal literacy (or digital literacy) history,
  • talks about where you are now as a writer an reader (or where you are on the digital literacy spectrum) and how your past (personal and cultural) has shaped your present self, and
  • makes some overall point about your literacy experiences.

Have fun…. think deeply, and write! Bring three copies to class on Thursday and submit a copy on CANVAS. I would like two volunteers to offer to have their essay “workshopped” by the whole class before we do peer review. Please let me know if you would like to volunteer!

Rough drafts should be at least 3 and 1/2 pages long and must be turned in on time if you would like feedback from me. If you do not turn in your rough draft on time, your final essay will lose points.

Criminal Law Investigation Disc

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Instructions

Discuss the importance of the landmark case Miranda v. Arizona. Now pick one of the following cases: Berghuis v. Thompkins, Maryland v. Shatzer, McNabb v. United States, or Minnick v. Mississippi, and discuss its significance to interviewing and interrogation. Is there a relationship between the case that you chose and Miranda v. Arizona? If there is, discuss that relationship as it relates to interview and interrogation.

Your response should be at least 300 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

​Create a draft of your survey in Microsoft Word. The survey should be about 10 minutes long. The topic of your survey should be something that is of interest to you.

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Create a draft of your survey in Microsoft Word. The survey should be about 10 minutes long. The topic of your survey should be something that is of interest to you. Some sample topics include gender differences in sexual attitudes, cultural influences on parenting styles, drug use in adolescents, and so on. Here are two websites on writing surveys that can provide you with more information about survey design Survey Research and Designing a Survey. Please note that the data collected by your survey will and should not be used outside of this course or this term. The survey creation and data collection are educational exercises for the purposes of learning more about surveys as a research method.

here are the links

https://socialresearchmethods.net/kb/survey-research/

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/references/how-to-design-a-survey

I choose autism

PART 2 read milestone 2 worksheet and fill it out

give a brief overview of what you expect to find in your area of research based on the research you have gathered. Be sure that your hypothesis is clear and supported by literature, using specific examples from the literature. Explain where your hypothesis fits into the context of the literature you have reviewed.

Next, discuss the specific method that you will use for your research proposal, for example, an experimental design, a correlational design, a survey, or a case study. You should also discuss the details of how this method will be used. For example, if you are using an experimental design, you will need to identify the independent and dependent variables of the experiment. Or, if you are using a survey, discuss how the survey will be carried out. How will you ensure the questions are well formulated?


First Aid and CPR Scenarios

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Introduction:

You never know when you are going to come across a potential medical or injury emergency. Using the information you have learned up to this point, Select two of the following scenarios. What would you do? Be sure to list and record every action you perform. Note: In each situation you are working at your current skill level since you have completed Heartcode BLS and will soon complete Heartsaver First Aid. You can perform CPR, you have access to a first aid kit, a cell phone, a land line, and an AED. NOTE SPECIFICATIONS BELOW.

The Scenarios:

  1. You are at the family picnic several teenagers are playing frisbee in the field. Suddenly one of teens approaches you and complains that he is having trouble breathing and his skin is itchy. You notice that his eyes are watery, his skin is raised and red, and his face and tongue appear swollen .What do you believe is his diagnosis? Step by step discuss and record your actions.
  2. You enter a room. You notice that Ms. Daisy is restless agitated and confused. When you approach her you see that her skin appears pale and grayish and feels cold and clammy. She tells you that she is weak and that she feels dizzy. What do you believe is her diagnosis? Step by step discuss and record your actions.
  3. You are running a 10k in downtown Fayetteville. You come across a fellow runner who appears to be injured. As you approach the scene what are four things you must consider. Give possible (real life) examples of each.
  4. You are helping a victim with a severe laceration. As you assist the victim, blood splatters in your mouth and eyes discuss and record your next move.
  5. Alan is twenty two years old. He has collapsed while taking part in a half marathon. It is a hot day with temperatures reaching 93F. His conscious level is falling and he is very hot and flushed. He has a strong pulse and his breathing is slow.What do you believe is his diagnosis? Step by step discuss and record your actions.
  6. Andrew is thirty years old. He has recently joined your work force. It is ten thirty in the morning and he has lost a lot of facial color and is sweating. He seems confused. His speech is slightly slurred and he is irritable and uncooperative.What do you believe is his diagnosis? Step by step discuss and record your action
  7. Bill is eighteen years old. You are eating together at lunch time. He begins to complain of tingling in his lips and you then notice a slight swelling around his mouth and face. He quickly develops a rash and is having difficulty breathing.What do you believe is his diagnosis? Step by step discuss and record your actions.
  8. James is a thirty year old chef. He has caught the back of his hand on the oven door as he is removing a roast from the oven. He is in a lot of pain and you see the back of his hand is red, blistered and swollen.What do you believe is his diagnosis? Step by step discuss and record your actions

Designing a Life Science Lesson Plan

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Directions:

1) Save and print the Module 4 Application PDF.

2) Create a Word or text document for your response. Use 12-point Arial or Times New Roman
font. Use APA (6th edition) format for in-text citations.

3) Create a title page and references page in APA (6th edition) format.

4) Follow the directions in completing your assignment.

Step 1: Access the Topic Arrangements of the Next Generation Science Standards at
http://nstahosted.org/pdfs/ngss/20130509/CombinedT…
Review the life science standards to identify the content elementary students are expected to
know, understand, and apply.

Step 2: Select an elementary grade level and one life science topic for your lesson plan. For
example, at second grade Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems is a life science topic.

Step 3: Prior to designing your lesson plan, study the lesson plan exemplar linked on the
assignments page. Notice how the author integrates the science and literacy components in the
plan. The lesson plan is to be your original work and modified ideas from other sources are to
be clearly identified using appropriate citations.

Step 4: For your selected topic, use the template provided on the assignments page to design
an integrated, inquiry-based science lesson to purposefully guide elementary students on an
exploration of the social, cultural, and ethical aspects of science. The plan should be detailed
enough to follow. Your lesson plan should include:

• A hands-on lab experiment or online simulation incorporating critical-thinking skills

• A literacy strategy used with either fiction or informational text, or a combination

• Technology application
• Engineering application
• Appropriate assessment ideas

• Clearly identify the type of thinking skill required

Personal Statements in Applications, psychology homework help

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PLEASE FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS TO A TIE AND LOG IN INFO WILL BE PROVIDED.

Identify the next step in your academic and/or professional career after graduation. Whether applying to a graduate or professional school or for employment, it is common that applicants are asked to write personal statements. Unfortunately, some applicants have developed habits frowned upon by admissions committees and potential employers (e.g., divulging personal or sensitive information about problems or crises).

  • Consider the prompt: Tell us about yourself and why you are interested in a position in our graduate program (or organization).
  • Review the advice in section 8.4 in your text and write a two-paragraph answer to the prompt. Your response should be of the quality to be submitted with an actual application.

please don’t take this assignment if you don’t know the answer

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chapter 12/Finance and Budgeting from this book

Fried, G. (2010). Managing sport facilities (3rd ed.). Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.
ISBN: 0-7360-8290-5

1/What are the two major potential problems with buying a facility?

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2/When raising money, which of the following involves selling a portion of the business for early investment in the project?

a. securing equity financing

b. securing venture capital

c. finding strategic investors

d. issuing corporate bonds

e. none of the above

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3/Which of the following is a promise that in a specific period of time the borrower will pay back the lender the amount of money borrowed along with a specific amount of interest?

a. bonds

b. stocks

c. venture capital

d. private equity

e. all of the above

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4/ Site Planning Sin taxes can be applied to which of the following?

a. alcohol

b. tobacco

c. gambling

d. all of the above

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5/Nonprofit Funding Which of the following cannot receive tax-deductible gifts to help finance facility construction?

a. professional stadiums

b. collegiate stadiums

c. YMCAs

d. JCCs

e. b, c, and d

learning assignment

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1. Review the subjective and objective data for each Gordon’s Functional Pattern (Week 3 Learning Activity_Part I).

2. Using the template provided, develop a priority (most important) nursing diagnosis for EACH Gordon’s Functional Pattern. Remember, nursing diagnosis MUST be 2 or 3 part statements and need to be patient-specific (please use the learning resources folder for assistance). Use the handouts in the learning resource folder to help you identify which nursing diagnoses are applicable to each Gordon’s Functional Pattern.

the first template is for question 1 and 2

3. Review Week 3 Learning Activity Part II. Select the priority nursing diagnosis (review all 11 and determine the priority using the appropriate prioritization strategy).

4. Complete the template provided. Create a teaching plan (use the template in Box 25-6 on page 350 of your text). Identify at least 1 learning objective, 3-5 teaching strategies and provide a rationale for each and 1-2 evaluation strategies.