What is one thing we could do to improve on this strategy?

Week 1 Discussion (GRADED)
Must post first.
Instructions:
Please refer to the Discussion Grading Rubric before starting the assignment. Be certain to read the case scenario carefully. Be careful to address each question posed. Include APA formatted in-text citations and a reference list. (In this class, all applicable citations should contain the page or paragraph numbers. The only exceptions are videos or podcasts.)
Use the lettering system indicated below in your memo. Your answers should be listed in sections labeled “A” through “D.”
CASE SCENARIO – PAUL’S DISCOUNT TIRES & REPAIRS BUSINESS STRATEGIC PLAN
It’s a Friday at 4:00, and you are looking at the clock – it’s been a tough week at Paul’s Discount Tires & Repairs business, and the week is not over! The global COVID Pandemic has hit the business hard, and you saw several people working there laid off this week. You feel lucky to be still working as their business consultant!
The business is family-owned and has been in business for over 21 years. The founder of the company, Paul Wilford, started the company as a small tire shop then expanded into service repairs. Now Paul’s grandson, Steve Wilford, runs the company, which has grown to several million in annual revenues over the past couple of years.
Steve Wilford stops by your cubicle. He looks worried and worn out from the long workday. Despite that, he greets you warmly.
“You are taking a course in Strategic Management right now, aren’t you?” Steve asks you.
You reply yes.
“Well, that is great timing,” says Steve, “because I just drafted a 10-year strategy for our business! If I get you a copy, would you mind looking it over during the weekend and giving me your thoughts?”
You tell Steve that you’d be happy to give your input. Within 5 minutes, a one-page document is on your desk. At the top of the page is written “Paul’s Discount Tires & Repairs Strategic Plan.” You start to read it in your remote work office at home.
The basics of the plan are highlighted with the following three (3) bullet points:
Paul’s Discount Tires & Repairs core business will continue providing tires and minor vehicle repair services to our retail customers over the next ten years.
Paul’s Discount Tires & Repairs will beat its competitors by providing the lowest price discount tires, vehicle repairs, exceptional customer service, and quality work.
Paul’s Discount Tires & Repairs culture is rooted in its 21-year history. Paul’s will overcome the setbacks caused by the COVID Pandemic by sticking to its core values and cutting costs wherever necessary. Our people will help get us through these tough times.
You look at the bottom of the page and see a post-it note with questions posed to you by Steve.
What is wrong with this strategy?
What is right about this strategy?
We are the market leader in discount tires and repairs in our city, indicating that we currently have a competitive advantage. Will we sustain it with this strategy?
What is one thing we could do to improve on this strategy?
Directions for Initial Posting:
Write a memo to Steve answering these four questions. Your memo should outline all four questions, and the answers to all four questions should be supported by course materials.

Class:  Please replace the following Week 1 course material link:
What is Strategy? It’s a Lot Simpler Than You Think
with the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7Ik1OB4TaE
Respectfully
Other Writing Guidelines for this Discussion:
Use the grading rubric while completing the project to ensure all requirements are met to lead to the highest possible grade.
This is a business memo to Steve Wilford, who runs Paul’s Discount Tires & Repairs. Ensure your memo answers all 4 questions and that your writing is concise. There is a balance between providing a robust answer and writing succinctly and to the point.
Third-person writing is required.  The third person means no words such as “I, me, my, we, or us” (first-person writing).
Contractions are not often used in business writing, so do not use them here.
Paraphrase – do not use direct quotation marks. This means that you will put the ideas of an author or article into your own words rather than lift them directly from a source document. You may not use more than four consecutive words from a source document (including the case scenario) or change words in a passage as doing so would require direct quotation marks. Use a passage from a source document by putting it into your own words (paraphrase) and attribute the passage to the source document.  Changing words from a passage does not exclude the passage from having to have quotation marks. If direct quotes are presented, they will not be included in the grading.
Use in-text citations and provide a reference list that contains a reference associated with each in-text citation.
Only course materials (from this course’s content) may be used. Sources other than this course’s ebook or the course materials listed under content will not be considered sources of support.
Provide the page or paragraph number in every in-text citation presented.  Refer to this link for more guidance on how to do this:
In-Text Citations – Including Page or Paragraph Numbers

assemble a task force to design a medication assistance program.

Module 07 Content

You have been invited to assemble a task force to design a medication assistance program. You need to submit a proposal, regarding who you would invite, to the CEO. Consider the perspectives of prescribers, discharge planners, financial navigators, patients, suppliers, book keepers and subsidizers. If you were to seek the input of 5-7 stakeholders, who would you invite to the planning table, and why? Consider the need for a group facilitator. Who would that person be, and why?
Submit a 2-3 page APA style response to this query. Open with a paragraph of purpose, dedicate a paragraph to each stakeholder that you would invite, and close with a summary of what you hope to accomplish with the group, within a designated time frame.

describe three strategies learned from the resources that you would implement to help create an inclusive and secure environment for students.

Assignment 6
Listen to the audio segment Teachers’ Expectations Can Influence How Students Perform and read the accompanying text. Read the rest of this week’s resources.
Using these resources, develop a paper that includes the following:
A brief description of the 1968 Rosenthal and Jacobson study
A brief description of the four goals of an anti-bias curriculum
Specific examples of how our expectations of children align with components of the anti-bias curriculum
A development of strategies. First, select a grade level between K and 3. Then describe three strategies learned from the resources that you would implement to help create an inclusive and secure environment for students. These strategies should develop expectations for student interactions that create a positive classroom climate of mutual respect and support.
An example of how the learning community will allow students to assume responsibility for themselves, to participate in decision making, and to work together to engage in purposeful learning activities
Resource
http://pygmalionintheclassroom.weebly.com/the-study.html
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/creating-an-identity-safe-classroom-becki-cohn-vargas-dorothy-steele
https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/disabilityandhealth/materials/factsheets/fs-communicating-with-people.html
https://www.adl.org/news/op-ed/anti-bias-education-the-power-of-social-emotional-learning

 

 

 

 

 

 

Was there an existing contract or reasonable expectations of economic benefit or advantage between Aromatic Farms and Moonshine Coffeehouse Inc.?

Tortious Interference with a Contract

Tortious Interference with a contract happens when a third party influences one of the parties to a contract to breach the contract. Tortious Interference only applies when a written contract between two or more parties is interfered with by a non-party to the contract.

Study the following two cases that demonstrate how courts analyze Tortious Interference. The two cases should be incorporated in your analysis of the case study assignment. Failure to do so will impact your grade. The below cases are useful examples and provide critical language that analyzes and applies the Tortious Interference Rule of Law:

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp2/11/521/2289301/

https://law.justia.com/cases/massachusetts/supreme-court/1990/406-mass-811-3.html

 

Please follow these steps to complete this assignment:

  1. Download the IRAC Worksheet
  2. Read the case carefully.
  3. Answer the questions listed after the case.
  4. Use the IRAC Worksheet form as your guide in analyzing the case

Moonshine Coffeehouse Inc. and Aromatic Farms have a longstanding exclusive contract to produce and deliver their “Triple-A” moonshine-infused coffee beans.

The Moonshine Coffeehouse Inc. and Aromatic Farms contract requires delivery of all beans foreign and domestic produced on Aromatic Farms to Moonshine’s distribution warehouses for processing and redelivery to Moonshines Coffeehouses. The parties agree that the price per pallet will be $3000 with a guarantee of 4,000 pallets minimum. MJGreen House, Inc., a competitor of Aromatic, approaches Moonshine and informs Moonshine that Aromatic is undercutting Moonshine by withholding 10% of Aromatic’s worldwide coffee bean production for sale to Moonshine’s competitor coffeehouse Star Tracks Inc. for $2000 per pallet.

As a result of this information, Moonshine Coffeehouse Inc. cancels the Aromatic contract refusing to purchase any additional pallets from Aromatic. Moonshine Coffeehouse Inc. enters into a new agreement with MJGreen House, Inc., agreeing to purchase the exact quantities of beans from MJGreen House, Inc.

  1. What are the issues in this case?
  2. What is the applicable Rule of law under these facts?
  3. Would Aromatic have the Standing to sue MJGreen House, Inc for Tortious Interference with the contract because MJGreen’s actions persuaded Moonshine to breach the Aromatic contract?
  4. Would it make a difference if the information were true?
  5. What if the statement by MJGreen House, Inc., were false any different outcome?
  6. What would Aromatic have to prove to be able to establish a prima facie case for Tortious Interference and hold MJGreen liable for Tortious Interference with the contract?
  7. Was there an existing contract or reasonable expectations of economic benefit or advantage between Aromatic Farms and Moonshine Coffeehouse Inc.?
  8. What would Defendant MJGreen House, Inc., have to have known to be guilty of breach of contract to establish Tortious Interference?
  9. What losses can Aromatic Farms claim?
  10. What facts confirm that MJGreen House, Inc. knew about Aromatic Farms’ contract with Moonshine Coffeehouse Inc.?
What are the challenges when an organization practices valuing diversity and inclusion?
In the content of this unit, you have explored and discovered many aspects of diversity in the workplace. The importance of companies having an understanding of diversity and its impact on all facets of the culture of that company are key factors in ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace environment. With that in mind please address the following prompts in your discussion this week.
  • What are the challenges when an organization practices valuing diversity and inclusion?
  • Identity three specific challenges that organizations might face and create a strategy on how they can be overcome.  
  • Is it the responsibility of the employer to ensure a work environment which is bias-free and inclusive for all employees?  If not, whose responsibility would it be?  Defend your choice.
  • How can your potential strategy be developed to increase diversity and inclusion within the workplace? What tools from our Unit 6 content might help you get the job done?
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.
explain how each quality perspective applies to the product or service

Prior to beginning work on this final paper, read Chapters 10, 11, and 12 in the course textbook. It is recommended to review Chapters 1, 2, and 3, too.

For this final paper, you will be reviewing and reflecting on the quality management concepts and knowledge gained throughout the course. You will be applying your critical thinking, drawing your own conclusions, and applying what you have learned to improve quality and performance excellence. Follow the prompts below and make sure to address each in sufficient depth to answer the questions and cover the associated concepts. This will serve as a good review of the content, methods, and principles learned of total quality management (TQM).

As you work on your final paper, keep in mind the following bullet point observations on the role of quality.

  • Six quality perspectives are listed below and explain how each quality perspective applies to the product or service:
    • Quality in manufacturing.
    • Quality in service organizations.
    • Quality in business support functions.
    • The role of the quality function.
    • Quality and competitive advantage (business results).
    • Quality and personal values.
  • Modern day quality management practices represent the approaches that organizations use to achieve the quality management principles.
  • Customer satisfaction is vital to keeping customers and growing a business.
    • Customer requirements, as expressed in the customer’s own terms, are called the voice of the customer.
  • Organizations continue to learn that to satisfy customers, they must first satisfy the workforce. (Review Chapter 4, specifically Table 4.1: Key Workforce-Focused Practices for Quality, and the two Chapter 4 sections: High-Performance Work Cultures, and Principles of Workforce Engagement and Motivation.)
  • Motivation theories can be applied to support high performance in any organization.

In your paper,

  • Explain how your selected organization applies the six steps from key customer-focused practices for quality management in the customer focus to meet or exceed customer requirements.
  • Identify which of the variety of methods, or “listening posts,” your selected organization uses to gather the voice of the customer, including their needs and expectations, their feeling of importance, and their satisfaction as a customer.
  • Evaluate the principles of workforce engagement, and empowerment and motivation, and evaluate why these two items are important to quality, and which five of Deming’s 14 points relate directly to the notion of empowerment.
  • Apply one content theory, one process theory, and one environmentally-based theory to your selected organization, detailing the context and situation.
  • State if the selected organization has a high-performance work culture and describe why or why not.
  • Summarize how your selected organization embodies the Baldrige Award Excellence Framework, core values, and processes.
  • Assess the impact, if any, of the Baldrige Award Excellence Framework and the Deming philosophy on the organization.
  • Select a product or service that your organization, or an organization of your choosing, purchases on a regular basis:
    • Explain why quality is important to that product or service.
    • Evaluate the competitive environment for the product or service selected.
    • Appraise how each quality perspective applies to the selected product or service and why.
    • Illustrate how each of the seven quality management principles pertain to your organization or an organization of your choosing using three approaches per principle.
    • Appraise how the Deming philosophy and Deming’s 14 points may apply to the product or service selected.

The Managing for Quality and Performance Excellence paper

Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.) for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

Are the researchers trying to support a hypothesis or they constructing a solution to a situation that needs to be open to discussion?

Case study:-
When considering the research that was conducted for the article, and the information that the researchers are trying to convey, and it is crucial to have as much data as possible to support the intent of the research. In this case study, you are to read the article and present your point of view as to whether the data supports the findings, or the results are skewed. When considering your point of view it is necessary to identify what the researcher’s conclusion is attempting to accomplish. Are the researchers trying to support a hypothesis or they constructing a solution to a situation that needs to be open to discussion?
Your response should be a minimum of four paragraphs and should be a minimum of 400 and 450 words. The paragraphs are single-spaced. There should be a minimum of three scholarly references supporting your observations. Citations are to follow 7.0.

NOTE: All written assignments must conform to the guidelines set forth by the American Psychological Association.
According to APA 7, the following font styles and size are now accepted:
sans serif fonts such as 11-point Calibri, 11-point Arial, or 10-point Lucida Sans Unicode
serif fonts such as 12-point Times New Roman, 11-point Georgia, or normal (10-point) Computer Modern (the default font for LaTeX)
Please review the latest APA guidelines if you have any questions when writing your papers.

 

2) technical annotation

This book is a classic in the world of Big Data. You are to read the book “Big_Data_Now_2012_Edition”w and provide your instructor with a two-page technical annotation of the book in a word or PDF document to be submitted to your instructor.

Would you like AI to be used if you were applying for a job position? Why, or why not?

1. The text talks about how recruiters are beginning to heavily use Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other smart technology recruiting tools in their jobs. One of the major selling points in using this, besides the fact that these programs save significant amounts of recruiter time, is that AI can make better decisions than human recruiters because of the lack of bias.

It’s important to remember that AI sorts resumes, sends the resumes of qualified applicants to a recruiter who then initiates contact witht the candidate.   AI doesn’t interview candidats, AI doesn’t hire candidates.   Recruiters fill that function.

Would you like AI to be used if you were applying for a job position? Why, or why not? How would you prepare your resume to ensure that, when AI is used, your resume if chosen?

2. The three primary options for what to evaluate in performance appraisals are traits, behaviors, and results. As a manager, which option would you choose? Why?

3. Self-driving, or driverless, cars are quickly becoming a reality. In the readings for Chapter 4, four advantages to driverless cars were presented. If you were the recipient of a driverless car, would this technology be advantageous for you? Why, or why not? Which advantage would benefit you the most?

4. When you started your small business, you managed all business processes on your own. Now, your business is expanding, and you have hired employees to help. Would you consider implementing an ERP system or would you continue to use applications like MS Office (i.e. Word, Excel, Access) to manage your business processes? Be sure to explain the reasons behind your choice.

Describes how switching to a more dynamic database will give eHermes a competitive advantage?
Instructions

For decades, relational databases remained essentially unchanged; data was segmented into specific chunks for columns, slots, and repositories, also called structured data. However, in this Internet of Things (IoT) era, databases need to be reengineered because the very nature of data has changed. Today’s databases need to be developed with the needs of IoT in mind and have the ability to perform real-time processing to manage workloads that are dynamic. For example, relational databases should be able to work with real-time data streaming and big data (an example was presented in the unit lesson).Scenario: eHermes wants their personnel to be able to view security video footage in real-time and provide them with the ability to query video footage for viewing. Choosing a database solution such as MongoDB would allow eHermes to store mobile self-driving video footage in the same database as the metadata.To do this, eHermes needs a way to manage the demands of real-time data streaming for real-time analytics. Conduct some research for a NoSQL database application such as MongoDB or Cassandra that could meet this need. How would switching to a real-time database solution help eHermes remain competitive? Create a PowerPoint presentation that does the following:

  • Provides a brief introduction to IoT.
  • Presents an argument to the eHermes CEO that switching to a more dynamic database structure (NoSQL real-time database) will meet the demands of IoT.
  • Introduces some features of the database you chose, whether it is MongoDB, Cassandra, or another database.
  • Describes how switching to a more dynamic database will give eHermes a competitive advantage?

Your presentation must be a minimum of six slides, and you must use at least two academic resources. Any information from a resource used must be cited and referenced in APA format.