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Analyze and explain why the company’s supply chain strategy is successful. As part of that, examine the effect of the selection and management of suppliers and determination of information needs and systems.

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Zara is the flagship brand for Europe’s fastest growing apparel retailer and has about 1500 stores in major cities around the globe.
For this assessment, consider that you work as a manager in Zara’s corporate organization. Zara’s leadership team is considering changes in their supply chain management practices, and your manager asked you to prepare a report that analyzes their current practices as input to their decision-making process. Your report will be reviewed by the overall leadership team. After conducting some research on the topic, you identified a highly useful resource, which is a summary of Zara’s supply chain management practices provided in the Harvard Business Review article, “Rapid Fire Fulfillment,” (linked in the Resources under the Required Resources heading). Your manager agreed with you about that resource being highly useful, and the two of you further agreed that your report should address the following key questions as items Zara’s leadership team will be interested in:
* Analyze and explain why the company’s supply chain strategy is successful. As part of that, examine the effect of the selection and management of suppliers and determination of information needs and systems.
* Analyze the importance of the company’s fast response and information infrastructure as related to the company’s supply chain strategy. For example, what advantage does Zara gain against the competition by having a very responsive supply chain? What information infrastructure does Zara need in order to operate its production, distribution, and fast fashion retail network effectively?
* Analyze how the company’s unique replenishment strategy satisfies customers. For example, what advantage does the company gain from replenishing its stores multiple times a week compared to a less frequent schedule? How does the frequency of replenishment affect the improved customer satisfaction?
* What information infrastructure does Zara need in order to operate its production, distribution, and fast fashion retail network effectively?

Identify the product or service. Which components of your scope would you consider for procurement? What should go into the make-or-buy analysis

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i. Identify the product or service.

ii. Which components of your scope would you consider for procurement?

iii. What should go into the make-or-buy analysis?

iv. What are your vendor selection criteria?

v. Describe some of the tools and techniques you would use for planning and managing communications and work performance.

A make-or-buy analysis is a general project management technique that is used to determine whether a particular task can be accomplished by the project team or should be handled via external sources. Since the project management team may source work from outside the organization to meet the scheduled commitments, it is important to understand the good practices and factors that influence make-or-buy decisions.

Understanding the good practices and factors that influence make-or-buy decisions may mean evaluating whether to contract the work out or to do it within the team. It could also mean deciding whether to build a solution to your problem or buy one that is already available. Some questions to consider include the following: How much does it cost to build it as opposed to buying it? How will this decision affect the scope of your project? How will this decision affect the project schedule? Do you have time to do the work and still meet your commitments?

As you plan out what you will and won’t contract, you will notice that it is important to think through your reasoning very carefully.

To support the make-or-buy analysis, communication processes are required to ensure timely and appropriate planning, collection, creation, distribution, storage, and retrieval of project information. Project managers spend time communicating with team members and project stakeholders, including vendors with different cultural and organizational backgrounds, different levels of expertise, and different perspectives and interests. Being aware of the good practices in project management communication supports project execution and outcomes.

Identify and study an interesting consumer behavior issue. Select an existing product or service that has been struggling or failing recently. Do a diagnostic analysis of the reason for the band failing problems and propose a prescriptive strategic revival plan.

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Identify and study an interesting consumer behavior issue. Select an existing product or service that has been struggling or failing recently. Do a diagnostic analysis of the reason for the band failing problems and propose a prescriptive strategic revival plan.

Create a new marketing strategy for the brand (AMC)

  1. Describe a consumer behavioral approach where you’d conduct the following:

1) Focus Groups,

2) Depth Interview,

  1. Why customers will be attracted by the new marketing strategy.
  2. Why the new strategic marketing approach is better than the current marketing strategy created by the company. Also, give examples.
  3. Explain in full detail of the above consumer behavioral approach and give more than one examples.
  4. Write about AMCs new theoretical brand positioning and brand equity,
  5. Write about classical conditioning by pavlov relate to AMC Theater and give examples.
  6. Write about Cues, response to a cue, reinforcement, unconditioned stimulus, conditioned stimulus, conditioned response, licensing (in regards to marketing)
  7. The analysis also should be clearly grounded in consumer behavior concepts.

Describe the specific ways in which you enact change. What model of counseling (or application of theory) best fits the treatment of the issue, based upon your description of pathology?

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Write a 5 to 6-page APA style paper describing your current theory of change (papers that exceed the 6-page limit will be subject to a points deduction). Apart from succinctly describing the nature of change in humans, you will choose a counseling theoretical model that most closely fits with their personal style of counseling and preference.You will also describe why they have chosen that particular model and how it fits with them. This paper will fulfill the Graduate Writing Requirement (GWR). Late submissions subject to course policy. Please answer the following prompts in your paper:

    1. What:  What is the problem that someone would bring to you or that you would be seeing in your counseling practice? What is the pathology of the issue? What are the factors contributing to the development of the problem (i.e. mental, behavioral, emotional, physiological, biological, academic, relational, etc.)? The factors that you choose should be connected closely to the theoretical assumptions for what leads to the dysfunction or issue. Take note that most theories and models for change typically address one primary factor when making change. What are healthy/ unhealthy characteristics of those specific factors chosen (ex. What does an unhealthy relationship look like)? What theory of development best aligns with the pathology or can be used to best explain the pathology?
    2. How:  How do you enact or facilitate change?

Describe the specific ways in which you enact change. What model of counseling (or application of theory) best fits the treatment of the issue, based upon your description of pathology? What interventions, from your model, would you use? Describe how change occurs, don’t just give a list of interventions or describe the interventions. NOTE: must go beyond regular core conditions!

  1. Why:  Describe your rationale for choosing the factors of change you focus on. Include any small or brief personal experiences you have had that have contributed to your selection of a model and factors of change. Include any empirical evidence you have come by to support your theory of change.
  2. Who:  Describe the counselors’ role within your particular model. Describe how the specific model fits your counseling style. Describe how you use yourself in counseling. What personal characteristics of yours do you use in your counseling and how does who you are affect change in your clients?

List at least four major changes in family, love, dating, and marriage that have occurred over the past 150 to 200 years. What are the major factors that have contributed to these changes?

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List at least four major changes in family, love, dating, and marriage that have occurred over the past 150 to 200 years. What are the major factors that have contributed to these changes? Would you say these changes have been more beneficial or more harmful to individuals and families? Use evidence from course content (readings/materials) to support your position.

In your own words, how would you explain the difference between sex, gender, and sexual orientation to someone who grew up highly gendered and with little knowledge about variation in these concepts? Why is it important to know the differences between these concepts (e.g. for your career, life, etc…)? Use course readings and materials to justify your answers.

A friend of yours is really struggling with dating and relationships, and they come to you looking for advice on how they can find a partner who is not a jerk/loser like all the previous individuals they have dated. They directly say “I am so sick of having shallow relationships with losers who end up ghosting me after a few Tinder hook-ups. Or moving in with someone only to have my heart broken and having to find a new place to live a few months later.  How can I find someone who I am relationally and sexually compatible with? How do I make a long-term romantic relationship work?”   What advice would you give your friend? In your response, be sure to use course content and readings to justify your advice, and be sure to address all components of your friend’s question.

Imagine a legislator were to write you saying they were concerned about recent evidence showing that U.S. adults experience high levels of work-family conflict, and that they would like to take legislative steps to help reduce the amount of work-family conflict experienced by American families. As someone who has systematically studied American families, they wanted to hear your opinion/input. What suggestions for specific policy proposals would you make to the legislator? Be sure to use evidence from course readings and content to justify your recommendations.

What are the key differences between national health service (NHS) and national health insurance (NHI) systems? How do NHI and NHS systems compare with the health care system in the United States?

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What are the key differences between national health service (NHS) and national health insurance (NHI) systems? How do NHI and NHS systems compare with the health care system in the United States? How do most countries with similar levels per capita income differ from and resemble the United States with respect to provider payments, coordination of care, workforce and information technology, and health system performance.

Choose two theories you have studied in BUSI 2101, which you will apply to the organization you have chosen.Analyze areas in which the organization is doing poorly and areas in which it is doing well with regard to the theories you have chosen.

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Demonstrate your knowledge of Organizational Behavior concepts, and practice analytical skills you will be able to apply to real contexts you find yourself in.

  1. Choose an organization that you have worked for or choose one that you like or that interests you from the list of companies that will be provided to you by your Course Leaders. If you choose a company not on the list, you will need to clear it with your Course Leaders to ensure that you have enough material to work with.
  2. Choose two theories you have studied in BUSI 2101, which you will apply to the organization you have chosen. (Note: do not confuse a general topic such as Motivation with a specific theory such as Expectancy Theory).
  3. Analyze areas in which the organization is doing poorly and areas in which it is doing well with regard to the theories you have chosen in step #2. This may include the following:
    1. Workplace interactions you observed (if you have chosen an organization you have worked for)
    2. Organization policies
    3. An organizational crisis and how it was handled
    4. Any other aspect of the organization or its functioning that are relevant to the theories you have chosen.
  4. Make recommendations grounded in the theories you have chosen that you think would improve the organization’s effectiveness.

Discuss disparities related to ethnic and cultural groups relative to low birth weight infants and preterm births. Identify at least one support service within your community for preterm infants and their family.

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Discuss disparities related to ethnic and cultural groups relative to low birth weight infants and preterm births. Describe the impact of extremely low birth weight babies on the family and on the community (short-term and long-term, including economic considerations, on-going care considerations, and co-morbidities associated with prematurity). Identify at least one support service within your community for preterm infants and their family. Provide the link for your colleagues to view. Does the service adequately address the needs of this population? Explain your answer using at least two evidence-based resources. Respond to two peers posing a substantial thought-provoking question or comment regarding their post.
WK 1: Part B
Vaccines have been touted as one of the most successful advances of modern medicine, yet an increasing number of parents are choosing not to vaccinate their children because of possible side effects. Complete an internet search to examine the debate among public health officials, doctors and parents around vaccine safety and read perspectives on the benefits and risks of vaccination. Explain how you as a BSN prepared nurse can educate parents on the benefits vs risks of immunizations. Explain your answer using at least two evidence-based resources. Respond to two peers posing a substantial thought-provoking question or comment regarding their post.

Constructivist theories regard children as active learners or “little scientists”. Based on your understanding of constructivism, how would you describe active learning?

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Constructivism and Active Learning.
Constructivist theories regard children as active learners or “little scientists”.
Based on your understanding of constructivism, how would you describe active learning?
• What instruction methods support this approach?
• How does this approach support the developmental needs of young children.

The original post must include information from a professional, scholarly source that is outside the course. Cite the source in APA style (author’s last name, year of publication, page number) within the post, and include a complete bibliographic reference in APA style at the end of the post. Note: A Web site can be cited (with a URL) but does not count as the outside article unless it is clearly an entire Web site that uses peer-review. This permits use of an online scholarly journal, for example, that does not have a print version. But a Web site such as Wikipedia would not qualify because, while edited and vetted (to a degree), it is not a refereed source.

Explain how multiple requests of cloud consumers can be managed in the cloud environment at the state of using multiple virtual machines. 

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Suggest an architect for the front and back end system. Illustrate how it can be connected to the public cloud.

Discuss all the needed requirements for the implementation of file system distribution to be adopted by Al Bashayer Meat Company S.A.O.C in the cloud environment.

Explain how multiple requests of cloud consumers can be managed in the cloud environment at the state of using multiple virtual machines.

In the future, if Al Bashayer Meat Company S.A.O.C has decided to be one of the service providers for their clients (meat distributors), discuss all necessary​mechanisms that the company needs to adapt to ensure a high level of quality and monitoring of services delivery.

How can the company isolate the network traffic that is associated with cloud clients? Justify your answer. f. Since Al Bashayer Meat Company S.A.O.C, has the intention to be a cloud service provider for their distributors. Discuss the right mechanism that can be adopted to ensure that all consumed IT resources are properly measured.

Based on the above scenario, what is the best way/s to identify predefined scaling conditions? Explain your answer with supportive diagrams.

In your design, how do you ensure that the workload is equally balanced among the created cloud services, and what is the best balancing method that can be adapted? Is there any drawback expected for the proposed method? Justify your answer.

As a cloud provider, explain how Al Bashayer Meat Company S.A.O.C will ensure 24/7 service delivery to their clients without any failure

Explain what is required for this data center to be transformed to a hybrid type of cloud computing.

Discuss the appropriate approach of adapting one of the service models such as​(SaaS, IaaS , PaaS)​ in your design.