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Identify the necessary skills and competencies that you will need to realize your professional goals. Explain why, in your opinion, these assets are the key building blocks of your career.

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Architect your career path for the next ten years. Identify the necessary skills and competencies that you will need to realize your professional goals. Explain why, in your opinion, these assets are the key building blocks of your career.
2. Define the steps that you will take to develop these skills and competencies.

3. Assess the probability of your success considering the legal, social, economic, and individual constraints (internal politics) that you may encounter during this process.
Develop your answers using the cause-effect methodology. Use the tools of Systems Thinking such as flow-charts, decision trees and tables to clearly illustrate the path leading to your conclusions. Note that having an academic degree should not be used as a proxy for actually having individual competencies and skills.

Explore a key aspect of organizational development within a large business setting, and prepare a substantive outline detailing the program that you intend to design, develop, implement, and maintain for the benefit of the organization identified.

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Your final research paper will be based on a topic of your choice related to an aspect of organizational development examined in this course. This assignment requires that you explore a key aspect of organizational development within a large business setting, and prepare a substantive outline detailing the program that you intend to design, develop, implement, and maintain for the benefit of the organization identified. For the purposes of this assignment, you must select a Fortune 1,000 company for this project. You may use the readings assigned in the class to supplement your research.
Prepare an outline with bullet points of the topics, subtopics, theories, and concepts that you plan to ultimately cover in your research paper.  The outline should cover the organizational culture of the Fortune 1,000 company Costco.

Who are you? How do you know? How do you know you are really who you say you are? How do you describe yourself?What outside influences do you understand that have contributed to shape your life?

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Who are you? How do you know? How do you know you are really who you say you are? How do you
describe yourself? Describe yourself in 6 words. That’s all you have. What was the first term that you used to describe yourself and why?
The sociological imagination paper is a two-part assignment that you will work on over the course of the semester. The first part will ask you to reflect on who you are and how you become you? What outside influences do you understand that have contributed to shape your life? Over the course of the semester, you will be developing your sociological imagination. C. Wright Mills helps us to understand that the sociological imagination is “the vivid awareness of the relationship between experience and the wider society” (Mills, 1960).
This process will involve you not to think about yourself in a paper about yourself. Complicated right? Not really.

 How does the current pandemic affect news reporting? It is compulsory to introduce (at least) the following subtopics or approaches with regards to the major topic: News Providers; Access to Sources and Interviews; Attribution and Quotes;Broadcast Reporting; Ethics and Code of Conduct; and Health Journalism.

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How does the current pandemic affect news reporting? It is compulsory to introduce (at least) the following subtopics or approaches with regards to the major topic: 1) News Providers; 2) Access to Sources and Interviews; 3) Attribution and Quotes; 4) Broadcast Reporting; 5) Ethics and Code of Conduct; and 6) Health Journalism.
– Your essay must prove your complete command of the course literature (the one uploaded in Aula Global or recommended, and not only Potter´s main textbook). This will not be an opinion assignment but an academic one. Therefore, references on the main scholars’ approaches to the different issues will be needed.  The professor will not matter about your topic opinion, but about your command and analysis on the literature, facts and data about the given issue.
– You will be allowed to use not only the materials uploaded in Aula Global but any other relevant one you might want. The professor will grade how relevant other possible sources used might be.

How can cultural differences be accounted for when treating patients from various ethnic backgrounds? What strategies do you suggest to reinforce the importance of lifestyle modifications in patients with this disease? 

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How can cultural differences be accounted for when treating patients from various ethnic backgrounds?

What strategies do you suggest to reinforce the importance of lifestyle modifications in patients with this disease?

If the only way to eliminate prevalence of this disease among lower socioeconomic status patients is to establish high-quality facilities that overlook any judgment regarding the patient’s financial deficits.

How can these facilities be effectively established in terms of funding, resources, guidelines, and staff? What is “blueprint” suggest for making sure that these facilities are solving the issue and not falling into old, outdated patterns?

Write a synthesis film review for all three films. What are the major problems (Cite at least 3) in the United States’ health care system?Why do you think it has not been “fixed”? 

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Watch the three (3) PBS documentaries: A. Sick Around America  B. Sick Around the World C. Why the U.S. pays more for health care than the rest of the world? Write a synthesis film review for all three films following the provided rubric below.

What are the major problems (Cite at least 3) in the United States’ health care system?Why do you think it has not been “fixed”?

After watching the films, do you believe that providing universal health care should be the policy of the United States?Why or why not?

Should the government provide for the health of working people?Why or why not?Should the government provide for the health of those who can’t work.Why or why not?

Using issues from the films and your own knowledge, articulate what you think is the best solution for our failing system.

Analyze how Dell has changed its supply chain to satisfy its customers. As an example, was Dell’s decision to sell its products via retail outlets a viable solution? Do you agree with this distribution strategy? Why or why not?

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For this assessment, consider that you work as a business analyst for a consulting firm that specializes in helping clients improve their operations and associated processes. Your manager asked you to write a white paper that they will use to demonstrate how your firm can help clients implement best practices in their supply chains and distribution channels, and you and your manager selected Dell as the subject of the white paper.

Dell has been selling computers for over 25 years with its unique, direct build-to-order sales model.

As part of your research into Dell’s supply chain and distribution strategy, you identified related articles in the Capella library (linked in the Resources under the Required Resources heading) that you decided to use to help you write your white paper. You and your manager decided your white paper should address the following points:

Analyze why Dell’s supply chain strategy is successful.
Describe the main supply chain challenges that Dell is now facing and provide strategies to effectively overcome the challenges.
Analyze how Dell has changed its supply chain to satisfy its customers. As an example, was Dell’s decision to sell its products via retail outlets a viable solution? Do you agree with this distribution strategy? Why or why not?

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.