Identify the factors that have allowed competitors to be successful in this industry thus far.

You are the sales department manager for a U.S.-based company that builds engines for the automotive manufacturing industry. Your company is considering diversifying into other business opportunities where your motors can be sold in order to bolster the company’s portfolio and increase revenue. Based on your knowledge of the national sales landscape, your manager would like you to conduct preliminary research and prepare a presentation with your recommendation for opportunity in a new industry that will allow for this diversification through a new sales division and increased sales.

You have been asked to make your presentation at the next stakeholder meeting, where you will address internal stakeholders from across the company as well as external stakeholders such as customers, investors, and suppliers. As a preliminary step in developing this presentation, your manager would like to see an executive summary of your research findings and evaluate your decision modeling.

Directions
Complete the Project One Worksheet in your Soomo webtext and submit it for instructor feedback.

Part 1: Define
You will first conduct research on the U.S.-based automotive manufacturing industry using the Shapiro Library database links provided in the supporting materials section below. Then, prepare an analysis report that addresses the following:

Define the problem.
Explain the type of qualitative and quantitative data you will be targeting in your research.
Provide a broad description of the U.S. automotive manufacturing industry and its value. Include:
Total value of the industry
Sales by region
Sales by fuel type: electric, hybrid, and gas
Describe the current trends in the automotive market.
The trend toward different types of motors for the vehicles being made and sold, such as electric and hybrid
Trends in customer demands such as vehicle color, extra features, and styles
Trends in the body types of vehicles sold (SUVs, trucks, sedans)
Part 2: Research
In Module One, you chose an industry that you think would provide opportunity for your company. Now, using industry-specific and scholarly resources to inform your decision, prepare an industry analysis report that includes the following:

Provide a broad description of the new industry.
Describe the overall attractiveness of the industry.
Is this a growing industry?
Is this an industry that has a lot of growth potential?
What outside factors are affecting its growth?
Identify the factors that have allowed competitors to be successful in this industry thus far.
Summarize the overall value of the industry.
How is the industry currently trending?
Summarize the sales. Speculate if sales vary based on the region of the country. (For example, there would be very few snow plow sales in the southern United States, if any at all.)
Define expected growth areas.
Describe the current market trends for the new industry.
What products or services are trending?
What are some current customer demands?
Perform a Porter’s Five Forces analysis to determine the potential success of moving into this new industry.
Explain your rationale.
Part 3: Compare
Compare the two industries and summarize your findings.

Perform a Porter’s Five Forces analysis to compare the two industries.
Summarize how your findings address the problem.
What to Submit
To complete this project, submit an executive summary report of 3 to 4 pages using the provided templates, or the document you downloaded from Soomo. Sources should be cited according to APA style.

Supporting Materials
The following resources support your work on the project:

Project One Template Word Document
Porter’s Five Forces Analysis Template PPT
Shapiro Library Database: IBISWorld
Shapiro Library Database: MarketLine

Explain how you might use published research statistics to help you solve problems and make decisions in your ideal job.

Now that you’ve gotten a foundation in research, data, and analysis you’ll be better prepared to review criminal justice studies and use relevant data to help you solve problems and make decisions. In this assignment,
you’ll demonstrate your knowledge of how research and inferential statistics might be used in criminal justice
operations, such as police, courts, and corrections.

Write an 875- to 1,050-word paper in which you do the following:
Describe your ideal job in criminal justice.
Explain how you might use published research statistics to help you solve problems
and make decisions in your ideal job.
Provide 2 examples of how you could use published criminal justice research in your ideal job.
Differentiate between correlation and causation in a way that connects to your ideal job.
Identify potential applications of correlation and regression within management or research for your chosen
criminal justice field.
Describe how techniques involving association, correlation, and prediction (as in regression) help form
policy and operational decisions for more effective criminal justice practices.

What connections can be drawn between the topics covered in the news report and the topics, concepts, theories, and research data covered in class?

This assignment requires each group to identify a news article/report that relates to the topic of your choice (e.g., stress, mental health, wealth inequality, opioid epidemic).

The article must be selected from mass media (print or online) published in the United States or in other nations. The article might be from any of the following mass media: Newspaper (e.g., the Washington Post), magazine (e.g., Time Magazine), the Internet (e.g., Vox), television (e.g., CNN), or radio (e.g., NPR).

Then, you will critically assess the article’s content using sociological concepts, ideas, and theories discussed in our class. The following elements must be included in your review paper:

1. Write a brief summary of the content (4-5 sentences). Your paper should summarize the article’s intended message. That is, you should describe the arguments (e.g., “bad eating habits” causes obesity) advanced by the author(s). [Points= 6]

2. What connections can be drawn between the topics covered in the news report and the topics, concepts, theories, and research data covered in class? Make a comparison between the topics discussed in the article (such as smoking, obesity, and victim blaming) and the concepts (such as medicalization, health inequities, and victim blaming) addressed in this class. Make clear reference (i.e., cite) to the sources (e.g., book chapters) from which you have drawn your thoughts. [Points= 10]

3. Why do you believe the article is sociologically informed (or not)? If you believe the article’s author(s) have already used a sociological lens, you must provide evidence to support your claim. If the article lacks sociological context, you should assess the author’s assertions using sociological ideas. Describe the facts or arguments that you found problematic, stereotyped, or victim-blaming. In other words, you need to explain why the piece is not sociological and how it might be made so. For example, the authors may lack a sociological perspective, if they attribute obesity to fast food consumption without discussing the larger social and economic context (e.g., childhood exposure to fast food commercials, insufficient economic resources to purchase fresh food, lack of grocery stores carrying fresh food) that influences individuals’ eating habits. [Points=12]

4. As a sociologist, you are tasked with identifying the underlying roots of our social problems (e.g., identify public policies, institutional racism, economic exploitation, and residential segregation that contribute to racial and economic inequalities in health). When the broader social, economic, cultural, and political context is lacking, your article should provide this context in addition to any theoretical framework (e.g., the fundamental cause of disease theory) that drives your reasoning or arguments. For example, there may be a news piece regarding the poor physical and mental health of older workers. The article may be “blaming the victim” by asserting that these workers participate in risky health behaviors such as smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, and fast food intake. Your responsibility is to provide context. You should inquire why these employees participate in such behavior. Is it because they lack adequate wages and benefits despite working long hours? Do they engage in risky behaviors to cope with their precarious employment and economic conditions? Are they in such a predicament because our economic policies do not provide workers with fair or living wages? Does our political context responsible for such economic policies? Is underlying structural racism accountable for even more precarious employment conditions for low-wage minority workers? Does sexism unfairly disadvantage women workers? You could utilize the available course materials (including recommended readings) or seek out additional resources to adequately support your arguments. [Points= 10]

5. Include the title of the article and weblink in your reference. If the article was published in print media, you should also submit a PDF copy. [Points= 2]

I would prefer that you upload a one-page (single-spaced, maximum two-page)

Describe the post-Pleistocene cultures of South America.

Describe the Mesolithic of southeast Asia. Australia did not experience drastic climatic change at the end of the Pleistocene. In light of this, describe the post-Pleistocene cultures of Australia. Did they change or stay more or less the same? Describe the Australian Small Tool Phase. How did the stone tools produced during this period differ from those seen at older Australian sites?
2B. Describe the post-Pleistocene cultures of South America. How significant was camelid exploitation? How significant were the resources of the coast Archaeologist David Phillipson characterizes the post-Pleistocene of Africa as reflecting a movement away from “broad cultural uniformity” and toward a pattern of regionalization. What does this mean? What does the evidence show? The Mesolithic has been called a “prelude.” What does this mean? Was it only a “prelude” to something far more significant?

What additional subjective information will you be asking of the patient?

Case 2
A 72-year-old male presents to the clinic with 4 weeks of productive cough. He has a 10-year history of diagnosed COPD. He has a 45-year history of two packs a day cigarette smoking. He states he quit smoking due to financial needs about 6 years ago. He complains of pain in his chest from coughing, saying it is sore. He has noticed some dark-colored blood on his tissue.
Vital Signs: BP 137/90; HR 82; RR 22; BMI 23.
Chief Complaint: Persistent cough won’t go away with my normal cough medicine. Noticed blood on tissue from coughing.
Discuss the following:
1) What additional subjective information will you be asking of the patient?
2) What additional objective findings would you be examining the patient for?
3) What are the differential diagnoses that you are considering?
4) What radiological examinations or additional diagnostic studies would you order?
5) What treatment and specific information about the prescription will you give this patient?
6) What are the potential complications from the treatment ordered?
7) What additional laboratory tests might you consider ordering?
8) Will you be looking for a consult?

Discuss and compare the various grouping and consolidation tools available in Excel.

1. Discuss and compare the various grouping and consolidation tools available in Excel.

2. Under what circumstances would you use each of these features? Do they both serve the same purpose, or is each one used under different scenarios? Give examples of how each can be used.

3. Please use an example or two!

One of your posts requires research on data consolidation tools this week. Your research post should be unique. Please include an APA citation for any content used from an outside source.