Introduction to Information Systems in Organizations

Discussion Assignment Instructions

1. Discussion Thread: Introduction to Information Systems in Organizations – 500 words see attachment

2. Discussion Thread: Biblical View of Technology – 500 words see attachment

The student will post the 2 thread separately both of at least 500 words each separate thread by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Thursday of the assigned Module: Week. For each thread, students must support their assertions with at least 2 scholarly citations in APA format.  Any sources cited must have been published within the last five years. Acceptable sources include peer reviewed journal articles, content from relevant professional associations/platforms, course materials, the textbook, the Bible, etc.

Note: Diagrams do not count towards word counts

future entrepreneurial endeavor

future entrepreneurial endeavor

Discussion Question 1 

  • Find the mission statements of two different charities from a similar focus.
  • Compare the two and discuss their similarities and differences.

 

Discussion Question 2 – Applied Concepts (AC) – Week/Course Learning Outcomes

Using your textbook, LIRN-based research, and the Internet, apply the learning outcomes for the week/course and lecture concepts to one of the following scenarios:

As applied to your current professional career

As applied to enhancing, improving, or advancing your current professional career

As applied to management, leadership, or any decision-making position

As applied to a current or future entrepreneurial endeavor

OR

Using your textbook, LIRN-based research, and the Internet, apply the learning outcomes for the week/course and lecture concepts to a business organization that exhibits and demonstrates these concepts. You should develop a summary of the organization’s strategy and how they use these concepts to compete.

This is a learning and application exercise designed to give you an opportunity to apply concepts learned in a pragmatic and meaningful way that will enable you to gain valuable and relevant knowledge in an effort to augment your skill set and enhance your professional careers.

How should the United States regulate emerging market arrangements

How should the United States regulate emerging market arrangements

Answer the assigned questions completely and in narrative, third person format. The paper consist of 250 WORDS. Also, include at least four (4) scholarly sources in your responses and the Sources used MUST be from 2016-2021. Paper must be completed in APA format. NO PLAGIARISM! The assignment must be completed by WEDNESDAY May 19, 2021 at 10:00AM central time. MUST BE SUBMITTED ON TIME MEETING ALL EXPECTATIONS!

1.How should the United States regulate emerging market arrangements, such as pay for performance initiatives and emerging health providers, such as specialty hospitals? Has the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 impacted these arrangements? Will the Covid-19 pandemic impact these trends in the future?

 Marketing Plan Example – Pharmaceutical Product

 Marketing Plan Example – Pharmaceutical Product

 

Rules:

  • Project groups consisting max 2. Students: Term Project should be prepared in English and in a powerpoint format. Projetcts are expected to be submitted on time.
  • Term Project should cover all the topics below:
  • Clarify yout product ? Disease area? Otc / Rx market product ? Original or similar? Local production or imported?
  • Describe your targeted customers
  • Reimbursed product? Or not reimbursed OTC product?
  • Compare your marketing activities with other sectors. Explain the restrictions.
  • Did you do implement any market research ? If yes, could you clarify the results?
  • Please explain the insights you gained from the stakeholders ( pharmacies, patients, physicians etc.)
  • Target and strategy based on the insights
  • Product Launch Process and Marketing Plan
  • Sales Force Structure & Sales Territory Alignment
  • Did you use Alternative Channels ? If yes , please clarify how
  • How did you plan to use Digital Marketing and social media for your promotional activities ? Please clarify .
  • Your assumptions for the upcoming years: (your product and the market itself) New molecules, new treatment algorithms, prevelance of the disease , population etc; predictions based on all drivers and barriers
  • Short-term sales forecasts( 3 years – 2022-2023-2024)

P.S  MAKE AROUND 12-13 SLIDES Power Point ..Also  prepare report for this . WE total 2 in group so  2000 words is enough

Ethical Issues in Marketing

 

Read “Ethical Issues in Marketing: An Application for Understanding Ethical Decision Making” from the University Library.

Write a 350- to 575-word analysis and evaluation of a company’s effectiveness in the following areas:

  • Distinguish between social responsibility, ethical, and legal issues and their effect on marketing.
  • Relate the triple bottom line to an organization’s sustainability.
  • Analyze consumer influence on ethical behavior in marketing.
  • Assess the value of communicating ethical behavior to the public.
  • Conclude how ethical issues influence legal issues in marketing.

Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.

Submit your assignment.

Value chain analysis

Value chain analysis, developed by Michael Porter, focuses on analyzing the internal activities of a business in an effort to understand costs, locate the activities that add the most value, and differentiate a company from the competition. The overall goal of value chain analysis it to identify the core competence of a company as well as areas and activities that will benefit from change, in order to improve profitability and efficiency. You might have heard of SWOT (strength, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats), and value chain analysis is a tool used to properly identify the strengths and weaknesses of a company. For more information, read The Art of Value Chain Analysis – From Defining Activities to Identifying Areas for Improvement. LINK: https://www.smartsheet.com/art-value-chain-analysis-defining-activities-identifying-areas-improvement
To complete this assignment, follow these steps:

  • Step 1: Choose one of the companies from the following options to research its value chain:
    1. Dell (a manufacturing company)
    2. McDonald’s (a servicing company)
  • Step 2: Download the Operational Strategy and Value Chain Analysis Template, save a copy so you can edit the templates, and follow the directions on the first page to fill out the templates and worksheet requirements and complete the assignment.
  • Step 3: Submit your completed assignment.
  • To successfully complete this assignment, view the Module 1 Assignment Rubric document.
    Note: To complete the Operational Strategic Performance Dimensions you first need to decide on a specific product offering by your company. Use this perspective when completing the template. The industry metric is the way your product, as well as it competitors, is judged based on each specific operational strategic performance dimension. The Firm metric is how your company’s specific product that you are examining specifically competes on this metric and as compared to its rivals. Remember that if the dimensions is an order winner for this product then it is also the answer to the question, “Why would I, as a consumer, buy this product, over it competitors?” See the example below for the Ford Fusion (a specific product offering of Ford

 

 Project Management Journal article

Activity 3:

After reviewing/reading Chapter 3 of the textbook, access UC’s online Library and conduct research within the “Business Source Premier (EBSCO Host)” search engine and locate a Project Management Journal article among the thousands of journal articles made available within the many years of publications the Library holds.  The Project Management Journal article should tie directly into at least one highlight from the assigned chapter (Chapter 3) reading/review material for the week.  This weekly research paper should include at least 2 pages, in the narrative and it should be typed in APA formatting (title page, reference page, no abstract page, double-spacing, Times New Roman 12 font, 1 inch margins, in-text citations, etc…). Your paper should contain the following headings:

  •      Introduction
  •      Summary of the article
  •      Relevant points made by the author
  •      Critique of the article
  •      Application of the concepts in the article

UC Library: https://ucumberlands.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=01UOTC_INST:UOTC&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&mode=basic&displayMode=full&bulkSize=10&highlight=true&dum=true&query=any,contains,business%20source%20premier&displayField=all&pcAvailabiltyMode=true

How can the organization plan for potential crisis events?

This week, you will be preparing for the next stage of the Four-Stage Framework.

The activities address the second stage of the Four-Stage Framework described in the textbook: Strategic Planning

This area includes:

  1. How can the organization plan for potential crisis events?
  2. What planning has been done outside of the organization to prepare for potential crisis events?

Here, you will start analyzing the strategic plan of the company. You will be analyzing the company SWOT analysis, but through the lens of crisis management. This is often missed in most SWOT analyses, which leaves companies vulnerable and more likely to react than plan strategically, whenever they encounter crises (instead of a proactive mode that has plans in place for the various crises).

As you do the SWOT analysis, depending on the business, note that these areas are business and industry specific:

  • This week, you will do a SWOT analysis of your chosen company under the lens of crisis management and COVID-19.
  • You will list the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats and potential crisis events for each in dealing with COVID-19 (There should be a minimum of three for each one – Be detailed!)*
  • You will also ask the company representative if the company has a crisis management team and crisis management plan and what the plan entails (Secondary and tertiary questions will arise along with the flow of the interview and cannot be templated beforehand). If they have a team, ask who is in it, what training they had, how often do they meet? and so forth.
  • If they do not have either, then, that is your answer. But you can ask questions about what it does have for its crisis management.

Project Risk Analysis and Identification 

Chapter 7: Project Risk Identification Tools

Chapter 8: Project Risk Analysis and Identification

Initial Postings: Read and reflect on the assigned readings for the week. Then post what you thought was the most important concept(s), method(s), term(s), and/or any other thing that you felt was worthy of your understanding in each assigned textbook chapter.Your initial post should be based upon the assigned reading for the week, so the textbook should be a source listed in your reference section and cited within the body of the text. Other sources are not required but feel free to use them if they aid in your discussion.

Also, provide a graduate-level response to each of the following questions:

  1. Explain each of the following steps in risk evaluation and remediation.
    • Risk identification
    • Risk evaluation for chance of occurrence
    • Risk evaluation for impact if the risk takes place.
    • The four types of risk remediation,
    • What is a project risk owner,
    • What is a risk threshold.
    • What is a risk matrix.

2. Complete a risk analysis for a project involving a family vacation where a family of four is driving 1,000 miles one way to Myrtle Beach, SC to stay for one week at a coastal resort. Include the construction of a risk matrix.

You are the facility manager for EnVision

You are the facility manager for EnVision, a high-tech vehicle maker located in Atlanta. This new company designs, manufactures, and sells electric vehicles and charging units. EnVision’s unique designs, technical prowess, and limited competition has placed them in the enviable position of having a high demand for their line of products. This demand has generated over a billion dollars in pre-sale orders, and a new manufacturing facility is required to meet customer’s needs. The firm’s CEO, Mark Hammel, has asked you to assist him in selecting a new site that will accommodate a new state-of-the-art facility.

Mr. Hammel has been busy preparing a presentation to the board of directors and investors regarding new facility needs and has shown you the first draft of his presentation. Some of his thoughts seem biased and his original mockup of the presentation outline looks to be missing many of the ideas of editorial thinking and communication that you know are necessary in the business world.

As a responsible manager, you realize that presentations need to be objective and unbiased. To adhere to these principles, you have decided to review other presentations and documents which were used to influence various audiences. While doing so, you need to note the language and content of each and determine the language most appropriate for editorial presentation. The following three presentations include the best opportunities for you to share your thoughts using examples for the CEO on improvement in his presentation:

Instructions

Prepare a memo to CEO, Mark Hammel that showcases examples of good and poor presentations, and address the following questions. Make appropriate recommendations for how to proceed with the presentation you are working on with Mr. Hammel in your explanations.

Review the three influential presentations provided and perform the following evaluations in your memo:

  • Do biases from the presentation material exist in these examples? What leads you to assume that biases are present?
  • Evaluate the presentation materials and rank them according to their degree of objectivity and bias.
  • Provide suggestions for how each of the example presentations could be improved to increase objectivity and reduce bias.