Propose three strategies that you can increase creativity and innovation in a health care organization.

Cost, quality, and access to care have been Americans’ main concerns when it comes to health care. Disruptions (i.e., staffing shortages, operations, managed care contracts, and technology) to the conventional way of operating in health care may create an opportunity for simultaneous improvements in cost, quality, and access.

Propose three strategies that you can increase creativity and innovation in a health care organization.
Explain how these three strategies can help the health care organization to achieve Triple Aim: 1) enhancing the experience of care, 2) improving the health of populations, and 3) lowering per capita costs of health care.
The Cost and Quality in Health Care

Write a 2 page essay on the history of your particular genre and explain why you choose to indulge in this particular genre.

Think about what genre of music that you enjoy. Write a 2 page essay on the history of your particular genre and explain why you choose to indulge in this particular genre.

Make sure to highlight

How this genre effects your mood? Great messages in great songs and fun to dance too. Always puts me in a great mood.

Favorite artist? Lady Gaga
Is it a positive message in the song? Born this way has a positive message of inclusivity of all human beings.
Please reference book chapter for uploaded as a word document – Media and Culture 4 Sound Recording and popular music. MLA format, use Times New Roman or Arial 12 font size, double space.

Why are operations plans and organizational budgets so closely linked?

Assignment 1: Discussion Assignment
The discussion assignment provides a forum for discussing relevant topics for this week based on the course competencies covered.

For this assignment, make sure you post your initial response to the Discussion Area by the due date assigned.

To support your work, use your course and text readings and also use outside sources. As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA

Start reviewing and responding to the postings of your classmates as early in the week as possible. Respond to at least two of your classmates. Participate in the discussion by asking a question, clarification, providing a point of view with a rationale, challenging an aspect of the discussion, or indicating a relationship between two or more lines of reasoning in the discussion. Complete by the end of the week.

Budgeting and Financial Management

Part 1

There is a mounting public awareness and focus on issues of financial accountability and control across the country today. The public is demanding businesses, government agencies, public health organizations to adhere to and high standards of integrity, accountability, and financial control.

Respond to the following questions in relation to financial management and budgeting:

In your opinion, should the same standards and expectations of financial accountability and control of private or for-profit corporations and businesses be placed on public health
What value, if any, do financial management and budgeting have for accountability and control of public health organizations?
Most marketing business professionals would agree that effective marketing messages should be clear, consistent, and compelling.

Consider the following statement:

All county health departments should use identical marketing strategies to market public health services.

Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Justify your responses with scholarly references and appropriate examples.

Part 2

Operations plans and organizational budgets are vital for organizations to meet their goals and objectives. Operations plans and budgets are closely intertwined and interdependent. Cross-to plan, develop, and monitor the operations plans and organizational budget documents.

Respond to the following discussion points in relation to organizational budgets:

Why are operations plans and organizational budgets so closely linked?
Recommend strategies for cross communication at the planning, development, or monitoring phases of operations planning and budgeting.
Rubrics

Explore the ethical dimensions and dilemmas associated with “Hacking”, and reflect on how your experiences have shaped your perspective.

Research security-related matters affecting the common good and write a 500-750 word document reflecting “Hacking” and the impact current technologies and practices have on society’s ability to justly and humanely address associated concerns.

You must use APA style to include cover sheet, abstract, text, and references. You must cite at least three sources, with a minimum of two from refereed or edited publications.

Explore the ethical dimensions and dilemmas associated with “Hacking”, and reflect on how your experiences have shaped your perspective.

Discuss why hacking is criminal behavior.

In a Word Document, type answers to the following questions:

Define Hacking.
Research a news-related article online that details a hacking crime committed within the last two years. Write the URL (website link) to your article and summarize the article in ten (10) sentences or more.
Discuss why hacking is criminal behavior.
Discuss how the activity of hacking might be advantageous to certain companies/corporations.

Analyze the various means of tourism (rail, automobile, and coach travel; airlines; cruise ships) to determine which sector you anticipate will grow the most in the next 20 years. Explain your rationale.

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS- THERE ARE 2 DIFFERENT QUESTIONS TO ANSWER

QUESTION 1. Analyze the various means of tourism (rail, automobile, and coach travel; airlines; cruise ships) to determine which sector you anticipate will grow the most in the next 20 years. Explain your rationale.

QUESTION 2. Read an article about the use of stable isotopes in forensic analysis for law-enforcement purposes. You may read one of the suggested articles, below, or one of your own choosing:

In your own words, explain what a stable isotope is and how stable isotope analysis can be an aid to law enforcement forensics. The post should be at least 125 words. Don’t forget to cite your source!

WEEK 7 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS – THERE ARE 2 DIFFERENT QUESTIONS

QUESTION 1. In America, private clubs are allowed to discriminate against who is allowed to join. Either defend this position or argue against it, supporting your position with evidence or an example.

QUESTION 2. There are many new and fascinating materials being used in a huge variety of applications: construction, manufacturing, medicing, even fashion.

Select an article/video about an innovative material (either from the list below or find your own), tell us about it in your own words:

1. What is made of?

2. How is it made?

3. What properties and characteristics make it special or useful?

4. Give some examples of its application

5. Don’t forget to cite your sources

Your main post should be at least 125 words.

Be sure to respond to at least one of your classmates’ posts.
Suggested articles/videos:

Explain a new technology that the business should deploy.

Book: Analytics, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence Systems for Decision Support (11th Edition)

Discuss a current business process in a specific industry. Note the following:
-The current business process itself.
-The industry the business process is utilized in.
After explaining the current situation, take the current learning from the course and:

Explain a new technology that the business should deploy. Be specific, don’t only note the type of technology but the specific instance of technology. (For example, a type of technology is smart automation a specific type of automation is automated light-dimming technology).
Note the pros and cons of the technology selected.
Note various factors the business should consider prior to deploying the new technology
The above submission should be three pages in length with in text and separate APA references. Quality work and no plagiarism.

Analyze how the management strategies discussed by Hamel (2009) inform the situation you presented.

Creativity, innovation, and foresight are closely connected concepts. This week’s reading from the Cambridge Handbook of Creativity introduced the connections between individual creativity, an organization’s capacity for innovation, and the ability to predict coming trends and other important developments successfully. The systematic approaches to creativity overviewed in this chapter offer a wide variety of means to foster creativity, but the most important knowledge you can gain from this reading is the fact that creativity is not an unexplainable phenomenon or a mysterious process. Rather, creativity can be approached systematically in order to seek out opportunities for innovation, based on foresight.

For this Discussion, you will analyze how foresight, creativity, and innovation are separate, yet interrelated, concepts. To prepare for the Discussion, read “Welcome to a World of Change: Life in the 21st century” (Puccio, et al, 2011) and “Moonshots for Management” (Hamel, 2009).

[removed]Puccio, G. J., Mance, M., Switalski, L. B., & Reali, P. D. (2012). Welcome to the world of change: Life in the 21st century. In Creativity rising: Creative thinking and creative problem solving in the 21st century(pp. 13–20). Buffalo, NY: ICSC Press.
Puccio, G. J., Mance, M., Switalski, L. B., & Reali, P. D. (2012). Welcome to the world of change: Life in the 21st century. In Puccio, G.J., Mance, M., Switalski, L.B. et al. (Eds.), Creativity Rising: Creative thinking and creative problem solving in the 21st century (1st Ed.), (pp. 51–70). Buffalo, NY: ICSC Press. Copyright 2012 by ICSC Press. Reprinted by permission of Omniskills, LLC/ICSC Press
Many of us have probably felt frustrated that the world around us continues to change at an increasingly fast pace. A cell phone or tablet computer that was state of the art when purchased can be sadly out of date just one year later. The authors of this reading discuss the wide variety of changes we are experiencing today and explore how creative responses to the challenges presented by the rapid pace of change are necessary.

Also consider the tensions between innovation and creativity addressed in the article “Institutionalizing Ethical Innovation in Organizations: An Integrated Causal Model of Moral Innovation Decision Processes”. Use this article as a foundation for evaluating creativity, foresight, and innovation within an ethical model.

Post by Day 7 of Week 1 by selecting an organization – it could be a company or even a division of a company – and describing a situation that demonstrates this organization’s foresight, creativity, and innovation within an ethical model. Consider your own experience as well as observation. Your post should provide an analysis of how the organization demonstrated each of these separate concepts in an interrelated and ethical way. Next, analyze the situation you have presented in light of foresight, creativity, and innovation in one of the following ways:

Analyze how the situation you have presented reflects the workplace trends discussed by Puccio (2011) or,
Analyze how the management strategies discussed by Hamel (2009) inform the situation you presented.
Finally, after completing your analysis using one of the approaches above, evaluate whether the trends or strategies fit within an ethical model and provide examples to support your analysis.

General Guidance: Your initial Discussion post will typically be 2–3 paragraphs in length as a general expectation/estimate.

Compare and contrast the authors’ ideas. Do you agree with their support or concerns regarding implementing insurance?

Research two current news articles regarding the transformation of Saudi Healthcare through the new insurance scheme. Compare and contrast the authors’ ideas. Do you agree with their support or concerns regarding implementing insurance? How has the mandatory health insurance affected you or your family?

Be sure to support your statements with logic and argument, citing 3 sources referenced.

Describe in detail aspects of the articles.

The right to healthcare is stipulated in Article 27 and 31 of the Basic Laws of Saudi Arabia, the Ministry of Health issued a Patient’s Bill of Rights (PBR) in 2006. Factors which may contribute to morbidity and mortality include lack of awareness of health rules and the regulations of the Ministry of Health, along with lack of clear laws.

Write a 5-6 page paper evaluating the purpose of Article 27 and 31 and discussing how it may affect medical outcomes.

Your paper should address the following substantive requirements:

• Describe in detail aspects of the articles.

• How does medical outcomes connect to adherence to the law?

• How can healthcare organizations educate patients on their rights?

Your paper should meet the following requirements:

• 5-6 pages in length, not including reference page.

• Formatted according to APA 7th edition.

• Provide support for your statements with in-text citations from a minimum of five scholarly articles. Two of these sources may be from the class readings, textbook, or lectures, but two must be external.

Utilize headings to organize the content in your work.