The HR departments exist in all healthcare organizations for hiring, onboarding, and training staff. Discuss how the HR activities differ in a typical healthcare facility (like hospital) than the ordinary business organizations. Is it more complex than the business organizations? Why background checks are more important for hiring staff for healthcare facilities than the ordinary business organizations?

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Discussion post

1. Watch the https://youtu.be/8nC-JEKU-FY

“Google” video posted in this week’s folder before participation in the discussion forum. Based on viewing the video, comment on the benefits offered by Google to its employees and explain what impact those benefits have on employees’ morale, productivity, and retention. What, if any, of these benefits would appeal to you personally (from an employee point of view)? Why? What recommendation would you provide Healthcare organizations when making decisions regarding the overall compensation and benefits package provided to their employees? End your post with a question to your classmates.

Your initial post should comprise a minimum of 250 words supported by at least two (2) scholarly peer-reviewed references

2. The HR departments exist in all healthcare organizations for hiring, onboarding, and training staff. Discuss how the HR activities differ in a typical healthcare facility (like hospital) than the ordinary business organizations. Is it more complex than the business organizations? Why background checks are more important for hiring staff for healthcare facilities than the ordinary business organizations?

Your initial post should comprise a minimum of 250 words supported by at least two (2) scholarly peer-reviewed references

Based on your assessment and analysis of the companies in Milestones One and Two, you will create and deliver a PowerPoint Presentation for senior management’s review and analysis.

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9-1 Project Submission: Acquisition Proposal

In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competencies:

Prepare and present internal and external reports.
Monitor and evaluate performance.
Recommend opportunities for performance improvements.

Scenario
You are a former Navy officer and fighter pilot, and you are now the controller of a division of TransGlobal Airlines, a large organization that operates a fleet of corporate jets for charter at several airports in the southeast part of the United States. Your division’s private charter clients include several Fortune 500 companies in the region. The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) has informed you that the company is considering the acquisition of two smaller aviation firms in the region specializing in chartered flights for luxury vacations using light aircraft (60 passengers or less). The CFO has tasked you with assessing the organizational benefits of acquiring these aviation firms. The CFO intends to develop a new business plan for the organization if your analysis recommends moving forward with the acquisition.

After an initial assessment, the company has shortlisted two airlines, Company A and Company B, to examine further for acquisition. To understand all aspects of the two airlines under consideration, you have visited each proposed site to assess their performance. The assessment included creating a balanced scorecard for each airline with all four components, financial, internal processes, customers/market, and learning and growth, that will impact the acquisition of each firm.

The CFO has asked you to generate two scenarios for the proposed acquisition based on your analysis and governing or predictive assumptions. They include a worst-case scenario that considers the most serious outcomes that could occur if anticipated targets and assumptions are dramatically wrong; and a best-case scenario if anticipated targets and assumptions significantly exceed forecasts.

Based on your assessment and analysis of the companies in Milestones One and Two, you will create and deliver a PowerPoint Presentation for senior management’s review and analysis. You will also write an executive summary with your recommendations for the leadership team.

Directions
Part 1: Presentation

Record and submit a narrated PowerPoint presentation to share your analysis and recommendations for the proposed acquisitions. Use your data and analysis, along with feedback received from the milestone assignments, to complete your presentation. Note: Remember to use both on-screen text and narration in your PowerPoint slides to convey your information effectively. For example, you can use brief bulleted lists on the slide and include detailed explanations in your narration. A resource is provided under Supporting Materials to help you record your presentation. If you are unable to submit a presentation with narration, be sure to include detailed speaker notes with your submission.

Overview
Situation Analysis of TransGlobal Airlines (parent company). Use the information from the Supporting Materials section to highlight the parent company’s current business environment.
Internal environment: culture, leadership, internal processes, human resources, operations, and financial performance
External environment: competitive, market, regulatory, customers, suppliers, and other relevant stakeholders
Acquisition Rationale: Explain why your company is planning to acquire these airlines. What strategic objectives will the acquisition meet? How might the acquisition support the bigger picture goals of TransGlobal?

Proposed Acquisitions: Using the resources provided in the Supporting Materials section, provide an overview of the two companies under consideration to be acquired. Include the following information for each company:

  • Location, size, and age of the firm
  • Customer segment and target market
  • Major competitors
  • Company leadership
  • Current financial and market status

Analysis
Analysis of Company A. Present your data and analysis of Company A. Include the following in your analysis:
Balanced scorecard data: Share the balanced scorecard for Company A. Copy and paste the relevant sections from your Milestone One spreadsheet. The balanced scorecard should highlight key performance indicators, such as net profit, annual growth, and market share, and include the four components:
Financial: Complete the financial section of the balanced scorecard template, identifying two of the most impactful key performance indicators.
Explain your rationale for the KPIs chosen, along with the cause-and-effect relationship between the chosen KPIs.
Internal processes: Complete the internal processes section of the balanced scorecard template, identifying two of the most relevant KPIs.
Explain your rationale for the KPIs chosen, along with the cause-and-effect relationship between the chosen KPIs.
Customers/market: Complete the customers/market section of the balanced scorecard template, identifying two of the most relevant KPIs.
Explain your rationale for the KPIs chosen, along with the cause-and-effect relationship between the chosen KPIs.
Learning and growth: Complete the customers/market section of the balanced scorecard template, identifying two of the most relevant KPIs.
Explain your rationale for the KPIs chosen, along with the cause-and-effect relationship between the chosen KPIs.
Balanced scorecard analysis: Describe your analysis of Company A’s performance based on its balanced scorecard components. Perform a cost-benefit-risk analysis to explain whether the benefits justify the costs of acquisition.

Opportunity cost: What will it cost to move forward with this opportunity?
Risk: Identify and explain the magnitude (low, medium, or high) of the risks this acquisition poses to the parent company related to its market, financial, cultural, and operational environments.

Analysis of Company B. Present your data and analysis of Company B. Include the following in your analysis:
Balanced Scorecard Data: Share the balanced scorecard of Company B and highlight some key performance indicators, such as net profit, annual growth, and market share. Copy and paste the relevant sections from your Milestone One spreadsheet. The balanced scorecard should highlight key performance indicators, such as net profit, annual growth, and market share, and include the four components:

Financial: Complete the financial section of the balanced scorecard template, identifying two of the most impactful key performance indicators.
Explain your rationale for the KPIs chosen, along with the cause-and-effect relationship between the chosen KPIs.
Internal processes: Complete the internal processes section of the balanced scorecard template, identifying two of the most relevant key performance indicators.
Explain your rationale for the KPIs chosen, along with the cause-and-effect relationship between the chosen KPIs.
Customers/market: Complete the customers/market section of the balanced scorecard template, identifying two of the most relevant two key performance indicators.
Explain your rationale for the KPIs chosen, along with the cause-and-effect relationship between the chosen KPIs.
Learning and growth: Complete the customers/market section of the balanced scorecard template, identifying two of the most relevant key performance indicators.
Explain your rationale for the KPIs chosen, along with the cause-and-effect relationship between the chosen KPIs.

Balanced scorecard analysis: Perform a cost-benefit-risk analysis for Company B based on its balanced scorecard components to explain whether the benefits justify the costs of acquisition.
Opportunity cost: What will it cost to move forward with this opportunity?
Risk: Identify and explain the magnitude (low, medium, or high) of the risks this acquisition poses to the parent company as related to its market, financial, cultural, and operational environments.
Proposal
Recommendation: Recommend whether TransGlobal Airlines should acquire one or both companies.
Rationale: Justify how your recommendation supports the company’s strategic objectives. This includes one or more of its financial, market, competitive, and cultural objectives.
Assumptions: Explain how your acquisition recommendation will impact the company’s success in different scenarios:
A worst-case scenario that considers the most serious outcomes that could occur if anticipated targets and assumptions are dramatically wrong; and
A best-case scenario that considers outcomes that significantly exceed anticipated targets and assumptions.

Part 2: Executive Summary
Submit a Word document summarizing your analysis and recommendations for both companies.

Situation assessment: Briefly summarize your company’s current internal and external business environments and the rationale for acquisition.
Data and analysis: Provide a brief overview of the two airlines under consideration, including your findings and analysis from your balanced scorecards.
Recommendation: Justify your recommendation for the acquisition and explain how it supports the company’s objectives.

How does the new structure support innovation? How will your recommended changes make the enterprise more responsive to market demand? Explain how organizational changes support a culture of innovation.

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9-1 Project Submission: Organizational Structure and Culture

In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competency:

Evaluate creative and innovative organizational structures
Recommend alternative innovations to solve an internal or market need
Implement creative and innovative processes within an organization

Scenario
You work as a middle manager for one of the top U.S. producers of luxury and mass-market automobiles and trucks.

The chief technology officer (CTO) of the company from the course scenario has been watching new technology developments that the company could integrate into its vehicles to enhance the usefulness of and access to the data acquired by the many digital sensors that have been integrated into vehicle subsystems over the past 20–30 years. The technology trend of particular interest is the internet of things (IoT)—the interconnection of embedded devices, such as sensors and computers, over the internet. By taking advantage of this trend, the CTO believes the company can seize an opportunity to provide better service and predictive maintenance to its customers, improving customer satisfaction and adding additional revenue streams.

Based on briefings by the CTO, senior management has decided to implement IoT in its product line. Your CTO has asked you to lead a cross-functional team to take this initiative forward. Your first task is to make a recommendation for how the company should approach this business problem. Do you recommend using incremental or discontinuous (that is, slow or fast) innovation? Specifically:

Should the company…

Design a completely new product line, based on the new technology (discontinuous innovation)

or

Add new technology features into one model and then incrementally into the broader product line (incremental innovation)

The recommendation you and your team make is an important first step in pursuing this new technology.

In Milestone One, you and your team defined what that innovation looked like: would it be disruptive (new product line) or incremental (new features in one existing product)?

In Milestone Two, you developed a strategy plan and a high-level business model. You’ve shared these with various stakeholders, and they are in agreement with your assessment of how best to get to market with this IoT innovation, which will allow the company to be competitive.

Now, the CTO has asked you to come up with a proposed organizational structure that will support the innovation implementation. In this way, you will be assisting in making the innovation sustainable for the company from the course scenario. Companies that are innovative must make sure they have structured the organization in a way that supports innovation, and a key component of innovation is keeping track of what their customers want in terms of products and services.

Directions
Complete each of the three parts of this project. Use your slides from Milestone One, your document from Milestone Two, and feedback on Milestone One and Milestone Two to complete the first two parts of your presentation. You can use the resources in the Supporting Materials section (below) for any other information you will need to complete your project.

Part One: Innovation Approach
In this section, share your revised slides from Milestone One and make your recommendation for the innovation approach you think the company should pursue. Ensure this section includes the following information:

Explain potential risks and benefits for options A and B.
Overview (1 slide): Present the business problem and options A and B.
Option A (1–2 slides): Explain at least two potential risks and benefits for option A.
Option B (1–2 slides): Explain at least two potential risks and benefits for option B.
Compare your competition’s products and services.
Competitors: (3–4 slides): Evaluate the competitors’ current products and services.
What are your competitors’ current products and services?
Are your competitors expanding in the current market? Explain how this impacts their market strength.
Analyze your company’s capability to pursue the innovation.
Complete a partial gap analysis (2 slides):
Does the company own the technology, or does it need to be purchased?
How is the technology currently being used in today’s products and services?
What type of technology is available to purchase?
Recommend the innovation approach your company should pursue.
Innovation Approach (2 slides): Explain which innovation approach you are recommending and why.
Consider the different stakeholders (research and development [R&D], marketing, finance) while communicating your recommendations.
Include a description of the incremental or discontinuous product that you are recommending for R&D.
Include the sales forecasts for marketing.
Include a financial snapshot for finance.

 

Part Two: Strategic Plan
In this section, share your revised paper from Milestone Two, which provides an overview of your competitors’ position in the marketplace, the available and future marketplace, and a plan for how to address a change in business conditions. Ensure this section includes the following information.

Analyze the competitors’ relative strengths in the marketplace. Use Power BI to create charts on the growth rates.
What is the growth rate of each competitor?
How much of the market does each competitor now own? Do you see a trend of gaining or losing market share?
Determine each competitor’s market strength by looking at the financials for each competitor.
Explain how your company’s market share compares to your competitors’. Use Power BI to create charts on your and your competitors’ market share.
Is your company gaining or losing market share?
What is your company’s growth potential in the industry?
How do your company’s financials look compared to your competitors’?
Identify future potential total available market (TAM) and growth for chosen product/service and technology.
What is the TAM for cars and light trucks?
What is the TAM for IoT-connected cars and light trucks?
What is the projected compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for cars and light trucks?
What is the CAGR for IoT-connected cars and light trucks?
Identify ways to adjust if business conditions change.
What can you do if your customers are slow to respond (buy) the innovation?
What can you do if one competitor is overtaking all the others, including you?
Describe the steps your company needs to take from concept outline to launch.
What is the size of development that will be required?
Will you require additional capital and personnel?
How would you approach determining the timeline from the beginning of development until initial product launch?

 

Part Three: Organizational Structure and Culture Report
Based on your analysis of the organization’s structure and culture, share recommendations for changing its structure and culture to be more conducive to innovation.

Describe the current organizational structure’s impact on innovation.
How does your company’s organizational structure support innovation?
How effective is the current structure in addressing changes in market demand?
Recommend changes to the current organizational structure.
How does the new structure support innovation?
How will your recommended changes make the enterprise more responsive to market demand?
Explain how organizational changes support a culture of innovation.
In what ways does the current culture work against innovation?
How does the new structure support a culture of innovation?

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.

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Hoshin Kanri: Principles, Elements, and Implementation Challenges for Effective Management and Social Responsibility

Read for context, research, and answer 5 questions below about Hoshin Kanri while incorporating all requirements:
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?

Instructions: For this question on management and social responsibility, you will need to do an in-depth literary search on the business you would like to create in order to present a fully-developed response. You will need to include in-text citations and a references list for external references used in supporting your points for this question. You should have no fewer than 10 references for your response to this particular question, 4 of which must be from peer-reviewed sources.

Based on research you conduct using scholarly literature on SWOT analysis, answer the following questions: 2. What analytical questions should be asked to identify the current position of the firm?

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SWOT Analysis: Analyzing Competitive Position and Identifying Business Opportunities

SWOT analysis, or the analysis of a companies strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, helps a business leader assess their competitive position relative to the business market, environment, competitors and customer interest.

  • 1. Based on research you conduct using scholarly literature on SWOT analysis, answer the following questions:
  • 2. What analytical questions should be asked to identify the current position of the firm?
  • 3. What role does a business consultant play in SWOT analysis?
  • 4. To what does a business compare their strengths to when conducting a SWOT analysis?
  • 5. To what does a business compare their weaknesses to when conducting a SWOT analysis?
  • 6. To what degree can a firm compare market opportunities to their capabilities using SWOT alone?
  • 7. What additional tools can be used along with SWOT to provide a more complete picture of the businesses current competitive position?
  • 8. What other tools or analyses can be done to interpret results?
  • 9. If managers find a disconnect between the firms competitive position and their capabilities, what can or should be done?

Instructions: You will need to do an in-depth literary search on the topic in order to create a fully-developed response. You will need to include in-text citations and a references list for external references used in supporting your points for this question. You should have no fewer than 10 references for your response to this particular question, 4 of which must be from peer-reviewed sources.

Provide reasons why this occurs and examples of disruptive technologies that may prove to serve as a catalyst for major corporations in the next five years. Why is it important to stay abreast of this type of information as a manager?

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Disruptive Technologies and the Threat to Market Leaders: A Look into the Future

It may seem inevitable that market leaders will find their market share eroded substantially as a result of technological change. Provide reasons why this occurs and examples of disruptive technologies that may prove to serve as a catalyst for major corporations in the next five years. Why is it important to stay abreast of this type of information as a manager?

Instructions:

You will need to do an in-depth literary search on the topic in order to create a fully-developed response. You will need to include in-text citations and a references list for external references used in supporting your points for this question. You should have no fewer than 10 references for your response to this particular question, 4 of which must be from peer-reviewed sources.

Demonstrate VWS’ capability and financial stability to deliver the necessary services based on availability, qualifications and experience of the firm and key personnel designated to provide the specified services.

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Technical Proposal

Demonstrate VWS’ capability and financial stability to deliver the necessary services based on availability, qualifications and experience of the firm and key personnel designated to provide the specified services.

Based on the job description, write a cover letter to express your interest in the position addressed to Marie-Eve Lafrance, Talent Acquisition Manager at the Montreal office.

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Career Management Assignment Details

BUSA250 (Winter 2023)

Instructions:
Based on the job description, write a cover letter to express your interest in the position addressed to Marie–Eve Lafrance, Talent Acquisition Manager at the Montreal office.
Your final Cover Letter (1 page, single spaced) should be submitted as a PDF with file name: Last name, First name. Font style and size should be consistent with the Desautels Resume template (sign in with your McGill credentials).

Analyze how organizational purpose can empower a business strategy. Explain what a purpose-driven organization is and identify how it can lead to a competitive business strategy.

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Part 3: Analyzing the Purpose of the Organization

  • Analyze how organizational purpose can empower a business strategy.
  • Explain what a purpose-driven organization is and identify how it can lead to a competitive business strategy.
  • Select one of the organization examples that you identified in Part 2 and analyze how the organization’s structure impacts its strategic business practices.
    • Specifically, in what ways does/did the organizational structure enable the organization to take advantage of strategic opportunities, have an impact, and/or achieve or maintain a competitive advantage?

Analyze the creative concept and evaluate its efficiency. Analyze the TOV. Clarify the creative technique and evaluate relevance. Analyze the visual aesthetics and its employment and relevance. Analyze the Copy’s appropriateness, originality, and persuasiveness. Evaluate the campaign from ethical perspective.

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Midterm word doc

Course learning outcomes: Marks Task no

  • CLO1: Identify the process of building commercial campaign strategy 4 1
  • CLO3: Critique the use of visual and textual aesthetics in commercial campaigns 8 2
  • CLO7: Demonstrate responsibility for self-directed and self-learning skills 4 1 & 2
  • CLO9: Show understanding of ethical values in advertising industry 2 2
  • CLO10: Demonstrate professional communication skills in oral, visual, and written format to present projects to peers, colleagues, and clients 2 1 & 2

Assignment description:

You are required individually to provide 5 case study analysis of integrated advertising campaigns, that are communicated during 2023; locally, regionally, or internationally. Brands can be local or international, where you should diversify between promotional and communication campaigns (social media always on communication is not considered as campaign).

Tasks to be covered:

Task 1: Campaigns Overview

– Collect samples of each campaign (offline, online, static, films, motion, activation)

– Brand overview (image, position, voice, value etc)

– Product identification and attributions (for promotional campaigns)

– Clarify the goal of the campaign

– Specify the targeted segment/s

– Identify the campaign key message

– Imagine an insight that might be used for the campaign

– Identify campaign channels (media)

Task 2: Campaigns Analysis

– Analyze the creative concept and evaluate its efficiency.

– Analyze the TOV.

– Clarify the creative technique and evaluate relevance.

– Analyze the visual aesthetics and its employment and relevance.

– Analyze the Copy’s appropriateness, originality, and persuasiveness.

– Evaluate the campaign from ethical perspective.