Author: chris

Using a company of your choice, determine the strategic business goals. Develop an IT strategy that aligns to the business goals. You can use the balanced scorecard approach or you can develop your own method for defining and aligning the IT strategy to the business strategy. You will need to cite at least two credible sources that will provide justification for your strategy or approach.

Finding a company: If you are employed, it is best for you to use your current place of employment so you can practically apply the concepts in this assignment. Alternatively, you can use a nonprofit organization or any other organization you may have ties or access to.

Your IT strategy should include:

• Business Goals and Objectives
  • List at least two or three specific business goals for the next year or two with an explanation of the business’ rationale for the goal.
  • List an objective for each business goal to explain what the company needs to do to achieve the goal.
• IT Strategies aligned with business goals and objectives
  • List one or two IT strategies for each business goal
    • These should be recommended strategies that would enable the business goals and objectives to be achieved.
    • If your company already has IT strategies, you may provide an analysis and justification or new recommendation for each of the strategies
• Organizational Structure
  • Describe the structure of the organization including:
    • Organizational design
    • Organizational culture
    • Leadership factors (the types of leadership displayed within the company)
    • Business processes
    • Physical layout (i.e., how many offices, virtual offices, international locations)
• IT Infrastructure
  • Describe the current IT infrastructure including:
    • Hardware
    • Software
    • Network
    • IT resources
  • This should be a high-level overview
• IT Challenges
  • Describe internal and external challenges IT faces in meeting the business needs
  • Include social and/or ethical considerations
• Risks
  • Describe risks IT might face when implementing change

As you develop your strategy, you may want to consider the following:

• An effective IT strategy will enable the business operations, helping business leaders achieve business goals more efficiently and effectively.
• Focus on top priorities. Take the time to understand organizational issues, how they are related, and how they affect performance. Determine what will happen if nothing changes and where IT can have the greatest, positive impact.
• Identify how IT supports business processes. The business is relying on their capabilities to achieve the business goals. The IT strategy should include a plan for supporting those business capabilities, creating efficiencies, and competitive advantage for the business.
• Define IT priorities and governance for IT. Without priorities and a process for IT governance in place, progress will be slowed. An agreed upon plan for governing IT will enable the decision process.

Understand the challenges. Improving processes and increasing efficiencies through IT implementation also requires behavioral and sometimes organizational change. With these changes come inherent challenges. Understanding and planning for those challenges will increase the chance of success in meeting the business goals.

Find at least two articles  that highlight and discuss two of the biggest challenges facing financial managers today. One of the articles should be about the challenge of maintaining ethical financial integrity and the other article should be on any other challenge that a financial manager may face (e.g., competition, foreign markets, government intervention, etc.).

Summarize your findings from the articles in a two- to three-page paper (excluding title and references pages).

 

 

Prompt: My parents just offered me a trip to a European capital, but since I’ve already been to London, Paris, Rome and other places in Western Europe, I would like to give Eastern Europe a try. My friend Mike wants me to go to Prague, Lisa suggested Budapest, but I hear you are taking Romanian at ASU, and wonder if you may want to share some of your insight into Bucharest and help me make up my mind.

The resarch paper should be 5 five pages plus cover page and bibiography 7 pages total. style MLA,Double space.

 

1. back ground

A. US

B. England

2. pros-con/ compare and contact

A.US

B.England

3.my opeanine about both country health care systm. ( should be a bage)

 

 

1. Which do you believe to be a superior resolution process, arbitration or court action? Why? Explain your answer.

Your response should be at least 150 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

2. Detail the process normally utilized in the selection of an arbitrator. How does the selected arbitrator interpret ambiguous contract provisions?
Your response should be at least 150 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

3. Differentiate the five principles that govern the arbitration of grievances under collective bargaining.

Your response should be at least 150 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

4. Based on what you have learned in the course, do you believe you would make a good arbitrator? Why or why not?

Your response should be at least 150 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

You will provide a draft of your completed Procurement Life Cycle Plan. This draft will be posted to your discussion board for peer review. The plan will include the following sections:

• Section 1: Preparation
  • Planning the procurement contract
  • Defining supplier requirements
• Section 2: Management
  • Selecting the appropriate source
  • Negotiate, select, and award the purchase contract
• Section 3: Close Out Contracts
  • List the elements typically used to manage supplier performance
  • How will the company be verifying receipts?
  • What will the invoice process and contract closeout process be, and why is this important?
• Section 4: Summary
  • Executive Summary
  • Conclusion and Recommendations

Week 4 Assignment: Key Assignment Draft

Section 4: Summary section will include the following:

• Executive Summary (or an introduction to your Procurement Life Cycle)
• Conclusion or recommendation

Article Critique This assignment provides you with an opportunity to read an article and then to share your thoughts about the article by critiquing the details, including the decisions made. In order to access the resource below, you must first log into the myCSU Student Portal and access the Academic OneFile database within the CSU Online Library This article includes details and assertions about the ethical choices/decisions made by Edward J. Snowden, a former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor. Here is the reference citation for the article: Securing our liberty. (2013). Commonweal, 140(12), 5. After reading the article, draft a two-page response by discussing the U.S. government’s decision to acquire phone and internet data without disclosing its intentions to citizens. For this assignment, consider the NSA as an organization (i.e., business) and Snowden as a manager. How have the decisions of this event impacted the fairness of the U.S. government, its citizens, and Snowden? How did ethics, perhaps, influence Snowden’s decision to leak information? In this event, what is the greater good and also the consequences/sacrifices of that greater good? Based on the details of this event, what can we learn about making important decisions as a leader and manager? This event was covered by several news and media organizations, so there should be plenty of articles in the library. Conduct a bit more research in the online library related to this event involving Edward Snowden and the U.S. government—see what else you can discover about the event to determine an appropriate punishment, if any, for Snowden’s conduct. Include at least one additional source from the library in your response. The purpose of this assignment is for you to think critically about managers (and other leaders) making important decisions, and the process managers use to make important decisions. Consider how important it is to collect all of the facts before making an important decision, such as those involving fairness and ethics. Use APA Style to format your response.

 

You must now identify and discuss some of the legal and ethical considerations that must be taken into account in constructing your proposed facility. You are required to include the following:

• Define and discuss the differences between licensure, certification, and accreditation as they relate to health care facilities.
• Discuss the ethical or legal requirements and responsibilities that a health care organization has in ensuring its facility is licensed, certified, and accredited. When discussing licensure requirements, ensure that you research requirements based on the state in which you reside.
• Define and discuss the differences between the licensure and certification as they relate to health care providers or professionals.
• Discuss the ethical or legal requirements and responsibilities that a health care organization has in ensuring its staff members are licensed and certified.
• Research and discuss an accrediting body that will provide accreditation to the facility you are proposing. Ensure that you provide a history of the organization, what types of facilities they accredit, and how the organization has impacted the quality of health care in the United States.

Identify an issue that interests you and that you think is important and related to community development. write a description of this issue, how this issure relates to community development, why the issue is of interest to you and why it is important. FIND ONE WEB OR PRINT RESOURCE THAT ALSO DESCRIBES THE ISSUE AND PROVIDE THE FULL CITATION FOR THAT RESOURCE. it is fine to use information from current news reports, national publie radio, national magazines (e.g., national geographic, national history), or local newspapers for this assignemtn. then briefly describe the bias, and the reliability of the resource).

For this assignment, you will choose an organization to analyze. This organization can be one you are personally familiar with, or one you have observed to be an effective organization, You now become a newly appointed senior leader in that organization.

 

As a new leader, you must prepare a report for the CEO that assesses the organization’s overall alignment between its vision, mission, values, and strategy. This report should consist of the following sections:

 

1. An analysis of the strategic cascade of the organization

   This includes assessing the organization’s strategy and market position. Use the framework implied in Michael Porter’s (1997) article “What is Strategy.” When describing the business strategy of your organization, consider the following questions:

   • What is the target market (target customer)?
   • What is your organization’s value proposition (How does it deliver value that satisfies the target’s wants and needs?)?
   • How is your product or service positioned in the market (What specific features and attributes define the product/service and how is its value reflected in its pricing, distribution, marketing communications, etc.?)?
   • How is your organization sustainably different from your competitors (What is the source of uniqueness and how sustainable is it from being diminished by competitors?)?
2. A strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis

   A SWOT analysis is a strategy planning tool that examines both internal and external environments for factors and trends that should shape planning and operations over the next five years. Environmental factors internal to the company are classified as strengths (to be leveraged) or weaknesses (to be mitigated), while external factors are classified as either opportunities (to be pursued) or threats (to be monitored and responded to).

   Some primer questions for the SWOT analysis include the following:

   Strengths

   • What advantages does your organization have?
   • What do you do better than anyone else?
   • What unique or lowest-cost resources can you draw upon that others cannot?
   • What do people in your market see as your strengths?
   • What factors mean that you “get the sale”?
   • What is your organization’s unique selling proposition (USP)?

   Weaknesses

   • What aspects of your product or service could you improve?
   • What market segments or competitive areas should you avoid?
   • What are people in your market likely to see as weaknesses?
   • What factors can make you lose sales?

   Opportunities

   • What good opportunities can you spot?
   • What interesting trends are you aware of?Useful opportunities can come from such things as the following:
     • Changes in technology and markets on both a broad and narrow scale
     • Changes in government policy related to your field
     • Changes in social patterns, population profiles, lifestyle changes, and so on
     • Local events

   Threats

   • What obstacles do you face?
   • What are your competitors doing?
   • Are quality standards or specifications for your job, products, or services changing?
   • Is changing technology threatening your position?
   • Do you have bad debt or cash-flow problems?
   • Could any of your weaknesses seriously threaten your business?
3. A summary of the internal environment, including the organization’s values and the key elements of the organization architecture that influence worker behavior.

   Include the following characteristics when analyzing the internal environment:

• Structure: This includes the ways the organization assigns formal roles and responsibilities, decision-making authority, expertise and skills, and work tasks. Think of the organization chart and how its implied structure directs the decision making, resource allocation, and workflow of the organization. Is it consistent with the strategy?
• Systems: This comprises the information flows that coordinate activities between groups and across the organization structure while helping direct worker behavior, including performance management, financial management, operating, forecasting and planning, and other regulating mechanisms. How do these systems help align workers and their actions with the strategy?
• Culture: This consists of the unwritten rules and norms that govern worker behavior and help coordinate the activities across structural boundaries. Is the organization culture an enabler or impediment to the corporate strategy? What specific behaviors embedded in the culture support the strategy? What specific behaviors block the strategy?

A synthesis of the information evaluating the ability of the organization to implement the strategy using Kouzes and Posner’s Five Practices (for example, modeling the way) as a framework.

Include answers to the following:

• Company Culture
  • Describe the values and culture of your organization.
  • What are the values of your organization?
  • How are they reflected in the behaviors you see at work?
• Employee Behaviors
  • Describe the behaviors in your organization.
  • Are these behaviors consistent with the business strategy?
  • Where do they conflict with the strategy?
  • What new behaviors are required to align with the strategy?
• Leadership
  • How might you and other leaders create new behaviors to support the strategy?
  • What specific actions would you implement to communicate, motivate, model the way, coach, inspire the vision, challenge the process, and encourage the heart?

Your response to each part of the assignment should be approximately three pages.

 

Your final product will be in a word document and be approximately 10–12 pages in length and utilize 4–7 scholarly sources in your research. Your paper should be written in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.