Category: Business and Management

Class : BMAL720: Leveraging Data for Decision Making
Do not go over 3000 words
Include abstract
Include author’s notes on title page
Use scripture in paper
Answer essay question from information in textbooks
Cite my references correctly in APA 7th Edition

Create excel file for both hw 3 and hw 5 that i upload. I will also provide the solution for the questions except 1 of them. So just need to solve 1 question and the excel files
so two total excel files.
Hw 5 solution
1. 
Thailand = (0.4)(0.90) + (0.4)(1.15) +(0.2)(1.05) = $1.03
Taiwan = (0.6)(0.85) +(0.3)(1.20) + (0.1)(0.98) = $0.968
Vietnam = (0.5)(0.95)+(0.2)(1.10)+(0.3)(1.00) = $0.995
The company should select the country from Taiwan because it is the cheapest price and the three country.

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In this module, you have learned how to locate and define a complex
business problem, which will serve as the foundation for your major case analysis.
Now, explore news/current events to locate a business that has a
complex problem which needs to be addressed. The problem may be related
to any business topic (i.e. accounting, marketing, legal, etc.).
It is suggested that you select a recent problem of a public
company, which will ensure that you will have access to the information
necessary to complete your project.
Once you have located your business problem and read the case
thoroughly to digest the facts, prepare your problem statement using the
concepts discussed in class (be sure to include the 5 Ws in your
statement) and post here for review.

Instructions
For this assignment, complete the following problem.
Smith Clinic uses patient-visits as its measure of activity. The clinic has provided the following report:
Smith Clinic
Comparison of  Actual Results to Planning Budget
For the Month Ended February 28
Actual Results
Planning Budget
Variances
Patient-visits……………………………………………..
2,000
2,100
Revenue ($53.90q)…………………………………….
$107,880
$113,190
$5,310
U
Expenses:
Personnel expenses ($26,100 + $19.20q)…….
62,840
66,420
3,580
F
Medical supplies ($1,400 + $7.20q)…………….
16,250
16,520
270
F
Occupancy expenses ($6,700 + $2.60q)………
11,970
12,160
190
F
Administrative expenses ($4,300 + $0.20q)…..
4,710
4,720
10
F
Total expense……………………………………………
95,770
99,820
4,050
F
Net operating income………………………………….
$ 12,110
$ 13,370
$1,260
U
Required:
Prepare the clinic’s flexible budget performance report for February. Label each variance as favorable (F) or unfavorable (U).

Investigate the degree to which human resources are related to the other factors (project management, product design, process strategy, location decisions, layout decisions, etc.). In a 3- to 4-page Microsoft Word document, address the following:
Identify inefficiencies in the way that human resources are utilized in a business at which you have worked in the past or with which you are familiar.
Describe ways in which the inefficiencies that you have identified could be reduced or eliminated.
Define what changes would be required to job designs in order to implement your suggested strategies for eliminating the inefficiencies.
Identify how the way people are measured might need to be adjusted as a result of your suggestions.
Explain whether additional compensation might need to be offered as a result of your plan to change job designs and work measurements. Support your rationale with examples.

Assignment Content
It is important to understand what information systems are and why they are essential for running and managing a business. The case studies below will provide you with an opportunity to review many of the concepts covered in this course. These case studies provide you with an opportunity to critically analyze events that are taking place in real-life organizations. This helps to develop your critical thinking and research skills as you research each of these scenarios. 
For this assignment, you will review four case studies. Then, in a PowerPoint presentation, you will evaluate the studies and address each of the requirements listed below, using both critical thinking and theory as well as supporting documentation.
Review and analyze the Chapter 1 Case Study “Will the Coronavirus Pandemic Make Working from Home the New Normal?” 
and address the following in a minimum of four slides:
Define the problem described in this case. What are the management, organization, and technology issues raised by this problem?
Identify the information technologies used to provide a solution to this problem. Was this a successful solution? Why, or why not?
Will working from home become the dominant way of working in the future? Why, or why not?
Review and analyze the Chapter 2 Case Study “Is Social Business Good Business?” and address the following in a minimum of four slides:
Identify the management, organization, and technology factors affecting adoption of internal corporate social networks.
Compare the experiences implementing internal social networks of the organizations described in this case. Why was Standard Bank successful? What role did management play in this process?
Should all companies implement internal enterprise social networks? Why, or why not?
Review and analyze the Chapter 8 Case Study “Is the Equifax Hack the Worst Ever—and Why?” and address the following in a minimum of four slides: 
Identify and discuss the security and control issues that resulted from flaws in Equifax security and control. 
What management, organization, and technology factors contributed to these problems?
Discuss the impact of the Equifax hack.
How can future data breaches like this one be prevented? Explain your answer.
Finally, review the case study “Capital One: A Big Bank Heist from the Cloud” from Chapter 8, and address the prompts below in at least four slides.
Discuss at least two security threats to cloud data.
What should companies do to protect cloud data?
Discuss why both the company and the cloud vendor are responsible for security.
Discuss at least one security control that companies can use to increase security.
In formatting your PowerPoint presentation, do not use the question-and-answer format; instead, use bullets, graphs, and/or charts in your slides to identify important points, and then discuss those points in the speaker notes of each slide. The speaker notes section of each slide should not repeat slide information, but serve as an area in which you augment or elaborate on slide information so that your audience has a better understanding of the material. You must have a minimum of 100 words in the Speaker Notes section of each content slide.
Your PowerPoint presentation should be a minimum of 10 slides in length (not counting the title and reference slides). You are required to use a minimum of two peer-reviewed, academic sources that are no more than 5 years old to support each case study. You may use your eTextbook once in each case study. All sources used, including the eTextbook, must be referenced; all paraphrased material must have accompanying in-text citations. At least two sources must come from the CSU Online Library. APA style and formatting is required.

Can companies easily develop compensation systems that are both internally consistent and market competitive? What are some of the challenges to this goal? Explain.
Which do you believe is most important for a company’s competitive advantage: Internal consistency or market competitiveness? Explain.
Please cite all of your sources using APA format for both the in-text and end-of-text citations
The etext is
Martocchio, Joseph J. Strategic Compensation. Available from: VitalSource Bookshelf, (10th Edition). Pearson Education (US), 2019.

Read the attached article by Atkinson et al. (2021), Feedback and Coaching.
Share a recent feedback conversation in which you were a participant in any capacity (facilitator, recipient, or observer).  
Based on your experience, what factors/actions ultimately lead to a change in behavior?  
What information from the Atkinson et al. article supports the change in behavior?  

please rewrite my assignment so that it doesn’t show any plagiarism as my original assignment was flagged for plagiarism