Author: chris

1) Determine whether the evaluated group is a population or a sample

a) Based on a randomly selected group of 500 patients with high cholesterol, it was found that 67% have heart disease. Is this a population or a sample; explain your answer.

b) An investigation of 150 randomly selected local restaurants concluded that 42% of local restaurants have serious health code violations. Is this a population or a sample; explain your answer.

2) Determine whether the given value is a statistic or a parameter.

a) A researcher determines that 42.7% of all downtown office buildings have ventilation problems. Is this a statistic or a parameter; explain your answer.

b) After taking the first exam, 15 of the students dropped the class. Is this a statistic or a parameter; explain your answer.

3) Identify the type of sampling used.

a) A tax auditor selects every 1000th income tax return that is received. What type of sample is this and why?

b) The name of each contestant is written on a separate card, and the cards are placed in a bag with three names being picked from the bag. What type of sample is this and why?

4) Is the study experimental or observation and why?

a) A political pollster reports that his candidate has a 10% lead in the polls with 10% undecided.

5) Select the study that is most appropriate and EXPLAIN WHY it is most appropriate for the study.

a) Is the aspirin produced by a particular pharmaceutical company better than that of a competitor at relieving headaches? Which of the following would best be used to study this: 1) a case-controlled observation; 2) an observation; 3) a double-blind experimental procedure; and 4) and experimental procedure.

From Chapter One

1) Focus on Public Health—On page 44 of the text, it discusses the Harvard Nurses’ Health Study, which is a very well-known study that has been conducted for a number of years. Answer discussion question two at the end of the article.

Explain why the Harvard Nurses’ Health Study is an observational study. Critics sometimes say that the results would be more valid if obtained by experiments rather than observations. Discuss whether it would be possible to gather similar data by carrying out experi- ments in a practical and ethical way

Chapter Two

1) Identify the following variables as either qualitative or quantitative and EXPLAIN your answers.

a. The number of people on a jury.

b. The color of your house

2) Identify the number as either continuous or discrete and EXPLAIN your answers.

a. The average height of all freshmen entering college in a certain year is 68.4 inches.

b. The number of limbs on a 2-year-old oak tree is 21.

3) Determine which of the four levels of measurement is most appropriate and explain your answer.

a. Temperatures in degrees Fahrenheit of the ocean at various depths.

b. The rank of individuals in the military

c. The number of people with blue, brown and red hair in a classroom

4) Determine the following (show your work):

a. The speed of a new microprocessor is 800MHZ, but a new test of its speed gives a measurement of 820MHZ. What is the absolute error? What is the relative error?

b. Convert 1/16 to a percent

c. Convert 0.45 to a percent

d. Humanities majors spend an average of $115 per course on books. Mathematics majors spend an average of $70 per course on books.

What is the percent difference between the two amounts relative to the amount for mathematics majors (round to the nearest percent)?

e. Suppose that the cost of a statistics text was $50 in 1985 and is $100 in 2000. What is the “Statistics Text Index” number, rounded to the nearest tenth, for the 2000 edition with the 1985 price as the reference value?

From Chapter Two

2) Focus on Economics—On page 76 and 77, the article looks at an important issue to everyone—the economy. In particular it is focusing on whether our standard of living is improving. Answer discussion question one at the back of the article.

Find examples in your own spending or the spending of friends and family of substitution effects and the purchase of products that were unavailable or lower quality a few years ago. Overall, do you think these examples support the claim that the CPI overstates the effects of inflation? Defend your opinion

DIABETES

Assignment 2: Dropbox Assignment

The Course Project

In this week, you will complete the tasks of the project topic you selected in Week 1.

Topic 1: Disease Process

• Select a disease process to be studied.
• Research the disease and compile a bulleted list of symptoms, diagnostic procedures, progression, treatments, etc.
• Identify all of the healthcare providers in the healthcare system that can treat this illness and the potential complications of this illness.
• Create a list of providers who treat this disease in your area.

Topic 2: Healthcare Profession

• Select a healthcare profession.
• Identify the level of the profession: primary care, specialty, subspecialty, combined specialty, assistant, paraprofessional, etc.
• Explain the place of this profession in the healthcare system. Is it in diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation, etc.? Some professions will embrace all of these areas. Note these.

Submit your answers in a 2- to 3-page Microsoft Word document. Support your answers with appropriate examples and research.

Cite all references in APA format.

Review Fisher Price toys  website and other available information and answer the following:

• What type of process design do they use: Make to Order, Make to Stock, or Batch?

• What are two items regarding the manufacturing process related to the organization that the team finds unique or interesting?

Collaborate as a team on the above questions.

Prepare a 350- to 1,050-word paper detailing the findings of your discussion

Identify Republic Services Recycling Division

Create an MS PowerPoint Presentation in which you describe the current state of your selected company’s supply chain and an identified process.

Required Elements:

• Describe the company’s supply chain.

• Identify a process internal to the company that you wish to analyze.

• Describe the process internal to the company that you wish to analyze.

• Identify an appropriate design approach for the process you have chosen.

• Create a high-level AS IS process flow chart using an appropriate tool.

• Identify at least one metric to measure the process and its application (how, what, when, and who).

• Use an appropriate tool to collect data for each step of the process.

• PowerPoint includes 4-5 content slides (not including cover and reference slides) with detailed speaker notes.

You are a CEO of a medium sized US based manufacturing company looking for opportunities to expand its operations globally.

 

Do the following to complete this assignment:

 

• Select two countries, one developed and one emerging, where you would like to invest.
• Describe the company, its industry, its products, the markets it serves, and the type of operations that will be taken abroad.
• Consider the assigned readings and the research literature related to this module and develop a country risk analysis report for your company to assess the attractiveness of each country for your business and decide what (if any) opportunity should be pursued.
• Analyze the political, social, and economic factors. Use current research and statistics from reputable sources.

 

Write a minimum three-page report. Make sure you write in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Use the APA format.

 

Assignment Overview

Effective operations management, particularly strategic planning, requires a thorough understanding of the organization itself.  The vision of the organization’s founder, CEO, or strategic-management team cannot be realized if it is not consistent with the assumptions and beliefs, values and culture that prevail in the organization.  One of the tasks of strategic planners is to assess these organizational qualities and where inconsistencies are found, decide whether to change the vision or the organization.

 

Another task is to evaluate prevailing assumptions, beliefs and values to determine whether they are helping or hurting the organization.  Appropriate assumptions, beliefs and values have two main characteristics: 1) they reflect internal and external realities, and 2) they help the organization to achieve its vision.  Inappropriate assumptions, beliefs, and values have opposite effects and must be changed before top managers attempt to introduce a new vision.

 

Sometimes the operations planning team works with the CEO and the top managers to develop a new vision for the organization.  If this is the case, knowledge about the organization’s internal environment helps planners to develop an appropriate vision.  The emerging vision also should meet two criteria for profitability: 1) it should involve business/products with the potential for leveraged customer value, and 2) it should involve business/products with the potential for increased competitive advantage through system innovation.  These criteria are essential because they involve changes in customer perception and organizational operations, both which achieved through effective management and should not require extensive capital outlays.

 

The strategic planning team helps the organization to devise a grand strategy to achieve the vision and then develops specific goals, objectives and plans of action.  Where the CEO and the top have difficulty thinking through the strategy, goals, or objectives these can be analyzed by the use of the critical-success-factor-method.

 

Many executives think in terms of what it takes to be successful rather than in terms of grand strategy, goals and objectives.  So the question we should ask ourselves is, “What does it take to be a successful business?  Some people refer to the answer to this question as the “critical success factors” (coined by John Rockart).  Once the critical success factors for the business are identified, executives can use them to develop strategies.  The method can be applied by strategic planners within the company or by an out side management consultant or advisor.  The three steps to this process are:

 

1. Generate success factors.  In applying this approach in an organization, the

 

strategic planner meets with the CEO and asks, the question we discussed

 

earlier, “ What does it take to be successful in this business?”  The result is a

 

first cut list of critical success factors.  My experience as a consult performing

 

this type of analysis is that you need to query several people in top

 

management.  This approach gives you a broader view of the organization.

 

 

 

2.  Refine CSFs into goals and objectives.  The planner reviews the CSFs and

 

and evaluates and restates them in a clearer and more precise language.

 

At that point we seek to establish some goals based on the CSFs.  In the end

 

we pare the list down to 7-10 critical factors.

 

3.  We then determine how to measure these factors (hard data if possible).

 

The group discusses each CSF in turn and decides on its treatment.  Sometimes we may select a subcommittee to consider a particular CSF and it performance measures in more depth.  My experience using this type of internal analysis has proven to be good tool to evaluate the internal environment of an organization.

 

Some companies have quite effective internal operations and yet fail because of unfavorable conditions in the environment.  Others are able to generate good or even outstanding profits, despite a number of internal problems simply because they happen to be in the right place at the right time.

 

To be successful and to maintain a competitive advantage, an organization must constantly monitor events, tendencies, and stakeholder demands in i

Write a 1,250- to 1,500-word paper on the innovation planning and

design process addressed in Week Two ( See attached doc for details ). Include the following in your

paper:

 

•  Analyze the internal and external factors related to designing

innovation strategies. Describe how they relate to one another and to

the overall innovation process.

 

•  Describe the factors involved in innovation systems design. Explain

the importance of innovation systems.

 

•  Describe the steps involved in the innovation planning process.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines and incorporate at

least four scholarly references in addition to your texts.

The artist Georges Seurat is one of the world’s most fascinating artists. His technique of pointillism was pivotal in inspiring future generations of painters to think about painting in both individualistic and non-conformist ways. This week’s reading references many artists from different movements (i.e. Pablo Picasso, Leonardo da Vinci).

Conduct research on an artist from any movement that you find interesting. Choose one of their works. Analyze the image using the four visual cues from your reading: color, form, depth, and movement. Explain how the artist makes use of these four cues.

In your deconstruction of the image, also explain how the physiology of the eye helps you to see the four cues.

This paper should be 2-3 pages long. Be sure to cite any resources using proper APA notation.

Scenario:

You have been hired as a consultant to evaluate the performance of a manufacturing or service organization. As part of your function, you need to assess the organization’s current position with regard to their business operations, strategy, and organizational structure, as well as identify potential ethical issues management may face. The executive management team has asked you to submit a report of your findings.

Instructions:

Choose a publicly traded manufacturing or service organization to be the subject of your work for LASA 1 and LASA 2. (You should choose a different organization than you have used for previous assignments.) Select an organization about which there is an abundance of information made readily available to the public (via the corporate website, industry publications, business journals, etc.).

In preparation for your report, conduct your review of the organization using the following approach:

• Evaluate the company’s business strategy and global competitiveness plan.
• Conduct an internal assessment using SWOT analysis.
• Assess the external environment via an external scenario evaluation.
• Sketch the company’s organizational structure.
• Using the tools of business process design, define the organization’s business process.
• Identify any potential ethical issues that may impact the traditional management functions of the company and recommend preventative measures.

Utilize at least three sources in your research. Your document 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.

You have been hired as a consultant by your town’s emergency management coordinator to help develop emergency action plans. One of the reasons you were selected is your expertise in using the General Behavior Model (GEBMO) to assess risks. Your first task is to assess the hazardous material risks at a local gas station. The station has one 30,000-gallon underground storage tank compartmentalized to hold 10,000 gallons each of the three gasoline grades, and there is one additional 10,000-gallon tank for diesel fuel. The station has four pumps, and each one can deliver all four products. Also on site is a 2,500 sq. ft. concrete block building used for the cashier and retail sales of service station and convenience store items. The station is located at a busy intersection near the center of town. It is adjacent to several other local businesses that do a brisk business during the day. Across the street from the station is a large housing development with an elementary school. Behind the station is a city park with playgrounds, baseball fields, and a large wooded area. Use the GEBMO framework to assess the risks related to the fuels in the underground tanks. Consider physical, chemical, and natural hazards that may contribute to the risks.

1. Discuss how you applied each of the steps in the GEBMO process and what risks you identified.

2. Provide recommendations for preventing spills or releases.

3. Discuss response actions required in the event of a spill or release

The purpose of this assignment is to develop a Mobile eMarketing strategy for one of the following options:

 

1. A current business you own or a business you would like to own someday.
2. Smarty Pants specializes in offering electronic toys to gifted children under the age of 10.

 

The purpose of this strategy is to reach those that using iPads, Samsung Tablets, Kindle Fire and other tablets along with smartphones of all brands.

 

A template is being provided to assist you with this assignment, so you are strongly encouraged to utilize it for this assignment.

 

Write a four to six (4 – 6) page paper in which you:

 

1. Select at least two (2) examples of companies that sell similar products (that is, children’s toys or similar to your business) and determine how they market their brands from mobile devices.
2. Research the demographics of the potential audience and explain how and why those demographics would alter your mobile e-Marketing strategy.
   1. Explore demographics in terms of age, gender, income, career, and more.
   2. Demographics should always be very descriptive, the object is to describe over 50% of your customer base not 100%.
3. Describe how the product could be differentiated through a mobile e-marketing strategy. Justify your reasoning.
   1. Conduct a SWOT analysis in terms of how you will differentiate the product or service through the mobile eMarketing strategy.
   2. What are your three (3) opportunities against the competition? And will you take advantage of them. Why or why not.
4. Suggest how an e-Marketing strategy could be implemented for the company to include the utilization of mobile devices.
   1. Will the apps be developed in-house or will you hire a company to hire them? And why.
   2. If you develop in-house what tools will you use to make it happen?
   3. If you hire a company to handle the Mobile Marketing apps, who will you use? And why.
5. Research at least three (3) trends in mobile e-Marketing and describe how those trends should be addressed in the implementation of a mobile e-Marketing strategy.
   1. Look at current trends to determine where mobile eMarketing is going.
   2. Explore text messaging marketing and more.
6. Determine the steps that need to be taken to ensure the safety and security of the consumers of your product. Explain your reasoning.
   1. Anytime we do anything online security is a factor. How will you go about maintaining the security of the app and customer information.
7. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

 

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

 

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Explain how to apply various electronic commerce mechanisms to support traditional marketing operations and create Web-based / virtual markets for consumer and commercial / organizational transactions.
• Develop viable marketing strategies by applying the principles of marketing and the enhanced capabilities provided by electronic commerce processes.
• Evaluate the expanded dimensions of the external marketing environment brought about by the application of information technology and evolution of the World Wide Web.
• Integrate the promotional mix to market online.