Category: Business and Management

  • Title: Analysis of Genre and Distributor Trends in 2017 Movie Grosses

    The file P02_02.xlsx contains information on 256 movies that grossed at least $1 million in 2017. 
    1) Create two column charts of counts, one of the different genres and one of the different distributors. 
    2) Recode the Genre column so that all genres with a count of 10 or less are lumped into a category called Other. Then create a column chart of counts for this recoded variable. Repeat similarly for the Distributor variable.
    Each assignment must be a minimum of 3-5 pages of original discussion and analysis, not
    counting the title page, reference page, figures, tables, and appendixes.
    Each application
    assignment must be supported by at least 3 scholarly references in APA format.

  • Title: Strategic Audit Report Part 2: Operations and Logistics, Human Resource Management, and Information Technology

    You will continue to develop the Strategic Audit Report  by adding three more parts to include Operations and Logistics, Human Resource Management (HRM), and Information Technology (IT).
    It is imperative as a global business leader to understand all concepts and internal working in an organization to be able to make the right decisions for the future. Researching these three sections will enable you to understand further how your company operates from a technical and personal perspective.
    Provided are the guidelines to complete each part:
    Operations and Logistics
    Provide a one-page detailed report of your strategic audit company’s products, services, and manufacturing facilities.
    Do they produce their products internally or have them outsourced?
    If they are service-oriented, how are these services provided and what resources do they use? An example would be a healthcare provider of medical staff who works in a hospital, but the hospital is not owned by your company.
    What is their logistics set up and/or how are their goods and services transported and supplied to the customer?
    Human Resource Management (HRM)
    Examine your company’s workforce.
    How many employees do they have?
    What benefits do they offer?
    Are they union or non-union?
    What are the working conditions (especially if they have facilities in other countries)?
    Have they been protested by human rights groups for employment practices, or fined by the government?
    What is your strategic audit company’s human resource office’s overall mission or goals?
    Information Technology (IT)
    Explain how your company incorporates Information Technology into its business model.
    Are administrative and customer services automated?
    Are the manufacturing and logistics systems automated?
    What IT trends do they follow and what is the future outlook for your company’s IT utilization?

  • “Strengthening Your Business: Assessing Vulnerabilities and Creating Action Plans”

    *****The Project is a Reshearch Questionaire to be anwered not an essay*****
    Part 1: Assess Your Vulnerabilities around Structure, Ownership, and Funding
    In this part of the course project, you will assess the fundamental building blocks for your business related to ownership, structure, and funding. Whether you already have a version of these in place or not, the project will give you the opportunity to evaluate your current progress, identify any vulnerabilities, and take the next steps for strengthening your business. 
    Part 2: Assess Your Vulnerabilities around Hiring and Compensation
    In this part of the course project, you will use the checklists from this module to assess the way you plan to or already have hired employees, granted equity, and protected your business with personnel contracts. Note any open questions, legal concerns, or vulnerabilities. Consider how your gender plays a role in these areas. Highlight one key vulnerability that you want to address.
    Part 3: Assess Your Vulnerabilities around IP
    Throughout this module, you examined your company’s IP and any current protections that you have in place. In this part of the course project, you will first review these determinations and reflect on any vulnerabilities you uncovered. You will then create a broad-view action plan for strengthening all the legal building blocks you evaluated throughout this course, including those related to IP, structure, ownership, and hiring/compensation.

  • “Demographic Site Analysis: Understanding Healthcare Needs in [Geographic Area]”

    Assignment—Week 3 Part 1 of Course Project: Demographic Site Analysis
    Students will work individually on this assignment due in Week 3. Students will identify the specific geographic area (locality, ZIP code, or census tract) and prepare a demographic profile of the people who live there from data available at www.census.gov or from other demographic. This profile should provide specific information, including relevant facts and figures. You are encouraged to include graphs or charts that help describe the demographics of your geographic area (at least one is required). Cite all of your sources within the text and on the reference page.
    Based on this demographic profile, you will analyze what sort of healthcare needs one might anticipate in the geographic area. In other words, what does this demographic profile tell you about the needed healthcare services or products? Are all these needs currently being met? If not, which needs might provide a market opportunity? During this section, you will get a better idea of what healthcare entity to choose in your budget planning and analysis.
    The length of the demographic site analysis should be 300 to 600 words. You should cite all sources in APA style, both in-text and at the end of the document. You are required to have at least three sources to support your paper. One of these sources may be one of your course textbooks. Each student must submit his or her own assignment.

  • “Managing Remote Healthcare Workers: A Case Study of Emma’s Agency in the UK”

    Please find attached instructions and it should be about managing healthcare workers remotely. Introduction is about Emma’s healthcare agency in UK.

  • Title: “Hoshin Kanri: The Secret Ingredient for Customer-Focused Strategic Execution”

    If you have ever picked up and read a Harvard Business Review (HBR) Journal, you will find what academia is proposing as innovative methods to (a) increase market share, (b) grow profitability, (c) refocus management attention, (d) gain “share of purse” with distributors and customers, (e) improve employee morale, and (f) improve quality. Pick up another HBR a couple of years later and you are likely to find a whole new raft of management techniques that should be employed; different and often diametrically opposed to those you read about two years ago. There are management tools that have continued to withstand the test of time, and Management By Objectives (MbO) appears to be one that remains consistent in businesses all over the world. In Japan, Management by Objectives has been adopted and redesigned to focus on the organization’s customer base. Japanese management teams have adopted what is termed Hoshin Kanri (HK), a method of setting strategic direction that was introduced in the 1960s as a derivative of the MBO process. One notable fact regarding HK is that it is today a significant factor in Japan’s ability to usurp markets wherever the organization goes. What is the secret ingredient in HK? What makes HK different is a singular focus on building knowledge of customer needs and then integrating those needs into the organization. The prerequisite to installing HK is a well-functioning Total Quality Management (TQM) program that has been strategically integrated into every activity an organization has that can affect the customer and the customer’s needs for the future. It is vital to note that HK is not as much a method for developing an organization’s strategic plan and it is an execution tool that aids every layer in the company with integrating customer-focused strategic intent into the day-to-day operations. Your assignment is to thoroughly research Hoshin Kanri and answer the following five questions regarding the principles, focuses, integration methodologies, and pitfalls inherent in an effective HK program. 
    1. There is one guiding intent of Hoshin Planning principles. Research and then explain that principle, primary focus, and how it relates to Deming’s Plan-Do-Study-Act formula. 2. What are the six major elements of the Hoshin Planning System and what does each element require management to accomplish, do, or integrate into the organization? 3. Research and then explain the five phases of Hoshin Planning 4. Explain why Cross Functional Management (CFM) is necessary for any successful implementation of Hoshin Planning and why it is important for management to focus on processes rather than targets. 5. What are the challenges to implementing an effective MBO program using Hoshin Kanri?

  • Integrative Project Management Report: Launching a New Product in Switzerland

    Task(s) – content
    In this assessment, you are required to produce an integrative project management report.
    This project should be a new product OR a new service OR a change within an existing business. The project has to be based in Switzerland, and any financial calculations should be denominated in Swiss Francs (CHF).
    The project should follow the structure below and cover the following 6 areas:
    (Textbook: Project Management, Achieving Competitive Advantage, Jeffrey Pinto, 4th Edition or 5th Edition)
    1.Building your project plan
    (See details/samples from the textbook: “4e: Pages 92 – 94” or “5e: Pages 98 – 100”)
    • Project background analysis
    • Business justification for undertaking the project
    • Project goals or objectives
    • Assumptions & constraints
    2.Developing the work breakdown structure
    (See details/samples from the textbook: “4e: Pages 202 – 203” or “5e: Pages 221 – 222”)
    • Personnel table
    • WBS (at least 20 work packages)
    3. Project risk assessment
    (See details/samples from the textbook: “4e: Pages 273 – 274” or “5e: Pages 293 – 294”)
    • Risk analysis
    • Preliminary strategies for risk mitigation
    4. Developing the project schedule
    (See details/samples from the textbook: “4e: Pages 383 – 385” or “5e: Pages 405 – 406”)
    • Network diagram with ES/EF/LS/LF/Float according to WBS (at least 20 work packages)
    • Project critical path and project duration
    5. Developing the cost estimates and budget
    (See details/samples from the textbook: “4e: Pages 312 – 313” or “5e: Pages 331 – 332”) • Time-phased budget according to WBS (at least 20 work packages)
    6. Change control
    • Change control process
    For this coursework, please include the following when it’s necessary:
    Title Page: according to RGU regulations
    Table of Contents: according to RGU regulations
    List of Figures and/or Tables: according to RGU regulations
    References: in the RGU Harvard format, in alphabetical order (at least 10 references) Appendices: any supporting, relevant documentation
    Before submitting assignments, you should check to ensure that:
    All material identified as originally from a previously published source has been properly attributed by an appropriate reference in the text;
    Direct quotations are marked as such (using “quotation marks” at the beginning and end of the selected text), and
    A citation has been included in the list of references at the end of the text.

  • Title: Leadership Skills in an Effective IDS Solution: A Best Practices Example

    IDS Application and Leadership
    Review an effective IDS solution or program that has been successfully applied and described in research or literature and identify a “best practices” IDS application example. As you research the project, think specifically about the leadership skills needed to carry out or support the solution or program.
    Name three specific leadership skills you observed in the “best practices” IDS application example. Are the leadership skills in this example alike or dissimilar to the three leadership skills you have identified as needed by IDS leaders?
    Your paper should be two pages in length and conform to CSU Global Writing Center (Links to an external site.). Include at least two scholarly references in addition to the course textbook. The CSU Global Library (Links to an external site.) is a good place to find these references. https://csuglobal.libguides.com/library

  • “Ensuring Ethical Standards in Project Management: Strategies and Challenges”

    Respond to each posts in a substantive manner, and provide recommendations. Support your position by using information from examples from current events, and/or other scholarly or credible resources. Cite references, if needed.
    You are encouraged to  promote a more meaningful and interactive discourse in this discussion forum. Each response should be a minimum of 150 words.
    First post:
    If you have yet to manage a project in real life, how would you ensure that ethical standards are upheld within your projects? You are encouraged to cite a recent (within five years) story related to this topic in your post.
    I have not been involved directly or indirectly with ethical issues. When a Project Manager is certified by the PMI, there are codes of ethics and professional behavior expected from the PM along with the organization or employer for whom they work that they must follow as well.  
    Also, the PM develops a reputation for taking good care of the team members, which later makes it easier to recruit team members for future projects (Kloppenborg, 2023). Keeping this fact in mind, the PM is responsible for maintaining full transparency with the stakeholders when there are changes to the originally proposed estimates, costs, and deliverables.  Another tool to ensure the project upholds ethical standards is communication, verbal and written updates of any delays or constraints should be communicated with the stakeholders followed by a proposal on how the PM plans to address the issue – as this builds trust and confidence.
    References
    Kloppenborg, T. J., Anantatmula, V. S., & Wells, K. N. (2023). Contemporary Project Management: Plan-driven and Agile approaches (5th ed.). https://uagc.instructure.com/courses/131440/modules/items/6691863
    Second Post:
    If you have experienced managing project(s), what ethical challenges have you encountered, and how did you handle them while maintaining integrity and professionalism?
    An ethical challenge that a PM would encounter is when coming across a stakeholder who is resistant to the project and may even be actively against it. It is a slippery slope to tell the stakeholders what they want to hear to garner their support. However, that is an extremely wrong thing to do because the project manager must be honest with everyone about the limitations and realities of the project they are assigned. To handle this situation, the best thing to do would be to communicate with the resistant stakeholder and note their thoughts on the project and why they are against it, in some cases, this feedback could be invaluable such as potential risks or to help develop a better way to do things. It is also advisable to ask that stakeholder to express their opinion to others, encouraging more discussion. Conflict should not be avoided but resolved if it gets to the point of escalation.