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Consider a supply chain for an organization you are familiar with.

1. How could the organization create more value for its stakeholders?

2. Which of the four future freight flows should it prepare itself for?

3. What should the organization do to prepare for the future flow(s)?

CO9: Examine methods for assessing the readiness of a demand forecasting

What subject that you studied over the past seven weeks was most interesting to you or most applicable to your current job? measuring forecast performance, working in military with petroleum
Propose a new discussion topic you think future students would find interesting.
Which homework assignment did you find to be the most challenging? nothing was challenging
What would you change in the class lesson materials that would aid learning for future students?

Discussion Board Week 2 How is Knowledge Created?
Laura Sanders
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How is Knowledge Created?
DIGITAL ARCHIVE PROJECT (LONG POST ON DISCUSSION BOARD)
250 to 500 words
Purpose
Where does academic evidence come from? (Spoiler: Not a silver platter from the sky.)
Universities do not create a “product” or make “profits” in the way that for-profit enterprises do in our culture. Colleges and universities exist to create knowledge and to ensure that students will continue to create new knowledge once they graduate.
In many college courses, instructors will expect you to support your claims and points using “credible academic sources.” These articles and books often are found in professional journals, not magazines we can buy at the grocery store or easily access through a very brief Google search.
This week, we continue the theme of interrogating the concept of knowledge and how it is created.
How is scholarship created? Under what conditions?
Topic
For this assignment, I am asking you to spend three hours total getting set up and working on a digital archive crowd-source project. These tend to be set up for pure novices, easy to complete, and incredibly cool.
Spend 3 hours total selecting and participating in a crowd-sourced project.
1) Locate the project you will work on. Feel free to stop any project you do not enjoy and start a new one. Aim for 3 hours total on this work.
Please know I want you to enjoy this experience. If you hate the topic or the site, you should stop immediately and find another site to gain this experience. There are loads of them, waiting for volunteers to help on a project.
In many cases, these projects involve transcribing PDFs, so that the material can be searchable by scholars, accessible for people with disabilities, and useful for the public good.
You might tag photos for a scientific project (to help researchers code data).
You might help with other cool projects.
You may want to start clicking through some options here and getting a feel for how these projects work. Google away!
Code baby sounds (Links to an external site.) for language researchers.
Tag photos of wild animals (Links to an external site.) in a private reserve near South Africa.
The Citizen Archivist Projects (Links to an external site.) site of the National Archives also offers wonderful projects for volunteers, but the system is a little less intuitive than the Zooniverse site (Links to an external site.).
2) Then I want you to write about this experience. Post directly on the discussion board (do not attach a doc to a post). Address these questions.
What side did you select? What service did you provide? For what groups?
Who might use the data you created? How? Why?
What was good, bad, and/or surprising?
What did you learn about yourself, scholarship, and our cultural ideas about work?
How is knowledge created? How can various types of scholarship help people?
Does this exercise impact how you view academic (vs. popular) sources?
How was this experience different than listening to a lecture or reading a textbook?
Would you do it again? Would you tell others to do it?
Other Questions You May Want to Include
Why do you think people do this work for free? What motivates them?
What is this work unpaid? What might be different if this work were paid?
What are the deeper symbols of working for pay? What does our society value?
Does this activity help you understand more about academic research?
Do you see that creating knowledge can require human interpretation?
How might seeing “behind the curtain” impact your process when you are looking for sources for your research papers in future classes?
Your post should describe how the crowd source project works, describe your personal experience (what tasks you completed and what it felt like to complete them), and how this activity impacted your understanding of how knowledge is created.
Samples from previous classes are available in this module.
Assessment criteria can be found in the rubric.

The purpose of this assignment is to explain core concepts related to the U.S. financial system.
Read the Chapter 1 Mini Case in Financial Management: Theory and Practice. Using complete sentences and academic vocabulary, please answer questions a through d.
While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
Assume that you recently graduated and have just reported to work as an investment advisor at the brokerage firm of Balik and Kiefer Inc. One of the firm’s clients is Michelle DellaTorre, a professional tennis player who has just come to the United States from Chile. DellaTorre is a highly ranked tennis player who would like to start a company to produce and market apparel she designs. She also expects to invest substantial amounts of money through Balik and Kiefer. DellaTorre is very bright, and she would like to understand in general terms what will happen to her money. Your boss has developed the following set of questions you must answer to explain the U.S. financial system to Della Torre.
a. Why is corporate finance important to all managers?
b. Describe the organizational forms a company might have as it evolves from a start-up to a major corporation. List the advantages and disadvantages of each form.
c. How do corporations go public and continue to grow? What are agency problems? What is corporate governance?
d. What should be the primary objective of managers? (1) Do firms have any responsibilities to society at large? (2) Is stock price maximization good or bad for society? (3) Should firms behave ethically?

The Final Ethics project has to be an essay. Each project must include a review of an ethical issue. You should use the information from case studies or ethics etc…

Use evidence to support the topic.

The project will be graded based on the following:

Introduction/ Identification of the problem.
Consideration of who is affected by the ethical dilemma.
An analysis of ethical theories that support your dilemma.
Any consequences from your ethical analysis.
Is there a course of action that can be justified by your support or lack of support for your ethical issue?
Conclusion.
Writing style, use of APA, grammar.

Journal Entry: Your Favorite Photograph
Your Favorite Photograph
Photography is one form of modern art. On a universal scale, photographs document our world. Certain photographs capture a time, an event, a person, a place; they become part of our collective experience. Most people know the shot of the Kent State student crouched over the body of another student who had been shot by a member of the national guard … the sailor kissing the nurse in Times Square at the end of WWII … Neil Armstrong walking on the moon.
On a personal level, photographs document our lives. Most of us have family photographs that every family member remembers.
Begin Work on Your Favorite Photograph Journal Entry
To begin work on Your Favorite Photograph journal entry:
1. View 100 Photographs: The Most Influential Images of All Time.
* Select the image that moves you the most, the one that is most memorable to you. Explain why you selected it.
OR
* Select a photograph of your own or one that you’ve seen that is particularly meaningful to you and explain why you selected it.
2. Provide an image of the photograph you’ve selected and identifying information about the photograph and the photographer.
* Note: In the case of personal photographs, you may not be able to identify the photographer or the photograph. In this case, provide any identifying information you can and note why you were not able to supply this information.
3. Respond to these writing prompts on the Your Favorite Photograph Template [DOCX]:
* Why did you select this photograph to share and to write about?
* What do you see in this photograph?
* Be sure to provide sufficient details.
* What do you think and feel about this photograph?
* What meaning does this photograph have for you?
* What message do you think the photographer was trying to convey?
4. Ensure your journal entry is clear and demonstrates good writing mechanics.
5. Submit an image of your photograph and your journal entry to the assignment area.

Discuss Racial Discrimination of African Americans in the military throughout its history to streets the importance of necessary change to prevent the degradation of our armed forces.

Discuss the role of critical thinking in risk analysis? Why is it important?

This assignment continues the work started in Unit 4 IP for your Key Assignment. You will add to the paper from Unit 4 IP with the new information requested by the Board of Directors. Recall the scenario from Unit 4:

Established in 1987, ABC Community Hospital not-for-profit is an acute care hospital located in an east coast Metropolitan area. With a staff of nearly 200 physicians and specialists, 800 employees and 100 volunteers, they offer a full range of healthcare services. They are accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. The hospital has been profitable for the last 5 years with a profit margin of 3-4%. The mission of ABC Community Hospital is to provide accessible and comprehensive healthcare services in a convenient and cost-effective manner to the people who live in our community.
At the last Board meeting, hospital administration and the Board of Directors began to discuss a proposal to build a new wing devoted to a Cancer Center and ancillary services devoted to the treatment of cancer. The new wing would have 30 acute care beds, four surgical operating rooms, intensive care unit and extensive support services, including physical therapy and hospice care. All patient rooms would be private. There is no Cancer Centers within a 200 mile radius of the hospital service area.
Now, the Board of Directors has come back with more questions that they want you to add to the original plan with 2-3 pages of new content:
Compare and contrast the kinds of decisions that are made in the Cancer Center capital investment decision analysis for ABC Community Hospital.
What information is needed by the CFO to evaluate the Cancer Center capital investment project? Use the classification of capital expenditures and justification of capital expenditures for this project, and include working capital management.
Who, internally from the healthcare system and externally, should be involved in the capital investment decision process to determine the feasibility of the Cancer Center?
Combine the new content of 2-3 pages with the paper from Unit 4 for a total of 5-8 pages not including title and reference pages.

Be sure that grammar, spelling, punctuation, and format are correct and professional in your submitted plan.

Write-up explain why you made the choices you did for each trait exemplified by the Hindu Trinity.