Examine Capacity Management for a New Startup Venture

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To any person considering the launch of an enterprise, the Shouldice Hospital story is a refreshing reminder of how startups in any field – in this case, health care – can succeed with the right ingredients and passion to excel. This week’s readings include references to a successful startup that grew from the willingness of one individual (Dr. Edward Earle Shouldice) to respond to a recognized need. Your challenge in this assignment is to develop a paper in which you apply the principles of capacity management and illustrate the impact of forecasting on the implementation of those principles, based on the following scenario:

You and two of your closest colleagues are considering the launch of a start-up and you believe that the Shouldice success story is relevant to your new venture. Generate responses to several categories of probing questions as a basis for discussion. Since your findings will be presented in a practical format to enlighten the thinking of your two potential future partners, you may forego the formality of a case analysis in favor of a document that provides clear, accurate, and actionable responses to the questions listed below. In addition to this week’s readings, you may also use popular sources related to the Shouldice case to amplify the points you wish to emphasize in your discussion with your colleagues. If, during your writing, you discover additional areas of importance that are not triggered by these questions, feel free to include them in your paper.

  1. Identify three business components (within the broad categories of people, process/facility, or technology) that presented problems for Shouldice Hospital in the late 1940’s. Define steps that your startup team might take to avoid similar problems when your service or product is launched.
  2. Determine the value of an accurate forecast in terms of its influence on quality of service delivery and/or potential growth for your start-up. In what ways would an accurate forecast of hernia repair demand influence business decisions at Shouldice?
  3. Examine the demographics of Shouldice patients, such as their overall health, type of surgery required, age, etc. What target-market demographics will enhance the success of your start-up?
  4. How do you know when to stop growing your start-up? How might Shouldice have determined a practical limit to economies of scale? At what point should Shouldice have decided to stop growing? What metrics should be monitored to determine that growth has plateaued?

Support your assignment with at least three scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including older articles, may be included.

Length: 5-7 pages, not including assignment coversheet, title page, and reference page(s). Use topic section headings for each of the questions listed above.

Summarize Research Articles on template attached

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Summarize Research Articles

Write a summary of each of the articles that you identified in Topic 2.

Address the following:

Must Use the format template attached and Articles are listed already on the template – attached are the articles.

  1. Write one research summary that uses a quantitative research design – article provided.
  2. Write one research summary that uses a qualitative research design – article provided.
  3. Each summary should be 250-500 words on each article (total of 500-1000) and should follow the template provided in “Summarize Research Articles.”
  4. Use APA Level Heading 2 to separate the distinct parts of the study.

These article summaries will form the basis of the Critique of Research Studies

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

Book used Chapters 9-11 and 20 in Nursing Research: Generating and Assessing Evidence for Nursing Practice. and Articles attached

This assignment uses a rubric listed below:

Comprehensive description of author(s), article type, type of design, model summary in text, and why this article’s design fits summary demonstrates command of research terminology.

Problem statement and statement of purpose fully described using accurate and precise research language.

Research question(s) fully identified using accurate and precise research language.

Study methods and key findings fully described using accurate and precise research language.

Comprehensive description of author(s), article type, type of design, model summary in text, and why this article’s design fits summary demonstrates command of research terminology.

Problem statement and statement of purpose fully described using accurate and precise research language.

Research question(s) fully identified using accurate and precise research language

Study methods and key findings fully described using accurate and precise research language.

Writer is clearly in command of standard, written, academic English.

Correct APA format is consistently used in the paper: cover page, margins, double-spacing, font size, and all other elements of APA, including headings and pagination.

In-text citations and a reference page are complete. The documentation of cited sources is free of error.

Easy paper- Please do not plagiarize

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PLEASE DO NOT PLAGIARIZE****DO NOT CITE ALOT OF SOURCES AND CALL IT A PAPER*****PLEASE FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS OR I WILL WITHDRAW AND YOU WILL NOT BE PAID. I HAVE ATTACHED ASSIGNMENT ONE SO YOU CAN UNDERSTAND THE SCENARIO

Students, please view the “Submit a Clickable Rubric Assignment” in the Student Center.

Instructors, training on how to grade is within the Instructor Center.

Assignment 2: Business Expansion and Sustainability
Due Week 10 and worth 280 points

In order to complete this assignment, refer to the scenario that you chose in Assignment 1.

Note: You may create and / or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of these assignments.

Using the scenario from Assignment 1, write a six to seven (6-7) page paper in which you:

  1. Identify three (3) job requirements (e.g., needed certifications, previous work experience, external influences, etc.) that could apply to your chosen scenario. Determine two (2) ways these requirements could impact staffing at your organization. Next, suggest one (1) strategy that you could utilize to ensure that all applicants meet the identified job requirements for your organization. Justify your response.
  2. Outline a long-term recruitment plan that contains at least four (4) components, is aligned with your company’s recruitment strategy, but also addresses possible job skill or credential shortages. Note: Consider concepts such as succession planning and hiring retirees.
  3. Describe three (3) branding strategies that you would employ to attract qualified applicants to your organization. Next, suggest three (3) communication methods that you would utilize to reach out to applicants. Predict the outcome of integrating your branding strategies and communication methods at your organization. Provide a rationale for your response.
  4. Determine two (2) selection processes for recruiting new employees that could apply to your chosen scenario and then identify five (5) selection criteria that you could use when hiring new employees. Next, analyze the effect of the five (5) identified selection criteria on long-term employee retention and preservation of organizational knowledge. Justify your response.
  5. Suggest two (2) assessment methods that you could employ to select new employees for your organization and then analyze the validity and reliability of each method in regards to the job your organization is offering. Next, identify four (4) job predictors that you believe can assess candidates’ knowledge, skills, abilities, and other skills and experiences (KSAO’s). Provide support for your rationale.
  6. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
  • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Explain the role of staffing to support an organization’s strategy and improve productivity.
  • Explain the planning considerations for staffing organizations, the use of job analysis, and the components of a staffing plan.
  • Develop recruitment plans using both internal and external recruitment.
  • Design a selection process that incorporates a variety of assessment methods and a supporting decision method for candidate selection.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in staffing organizations.
  • Write clearly and concisely about staffing organizations using proper writing mechanics.

To prepare for this Assignment: Review the Learning Resources and the media programs related to t tests. For additional support, review the Skill Builder: Research Design and Statistical Design and the Skill Builder: Hypothesis Testing for Independent Sam

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To prepare for this Assignment:

  • Review the Learning Resources and the media programs related to t tests.
  • For additional support, review the Skill Builder: Research Design and Statistical Design and the Skill Builder: Hypothesis Testing for Independent Samples t-test, which you can find by navigating back to your Blackboard Course Home Page. From there, locate the Skill Builder link in the left navigation pane.
  • Also, review the t test scenarios found in this week’s Learning Resources and consider the three different approaches of t tests:
    • Independent sample t test
    • Paired sample t test
    • One sample t test
  • Based on each of the three research scenarios provided, open the High School Longitudinal Study dataset or the Afrobarometer dataset from this week’s Learning Resources using SPSS software, then choose and run the appropriate t test.
  • Once you perform your t test analyses, review Chapter 11 of the Wagner text to understand how to copy and paste your output into your Word document.

For this Assignment:

Write a 2- to 3-paragraph analysis of your t test results for each research scenario and include the SPSS syntax and output. Based on your results, provide an explanation of what the implications of social change might be.

Use proper APA format, citations, and referencing for your analysis, research questions, and output.

As an international development researcher, you would like to know African Citizen’s
perceptions about current levels of democracy. Your working hypothesis is that a
series of reforms have increased African views of the level of democracy today. You
do not have a good research design to compare attitudes before and after the
reforms, but know that leaders and development experts would like to see a value of
6, on the scale of 1–10. Using the data from the 2015 Afrobarometer, determine
whether perceptions about current levels of democracy statistically differ from a
value of 6. Please provide: a 1–2 APA style paragraph statement that furnishes an
answer to this question, note the relevant statistics, comment on meaningfulness
and include your relevant SPSS output.

how all learners in your classroom will be engaged.

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Part A: This section of the paper will clearly explain 1) how all learners in your classroom will be engaged. This section will include elements of not only how lesson planning and learning strategies support various learners but also 2) how to create learning environments (i.e., traditional, blended, and online) that promote productive student learning, encourage positive interactions among students, reflect the diversity and multiple perspectives, and are culturally responsive. 3) Explain how different learning needs and styles are supported including, different gender, the gifted, students with exceptional needs, English Language Learners, culturally diverse, educationally disadvantaged, and general education students; and provide validation from the research literature.

Books:

Effective Teaching Methods Research-Based Practice

Classroom Instruction That Works with English Language Learners By:Jane D. Hill, Kirsten B. Miller

self assessment

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Complete this as thoroughly as you can. This entry will also be used as a diagnostic to make sure you’re placed correctly into this course. So, do your best on it, but don’t take it to a Writing Center or peer tutor–this should just be your work so I can get a sense of your writing right now.

  • Now that you have entered college, write a short narrative—a sketch that moves clearly from one detailed point to the next—to document and describe important moments in your development as a reader, a writer, a critical thinker, and a communicator. This “literacy narrative” should use between 2 and 5 examples from your personal history—both in school and out of school—that have shaped your perspective on reading and writing, and defined your academic interests, your ways of thinking about and strategizing your writing assignments in school, and your sense of style when you write and communicate in both school-related and non-school related contexts. As you recount key examples from your past, give your reader a clear overarching message that 1) assesses your strengths and weaknesses as a reader, a writer, and a communicator and 2) articulates two or three new elements that you would like to see become part of your personal “literacy narrative” as a college-level writer.
  • I’m looking for 700 words.

How to write an essay to win an academic grant

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Criteria: · Active ASE member · Currently registered with CCI or ARDMS · Attended a minimum of 4 AHS Echo Society Conferences within the past 3 years To Apply: 1. Submit an essay about yourself describing: · Why you are a good candidate to be considered for this grant · Your Echocardiography career accomplishments · How you volunteer your time · Other participation outside of AHS in the Cardiology community · Your future goals at Atlantic Health · Assuming you were the winner of this scholarship, how will you pay it forward and share what you learn at the conference with your peers in the clinical environment?

Marketing Plan Part C: Unique Selling Proposition, business and finance homework help

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Journal 2: Marketing
Plan Part C: Unique Selling
Proposition

Due Week 6 and worth
100 points

You will now complete your secondary market research and consider what
distinguishes your company from your competitors, their products, and / or the
price of their products and services.

The key word in Unique Selling Proposition (USP) is “unique.” There are very
few products or services that are truly one of a kind. In order to target the
demographic for your company, you need to pinpoint what makes your business
standout among the competitors (e.g., Charles Revson, founder of Revlon, always
used to say he sold hope, not makeup. Neiman Marcus sells luxury and customer
service. Wal-Mart sells bargains. Amazon is earth’s biggest bookstore.)

Use the
Internet to research two (2) of your favorite companies and two (2) companies
that are similar to your company. Identify the USPs of these companies, and
consider what the USPs mean to you. Next, prepare to create a USP for your
company.

Tips on
creating a USP for your company:

  • Put
    yourself in your customers’ shoes. Consider
    what your customers really want. Consider what could make them your repeat
    customers and instead of your competition‘s.
  • Research
    what motivates your customers’ behaviors and buying decisions. You
    need to know what drives and motivates customers.
  • Uncover
    the real reasons why customers buy your product instead of a
    competitor’s. As
    owner of a start up, ask people why they buy your future competitors’ product.
    This will help you uncover why they might buy yours. Ask yourself the following
    questions:
    • What
      does our product or service do better than anyone else?
    • How
      is our business model different from that of our competition? How could our
      product or service be different?
    • What
      market category or niche is not being served by our
      industry?

Write a
four to six (4-6) paragraph journal entry in which you:

  1. Identify
    the target market and your secondary market for your company. Note: Be as specific as possible (e.g.,
    women 30-45, with a high school education and some college; people working full
    time and living in the Midwest, etc.).
  2. Describe
    your unique selling proposition (USP). Explain the key factors that make your
    company different than competitors within your industry. Describe the primary
    way in which the USP for your company targets the two (2) markets you identified
    in Question 1.

Example
of a USP:

  • My
    product is t-shirts and coffee mugs with fun and empowering logos for
    women.
  • My
    target market is women ages 35-55, college educated, working full time. My
    secondary market trends a little younger at 25-35, women passionate about their
    professional life and their personal pursuits.
  • My USP
    is “Be Authentic, no Apologies.”
  • My
    reasoning is I want women to buy my sassy slogans, because they want to show
    their authentic voice on a shirt or mug.

Note: Insert the information from the completed Journal 3
entry into “Section 3: Unique Selling Proposition” in the provided Marketing
Plan Template (located in Week 4).

Click here to view the grading rubric for this assignment.

Nursing Research – Evidence Based Practice, health and medicine homework help

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NSG 6101 – Nursing Research Methods

Respond in paragraph form using proper APA format. Also use in-text citations. Place references at the end of assignment.

Assignment 1: Discussion Questions

Post your response to the assigned discussion questions in the below Discussion Area. It is important to support what you say with relevant citations in the APA format from both the course materials and outside resources. Include the South University Online Library in your research activities utilizing not only the nursing resource database, but also those pertaining to education, business, and human resources.

Discussion Question

For this discussion, you are asked to review the student learning outcomes for this course and discuss how you met these outcomes. The intention here is to provide you an opportunity to “reflect” on the learning achieved during this term and how you successfully met these learning outcomes. If you do not feel you successfully met the objective, discuss your plans to successfully complete the objective in the future.

Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to:

  1. Critically analyze current practice to formulate researchable problems.
  2. Evaluate research as the basis for decision-making to improve outcomes through translation into evidence-based practice.
  3. Synthesize an understanding of the research process through development of a proposal to address a nursing problem or focus area identified in nursing practice.
  4. Investigate ethical issues related to the conduct of scientific research, including informed consent, data management, data analysis, and protection of human subjects.
  5. Explore national and international initiatives and research priorities.

Presents the grading criteria and rubric for this assignment.

APA style reference writing

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Below I have written the necessary information for several different authors’ works needed to create a reference list. Your job is to create a reference page following APA formatting standards. Each is worth 5 points. I would like for you to type the reference page on your own paper. Use the word Reference as the title for the page (center the word). Use 12-point font Times New Roman, remember to double space and use the appropriate indentations.

1. Liqiang Huang, Anne Treisman, and Harold Pashler wrote an article for the journal Science titled “Characterizing the Limits of Human Visual Awareness.” Their article appeared in volume number 317, which was released in August of 2001. The article starts on page 823 and ends on page 825.

2. “The Ethics of Animal Research” is a book chapter written by Joshua Strong. The chapter appears in the book Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Psychological Issues, 14th edition which was released in 1995 by the publisher Wiley, in Chicago. The editor is B. Slife and the chapter lasts 7 pages starting on page 54.

3. In the journal Psychological Review, I found an article called “Boolean map theory of visual attention,” by Liqiang Huang and Harold Pashler. The article came out in the July 2007 issue, volume number 114, and spans the pages 599 to 631.