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Describe your experience with locating and reading weekly research articles. Share an example of an article that has been useful and applicable to your practice. Share an example of an article (or information) that was not helpful. Provide rationale.
Assume you are a security professional. You are determining which of the following backup strategies will provide the best protection against data loss, whether from disk failure or natural disaster:
Daily full server backups with hourly incremental backups
Redundant array of independent disks (RAID) with periodic full backups
Replicated databases and folders on high-availability alternate servers
Answer the following question(s):
Which backup strategy would you adopt? Why?
Human Rights Violations and Legal Implications
Specify past human research where ethical principles were abandoned. Include some history of the event. Examine lack of autonomy and informed consent for the participants. What guidelines are in place today to prevent this from happening?
Officer Jones asked the neighborhood’s regular trash collector to put the content of the defendant’s garbage that was left on the curb in plastic bags and to turn over the bags to him at the end of the day. The trash collector did as the officer asked in order to not mix the garbage once he collected the defendant’s garbage. The officer searched through the garbage and found items indicative of narcotics use. The officer then recited the information that was obtained from the trash in an affidavit in support of a warrant to search the defendant’s home. The officer encountered the defendant at the house later that day upon execution of the warrant. The officer found quantities of cocaine and marijuana during the search and arrested the defendant on felony narcotics charges.
Write a paper in which you:
Identify the constitutional amendment that would govern Officer Jones’ actions.
Analyze the validity and constitutionality of officer’s Jones’ actions.
Discuss if Officer Jones’ actions were justified under the doctrines of plain view, abandonment, open fields, or border searches.
Use at least two (2) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.
Compose an essay on the topic below. Essays must be double-spaced and use APA-style in-text citations to reference ideas or quotes that are not your own. You must include a separate bibliography.
What is Wilderness? Why is it so important and what can be done to protect it? Is there any controversy in the United States about this? What is your opinion?
In this assignment, integrate all the pieces of work you have drafted and formally turn it into the capstone strategy audit.
In previous assignments, you performed multiple, specified analyses of your company (or any company of your choosing). Those individual analyses provide the needed research to successfully complete the following LASA.
Part I: Strategy Audit Report
Using the tools and framework learned in class and throughout the program, prepare a 15-page strategy audit of your company with a companion presentation. The strategy audit is a comprehensive analysis of the company’s business strategy and operating performance, and culminates in a series of recommendations for improving your company’s performance based on the findings and conclusions of your analysis.
A strategy audit involves assessing the actual direction of a business and comparing that course to the direction required to succeed in a changing environment. A company’s actual direction is the sum of what it does and does not do, how well the organization is internally aligned to support the strategy, and how viable the strategy is when compared to the external market, competitors, and financial realities. These two categories, the internal assessment and the external or environmental assessment, make up the major elements of a strategy audit.
In your strategy audit:
Provide a high-level analysis of the company’s business strategy and operating performance. Be sure to complete the following:
Analysis of the company value proposition, market position, and competitive advantage
External environmental scan/five forces analysis
Internal environmental scan/organizational assessment
SWOT Analysis
Balanced scorecard/strategy scorecard
Recommend specific tactics for improving your company’s strategic alignment and operating performance.
Recommendations can include but are not limited to tactics in marketing, branding, alliances, mergers/acquisitions, integration, product development, diversification or divestiture and globalization (if you recommend your company go global, you must include a supply chain analysis and an analysis of your firm’s global capabilities).
Explain how the recommendations will help the company achieve its strategy and vision.
You are to write this report as though you are a consultant to your company, and are addressing the executive officers of this company. You will collect and analyze a large amount of data in producing your report, but your final product will be condensed and focus on presenting your analysis findings and conclusions.
Your report should consist of the following sections in the given order.
Executive summary (1 page): A concise and insightful summary of the significant findings of your analysis and the recommendations you have for your executive team.
Strategic issues and recommendations (5 pages): Identify 5–7 most important strategic issues facing your business unit. Strategic issues arise from a mismatch between internal capabilities and external trends such that important opportunities are not being pursued or significant external threats are not being addressed under the current strategy.The strategic issues list should integrate your SWOT analysis, your Five Forces analysis, and the organizational assessment and external environmental scan completed earlier during the course. These detailed analyses are the foundation for your final set of findings and recommendations presented to the executive team.
In developing your recommendations for addressing each strategic issue, consider misalignments that might be apparent in different operating areas:
Product portfolio: Are there changes to the target market segment, value proposition, or positioning of the product or service line needed?
Structure: Are the organizational roles and responsibilities, decision-making authority, skill requirements, and work assignments properly configured and aligned to support the strategy?
Organizational culture or behavior: Does the organizational culture inspire behaviors that support the strategy? Are the mission, vision, and values clearly articulated and aligned with the strategy? What new behaviors are needed?
Value chain activities: Does the organization value chain fully align with the strategy? Are their activities that should be added, eliminated, or modified significantly?
Performance measures: Do the organization’s performance measures focus on the key drivers of strategic success? Is there a strategy scorecard that ties the main elements of the strategy to specific operating capabilities, including goals and key performance indicators (KPIs) that give an indication of incremental or predictive progress toward reaching strategic goals?
Your recommendations should fall into these general categories, but should be specific in terms of scope and expected impact.
These sections have been completed earlier in the course, and should appear as appendices:
SWOT analysis (2 pages—completed in Module 4): SWOT matrix illustrating strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
Balanced strategy scorecard (4 pages—completed in Module 4): Develop a Balanced Scorecard for your business unit that reflects the key drivers for your business strategy.
Organizational assessment (3 pages—completed in Module 3)
External environmental scan and five-forces analysis (3 pages—completed in Module 2)
Market position analysis (3 pages—completed in Module 1)
Use information from your previous assignments to support your conclusions and recommendations and conduct additional research when needed. Make sure you properly reference and cite so that the location of information is clear.
Submit your 15-page report in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M5_A2.doc.
Part II: Companion Presentation
Finalize the companion with a 10-slide Power Point Presentation that summarizes the audit and recommendations in a compelling manner that persuades senior management to explore and possibly implement your recommendations. The elements of the presentation should include the following:
Title
Agenda
Summary of audit
Recommendations
Key measurements
Risks and benefits
Call to action
Next steps
Write an essay in response to the following prompt:
In this essay, which you will revise later into your final essay assignment, I would like you to think about one of the most foundational questions in ethics—whether human beings are naturally selfish (i.e., psychological egoists), naturally altruistic (i.e., ethical creatures), or whether circumstance is primarily responsible for these tendencies in a culture.
Please respond to the following, using sources under the Explore heading as the basis of your response:
Describe the functions of ancient myths, using examples from two (2) different neolithic cultures, and comment on whether myth is inherently fictional. Using modern examples, discuss ways modern belief systems, secular or religious, function for modern cultures in a similar fashion.
Explore
· Describe how Whole Foods uses human capital as a source of competitive advantage. (Ch 1)
· Identify the aspects of high-involvement management contained in Whole Foods’ approach to managing its associates. (Ch 1)
· How could Whole Foods’ democratic model of selection interfere with the development or continuance of a diverse workforce? What should it do to prevent such difficulties? (Ch 2)
· How do you think globalization will affect Whole Foods over time? Please explain several ways it could affect the company’s operations. (Ch 3)
1- What are some ways to create a physically and psychologically comfortable environment for both patient and practitioner during breast exams?
2- A 22-year-old female complains of 3 days of watery diarrhea with 7 to 8 stools per day. She is drinking approximately “3 sodas a day” because she is “trying not to get dehydrated.” She has had very little other intake because “eating makes me have to go to the bathroom.” She denies other symptoms or allergies. From the information provided, list your differential diagnoses in the order of “most likely” to “possible but unlikely.”
3-A 19-year-old male complains of “burning sometimes, when I pee.” He is sexually active and denies using any contraceptive method. He denies other symptoms, significant history, or allergies. From the information provided, list your differential diagnoses in the order of “most likely” to “possible but unlikely.”
4- A 23-year-old female complains of severe left lower abdominal/pelvic pain for 6 hours. She states her last menstrual period was “about 3 or 4 weeks ago.” She is sexually active and denies using any contraceptive method. She denies other symptoms, significant history, or allergies. In order of importance, describe three (3) questions that you would like to ask this patient and give a brief explanation of why? Which lab or imaging tests would you order for this patient and give a brief explanation of why?
5- A 28-year-old female presents with a “severe headache” for the past 9 hours. She states the pain is over the left temporal area and is “throbbing” in nature. These symptoms have occurred before but not as bad. What are some clinical assessment tools or techniques that you could use to help diagnose this patient’s condition? In order of importance, describe three (3) questions that you would like to ask this patient and give a brief explanation of why?
6- A 58-year-old obese man complains of pain in his left knee. The pain seems to be unrelenting. He says his knee is better when he rests, but it gets stiff when he rests too long. He denies other symptoms, significant history, or allergies. From the information provided, list your differential diagnoses in the order of “most likely” to “possible but unlikely.”