Opportunities are to be prioritized in your strategic plan. How would you recommend that Starbucks prioritize Ready to Drink (RTD) coffee products in the U.S.?
Primary Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 300500 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
For this Discussion Board, please complete the following:
The SWOT analysis is often used to help managers understand the competitive advantage of their organization. It can also help them to make decisions to support the organizations mission and vision in an ethical manner and help with strategic planning.
Watch the video: Putting Your SWOT to Use : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F61jgtEZLsA&feature=youtu.be
which will provide you with what you need to know about SWOT and making it work for your organizations strategic planning.
Review the abbreviated version of the Starbucks 2020 SWOT Analysis.
Considering the video and the Starbucks 2020 SWOT Analysis, answer the following questions:
Opportunities are to be prioritized in your strategic plan. How would you recommend that Starbucks prioritize Ready to Drink (RTD) coffee products in the U.S.?
Weaknesses are important and need to be acted on quickly. What would be your first step to act on Starbucks expanding outside the U.S.? Why do you think this would work?
Threats need to be watched and monitored. Explain how you would plan to monitor weather disasters that could drive up the price of coffee beans?
Describe the three basic ways computer crime can be categorized.
Describe the three basic ways computer crime can be categorized.
Explain the steps taken for processing a crime scene involving electronic evidence.
Describe how electronic evidence should be stored.
Provide an outline (which incorporates the steps you listed above) on how investigators process a crime scene involving multiple pieces of electronic evidence.
Explain causes for freight movement congestion in the following areas: goods movement, infrastructure, and information.
1.Explain causes for freight movement congestion in the following areas: goods movement, infrastructure, and information.
2. Provide a solution for every congestion area: goods movement, infrastructure, and information.
3. Provide an example of positive and negative regulation impacts on the congestion of global movement of freight.
4. Expound on four environmental concerns that affects todays strategic intermodal transportation, from commercial to military freight transportation capabilities.
With voluntary and involuntary clients, why is it important that these clients understand the impact of their current level of functioning and to be educated towards the benefits towards change?
Voluntary and Involuntary Client Resources
Clients that receive services from Human Services Professionals are quite diverse. Some are voluntary clients, meaning, they actively seek out services and are oftentimes invested in achieving better life circumstances. Involuntary clients, on the other hand, are not as receptive to receiving assistance from Human Services Professionals. Involuntary clients are forced to receive services and are, in many instances, challenging clients. Think of the characteristics of voluntary clients (those wanting help) and involuntary clients (those who present challenges towards receiving needed services). In a three-page double-spaced paper, answer the following questions:
With voluntary and involuntary clients, why is it important that these clients understand the impact of their current level of functioning and to be educated towards the benefits towards change?
What are the short-term and long-term benefits of clients understanding resources that can assist them?
What are the challenges of assisting clients with accessing resources and services? How can a Human Services Professional address these challenges?
Explain the relationship between short-term scheduling, capacity planning, aggregate planning, and a master schedule.
Scheduling and Gantt Chart:
Prepare a 1000-word minimum paper (excluding title page and references), that addresses the following:
Explain the relationship between short-term scheduling, capacity planning, aggregate planning, and a master schedule.
Contrast the methods and techniques for creating a schedule and the circumstances under which each is best suited for application.
Create a load or scheduling Gantt chart. As an operations or project manager, building Gantt charts is a valuable skill. For this assignment, you will be building a basic load or scheduling Gantt chart created in Microsoft Excel with a narrative explaining the data points. It is important that you select an event or process with several elements associated with it. For this assignment, there should be a minimum of 20 elements and preferably more. The event or process should be of a professional service or production/manufacturing nature. The Gantt chart will be submitted in Microsoft Excel and will include a workbook and bar chart. The narrative in this section of your paper will explain the Gantt Chart. For help in preparing this Gantt Chart, feel free to refer to Microsoft Offices resources on the Web and other Gannt Chart Web resources such as:
o https://www.smartsheet.com/blog/gantt-chart-excel
o https://www.tomsplanner.com
and other credible resources available.
What are the major (lyrical) themes that connect the songs? What is the larger historical, political, and social context for these songs
Submit a playlist of at least 10 songs that explores the relationship between popular music and urban space. This playlist must include an introduction (of at least 1,000 words), and captions for each song (of approx. 100 words each). It also must include credible secondary research, using at least 5 sources, 2 of which need to be academic/scholarly (books or journal articles).
Curate a playlist that explores at least one major theme of the class. This playlist must include
at least 10 songs with an introduction and captions for each song.
Write a 1000-word introduction to your playlist. Provide background, history, and context of
your topic. Describe why you chose these particular songs and put them together in the order
that you did. What are the major (lyrical) themes that connect the songs? What is the larger
historical, political, and social context for these songs? How might the songs demonstrate
continuity and change over time? How would you describe the sound of these songs?
For each song, provide a caption of about 100 words. Provide the artist, release date, and
genre/style at least. Provide a brief analysis of the major theme(s) of the song. What is its
possible message(s)? How does the song relate to others on the list? How does the song relate
to others in the artists catalogue? Why is this song important in the history of music, and/or
history in general? Does it demonstrate something unique?
Provide links to each song (or playlist) in general, preferably through Spotify or Youtube.
What information might be useful for someone interested is pursuing a particular therapy or treatment for a psychological disorder?
1. What information might be useful for someone interested is pursuing a particular therapy or treatment for a psychological disorder? What are the important characteristics that a therapist needs to have? Be specific.
2. Insight and Action Therapies (hint: look at the Concept Maps) What is the difference between these two types of therapy? What specifically would each one treat?
3. Do you have a phobia?(No)If so, what is it and how does it affect you? Explain how behavior therapists use classical and operant conditioning to treat phobias. Scenario: A friend of yours is afraid of flying. As a behavior therapist, how might you go about helping your friend over their anxiety of flying? Be specific.
4.Do you know of anyone who has taken a medical for their anxiety or psychological disorder? If so, explain what you know about their experiences taking the medication. Biomedical Therapies (Page 514) Describe the various types of drugs used to treat psychological disorders.
Identify a topic on the news about a story that is being under-reported or reported in a biased way
Identify a topic on the news about a story that is being under-reported or reported in a biased way.
Formulate a critique of the shortcomings with the ways in which your story of choice is being constructed and narrated use two readings from the syllabus to write up an analysis that includes description of coverage of your story, observations about the way in which the popular narrative has been shaped by different factors (i .e., politics, the media, people on the ground)
What are my beliefs about the family and the nature and quality of family life and the human experience?
Follow the guidelines below and design your own working philosophy of family life education. Draw from the following questions/ideas and include at least THREE to develop your philosophy statement: (Duncan, S. F., & Goddard, H. W. 2011 p. 24)
What are my beliefs about the family and the nature and quality of family life and the human experience?
What is a family? How important are families? What values do I hold regarding families and the human experience? What does it mean to be human?
What are my beliefs about the purpose of FLE?
What is the nature of FLE? What value does FLE have in communities? Is it to provide insight, skills, and knowledge? Is it tochange behavior? How interventionist should FLE be?
What are my beliefs about the content of FLE?
Of what value is university-based theory and research to families? Of what value is the lived experience of individuals, families, and communities, and how can it become part of the content of FLE? How do my personal values regarding families and the human experience infl uence the content I select?
What are my beliefs about the process of learning for families in outreach settings?
How do individuals and families learn most effectively? What teaching strategies have the greatest impact? How important are learning goals and evaluation in these processes? What assumptions do I hold about learners?
Duncan, S. F., & Goddard, H. W. (2011). Family Life Education : Principles and Practices for Effective Outreach. Los Angeles: SAGE Publications, Inc. p. 24
FLE stands for family life education
In what ways does religion shape life for women in Afghanistan?
Answer the following prompts with 300-400 word responses each. Your final document should be at least 1000 words in total:
1. Consider the role of masculinity in gender and culture. How do ideas of manliness and masculinity shape culture and societal trends? Use the assigned articles to help flesh out your stance on the topic.
2. In what ways does religion shape life for women in Afghanistan? Consider the post-Taliban readings, but then think about the current crisis in Afghanistan and the takeover of Taliban forces once again. Please find an outside news source or article to add into this response so you can reference current events.
3. What did you know about sex trafficking prior to reading this article and watching this documentary? How was your knowledge shaped and how do these resources help you consider the issue of sex trafficking in todays society?
