Author: chris

Case Study 1: GE Healthcare (A): Innovating for Emerging Markets

Due Week 5 and worth 300 points

Read the case study titled “GE Healthcare (A): Innovating for Emerging Markets” located in the XanEdu case pack (Link Below)

Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:

1. Determine two (2) emerging trends in the external environment that prompted General Electric (GE) Healthcare to develop a new strategy for the production and marketing of a low cost Electroencephalography (EEG) machine in bottom of the pyramid markets (BOP).
2. Examine two (2) internal barriers GE Healthcare faced when developing its BOP market in India and determine the manner in which they hindered GE Healthcare’s growth in this market segment.
3. Analyze two (2) of the significant external barriers that GE Healthcare faced when trying to meet its marketing goals in the Indian market. Propose two (2) ways to address these barriers.
4. Analyze the specific steps GE took in developing its strategy to grow its BOP market. Determine the manner in which those actions apply to the principles of strategic thinking and strategic planning.
5. Determine the manner in which GE Healthcare’s strategy to improve its position in BOP markets contributed to the organization’s value chain in both emerging and developed markets.

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:

• Differentiate between strategic management, strategic thinking, strategic planning, and managing strategic momentum.
• Analyze the significance of the external environment’s impact on health care organizations.
• Examine the role of internal environmental analysis in identifying the basis for sustained competitive advantage.
• Examine the organizational value chain, including the components of the service delivery and support activities.
• Examine barriers to new product development that comply with initiatives in the health care industry.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in the strategic management of health care organizations.
• Write clearly and concisely about strategic management of health care organizations using proper writing mechanics

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric.

Points: 200 Assignment 3: Recruiting
Criteria
Unacceptable
Below 60% F Meets Minimum Expectations
60-69% D
Fair
70-79% C
Proficient
80-89% B
Exemplary
90-100% A
1. Summarize your findings about recruiting in either Japan or Saudi Arabia.
Weight: 25% Did not submit or incompletely summarized your findings about recruiting in either Japan or Saudi Arabia. Insufficiently summarized your findings about recruiting in either Japan or Saudi Arabia. Partially summarized your findings about recruiting in either Japan or Saudi Arabia. Satisfactorily summarized your findings about recruiting in either Japan or Saudi Arabia. Thoroughly summarized your findings about recruiting in either Japan or Saudi Arabia.
2. Identify the top three to five (3-5) factors that would need to be considered when recruiting in your chosen region.
Weight: 30% Did not submit or incompletely identified the top three to five (3-5) factors that would need to be considered when recruiting in your chosen region. Insufficiently identified the top three to five (3-5) factors that would need to be considered when recruiting in your chosen region. Partially identified the top three to five (3-5) factors that would need to be considered when recruiting in your chosen region. Satisfactorily identified the top three to five (3-5) factors that would need to be considered when recruiting in your chosen region. Thoroughly identified the top three to five (3-5) factors that would need to be considered when recruiting in your chosen region.
3. Develop a persuasive closing summary that describes why the factors you identified are important.
Weight: 30% Did not submit or incompletely developed a persuasive closing summary that describes why the factors you identified are important. Insufficiently developed a persuasive closing summary that describes why the factors you identified are important. Partially developed a persuasive closing summary that describes why the factors you identified are important. Satisfactorily developed a persuasive closing summary that describes why the factors you identified are important. Thoroughly developed a persuasive closing summary that describes why the factors you identified are important.
4. 1-3 References
Weight: 5% No references provided Does not meet the required number of references; all references poor quality choices. Does not meet the required number of references; some references poor quality choices. Meets number of required references; some references high quality choices. Meets number of required references; all references high quality choices.
5. Clarity, writing mechanics, and formatting requirements.
Weight: 10% More than 8 errors present 7-8 errors present 5-6 errors present 3-4 errors present 0-2 errors present

PRESENT LEVEL OF ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AND FUNCTIONAL PERFORMANCE (PLAAFP)
The Present Level of Academic Achievement and Functional Performance summarizes the results of assessments that identify the student’s interests, preferences, strengths, and areas of need. It also describes the effect of the student’s disability on his/her involvement and progress in the general education curriculum, and for preschool children, as appropriate, how the disability affects the student’s participation in appropriate activities. This includes the student’s performance and achievement in academic areas such as writing, reading, math, science, and history/social sciences. It also includes the student’s performance in functional areas, such as self-determination, social competence, communication, behavior, and personal management. Test scores, if included, should be self-explanatory or an explanation should be included, and the Present Level of Academic Achievement and Functional Performance should be written in objective, measurable terms, to the extent possible. There should be a direct relationship among the desired goals, the Present Level of Academic Achievement and Functional Performance, and all other components of the IEP.

Student’s Strengths, Preferences, and Interests
Elli Smith is an 8-year-old girl currently in the 2nd grade. Elli was found eligible for service for Specific Learning Disability.

According to the psychological evaluation, Elli demonstrates an overall ability in the average range. She demonstrates substantially less developed long-term retrieval associative memory and auditory processing, specifically phonemic awareness. These relative weaknesses coupled with difficulties in the aspect of auditory processing, such as phonemic awareness, which is the understanding of the smallest units of sound (phonemes), might make the acquisition of reading difficult. Also, the spelling of unfamiliar words might also prove to be a challenging task. Elli’s social functioning, as assessed through rating scales, teacher interviews, and direct observation appears to be a challenging area. According to achievement assessment, Elli demonstrates average oral language skills, mathematics and written expression in the low average range with significant deficient range. Teacher reports indicate that Elli demonstrates an independent reading level of pre-primer 1. Her auditory comprehension is very good, but her word attack is very poor. She has received PALS remediation and Title I supports for reading for a period of 6 months and has made very minimal progress despite supplemental instruction interventions targeting her identified areas of deficit.

Student’s Areas of Need (Deficits that Require Supports)
Elli’s areas of need resulting from her disability related deficits include:
Decoding
Reading
Spelling
Written language

Effect of Disability on Student
Elli demonstrates substantially less developed long-term retrieval, associative memory, and auditory processing, specifically phonemic awareness. These relative weaknesses coupled with difficulties in aspects of auditory processing, such as phonemic awareness, which is the understanding of the smallest units of sound (phonemes), makes the acquisition of reading difficult as well as the spelling of unfamiliar words.

Academic Performance
Wechsler Individual Achievement Test – Third Edition (WIAT–III)
Subtests with age-based scores:
Listening Comprehension 90, Early Reading Skills 92, Reading Comprehension 79
Math Problem Solving 80, Alphabet Writing Fluency 96, Sentence Composition 90
Word Reading 72, Pseudoword Decoding 77, Numerical Operations 93
Oral Expression 95, Oral Reading Fluency 63, Spelling 80, Math Fluency – Addition 83, Math Fluency – Subtraction 89, Oral Reading Accuracy 61
Oral Reading Rate 78,
Listening Comprehension
Receptive Vocabulary 81 Below Average
Oral Discourse Comprehension 103 Average
Sentence Composition
Sentence Combing 98 Average, Sentence Building 84 Below Average
Oral Expression
Expressive Vocabulary 85 Average, Oral Word Fluency 107 Average
Sentence Repetition 97 Average, Oral Language 91 Average
Total Reading 69 Low, Basic Reading 75 Below Average
Written Expression 85 Average
Mathematics 85 Average, Math Fluency 86 Average
Total Achievement 82 Below Average

Teacher Educational Information
Reading instructional level (1st); independent level (Readiness); Elli’s comprehension is good as long as it is tested orally. She can recall story elements and information when the story is read to her. Her word attack skills are extremely limited. She knows sounds when they are isolated but has difficulty putting the sounds together. Her retention of words (sight words) is very weak. She is currently receiving Title 1 and Pals Remediation, but she has made very little growth. Language instructional level (below grade level); She has memorized certain sentence structures and adapts it to the current topic. Elli is an excellent speller, but she cannot read the words she is spelling. She memorizes the spelling features. Math: She is very good at adding and subtracting and has caught on well to the strategies she has been taught. She does a great job deciding which operation should be used and then working out a word problem. Social Studies and Science: Elli does very well in both classes. Movement Ed.: She follows directions and does all activities; seems to get along with everyone during class and seems to enjoy PE; appears to love Art and Library and works well with other students.

Martin-Pullin Bicycle Corporation

Martin-Pullin Bicycle Corp. (MPBC), located in Dallas, is a wholesale distributor of bicycles and bicycle parts. Formed in 1981 by cousins Ray Martin and Jim Pullin, the firm’s primary retail outlets are located within a 400-mile radius of the distribution center. These retail outlets receive the order from Martin-Pullin within two days after notifying the distribution center, provided that the stock is available. However, if an order is not fulfilled by the company, no backorder is placed; the retailers arrange to get their shipment from other distributors, and MPBC loses that amount of business.
The company distributes a wide variety of bicycles. The most popular model, and the major source of revenue to the company, is the AirWing. MPBC receives all the models from a single manufacturer overseas, and shipment takes as long as four weeks from the time an order is placed. With the cost of communication, paperwork, and customs clearance included, MPBC estimates that each time an order is placed, it incurs a cost of $85. The purchase price paid by MPBC, per bicycle, is roughly 65% of the suggested retail price for all the styles available, and the inventory carrying cost is 2% per month (24% per year) of the purchase price paid by MPBC. The retail price (paid by the customers) for the AirWing is $250 per bicycle.
MPBC is interested in making an inventory plan for 2014. The firm wants to maintain a 95% service level with its customers to minimize the losses on the lost orders. The data collected for the past two years are summarized in the table below. A forecast for AirWing model sales in the upcoming year, 2014 has been developed and will be used to make an inventory plan for MPBC.

Discussion Questions

1. Develop an inventory plan to help MPBC.
2. Discuss ROPs and total costs.
3. How do you handle the fact that the Reorder Point is larger than the EOQ?
4. How can you address demand that is not at the level of the planning horizon?

Demand for AirWing Model
Month 2012 2013 Forecast for2014
January 6 7 9
February 12 14 16
March 24 27 31
April 46 53 59
May 75 86 96
June 47 54 61
July 30 34 39
August 18 21 24
September 13 15 17
October 12 13 15
November 22 25 29
December 38 42 46
Total 343 391 443

Ergonomic Assessment

Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, you should be able to:

1. Understand the relationship between the physical work environment and the employee’s morale and performance.
2. Apply principles of ergonomics to design a work space which meets the needs of the employee and produces a healthy and productive environment.
3. Perform an ergonomic assessment of an existing work space.
4. Submit your assessment in a Word document to the Drop Box as instructed.

Instructions:

1. Review the PowerPoint presentation in Lecture Notes on ergonomics.
2. Do a Web search on ergonomics and review various sites to gain more insight into this topic.
3. This activity is designed to give you an opportunity to apply ergonomic principles to evaluate an existing computer work station. You may evaluate your own computer work station or that of a co-worker or friend.
4. Based on principles from your reading and research, assess the computer workstation and work habits of the user for ergonomic effectiveness. Consider lighting, chair, desk, position of computer and monitor, and any environmental factors. Discuss work habits, both positive and negative.
5. Provide justification for your assessment and a plan of correction for improving ergonomic work status.
6. Use Microsoft Word to produce a 2 to 3-page evaluation and correction plan.

Evaluation:

This activity will be evaluated for:

1. Completeness of observations
2. Accuracy of assessment
3. Appropriate plan of correction

or this individual assignment, complete both parts as described below. Reflective Essay and Social Media Planning Part A In a 2-page informal reflection essay, explain how you can use presentation skills and knowledge of yourself and your goals, intentions, and current actions and activities to better address your coursework and your current job or career. Why is it important to actively think about presenting yourself, your goals, and your current situation to employers, friends, and others? How do you build on where you are now to strengthen your argument for yourself? As you reflect in preparation for writing your essay, the following are some things to ask yourself: •How did you use situational awareness (rapport, self-confidence, and awareness) during your presentation? •From observing others present themselves, how did that impact your thoughts about self-awareness, reflective practice, and the need to synthesize and present both your discipline knowledge as well as your own professional capabilities? •How did you follow up with the audience during or after the presentation? •Why is follow-up important in any presentation situation? •What else will you do in future situations? Part B Social media is an important networking resource and continues to evolve as a tool for self-presentation. Based on concepts covered in this unit, identify the kinds of information that you would want to put on a social media site for presentation of your professional capabilities. Be sure to explain why you have chosen this set of information. How did your participation in the Unit 4 live online presentation help to solidify your views and approaches? Review the Personal Branding Playbook for further ideas. This assignment will also be assessed using additional criteria provided here. Please submit your assignment. Grading Rubric Purpose of Assignment and Content Development Demonstrates an outstanding use of appropriate, relevant, and compelling content with excellent expression of topic, main idea, and purpose. Demonstrates exemplary knowledge or analysis of human perspectives appropriate to the assignment’s purpose and context. 30% Organization, Grammar, and Presentation Organization is clear. Language clearly and effectively communicates ideas and content relevant to the assignment. Presentation and delivery are confident and persuasive (where applicable). Audience, style, tone, and perspective are consistent and appropriate to assignment. Few if any errors in grammar, spelling, and sentence structure. 30% Information Literacy and Research Demonstrates outstanding selection and use of high-quality, credible, and relevant sources to develop ideas that are appropriate to the assignment. Where applicable, sources are consistently cited. 5% Critical Thinking Demonstrates outstanding or exemplary ability to analyze assumptions and evaluate evidence, complexities of issues, and alternatives. Where required, demonstrates outstanding or exemplary ability to use creativity and originality in problem solving

Provide an example of a possible confusion between theological beliefs and ethical principles in a commonly-held religious belief system. Are there practices within this faith that might be critiqued as unethical? How should we apply the fundamentals of ethical reasoning in this case?

Your response should be at least three pages in length and in Times New Roman 12pt. font. You are required to use at least your textbook and one scholarly article from any database within the CSU Online Library as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations in APA format. The title and reference page do not count towards the three-page minimum.

Activity 4.5 – Module Problems
Complete the following problems and submit the results in either a Microsoft Word document or a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. If you choose to use an Excel spreadsheet, place each problem on a separate sheet and label the tab with problem number. Save your document with a descriptive file name, including the assignment and your name.

4-1 Ross White’s machine shop uses 2,500 brackets during the course of a year, and this usage is relatively constant throughout the year. These brackets are purchased from a supplier 100 miles away for $19 each, and the lead time is 4 days. The holding cost per bracket per year is 10% of the unit cost and the ordering cost per order is $25. There are 250 working days per year.

a. What is the EOQ?
b. Given the EOQ, what is the average inventory?
c. What is the annual inventory holding cost?
d. In minimizing cost, how many orders would be made each year?
e. What would be the annual ordering cost?
f. Given the EOQ, what is the total annual inventory cost (including purchase cost)?
g. What is the time between orders?
h. What is the ROP?

4-2 Douglas Boats is a supplier of boating equipment for the states of Oregon and Washington. It sells 5,000 White Marine WM-4 diesel engines every year. These engines are shipped to Douglas in a shipping container of 100 cubic feet, and Douglas Boats keeps the warehouse full of these WM-4 motors. The warehouse can hold 5,000 cubic feet of boating supplies. Douglas estimates that the ordering cost is $50 per order, and the carrying cost is estimated to be $50 per motor per year. Douglas Boats is considering the possibility of expanding the warehouse for the WM-4 motors.

a. How much should Douglas Boats expand.
b. How much would it be worth for the company to make the expansion? Assume demand is constant throughout the year.

4-3 Ralph Janaro simply does not have time to analyze all the items in his company’s inventory. As a young manager, he has more important things to do. The following is a table of six items in inventory along with the unit cost and the demand in units.
IDENTIFICATION CODE UNIT COST
($) DEMAND
IN UNITS
XX1 5.84 1,200
B66 5.40 1,110
3CPO 1.12 896
33CP 74.54 988
R2D2 4.80 1,257
RMS 2.08 961
a. Find the total amount spent on each item during the year. What is the total investment for all these?
b. Find the percentage of the total investment in inventory that is spent on each item.
c. Based on the percentages in part (b), which item(s) would be classified in categories A, B, and C using ABC analysis?
d. Which item(s) should Ralph most carefully control using quantitative techniques?
e. How low would the demand for 33CP have to before it change to a different category?
4-4 The marginal loss on Washington Reds, a brand of apples from the state of Washington, is $40 per case. The marginal profit is $15 per case. During the past year, the mean sales of Washington Reds in cases was 41,000 cases, and the standard deviation was 4,480. How many cases of Washington Reds should be brought to market? Assume that sales follow a normal distribution.

4-5 Paula Shoemaker produces a weekly stock market report for an exclusive readership. She normally sells 3,000 reports per week, and 70% of the time her sales range from 2,850 to 3,150. The report costs Paula $25 to produce, but Paula is able to sell reports for $350 each. Of course, any reports not sold by the end of the week have no value. How many reports should Paula produce each week?

4-6 The Webster Manufacturing Company produces a popular type of serving cart. This product, the SL72, is made from the following parts: 1 unit of Part A, 1 unit of Part B, and 1 unit of Subassembly C. Each subassembly C is made up of 2 units of Part D, 4 units of Part E, and 3 units of Part F. Develop a material structure tree for this. The lead time for each of the parts in the SL72 is one week, except for Part B and Part E, which have a lead time of two weeks.
a. Develop a net materials requirements plan for an order of 800 SL72s. Assume that currently there are no parts in inventory.
b. Develop a net material requirements plan assuming that there are currently 150 units of Part A, 60 units of Part B, 40 units of Subassembly C, and 100 units of Part F currently in inventory.

You may submit just the answers or you may submit the answers and the QM worksheets you used to arrive at the answer. Choosing the latter will afford instructors the opportunity to review your work and determine if you understand the concept but have made some minor computational error, therefore allowing them to assign some credit based on your understanding. Submitting just the answers does not provide for any partial credit.

The Situational Leadership Model

Submit an outline of the preliminary research with at least two scholarly references. Whith the outline, discuss why the topic was chosen, possible subtopics for focus (at least 2), possible research quetions that could be investigated and the relevance of the two scholarly references to the research.

Outline should be at least 2 pages in length, double spaced, Times New Roman 12, APA.

 

Annotated Bibliography

Inlcude five outside sources from the Columbia Southern University Online library that you can use for the researcfh paper. Include a brief summary of the source:

What are the author’s main points?

How does this source fit into my research?

Iis this source objective or does it have a bias?

How could I use this information in my paper?

 

Each of the five sources should include a 100-150 word annotation.

 

Research Paper

Address the following points:

How does this theory addess organization change?

What are the leader’s behaviors and characteristics?

What are the follower’s behaviors and characteristics?

What situational characteristics can this theory be applied?

Provide two examples of this theory in action.(Provide two examples of this theory in a theoretical application or from your own experiences.)

 

Use the same outside sources from the Annotated Bibliography.

 

Research paper in APA

Title Page

Research Paper body (at least five pages in length)

Reference page (at least five outside sources)

Assignment 2.2: Justification Report – Part 2

Due Week 5 and worth 150 points

In Part 1 of your Justification Report assignment, you built up the following sections: Problem Statement, Overview of Alternatives, Criteria, and Methods. In Part 2, you will revise Part 1 based on your instructor’s suggestions and add to it the following sections: Evaluation of Alternatives, Findings and Analysis, and References.

Use the basic outline below to draft your paper. Organize your responses to each question under the following section headings:

• Evaluation of Alternatives (for Questions 1-3)
• Findings and Analysis (for Questions 4-5)
• References (for Question 6)

Using the provided template, write Part 2 of a single-spaced report in which you:

1. Include and revise the sections from Assignment 2.1 (Problem Statement, Overview of Alternatives, Criteria, and Methods) per instructor suggestions.
2. Research the two (2) alternatives (i.e. possible solutions) that you’ve identified in your Part 1 Evaluation of Alternatives section. Record bibliographic information during research.
   1. Example: You might research other organizations that have attempted similar solutions to the problem you have identified and explore the results of those experiments.
3. Use what you discover in your research to evaluate each alternative by each of your five (5) criteria.
   1. Example: If your research revealed that four (4) companies similar to yours increased productivity after allowing their workers to telework from home three days per week, you might conclude that one of your suggested alternatives – in this case, the option to telework from home three days per week – satisfies one of your criterion of “Productivity” as a high-potential solution to a problem you’ve identified (of decreased worker morale and productivity at Doe’s Electronics). However, additional research might frustrate a recommendation of this alternative if it is found to fall short of other criteria while a second alternative fares better. For instance, a telework alternative might be found to be too costly to implement; too frustrating for consumers who prefer daily, in-person customer service; or too divergent from the company’s brand, “Always there for you!”
4. Organize the assignment by your criteria. Explain in narrative form how each of your two (2) alternatives stacks up against your first criterion. Next, explain how each alternative stacks up against your second criterion, etc.
   1. Example: An abbreviated outline of what this longer section might look like based on the above example is below (Note: Only the first two [2] of five [5] required criteria are included to give you a feel for the structure). Your researched findings, represented as circled bullets below, should be explained in two to five (2-5) sentences. Include in-text citations and follow up with References in APA style):

      Evaluation of Alternatives

      • Productivity
      1. • Alternative A: Telework from home three (3) days per week
           • {narrate findings based on research article 1 here}
         • Alternative B: Offer two (2) extra Floating Holidays to each employee per year
           • {narrate findings based on research article 2 here}
      • Cost
      1. • Alternative A: Telework from home three (3) days per week
           • {narrate findings based on research article 1 here}
         • Alternative B: Offer two extra Floating Holidays to each employee per year
         • • {narrate findings based on research article 2 here}
5. Briefly summarize in narrative form the major discoveries that emerged from the Evaluation of Alternatives section.
6. Include a chart like the ones below to illustrate at a glance:

   Figure 1: Alternatives Analyzed by Criteria

   Criteria	Telework Option	Floating Holiday Option
   Productivity	Very high	Negligible increase
   Cost	Very high	Moderate
   Company Image	Increased	Negligible increase
   Worker Morale	Increased	Negligible increase
   Practicality	Moderate	Low
   TOTAL Feasibility* of Alternatives based on Criteria?	Moderate to High	Low to Moderate

   *Feasability = Capability of an alternative being carried out with success

7. Include an APA style (6th edition) References page that documents the two (2) sources (minimum) that you used and cited in-text in your Evaluation of Alternatives section. You may use secondary resources, or you may include one primary source and one secondary source. Remember that both in-text citations and References must be included (to avoid plagiarism) whenever you are directly quoting, summarizing, or paraphrasing researched material.

Your assignment must:

• Be typed, single 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, your 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:

• Support ideas or claims in body paragraphs with clear details, examples, and explanations.
• Organize ideas logically by using transitional words, phrases, and sentences.
• Use sentence variety and effective word choice in written communication.
• Apply writing process strategies to develop formal business reports and / or proposals.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues related to selected topics.
• Write clearly and concisely using proper writing mechanics.