describe how these tools could be used to develop policy for optimizing bus and local train schedules to minimize energy use and passenger wait
times in a SmartCityenvironment
Ccomparative analysis of various tools
Ccomparative analysis of various tools
Chapter 7 presents a comparative analysis of various tools useful in policy making. Select two tools described in chapter 7 from different categories, and describe how these tools could be used to develop policy for optimizing bus and local train schedules to minimize energy use and passenger wait
times in a SmartCityenvironment.
Text book link : https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ixEZKd8tpL6IRTp7j1h_-9fQ5dlaYrn7
Text book link : https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ixEZKd8tpL6IRTp7j1h_-9fQ5dlaYrn7
Describe the HSO you selected and explain which Baldrige criteria you will use to evaluate the HSO
Performance excellence in an HSO discusion
What does it mean to achieve performance excellence in an HSO? What types of leadership approaches and strategies might health care administrators adopt in order to propel their HSO toward performance excellence?
The Baldrige Program seeks to improve the performance of U.S. organizations with a supreme customer focus. To that end, the Baldrige Program recognizes those institutions and organizations that demonstrate enhanced competitiveness and adopt commitment to quality and enhanced performance while delivering practices that are best in class. Within the context of HSOs, achieving performance excellence as defined by the Baldrige Program indicates an organization has successfully implemented
strategies aimed at delivering effective health care in the marketplace and high-quality, successful business practices for sustainable success.
For this Assignment, review the Learning Resources for this week and examine the Baldrige criteria for HSOs. Then, select your HSO or an HSO with which you are familiar. Consider how you as a current or future health care administrator might apply the Baldrige criteria and framework to the HSO you
selected.
The Assignment (46 pages):
Describe the HSO you selected and explain which Baldrige criteria you will use to evaluate the HSO.
Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of your HSO according to your selected Baldrige criteria. Be specific and provide examples.
Explain what steps are needed for the HSO to qualify for Baldrige recognition. Be sure to include how you would implement these steps and why these steps are important for meeting the Baldrige standards.
Describe what challenges you would expect to encounter when preparing the HSO for Baldrige
recognition, and explain why you would expect these challenges.
Explain what action steps you would recommend
What innovation theory and/or framework of analysis best explains Nestles approach to innovation and the historical development of Nespresso?
Innovation Case Study Project Instructions
Overview
This assignment consists of two parts. Part 1 consists of a series of innovation-related questions applied to the Nespresso case. Where applicable, please detail and answer each question using the major innovation concepts and/or tools that we worked with throughout this course. Part 2 requires you to conduct a traditional business case analysis leading to your well-reasoned, professional recommendation as to what NCS must do to reach its growth targets.
Part 1: Innovation-Related Questions
1. What innovation theory and/or framework of analysis best explains Nestles approach to innovation and the historical development of Nespresso?
2. What made Nespresso and NCS innovative? Be sure to consider and address this innovation relative to the product, industry, market, and Nestle.
3. Describe and explain the nature of the Nestle business model relative to Nespresso. Was/is this the best choice for Nestle to create and capture value with Nespresso? Please explain and justify your opinion.
4. Describe and explain Nestles efforts to create a climate of innovation at the company and in support of the Nespresso product. Please be sure to address the important issues of culture, leadership, and company organization (especially organization efforts relative to Nespresso).
5. Apply Keeleys Ten Type innovation analysis to this case. Identify and describe the type(s) that you believe best explains Nestles innovation efforts relative to Nespresso. If applicable, identify and describe a Keeley innovation play at work in this case (see Keeley, Chapter 20). If no Keeley innovation
play example readily applies to this case, then develop and explain an innovation play (using Keeleys model) that best explains this Nespresso case.
6. What lessons could be learned about innovation and renovation from the Nespresso story?
Part 2: Traditional Case Analysis & Business Recommendation
Please provide a written analysis of the Nespresso case according to the following outline and guidelines:
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1. Problem case question: What must NCS do now to reach its ambitious growth targets?
2. Introduction (no more than one page): basic facts regarding the company and the product
3. Explanation and summary of the current situation (no more than two pages)
A clearly defined problem supported by the facts and an identification of all the major issues that may relate to any of the following: Nestle, strategy, customers, marketing, industry, competition, and other
4. Development and explanation of three feasible solutions to the problem (no more than three pages) What could be done? Be sure to identify and explain potential challenges, benefits, limitations, and likelihood of success for each solution.
5. Your professional recommendation (no more than two pages)
What course of action? Why? Provide a persuasive argument for your chosen option. Be sure to detail the potential challenges, limitations, and expected benefits from pursuing your recommended solution.
Identify and describe the steps necessary to implement this solution identify and define the activities that must be performed
Be sure to address any/all the major functional areas impacted by your solutions (i.e., management, sales, marketing, operations, HR, etc.)
What are your expected outcomes and expectations regarding likelihood of success?
Describe the immediate and long-term consequences of this diagnosis if the “tentative” diagnosis is incorrect.
Topic: Social Work – Diagnostic Labels as Powerful Communications
Examine the DSM-5 and the Paris (2015) and Lasalvia (2015) readings, paying particular attention to
the DSM-5’s complex yet precise description of a mental disorder and the concept of dimensionality.
Also, keep in mind that the diagnosis of a mental disorder includes several caveats and
recommendations for distinguishing the boundary between normal distress and a mental disorder.
Then, read the attached case study of Ms. Evans and write a response outlining how a social worker
should approach the diagnosis. Consider the following questions as you conduct your analysis:
• Identify symptoms or “red flags” in the case study that may indicate the possibility of a mental health
disorder.
• Should the social worker have discussed this possible diagnosis with Ms. Evans at this time, based
on the limited assessment?
• Describe the immediate and long-term consequences of this diagnosis if the “tentative” diagnosis is
incorrect.
• When would you diagnose a disorder as other specified or unspecified?
Highlight how your selected organisations culture and structures are having an impact on continued success or potential failure in today’s competitive marketplace.
Question:
Three integrated elements compromise the heart of every organisation and its culture, its primary purpose, its desired future and its core beliefs about itself an others.
1. Mission/primary purpose
2. Vision/desired future
3. Core beliefs
Discuss these three elements through an organisation scenario of your choice and through the use of cultural models and principles, highlight how your selected organisations culture and structures are having an impact on continued success or potential failure in today’s competitive marketplace.
Write a business report to recommend two to three specific action steps of strategies for the chosen audience.
Write a business report of a maximum of 1,500 words to recommend two to three specific action steps of strategies for the chosen audience. These actions must be based on the findings out of a regression analysis. Those findings need to be explained throughout the paper. The paper must draw from other sources – scholarly academic or business publications- either constraining or reinforcing the arguments. The paper must also include limitations of risks section that outlines which elements were left out of the regression analysis, or which wrongful conclusions could be derived from it. include a suggestion on how a different study/approach- what data or control experimentation is missing -could lead to a more final conclusive result.
At first he said- students will source their own data either by option1 )working with their own dataset of interest from their current/past job/business, or 2) by using existing publicly available data. students are welcomed to run by the instructor their proposed dataset prior to engaging in this endeavor.
Evaluate population behaviour as it impacts on the prioritisation of ambulance deployment.
Population Health
This essay guidance has been designed for you to be able to achieve the learning outcomes you will be assessed against as below:
1. Analyse models of health and illness and critically discuss the impact of social, cultural, psychological, economic and lifestyle factors on the mental and physical health of populations and individuals.
2. Examine the complex role that paramedics play in a multi-agency approach to safeguarding, the prevention of ill health and the promotion of physical and mental wellbeing.
3. Evaluate the opportunities to provide health advice to service users and their families and integrate these in to care and treatment selecting appropriate approaches to modifying health behaviour and providing signposting to other agencies where appropriate.
4. Evaluate population behaviour as it impacts on the prioritisation of ambulance deployment.
The essay will demonstrate your ability to critically evaluate the literature (including books) in line with JRCALC-informed practice within a policy context, including:
• London Ambulance Service Strategic Intent (Session 5 Learning Materials)
• Ambulance Response Programme (Session 5 Learning Materials)
• Carter Report (Session 1 Learning Materials)
• NHS Long Term Plan -https://www.longtermplan.nhs.uk/publication/nhs-long-term-plan/).
You have up to 4000 words for this essay excluding the reference list.
Essay Plan
Introduction (approx. 100 words)
• What is this assignment going to cover?
• Remember to inform the reader of what to expect. You are trying to entice the reader into wanting to read more.
Models of Health and Illness and the Role of the Paramedic (LO1, LO2) (approx. 950 words)
• Define health. You should start with the World Health Organisation (1946) definition of health. Does this definition still hold up today? What has changed?
• What is the paramedic role in safeguarding, preventing ill health and promotion of physical and mental wellbeing? You could look at how the profession emerged since the 1970s and before ‘lift and shift’ to now, a regulated profession, especially look at professionalism literature.
• Try and find a definition on episodic care and explore what this means in patient care from both an individual and population level, through the three models of health (biomedical, biopsychosocial and public health).
• Evaluate each of the models of health in terms of:
o The advantages or disadvantage of each.
o What does the literature say for each? Comparing and contrasting between the literature.
o How can each model support or limit paramedic practice?
• You may want to finish off and summarise this section by discussing sociological explanations for illness including the factors that affect people’s sense of wellbeing.
Assessing your Local Authority Health Profile (Havering)
(LO1, LO3) (approx. 1500 words)
• Define what a health profile is. Why do we need to understand the needs of a community? Briefly describe the area you have chosen and rationale. You can find your chosen Local Authority Health Profile here: https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/health-profiles
• You may want to start off this section with the demographic make-up, what has changed over the last few years (or more)?
• Outline the indicators you have chosen with a small rationale for why you have chosen the indicators. You may want to elaborate on why they are important public health issues in ambulance practice using the literature to support you.
• Start a new paragraph per indicator.
o What is the indicator measuring? Is the indicator better or worst then England’s average?
o Who does the indicator mostly affect in the population i.e. the demography?
o How does this indicator interact with your health profile’s demography? Remember to critically discuss the impact of social, cultural, psychological, economic and lifestyle factors involved in each indicator. You will not be able to cover all aspects but what are the important factors. You may want to look at Dhalgren and Whitehead’s (1991) model of determinants of health to help you conceptualise this (Session 7).
o Links on Dhalgren and Whitehead’s model: https://esrc.ukri.org/about-us/50-years-of-esrc/50-achievements/the-dahlgren-whitehead-rainbow/ and https://jech.bmj.com/content/jech/64/4/284.full.pdf – however there are tons of literature on this!
o How could this indicator be measured in paramedic practice? What are the limitations of measuring this indicator on both individual and population levels?
o What are the consequences of the indicator or what is the indicator a consequence of i.e. the epidemiology? What diseases, disorders or disabilities emerge as consequences?
• What wider data is available to support your indicator? You may want to look at other epidemiological data in the literature.
o For example, if you chose to look at Indicator 4: Mortality rate from all cardiovascular diseases, you may want to look at data available from NICOR on myocardial ischaemia: https://www.nicor.org.uk/national-cardiac-audit-programme/myocardial-ischaemia-minap-heart-attack-audit/ .
o Another example, If you chose to look at Indicator 24: Deprivation Score (IMD 2015), you may want to look at data available from Trust for London: https://www.trustforlondon.org.uk/data/
Paramedic opportunities to provide health advice including recognising and modifying health behaviour and signposting (LO3) (700 words)
• Drawing on what you have discussed so far in your essay, in the first two parts, think about the opportunities you will have in practice pertinent to your three indicators.
• What health behaviours are associated with your indicators? How can they be recognised?
• Can these be explained through the role of stress and coping?
• Can these be explained through theories of health promotion / behaviour change?
• Can these be explained through the role of individual genetics?
• What health promotion / behavioural change interventions can be used in paramedic episodic care to address / modify behaviours.
• Who else might need to be involved? Other professionals?
Ambulance Deployment Policy (LO4) (450 words)
• Discuss the policy on ambulance deployment i.e. Ambulance Response Programme and Carter Report in relation to the first three parts of your essay.
• How do your indicators impact on the prioritisation of ambulance deployment?
• You will not be able to cover everything mentioned in the policies but what do you feel are the most important points within this? How do these policies influence paramedic practice?
Conclusion (300 words)
• What did the essay cover?
• What were your main findings or overarching themes?
• What is the future role of the paramedic? You should relate this to the HCPC (2014) Standards of Proficiency for Paramedics
Please see Module Study Guide for advice on referencing.
Consult published criticism through JSTOR and construct a paragraph of literary research and analysis that presents observations and evidence in a PIPE format
PIPE Paragraph Analysis
Consult published criticism through JSTOR and construct a paragraph of literary research and analysis that presents observations and evidence in a PIPE format. A PIPE paragraph uses research to develop an analytical position, enabling you to assume the central voice in your paragraph and develop your ideas with reference to published criticism. Post your paragraph to a relevant passage in CommentPress as you normally would, and include a citation for your secondary source or sources (at least one) in correct MLA format.
P = POINT The point is made at the outset of your paragraph. It consists of your own claim or observation in your own words. The P may be only a single sentence, or more if the complexity of your point requires considerable explanation.
I = INFORMATION This part of the paragraph provides information about the point. It may be a definition, a theory, an example, a summary, or some other detail which supports or clarifies the POINT. If the I is common knowledge or your own account of the information, it is not documented. If the I is borrowed, it must be documented.
P = PROOFS This part of the paragraph offers research support for the point. It is drawn from secondary sources to demonstrate the accuracy of your position. The Pr must be documented whether you use a paraphrase of an authority’s views, a direct quotation, or combination thereof.
E = EXPANSION The concluding portion of PIPE explains, clarifies, emphasizes, or otherwise addresses the relationships presented in the paragraph. E is never documented because it is your explanation of the evidence offered.
Discuss developments in residential care policy in the UK
1. Demonstrate the knowledge and understanding of health and social care challenges of an ageing society and relevant policy.
2. Demonstrate the skills and abilities associated with critically analysis of the research evidence and the assessment of the impact of health and social care reforms on user experience. individual report (2,000 words).
Task:
Students are expected to discuss developments in long-term care policy in the country of student’s choice, identify major issues and challenges related to the long-term care provision and make suggestions for improvement based on their findings.
• In order to answer the question, you are required to:
– Discuss developments in residential care policy in the UK
– Identify challenges related to the provision of the type of care.
– Make suggestions for improvement to overcome the challenges identified
• Identify key health and social care challenges of an ageing society in a country of the student’s choice.
• Explore the development of health and social care policy in a country of the student’s choice and study how they addressed the challenges.
• Critically evaluate recent health and social care reforms in a country of the student’s choice and make suggestions for improvement.
Think about how you can produce high quality work that meets the key assignment requirements and complete this section yourself,
critical understanding of key health and social care reforms and key challenges surrounding the longterm care provision in individual countries, making use of the skills relating to critical policy analysis and evaluation.
• You must use a minimum of 8 academic sources (i.e., only peer-reviewed journal articles are counted as academic sources). You are encouraged to carry out wider reading.
• Ensure that you include your in-text references. In all cases, in-text citations must match up with what appears in your reference list. Every in-text citation should correspond to a reference on the list at the end (and vice versa).
• You must use the Harvard referencing system. The University officially advises students to use the following website for referencing guidelines: https://www.citethemrightonline.com/
• For every issue/challenge you identified, there must be a matching solution/suggestion for improvement. The suggestions can be made based on your own ideas OR ideas from the academic sources (you must reference if the ideas are not yours).
• No more than 5% of your work should be in the form of quotes.
• You must write in your own words. You are reminded that plagiarism of any type will be penalised and result in a fail.
• The assignment structure and suggested word length is as follows:
• Introduction and background (about the country and the type of care chosen) – approx. 200 words
• Developments in policy (in community care OR in residential care) – 800 words
• Issues/challenges (with the chosen type of care provision): 600 words
• Suggestions to overcome challenges – 250 words
• Conclusions – 150 words
REMINDEER
DISCUSS
Residential care in the, UK
Developments in long-term care policy
identify major issues and challenges related to the long-term care provision
make suggestions for improvement based on findings.
Describe the planning (P) method to enter the Toronto market based on their core competency and what should be their competitive strategy if they wish to enter this market?
Please note that this Case and your analysis of it assumes that we are in September, 2016.
You are a world-renowned Independent Management Consultant with several decades of experience providing management consulting to organizations across North America. You have just been hired by Managed by Q’s Co-Founders Dan Teran and Allen Erickson. They have called you and provided you with the information described in the case Managed by Q (Ton &
Reavis, 2016).
The Co-Founders are thinking of expanding into Canada and so they need your management advice on:
• Describe the planning (P) method to enter the Toronto market based on their core competency and what should be their competitive strategy if they wish to enter this market? Describe a decision-making process by using a decision matrix with alternatives and decision criteria to enter the Canadian market. (10 marks)
• Consider their current organizational (O) structure. Argue why the sub-contractor model is more appropriate for the Canadian market. Review their recruitment strategy as described in the case and explain how to adjust this recruitment process to account for the Ontario Human Rights Code (use the current code as described in this course and current to today even though it is not the same as the 2016 code).
• What leadership (L) style should their local management in Toronto use, describe why that would be appropriate and how would it be different from the current leadership style (hint- what is the current leadership style)? What specific motivational tool should be used that is not already described in the case?
• They both believe that decentralized controls are good for Managed by Q but they have heard about Simons’ (1994) management control (C) systems and wonder if they can be applied to strategic planning at Q’s Canadian operations and if so, how? They are also concerned about the bottom line and would like you to take a quick look as to their budgetary control (C) and assumptions to see if their projected gross margin projections over 5 years give them sufficient margins to expand into Canada (see appendix 7) – what
do you suggest that Q does to improve their financial performance and generate more cash?
Take the role and point of view of a consultant; make sure that you use content from Robbins et al. (2021), the case study (Ton & Reavis, 2016) and Simons (1994) and that you cite your evidence (including page number as ‘p.’ or Chapter/Section number if it’s from Robbins et al. (2021)).
Read the questions carefully, answer every element of the questions and support your answers with factual or conceptual support from the appropriate site in the textbook, from the course website, the assigned readings or the case.
This final exam requires you to do critical reflection and to use terminology and content as described in the course.
The structure should be essay type with a title page, a brief Introduction followed by subtitles for each of the four sections of Planning, Organizing, Leading and Controlling and a brief Conclusion.
