SWOT Analysis

SWOT Analysis

Complete a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities & Threats). You must analyze internal or external factors that could negatively affect or assist the organization with accomplishing their goals. Please begin the assignment by reviewing this week’s classroom lecture notes and locating a nearby hospital. After discovering a suitable hospital, you should research the social media accounts, accreditation reports, newspaper articles, or Joint Commission updates. Complete a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities & Threats). You must analyze internal or external factors that could negatively affect or assist the organization with accomplishing their goals. Please begin the assignment by reviewing this week’s classroom lecture notes and locating a nearby hospital. After discovering a suitable hospital, you should research the social media accounts, accreditation reports, newspaper articles, or Joint Commission updates.

Complete a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities & Threats). You must analyze internal or external factors that could negatively affect or assist the organization with accomplishing their goals. Please begin the assignment by reviewing this week’s classroom lecture notes and locating a nearby hospital. After discovering a suitable hospital, you should research the social media accounts, accreditation reports, newspaper articles, or Joint Commission updates. Complete a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities & Threats). You must analyze internal or external factors that could negatively affect or assist the organization with accomplishing their goals. Please begin the assignment by reviewing this week’s classroom lecture notes and locating a nearby hospital. After discovering a suitable hospital, you should research the social media accounts, accreditation reports, newspaper articles, or Joint Commission updates.

Descriptive Statistics Analysis

 

Resources: Pastas R Us, Inc. Database & Microsoft Excel®, Wk 1: Descriptive Statistics Analysis Assignment

Purpose 

This assignment is intended to help you learn how to apply statistical methods when analyzing operational data, evaluating the performance of current marketing strategies, and recommending actionable business decisions. This is an opportunity to build critical-thinking and problem-solving skills within the context of data analysis and interpretation. You’ll gain a first-hand understanding of how data analytics supports decision-making and adds value to an organization.

Scenario: 

Pastas R Us, Inc. is a fast-casual restaurant chain specializing in noodle-based dishes, soups, and salads. Since its inception, the business development team has favored opening new restaurants in areas (within a 3-mile radius) that satisfy the following demographic conditions:

  • Median age between 25 – 45 years old
  • Household median income above national average
  • At least 15% college educated adult population

Last year, the marketing department rolled out a Loyalty Card strategy to increase sales. Under this program, customers present their Loyalty Card when paying for their orders and receive some free food after making 10 purchases.

The company has collected data from its 74 restaurants to track important variables such as average sales per customer, year-on-year sales growth, sales per sq. ft., Loyalty Card usage as a percentage of sales, and others. A key metric of financial performance in the restaurant industry is annual sales per sq. ft. For example, if a 1200 sq. ft. restaurant recorded $2 million in sales last year, then it sold $1,667 per sq. ft.

Executive management wants to know whether the current expansion criteria can be improved. They want to evaluate the effectiveness of the Loyalty Card marketing strategy and identify feasible, actionable opportunities for improvement. As a member of the analytics department, you’ve been assigned the responsibility of conducting a thorough statistical analysis of the company’s available database to answer executive management’s questions.

Report: 

Write a 750-word statistical report that includes the following sections:

  • Section 1: Scope and descriptive statistics
  • Section 2: Analysis
  • Section 3: Recommendations and Implementation

Section 1 – Scope and descriptive statistics

  • State the report’s objective.
  • Discuss the nature of the current database. What variables were analyzed?
  • Summarize your descriptive statistics findings from Excel. Use a table and insert appropriate graphs.

Section 2 – Analysis

  • Using Excel, create scatter plots and display the regression equations for the following pairs of variables:
  • “BachDeg%” versus “Sales/SqFt”
  • “MedIncome” versus “Sales/SqFt”
  • “MedAge” versus “Sales/SqFt”
  • “LoyaltyCard(%)” versus “SalesGrowth(%)”
  • In your report, include the scatter plots. For each scatter plot, designate the type of relationship observed (increasing/positive, decreasing/negative, or no relationship) and determine what you can conclude from these relationships.

Discuss skills to develop strong personal relationships

Discuss skills to develop strong personal relationships

 

Provide at least a 150 word graduate level response to each of the following questions.

1.   Pauline has been asked to reorganize her department, eliminating at least two people within the office. Pauline has strong personal relationships with everyone in her office and being asked to complete this task is very hard on her. Thinking back to Stage Four of the conflict process, discuss one of the types of intentions with which Pauline might struggle in this situation.

2.   In terms of intra organizational behavior, all things being equal, why is integrative bargaining preferable to distributive bargaining?

Provide at least a 150 word graduate level response to each of the following questions.

1.   Pauline has been asked to reorganize her department, eliminating at least two people within the office. Pauline has strong personal relationships with everyone in her office and being asked to complete this task is very hard on her. Thinking back to Stage Four of the conflict process, discuss one of the types of intentions with which Pauline might struggle in this situation.

2.   In terms of intra organizational behavior, all things being equal, why is integrative bargaining preferable to distributive bargaining?

Discuss skills to develop strong personal relationships

 

Provide at least a 150 word graduate level response to each of the following questions.

1.   Pauline has been asked to reorganize her department, eliminating at least two people within the office. Pauline has strong personal relationships with everyone in her office and being asked to complete this task is very hard on her. Thinking back to Stage Four of the conflict process, discuss one of the types of intentions with which Pauline might struggle in this situation.

2.   In terms of intra organizational behavior, all things being equal, why is integrative bargaining preferable to distributive bargaining?

Provide at least a 150 word graduate level response to each of the following questions.

1.   Pauline has been asked to reorganize her department, eliminating at least two people within the office. Pauline has strong personal relationships with everyone in her office and being asked to complete this task is very hard on her. Thinking back to Stage Four of the conflict process, discuss one of the types of intentions with which Pauline might struggle in this situation.

2.   In terms of intra organizational behavior, all things being equal, why is integrative bargaining preferable to distributive bargaining?

business administration Capstone

Business Admin. Capstone (BUS499005VA016-1204-001)

Week 3

  • Assessing Your Organization
    books and journals scattered on table
  • WELCOMEWelcome to Week 3! This week, we will turn our attention away from the external factors affecting a business and focus more on the internal factors. As with the external factors, you will see that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure in making sure that each piece of a business is running smoothly.
  • TO-DO LIST0%
    Learn: Read Chapter 3 in Strategic Management: Concepts and Cases: Competitiveness and Globalization. Learn: Review the PowerPoint and notes files. Practice: Complete Mindtap: Toyota. Discuss: Complete the discussion, Strong Brands. Assignment: Submit the Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness assignment, due this week. Career: Update your resume.
  • LEARNReadings
    • Chapter 3, “The Internal Organization: Resources, Capabilities, Core Competencies, and Competitive Advantages,” in Strategic Management: Concepts and Cases: Competitiveness and Globalization.
    • Week 3 PowerPoint
    • Week 3 PowerPoint Notes
  • VIDEO QUIZ: TOYOTA (CH 3) In this short video you will see concepts from this week’s readings applied to the company, Toyota. Answer the short quiz to test your knowledge.
  • WEEK 3 DISCUSSION 1Strong Brands
    Click the link above to get started with the weekly discussion. If you need help with completing discussions, please watch this video for more information.
  • STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT AND STRATEGIC COMPETITIVENESS
    Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness
    Overview
    Choose one public corporation in an industry with which you are familiar. Research the company on its own website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR database, the University’s online databases, the Nexis Uni database, and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions.
    Requirements
    Write a four- to six-page paper in which you do the following:

    • Assess how globalization and technology changes have impacted the corporation you researched.
    • Apply the industrial organization model and the resource-based model to determine how your corporation could earn above-average returns.
    • Assess how the vision statement and mission statement of the corporation influence its overall success.
    • Evaluate how each category of stakeholder impacts the overall success of this corporation.
    • Go to Basic Search: Strayer University Online Library and locate at least three quality references. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not quality as academic resources.
    • Use the Assignment 1 Template [DOCX] to ensure that your assignment meets the above requirements.
      Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
    • This course requires use of new Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The format is different than other Strayer University courses. Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details.
    • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow SWS or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
    • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
    • The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is the following:
    •  Determine the impact of globalization and technology changes, strategic models, vision and mission statements, and stakeholders on a corporation’s success.
    • Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic and organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the scoring rubric.

Approach & Theory of Organizational Communication

After reading Attached chapters 2 and 3 of Brewer and Westerman (2018), watch the TedTalk, Lead like the Great Conductors, by Itay Talgam (link below).  Based on your understanding of classical and humanistic approaches to organizational communication, choose one conductor reviewed in Talgam’s talk and critically analyze their approach to conducting an orchestra.

Relate your analysis to one theory/approach discussed in the chapters in order to demonstrate your understanding of the content and your ability to apply it to practical situations.

As you watch the TedTalk, keep the following question in mind: How do a conductor and orchestra correlate to an organization?  By doing so, you will be able to identify specific approaches and theory to organizational communication.

https://www.ted.com/talks/itay_talgam_lead_like_the_great_conductors

The post should be 350-400 words.  Also, need 2 responses (100-150 words each)

Intellectual Property Flowchart

Module 04: The role of intellectual property rights and responsibilities in business.

Competency:

Analyze the impact of intellectual property on business functions.

Scenario:

Your U.S. based company is a new start-up and they sell packaged consumer goods from dish detergent to fabric softener to air fresheners. They want to become the one-stop-shop for all household cleaning needs. Every product is guaranteed to be organic, sustainable, environmentally friendly, and will cost only $4.50 each. You work in the legal department and are assigned the duty to research what it will take to protect the company’s intellectual property rights; specifically, a trademark for their logo.

Instructions:

  • Prepare a flowchart in Microsoft Word for the given business situation that analyzes the impact intellectual property has on various business functions.
    • Address the following using full detail and text within the flowchart:
      1. Start the flowchart by identifying the different intellectual property opportunities available to the company (such as registering trademarks, trade secrets and patents) and the process a company needs to undertake to secure its rights to those assets.
      2. Next, include in the flowchart the requirements to maintain intellectual property protections (such as renewal efforts) under federal, state (students should use their own state of residence regulations) and international laws as well as any other practical measures the company should undertake to protect their intellectual property rights.
      3. Provide a summary to the flowchart with an assessment of the impact of the digital era on intellectual property rights that the company needs to consider.
  • Use at least three credible sources. These should be cited and in APA format.

Discuss Financial Principles and Reimbursement

Overview: As you complete each section of your final project, remember that you are assuming the role of hospital administrator, so you will identify the important elements of healthcare insurance plans and the overall impact of financial management principles. Financial principles to focus on include the elements of the revenue cycle, types of reporting, and the financial data that is needed for hospital administrators to evaluate the cost and quality of processes.

Prompt: Submit a draft of the Financial Principles and Reimbursement portion of your research and analysis.

. Financial Principles and Reimbursement:

a) Reimbursement Strategies: What is the impact of case rates and management utilization data on pay-for-performance incentives? Be sure to provide support for your response.

b) Reimbursement Methods: Analyze reimbursement methods, describing the advantages and disadvantages of each method in terms of strategic planning for operational performance. For example, why might one method be more advantageous than another at a hospital or at a physician’s office?

c) Financial Management Principles: Compare and contrast financial management principles such as financial data that describe financial performance of revenue reimbursement, benchmarking of industry standards, payer-mix breakdown of payers, and case rate and utilization rate data used to evaluate operational performance.

d) Accounts Receivable: What are the challenges associated with collecting payments for the accounts receivable or collections department, and what is the significance of monitoring cash flow and days in accounts receivable in terms of reimbursement?

e) Teamwork Principles: Compare and contrast collaborative teamwork principles to most effectively develop strategic planning that involves crossdisciplinary teams. In other words, what principles work best for teams where individuals are from both clinical and non-clinical departments? What are some of the challenges this might present for cohesive collaboration? Be sure to provide support for your response.

f) Maximizing Reimbursement: Generally speaking, to what extent do you feel healthcare organizations utilize case rates and management utilization to maximize reimbursement from both government and third-party payer payment systems? Be sure to provide support for your response.

Guidelines for Submission: Your draft of the Financial Principles and Reimbursement portion of the research and analysis should be 2–3 pages in length and should be double-spaced in 12-point Times New Roman font with one-inch margins. All citations and references should be formatted according to current APA guidelines. Include at least two references.

Rubric for assignment attached as well as rubric for final project.

Human Resources Management Project

This course project will help you design and formulate a compensation and promotion plan that will promote corporate goals in organizations.

See the attached guide to planning and implementing a total rewards system.

The course project will be a powerpoint presentation (around 10-15 powerpoint slides) where you will formulate a compensation/promotion plan for your hypothetical company.

You will submit a PowerPoint explaining your plan.

I will attach a sample project below so you can see how the PowerPoint should look.

This course project will help you design and formulate a compensation and promotion plan that will promote corporate goals in organizations.

See the attached guide to planning and implementing a total rewards system.

The course project will be a powerpoint presentation (around 10-15 powerpoint slides) where you will formulate a compensation/promotion plan for your hypothetical company.

You will submit a PowerPoint explaining your plan.

I will attach a sample project below so you can see how the PowerPoint should look.

Managing Budget Variances/

Competency

Analyze operational budget drivers and variances.

Scenario

You are a sales manager responsible for the midwestern U.S. division of a grab and go style, limited-item restaurant chain that specializes in breakfast items, such as donuts and other bakery items, egg-based sandwiches, coffee, etc. Through the first three months of the fiscal year, the net sales revenue for the midwestern U.S. division has been 5% below budget combined across all items. Your supervisor, the head of sales for the entire U.S., has requested that you investigate the situation and make recommendations to prevent further revenue declines and increase sales revenue enough in the upcoming months to get back to the budgeted amount for the total year.

The business analyst supporting your sales team has prepared a set of budgets for review Click for more options

. The data includes the original master budget for the year and the sales figures for the completed quarter with variance amounts. The analyst has also provided the sales plan with mix information (i.e. price and quantity sales budgets along with variances for the quarter). The file also includes promotional metrics showing historical sales volume increases resulting from advertising and loyalty rewards.

Instructions

Write a memo summarizing your analysis of the variances to budget.

  • Describe at least two issues identified in your analysis;
  • Discuss at least two recommendations to prevent further declines in sales revenue and recover the unfavorable revenue variance from the first quarter;
  • Include a justification for your recommendations versus other possible options and describe the potential risks; and
  • Include supporting detail such as tables, calculations, or a revised forecast copied from Excel as appendices with the memo.

Evaluate Ethical/Legal Aspects Of Management

 

Getting Started

As you saw in the last workshop, leaders cast light when they master the ethical challenges of leadership. They cast shadows when they abuse power, hoard privileges, mismanage information, act inconsistently, misplace or betray loyalties, or fail to assume responsibilities. This assignment will help you examine your perceptions regarding the ethical dilemmas faced by leaders and examine some light-casting qualities depicted by ethical leaders.

Upon successful completion of this assignment, you will be able to:

  • Identify legal and ethical leadership dilemmas that effect managerial decision making.
  • Distinguish leadership actions that cast light from those that cast shadows.
  • Examine the guidelines offered by the world and the Bible for ethical living.
  • Distinguish behavior accepted by those serving the world from behavior by those serving Christ.

Resources

  • Textbook: Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership
  • Article: White’s Biblical Principles
  • Website:Whistleblower Protection
  • Article: Whistle Blowing in the Public Sector

Instructions

  1. Review the rubric to make sure you understand the criteria for earning your grade.
  2. Review Chapters 1 and 3 in Meeting the Ethical Challenge of Leadership textbook.
  3. Read Chapter12 – Focusing on the Three Stages of a Crisis, Practice Transparency and Blowing the Whistle: Ethical Tension Points in Meeting the Ethical Challenge of Leadership textbook.
  4. Read White’s Biblical Principles. : https://brightspace.indwes.edu/content/enforced/120839-3FA2020MGMT-512-01A/White%27s%20Principles%20512.pdf?_&d2lSessionVal=pdnShIhg4mzJ8SLhlsbc2QSXY&ou=120839
  5. Read the article Whistle Blowing in the Public Sector. : https://www.scu.edu/government-ethics/resources/what-is-government-ethics/whistle-blowing-in-the-public-sector/