Business

Evaluate the extent to which competition authorities in the UK & US should aim to reduce market power of firms such as ticket master or if they should allow the free market to operate within minimal intervention.

Use hospital finances for three years. The research project will require students to review its financial operations based on the given data. The final paper will be submitted in a case study format, which includes the following sections:

Background
Issues/problems identified
Analysis utilizing ratios and other financial analysis tools
Recommendations
Implementation plan
References demonstrating graduate-level research

Imagine you are a consultant hired by your current employer or an organization you are familiar with. Your task is to inventory and categorize your selected organization’s information systems according to the “three fundamental types of information systems” presented in this week’s reading. You are to determine what benefits this organization is realizing from each information system type. In addition, you are to discuss any additional benefits this organization could realize and how. Use the “organizational complement” framework from this week’s reading to analyze what is needed to achieve the additional benefits. Deliverable should include:

Inventory and categorization by information system types.
Benefits from each information system type.
Additional benefits that could be potentially realized and how.

Review the Marketing Spotlight: The Ritz-Carlton case study in Chapter 9 of your textbook. Bring another hotel into the discussion (either a competitor of Ritz-Carlton or not), and discuss how they maintain their brand promise to their customer base (i.e., their target market). Make certain to select a hotel that has not already been mentioned.

The hotels that have been mentioned so far:
1. Hilton
2. Four seasons
3. Waldorf Astoria
4. JW Marriott Hotels & Resorts

We will take another Web Field Trip this week for your Assignment. Visit the following web site:
https://www.bloomberg.com/markets/rates-bonds
You will find an amazing amount of information about GLOBAL interest rates. It will open to the United States.
You will see for example, an item called a “Yield Curve.” The north and south axis (the Y axis) measure interest rates. The east and west (the X axis) measures the term (time) of the bond. You will notice that a bond with a term of 3 months pays much lower interest than a bond with a life of 30 YEARS. That make sense, although it is not always true, believe it or not. Do some research on the internet regarding an “inverted yield curve.” Discuss this concept in your essay as well.
Through this online field trip you will get exposure to interest rates around the world. Take the journey, do some independent research and describe in detail what you discover about interest rates, yield curves, the Federal Reserve, and more.
You can start with and stay with the Bloomberg website, or you can “Google it” and explore on your own.
AT A MINIMUM, your essay should address the following:
Make sure to thoroughly paraphrase your findings from the Bloomberg site using your own words.
Discuss the importance of the Yield Curve, as well as the causes and effects of an Inverted Yield Curve.
Discuss market interest rates and how they affect the prices and yields of individual bonds.
Investigate and explain the role of the Federal Reserve regarding interest rates.

Evaluate a product that you might want to purchase or have purchased. Establish criteria
that matter to you—and to other prospective purchasers who might turn to you for a
recommendation. Consider, for example, the product’s features, construction, utility, beauty, color,
cost, or other criteria that matter to purchasers. Make a clear recommendation to your audience: buy
or not.

Discuss various issues in an organization.

Create a SCRIPT for a video of yourself, as a presenter, in which you will propose an evidence-based plan to improve the outcomes the patient in the provided case study, and examine how remote collaboration provided benefits or challenges to designing and delivering the care. Make sure that your video addresses the following grading criteria:
Propose an evidence-based care plan that you believe will improve the safety and outcomes of the patient in the case study presented in the Assessment 04 Supplement: Remote Collaboration and Evidence-Based Care [PDF] Download Assessment 04 Supplement: Remote Collaboration and Evidence-Based Care [PDF]resource. Add your thoughts on what more could be done for the patient and what more information may have been needed.
Discuss the ways in which an EBP model and relevant evidence helped you to develop and make decisions about the plan you proposed
Wrap up your video by identifying the benefits of the remote collaboration in the scenario, as well as discuss strategies you found in the literature or best practices that could help mitigate or overcome one or more of the collaboration challenges you observed in the scenario.
Be sure you mention any articles, authors, and other relevant sources of evidence that helped inform your video. Discuss why these sources of evidence are credible and relevant. Important: You are required to submit an APA-formatted reference list of the sources you cited specifically in your video or used to inform your presentation. You are required to submit a narrative of all your video content to this assessment and to SafeAssign.

Propose your own evidence-based care plan to improve the safety and outcomes for a patient in the provided case study.
Explain the ways in which you used an EBP model to help develop your plan of care for the client.
Reflect on which evidence you found in your search that was most relevant and useful when making decisions regarding your care plan.
Identify benefits and strategies to mitigate the challenges of interdisciplinary collaboration to plan care within the context of a remote team.

Analyze and Optimize the Portfolio of [RLI, Corp], an Insurance Company under Regulatory Constraints.

Round 8 of the Capstone Decision

Examine your three financial measures (KPIs) that you will track through your simulation (note – this assignment will repeat for every round that you run). Financial Measures can be found in the various reports that Capsim creates after you have completed a round.

Include a 4th financial measure of your choice that adds to your understanding of the company’s performance. See page 1 of the Courier for some ideas for different financial measures to examine.

In each round, you are making some of your decisions based on the Customer Buying Criteria – what do the customers expect in the products that they purchase? This information for each of your products in the five product segments can be found on pages 5-9 of the Courier.

Report on a different Customer Buying Criteria each week. For example, for this assignment look at Size for your product Able in the Traditional segment. Identify the criteria, define the criteria (the Capsim Help & Support can help with this). Then explain what the customer expectations are and what you set for your product on that dimension. Finally, compare your position with the Customer expectations and how the competitors set that number for their products.