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Former FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate stated many times that emergency and disaster preparedness is the responsibility of all citizens. As FEMA Administrator, he made citizen preparedness a priority for the agency. Describe the types of things you have done to prepare for emergencies or disasters. Explain whether or not you feel you are adequately prepared for the disasters you believe you may be exposed to. If you do not feel you are as prepared as you would like to be, what would you do to make yourself adequately prepared? Where would you go to find out how to best take those actions?

Discuss the change the GM is attempting to drive with social media. Describe everything the GM does.

“Management issues involving discrimination-protected groups (LGBTQ workers) (topic chosen from list) The Healthcare system I work for became LGBTQ Healthcare Quality Leader. LGBTQ patients face significant challenges in health care. LGBTQ people are at an increased risk for certain health conditions and disorders. It is important to me as a Manager to ensure that our patients are receiving the best quality of care. That is why it is extremely important that all staff and physicians are trained to ensure that we are able to effectively care for and treat all of our patients in a respectful manner. I want every patient to feel welcome regardless of their gender identity or sexual orientation. Thankfully there are many resources and a lot of education provided that guide us with the appropriate tools needed. INSTRUCTIONS for the statement of purpose: As your project topics could warrant full books, you need to establish a clear statement of purpose to identify the scope of your research. In addition, the final report must demonstrate applied management principles vis-à-vis your topic. Create a clearly defined statement of purpose that pinpoints a situation under investigation. Post a 50- to 100-word composition that demonstrates how management theory and practice are applied in your research through a clearly established scope and statement of purpose. Be sure that your introductory paragraph is written in an inductive or deductive way that clearly articulates the purpose of the research paper and that it avoids absolutes that rarely occur in professional research. Textbook for the class: Essentials of Contemporary Management-sixth edition Gareth R. Jones & Jennifer M. George

Review the story at the link below before posting to the discussion:

Rau, J. (2015). Half of nation’s hospitals fail again to escape Medicare’s readmission penalties. Kaiser Health News. Retrieved from http://khn.org/news/half-of-nations-hospitals-fail-again-to-escape-medicares-readmission-penalties/ (Links to an external site.)

After you have finished, consider how you would respond to the following situation:

Your local hospital has received notice from CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid) regarding their readmission rates.

1. As nurse, you have been asked to serve as a consultant to suggest a new Quality (Performance) Improvement process for ONE of the areas of deficiency. Write some brief steps (suggestions) for improvement as you contemplate accepting the consulting opportunity.
2. Share practice improvements utilized from your own clinical nursing experiences that have led to enhanced patient outcomes.

You are to preparing for a challenging City Council Meeting. You need to be able to give the other council members and mayor an accurate “city of affairs” to make sure significant cuts can be made in the appropriate areas, and other critical areas can continue to be funded. Using your local cities 2015-2016 budgets, analyze the financial plan to respond to the following questions in a two- to three-page paper:

1. Based on the review of your city’s Financial Plan: What is the fastest-growing category of expenditures during the planning period? Justify the answer with examples.
2. What percentage of your city’s revenue comes from the general property tax? How much is this tax growing in each year of the financial plan? Justify the answer with examples.
3. Evaluate the existing capacity of refunding or reorganizing existing debt organizations.
4. Analyze the various funding alternatives that can be used to support debt obligations.

Look in the newspapers, magazines, and other news sources for results of a survey or poll that show the confidence interval, usually shows as a +/- some amount.  Describe the survey or poll and then describe the interval shown.  How does knowing the interval, rather than just the main result, impact your view of the results?

What is the difference between a point estimate and a confidence interval?

Research an area of Business Intelligence and Analytics of interest or is relevant in your industry. Areas can include topics identified in the textbook, such as:

• Business Intelligence and Analytics
• Foundations and Technologies for Decision Making
• Business Reporting, Visual Analytics, and Business Performance Management
• Web Analytics, Web Mining, and Social Analytics
• Model-Based Decision Making
• Automated Decision Systems and Expert Systems
• Knowledge Management and Collaborative Systems
• Big Data and Future Directions for Business
• Business Analytics: Emerging Trends and Future Impacts

The introduction establishes the scope, context, and significance of the research topic by summarizing an understanding and background about the topic. State the purpose of the work in the form of the research problem.

Identify several sub-topics. For example: if the topic is Web Analytics, Web Mining, or Social Analytics, a few of the sub-topics might be Search Engines, Web Crawler, or Document Indexing. Discuss how your organization utilizes Web Analytics to help improve organizational communication and productivity.

1) Sequential pattern mining is a topic of data mining concerned with finding statistically relevant patterns between data examples where the values are delivered in a sequence. Discuss what is sequential data? What is sequential pattern mining? Explain difference between classification and clustering in data mining.

2) Consider the mean of a cluster of objects from a binary transaction data set. What are the minimum and maximum values of the components of the mean? What is the interpretation of components of the cluster mean? Which components most accurately characterize the objects in the cluster?

Consumer needs and wants are what drive marketers to succeed in selling their products or services through a variety of methods. Describe the process from consumer need through purchase behavior. Then, discuss how each of the following items impacts the process of decision-making. For each item, support your discussion with a personal example of purchasing a product or service.

• The type of decision in the decision-making process (i.e., high involvement versus low involvement)
• Motivation and values
• The power of attitudes
• The type of message
• Issues related to purchase and post-purchase activities
• The family and culture

Part 2, Cultures and Marketing: Our behavior as consumers is dramatically influenced by our culture. Refer back to the Marketing Pitfalls section 14.6 (Chapter 14).

• Find a similar example of an unsuccessful market entry by a global product and provide the details in your paper.
• Describe the reason why it was a failure as related to consumer behavior, culture, and/or subculture.
• Explain how you would more effectively market the global product in that country.

The Final Project Paper:

• Must be eight to ten double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s APA Style resource (Links to an external site.).
• Must include a separate title page with the following:
  • Title of paper
  • Student’s name
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Date submitted
• Must use at least four scholarly sources in addition to the course text.
• The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
• Must document any information used from sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s Citing Within Your Paper guide (Links to an external site.).
• Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. See the Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.) resource in the Ashford Writing Center for specifications.