If you found a USB/flash drive in a computer lab how would you do? Should you plug it into your computer and read the information? If you do plug the drive into your computer, what would you look for in order to identify who it belongs to?

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What would you do if you lost your flash drive?

If you found a USB/flash drive in a computer lab how would you do? Should you plug it into your computer and read the information? If you do plug the drive into your computer, what would you look for in order to identify who it belongs to?

What are some of the issues you could have if you do plug in the flash drive… to any computer?

What if the drive has all of the salaries of everyone who works at the university? What if the drive has grades for every student in a class or a group of classes? What would you do?

 

Write a paper describing the project manager’s role in monitoring tasks, directing resources, managing change requests, and preparing for project closure.

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This assignment will help you understand how projects are monitored and controlled.
Prompt: Research indicates that organizations believe that once the project management plan is developed, no further actions are necessary until the project is ready for delivery to the customer or project sponsor. In considering this statement, write a paper describing the project manager’s role in monitoring tasks, directing resources, managing change requests, and preparing for project closure.
The following critical elements must be addressed:
I. Describe the project manager’s role in monitoring tasks. II. Describe the project manager’s role in directing resources. III. Describe the project manager’s role in managing change requests. IV. Describe the project manager’s role in preparing for project closure

For-profit businesses typically analyze their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) to determine how they can improve their competitive position.

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For-profit businesses typically analyze their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) to determine how they can improve their competitive position. In Milestone Three, you will use a SWOT worksheet to support your analysis of the financial strength of the not-for-profit organization that you chose for your final project. This analysis is an important part of the overall strategic analysis report that you will write as your final project. In addition, you will consider the ethical implications of financial management in a not-for-profit organization.

Use the Swot Analysis Worksheet to assist you in analyzing the financial position of the not-for-profit organization that you have selected for your course project. You will not submit the SWOT worksheet for grading.

Describe the roles that different levels of administrative personnel play in healthcare ethics and establishing or sustaining employer/employee-focused organizational risk management strategies and operational policies

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Assume that the sample risk management program you analyzed in Topic 1 was implemented and is now currently in use by your health care employer/organization. Further assume that your supervisor has asked you to create a high‐level summary brief of this new risk management program to share with a group of administrative personnel from a newly created community health organization in your state who has enlisted your organization’s assistance in developing their own risk management policies and procedures.

Compose a 1,250‐1,500 word summary brief that expands upon the elements you first addressed in the Topic 1 assignment. In this summary brief, address the following points regarding your health care organization and its risk management program:

Explain the role of your organization’s MIPPA-approved accreditation body (e.g., JC, ACR, IAC) in the evaluation of your institution’s quality improvement and risk management processes.
Describe the roles that different levels of administrative personnel play in healthcare ethics and establishing or sustaining employer/employee-focused organizational risk management strategies and operational policies.
Illustrate how your organization’s risk management and compliance programs support ethical standards, patient consent, and patient rights and responsibilities.
Explain the legal and ethical responsibilities health care professionals face in upholding risk management policies and administering safe health care at your organization.
Relate how your organization’s quality improvement processes support and contribute to its overall journey to excellence.
In addition to your textbook, you are required to support your analysis with a minimum of three peer‐reviewed references.

Find a case study anywhere in the world that has proven success in the financial management process (i.e. budgeting, accounting, reporting and auditing processes) and discuss how you as an urban manager can apply these principles in the context of South African local government financial system.

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Financial Urban Management.
Analyse the presentation by National Treasury “State of Local Government Finance” (uploaded on)
• Provide a brief introduction and background, description of the financial management system of the South African local government.
• Critique and identify possible gaps that exist in the budgeting, accounting, reporting and auditing processes.
• Find a case study anywhere in the world that has proven success in the financial management process (i.e. budgeting, accounting, reporting and auditing processes) and discuss how you as an urban manager can apply these principles in the context of South African local government financial system.
• In a brief conclusion draw together the main points made in the sections above and from this derive your solutions.
• Word count 3000 (excluding reference). You are to write this as academic essay using academic sources.

What strength would be beneficial to leadership role. Weakness that could impact a role in leadership, Opportunities based on strengths, and Threats – external or unexpected threats that may impact leadership and how to use strength to guard against these threats

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What strength would be beneficial to leadership role. Weakness that could impact a role in leadership, Opportunities based on strengths, and Threats – external or unexpected threats that may impact leadership and how to use strength to guard against these threats.

Develop project charters that illustrate the high-level scope of the project as it aligns to organizational strategic needs Analyze internal and external stakeholder needs for efficiently navigating organizational structures

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In your final project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following course outcomes:
 Develop project charters that illustrate the high-level scope of the project as it aligns to organizational strategic needs
 Analyze internal and external stakeholder needs for efficiently navigating organizational structures
 Determine proper approaches to defining business requirements for aligning with business strategies
 Utilize project management software for effectively developing project management plans
 Develop key project management control documents for ensuring effective management plan scope descriptions
 Evaluate agile and waterfall methods for successful project execution
 Determine approaches for project closure that inform ongoing best practices in project management planning
Prompt
Throughout the course, you have been working through the phases of the project management life cycle to develop components for a project management plan
that addresses the organizational needs of the organization highlighted in two case studies: the Fabricant Manufacturing Project (Milestone One) and the ECOTrans case study (Milestone Two). Your instructor and peers have provided feedback for you to consider along the way. Now, you have the background
knowledge and the information necessary to complete your project management plan, which utilizes the HighTower Global Solutions case study, available in
MindEdge.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
I. Project Initiation
A. Identify the economic, technical, and organizational feasibility of the project. For instance, how is the project a viable fit within the organization?
B. Explain how the project aligns to the organization’s strategic goals utilizing the traceability matrix (in Mindedge).
C. Develop a project charter that includes a high-level scope of what is to be accomplished.
D. Create a high-level timeline and cost estimate to complete the project.
E. Identify the concerns of the internal and external key project stakeholders.
F. Compare the level of support from all key project stakeholders to inform the course of action resulting in success of the project.
G. Complete the stakeholder analysis template.
II. Project Planning
A. Determine the business requirements for the successful development of the project. Justify your choices.
B. Establish who will provide the business requirements. What approach will be used to solicit the requirements from the subject matter experts?
C. Categorize and organize the business requirements in a standard requirements template.
D. Explain why the format for capturing requirements is important to the overall success of the project. Why would we consider requirements’
traceability?
E. Leveraging the business requirements, translate these requirements into a project schedule using project management software through the
provided template.
F. Estimate the duration of project tasks using common business knowledge, and assign resources to complete each task.
G. Refine your estimate of the project cost based on the duration of tasks and resources needed.
III. Project Execution
A. Determine the best implementation approach—agile or waterfall project—for the organization based on its organizational structure. Provide
examples to support your rationale.
B. Explain how the project schedule can be resource leveled, fast-tracked, or crashed if needed based upon execution results.
C. Propose communication approaches and the frequency that should be used to keep leadership apprised of the project execution. Include
examples to support your claims.
IV. Project Control
A. Describe how you will handle changes in scope to your project management plan. What change management process will be used? What key
information will be required for change requests?
B. Describe the risk management process that is the best fit for effective project control over your plan.
C. Explain how you will document issues and what process will be used to manage the issue to completion. Include examples to support your
claims.
V. Project Closeout
A. Identify what needs to be done to close your project management plan. Include examples supporting how you will minimize the chances of
overlooking a step in the project process.
B. Justify the need for a warranty period and how the project will transition to business
C. Complete a lessons-learned template for the case study project.

Explain the effect of power and influence that leaders have on followers in the organization. Are the followers receptive? Would you recommend another strategy?

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For the final paper, you will examine key concepts of leadership in your place of work, or in a social organization to which you may belong that has leadership concepts (Rotary club, athletic team, scout leader, etc). Include the following in your paper:

Apply one of the leadership theories from the course text to the organization. Explain how the theory works and include an example.
Explain the effect of power and influence that leaders have on followers in the organization. Are the followers receptive? Would you recommend another strategy? Explain your reasoning. If not, why not?
Evaluate the role and effectiveness of transformational and transactional leadership in the organization. Support your (claims, points?) with examples (from?).
Assess the traits and characteristics of an effective team leader within the organization.
Explain how the leadership supports vision, mission, and strategy in the organization.
If you were the leader in the organization, what would you change and why?

What are the most significant reasons for Mega-Project failure and might such failures be avoided? The failure and success of “The National Programme for IT in the National Health System (NHS) (NPfIT) in the UK”

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You are required to write a Reflective REPORT that addresses the following:

What are the most significant reasons for Mega-Project failure and might such failures be avoided? The failure and success of “The National Programme for IT in the National Health System (NHS) (NPfIT) in the UK”

Notes and guidance:

In the United Kingdom (UK), the National Programme for IT in the National Health System (NHS) (NPfIT) was the largest public sector IT programme ever attempted in the UK, originally budgeted to cost approximately £6 billion over the lifetime of the major contracts. After a history marked by delays, stakeholder opposition and implementation issues, the programme was dismantled by the Conservative Liberal Democrat Government in 2011, almost ten years after Prime Minister Tony Blair initiated it at a seminar in Downing Street in 2002.

Study and use as reference the The National Programme for IT in the NHS Case Study document which has been provided to you.

Is CR a real contradiction to the dominant literature or are they comparing “apples and oranges”?

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The dominant literature is US-based but the presented cases stem from autocratic states. The political involvement of the state into economy is on a whole different level.

Critical Realism (CR) claims political contextuality but when challenging the functionalist approaches, they themselves disregard the oppositional political background of the analyzed approaches.Is CR a real contradiction to the dominant literature or are they comparing “apples and oranges”?