According to the text, what are the two forms in which a contract is structured? What is the difference between the two conditions? Now, describe a time when you entered into a legally binding contract and a time when you simply entered into an agreement. What made you comfortable with the decisions?

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Is it Good Enough?

Refer to the “Which Agreements Matter” Learning Activity. According to the text, what are the two forms in which a contract is structured? What is the difference between the two conditions? Now, describe a time when you entered into a legally binding contract and a time when you simply entered into an agreement. What made you comfortable with the decisions?

Responses to classmates’ posts comprising at least 150 words supporting, challenging, clarifying, or adding to the existing information.

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Managerial Economics Reflection Response

Responses to classmates’ posts comprising at least 150 words supporting, challenging, clarifying, or adding to the existing information.

First:

My Managerial Economics class was eye-opening. I have a deep understanding of economics and how it applies to nursing. I learned about economic analysis, market types, and pricing elasticity. I also appreciate the game theory and its applicability to nursing. Understanding player behavior in different game scenarios has helped me make informed decisions as a nurse that benefit my patients and my company (Alam et al., 2021). I now understand how incentives and disincentives affect my decisions. I also studied how external factors affect a firm’s profitability and competitiveness. This knowledge has helped me improve my decisions and maximize advantages for my patients, organization, and myself.

This course helped me make decisions as a nurse. I use demand and elasticity to price my services. This lets me price my services competitively while making a profit. Game theory has helped me maximize patient outcomes by understanding my relationships with other healthcare practitioners. I interact with other healthcare practitioners to offer the greatest care for my patients, so this has been extremely beneficial. This training also helped me grasp healthcare economics and how they affect my daily practice. This helps me consider market forces and how they may affect my company’s performance. The education helped me as a nurse. I make decisions with limited resources in my job. This training taught me how to make market-based, economic-based decisions (Molina-Mula & Gallo-Estrada, 2020). I now understand how to evaluate costs and benefits and pricing schemes. This has enabled me to maximize benefits for my patients, the organization, and myself.

This course taught me about oligopoly and nursing. I learned that an oligopoly is a market structure where a few enterprises control prices. I now understand that my organization must perceive and comprehend the competitive climate to make the best decisions to stay competitive. This involves studying competitor strategies and how they affect the market (Alam et al., 2021). I also comprehend strategic thinking’s role in competitive advantage. This means predicting and responding to competing strategies and using the market structure and flexibility to my advantage when making judgments. The course also made me realize how important external factors are when making decisions. Understanding how external factors affect a firm’s profitability and competitiveness is now clear to me. This involves knowing how economic forces like inflation and recession affect politics and law. I also grasp how market structure and flexibility can help me make decisions. This involves understanding how different pricing methods might maximize revenues and the effects of charging different customers varying costs. This understanding has improved my nursing judgments.

Finally, understanding the economy is crucial to making the best selections. I now understand how economic factors might influence my decisions. Understanding inflation, recession, and political and legal changes are part of this. I also appreciate the need to understand the incentives and disincentives of our actions to make the best ones. This involves understanding how different pricing methods might maximize revenues and the effects of charging different customers varying costs (Ganin et al., 2020). I now understand that my organization must perceive and comprehend the competitive climate to make the best decisions to stay competitive. This involves studying competitor strategies and how they affect the market. This understanding has improved my nursing judgments.

Second:

Managerial economics is a critical aspect of any profession. As we learned in Chapter One, decision-making under scarce resources is the fundamental aspect of managerial economics. As a nurse leader, it is important to consider the various aspects that lead to making effective decisions. For instance, it is imperative to set goals and identify the constraints that could hamper the achievement of those goals. additionally, when making investment decisions, other critical elements such as the time value of money should be accounted for (Baye & Prince, 2017). Time value of money is a critical concept in economics and management, and it is one of the elements that I will ensure to focus much on as a nurse leader, especially when considering different investments to address the high cost of care.

Cost is one of the aspects that is currently focused on in healthcare. The cost of access to care and care delivery are both high (Bartsch et al., 2020). As a result, the healthcare system is seeping a lot of taxpayer money without significant changes in the quality of healthcare delivered. Drawing from the concepts of cost minimization rule and the roles managers play in the production process, I will use my knowledge and skill from this course to advance cost-effective measures in healthcare to address the issue of the high cost of care. High cost of care leads to overall low quality of life, and subsequent complications such as high mortality rates (Bartsch et al., 2020). With my knowledge of cost minimization, I am confident that I will be a positive force in the efforts to develop mitigation measures for access to high-quality and cost-effective care.

Week 6 was also fundamental in advancing my understanding of the different market structures and how firms in each structure can maximize their profits. There are three primary market structures discussed this week: the competitive, monopolistic, and monopolistically competitive markets. Compared to the other two, firms in a competitive market generate zero returns in the long term. This market structure is more hypothetical than real, considering that very limited real-life markets have all the conditions to facilitate the sustainability of a perfectly competitive market (Baye & Prince, 2017). The model of monopolistic competition suits the behavior of the United States healthcare sector. That is because, in terms of profit maximization and cost of care, firms can explore product differentiation for the services and products that customers do not bear the full costs of care.

How does the desired performance relate to the mission statement? Is the problem organization-wide or isolated to one or a few individuals? Have organizational initiatives created the problem? Does the problem relate to individual performance issues?

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DISCUSSION ESSAY

Instructions: VERY IMPORTANT! If you have not already read the information in the Content Section (the link is located on the left-hand side of the classroom), you should do so without delay. You will find additional information there that will help you be successful in this class.

This paper will have an abstract and three main parts: (Abstract) Identifying the Client and (1) Identifying the Problem, (2) Conducting a Need Assessment (3) Solution Identification. You are to write as a 3rd party hired consultant. Do not make yourself a part of the “story”.

Abstract: Identify the Client: The first step is to identify a client for whom you will act as a consultant. The client can be your own work group or company, a family business you are involved with, a business you worked for previously, a volunteer organization you work for or have worked with, or a public company. The client you choose should be a small group or organization in which you can influence change in your role as a consultant. Please do not select “the military” or “the U.S. government” or “Giant XYZ Corporation.” However, you may choose a small entity, such as a workg roup, within any of the larger organizations. For example, if you are in the military, focus on your group. If you select a Giant XYZ Corporation, select the department.

Submit an abstract summary describing the client and your relationship with the client. The summary should be no more than a couple of paragraphs. The purpose of submitting a summary is to confirm your client and identified problem that fits the case study criteria.

Part 1: Identify the Problem: In this portion of the paper your goal is to identify a problem or issue that is impacting performance in the organization. With your knowledge of the client, you have identified and the learning you have acquired to this point, identify a management problem you will investigate and for which you will provide recommended solutions. If you are working with a supervisor or manager, you may want to consult with them to complete this step.

Instructions: Read the material at the sites listed in the Week 1 Content Section to help guide you in identifying a management problem in your work environment. Complete 2-3 pages discussing the client and the management problem you will explore during this course.

This will be part 1 of your Week 3 Paper.

Part 2: Conduct a Needs Assessment

Next, read the material at the sites listed in the Week 2 Content Section to help guide you in understanding needs in relation to your management problem. Complete a Needs Assessment by submitting a 2–3-page paper discussing the client’s needs with relation to the management problem you are studying.

Here are some questions you can explore to help you conduct a needs assessment:

  • What is the problem?

How is the desired performance related to the current performance?

  • How does the desired performance relate to the mission statement?
  • Is the problem organization-wide or isolated to one or a few individuals?
  • Have organizational initiatives created the problem?
  • Does the problem relate to individual performance issues?
  • Is training adequate to support the desired outcome?
  • Is the issue related to job design?
  • What criteria are used to measure performance?
  • Is performance criteria appropriate, i.e. attainable and measurable?

This list is not all-inclusive and is a guide to support you when completing a Needs Assessment. They are provided to help you get started and inspire questions to explore. Complete 2-3 pages discussing the needs assessment. This is Part 2 of your paper.

Part 3: Solution Identification

For solution identification read the material at the sites listed in the Week 3 Content Section to help guide you in identifying solutions to the management problem you have identified.

Here are some tips to help you create your solutions:

  • Solutions should focus on the problem, be accepted by the team and be achievable.
  • Find opportunities to allow the individuals to meet to work out the differences, respectfully. Focus on strategies that can build trust in the relationship.
  • Look at the tasks that the individuals are responsible for and explore whether or not they have had adequate training or resources to be successful in performing their tasks (so the solution is to provide additional training and/or mentoring to help your folks be successful).
  • Evaluate the conditions under which these two works (are they sitting right next to the community coffee pot or the photocopy machine or with poor ventilation or no natural light? Is the environment affecting their behavior?) The solution may be to fix the problem by moving them or making some other change.
  • Is it financially feasible? Can it be completed in a reasonable time? Can it be done within financial cost structures? What is the return on investment?

This course is designed to provide hands-on experience that utilizes the learning from previous courses. With your knowledge of the client, you have identified and the learning you have acquired to this point, identify a management problem you will investigate and for which you will provide recommended solutions. If you are working with a supervisor or manager, you may want to consult with them to complete this step. Some questions you can explore to help you are:

  • What are the goals of the company/division/workgroup?
    • In considering the goals, where does progress halt?
    • Is there data to substantiate this or is it a perception of the manager?
    • Who is involved…the manager, the employees, stakeholders?
    • How long has this problem existed?
    • What and how are expectations and requirements communicated?
    • When expectations or key deadlines are missed, what happens?
    • What factors contribute to the problem (politics, structure, decision-making factors)?j
    • Are technical skills or training contributing to the problem?
    • Are there ethical issues relating to the problem?
    • If so, how have those issues been handled to date?

    These questions do not all need to be answered nor is this list all-inclusive; they are provided to help you get started and inspire your own questions to explore while completing this assignment.

    As you think about this consider:

    When relationships experience roadblocks of any sort we can say there is a problem in the relationship. This is true for both personal and professional relationships. When identifying and analyzing potential problems one would start first with the symptoms of the problem. This is sometimes a difficult process as it can be easy to confuse symptoms with the problem. For instance, perhaps as a manager, you are dealing with a lack of acceptable productivity with two of the ten people who work in your area of responsibility. Maybe one of those people is cranky and difficult to work with.

    In this case, the problem you need to solve as a manager is one of increasing productivity in your area to an acceptable level. Managers respond to this issue in many different ways depending upon their skill, ability, knowledge and maturity. Some managers may transfer some of the work from the two problem employees to some or all of the eight other employees. This solution will, in turn, produce additional symptoms that now are visible in the behavior and productivity level of the other eight employees in addition to the original two employees. You can see that this solution will only continue to affect productivity in a negative manner and never really solves the problem. This is why, during the problem identification stage, one ought to be certain they are looking at the problem and rather than trying to reduce or eliminate symptoms.

Complete 2-3 pages discussing the Solution Identification. This is Part 3 of your paper.

Turn in: A 10–12-page paper in a word document, submitted to your Week 3 “Identify the Problem” Assignment folder in the classroom. This is due by midnight on Sunday of Week 3. The Title Page, Abstract, and Reference pages do not count towards the 10–12-page minimum paper length requirement.

Your paper should be in APA Format 7th Edition and contain:
Title Page
Abstract (Identifying the Client)
Part 1: Identifying the Problem
Part 2: Conducting a Needs Assessment
Part 3: Solution Identification
References

 

NOTE: Research is required for this and all of the papers in this class. You must have a minimum of 6 unique sources (use APA format) none of which can be Wikipedia

From the readings, what are five main points that make a great website? Define each of the five points. From Zach Inman’s video, describe what you think were his two most important points not already covered by the readings.

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Digital marketing

What Makes a Good Website

Read these articles:

From the readings, what are five main points that make a great website? Define each of the five points.

From Zach Inman’s video, describe what you think were his two most important points not already covered by the readings.

List three other things that you think are required for a great website.

With your now total of 10 items that you think are key to a great website, look at these three websites and list if they do or do not have those keys.

  • Buzzfeed.com
  • Ikea.com
  • ASOS.com

Describe the two types of conflicting competitive pressures (localization/standardization) that a company will confront as it formulates its international/global strategy for entering a country of your choice.

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Using the Staples case:

Describe the two types of conflicting competitive pressures (localization/standardization) that a company will confront as it formulates its international/global strategy for entering a country of your choice.

What recommendations (and strategy) would you offer to address these conflicting demands? provide the rationale for your recommendations.

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Write a 2400 words APA-style paper on Demand Management in the supply chain.

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Demand Management in Supply Chain

Write a 2400 words APA-style paper on Demand Management in the supply chain.

The report should be well-written and organized (use clear headings). Your report should begin with an executive summary (simply summarize the major ideas in the report into around half a page to a page). Use at least 7 scholarly sources, at least 1 chart and 2 pictures. Provide a general explanation of what it is, what are its types/components, what are its benefits in general, what are examples of it in business, how companies have benefited from it both in general and specifically in their OSCM activities. Providing specific company examples and business cases are highly encouraged.

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Identify a research topic of interest in global information technology. Formulate a research question. Follow the instructions provided to detail how you selected the topic.

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ASSIGNMENT

  • Prompt: Examine a research topic in global information technology and identify areas of future research. The steps you should follow and different sections of the paper should include the following:
      • Identify a research topic of interest in global information technology. Formulate a research question. Follow the instructions provided to detail how you selected the topic.
      • Conduct a review of the literature (refereed journal articles only) on the topic.
  • When reviewing literature, address issues of rigor and relevance – were these met or not met.
  • Identify gaps in the literature. Present two or three areas of future research.
  • Use tables and figures where necessary.
  • Note: Summarize and paraphrase. Do not copy material from research papers.
  • Use the APA format for the paper, including citations and references. Include at least eight references.

Create a new organizational structure/chart for the company; explain how the new organizational structure/chart is improved.

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Instructions

The name of the textbook is as follows.Be sure to include it in the reference page and in at least one in-text citation:

David, F. R., David, F. R., & David, M. E. (2020). Strategic management: A competitive advantage approach, concepts and cases (17th ed.). Pearson. https://online.vitalsource.com/#/books/97801352037…

In this unit, you will continue researching the company that you selected for your final project. For this assignment, you will create a new product or service line for your firm. In your analysis, include the following items:

  • Provide a brief description of the product or service.
  • Explain how the new product or service line fits into the firm’s strategy and new mission statement.
  • Create a new organizational structure/chart for the company; explain how the new organizational structure/chart is improved.
  • What are the company’s short-term and long-term goals?

 

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What are the premise(s) in the article? What evidence is presented? Is it credible? Can you independently verify the evidence presented? How are counterarguments addressed? Does the writer represent a particular interest?

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Instructions Learning Objectives

  • Examine the process involved with problem formulation.
  • Apply critical thinking to problem identification.
  • Evaluate ethical implications of a decision.

Prompt:

Choose an editorial article from within the past 5 years (An editorial is an article that presents the writer’s opinion on an issue supported with facts) from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal or browse the library and choose an editorial that addresses a business issue that interests you.

Instructions:
Write an essay describing the following:

  • Citation of the article and a brief summary of its contents
  • What are the premise(s) in the article?
  • What evidence is presented? Is it credible?
  • Can you independently verify the evidence presented?
  • How are counterarguments addressed?
  • Does the writer represent a particular interest?
  • How is language used to develop the argument?
  • Do you detect any errors in knowledge, evidence, or thinking?
  • Does the writer use any types of appeals or commit any fallacies?
  • Overall, how compelling is this article?

Be certain to carefully research your analysis using at least 4 credible sources properly incorporated. Your submission should be 4-6 pages in length minimum and should be a thorough representation of your ability to critically think through the steps above. Use the template provided to ensure you are following APA format. This assignment is worth 14% of your final grade.

Discuss different types of strategies for competitive advantages (2), and then select and discuss the most appropriate strategies to improve the performance of the organization (2).

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Assignment of MIS201- Management Information System

Project Report Structure: Part 1       

Marks: 17 Marks

  1. Cover Page (1 Mark).

This must contain topic title (0.25), student names and Students ID (0.5), section number and course name (0.25).

(You can find the cover page in the blackboard)

  1. Table of Contents (0.5 Mark).

Make sure the table of contents contains and corresponds to the headings in the text, figures, and tables.

  1. Executive Summary (2.5 Marks).

What does the assignment about (1), The name and field of the chosen company (0.5), and briefly explain the distinct features (1).

  1. Organizational Profile (3 Marks).                               

Brief background of the business including organization details (1), purpose (1), and organizational structure (1).

  1. Strategies (4 Marks).

Discuss different types of strategies for competitive advantages (2), and then select and discuss the most appropriate strategies to improve the performance of the organization (2).

(You can discuss any points that you learned in this course and its related to your selected organization)

  1. Technology Involved (3 Marks).                         

How is the organization set up in terms of its IT infrastructure? Discuss the hardware (0.5), software (0.5), telecommunication (0.5), information security (0.5), networks (0.5), and other elements (0,5).

(You can discuss any points that you learned in this course, and it’s related to your selected organization)

  1. Data Management (2 Marks).

Discuss the methods the organization uses to manage and process data (1), and then give one advantage and one disadvantage of these methods (1).

(You can discuss any points that you learned in this course (chapter 3) and link it to your selected organization)

  1. Identify the Stakeholders (1 Mark)

Who are the main individuals, groups, or departments affected by the information system?

(You can choose any stakeholder who has a major influence on the IS or vice versa. You can choose 1 stakeholder to discuss)