What is the importance of each of the six topics within your company?

Strategic Analysis

This week’s paper is required to be approximately 4 -6 pages in length, not including the title page and the reference page. No paper should be fewer than 1400 words. Double space your work, cite your work, limit quotes, and edit your work well for spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors.

After our readings over the past five weeks, you should have an understanding of the types of strategy, organizational culture, the pros and cons of different organizational structures, the elements of internal and external environments, and the types of risk a company may take. After reading the attached articles below, you then can incorporate how the strategy decisions affect the company.

Read the two articles attached about managerial economics.

Your essay will address these items:

A. Select a company from the 35 listed at the end of our text (Case Studies – pages 540-541). Do not use any company that you previously wrote about in previous classes. This must be original research. In addition to the information in your text, research this company using at least (2) outside scholarly articles. Do not use a website as a reference. Your reference source must have an author. Discuss six selected topics from our studies throughout weeks one through five. Discuss these six topics in relation to your company and discuss how the economic situation of today influences the strategic decisions your company is making. Each of the six topics discussed should be in bold print. For example, one topic you may choose may be how your company handles competition (Five Forces Framework). Another topic may be your company’s organizational structure and why they have the structure they have. You may choose to discuss your company’s strategic grouping or value chain. Choose your topics and explore them in detail throughout your paper.

Give examples using the terms and concepts in your textbook readings and your research articles.

B. What is the importance of each of the six topics within your company?

C. What is the usefulness of understanding this topic in today’s corporate structure?

D. Through what strategies does your selected company choose to excel over other strategically grouped companies. For example, what strategies does Apple choose that keeps it on top?

Paper Format (no abstract is necessary):

Title Page – Include a title page with your name, student number, title of your paper, course number & course name.

Introductory Paragraph – Include an introductory paragraph that states your company and your six topics and why you selected them.

Font and Spacing – Use Times New Roman 12 pitch font with double-spaced lines.

Length – Write a 4 to 6 page essay not including the title page and citation page. Make sure you have at least 1400 words, not including the title and reference page.

What are the key changes to the implementation of the ACA over the years?

Are the key issues of the law highlighted? Provide a rationale.
What are the key changes to the implementation of the ACA over the years?
What are some of the debates concerning the ACA? Provide scholarly research

Organizational Strategies of Adopting Health Policies
Policy adoption can be very challenging to healthcare leaders. Many organizations employ consultants to assist with the implementation of new policies. There have been significant changes to health policies over the past few years that have forced providers to institute implementation strategies, ensuring that they remain competitive and profitable. Review the “Global Medical Coverage” case (Chapter 6 ), and discuss the following questions in a minimum of 250 words:

Does Blue Ridge Paper Products’ (BRPP) policy differ from a traditional employee stock ownership plan (ESOP)? What are the implications?
Are there any ethical concerns in the case? Why? Why not?
Did the case present a buyer-dominant or a seller-dominant approach?
What important lesson(s) are learned from this case study? How would you apply this to practice?

Discuss the privacy requirements necessary for CDSS to function securely on the cloud.

Explain the homomorphic encryption process to construct a collaborative decision-support environment that preserves privacy on the cloud. 15
Discuss the privacy requirements necessary for CDSS to function securely on the cloud. What could go wrong? 15
Elaborate on the decision tree generation process. How does the cloud affect this process? 15
How does an algorithm combined with encryption train a decision tree to secure the patient information from each dataset owner? 15
How does the system calculate the information gain of each of the five attributes within the datasets? 15
How will the repetition of decryption and calculation of entropy and information gain through the cloud result in each hospital having the same single decision tree? 15
Do you agree with the conclusions of the study? Why or why not? 10

Identify two useful and insightful videos (or other resources) related to business communication.

1. Identify two useful and insightful videos (or other resources) related to business communication. You can use YouTube or other resources such as the link below.

2. Type a one to a two-paragraph summary of the topics you researched. Be sure to include why you feel these are useful and insightful resources for business communication.

3. Copy and paste the two links to the video or resource you identified at the bottom of the paragraph.

https://www.pinterest.com/explore/communication/

After reading Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle,” consider it as a story that helped create an American mythology.

After reading Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle,” consider it as a story that helped create an American mythology. Then answer the following question in the form of a short essay. Your essay should consist of at least five paragraphs: an introductory paragraph, three body paragraphs, and a concluding paragraph.
How does Irving incorporate at least three of the above characteristics into “Rip Van Winkle”? What is the impact of these characteristics on the story or on the reader’s experience of the story?

Develop a birth plan that expresses your wants for the labor and delivery process.

A birthing plan, or birth plan, is a document you develop to let your medical team know your preferences for during labor and delivery. Keep in mind that you cannot control any aspects of the labor and delivery process, and flexibility is key, but you can plan much of the process.

You are having a baby. Develop a birth plan that expresses your wants for the labor and delivery process. Many hospitals provide a checklist type plan that can be used, however you can simply write yours out.

Demonstrate college-level communication through the composition of original materials in Standard English.

Understanding different theoretical frameworks and how they can be applied to people at different ages and stages of life is important as a Human Service Professional. It is important to know how to use knowledge that you have learned and be able to relate it to the clients you are working with to help assist in developing goals, intervention and/or treatment plans.

Assignment Directions

For this Assignment, you will respond to questions related to information in Chapter 11. In your paper, you will be discussing the theories of Erikson, Peck, and Levinson and explain how these relate to understanding human behavior and environment during the life stages of young adulthood and older adulthood. Use the Unit 6 Assignment Template to complete and submit your work.

Please address the following:

Briefly define the Erikson, Peck and Levinson theory as related to young adulthood and middle adulthood.
Discuss some of the advantages and disadvantages that may occur when applying these theories to human behavior.
Give examples of how each of the 3 theories, Erikson, Peck, and Levinson, can be applied to human behavior to explain issues that occur in young adulthood and middle adulthood and the transitions between these two life stages.
Identify three professional techniques, strategies, or ideas that you can use to develop your understanding of various theories in order to better understand human behavior and assist clients in a professional relationship.

Summarize concepts and theories that you learned in the text, articles, or Internet sources.
Use others’ ideas, theories, and concepts in constructing discussion question responses or completing projects.
Use direct quotes in the context of your project (when quoting directly, you must use quotation marks).
You can also refer to the Writing with Integrity guide found under Academic Tools for additional help and resources for proper citation strategies.

This Assignment assesses the following Course Outcomes:

HN144-5: Relate theoretical frameworks to human behavior.

GEL-1.02: Demonstrate college-level communication through the composition of original materials in Standard English.