Discuss the various levels and types of strategies the firm may use to maximize its competitiveness and profitability.
- Overview
In this assignment, you are to use the same corporation you selected for the assignments in Weeks 3, 6 and 8. You will prepare an executive level PowerPoint presentation that could be delivered to the board of directors.
Use any or all of the following resources to conduct research on the corporation:- The corporation’s website.
- Public filings from the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Filings & Forms page.
- Strayer University’s online databases.
- The Lexis Advance database.
- Other credible sources. (The corporation’s annual report will often provide insights that other resources may not include.)
- (Note: It is expected that you will also use your course textbook to complete the assignment.)
Instructions:
Use the Capstone Template [PPTX] to develop an 8-12 slide PowerPoint presentation with speaker notes and appropriate graphics. This presentation should be prepared for the board of directors of the corporation and is based only on your assignments from Weeks 3, 6, and 8, and the following:
- Create a SWOT analysis for the company to determine its major strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
- Based on the SWOT analysis, outline a strategy for the company to capitalize on its strengths and opportunities, and minimize its weaknesses and threats.
- Discuss the various levels and types of strategies the firm may use to maximize its competitiveness and profitability.
- Outline a communications plan the company could use to make the strategies you recommend above known to all stakeholders.
- Assess efforts by the corporation to be a responsible (ethical) corporate citizen and the impact on the corporation’s bottom line. Provide specific examples to support your response.
- Use three or more quality sources, including your textbook, to support your writing. Choose sources that are credible, relevant, and appropriate. Cite each source listed on your source page at least one time within your assignment. (Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as academic resources)
- For help with research, writing, and citation, access the library or review library guides.
- Follow the guidelines in the Strayer Writing Standards Slideshow and ensure all references are included on the sources list slide using SWS format.
- For additional support, view the following LinkedIn Learning videos:
- Note: Do not submit a recording or video of your presentation.
- This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is as follows: - Develop a corporate presentation based on a SWOT analysis, strategies for maximizing competitiveness and profitability, a communications plan, and an assessment of efforts related to ethics.
How do specific foods/nutrients work physiologically within the body to help combat the disease?
Nutrition plays a vital role in a person’s overall health and well-being. Not getting enough of the recommended nutrients over the long-term can lead to malnutrition which often results in disease and illness.
In a 3-page paper, written in APA format using proper spelling/grammar, address the following:
1. Define malnutrition and identify a specific disease that can result from it.
2. Perform library research about the selected disease, and explain its physiological effects on a person’s body.
3. Describe the relationship between specific foods/nutrients and the disease. Use the questions below to guide your response.
4. Does research indicate that a lack of specific foods/nutrients increase a person’s chance of contracting the disease?
5. Are there specific foods/nutrients that should be avoided by an individual afflicted with the disease?
6. How do specific foods/nutrients work physiologically within the body to help combat the disease?
7. Evaluate nutritional recommendations to help combat the disease.
8. Cite at least 3 credible references and present the resources in APA format on the References page.
Does the program reflect current and confirmed research in each of the areas of reading?
Research-Based Reading Program Paper Assignment – (100 points)
ALSDE Standard (2)(g)2.(i)
Using your textbook and a search of the UWA online library, locate a research-based reading program that applies rigorous, systematic, and objective procedures to obtain valid knowledge relevant to reading development, reading instruction, and reading difficulties and empirical (valid and reliable) methods of data collections and analysis in all of the areas of reading ( phonological awareness, alphabetic principles or phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.)
· Scroll down and type in whatever you want to research under EBSCO Discovery Service at UWA
And click research.
Examples of some of the programs listed in your textbook are:
Great Leaps Reading Program
Learning Strategies Curriculum
Phonic Reading Lessons
Phonological Awareness Training for Reading
Specific Skill Series for Reading & Multiple Skills Series for Reading
SRA Early Interventions in Reading
Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes
Orton-Gillingham
READ 180
Lexia Reading
Project Read
Soar to Success
1. Select a research-based reading program from your textbook, the list found above or through a search of the UWA online library services. Submit the name of the reading program to the Instructor for approval before completing your project.
2. Analyze each of the five areas of reading in each program listed above. Does the program reflect current and confirmed research in each of the areas of reading? Write an analysis of each area of reading within the reading program. Are there areas that are not adequately addressed?
3. Use the file attached, A Consumer’s Guide to Analyzing a Core Reading Program Grades K-3: A Critical Elements Analysis, to guide you as you analyze the five areas of reading (phonological awareness, alphabetic principles or phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.)
4. Check to see how well the program provides explicit, systematic instruction in each area of reading.
5. Was the reading program tested in numerous schools with a variety of student demographics (urban, rural, suburban, socioeconomics, and racial/ethnicities?)
6. The last section of the body of your paper should include your reflection of numbers 4 and 5 above, as well as your view on the effectiveness of the program and how you could use it as an educator.
7. Your paper should be written using the current edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA style). Include a title page and reference page. Include all resources used to complete this assignment in the reference page. You should have a minimum of two references for this assignment.
8. The body of your paper should adequately address each area of reading and should be at least 5 – 6 pages in length. (The total page number for this assignment will be the 5 – 6 pages for the body of the paper, one for the title page and one or more for te reference page. The total page number for this assignment will be 7 – 8 pages.
What are your conclusions?
Discussion Question:
Go to the Office of Justice Programs (CrimeSolutions.gov) website and read the evaluation summary of Hot Spot Policing in Lowell, MA. Apply relevant elements of Clarke and Eck’s framework (Tables 9.1 and 9.2) to this example. What are your conclusions?
Briefly discuss the H.A.L.T approach for resiliency and stress management.
Review week 8 content and answer the following.
- Briefly discuss the H.A.L.T approach for resiliency and stress management. Give an example of how you can apply this?
- Define imagery/visualization. How can the use of imagery techniques improve communication skills?
- Provide an example of how you can incorporate Mindfulness into your daily routine to improve intra/interpersonal communication.
- Discuss how the course has enhanced your understanding of the therapeutic nurse/client relationship.
Attach your Interprofessional Meeting Analysis Assignment and discuss the following:
- Provide a brief overview of the meeting you attended and your takeaways from the assignment.
- Highlight ideas/concepts that you will apply from the course to enhance your psychosocial and intra/interpersonal communication within professional relationships.
Identify and define three powers of the Texas governor.
Your answer needs to be no less than 350 words.
This discussion board topic is on the powers of the Texas Governor. While the Texas governor has more limited powers than 48 of the remaining state governors, that does not mean he is powerless. What powers does the Texas governor enjoy? Are these significant powers? Do his actions have an impact on Texans? Lets see what you think!
The Questions:
1. Identify and define three powers of the Texas governor. (Note: Look them up but explain the concepts in your own words. Do not just repeat the definition.)
2. Which one of the three powers you identified do you believe to be the most significant and why?
3. Identify a power of the governor that could impact your life and explain why.
4. After looking over the governor’s powers and https://gov.texas.gov/initiatives explain one area where you think the Governor is doing a good job and one area you’d like to see improvement. (Do not say all initiatives are either all good or bad. I am looking for an objective evaluation and critical thinking.)
NOTE: In answering your question, use the materials below and your own research as necessary to back up your opinion.
Many companies are using social media to advertise, collect information, or gather background on individuals. Do you think this is ethical?
Discussion Seven – Social Networking
Social networking Web sites create online communities of Internet users that eliminate barriers created by time, distance, and cultural differences. These sites allow people to interact with others online by sharing opinions, insights, information, interests, and experiences. Members may use the site to interact with friends, family members, and colleagues they already know, but that they may also wish to develop new personal and professional relationships on the sites.
Social network advertising uses social networks to inform, promote, and communicate the benefits of products and services, and there are several advertising strategies. Banner ads on social networks can either be displayed to each visitor to the Web site or by using the information in user profiles, directed toward those members who would likely find the product most appealing. People frequently make decisions based on input from their close group of friends and advertising and use an individual’s network of friends. Company owned social networking web sites allow users to talk about new products, services, or improvements they would like to see and the company can implement customer-submitted ideas. Viral marketing is where users pass along a marketing message to others, creating the potential for exponential growth.
Many companies are using social media to advertise, collect information, or gather background on individuals. Do you think this is ethical?
What is the importance of peer review in the research process and in social work practice?
Post a description of peer review and its importance. Specifically, what makes an article peer reviewed? What is the importance of peer review in the research process and in social work practice? Finally, how does the content and language of a peer-reviewed research article compare to other forms of writing?
Research your issue and explain if and when this has come before the Texas Legislature in the past.
Contacting your representative is one way to engage in politics, but many Texans are unsure how to get in touch with their representatives or how to make their wishes known. This assignment is designed to allow you the opportunity to walk through the process of contacting a representative in the Texas Legislature. You will walk through the process but you are not required to actually call or email your representative. However, if you do reach out to your representative, please include the outcome.
You may want to first explore the optional documents below to help with your research. Once you have done the research, answer the following topics within your paper.
https://www.senate.texas.gov/members.php
https://house.texas.gov/members/
https://www.lrl.texas.gov/genInfo/ContactLeg.cfm
https://www.apa.org/advocacy/guide/letter-email
The Questions:
1. Select an issue that you are concerned about. Explain in one paragraph why you are interested in this issue and what you believe should be done about it.
2. Research your issue and explain if and when this has come before the Texas Legislature in the past. If it has not, explain why you think it has not yet come before the legislature.
3. Pick a representative to write or call about your issue. Explain why you picked this specific representative and what you might ask them to do to support your convictions in this area. Include the contact information for your representative. Explain how you would contact them (email, letter or phone call) and why you selected that method.
4. Include the script you would use to contact your representative. Feel free to use the templates provided.
5. Evaluate the process of contacting a representative. Did you actually make the call or send the letter? Why or why not? Would you be able to do this in the future? If you did contact your representative, report back on the experience.
The rules: Remember, this needs to be at least two pages of solid, thoughtful material in order to even be considered for full credit. Students receiving full credit usually turn in papers of at least 2 pages. Have some fun with it but remember this is an academic paper. No cussing or slang, use proper grammar and proof-read before sending, use the spell-checker, do not end a sentence with a question mark (you are supposed to answer questions, not ask them), etc.
Describe possible transference issues and barriers.
Family Systems and Family Therapy: Signature Assignment Final Paper
Comprehensive Application of the Integrative Problem Centered Metaframeworks Model to a Family in a Movie
You are required to select a family from a movie (see list at bottom) and conceptualize the family from the IPCM Model. Your paper will include:
1. The name of the movie
2. The family’s presenting problem
3. A thorough description of the family’s functioning. This should include all members of the system.
4. A description of the family’s presenting problem(s) using the IPCM model. Formulate the family on
EVERY dimension of the model.
o Level 1 – Structural (Behavioral) application
** every concept must be described
o Level 2 – Biological application
o Level 3 – Meaning application (Experiential and Cognitive Behavioral)
** this section must include a formulation of culture, gender, race, and spirituality
o Level 4 – Bowenian application
**every concept must be described
o Levels 5 & 6 – Psychodynamic and Self Psychology application
5. Spiritual and cultural considerations for the chosen family are described. This could be a separate
section or included in level 3 of the IPCM section.
6. Self-Analysis – Provide a self-reflection regarding how you would feel if you were to provide family
therapy to this family. Describe possible transference issues and barriers. Also describe personal
strengths that could assist you when working with this family.
Please choose from the list of movies:
• Little Miss Sunshine
• Family Stone
• When a Man Loves a Women
• Silver Linings Playbook
• The Glass Castle
• Beautiful Boy
• Squid and the Whale
Additional Information
• Paper length: 7-8 pages excluding cover and reference pages.
• A minimum of 5 references are cited.
• The Integrative Problem Centered Metaframeworks Model is referenced. References support the topic
and are peer reviewed, scholarly sources.
• Paper must follow 7th Edition APA format (no outlines or charts)
• Headings are required to section your paper.
