Write a word report describing the strategic management tool you chose and why you selected it. Explain how the tool works and why it will be of value.

Prologue

Why does a business need to define its mission and engage in planning?
Dan Smith is a management consultant with the firm Business Advisors. He’s sitting in his office one day when the telephone rings. He picks it up and hears the voice of Tom Wilson, an old high school friend. “Hi Dan. This is Tom Wilson from Southside High. Remember me?” They discuss old times for a few minutes, and then Tom gets down to business.
“Dan, I need your help. I started a business several years ago, and we’re in trouble.”
Dan quickly searches his memory and recalls that Tom started a business called Sun City Boards several years ago selling high-end surfboards on the West Coast. Last Dan had heard, the business was doing well. “Yeah Tom. I remember when you started your shop, but I thought the business was growing successfully.”
Tom replies, “We did well the first couple of years, but things haven’t been good for a while now. We’re losing money, and I’m not sure how much longer I can keep the doors open.”
Dan assures Tom that he is happy to help and asks him to send a few items over to prepare for a trip to visit his operations. “Just send me a copy of your current business plan, financial forecasts, and annual operating budget.”
There’s a pause on the other end of the line, and then Tom says, “Well, I can send you our bank statements and invoices. We don’t have any of the other documents you’re asking about.”
Based on that response, Dan already has a good idea of the organization’s problem: an obvious lack of planning that never bodes well for a business.
In this module, you learned the importance of an organization establishing a clear vision and mission and how they guide the business planning cycle. The business plan is the roadmap that guides the organization to success.

Epilogue

Dan traveled to Tom’s operations on the West Coast and confirmed his suspicions that the problems the organization is facing are due to a lack of planning. Dan is meeting with Tom to report on his findings and to submit his recommendations.
“OK Tom, I’ve spent the last several days going through your operations and records, and I’m confident that there are actions you can take that will help turn around the business.”
Tom lets out a long sigh and says, “Dan, you have no idea how glad I am to hear that. So at a high level, what’s the problem?”
“In a nutshell, the problem with Sun City Boards is that you have lost your focus and there is no clear plan for moving forward.” Tom looks confused, so Dan explains. “When you started the business, what was your vision?”
Tom answers, “ To set people free from the earth … free to ride the waves .” [Vision statement]
“Perfect!” Dan responds. “And how were you going to do that?”
Tom thinks for a moment and then emphatically declares, “ We will strive to provide the absolute best in high-end surfboard design and production! ” [Mission statement]
Dan tells Tom that he has just created the vision and mission statements for Sun City Boards. He further explains:
“You have to start creating a focused plan that will help the organization deliver on its vision and mission. The reason your company is struggling is that there is no clear roadmap to success.”
Tom asks, “What do you mean?”
Dan continues, “When you started the company you were very successful because you focused on one key thing—making the best surfboards anyone had seen. As a result, everything your business did revolved around that core idea.”
Tom interrupts, “OK Dan, I think I see where you’re headed. When we started making money in the early days, I began to start expanding into other areas without a lot of thought. I listened to salespeople who came in and told me that I should branch out into low-end surf gear, then swimwear, then camping gear. Customers don’t know what we’re all about any more. And neither do my managers and employees.”
Dan can see Tom is getting his arms around the concept of vision and mission, so he moves on.
Next, he presents his recommendation that Tom and his key leaders should come together regularly to create, review and update Sun City’s business plan. This is new to the team, so he gives them a quick example:
Define Objectives: Sun City Boards should look to reduce noncore product lines and associated inventory. Minimum margin target is 35 percent across all remaining product lines.
Develop Premises: Monitor competitor’s plans to implement a new polymer board and determine potential impact to Sun City’s sales.
Evaluate Alternatives: Evaluate opportunity of opening new retail outlets along the West Coast. Also, explore international sales options for high-end surf boards.
Identify Resources: Analyze the level of capital necessary to achieve expansion goals and incorporate plan to close financial gaps in the annual budget.
Plan and Implement Tasks: Create a Gantt chart or other project planning tool that outlines the actions necessary to reach the goals outlined earlier.
Determine Tracking and Evaluation Methods: Create SMART goals for both managers and employees that align with direction the overall business plan provides.
Finally, Dan reminds Tom that the planning process is only a tool and that the plan should be regularly reviewed and updated. Dan warns him that planning is no substitute for taking action, but it is a guide for him and his team as to what actions should be taken.
This consulting project has reminded Dan how important it is for an organization to have a clear vision and mission to know where it’s headed. Likewise, the planning process is critical to know how it’s going to get there. The alternative is like trying to take a cross-country trip without a map—you don’t know where you might end up!
Preparation
Carefully read the background story of Sun City Boards presented above and review Module 4 Learning Unit: Introduction to Planning before beginning this assignment.
In this assignment, you’ll apply what you learned about planning to Sun City Boards and the management challenges its owner, Tom Wilson, faces. You’ll advise Tom on strategic management steps he and Sun City Boards should take to develop and implement their new strategy.
Module 4 Learning Unit: Introduction to Planning introduced several strategic planning tools to use at different stages of the strategic management process. As an advisor for Sun City Boards, your assignment is to select one of the following strategic management tools (SWOT analysis; PESTEL analysis, or Porter’s Five Forces) described in the module, explain how it works, and explain why it will be of value to Sun City Boards.

Your Task

Write a word report describing the strategic management tool you chose and why you selected it. Explain how the tool works and why it will be of value. Your essay must include three properly referenced and defined terms from the module reading. Additionally, address the following questions:

What is the purpose of the tool? What conclusions will it help Sun City Boards draw?

How does the tool work? How does it measure the relevant factors, or how does it derive importance from them?

How would you describe Monk’s relation to his race? Do you think he feels comfortable with being Black? Why or why not? How might Du Bois’s ideas help you understand Monk? To what extent does Monk exemplify Du Bois’s concept of double consciousness? How many identities/roles do you think Monk embodies/plays? What are these identities/roles? Why does he embody/play these identities/roles? How might Monk as a character complicate or speak back to Du Bois’s theory?

  in which you apply Du Bois’s ideas to Everett’s Erasure  

How would you describe Monk’s relation to his race? Do you think he feels comfortable with being Black? Why or why not? How might Du Bois’s ideas help you understand Monk? To what extent does Monk exemplify Du Bois’s concept of double consciousness? How many identities/roles do you think Monk embodies/plays? What are these identities/roles? Why does he embody/play these identities/roles? How might Monk as a character complicate or speak back to Du Bois’s theory?
Why do you think Monk writes My Pafology? What do you think of this novel within the novel? How might Du Bois’s ideas help you understand the purpose of My Pafology? Is My Pafology a satire? If so, of what and why would Monk want to satirize it? How would you compare Monk to Van Go? How might Van Go’s story differ from Monk’s? How might Van Go’s story be similar to Monk’s?

Percival Everett, Erasure, pp. 1–131 (chapters 1–6 and My Pafology)
W.E.B. Du Bois, excerpt from The Souls of Black Folk 

How to measure outcomes: Summative and formative    Develop your program and lesson outcomes. What should participants achieve by the end of the educational program?  How will you know they have learned and/or changed behavior? 

 
How to measure outcomes: Summative and formative  
 Develop your program and lesson outcomes. What should participants achieve by the end of the educational program?  How will you know they have learned and/or changed behavior?  You will need to decide on the overall purpose of the program and how many lessons you will have.  There should be a minimum of 5.  You do not need to detail the lesson activities yet but will need to identify what they will be in order to write the outcomes of each. 

Describe methodology that will be used for software development

Weekly tasks or assignments (Individual or Group Projects) will be due by Monday and late submissions will be assigned a late penalty in accordance with the late penalty policy found in the syllabus. NOTE: All submission posting times are based on midnight Central Time.
Software Development Plan Document
This course is comprised of a series of individual project assignments that will also contribute to a group project due at the end of the course. Each week, you will complete a part of a software development plan, and you will share your results with your assigned group after your individual project has been graded. The group will integrate the projects into a group-developed version of the software development plan.
Your team will select a software engineering project that will cover the development process from conception to deployment. You are expected to perform the following tasks:

Select a development methodology to plan a real-life application.
Perform a trade-off analysis covering quality, features, cost, and time for rapid development.
Conduct requirements elicitation and documentation for the application.
Prepare a systems component design.
Organize a schedule that covers build, integration, and test of the application.
Conduct a risk assessment for the project.

Throughout this course, you will be working on a software development plan for the project that your team selects. You will not be developing the software, but you will work extensively with the concepts of good system-engineering practices during the creation of the plan. Additional information and the deliverables for each individual project will be provided in the assignment description for the project. The final deliverable is also known as the Final Key Assignment.
Project Selection
The first step will be to select a project as the target for your team’s software development plan. This project will be used as the basis for each of the individual project assignments throughout the course and should conform to the following guidelines:

Nontrivial: The selected project should be large enough to allow reasonable exercise of the software development planning processes.
Domain Knowledge: Students in the team should be familiar enough with the organization or software category to allow focus on the planning tasks without significant time required for domain education.
Accessibility: Students in the team should have good access to the people and other information related to the organization or system because this will be an important part of the process.

After your instructor has assigned team members, your team should select a software development project that fits these requirements and submit a proposal to the instructor before proceeding further with the assignments in the course. Approval should be sought within the first several days of the course. Your instructor will tell you how to submit this proposal and what notification will be given for project approval.
Assignment
For the assignments in this course, your team will not be implementing the actual development project, but rather, you will be developing a comprehensive software development plan document. Your team’s first task in this process will be to select a project to use as the basis of your plan. You will also create the shell document for the final project deliverable that you will be working on during each unit. As your team proceeds through each project week, you will individually and collectively add content to each section of the final document to gradually complete the final project delivery. Appropriate research should be conducted to support the analysis in your team’s plan, and assumptions may be made when necessary.
Note: To be clear, each individual will be creating a software development plan in fulfillment of the individual project assignments, and the team will also create a software development plan in fulfillment of the group project due at the end of the course.
Team Project Deliverables

Submit a project proposal to the instructor for approval.
After the individual projects are graded, team members should share their results with the team. The team should then integrate the results into the team’s version of the software development plan document. There is no submission for this part of the assignment until the end of the course.

Individual Project Deliverables

Software development plan document shell

Use Word
Title page

Course number and name
Project name
Student name
Date

Table of contents

Auto-generated TOC
Separate page
Maximum of 3 levels deep
Fields of TOC should be up-to-date before submitting

Section headings (create each heading on a new page with TBD as content, except for sections listed under new content below)

Project Outline
Development Methodology
Requirements
Design
Development and Testing
Project Schedule
Risk Analysis

New content

Project Outline

Brief description of the project
List of major issues to consider in the development of the application
Material taken from approved proposal submitted to instructor
Project must be approved by instructor

Development Methodology

Describe methodology that will be used for software development
Include justification of selected methodology and why it suits project well

Define white collar crime and provide two examples that you’ll write about in your two content paragraphs Identify one white collar crime that you want to research and write about

Assignment:
 
There are two parts to this week’s Essay Prep assignment.  First, you’ll practice citing and referencing.  Second, after reviewing the textbook information in chapter 7 on White Collar crimes and reviewing the FBI web site, you’ll create an outline for your final essay assignment on White Collar crimes.  Third, you’ll include Part 1 and Part 2 in a Word document that you’ll save and upload to the appropriate portal.
 
Part 1.  Practicing APA
 

Quote from the textbook and cite per APA
Paraphrase and cite from any the page of interest at the FBI web site.
Practice a reference list for the textbook and the website you cited above

 
Part 2. Complete your Outline
 
Below is the outline for your Class Essay.   Go to the FBI White Collar Crime web site and review a few of the Major Threats and Programs.  After reading through a few pages of interest to you, fill in the blue sections of the outline with information that YOU want to write about for your paper.  Re-write the outline so that it reflects what you’ll be writing your paper about.
 

Introduction (summary of main points, thesis statement)
Define white collar crime and provide two examples that you’ll write about in your two content paragraphs
Identify one white collar crime that you want to research and write about
Identify a second type of white collar crime to research and write about
Conclusion (summary of main points)

 
my class book is called SOCIOLOGY A BRIEF INTRODUCTION BY RICHARD T. SCHAEFER 11TH EDITION.
 
I AM INTERESTED IN EMBEZZELMENT AND INCOME TAX EVASION.

Describe an organizational environment that would facilitate the ethical practice of nurses caring for chronically ill patients. As you read about patients’ rights, describe one patient right that is often not fully implemented in the patient care environment. Identify specific strategies to help ensure that this right is supported within the patient care environment. Explain how the registered nurse can assist in protecting patient rights.

WEEK78DISCCUSIONBOARDSINSTRUCTIONS.docx

Week 7
Discussion 1
Discuss the elements of informed consent. Provide a clinical example about what can happen when some elements are not adhered to.
Compose at least 2-3 paragraphs all in APA format with proper references.
Discussion 2
Describe an organizational environment that would facilitate the ethical practice of nurses caring for chronically ill patients. As you read about patients’ rights, describe one patient right that is often not fully implemented in the patient care environment. Identify specific strategies to help ensure that this right is supported within the patient care environment. Explain how the registered nurse can assist in protecting patient rights.
Compose at least 2-3 paragraphs all in APA format with proper references.
Week 8
Discussion 1
Describe a clinical situation in which a registered nurse may encounter moral distress. Answer the AACN’s Four A’s and further explain the situation and the possible mitigation strategies.
Compose at least 2-3 paragraphs all in APA format with proper references.
Discussion 2
Describe different ways that social media use can violate ethical nursing practices. How can ethical social media use be beneficial to health care professionals and their patients?
Compose at least 2-3 paragraphs all in APA format with proper references.

Explain the importance of personal branding as part of the job search

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KG689 Graduate Internship Preparation
Lesson Plan: Week 7
Dr. D. Tennyson, DBA

The Job Search – Learning About Job Search Strategies

Week 7 Learning objectives (Harris, 2021)

Upon completion of week 7 assignments and discussion forum responses students

should be able to:

•
• Prepare a professional LinkedIn profile and utilize the tools and features to position
the profile or their chosen career path

Week 7 Discussion Forum (Harris, 2021)

1. Watch the following videos:

Here is a series YouTube videos on using LinkedIn for your job search:

Chapter 1: Setting up an Account

Chapter 2: Creating a Profile—that stands out!

Chapter 3: Connections/Recommendations

Chapter 4: Joining/following companies and groups

2. After watching these videos, comment on what skills and knowledge you would
focus on when building your personal branding information for a potential job
interview.

3. Respond to at least two other students’ posting in this forum.

Week 7 Assignment (Harris, 2021)

1. List your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats then discussion how

your chosen career path will maximize your strengths and minimize your

weaknesses

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KG689 Graduate Internship Preparation
Lesson Plan: Week 7
Dr. D. Tennyson, DBA

The Job Search – Learning About Job Search Strategies

References

Harris, R. M. (2021). Sections and Assignments Developed by Dr. Roberta M. Harris,

Associate Vice President, King Graduate School, Monroe College

What are your companies vulnerabilities? What are the threats to your company’s people, resources, and business model? 

CybersecurityclassFinalPaper.docx

Cyber Security Class Final Paper: The CISO’s Annual Cybersecurity Plan

Summary:
Please write a paper betweens covering the module topics in this course. Create a fictional company that you are the CISO for. Please craft a paper using the APA format to outline your cybersecurity plan to the CEO and the stakeholder. Allow the assumptions below to frame your cybersecurity plan. 

Essential Topics: Be sure to put interest on these issues:

1. Please reference your company product(s), primary means of communication, advertising, and sales/distribution.
2. What are your companies vulnerabilities? What are the threats to your company’s people, resources, and business model? 
3. Explain your organization’s risks and how you plan to deal with them. Use the Business Impact Analysis (BIA) model.
4. Explain your plan to respond to an incident(s), be resilient throughout the incident, and recover from the incident?
5. Are there any costs that the company will have to pay for? If so, how will it get paid and what is the Return on Investment (ROI)? 
Requirements:
1. This paper must be formatted in APA Style 7th edition.
2. Make sure to include at least 1 outside sources to support your discussion. Please ensure that you cite your sources in APA7. Using the exact words of the authors in your research will NOT be accepted. Please paraphrase into your own words. 
3. This paper must at least touch on every week of the course. 
4. If you exceed please use Appendices for a topic’s procedure and implementation details. 
5.
The effort you put into this paper will determine your grade. You are not expected to be an expert. Do your research and craft your plan.

7. Utilize this paper later to do your next presentation.

Describe an imagined human services agency in which you supervise employees whose performance is lower than the expected level.Tasks: Part 1In a minimum of 2 pages, respond to the following:•    Discuss the details for this imagined service agency to depict a real situation.

Describe an imagined human services agency in which you supervise employees whose performance is lower than the expected level.Tasks: Part 1In a minimum of 2 pages, respond to the following:•    Discuss the details for this imagined service agency to depict a real situation.•    Utilizing the core concepts highlighted in this module’s reading, discuss how you would understand the expected performance better.•    Identify and describe the specific interventions you might apply to increase the performance of the employees.
Part 2Revisit your imagined human services agency. 2 pages    Add to the collaborative details of your agency.•    Analyze and describe the current stage of your organization in the interorganizational process.•    Discuss specific methods to be utilized currently and in the near future to ensure organizational success.Your discussion should rely upon at least three sources one being Patti, Rino J.. The Handbook of Human Services Management, 2nd Edition. SAGE Publications, Inc, 2008. other from additional professional literature.
Part 3  2 pagesRevisit your imaginary human services agency. Respond to the following:•    Discuss how the following aspects will impact the future of your agency:o    Changes in governanceo    Increase in work flexibilityo    Advancement in technologyo    Any other item you consider relevant to your agency
Your discussion should rely upon at least two sources

What was your general emotional state during the day? What helped to create this emotional state? Was there anything that minimized or countered your positive emotional affect?

 
According to Martin Seligman (2005), there are three basic positive psychology pillars. These are the following:

The pleasant life
The good life
The meaningful life

Seligman purports that experiencing these three pillars creates what is called “the full-life.” This assignment focuses on the first pillar: the pleasant life.
The pleasant life encompasses subjective well-being and happiness along with encouraging encounters with positive affect and experiences. The good life includes identifying signature strengths to facilitate flow. The meaningful life includes participating in activities for the good of society.
For this assignment, you will focus on the pleasant life. Do the following:

Design an ideal day for yourself. Include positive emotions and experiences that facilitate positive emotions.
Live your ideal day.
Summarize your experiences in a paper.

Address the following points in your paper:

What was your general emotional state during the day?
What helped to create this emotional state?
Was there anything that minimized or countered your positive emotional affect? If yes, then what could have been done differently to change this experience?
According to the positive psychology model, why is this activity important?

Include and discuss two scholarly references that support the idea of experiencing positive emotions to facilitate happiness.
Write a 3-page reflection paper in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M1_A3.doc. For example, if your name is John Smith, your document will be named SmithJ_M1_A3.doc.
By Wednesday, June 24, 2015, deliver your assignment to the M1: Assignment 3 Dropbox.
Duckworth, A. L., Steen, T. A., & Seligman, M. E. P. (2005). Positive psychology in clinical practice. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 1, 629–651. (ProQuest Document ID: 213100604) http://search.proquest.com.libproxy.edmc.edu/docview/213100604?accountid=34899

Assignment 3 Grading Criteria

Maximum Points

Described the general emotional state experienced throughout the ideal day.

16

Examined and analyzed reasons for the general emotional state experienced throughout the day. If the positive emotional effect was minimized or countered, then identified and analyzed what could have been done differently so that the positive emotional effect could be experienced.

28

Correctly applied the positive psychology model to explain the importance of this activity.

20

Reviewed and discussed two scholarly references that support the idea of experiencing positive emotions to facilitate happiness.

16

Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

20

Total:

100