I need a case study analysis and solution /proposal to present to potential investors.
Main questions:
What do you
see as main strategic challenges for Bananas and Demonstrate? Opportunities?
What are
the sources of competitive advantage of Bananas and Demonstrate? How should
they be interpreted to resolve the question of the future form of the company?
we use the 2015 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) dataset for our analysis. PISA assesses skills of 15-year-old students across many countries and involves data on student performance (reading, mathematics and science knowledge), as well as parent, school and teacher questionnaires. The data is publicly available and can be downloaded from the PISA website under the section SPSS (TM) Data Files (compressed) (https://www.oecd.org/pisa/data/2015database/). However, these are large files and take some time to download and convert to Stata format. Therefore we have prepared a smaller merged dataset of the Student and School questionnaire data files which now only includes the relevant variables. (data for question3.dta) I don’t have a separate list of the variable definitions, but I would suggest to have a look at the codebooks on https://www.oecd.org/pisa/data/2015database/ which contain the names and variable labels, so use the search function to find the variables that you are looking for.
For this milestone, submit the target market factors section of the final project. You will analyze international and external market factors, political factors, and cultural factors. Also describe communication challenges, what your organization can offer to the target nation, competitor’s media preferences, how your sport organization differs from others, and pricing.
Part 1: What was your a-ha moment in the course? Explain three ways the course helped refine the way you think about your strengths, skills, and approach to leadership in the rapidly evolving healthcare environment. Identify an area of care in healthcare
leadership in informatics you learned during this course that you may now pursue in your future.
Part 2: What are the challenges of being a change agent in respect to Healthcare Informatics and Innovation and ethical concerns?
How will you continue to address these challenges? What can you apply from this course to your current or future career? Discuss two techniques related to mindfulness, dialogue, collaboration or change that you will apply as a healthcare professional in the evolving healthcare environment in informatics.
Required Readings:
1. Lorch, J. (2020, May 22). Informatics team helps nonprofit better serve Seattles homeless. University of Washington
Information School. https://ischool.uw.edu/news/2020/05/informatics-team-helps-nonprofit-better-serve-seattles-homeless
2. Moore, J. H., Barnett, I., Boland, M. R., Chen, Y., Demiris, G., Gonzalez-Hernandez, G., Herman, D. S., Himes, B. E., Hubbard, R.
A., Kim, D., Morris, J. S., Mowery, D. L., Ritchie, M. D., Shen, L., Urbanowicz, R., & Holmes, J. H. (2020). Ideas for how
informaticians can get involved with COVID-19 research. BioData Mining, 13(3). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13040-020-00213-y
Recommended Readings: None
Media:
1. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. (2020, March 16). Ethical dilemmas posed by COVID-19 [Video]. YouTube.
The professor has requested a few minor changes that are noted and highlighted on the paper. FOCUS on the comments only and make the necessary changes.
It’s definitely not more than 2 pages worth of work.
Should take less than 24 hours to complete
Submit your homework for Chapters 3 & 4 in ONE WORD DOCUMENT to the Chapter 3 & 4 folder in the Assignments area. Due by 11:59 PM June 21st. Late work accepted until 11:59 PM June 28th.
Homework should be typed and you should check your spelling and grammar (which includes using correct punctuation and capitalization). If you use a quote or reference a source, you need to provide an APA citation and reference for your resource.
CHAPTER THREE
Chapter 3: When discussing socialization, sociologists often focus on what we have learned from our agents of socialization (family, peers, school, religion, work, etc….). For this assignment, I want you to think back to your schooling from ages 5-18 (e.g. K-12) and think very specifically about what you learned in school from EITHER sports/athletics or art/music.
Not everyone was into sports or art, some people were into both, but at some point in your K-12 career, you were exposed to both. Whichever topic you choose (sports or art, which includes music/literature), I want you to think about how what you learned from sports or art that has “shaped, molded, influenced” you even to this day. For example, what life lessons have you learned or what skills have you gained from the experience that you still find important, useful, or that have affected how you live your life.
For the sake of this assignment, I’d like you to only focus on EITHER sports OR art, not both, or you “dilute” your reflection 🙂 This is a reflection assignment, so I want you to actually take some time to reflect, or think back, to your earlier years and think about what you learned from, or how you were affected by, those classes, lessons, practices, or games. What I don’t want it just retelling a memory without considering the main point of this chapter, which is socialization.
Write up your reflection in 200 or more words, check for spelling/grammar and use APA citations and references if you need to (though this is all coming from your own life experiences, so you shouldn’t need to google anything!). 10 points total LO 4, 11, 14
CHAPTER FOUR Mini Status Set
Chapter four introduces us to the concepts of statuses and roles. We all OCCUPY statuses and we PLAY roles associated with those statuses. All statuses are EITHER achieved or ascribed. The collection of statuses we occupy at the current time is called our Status Set. Each status has several roles associated with it. A role is an expectation, obligation, right/privilege associated with a particular status. E.g. an expectation of a student is to show up for class. LO 1
For Chapter 4, I want you to think about your own statuses and roles and identify a few of them in the chart below. *Hint statuses are nouns and roles should be verbs/actions
These are YOUR own actual and current statuses; Ive seen people include: prince, doctor, and president before which makes me wonder why theyre taking an intro level sociology class?
Name four statuses in the far-left column, one in each box. The first row is filled in for you with the status and roles of student to show you how its done. No one should use student as his/her/their own example as its already done.
In the second column, you will identify whether your status is achieved or ascribed by bolding or circling the terms already listed. *At least ONE of your statuses should be ASCRIBED.
In the remaining columns to the right of your status, you will list ONE role per box.
You must identify at least THREE roles per status. Again, one per box.
Each box is worth point, for a total of 10 points for the whole chart.
You should be able to fill in the chart below or copy and paste it into a new Word document.
You can also delete the prompts (like status or role) in the boxes when filling them in with your own genius
Identify Statuses in this column
Statuses are nouns
Is the status achieved or ascribed?
Role
Verbs/actions
Role
Verbs/actions
Role
Verbs/actions
Example: Student
Achieved or Ascribed
Studies for tests
Pays tuition
Cooperates with classmates on group work
Status:
Achieved or Ascribed
Role
Role
Role
Status:
Achieved or Ascribed
Role
Role
Role
Status:
Achieved or Ascribed
Role
Role
Role
Status:
Achieved or Ascribed
Role
Role
Role
found this interesting article on how the doctor’s office as we know it today will be changing in the future.
https://www.inc.com/kimberly-weisul/startups-rethinking-doctors-office-future.html
You will need to summarize the article and also if needed, research our Library’s LIRN Databases for more similar articles, no articles about different health care news.
Write a min 2 page report on the subject and use APA 7 Format. and also list all your references.
lease turn in any outstanding or late work as well as your final film analysis by the end of the week!
Assignment Summary
Since the 1920s Hollywood movies and television series have portrayed the lives of pirates in and around the Caribbean region. Students are required to select an individual film and write a substantive and thoughtful critique utilizing materials learned in class and in course readings. The ultimate purpose of this assignment is to see what you “carry forward” from this class and how you can put it to work in thinking critically about representations of piracy that you’ll encounter in the future.
Critiques should be 3-5 pages in length and follow standard paper formatting (double spaced, 12 point, MLA citation). While citing materials from the class is not a requirement, I would encourage you to do so where appropriate.
There are several titles to choose from (listed below). Please note that papers should NOT be a synopsis of the plot or a description of your favorite/least favorite character or even a description of some aspects of the film. This is the biggest “mistake” I tend to see on these papers: a paper that is ultimately descriptive rather than analytical. Rather, you are expected to comment on the choices made by the makers of the film/game concerning how pirates are portrayed and to think about that critically.
Here is a sample academic journal article that investigates the representation of piracy in the Disneyland ride, Pirates of the Caribbean movies as well as older Hollywood films. It goes over a lot of the material we covered in class and might give you some ideas.
Michael Digh “Pirates without piracy: criminality, rebellion and anarcho-libertarianism inthe pirate film”
Questions to consider
Here are some questions to consider, based on the work we’ve done in class. I”m not suggesting you answer all of these (!!), just that one or more of these might help you frame your reading of the movie and prompt you into a more analytical or critical rather than descriptive mindset:
How are pirates portrayed in this film/series and how does it compare to portrayals we’ve seen in other movies or other books? If you think comparatively like this, don’t just list the differences or similarities; think about why the differences matter (or don’t).
Remember that Kinkor wrote that utterly divorced from historical reality, the romantic appeal of fiction such as Treasure Island is undeniable and pervasive and has contributed to shrouding pirates in the mists of myth and myopia. The portrayal of pirates as aberrant and predatory individuals prompted by greed, adventurism and/or simple perversity also safely insulates audiences from the broader socio-economic implications or piracy. The focus is on the voyages, the crimes and the personalities rather than the motivations for the crimes, the context for the voyages and the principles. Do you think Kinkor’s statement applies to the film/series you’ve selected? If so, how? What is left out of the story? Think, for example, of Mutiny on the Bounty and how it might be the photographic inverse of a pirate film – depicting all that is typically left out.
What is the historical moment being portrayed in the movie (Renaissance piracy, the Golden Age of piracy, later piracy?) How does it matter – or does it not matter? (For example, does representing a certain historical moment of piracy make a commentary about class or about political beliefs?) How would you compare it to the historiography we’ve been reading of piracy? What aspects of piracy are picked up on? What aspects of piracy are downplayed or invisible?
Thinking about the reading we did with Bart Robert’s articles: how would you describe the culture, values or principles associated with piracy in the film? What do the pirates want and how do they relate to others? And then think about why this might matter.
Does the film tell you anything about what life on the ship might have been like for sea-faring men/women more generally – do you get a sense of the collectivity that seems to have been important in historical piracy – or does it focus, instead, on the exemplary figure of a captain or leader?
Dawdy and Bonni write that “piracy, because of its moral ambiguity, lends itself to quite different material fantasies, and quite different political interpretations.” What fantasy do you see being played out in the film through the figure of piracy? Or, what is the “cultural work” being done by piracy in the film? Are the pirates figures of utopian counter-spaces, public enemies, or figures of ambivalent relations to a country’s particular history? Is there a pirate utopia or heterotopia represented?
Dawdy and Bonni define piracy as a “morally ambiguous property seizure committed by an organized group.” Does the film/series say anything about property and about “legitimate or legal” ways to acquire and distribute property? Can you read anxieties about wealth, money and accumulation in the film?
Can you comment on constructions of race and gender in the film/series and what we know about race, gender and piracy? Why does this matter?
Does the movie tie piracy into other stories about imperialism, trade & money, questions of state power, slavery, work and labor etc.? Or is piracy represented as an ahistorical and time-less phenomena?
Think about the novel Treasure Island (and before that Captain Charles Johnsons’ accounts of pirate lives) as the matrix or blue-print for many contemporary tellings of piracy. That is, it establishes the form or the kinds of stories we can tell. How does the film/series you are analyzing relate to Treasure Island – what does it copy or carry forward from that novel? On the other hand, does it try to rewrite or unwrite the stereotypes of piracy that we get from that novel?
In the case of specific adaptations of Treasure Island, how would you compare the movie to the book? How does it rewrite the story – or how does it read the story? What aspects does it highlight or downplay?
While Crossbones is a novel it is also a theoretical reflection on the archive of stories we tell about piracy and how that might relate to the contemporary moment: could you say the same about the film/series you’re analyzing?
What am I looking for?
I am interested principally in your ability to be smart, insightful and thoughtful; i.e. content! This also means that I’m not terribly impressed by having you simply regurgitate things I have said in class. I want to see evidence of the development of your own critical thinking.
I am interested in your ability to synthesize across disparate materials. Try to avoid either speaking on the one hand in broad, vague generalities, without any specific references to the material at hand, and on the other hand writing a paper that is a collection of small details but that doesnt contain a larger movement of syntheses and conclusions. Be sure to include specific quotes from the readings and specific descriptions/quotes from the documentary.
I am interested in your ability to write concisely. Many students have gotten in the habit of writing sentences that are all fluff and no content or of saying in five long vague sentences what could be said in one sentence.
While you should always be pushing to expand the boundaries of your vocabulary students often insert too many complicated words in an effort to be sophisticated and end up either simply using words incorrectly or making their writing too garbled to read. I will be looking for precision in your word choices.
Your assignments should have a logical progression, rather than jump randomly from idea to idea.
Use correct formal written English. Avoid slang and colloquial expressions. I also expect your final assignment to be free of spelling and grammar errors. This also means you should avoid run–on sentences and sentence fragments (i.e. every sentence needs a subject and a verb!!) If English is not your native language and you struggle with some grammatical aspects you should get in the habit of asking someone else with greater mastery of the language to check it over. (I do this myself when I need to undertake writing projects in languages I am fluent in but do not fully master, so there’s no shame in it! Its just a good practice!) You may go to the UCI writing center for help: http://www.writingcenter.uci.edu/Links to an external site.
Grading Rubric
An “A” paper will make a specific argument about the film/game you’re analyzing and not simply be a description of the film. It will also make smart, interesting and thoughtful connections between different class materials and the film/game you’ve chosen to analyze, showing me that you’re thinking about the different concepts that have been introduced in class in ways that go beyond our class discussions. It will be smooth and well-written, free of grammatical mistakes.
A “B” paper will be a competent reflection on class materials, which shows that you’ve understood a good portion of the reading and are thinking about the material. It will contain a good account of the film/game you’re analyzing but may be more descriptive than argumentative. There may be minor errors in grammar, or minor problems in the organization of your thoughts or writing.
A “C” paper or below will demonstrate basic competence with materials. It will show that you’ve read the materials but may have more significant problems in grammar, writing, or organization of thoughts. It may be underdeveloped and may also not give a sufficient enough of an account of the film/game you’ve selected to analyze.
Any paper below a C will fall short in significant ways from the expectations outlined above: it will be much too short, or not really engage with the materials or question at hand.
Movies/materials that are acceptable for this final project (I may consider other ones but you should email me to request them specifically):
1 – Peter Pan
2 The Black Pirate (1926)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016654/
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3 Captain Kidd (1945)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1cYCp8jCtg&feature=player_embedded
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4 Treasure Island (1950) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Island_(1950_film)
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5 – Treasure Island (1990)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1QThmO1J2E
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6 – Treasure Island (2012)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1820723/
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7 – Treasure Planet (2002)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133240/
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8 – Any of the Pirates of the Caribbean (with Johnny Depp) movies (1-5)
9 – Black Sails, episodes from season 1
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2375692/
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(You should be aware that this show contains sexually explicit scenes and more violence than the other options on this list)
10 – Assasin’s Creed IV (game) – Black Flag. Please note that I think this option is more challenging than the other ones since it is an interactive game experience.
Considering that our company is into footwear, one may have to understand the dynamics of footwear industry. Variants of footwear could be like casual wear, formal, sports, hybrid etc.
Let us restrict ourselves to sportswear.
Hence vision statement could be Create seamless and unparalleled sports and athletic footwear that provides extra comfort to the players and enhance their performance through high quality materials.
Every vision statement should be aligned with strategic goals. Strategic goals should be
Promote diverse and competitive work environment while providing quality products with stringent quality control.
To answer Where we are headed,
Aligned vision statement and strategic goals should lead to a strong financial performance.
Increase in earnings per share, better credit rating (say A to A+) and increase revenue by 10%.
In terms of non-financial performances, we head towards utilizing retail outlets better, reduced operational costs, Increased celebrity appeal and expand into unexplored markets.
The way company is heading into the future makes perfect sense as above approach would result in capturing better part of the market share which is what any company would ultimately aim for.
Consider your venture or business. Determine the real property you need for your venture and the purpose of the real property. Evaluate the advantages of securing the real property and the disadvantages of not securing the real property.