What are the most significant internal risks to the company’s financial performance? Give evidence to support your response.

You must research and assess the company’s strategic priorities and behavior. You should investigate internal risks and nonmonetary factors that may affect current and future performance and decisions. Specifically, you must address the following critical elements from section III of the final project: III. Success Factors and Risks: Use this section to discuss the factors that may affect current and future performance. Specifically: A. How do the organization’s financial and strategic priorities affect accounting procedures and business decisions? How might that affect business success? For example, is management growth-oriented or efficiency-oriented? What is the organization’s approach to risk and short- versus long-term planning horizons? B. How might the organization better capitalize on nonfinancial factors such as market share, reputation, human resources, physical facilities, or patents? Support your response with relevant research and analysis. C. What are the most significant internal risks to the company’s financial performance? Give evidence to support your response. For example, is the company vulnerable to technological changes or cyberattacks? Loss of high-talent personnel? Productiondisruptions?

 

Discuss how do government and chance support the competitive advantage of the organization?

First, review the module resources, especially the Michael Porter article The Competitive Advantage of Nations, and then examine and answer the following questions based on your chosen organization for the final project:  Factor Endowments: How is your organization impacted by factor endowments? In other words, does your organization have a competitive edge based on such things as land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship that can be exploited for production?  Demand Conditions: How is your organization impacted by demand conditions? In other words, how is your company developed compared to other competitors?  Related and Supporting Industries: Are the related and supporting industries located close to your organization in order to create a competitive edge?  Strategy, Structure, and Rivalry: Is the organization’s strategy, structure, and rivalry providing the company with competitive advantage?  Government and Chance: How do government and chance support the competitive advantage of the organization?

 

Describe the pathophysiological mechanisms of chronic asthma and acute asthma exacerbation.

Write a 2- to 3-page paper that addresses the following: • Describe the pathophysiological mechanisms of chronic asthma and acute asthma exacerbation. Be sure to explain the changes in the arterial blood gas patterns during an exacerbation. • Explain how the factor you selected might impact the pathophysiology of both disorders. Describe how you would diagnose and prescribe treatment for a patient based on the factor you selected. • Construct two mind maps—one for chronic asthma and one for acute asthma exacerbation. Include the epidemiology, pathophysiology, and clinical presentation, as well as the diagnosis and treatment you explained in your paper.

 

Describe the purpose of a program evaluation in evidence-based practice. How does it support the profession?

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed in your paper:
I. Purpose of the Program Evaluation: Describe the purpose of a program evaluation in evidence-based practice. How does it support the profession?
II. Introduction to the Case Study: Considering the provided data set, address the goal of this program evaluation.
III.Review Summary of the Data
A. Identify what kind of data is being used. Is the proposed evaluation qualitative or quantitative in nature?
B. Determine if the design reflects an ethically and culturally competent evaluation. Is the data representative of the culture of the population being evaluated?
C. Identify the patterns or trends. What does the data tell you?
IV.Summary A.Describe the results of the evaluation.B.Determine if the program is effective. Why or why not?C.Identify a future improvement for the clinical program that is being evaluated.

Write a paper that explains what the issue is, why it is important in your community context, and why it is important to the early childhood field.

Consider the issues in your own community that present challenges for children and families. Poverty, access to health care, affordable housing, and access to multilingual resources are just a few examples of issues that affect children and families. As an early childhood professional, you have the responsibility to communicate and collaborate with agencies and government officials to advocate for change that can positively impact children and families.
For this Work Product, you will identify an advocacy issue relevant to your community and communicate and collaborate with agencies and/or organizations, along with government officials, to address the advocacy issue

Part 1 Advocacy Begins with Communication and Collaboration

Identify an advocacy issue related to children and families in your community, and write a two-page paper that does the following:
• Explains what the issue is, why it is important in your community context, and why it is important to the early childhood field.
• Selects an agency and/or organization that you will collaborate with to help you address the advocacy issue you identified.
• Describes the mission of the agency and/or organization, and explains why you want to collaborate with this specific agency

Part 2 Communicating and Collaborating with Agencies
Using the agency you identified in Part I, write a two-page letter to the advocacy agency. Your letter should include:
• An explanation of the issue(s) for which you are advocating, and why the issue is important in the context of the early childhood field. Use data and/or information from the professional knowledge base to support your explanation.
• An explanation of why you want to partner with this agency on the issue(s). Your explanation should compel the agency to want to partner with you on the issue.
• An explanation of how you envision the partnership working, including a specific suggestion regarding how you want the organization to support your advocacy effort.

Part 3 Communicating and Collaborating with Government Officials
Using the same advocacy issue you identified in Part I, write a two-page letter to a government official in your local, state, or federal government. Your letter should include:
• An explanation of the issue for which you are advocating, and why the issue is important in the context of the early childhood field. Use data and/or information from the professional knowledge base to support your explanation.
• A description of the agency with whom you will partner, and how that partnership will assist in the work regarding the advocacy issue.
• A request of the government official, explaining exactly what he or she can do to support the advocacy effort.

Keiff, J. (2009). Informed advocacy in early childhood care and education: Making a difference for young children and families. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education.
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National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). (n.d.). Effective advocacy resources. Retrieved from http://www.naeyc.org/policy/advocacy

Community Tool Box. (2013). Toolkits. Retrieved from http://ctb.ku.edu/en/toolkits

Flottman, R., McKernan, A., & Tayler, C. (2011). Department of Education and Early Childhood Development: Practice principal 2: Partnerships with professionals. Retrieved from http://www.education.vic.gov.au/Documents/childhood/providers/edcare/pracpartner.pdf