Watch the Frontline Video “The Plea” (link above) and discuss the ethical issues related to the Prosecutor, Defense attorney, and Judges involved in this process. You will share your thoughts, discuss issues identified in the text and class discussions and express concerns or opinions about what happened and how or why changes may need to occur. I am functionally empowering you to be an agent of change by expressing how to change the system if you believe it needs doing.
When Walmart decided to incorporate grocery stores into some locations and created “supercenters,” was this a business-level of differentiation or a corporate strategy of diversification? Explain your answer. In your opinion, was this a wise move, or not? Why?
For your Unit 3 assignment, please write a paper that argues either for or against government intervention in foreign trade. Describe both the benefits and the problems that can occur when governments interfere with foreign trade, describing the different barriers that governments can impose and also the steps they sometimes take to encourage international trade.
Write an essay describing the case and the how digital forensics were used in the investigation.
Steve Smith is a restaurant owner who wants to spend his $10,000 to modernize his restaurant by adapting it more closely to the preferences of his repeat customers. Keeping track of his customers’ likes and dislikes. Information such as where they like to sit, what they like to eat, when they normally arrive at the restaurant are all items of interest to him, since he believes that in this way he can better serve his customers. Steve has asked you to develop a system for him that will help make his customers happy while increasing his business.
A. Please label each question as either closed question or open-ended question.1. How many personal computers do you have in this department? 2. How is this task performed? 3. Why do you perform the task that way? 4. How many hours of training does a clerk receive? 5. How many customers ordered products from the Web site last month? 6. What are users saying about the new system? 7. How are the checks reconciled? 8. What added features would you like to have in the newbilling system? 9. Is the calculation procedure described in the manual? 10. Is there anything else you can tell me about this topic?
B. You are going to interview the local manager of LDI, a national tire retailer, who has asked you to work as a system analyst on a management information system to provide inventory information. (45pts…15pts. per pyramid, funnel & diamond shape)
Here are five questions you wrote to prepare for the meeting:
1. What are the five physical strengths and five limitations of the end users with respect to performing the national retail inventory processing on a daily basis?2. What are the top ten high-level needs to make the new inventory system user-friendly, accurate, reliable, and secure?3. Do you have year-to-date demand and supply metrics that were gathered in the last three months?4. How often do you update your tire inventories?5. How many retail stores do you currently have that carry your tire inventory?
List each above listed question in the proper sequence
(1) pyramid structure
(2) funnel structure, and
(3) diamond-shaped structure
C.You are a project manager at L & D Inc., specialized in information technology and network engineering. One of your junior systems analyst came to you for an advice of a technology to capture user information requirements. He described to you that he had talked with his client several times in the past week to define user information requirements. Each time he thought he had captured user information requirements, they’ve already changed. Finally, he thinks his clients do not even know what they want for their system.
Give your junior systems analyst an advice of several types of technology that he could use to capture user information requirements and explain to him how this technology can help him to better define users’ information requirements.
Problem III-
1. What are six fact finding techniques and what are the advantages and disadvantages of each?2. What are the types of facts a systems analyst is required to collect?3. What is a fact-find strategy that will make the most of your time with end-users?4. How do you develop an interview agenda and a questionnaire?5. What is the role of ethics in the process of fact finding?
Problem IV –
Perfect Pizza wants to install a system to recordorders for pizza and chicken wings. When regular customers call Perfect Pizza on the phone, they are asked their phone number. When the number is typed into a computer, the name, address, and last order date is automatically brought up on the screen. Oncethe order is taken, the total, including tax and delivery, is calculated. Then the order is given to the cook. A receipt is printed. Occasionally, special offers (coupons) are printed so the customer can get a discount. Drivers who make deliveries give customers a copy of the receipt and a coupon (if any). Weekly totals are kept for comparison with last year’s performance. A summary of business activities for taking an order at Perfect Pizza is as follows:
1. Draw a context-level data flow diagram for Perfect Pizza using the following items. Explode the above context-level diagram by drawing the logical data flow diagram 0 showing all the major processes using the following items:
Process names:
(1) Find and display customer record
(2) Take customer order
(3) Send order to cook
(4) Print customer receipt
(5) Deliver customer order
(6) Print weekly totals
Data stores:
(1) Customer master
(2) Product file
(3) Coupons
(4) Sale history
Entities:
(1) Customer
(2) Management
(3) Cook
Problem V: (50 points)
In the following proposed DFD design, there are some typical errors among external entities (E), processes (P) and data stores (DS).
1. Identify and explain errors in the above design.
2. Propose design modifications.
Read the article entitled “We Have a Lot of Confidence in Africa: Fasken Martineau Managing Partner.” Based on the information presented in the article, discuss the following: * What are the possible import and export challenges faced when establishing a new company in a foreign market? * What are some strategies for building international business relationships while complying with varying business laws and regulations? Please see attached the link for the article as well as the weekly lecture with some other links that could be useful to respond the two questions ask.
Critically discuss the trend of in-house advertising agencies versus independent agencies. Discuss the reasons behind the trends and what are the pros and cons of the two for the advertising industry.
Write a discussion questions below: A quadratic programming model is an optimization model with n decision variables and m linear constraints, and of the form:
where x is the n by 1 column vector of decision variables and xT is its transpose, Q is an n by n symmetric matrix of objective parameters, C is an n by 1 vector of additional objective parameters, A is an m by n matrix of constraints parameters, and b is a m by 1 vector of constraints right hand side.
In your two replies to classmates describe instances, scenarios and conditions under which their quadratic programming model example may not have (i) a feasible solution; (ii) a unique solution.
1) When we analyze the unemployment rate, which three categories of unemployment can we use for a more detailed picture of unemployment? How do these three differ? (3) 2) What is a ‘recession’? (1) 3) Define the term GDP and explain your definition (i.e., what are the components of your definition and what do they mean?). (4) 4) Name two different kinds of transactions in an economy that are not considered part of GDP. Why are these transactions excluded from measuring GDP? (3) 5) What is the difference between GDP and GNP? (1) 6) If we want to assess changes in economic activity, why do we use changes in real GDP for finding an answer, instead of changes in nominal GDP? (2) 7) Assume the following values: Marginal Propensity to Consume (MPC) b = 0.75; Autonomous Consumption a = 300; Investment Spending I = 600. There is no government spending at this point. a) For a consumption function C = a + bY, what is the equilibrium value for income Y here? (1) b) What is the value of Y if Investment Spending increases to 750? (0.5) c) If you add the government sector, with expenditure G = 250, what is the new equilibrium income? (For I = 750) (0.5) 8) What happens when the Marginal Propensity to Save (MPS) is reduced? How does equilibrium output change? (2) 9) What constitutes a ‘business cycle’? (Through which phases does an economy pass in the course of one cycle?) (2) 10) Compare the three multipliers that we have looked at for fiscal policy. (Which are those? How do they differ?) (3) 11) Money creation in modern banking systems: a) Describe the process of the creation of money in the banking system in general terms. (2) b) Then, work through the following numerical example: 200,- $US are newly deposited at Bank A, the only bank in country A. The reserve requirement ratio is 20%. Give the first three iterations in the process that multiplies money in the banking system. (3) c) If the process plays out all the way, what is the eventual amount of money in deposits at bank A following the initial 200,- deposit? (1) 12) Explain how different approaches to government deficits can stabilize or destabilize economies. (2)
The purpose of this assignment is to learn how to identify and effectively manage conflicts that arise in care delivery settings resulting in better management of patient care, including appropriate delegation. You will gain insight into conflict management strategies and develop a plan to collaborate with a potential nurse leader about the conflict and its impact in a practice setting.
Course Outcomes
Completion of this assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes.
CO1: Apply leadership concepts, skills, and decision making in the provision of high-quality nursing care, healthcare team management, and the oversight and accountability for care delivery in a variety of settings. (PO2)
CO3: Participate in the development and implementation of imaginative and creative strategies to enable systems to change. (PO7)
CO6: Develop a personal awareness of complex organizational systems, and integrate values and beliefs with organizational mission. (PO7)
CO7: Apply leadership concepts in the development and initiation of effective plans for the microsystems and system-wide practice improvements that will improve the quality of healthcare delivery. (PO2 and PO3)
