Discuss the challenges the organization had that limited their profitability and/or competitiveness and how they planned to leverage Cloud Computing to overcome their challenges.

For this project, select an organization that has leveraged Cloud Computing technologies in an attempt to improve profitability or to give them a competitive advantage.  Research the organization to understand the challenges that they faced and how they intended to use Cloud Computing to overcome their challenges.  The paper should include the following sections each called out with a header.

• Company Overview:  The section should include the company name, the industry they are in and a general overview of the organization.
• Challenges: Discuss the challenges the organization had that limited their profitability and/or competitiveness and how they planned to leverage Cloud Computing to overcome their challenges.
• Solution:  Describe the organization’s Cloud Computing implementation and the benefits they realized from the implementation.  What was the result of implementing Cloud Computing?  Did they meet their objectives for fall short?
• Conclusion:  Summarize the most important ideas from the paper and also make recommendations or how they might have achieved even greater success.

Requirements:

The paper must adhere to APA guidelines including Title and Reference pages.  There should be at least three scholarly sources listed on the reference page.  Each source should be cited in the body of the paper to give credit where due.  Per APA, the paper should use a 12-point Time New Roman font, should be double spaced throughout, and the first sentence of each paragraph should be indented .5 inches.  The body of the paper should be 3 – 5 pages in length.  The Title and Reference pages do not count towards the page count requirements.

Briefly describe your current position and responsibilities.

1.   Briefly describe your current position and responsibilities.

2.   What do your subordinates expect from you on the job?

3.   What are the major stresses and challenges you face on the job?

4.   What, if anything, do you dislike about the job?

5.   What do you like best about your job?

6.   What are the critical differences between average managers and top-performing managers?

7.   Think about the skills and knowledge that you need to be effective in your job. What are they, and how did you acquire them?

How do you recognize intelligence (or the lack thereof) when you see it?

Assessment

Prompt: By first relating to your own experiences, you will be preparing for a possible future career of serving clients in the psychology field. In addition to formal theories of intelligence, everyone has his or her own informal theory of intelligence. In this journal assignment, referring to scholarly research, think about what your theory of intelligence would be.

The following critical elements must be addressed, Please be sure to refer to the  APA Code of Ethics  in your journal.

1. How do you recognize intelligence (or the lack thereof) when you see it? Refer to course concepts in your response.

2. How does your theory conform to formal theories? Relate your response to course theories. Refer to course concepts in your response.

3. What psychometrics tasks, observations, or questions would you use to measure intelligence according to your personal theory? Refer to course concepts and theories in your rationale, and Justify and support your viewpoint with research.

Course Resources

Textbook: Psychological Testing and Assessment, Chapters 9 and 10 These chapters review different theories and research methods for studying and measuring human intelligence and consider educational applications of testing, including achievement and aptitude measures.

Video: Controversies of Intelligence (12:38) (267) Controversy of Intelligence: Crash Course Psychology #23 – YouTube This video concisely details the major controversies associated with intelligence testing.

Article: The Heritability of Intelligence: Not What You Think; The Heritability of Intelligence: Not What You Think – Scientific American Blog Network This is an article in the Scientific American blog about new findings regarding the heritability of intelligence.

Do you think this action might help break down stereotypes about criminal justice professionals?

I am in favor of community policing because it builds better working relationships with the communities.—Vincent Frank, former chief of police

For this discussion, you will need to find one current article or video (from the last three years) about how criminal justice professionals are bridging the gap with their community. You can start your search by exploring the Discover Policing website for an article or video. You may also want to explore the “In the News” section of the National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice website to choose a topic interesting to you. Make sure to include an appropriate APA citation at the end of your initial post.

Take a position. Do you agree or disagree that the technique described in your article will bridge the gap between the police and community? Why or why not?

• For your initial post, summarize the article and explain how the gap is being bridged.

In your responses to two of your peers, consider how the action described in their article might be perceived by the community. Write your response from the viewpoint of the community and include the following:

• Do you think this action might help break down stereotypes about criminal justice professionals?
• Do you think this action might move toward bridging the gap?

reflect upon the importance of stress management for yourself and your patients.

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After reviewing this week’s readings and media on Stress and Stress Management, take some time to reflect upon the importance of stress management for yourself and your patients. Then, please respond to the following TWO discussion board questions. Remember to include an APA formatted in-text citation AND corresponding reference from a recent (within the last 5 years), professional journal, or website (NIH, CDC, etc.). (Failure to include BOTH an in-text citation AND a corresponding reference will result in a significant point deduction. you can find more details here

Discuss the elements that are essential to CSR

Company Accounting (Acct3004) Semester 2, 2022

Video Presentation

Your video presentation must include the following as a minimum, however use your creativity as to how and when these points are covered:

1. Introduction

a. State your topic & companies that you have selected

b. Outline the structure of your talk & who will do what

2. Elements that relate to CSR

a. Discuss the elements that are essential to CSR

b. Refer to your references

3. Application of the elements

a. Apply what you have discussed to each of the companies you selected

b. Do the comparisons between the companies

c. Discuss the similarities and the differences

4. Conclusion & opinion

a. Sum up the key points of your talk

b. What is your conclusion

c. Give your opinion

d. Say “goodbye”

Note:

· Be selective – you chose what is important and how you compare your companies

· Look at the marking guide – addressing your topic is only part of the marks

Topic

Sustainability or CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) reporting involves companies and organisations demonstrating their corporate responsibility through measuring and publicly reporting on their economic, social and environmental performance and impacts. It can be delivered through the company’s annual report, a stand-alone sustainability report, a triple bottom line report or an environmental or social impact report.

Students are to select THREE companies (Two companies if you are doing the assignment by yourself) from the Top 200 companies listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.

Students should review the most recent annual reports along with the disclosure on the company website and any supplementary reports, including reliably sourced information in the media and rank the companies in terms of their sustainability (CSR) reporting. Students should also make a decision as to which company has demonstrated the better CSR reporting of its activities, based on the disclosures and fully justify the decision with examples and comparisons.

Students should consider what constitutes Good CSR reporting and whether the companies have disclosed enough information (Voluntary and Mandatory information) to allow them to be compared and ranked. In addition students should consider the company size, political visibility, and image of the company and how this may influence CSR related disclosures.

Note: Under no circumstances are companies to be contacted direct by students.

briefly describe the spatial composition, materiality, and functions of the two types of tomb structure.

1. In the article “The Prince of Jade Revisited: The Material Symbolism of Jade as Observed in Mancheng Tomb” by Wu Hung, according to the author, which one(s) of the following descriptions about stone areNOT true: (10points)

a. The use of stone as important funerary architectural materials began in the Eastern Han dynasty during the first century AD.

b. Stone was symbolically associated with the concepts of the deceased, gods, and immortality in Han-dynasty belief.

c. In funerary practices, stone was only used in underground architecture, because it could help reconstruct walkable interior spaces.

d. In the horizontal pit tombs made of solid stone/brick, the architectural spaces, burial objects, and pictorial elements together helped create an imaginary underground world.

2. Identify the tomb type of the following examples. Based on the two examples, briefly describe the spatial composition, materiality, and functions of the two types of tomb structure. (20 points) * You don’t have to identify the title/location of the tombs. Just compare the major features of these two types of tomb structure. Try to be concise. No need to exceed 1-2paragraph(s); bulletin points are encouraged too).

Describe the levels of evidence in each of the four peer-reviewed articles you selected, including an explanation of the strengths of using systematic reviews for clinical research.

In this Assignment, you will delve deeper into clinical inquiry by closely examining your PICO(T) question. You also begin to analyze the evidence you have collected.

To Prepare:

· Review the Resources and identify a clinical issue of interest that can form the basis of a clinical inquiry.

· Develop a PICO(T) question to address the clinical issue of interest you identified in Module 2 for the Assignment. This PICOT question will remain the same for the entire course.

· Use the key words from the PICO(T) question you developed and search at least four different databases in the Walden Library. Identify at least four relevant systematic reviews or other filtered high-level evidence, which includes meta-analyses, critically-appraised topics (evidence syntheses), critically-appraised individual articles (article synopses). The evidence will not necessarily address all the elements of your PICO(T) question, so select the most important concepts to search and find the best evidence available.

· Reflect on the process of creating a PICO(T) question and searching for peer-reviewed research.

The Assignment (Evidence-Based Project)

Part 2: Advanced Levels of Clinical Inquiry and Systematic Reviews

Create a 6- to 7-slide PowerPoint presentation in which you do the following:

· Identify and briefly describe your chosen clinical issue of interest.

· Describe how you developed a PICO(T) question focused on your chosen clinical issue of interest.

· Identify the four research databases that you used to conduct your search for the peer-reviewed articles you selected.

· Provide APA citations of the four relevant peer-reviewed articles at the systematic-reviews level related to your research question. If there are no systematic review level articles or meta-analysis on your topic, then use the highest level of evidence peer reviewed article.

· Describe the levels of evidence in each of the four peer-reviewed articles you selected, including an explanation of the strengths of using systematic reviews for clinical research. Be specific and provide examples.

Evaluate the principles and standards for conducting valid, reliable, and ethical research. 

This competency assessment assesses the following Outcome(s):

CJ490M3-3: Evaluate the principles and standards for conducting valid, reliable, and ethical research. 

Stanford Prison Experiment

A classic study in criminal justice is the Stanford Prison Experiment. This week you will conduct research on this classic study and submit your work as a PowerPoint presentation.

Create a 12- 14-slide PowerPoint presentation analyzing the Stanford Prison Experiment. Address the following research components pertaining to this landmark experiment.

Title slide. [1 slide]

Introduction slide (introduce the main points that will be covered in the presentation). [1 slide]

Provide a brief review of the study. [1–2 slides]

What was the purpose of the study (exploratory, descriiptive, explanatory, evaluative, or a combination)? Justify your reasoning. [1 slide]

Describe the sampling strategy (probability or nonprobability), sampling technique, and resulting sample. [1 slide]

Describe the research design (true classic design, quasi-experimental design, or non-experimental design). Justify your reasoning [1 slide]

List four ethical principles or standards and discuss whether researchers were compliant with these principles. [1-2 slides]

Evaluate the validity (accuracy of the findings) of this experiment. Justify your reasoning. [1 slide]

Evaluate the reliability (consistency of the findings) of this experiment. Justify your reasoning. [1 slide]

Analyze whether the results can be generalized to another situation or population. Justify your reasoning. [1 slide]

Conclusion slide (summarize some of the main points covered in this presentation). [1 slide]

Reference slide. [1 slide]

Use at least three credible sources and the textbook to support your presentation of 12–14 slides. Use comprehensive speaker notes to help support the information presented on the slides. (Do not duplicate the information.) Use in-text citations throughout the presentation, either on the slides or in the speaker notes.

Do you recommend using incremental or discontinuous (that is, slow or fast) innovation?

Competencies

In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competency:

Evaluate creative and innovative organizational structures

Recommend alternative innovations to solve an internal or market need

Implement creative and innovative processes within an organization

Scenario

You work as a middle manager for one of the top U.S. producers of luxury and mass-market automobiles and trucks.

The chief technology officer (CTO) of the company from the course scenario has been watching new technology developments that the company could integrate into its vehicles to enhance the usefulness of and access to the data acquired by the many digital sensors that have been integrated into vehicle subsystems over the past 20–30 years. The technology trend of particular interest is the internet of things (IoT)—the interconnection of embedded devices, such as sensors and computers, over the internet. By taking advantage of this trend, the CTO believes the company can seize an opportunity to provide better service and predictive maintenance to its customers, improving customer satisfaction and adding additional revenue streams.

Based on briefings by the CTO, senior management has decided to implement IoT in its product line. Your CTO has asked you to lead a cross-functional team to take this initiative forward. Your first task is to make a recommendation for how the company should approach this business problem. Do you recommend using incremental or discontinuous (that is, slow or fast) innovation? Specifically:

Should the company…

Design a completely new product line, based on the new technology (discontinuous innovation)

or

Add new technology features into one model and then incrementally into the broader product line (incremental innovation)

The recommendation you and your team make is an important first step in pursuing this new technology.

In Milestone One, you and your team defined what that innovation looked like: would it be disruptive (new product line) or incremental (new features in one existing product)? 

In Milestone Two, you developed a strategy plan and a high-level business model. You’ve shared these with various stakeholders, and they are in agreement with your assessment of how best to get to market with this IoT innovation, which will allow the company to be competitive. 

Now, the CTO has asked you to come up with a proposed organizational structure that will support the innovation implementation. In this way, you will be assisting in making the innovation sustainable for the company from the course scenario. Companies that are innovative must make sure they have structured the organization in a way that supports innovation, and a key component of innovation is keeping track of what their customers want in terms of products and services.

Directions

Complete each of the three parts of this project. Use your slides from Milestone One, your document from Milestone Two, and feedback on Milestone One and Milestone Two to complete the first two parts of your presentation. You can use the resources in the Supporting Materials section (below) for any other information you will need to complete your project.

Part One: Innovation Approach

In this section, share your revised slides from Milestone One and make your recommendation for the innovation approach you think the company should pursue. Ensure this section includes the following information: 

Explain potential risks and benefits for options A and B.

Overview (1 slide): Present the business problem and options A and B.

Option A (1–2 slides): Explain at least two potential risks and benefits for option A.

Option B (1–2 slides): Explain at least two potential risks and benefits for option B.

Compare your competition’s products and services.

Competitors: (3–4 slides): Evaluate the competitors’ current products and services.

What are your competitors’ current products and services?

Are your competitors expanding in the current market? Explain how this impacts their market strength.

Analyze your company’s capability to pursue the innovation.

Complete a partial gap analysis (2 slides):

Does the company own the technology, or does it need to be purchased?

How is the technology currently being used in today’s products and services?

What type of technology is available to purchase?

Recommend the innovation approach your company should pursue.

Innovation Approach (2 slides): Explain which innovation approach you are recommending and why.

Consider the different stakeholders (research and development [R&D], marketing, finance) while communicating your recommendations.

Include a descriiption of the incremental or discontinuous product that you are recommending for R&D.

Include the sales forecasts for marketing.

Include a financial snapshot for finance.

Part Two: Strategic Plan

In this section, share your revised paper from Milestone Two, which provides an overview of your competitors’ position in the marketplace, the available and future marketplace, and a plan for how to address a change in business conditions. Ensure this section includes the following information.

Analyze the competitors’ relative strengths in the marketplace. Use Power BI to create charts on the growth rates. 

What is the growth rate of each competitor? 

How much of the market does each competitor now own? Do you see a trend of gaining or losing market share? 

Determine each competitor’s market strength by looking at the financials for each competitor. 

Explain how your company’s market share compares to your competitors’. Use Power BI to create charts on your and your competitors’ market share.

Is your company gaining or losing market share?

What is your company’s growth potential in the industry? 

How do your company’s financials look compared to your competitors’?

Identify future potential total available market (TAM) and growth for chosen product/service and technology.

What is the TAM for cars and light trucks?

What is the TAM for IoT-connected cars and light trucks?

What is the projected compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for cars and light trucks?

What is the CAGR for IoT-connected cars and light trucks?

Identify ways to adjust if business conditions change.

What can you do if your customers are slow to respond (buy) the innovation?

What can you do if one competitor is overtaking all the others, including you?

Describe the steps your company needs to take from concept outline to launch.

What is the size of development that will be required?

Will you require additional capital and personnel?

How would you approach determining the timeline from the beginning of development until initial product launch?

Part Three: Organizational Structure and Culture Report

Based on your analysis of the organization’s structure and culture, share recommendations for changing its structure and culture to be more conducive to innovation.

Describe the current organizational structure’s impact on innovation.

How does your company’s organizational structure support innovation?

How effective is the current structure in addressing changes in market demand?

Recommend changes to the current organizational structure.

How does the new structure support innovation?

How will your recommended changes make the enterprise more responsive to market demand?

Explain how organizational changes support a culture of innovation.

In what ways does the current culture work against innovation?

How does the new structure support a culture of innovation?