Author: chris

Give a description of the following business models: brick-and-mortar, e-business and e-commerce.

Scenario:

Assume you are a manager at a medium-sized brick-and-mortar organization based in the Middle East and are looking to enter the global market. You have been asked to assess the company’s current business model and come up with a recommendation for scaling it up with IT security in mind.

Directions:

Write a paper that includes the following:

•A description of the following business models: brick-and-mortar, e-business and e-commerce

•For each model, discuss best practices you would employ to keep your customers’ personal data safe.

•Recommend the model that is best suited for global expansion, explaining your reasoning.

Keep in mind, we are most interested in your explanation of the steps you would take to identify a suitable model in accordance with security goals. Use diagrams, where appropriate.

Requirements

– 3 pages

– 3 references

– APA format

– APA citation

– the essay must include introduction – body – conclusion – references

– Not plagiarized ( we check that with turnitin.com)

 

due date 06-Feb-2016

time 13:00 GMT

Identify what variable would be best to measure a problem. Explain why.

Prepare an 11- to 15-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation for the senior management team based on the business problem or opportunity you described in Week 3 and 4. Draw on material you developed in the Week 3 and 4 assignments.

Include the following in your presentation:

  • Introduction slide
  • Agenda slide
  • Describe the organization, with a brief description
  • Explain the business problem or opportunity
  • Analyze why the business problem is important
  • Identify what variable would be best to measure for this problem. Explain why.
  • Apply data analysis techniques to this problem (tell which techniques should be used: descriptive stats, inferential stats, probability, linear regression, time series). Explain why.
  • Apply a possible solution to the problem/opportunity, with rationale.
  • Evaluate how data could be used to measure the implementation of such a solution.
  • Conclusion
  • References slide (if any source material is quoted or paraphrased throughout the presentation)

Include on the slides what you’d want the audience to see (include appropriate visual aids/layout) and include in the Speaker’s Notes section what you’d say as you present each slide. If any source material is quoted or paraphrased in the presentation, use APA citations and references.

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your presentation.

Analyze and apply the concepts of freedom versus responsibility and ethical decision making.

Students, please view the “Submit a Clickable Rubric Assignment” video in the Student Center.
Instructors, training on how to grade is within the Instructor Center.
Assignment 2: Employment-At-Will Doctrine
Due Week 5 and worth 150 points
Imagine you are a recently-hired Chief Operating Officer (COO) in a midsize company preparing for an Initial Public Offering (IPO). You quickly discover multiple personnel problems that require your immediate attention.
1. John posted a rant on his Facebook page in which he criticized the company’s most important customer.
2. Ellen started a blog to protest the CEO’s bonus, noting that no one below director has gotten a raise in two (2) years and portraying her bosses as “know-nothings” and “out-of-touch”
3. Bill has been using his company-issued BlackBerry to run his own business on the side.
4. After being disciplined for criticizing a customer in an email (sent from his personal email account on a company computer), Joe threatens to sue the company for invasion of privacy.
5. One of the department supervisors requests your approval to fire his secretary for insubordination. Since the secretary has always received glowing reviews, you call her into your office and determine that she has refused to prepare false expense reports for her boss.
6. Anna’s boss refused to sign her leave request for jury duty and now wants to fire her for being absent without permission.
As an astute manager, you will need to analyze the employment-at-will doctrine and determine what, if any, exceptions and liabilities exist before taking any action. As you proceed with your investigation, you discover the company has no whistleblower policy.
In preparation for this assignment, use the Internet or Strayer Library to research your state’s employment-at-will policy.
Write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you:
1. Summarize the employment-at-will doctrine discussed in the text and then evaluate three (3) of the six (6) scenarios described by determining:
a. Whether you can legally fire the employee; include an assessment of any pertinent exceptions to the employment-at-will doctrine.
b. The primary action(s) that you should take to limit liability and impact on operations; specify the ethical theory that best supports your decision.
2. Examine your state’s policy on employment-at-will. Analyze at least one (1) real-world example of an employee or employer utilizing your state’s employment-at-will doctrine in the last five (5) years. Include a summary of the main issue and the outcome in the identified real-world example.
3. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia is not an acceptable reference and proprietary Websites do not qualify as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
• Analyze and apply the concepts of freedom versus responsibility and ethical decision making.
• Analyze and evaluate laws that protect against discrimination in the workplace.
• Analyze and evaluate the employment-at-will doctrine and exceptions, as well as the protections afforded whistleblowers.
• Explore the legal and ethical issues surrounding employee and consumer privacy.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in law, ethics, and corporate governance.
• Write clearly and concisely about law, ethics, and corporate governance using proper writing mechanics.
Click here to view the grading rubric for this assignment.

Discuss how this model was used in the creation of this community health promotion strategy.

Advance practice nurses can be found in every aspect of the health care field including out in the community. Advanced practice nurses not only care for the client but all aspects that surround their clients. In this assignment you will focus on promoting the health of the community. You will choose a topic concerning women’s health. In a 5 to 6 page APA formatted paper you will create and discuss a community health promotion that pertains to your topic. Make sure to:

  1. Identify your chosen topic and the demographic area and population that you are targeting.
  2. Discuss why this topic is important to this group (include background information) with references.
  3. Use one community based health promotion model.
  4. Discuss how this model was used in the creation of this community health promotion strategy.
  5. Include your community health promotion strategy.

Assignment Requirements

The finished Assignment should be 5-6 page Analytical essay, encompassing all required items listed. The viewpoint and purpose of this Assignment should be clearly established and sustained.

Before finalizing your work, you should:

  • be sure to read the Assignment description carefully
  • consult the Grading Rubric (under the Course Home) to make sure you have included everything necessary;
  • utilize spelling and grammar check to minimize errors; and
  • review APA formatting and citation information found in the KU Writing Center, online, or elsewhere in the course.

Your assignment should:

  • follow the conventions of Standard American English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.);
  • be well ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful;
  • display superior content, organization, style, and mechanics;
  • use APA 6th editionformat for organization, style, and crediting sources including:
    • properly formatted header
    • 12-point, double-spaced, Times New Roman font
    • use of in-text citations
    • title page and reference page
    • use of headings (if applicable)

Explain how ITPM best practices can align the IT portfolio with business requirements in order to create the greatest possible value for the organization.

  1. ITPM Best Practices Please respond to the following:
  • Explain how ITPM best practices can align the IT portfolio with business requirements in order to create the greatest possible value for the organization.

 

Assess the systems development life-cycle (SDLC) and explain how the life cycle, when executed properly, can maximize business value. Note: All stakeholders point of view should be considered

 

  1. Service Delivery Models Please respond to the following:
  • Evaluate the service delivery models. Select the options that, in your opinion, are most efficient together regardless of industry. Additionally, select the models that work best in particular industries. Justify your response.

 

Determine how a company’s selection of a Service Delivery Model could impact business value. Provide an example to justify your response.

Why and how does your company use these intermediaries?

Marketing Plan

This week you will continue your comprehensive marketing plan researching the SAME company that you researched in previous units. Again, utilizing the CSU Online Library, you will research the various elements of the marketing plan as it relates to this company. In Unit V you will provide a comprehensive discussion of place or distribution strategies of your company.

Place

This section will provide a comprehensive look at the distribution strategy of your organization. Begin with an identification of the distribution channels that should include the entire path that the products travel from the “manufacturer” to the final consumer. This might involve manufacturing plants, wholesalers, distributors, retailers and various other intermediaries. Why and how does your company use these intermediaries? Many companies use multiple channels, particularly with the advent of the internet (which is considered a direct channel). Another element to include is a description of a physical facility. This might include a manufacturing plant, bottling plant, retail location, or even a unique merchandising effort.

Competitive Advantage

Because competitive advantage is an important goal of every company, address whether your company has a competitive advantage WITH RESPECT TO PLACE. The idea is to discuss whether your company has a competitive advantage with respect to how they distribute their products. This should discuss their distribution channel and maybe a unique retail location (if pertinent). Again, this section should only discuss whether your company has a competitive advantage with respect to place (product, price and promotion are discussed in other sections). Once you have stated your position, remember to include your rationale.

 

Your submission should be a minimum of two pages in length, double-spaced with a reference page and title page. References should include at least one additional, credible reference beyond the textbook. All sources used must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations and cited per APA guidelines. Include the use of subheadings (this week consider using Place and Competitive Advantage in Place)

Describe the product you selected in terms of the four utilities of customer value.

Assume the role of Marketing Manager. Select a product (good or service) that is sold in the United States and has sales opportunities in a foreign market. Apply your critical thinking skills and the knowledge you have acquired throughout this course and address the following in your Final Paper:
1. Describe the product you selected in terms of the four utilities of customer value.
2. Identify the product’s target market at home and in your stated foreign market.
3. Indicate the competition of the product category in both home and foreign markets.
4. Explain how you would apply the segmentation, targeting, and positioning (STP) approach to market the product in the foreign market.
5. Discuss the major environmental facts and trends in the foreign markets that might affect sales of the product.
6. Explain how you would develop, execute and measure a campaign for this product considering the four p’s (product, price, promotion, and place).
7. Discuss the U.S. and international ethical marketing considerations.

Imagine yourself as a junior Enterprise Architect in the organization described by your case study and these are your on-the-job work products.

DUE Saturday 2/6 WORK MUST be cited
Notes about this assignment:
• This is not a research paper. You do not use the APA format for a research paper for this assignment – i.e., you do not need to include an abstract.

As a case study, pretend you are the Enterprise Architect. Create documents that are of the caliber that you would present to your IT and Business management.
Step 1

1. BJ’s Wholesale Club Case Study
2. Review the information about Architecture Principles in TOGAF version 9, Chapter 23 which is available on the OpenGroup.org website.
3. Read Chapter 6 from the Spewak & Hill (1993) text. Pay particular attention to the examples and information about the Applications Systems Description

Step 2: Create a set of Enterprise-level Architecture Principles for your case study.
1. Use the template in the TOGAF specification for principles –i.e., use Name, Statement, Rationale and Implications.
2. See if you can create enterprise level principles and not ones for sub-architectures (such as data or technical or application architectures). These should be enterprise principles that are specific to the case study and the way that organization (BJ’s, Clarion, etc.) would run their business. Be specific – i.e., avoid simple statements like “We want to make money”.
3. You can draw from other sources like journal articles, company websites or financial filings (Google for EDGAR). You should always list the source of information you used for determining the principle.
4. You should prepare 5-8 principles. Be sure your principles are applicable, and specific, to the business domain of the case study you have been assigned. Do not use principles that are overly generic and would apply to any business.

Step 3: Create a list of 6-10 Business Capabilities that apply to your case study. These are called “Major Business Functions” in examples in chap. 6 of the Spewak & Hill reading. You will use these in this and the subsequent assignments. Draw these from the case study materials (BJ’s) or the reading materials (Clarion or Pizzeria). [Note: You may have been provided these in your case study materials. In that case, just use what was provided to you.]

Step 4: Create Application Descriptions (similar to the examples in chapter 6 of Spewak & Hill for the Information Resources Catalog) for the case study assigned to you (BJs, Clarion School, etc). Your Application Descriptions will reflect the state of the enterprise based on the materials provided to you, your own research and as of the date of those materials – i.e., you do not need to worry about what is the most up-to-date, on-the-ground state, of the business.

The Application Description should have the following sections (following examples in the reading) and with data filled determined to the best of your ability from the sources (not all information will be known for all applications):

Business Information:
• A short name (acronyms or abbreviations) and the long name (official name) assigned to systems.
• The project manager or person responsible for maintaining that application along with their contact information (if known).
• The organizational owner or business department responsible for the requirements and functions of the application. If this isn’t available in the materials provided to you or from your research, assign an associated business department – use your judgement.
• A plain language definition of this business application and what it does. The definition is intended to be read by people throughout the organization – it should not be overly technical. It should describe “what” the application does but it does not describe “how” the application works.
• The business capabilities (or functions) supported by the application should also be listed. These are the business capabilities from step 3. This is important. Do not skip this part.
• The status of the system, such as operational, planned, or obsolete. The status notes include changes scheduled for the coming year.
• Long-range issues are changes that may occur in the future, but are not definite.
• Organization units identified in the business model may be linked to the application.
• Maintenance or other direct budget costs to the application, if known, may be given.
• The number of people that are assigned to maintain this application.
Technical Information:
• Year implemented. Latest version or revision.
• Whether the application is primarily batch, online, or both.
• If a batch or scheduled application, what is the frequency of running the system, such as daily, weekly, or monthly. Also, what is the scheduled time within the frequency when the application runs – e.g., daily at 3pm.
• The equipment, hardware, or physical technology platforms used. Important. Do not skip this (you need this for Assignment #6). Also, the network(s) or communication platforms used.
• The software platforms used. These include operating systems, database systems and enterprise applications (SAP, PeopleSoft, etc.) used.
• Additional notes are for miscellaneous material relevant to this application.
• Finally, a note whether supplemental material or documentation was collected.

Additionally, create a placeholder application (or applications) for any business capabilities that don’t seem to have an existing application. Do not skip this step.

Make sure you list sources of information used. Include source, date, etc. in your citations for sources of information used.

Step 4: Submit this portion of your Case Study Analysis

Notes about this assignment:
• This is not a research paper. You do not use the APA format for a research paper for this assignment – i.e., you do not need to include an abstract.
• Imagine yourself as a junior Enterprise Architect in the organization described by your case study and these are your on-the-job work products. Your audience is the CIO and other business leaders. Prepare work suitable for this audience – that is how you will be evaluated.
• You do not need to know more about the case study than what is provided to you and what you can supplement with some basic research.
• You may prepare your work using Word, PowerPoint or Excel. If you use Visio or other tools, please submit your work as PDF or JPG files.
• For the Application Descriptions, you have to provide information comparable to the examples in the reading – you do not have to strictly follow the format from the figures in the reading. For example, you may find it more convenient and useful to organize your Application Descriptions as a series of tables and to do this in Excel. That is fine.
• For the Application Descriptions, focus on the key applications that relate to the case study. For the purposes of this class, let’s just assume you can’t document everything.
Enterprise Architecture Principles
and Application Descriptions

4 3 2 1
Application Descriptions
Comprehensive diagrams and description of a current state application architecture to represent the domain area of the case study. Diagrams and description of a current state application architecture to represent the domain area of the case study. Lacks diagrams and/or description of a current state application architecture to represent the domain area of the case study. Lacks diagrams and description of a current state application architecture to represent the domain
area of the case study.
Enterprise Principles
Enterprise level architecture principles are properly formatted and include clear description, rationale and implication. Principles are a thorough representative of case study enterprise. Principles are properly formatted and include description, rationale and implication. Principles have minor errors in usage or may not well cover the domain of the assigned case study. Principles are not complete – e.g., include description but lack rationale and/or implication. Identified principles have significant gaps in covering the domain of the assigned case study. Principles have significant errors in format, content or completeness. Principle are fundamentally not effective in describing the case study provided.
Format, Content and Coherence
Document is well organized, well written, informative concise, and thorough. Document is well written and informative but could use minor improvements in content or presentation. Minor errors in format, organization or content of the document. Document contains significant errors in structure and/or information presented making document difficult to read and comprehend.

Discuss potential liquidity issues based on your calculations of the current and quick ratios.

Final Paper

Write a five- to seven-page financial statement analysis of a public company, formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. In this analysis, you will discuss the financial health of this company with the ultimate goal of making a recommendation to other investors. Your paper should consist of the following sections: introduction, company overview, horizontal analysis, ratio analysis, final recommendation, and conclusions.  Your paper needs to include a minimum of two scholarly resources in addition to the textbook as references.

Here is a breakdown of the sections within the body of the assignment:

Company Overview 

Provide a brief overview of your company (one to two paragraphs at most).   What industry is it in?   What are its main products or services?  Who are its competitors?

Horizontal Analysis of Income Statement and Balance Sheet

Prepare a three-year, horizontal analysis of the income statement and balance sheet of your selected company.  Discuss the importance and meaning of horizontal analysis.  Discuss both the positive and negative trends presented in your company.

Ratio Analysis

Calculate the current ratio, quick ratio, cash to current liabilities ratio, over a two-year period.   Discuss and interpret the ratios that you calculated.  Discuss potential liquidity issues based on your calculations of the current and quick ratios.  Are there any factors that could be erroneously influencing the results of the ratios?  Discuss liquidity issues of competitive companies within the same industry.

Recommendation

Based on your analysis, would you recommend an individual invest in this company?  What strengths do you see?  What risks do you see?  It is perfectly acceptable to state that you would recommend avoiding this company, as long as you provide support for your position.

The paper

  • Must be five to seven double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
  • Must include a separate title page with the following:
    • Title of paper
    • Student’s name
    • Course name and number
    • Instructor’s name
    • Date submitted
  • Must use at least two scholarly sources in addition to the course text.
  • Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
  • Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

 

 

Required Resources

 

Text

  • K Wainwright, S. (Ed.). (2012). Principles of Accounting: Volume I . San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc.
    • Chapter 9: Ratio Analysis

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Recommended Resources

Websites

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CRJ 200: Criminal Procedure and Criminal Evidence Module Six Check Your Understanding

Directions: Provide Short Essay Answers and Cite Your Work Using APA Style. Make sure you properly cite using APA, case law, and the applicable Federal rules of evidence or Constitutional amendment(s) applicable to support your answer.
1. What is the reputation of a defendant and how do you prove it in a criminal trial?
2. What are some important factors in considering the character of a witness?
3. What are the three exceptions to FRE 412, prohibiting the introduction of evidence that a sexual assault victim engaged in other sexual behavior or proof of a victim’s sexual predisposition?
4. When a defendant tries to prove that he acted in self-defense, what must he or she show?
5. What is the doctrine of chances?
6. Explain when a victim’s character is at issue at trial.
7. What is the best evidence rule and when does it apply?
8. When is a defendant not required to comply with a subpoena duces tecum and produce documents in his or her possession?
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10. What are the defenses that the defendant may be required to disclose to the prosecution prior to trial?
11. Explain what must be shown in order for a defendant to succeed on a Brady claim under Banks v. Dretke, 540 U.S. 668 (2004).
12. Explain the significance of the Supreme Court decision in Arizona v. Youngblood as it relates to a due process argument in a Brady claim.