Write a 650 word reflective and applied statement describing how team leadership, inclusive leadership, and ethics and decision making, has affected your thought processes, development, and professional disposition.
*References. Citations. APA Format.*
Business
Business and Economics-explain that there is no money in the budget. You hear about a grant opportunity.
Deliverable 2 – Grant Proposal Summary Assignment Content Question Competency Identify the role of music, poetry, prose, and visual art in the modern world and workplace. Student Success Criteria View the grading rubric for this deliverable by selecting the “This item is graded with a rubric” link, which is located in the Details & Information pane. Scenario You have been asked to be on the town’s board of Cultural Affairs.
When you step into your new role, you quickly realize that the organization is in trouble; the other board members have been on the board for a long time and haven’t done much in recent years. They explain that there is no money in the budget. You hear about a grant opportunity.
Every year, a wealthy resident of your town, Mr. Brown, offers a grant of $10,000 to one local organization. In the past, he has never given this grant to an arts organization because, in the words of another board member, “Mr. Brown does not think the arts are important.” If you can change Mr. Brown’s mind about the importance of the arts in your community, you might just get the grant and be able to revitalize the town’s cultural arts scene!
Write the grant proposal summary for review by a few board members to be sure you are on the right track for the grant. Instructions Compose this document in the format of a letter to Mr. Brown. Your letter should include: two to three paragraphs using persuasive language. concisely written paragraphs using bullet-points if possible. a beginning paragraph that immediately captures the reader’s attention, using a story, surprising fact, or insightful quote. a complete but brief synopsis of the details in the proposal. the reason for the proposal and how the grant money will be used. NOTE – Be sure the documents display proper grammar, spelling, punctuation, and sentence structure.
Business and Economics-Write a business plan on starting up a diverse salon studio that focus on alopecia and would include a special scalp stimulation service package to those who are in need of this special treatment.
Write a business plan on starting up a diverse salon studio that focus on alopecia and would include a special scalp stimulation service package to those who are in need of this special treatment.
Also be sure to include all of the following outline as follow.
The business plan should be a maximum of 10 to 15 pages in length, not including the title page, table of contents, executive summary, references page, or any appendices. There are 13 sections to write about, so each section should average about one page. Must be in APA format, including title page, one-inch margins, 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, page numbers, headers, in-text citations, and references page as needed.
The course book: Entrepreneurship The Art, Science, and Process for Success 4th edition by Charles E. Bamford Title Page Leadership Mission & Strategy Situation Analysis Financial Management Legal Implications Human Resources Marketing Production & Operations Exit Strategy References. Also you can use as many sources as needed.
Develop a 10-slide business PowerPoint for the economic issue you have been working with as your topic in the previous assessment.
For this assessment, you will develop a 10-slide business PowerPoint for the economic issue you have been working with as your topic in the previous assessment. You will then present this PowerPoint using Kaltura and submit the video. This presentation asks you to examine the feasibility and cost-benefit considerations of implementing a proposed solution for your chosen issue, as well as analyze ways to mitigate risks. Be sure to address each main point. Review the assessment instructions and scoring guide, including performance-level descriptions for each criterion, to ensure you understand the work you will be asked to complete and how it will be assessed. In addition, note the requirements for document format and length and for supporting evidence.
You may also wish to consult the Guidelines for Effective PowerPoint Presentations [PPTX] if you need additional guidance as you are assembling your presentation. Overall, your assessment submission will be assessed on the following criteria: Summarize the problem and the potential impact the health care economic issue has on you, your colleagues, your organization, and the community at large. This is an opportunity to tell your story and what the initiative means to you as a health care practitioner. Remember, this is a presentation. So, you want to be engaging and persuasive in order to build support for what you will be proposing to do later in the presentation. Explain the feasibility and cost-benefit considerations of your health care economic issue, as well as three ways to mitigate risks to the financial security of your organization or health care setting. Make sure to present at least an overview of the data and numbers you are basing your cost-benefit analysis on. Touch upon the ways in which potential risks could pose a threat to the financial security of your organization or care setting while you are addressing the ways to mitigate risk. Support your explanation with evidence-based research or scholarly sources.
Describe the changes or solution that you propose be implemented in order to address the economic issue. Include the potential benefits of implementation to your organization, your colleagues, or the community at large. Support your initiative with evidence-based research or scholarly sources. Explain how your proposed solution is culturally sensitive, ethical, and equitable within the context of the community and health care setting it will be implemented. Make sure that your changes or solution are not unfairly burdening or disadvantaging any specific groups. Double check that your changes or solution do not pose any ethical issues and are not culturally insensitive. Ensure that both access and cost are equitable across all groups in the community that the proposed solution will be affecting.
Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly communication standards. By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria: Competency 1: Analyze the effects of financial and economic factors (such as cost-benefit, supply and demand, return on investment, and risks) in a health care system on patient care, services offered, and organizational structures and operation. Summarize the problem and the potential impact the health care economic issue has on you, your colleagues, your organization, and the community at large.
Competency 2: Develop ethical and culturally equitable solutions to economic problems within a health care organization in an effort to improve the quality of care and services offered. Explain how your proposed solution is culturally sensitive, ethical, and equitable within the context of the community and health care setting it will be implemented. Competency 4: Develop ethical and culturally equitable economic strategies to address dynamic environmental forces and ensure the future security of an organization’s resources and its ability to provide quality care. Explain the feasibility and cost-benefit considerations of your health care economic issue, as well as three ways to mitigate risks to the financial security of your organization or health care setting. Describe the changes or solution that you propose be implemented in order to address the economic issue. Competency 5: Produce clear, coherent, and professional written work, in accordance with Capella writing standards. Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly communication standards.
Assigment
Foreign investments continue to grow in the US. Do you think this is a positive trend for US businesses and consumers? Why/Why Not?
Explain the contribution of functional, business, and corporate strategies to the competitive advantage of the organization.
CAREFULLY
• The Assignment must be submitted on Blackboard (WORD format only) via allocated folder.
• Assignments submitted through email will not be accepted.
• Students are advised to make their work clear and well presented, marks may be reduced for poor presentation. This includes filling your information on the cover page.
• Students must mention question number clearly in their answer.
• Late submission will NOT be accepted.
• Avoid plagiarism, the work should be in your own words, copying from students or other resources without proper referencing will result in ZERO marks. No exceptions.
• All answered must be typed using Times New Roman (size 12, double-spaced) font. No pictures containing text will be accepted and will be considered plagiarism).
• Submissions without this cover page will NOT be accepted.
Learning Outcomes:
▪ CLO3-PLO2.2- Explain the contribution of functional, business, and corporate strategies to the competitive advantage of the organization.
▪ CLO4-PLO2.3-Distinguish between different types and levels of strategy and strategy implementation.
▪ CLO6-PLO3.1-Communicate issues, results, and recommendations coherently, and effectively regarding appropriate strategies for different situations
Mini project
From real national or international market, choose an example of merger/ acquisition or, any other type of strategic alliance between two or more firms (mutual consortia, joint venture, licensing, franchising, value-chain partnership, …), and answer the following questions: (2marks each question).
1. What is the type of strategic alliance between your chosen firms? What are the reasons for this alliance? Justify your answer.
2. Do you consider that this strategic relationship is successful? why?
3. What are the different benefits (economic, commercial…) for each firm from this alliance?
4. Are the corporate cultures of these firms compatible? Which method is used to manage culture after this strategic alliance? Argument your answer.
5. What are the main difficulties faced by these firmsafter their alliance? Suggest recommendations to improve their competitive advantages.
What is an artificial neural network and for what types of problems can it be used? 2. Compare artificial and biological neural networks.
Business Intelligence
Week 3 assignment: Complete the following assignment in “one MS Word document”: Textbook: Analytics, Data Science, & Artificial Intelligence: Systems for Decision Support Dursun Delen Chapter 5: discussion questions #1-4 (100 – 120 words each answer) 1. What is an artificial neural network and for what types of problems can it be used? 2. Compare artificial and biological neural networks. What aspects of biological networks are not mimicked by artificial ones? What aspects are similar? 3. What are the most common ANN architectures? For what types of problems can they be used? 4. ANN can be used for both supervised and unsupervised learning. Explain how they learn in a supervised mode and in an unsupervised mode. exercise #6 : (1 page) Go to Google Scholar (scholar.google.com). Conduct a search to find two papers written in the last five years that compare and contrast multiple machine-learning methods for a given problem domain. Observe commonalities and differences among their findings and prepare a report to summarize your understanding. internet exercise #7 (1 page) (go to neuroshell.com click on the examples and look at the current examples. The Gee Whiz example is no longer on the page.)
Go to neuroshell.com. Look at Gee Whiz examples. Comment on the feasibility of achieving the results claimed by the developers of this neural network model. Chapter 6: discussion question #1-5 (100 – 120 words each answer) 1. What is deep learning? What can deep learning do that traditional machine-learning methods cannot? 2. List and briefly explain different learning paradigms/methods in AI. 3. What is representation learning, and how does it relate to machine learning and deep learning? 4. List and briefly describe the most commonly used ANN activation functions. 5. What is MLP, and how does it work? Explain the function of summation and activation weights in MLP-type ANN. exercise #4 (1 page) Cognitive computing has become a popular term to define and characterize the extent of the ability of machines/computers to show “intelligent” behavior. Thanks to IBM Watson and its success on Jeopardy!, cognitive computing and cognitive analytics are now part of many realworld intelligent systems. In this exercise, identify at least three application cases where cognitive computing was used to solve complex real-world problems. Summarize your findings in a professionally organized report.
Note: When submitting work, be sure to include an APA cover page and include at least two APA formatted references (and APA in-text citations) to support the work this week. All work must be original (not copied from any source). within 8hrs, with references, APA format, plagiarism check required
Examine both external drivers of cultural change (political, natural environment, technology, globalization, social forces) and internal drivers (organizational structure, leadership style, employee engagement).
PROPOSAL FOR TERM PROJECT IN CULTURE AND ORGANIZATIONS (DUE 11/16)
This course explores the complexities of culture within organizations. Major topics include cultural content and manifestations, cultural similarities and differences, the transmission and evolution of cultures and subcultures, the dynamics of cultural change, the role of leadership in shaping culture, and strategies for managing organizational culture.
You will examine both external drivers of cultural change (political, natural environment, technology, globalization, social forces) and internal drivers (organizational structure, leadership style, employee engagement).
Objective of the Term Project: Your assignment is to design a term project assignment that explores an aspect of organizational culture, aligning with the theories and concepts covered in this course. This project should culminate in a comprehensive paper of 12-15 pages (excluding references and cover page), synthesizing course concepts to offer insights into real-world organizational culture scenarios.
Identify potential global business opportunities for various foreign markets.
Learning Goals
To assess factors that create international business opportunities
To identify potential global business opportunities for various foreign markets
Purpose
Some organizations attempt to expand their international operations by seeking foreign markets appropriate for existing products and services. Other enterprises assess foreign business environments in an attempt to meet needs in those markets.
Global Business Opportunities
Potential foreign business opportunities may be viewed in two major categories:
A. Various Country Factors create international business opportunities. These include:
Natural resources, agricultural products, or geographic factors (climate or terrain)
Level of economic development and infrastructure
Cultural characteristics, social activities, or demographic trends
Changing political situations or legal factors
Technology that may enhance production or distribution of an item
B. Relevant Industry Factors- companies attempting to gain entry into new global markets must also evaluate industry factors in order to effectively expand overall market penetration and increase revenues. These include:
Marketing potential
Entry Strategy
Organizational Structure
Business Operations
Marketing and Management Focus
You should consider several possible global business opportunities that could be the basis for new or expanding international business operations- but select only one for this project. This business opportunity may be consumer goods or services; or organizational goods and services, sold to businesses, government agencies, nonprofit organizations, schools, hospitals, hotels, or other organizations.
Some examples of global business opportunities may include:
sale of water filtration systems in developing economies;
sale of specialty food products adapted to the tastes of different cultures;
development of communication systems in countries with a weak infrastructure;
promotion of a variety of businesses (construction, medical, travel, etc.) into countries with expanding economies.
**Remember that you are trying to fill a ‘unique’ need with your business idea. Whether it is a product or service, it should provide something that other competitors do not currently offer. Your business focus also needs to use local resources from your selected country to justify the business being located there.
Development Targets:
1) Use local country resources with your new product or service.
2) Keep your start-up costs below $500,000
3) Avoid involvement with franchises or already existing companies.
4) Have your business operational in 3-6 months.
Conduct Research
Collect data and information to use in formulating this aspect of your business recommendation by considering the following:
POTENTIAL MARKETS
Discuss one of the global business opportunities for your business focus in terms of:
(a) a specific product or service, including customer benefits; and
(b) a potential market—a country that would be appropriate for this business opportunity.
POTENTIAL COMPETITORS
Identify companies that:
(a) have business activities similar (or related) to the business opportunity you are
proposing; and
(b) operate in the country that you are considering for your international business
enterprise.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES
Discuss the competitive advantages of these companies. (For example, some companies
may gain a competitive advantage as a result of access to raw materials; others may gain
an advantage through the use of technology for production and distribution or as a result
of a well-known brand name.)
ABSOLUTE AND COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGES
Analyze for the presence of an absolute or comparative advantage that might be related to
a business opportunity in the country where the item will be produced or sold. Describe
how this analysis might influence the success of your proposed business idea. (For
example, the availability of natural resources can make a business opportunity cost
efficient.)
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY ANALYSIS
Compare two or more proposed business opportunities based on factors such as foreign
market potential, start-up costs, and foreign business risks.
Prepare your summary report/recommendation in two parts-
A three-to-four page business plan abstract AND
A PowerPoint presentation (10-12 slides)
The above report should be addressed to your manager or CEO as an employee of the firm.
In addition to the above report content, you MUST include a cover page, table of contents, and reference page (in MLA or APA format) for both components of your project. These items are not counted in the minimum page/slide requirements for your report.
Your report must include the following components:
A clear description of your FDI business plan with specific details about its potential, organizational structure, timeline to be operational, etc. You MUST include the reasons why your selected country is appropriate for this business investment.
An overview of geographic, economic, cultural, political, and technological factors that creates the proposed global business opportunity.
A description of the market potential for this product or service.
A discussion of potential competitors (if any) and their global business activities.
A synopsis of any absolute or comparative advantages (as applicable).
A discussion of global business strategies that could create competitive advantages.
Recommend one foreign business opportunity (within a specific foreign market) for an existing company or a new enterprise based in the United States. Include modes of entry, organizational structure, and management focus as appropriate. Provide evidence to support your proposal.
Discuss the Issue of Implementation.
ESSAY: ISSUES OF IMPLEMENTATION ASSIGNMENT
INSTRUCTIONS
OVERVIEW
In this assignment, you will apply the learning material in a meaningful way to clarify your
understanding of the concerns associated with restorative justice, and its future. Some skeptics of
restorative justice approaches like peacemaking alternatives often cite that the process can leave
the victim open to being further victimized, and the offender as being in control. While, this is
not always the case, there are occasions in which peacemaking alternatives are not right for the
victim of the crime and the offender. Because of this, it is important that the implementation of
restorative justice approaches are made in careful consideration of best interests of all the parties
involved. Failure to do so can erode the trust that the community has in the restorative process
which will impact its implementation.