You work in finance and your company is considering buying another company for $10.6 million. Your company does not have $10.6 million in cash and has asked you to evaluate different types of short-term and long-term financing opportunities.You will have to conduct research to see what options are available for short-term and long-term financing opportunities. Explain why you chose the option you selected and what the short-term and long-term effects of that option will be.
You work in finance and your company is considering buying another company for $10.6 million. Your company does not have $10.6 million in cash and has asked you to evaluate different types of short-term and long-term financing opportunities.You will have to conduct research to see what options are available for short-term and long-term financing opportunities. Explain why you chose the option you selected and what the short-term and long-term effects of that option will be.
What does it mean to incorporate innovation into business practices (as opposed to innovations made through product or service offerings)? How can leaders create a work environment that fosters innovation? Be specific, including what factors are most conducive to facilitating innovation and developing an innovation mindset.
Note: This is a three-part Assignment that is submitted over the course of 3 weeks. This week, you will submit Part 2. You will submit Part 3 in Week 3. Additionally, you will continue using the same document for each submission (renaming it each time you submit). In this weeks submission, you will re-include what you originally submitted for Part 1, you will complete Part 2, and you will leave the placeholder language for Part 3 as is.
For this Assignment, you will continue your role of a consultant who has been brought in to help the leadership of a company struggling to evolve in the current market. You will present a report to the CEO in which you analyze the relationship of creativity and innovation to business practices. For your reference, the scenario that was introduced in Week 1 is included here again.
The companys CEO, Gabriel Marron, has been resistant to change for the past 25 years, and the company recently began losing market share to other competitors. After months of being in denial, the CEO is finally open to considering the idea of implementing innovative approaches to reclaim the companys former position at the top. Gabriel admits that it is simply not in his nature to value innovation. Sticking to tried and true methods has always worked favorably throughout his career, but you are being brought in because that is proving to no longer be the case. In your report, you will draw the connection between creativity, innovation, and business practices.
With those thoughts in mind, construct Part 2 of your report to the CEO with the following section, being sure to incorporate appropriate business examples (as indicated), as well as citations for relevant academic resources from the classroom, the Walden Library, and/or other appropriate scholarly sources to support your work.
To prepare for this Assignment:
Return to your Module 1 Assignment Template to complete Part 2 of your report.
BY DAY 7
Submit Part 2 of your analysis of the role of creativity and innovation in business, in which you address the following in a 3- to 4-page business report (excluding references):
Part 2: Incorporating Innovation
What does it mean to incorporate innovation into business practices (as opposed to innovations made through product or service offerings)?
How can leaders create a work environment that fosters innovation? Be specific, including what factors are most conducive to facilitating innovation and developing an innovation mindset.
To support your assertions, do some research and locate at least two examples of organizations that reflect an innovation mindset and employ (or employed) innovation in their business practices. For each example, do the following:
Describe the organization (including what type of company it is, what sector/industry it is in, etc.).
Provide specific examples of how the organization employs (or employed) innovation in its business practices.
Refer to the Week 2 Assignment Rubric for specific grading elements and criteria. Your Instructor will use this grading rubric to assess your work.
In order to deliver the Home Office Renovation project ahead of schedule, you have been granted permission to add more resources to your team. Your project sponsor has worked out a deal to add an outside firm (partner) to your project team. They have very little understanding of your project, and you don’t have a lot of time to educate them on the project’s specifics. Describe how you plan to incorporate them as members of your project, as well as how to get them up to speed on your project for Home Office Renovation.
In order to deliver the Home Office Renovation project ahead of schedule, you have been granted permission to add more resources to your team. Your project sponsor has worked out a deal to add an outside firm (partner) to your project team. They have very little understanding of your project, and you don’t have a lot of time to educate them on the project’s specifics. Describe how you plan to incorporate them as members of your project, as well as how to get them up to speed on your project for Home Office Renovation.
Here, I want you to identify one career assessment that would be appropriate for this client. Discuss why you chose this assessment, how it is aligned with his issue(s), and what theory it is related to. You can take a look at the Career Assessment Resources for some ideas on assessments to use.
Here, I want you to identify one career assessment that would be appropriate for this client. Discuss why you chose this assessment, how it is aligned with his issue(s), and what theory it is related to. You can take a look at the Career Assessment Resources for some ideas on assessments to use.
Your client, Jim, is an 18-year-old male living with his parents. You have been working with him for the past year on his severe anxiety related to his chaotic home life. His parents do not have stable jobs and have battled addiction on and off through the years. They are currently sober but not working and ready to lose their home. Jim just graduated from high school and is eligible for a variety of grants and scholarships that would pay for his college – tuition and housing. Jim wants to go to college, but is trying to decide between a culinary arts program at one community college nearby. If he chooses this program, he can stay with his parents. He has already registered and signed up for classes in this program. The other option is a 4-year university an hour away. He would need to live in the dorms if he chooses this option. He is very undecided about what he wants to do and is considering a variety of careers – criminal justice, business, and psychology. He was a good student in high school.
Jims anxiety has increased in recent weeks because the school year is to begin in a few weeks and he is unsure what he wants to do. His parents are pressuring him to stay with them and do culinary arts.
Briefly describe an organization with which you are familiar (this can be a current or former employer) and the example of poor systems thinking you observed at this organization. Assess the core issues that you think led to this systems failure, including whether managers were using yesterdays thinking to solve todays problem. Explain whether there might have been a different or better outcome if managers had understood the principle and the value that systems thinking can bring to an organizations operations. Justify your explanation.
TODAYS PROBLEMS COME FROM YESTERDAYS THINKING
Albert Einstein is credited with saying, We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them. This is as true in business as it is in science. Peter Senge (2006) describes this systemic phenomenon as todays problems come from yesterdays solutions (p. 58). Solutions that attempt to solve the symptomatic cause tend to simply shift the problem from one part of the system to another. For example, imagine a company that finds that its product quality and delivery times are slipping, which results in a loss of sales. To counteract this loss, the company increases customer rebates. However, that countermeasure causes a spike in business that overwhelms its production team, which results in even lower product quality and more delayed deliveries.
As you develop your evaluation, be sure to include specific examples from Senges book as well as relevant citations from the Learning Resources, the Walden Library, and/or other appropriate academic sources to support your evaluation.
To prepare for this Assignment:
Review Chapter 1 and Chapter 4 of Peter Senges The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization and consider his premise that todays problems come from yesterdays solutions (2006, p. 57).
Think back through your own work history to identify a situation that illustrates poor systems thinking at a current or former organization. Consider whether managers were applying yesterdays solutions to a current problem.
Submit an evaluation (excluding title page and references) that addresses the following:
Briefly describe an organization with which you are familiar (this can be a current or former employer) and the example of poor systems thinking you observed at this organization.
Assess the core issues that you think led to this systems failure, including whether managers were using yesterdays thinking to solve todays problem.
Explain whether there might have been a different or better outcome if managers had understood the principle and the value that systems thinking can bring to an organizations operations. Justify your explanation.
What are the one or two most challenging issues in identifying and documenting IT acquisition requirements (i.e., the requirements for solving the problem that was defined)? Explain your reason(s) and how the issue(s) can be successfully addressed.
In a paper and using 3 academic sources, answer the following three prompts:1. What are the one or two most challenging issues in identifying and documenting IT acquisition requirements (i.e., the requirements for solving the problem that was defined)? Explain your reason(s) and how the issue(s) can be successfully addressed. 2. Should it be permitted to add, delete, and change requirements after they have been approved up to the time a contract has been signed with a service provider? Should it even be possible to add, delete, and change requirements during the subsequent project? 3. The development of a work breakdown structure can be challenging. It requires a good understanding of the problem and a good understanding of the proposed solution. The proposed solution must be “broken down” into its major parts, each of which may be further broken down. Comment on your experience in developing a work breakdown structure for your individual project. What was easy? What was difficult? What problems did you encounter and how did you solve them?
Read an excerpt of Alexis de Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America,” which he observes how family life had been altered in America. I have just been considering how among democratic peoples, particularly America, equality modifies the relations between one citizen and another. What was the relationship between fathers and sons in America?
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Democracy Analysis: Democracy & the Family
Read an excerpt of Alexis de Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America,” which he observes how family life had been altered in America.
I have just been considering how among democratic peoples, particularly America, equality modifies the relations between one citizen and another. What was the relationship between fathers and sons in America? I want to carry the argument further and consider what happens within the family. I am not trying to discover new truths, but to show how known facts have a bearing on my subject . Everyone has noticed that in our time a new relationship has evolved between the different members of a family, that the distance formerly separating father, and son has diminished, and that paternal authority, if not abolished, has at least changed form. Something analogous, but even more striking, occurs in the United States.
In America the family, if one takes the word in its Roman and aristocratic sense, no longer exists. One only finds scattered traces thereof in the first years following the birth of children. The father then does, without opposition, exercise the domestic dictatorship which his sons’ weakness makes necessary and which is justified by both their weakness and his unquestionable superiority.
But as soon as the young American begins to approach man’s estate, the reins of filial obedience are daily slackened. Master of his thoughts, he soon becomes responsible for his own behavior. In America there is in truth no adolescence. At the close of boyhood he is a man and begins to trace out his own path.
It would be wrong to suppose that this results from some sort of domestic struggle, in which, by some kind of moral violence, the son had won the freedom which his father refused. The same habits and principles which lead the former to grasp at independence dispose the latter to consider its enjoyment as an incontestable right.
So in the former one sees none of these hateful, disorderly passions which disturb men long after they have shaken off an established yoke. The latter feels none of those bitter, angry regrets which usually accompany fallen power. The father has long anticipated the moment when his authority must come to an end, and when that time does come near, he abdicates without fuss. The son has known in advance exactly when he will be his own master and wins his liberty without haste or effort as a possession which is his due and which no one seeks to snatch from him …
When the state of society turns to democracy and men adopt the general principle that it is good and right to judge everything for oneself, taking former beliefs as providing information but not rules, paternal opinions come to have less power over the sons, just as his legal power is less too.
Perhaps the division of patrimonies which follows from democracy does more than all the rest to alter the relations between father and children.
When the father of a family has little property, his son and he live constantly in the same place and carry on the same work together. Habit and necessity bring them together and force them all the time to communicate with each other. There is bound, then, to be a sort of intimate familiarity between them which makes power less absolute and goes ill with respectful formalities.
Moreover, in democracies those who possess these small fortunes are the very class which gives ideas their force and sets the tone of mores. Both its will and its thoughts prevail everywhere, and even those who are most disposed to disobey its orders end by being carried along by its example. I have known fiery opponents of democracy who allowed their children to call them “thou.”
So at the same time as aristocracy loses its power, all that was austere, conventional, and legal in parental power also disappears and a sort of equality reigns around the domestic hearth.
I am not certain, generally speaking, whether society loses by the change, but I am inclined to think that the individual gains. I think that as mores and laws become more democratic the relations between father and sons become more intimate and gentle; there is less of rule and authority, often more of confidence and affection, and it would seem that the natural bond grows tighter as the social link loosens ….
Democracy too draws brothers together, but in a different way.
Under democratic laws the children are perfectly equal, and consequently independent; nothing forcibly brings them together, but also nothing drives them apart. Having a common origin, brought up under the same roof, and treated with the same care, as no peculiar privilege distinguishes or divides them, the affectionate and frank intimacy of childhood easily takes root among them ….
This gentleness of democratic manners is such that even the partisans of aristocracy are attracted by it, and when they have tasted it for some time, they are not at all tempted to return to the cold and respectful formalities of the aristocratic family. They gladly keep the family habits of democracy provided they can reject its social state and laws ….
I think that may be able to sum up in one phrase the whole sense of this chapter and of several others that preceded. Democracy .loosens social ties, but tightens natural ones. At the same time as it separates citizens, it brings kindred closer together.
Instructions:
Write a response to the following questions:
1. What was the relationship between fathers and sons in America?
2. How was this relationship different based on class (how were poor families different than rich families)
3. What is de Tocqueville’s assessment of this? ls it good or bad?
For full credit you should complete your own post and comment on another student’s post. Your comment on a fellow student’s post should be either praise, or constructive criticism (respectful disagreement or advice)
Retailers are known for collecting huge amounts of customer data. Considering the three characteristics of big data (volume, velocity, and variety), what do you think are some of the challenges that apply to the process?
. Retailers are known for collecting huge amounts of customer data. Considering the three characteristics of big data (volume, velocity, and variety), what do you think are some of the challenges that apply to the process?
You will prepare for the interview by selecting three of the questions provided below and creating two questions of your own. Your overall set of five questions should relate to at least two of the following HR topic areas: hiring, onboarding, and performance review. Select three of the below questions: 1. What 2 or 3 key competencies do you seek in job candidates? Why are these competencies at the top of your list?
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Assignment 2: Informational Interview
Weight: 15%
Due: Sunday, Midnight of Week 5
INTRODUCTION
To gain a real-world perspective on hiring, onboarding, and performance management, for this
assignment you will do a short interview with an HR professional – or with a manager – at your workplace.
You will ask a total of five questions and keep a record of the responses. Then you will write a report of 2
to 4 pages, summarizing the answers you received and reflecting on the impact the interview had on you.
INSTRUCTIONS
Approach your HR department – or your manager – to arrange a short informational interview with a mid-
level or senior professional in your workplace (half an hour or less). If you cannot make this happen in the
timeframe required, you may instead interview a business professional whom you know outside of your
current workplace.
Questions for the Interview:
You will prepare for the interview by selecting three of the questions provided below and creating two
questions of your own. Your overall set of five questions should relate to at least two of the following HR
topic areas: hiring, onboarding, and performance review.
Select three of the below questions:
1. What 2 or 3 key competencies do you seek in job candidates? Why are these competencies at
the top of your list?
2. When would you hire externally and when would you promote internally to fill gaps in your team?
3. How useful are references to you in assessing job candidates?
4. How do you onboard new members of your team or department?
5. What performance review process does your organization use? How effective is it?
Create two questions of your own, for a total of five questions.
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Outline for your Report
Write a paper of 2 to 4 pages that provides a report on your informational interview. Use the Outline
provided below to organize your report into four sections. The prompts in each section are provided to
help you cover all the required topics for the assignment.
Introduction
o Describe the position and business role of your interviewee
o Explain your relationship with him or her
Questions
o For each question, briefly summarize the interviewees response
Note: Do NOT write out the interviewees exact words
Reflection
o Comment on any answers that surprised you and explain why
o What did you learn from this interview that you can apply in your own work?
Conclusion
o Sum up your learning from the interview on at least two of the following HR topic areas:
hiring, onboarding, and performance review
FORMATTING REQUIREMENTS
Uses a double-spaced, professional font (Times New Roman or Arial), 10-12 font size, with one-
inch margins on all sides
Includes a Cover page containing the title of the assignment, your name, professors name, and
the course title and date
Headings are used to identify the four sections of the report
Paragraphs are separated by a single space
The assignment is written in a formal manner, with correct spelling and grammar
References are included and provide appropriate information that enables the reader to locate the
original source
Citations and references must follow the formatting instructions found in the JWMI Writing
Standards Guide. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Note: The Cover and References pages are not included in the required page length.
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RUBRIC – Assignment 2: Informational Interview
CRITERIA Honors High Pass Pass Low Pass Unsatisfactory
1. Introduction
describes the
interviewees
position and
business role and
explains their
business
relationship to
student.
Weight: 10%
Introduction
provides an
excellent
description of the
interviewees
position and
business role and
their business
relationship to
student.
Introduction
provides a clear,
informative
description of the
interviewees
position and
business role
and their
business
relationship to
student.
Satisfactorily
develops or
provides a job
description.
Selects and
ranks five
competencies
for each
position.
Introduction
partially describes
the interviewees
position and
business role and
their business
relationship to
student.
Introduction does
not describe the
interviewees
position and
business role or it
does not explain
their business
relationship to
student.
2. For each of the 5
questions, provide a
brief summary of
the interviewees
response. Do NOT
write out the
interviewees exact
words.
Weight: 30%
Provides an
excellent
summary for all 5
questions. Does
not use the
interviewees
exact words.
Provides a clear,
detailed
summary for all 5
questions. Does
not use the
interviewees
exact words.
Brief but
adequate
rationale for all
the competency
rankings is
provided.
Provides a brief
summary for at
least 4 of the 5
questions. Mostly
avoids using the
interviewees
exact words.
Does not provide
a brief summary
for all 5 questions,
or uses the exact
words of the
interviewee
instead of
summarizing.
3. Reflect on any
answers that
surprised you and
explain why. Explain
what you learned
from the interview
that you can apply
in your own work.
Weight: 25%
Excellent reflection
on any answers
that surprised you,
as well as a
thoughtful, detailed
explanation of
what you learned
from the interview
and how you can
apply that learning.
Good reflection
on any answers
that surprised
you, as well as a
thoughtful
explanation of
what you learned
from the
interview.
Satisfactorily
creates two
interview
questions for
each
competency and
follows the
instructions.
Questions relate
logically to the
competencies.
Short or confused
reflection on any
answers that
surprised you.
Short or confused
explanation of
what you learned
from the
interview.
Minimal or no
reflection on any
answers that
surprised you.
Minimal or no
explanation of
what you learned
from the
interview.
4. Sum up your
learning from the
interview on at least
2 of the following
HR topic areas:
hiring, onboarding,
and performance
review.
Weight: 25%
Excellent,
insightful summary
of students
learning on at least
two of the HR topic
areas listed.
Good, detailed
summary of
students
learning on at
least two of the
HR topic areas
listed.
Satisfactorily
writes 2 sample
answers with
content that
adequately
demonstrates
the required
competencies.
Partially summed
up students
learning on at
least two of the
HR topic areas
listed.
Did not sum up
students learning
on at least two of
the HR topic
areas listed.
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CRITERIA Honors High Pass Pass Low Pass Unsatisfactory
5. Clarity, Writing
Mechanics,
Grammar, and
Formatting.
Weight: 10 %
Minimal minor
mechanical
errors; student
follows formatting
instructions.
Few mechanical
errors; student
follows
formatting
instructions.
Some
mechanical
errors; student
follows
formatting
instructions.
Mechanical
errors; student
does not fully
follow formatting
instructions.
Mechanical errors;
student fails to
follow formatting
instructions.
What are the current trends in artificial intelligence in your chosen industry?Explain how artificial intelligence can impact processes at one or more units within the organization (accounting, sales, human resource, etc.).How can machine learning, virtual reality, and/or neural networks be used within the industry?
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence is emerging quickly in all industries from manufacturing, business, education, and healthcare. For your week 2 assignment, choose the industry that you are currently in or an industry that you would like to work in the future. Think of the various departments within an organization in your industry. Answer the following questions:
· Provide a small background on the industry.
· What are the current trends in artificial intelligence in your chosen industry?Explain how artificial intelligence can impact processes at one or more units within the organization (accounting, sales, human resource, etc.).How can machine learning, virtual reality, and/or neural networks be used within the industry?
· Explain how artificial intelligence can impact processes at one or more units within the organization (accounting, sales, human resource, etc.).
· How can machine learning, virtual reality, and/or neural networks be used within the industry?
· What are some software available within your industry that supports artificial intelligence?
This summary should be in APA format, contain a title page with your name, and be approximately 600 words in length. Your paper should include an introduction, background on the industry, answer questions, conclusion, and references in a paper format. Again, please do not bullet your answers and do not include the questions but write a paper that flows from paragraph to paragraph. You must use APA and cite your references including your textbook (BUSINESS DRIVEN INFORMATION SYSTEMS by Paige Baltzan).
Required Elements for Business Decisions & Artificial Intelligence:
· Title page with your name, course, title, and date
· Content includes Small background on the industry; current trends in artificial intelligence in the chosen industry; how artificial intelligence can impact processes at one or more units within the organization (accounting, sales, human resource, etc.); how machine learning, virtual reality, and/or neural networks be used within the industry; and some software available within industry that supports artificial intelligence.
· Writing is coherent and supports the central idea in an APA format, with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics.
