compare and contrast discussion of the economic challenges and incentives related to your project

You are an associate director at Piedmont Hospital Atlanta, a 300-bed hospital located in an urban area. A sum of money is available for investment in the facility. You have been tasked by the hospital CEO to present a possible investment scenario in which you renovate your existing facility, expand the current facility, or clinically integrate your electronic health records (EHRs). There is only enough money to fund one of the potential projects. Your primary sources of data and information may or may not be reliable. Please see the attached Finance, Risk, and Cost Data document for the data needed to create your presentation.Create a four to five-slide PowerPoint presentation that will include the points listed below. You are to create your presentation as though you were presenting the elements to a group for review. Add speaker’s notes to the bottom of each slide for ease of narration (as this will be presented in a video script) and to provide accessible content to people with accessibility needs.· A basic design of the projected service/project (i.e., the option you are promoting)· An analysis of the role of public policy in terms of your provision of health care services and provide justification of your choice· An explanation of the relevance of the current financial data (the attachment) in terms of the projected outcome of the project· A compare and contrast discussion of the economic challenges and incentives related to your projectMust present engaging multimedia content to improve learner retention of information. You may wish to include visual enhancements in your presentation. These may include appropriate images, a consistent font, appropriate animations, and transitions from content piece to content piece and slide-to-slide.Must use at least two scholarly sources formatted according to APA style. All sources used within the presentation must be cited properly within the slides and included on the required reference slide, which will be the last slide of the presentation.

What motivation concepts and theories help you to analyze the case?

CASE STUDY 7: A Funeral in the Public Service CenterHal G. RaineyFor many years, the Social Security Administration (SSA) followed a very bureaucratized process for handling claims. A “claim” is a request for services, such as a retiree’s application for SSA to begin paying his or her social security benefits (that is, to start sending monthly checks to him or her). Claims handling also involves many different functions, such as updating records, adding and deleting dependents and relatives from records, handling changes in the requests, and other matters.For years, the claims would be handled like this: a client (a citizen making a claim) would apply at a local Social Security Administration office, or by mail. The local office would forward the claim to one of eight public service centers (PSCs) in eight different regions of the country. At the PSC, a different unit would handle each different phase of handling the claim. One unit would receive the claim and route it to the others. Another unit had specialists, called claims authorizers, who would rule on the legality of the claim—did the person have a legitimate claim? Then a claim would be shipped, with a large batch of other claims, to a next unit that contained benefits authorizers, or specialists who would calculate how much the client should receive in social security payments. Then the claim would move to another unit for disbursement or payment of claims, and to another for filing and retention. This process was like a big assembly line, with the claim moving from one phase of the work to another.Congress added many programs and specifications to social security and related programs. At the same time, the nation’s population grew and became more complex. The claims-handling process got much more complicated, and this assembly-line system began to have problems, such as many delays in handling claims and many lost claims. As an example of the problems with the system, when a benefits authorizer would find that a claims authorizer had not provided all the information about a claim that the benefits authorizer needed, the claim had to be delivered back to the claims authorization unit that had previously handled it. Often, the returned claim went back to a different person from the one who worked on it to begin with. This resulted in slow processing and frequent mistakes.SSA went through a long period of trying to figure out how to resolve the problems, and finally decided to adopt a modular design in the PSCs. They put together in units, called modules, all the different specialists needed to process a claim—claims authorizers, benefits authorizers, typists, file clerks, and others. These groups worked together like teams. They would take a client’s claim and work it through to completion, so that they actually had the person as the client of their module—they could identify the clients as theirs. They could also communicate more readily with each other about any problems that came up. There were some tough problems in implementing this new system, but it worked out very well, and has become the standard design in the PSCs.Time passes and brings changes that require adjustments by all people and organizations. Advances in information technology—computers and communications technology—brought changes for the SSA. The processing of claims became more computerized. Local offices handle many claims by entering the data directly into the main SSA computers in Baltimore, and getting answers back directly. This reduced the load of claims coming to the PSCs. In addition, the work in the PSCs became more computerized and automated through higher technologies. Claims authorizers and benefits authorizers handled more correspondence by simply hitting a key on the computer terminal that caused the needed correspondence to print out. This reduced the need for typists. More information was going directly into the computer, and requiring less paperwork, and this reduced the need for file clerks to file the papers. The modules needed fewer and fewer typists and file clerks. This created problems, because if a module needed only a couple of file clerks, and was only assigned two, the module became more dependent upon their work habits. If both file clerks were absent, the module managers had to do the filing to keep the module’s work going.Social Relations Among Specialists. In the old system, a social and educational hierarchy existed among the specialists. Benefits authorizers were the most highly paid and highly trained, followed by claims authorizers, and then by typists and filing clerks. The filing clerks were often single mothers with low incomes and low educational levels. They often struggled with serious personal challenges in their lives outside of work. They would sometimes miss work or arrive late because of child care problems. When SSA moved to the modules, the move helped to break down social distance between these groups. The file clerks would work directly with the others, usually as friends and coworkers. Also, SSA tried to move file clerks up the ranks through training and development processes.In one of the PSCs in the midwestern United States, the assistant director (A.D.) of the PSC had an idea for responding to the problem of the declining need for file clerks. He started a new organizational design, in which file clerks were assigned to special units, from which they would be farmed out, as needed, to the modules. The design was something like the old idea of a typing pool or secretarial pool. The problem was that the file clerks felt isolated and demoted by being taken out of their modules.The A.D. learned of the file clerks’ unhappiness in a fairly dramatic way. In his office one day, he received a request from the members of the file clerks’ unit to come down to their office area. When he arrived, he found the office draped with black crepe and black balloons. A large black casket lay on a desk in the middle of the room. The file clerks, dressed in funeral clothing, began singing funeral hymns. A spokesperson for the group came forward to tell him that they were there to hold a funeral for the file clerks unit, to mourn the death of the file clerks.The A.D. was stunned. He had heard that the file clerks were unhappy with the change he had made, but had not expected such a development. He was not sure how to proceed. He was not really sure what the “funeral” was supposed to mean or to communicate, except that the file clerks were unhappy. Questions were running through his mind. What should he do right now, as he faced the file clerks and their funeral? What should he do in the longer term? Should he discipline them? He knew that people in other units would be very aware of how he treated these file clerks and some would complain if he “let them get away” with such disruption and insubordination. Because of the problems mentioned earlier, that file clerks often had with late arrival or absences, the discipline and work habits of the file clerks were sensitive issues in the PSC.Source:This case was written by Hal G. Rainey, Alumni Foundation Distinguished Professor, Department of Public Administration and Policy, University of GeorgiaDiscussion QuestionsAnalyze the incident in relation to questions of values.1a. What values was the A.D. promoting with the change?1b. What values were the file clerks emphasizing through their behavior?What motivation concepts and theories help you to analyze the case?What leadership concepts and theories help you to analyze the case?On the basis of your answers to the preceding questions, make suggestions to the A.D. about actions he should take.4a. What should he say and do, as he stands before the file clerks at their “funeral?”4b. Once he leaves the room and returns to his office, what should he plan to do in the longer term?4c. In advising him on actions to take, try to express the relations between your advice and important issues about values, motivation, and leadership.

Design an application that accepts 10 numbers and displays them in descending order.

Chapter 8Exercise1. Design an application that accepts 10 numbers and displays them in descending order.4. The village of Ringwood conducted a census and created records that contain household data, including income. Ringwood has exactly 75 households. Write a program into which a village statistician can enter each of the 75 household income values, and determine the mean and median house-hold income.13. Your student disk contains fi les named DEBUG08- 01. txt, DEBUG08- 02. txt, and DEBUG08- 03. txt. Each fi le starts with some comments that describe the problem. Comments are lines that begin with two slashes (//). Following the comments, each fi le contains pseudocode that has one or more bugs you must fi nd and correct.08-01// This application reads 10 numbers// and sorts them, and displays the three highest numbersstart Declarations num SIZE = 10 num number num numbers[SIZE] num count getReady() while count < SIZE detailLoop() endwhile finish()stopgetReady() output “Enter a number “ input numberreturndetailLoop() numbers[SIZE] = number count = count + 1 output “Enter a number “ input numberreturnfinish() sort() output “The highest three are “, numbers[0], numbers[0], numbers[0]returnsort() num x = 0 num y = 0 num COMPS = count – 1 while y < COMPS x = 0 while x < COMPS if numbers[x] < numbers[x + 1] then swap() endif x = x + 1 endwhile y = y + 1 endwhilereturnswap() num temp temp = numbers[x + 1] numbers[x + 1] = numbers[x] numbers[x] = tempreturn08-02// This application reads student typing test data// including number of errors on the test, and the number// of words typed per minute. Grades are assigned based// on the following table:// Errors// Speed 0 1 2 or more// 0–30 C D F// 31–50 C C F // 51–80 B C D// 81–100 A B C// 101 and up A A Bstart Declarations num MAX_ERRORS = 2 num errors num wordsPerMinute num grades[5][3] = {“C”, “D”, “F”}, {“C”, “C”, “F”}, {“B”, “C”, “D”}, {“A”, “B”, “C”}, {“A”, “A”, “B”} num LIMITS = 5 num speedLimits[LIMITS] = 0, 31, 51, 81, 101 num row output “Enter number of errors on the test “ input errors if errors = MAX_ERRORS then errors > MAX_ERRORS endif output “Enter the speed in words per minute “ input wordsPerMinute while row < LIMITS AND wordsPerMinute >= speedLimits[row] row = row + 1 endwhile row = row – 1 output “Your grade is “, grades[errors][row]stop08-03This application reads sales data for an automobile dealership.// Up to 100 sale amounts can be entered. The entered sale amounts// are sorted so the median sale can be displayed.start Declarations num SIZE = 100 num QUIT = 99999 num saleAmount num sales[SIZE] num count = 0 num middlePosition num x num y num temp num comps getReady() while saleAmount count < SIZE detailLoop() endwhile finish()stopgetReady() output “Enter sale amount “ input saleAmountreturndetailLoop() sales[x] = saleAmount count = count + 10 output “Enter sale amount “ input saleAmountreturnfinish() sort() middlePosition = count * 2 output “The median sale amount is “, sales[middlePosition]returnsort() comps = count – 1 while y < comps x = 0 while x < y if sales[x] > sales[x + 1] then swap() endif x = x + 1 endwhile y = y + 1 endwhilereturnvoid swap() temp = sales[x] sales[x + 1] = sales[x] sales[x] = tempreturnComplete Chapter 10: Exercise 1, 2, 3, 6, 11Exercises 1,2,3,61. Identify three objects that might belong to each of the following classes: a. Automobile b. Novel Author c. College Course2. Identify three different classes that might contain each of these objects: a. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart b. My pet cat named Socks c. Apartment 14 at 101 Main Street3. Design a class named Customer Record that holds a customer number, name, and address. Include methods to set the values for each data field and display the values for each data field. Create the class diagram and write the pseudocode that defines the class.6. Complete the following tasks: a. Design a class named Book that holds a stock number, author, title, price, and number of pages for a book. Include methods to set and get the values for each data fi eld. Create the class diagram and write the pseudocode that defi nes the class. b. Design an application that declares two Book objects and sets and displays their values. c. Design an application that declares an array of 10 Books. Prompt the user for data for each of the Books, then display all the values.Chapter 9Exercises 2, 5, 62. Create the logic for a program that continuously prompts the user for a number of dollars until the user enters 0. Pass each entered amount to a conversion method that displays a breakdown of the passed amount into the fewest bills; in other words, the method calculates the number of 20s, 10s, 5s, and 1s needed.5. a. Create the logic for a program that performs arithmetic functions. Design the program to contain two numeric variables, and prompt the user for values for the variables. Pass both variables to methods named sum() and difference(). Create the logic for the methods sum() and difference(); they compute the sum of and diff erence between the values of two arguments, respectively. Each method should perform the appropriate computation and display the results. b. Add a method named product() to the program in Exercise 5a. Th e product() method should compute the result when multiplying two numbers, but not display the answer. Instead, it should return the answer to the calling program, which displays the answer.6. Create the logic for a program that continuously prompts a user for a numeric value until the user enters 0. Th e application passes the value in turn to a method that squares the number and to a method that cubes the number. The program displays the results before reprompting the user. Create the two methods that square and cube a number passed to them, and then return the calculated value.Exercise 8, 12,8. Create the logic for a program that continuously prompts the user for two numeric values that represent the sides of a rectangle. Include two overloaded methods that compute a rectangle’s area. One method takes two numeric parameters and calculates the area by multiplying the parameters. Th e other takes a single numeric parameter, which is squared to • If both numbers entered are greater than 0, call the method version that accepts two parameters and pass it both values. • If one of the values entered is 0 but the other is not, call the version of the method that accepts just one parameter and pass it the nonzero value. • If both the entered values are 0, display an error message. • If both numbers entered are greater than 0, call the method version that accepts two parameters and pass it both values. • If one of the values entered is 0 but the other is not, call the version of the method that accepts just one parameter and pass it the nonzero value. • If both the entered values are 0, display an error message.12. Create the logic for a program that prompts a user for three numbers and stores them in an array. Pass the array to a method that reverses the order of the numbers. Display the reversed numbers in the main program.Exercise 6,6. Complete the following tasks: a. Design a class named Book that holds a stock number, author, title, price, and number of pages for a book. Include methods to set and get the values for each data field. Also include a displayInfo() method that displays each of the Book’s data fields with explanations. b. Design a class named Text Book that is a child class of Book. Include a new data field for the grade level of the book. Override the Book class displayInfo() method so that you accommodate the new grade- level fi eld. c. Design an application that instantiates an object of each type and demonstrates all the methods.Ch 11 Exercise 1, 2a, b Exercise 6, 171. Complete the following tasks: a. Design a class named Circle with fields named radius, area, and diameter. Include a constructor that sets the radius to 1. Include get methods for each field, but include a set method only for the radius. When the radius is set, do not allow it to be zero or a negative number. When the radius is set, calculate the diameter ( twice the radius) and the area ( the radius squared times pi, which is approximately 3.14). Create the class diagram and write the pseudocode that defines the class.2. 2. Complete the following tasks: a. Design a class named Square with fields that hold the length of a side, the length of the perimeter, and the area. Include a constructor that sets the length of a side to 1. Include get methods for each field, but include a set method only for the length of a side, and do not allow a side to be zero or negative. When the side is set, calculate the perimeter length ( four times the side length) and the area ( a side squared). Create the class diagram and write the pseudocode that defines the class.b. Design an application that declares two Squares. Set the side length of one manually, but allow the other to use the default value supplied by the constructor. Then, display each Square’s values.6. Complete the following tasks: a. Design a class named Book that holds a stock number, author, title, price, and number of pages for a book. Include methods to set and get the values for each data field. Also include a displayInfo() method that displays each of the Book’s data fields with explanations.b. Design a class named TextBook that is a child class of Book. Include a new data field for the grade level of the book. Override the Book class displayInfo() method so that you accommodate the new grade- level field.c. Design an application that instantiates an object of each type and demonstrates all the methodsCh 12 Exercises 1, 2, 4, 101. Take a critical look at three GUI applications with which you are familiar— for example, a spreadsheet, a word- processing program, and a game. Describe how well each conforms to the GUI design guidelines listed in this chapter.2.Select one element of poor GUI design in a program with which you are familiar. Describe how you would improve the design.4. Design the storyboards, interactivity diagram, object dictionary, and any necessary scripts for an interactive program for customers of Sunflower Floral Designs. Allow customers the option of choosing a fl oral arrangement ($ 25 base price), cut fl owners ($ 15 base price), or a corsage ($ 10 base price). Let the customer choose roses, daisies, chry-santhemums, or irises as the dominant flower. If the customer chooses roses, add $5 to the base price. After the customer clicks an Order Now button, display the price of the order.

Was it an internal or external project?

Find an article describing a national project in detail. On the basis of the article and on your understanding of the project, answer the questions below. State any assumptions that you feel are necessary to provide answers.Who were the stakeholders?Was it an internal or external project?What were the most important resources used in the project? Explain.What were the needs and expectations of each stakeholder?What are the alternative approaches for this project?Was the approach selected for the project the best, in your opinion? Explain.What were the risks in the project?Rank the risks according to severity.What was done or could have been done to mitigate those risks?Was the project a success? Why?Was there enough outsourcing in the project? Explain.What lessons can be learned from this project?The assignment is to answer the question provided above in essay form. This is to be in narrative form and should be as thorough as possible. Bullet points should not to be used.The paper should be at least 1.5 – 2 pages in length, Times New Roman 12-pt font, double-spaced, 1 inch margins and utilizing at least one outside scholarly or professional source related to project management. The textbook should also be utilized. Do not insert excess line spacing. APA formatting and citation should be used.

Analyze the areas that were in need of reform in American Society during the period between 1890 and 1920.

Due today•Analyze the areas that were in need of reform in American Society during the period between 1890 and 1920. Choose one specific issue to focus on.•Describe how progressives tried to resolve this issue. Were they successful? Explain why or why not.•Examine the approaches progressives took regarding American foreign policy, including the policy of Imperialism. Explain these approaches.Explain why the progressive approach to reform at home was or was not consistent with the practice of imperialism overseas.At least 250 words in length. Your post should make reference to the required materials with in-text citations. Your references and citations must be formatted according to APA style

What is the critical Chi-square value?

Randomly selected nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses are categorized according to the day of the week that they first occurred, and the results are listed below (based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics). Use a .05 significance level to test the claim that such injuries and illnesses occur with equal frequency on the different days of the week. Day | Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday _________________________________________________________ No. | 23 23 21 21 19 A) What is the critical Chi-square value? B) Calculate the test statistic. C) What is your decision/interpretation?

Should the system be built in-house, created by a contractor, purchased off-the-shelf and customized, or leased as a service? Explain your rationale.

Congratulations. Your project has been staffed and you are about to meet with the team for the first time. Initial impressions are important and you’ll need visuals for your presentation. Create a slide show (in PowerPoint or similar software) in which you address the following, in this order:1. Goals: What the project hopes to accomplish.2. Critical Success Factors: Identify at least 4 different stakeholders; for each, list at least 2 things that the stakeholder requires in order to deem the project successful.3. Acquisition strategy: Should the system be built in-house, created by a contractor, purchased off-the-shelf and customized, or leased as a service? Explain your rationale.4. Resources: For in-house development, what people/skills are required and what development lifecycle do you recommend? Otherwise, identify 3 candidate organizations that can deliver the system.5. System functions: In a table format, summarize the types of users for the system; the business reason(s) each would use the system; the ways that the system supports each of these needs; and how this support differs from the current system.6. Connectivity: Provide a diagram that shows how the system will connect to the other information systems and what data flows among them.7. Security: List the most serious cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities of the new system. Suggest strategies to address them.8. Mobility: Identify the system’s capabilities for mobile use.Include a title and summary slide. Use one slide for each of the 8 points above. Include speaker notes or audio narration that explains each slide more fully.

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:Evidence of copying from other papers or not properly citing sources could result in a score of zero.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.

Develop a regression model that can be used to predict the final average in the course based on the first test grade.

Problem 4-13Students in a management science class have just received their grades on the first test. The instructor has provided information about the first test grades in some previous classes as well as the final average for the same students. Some of those grades have been sampled and are as follows.Student 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9First test grade 98 77 88 80 96 61 66 95 69Final average 93 78 84 73 84 64 64 95 76Develop a regression model that can be used to predict the final average in the course based on the first test grade.Predict the final average of a student who made an 83 on the first test.Give the values of r and r2 for this model. Interpret the value of r2 in the context of this problem.This must be done in excel and formulas must be present.Problem 4-14Using the data in 4-13, test to see if there is a statistically significant relationship between the grade on the first test and the final average at the 0.05 level of significance. Use the formulas in this chapter and appendix D. (See end of document for Appendix D).This must be done in Excel and formulas must be present.Problem 4-15Using computer software, find the least-squares regression line for the data in problem 4-13. Based on the F-test, is there a statistically significant relationship between the first test grade and the final average in the course?This must be done in Excel and formulas must be present.Problem 4-19Bus and subway ridership in Washington DC, during the summer months is believed to be heavily tied to the number of tourists visiting the city. During the past 12 years, the following data have been obtained:Year Number of tourists Ridership(1,000,000s) (1,000,000s)1 7 152 2 103 6 134 4 155 14 256 15 277 16 248 12 209 14 2710 20 4411 15 3412 7 17Plot these data and determine whether a linear model is reasonable.Develop a regression model.What is expected ridership if 10 million tourists visit the city?This must be done in Excel and formulas must be present.

What equation is used to find the vertex form of a parabola with the vertex (h, k)?

Step 2: Solve for coefficient a.a) What equation is used to find the vertex form of a parabola with the vertex (h, k)? (5 points)b) Solve for the coefficient a in the vertex form for the parabola in Daredevil Danny’s practice jump using key aspects from step 1. As you solve for the coefficient, explain each step of the process in detail. (15 points)The picture of the question in the attached figure we know that The equation of a vertical parabola in vertex form is given by where a is the leading coefficient (h,k) is the vertex Looking at the graph we have a vertical parabola open downward (coefficient a is negative)The vertex is a maximum The vertex is the point (25.32) substitute in the equationc) What is the vertex form of the parabola from Daredevil Danny’s practice jump? (5 points)Step 3: Change from vertex form to standard form.To get Daredevil Danny through the Flaming Hoop Jump of Awesome, you will need to know the values of a, b, and c, which are the coefficients of the quadratic equation in standard form.a) What is the equation for a parabola in standard form? (5 points)b) Convert the vertex form of the equation you wrote above to the standard form. (10 points)c) What are the values for coefficients a, b, and c in the quadratic equation for Daredevil Danny’s practice jump? (5 points)

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