Category: Essays

In this assignment, you will learn about a new product or service.

Tasks:

For M1 Assignment 4 (“Understanding the Numbers for Better Decisions”), you chose a publicly-traded company and analyzed its financial statements. Use that company to do the following:

Identify a new product or service—either recently rolled out or about to be rolled out—in the company of your choice (Note: Information about new products or services can be found on a company’s website or in the management’s discussion and analysis section of the company’s annual report).
Analyze the quality of the company’s existing projects. Try answering the following questions about returns on the new product or service of your choice.

What is the return on equity earned by the company? Based upon this return, is the company picking good projects?
What is the return on capital earned by the company? Based upon this return, is the company picking good projects?
Discuss how the company financed the initiative and why it was perceived to be advantageous. To answer this question, you might want to look at the following:

How sensitive has this company’s value been to changes in macro-economic variables such as interest rates, currency movements, inflation, and the economy?
How sensitive has this company’s operating income been to changes in the same variables?
How sensitive is the sector’s value and operating income to the same variables?

Write a 2- to 3-page paper. By Week 4, Day 7, submit your paper to the M4: Assignment 2 Dropbox.

Format:

Present your paper in Microsoft Word document format. All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources

chose LLC as my form of business.  MUST BE IN APA FORMATT. 

Sample Business Forms Worksheet

 

There are seven forms of business: sole proprietorship, partnership, limited liability partnership, limited liability company (including the single member LLC), S Corporation, Franchise, and Corporation.

 

1. Select one of the forms of business
2. Research and provide three advantages and three disadvantages for this business form.
3. Provide a 100- to 200-word summary in which you provide an example business for each form. Discuss at least one of the advantages and one of the disadvantages of that form and potential legal forms that might be required.

Question 9：In looking over the documentation prepared by the two project teams, it appears to you that the synthetic resin team has been somewhat more conservative in its revenue projections than the epoxy resin team. What impact might this have on the Payback Period, NPV, and IRR calculations for the synthetic resin project? How does this complicate comparing the synthetic resin and epoxy resin projects? Is being conservative in revenue projections a good practice? What adjustments might be made?

What is appreciative inquiry (AI)?

 

2. What are the implications of AI on defining project scope?

 

Create a two-to three-page word document in APA format to answer these questions. Include a title page and a reference page (not included in the total number count of pages)

 

Use source listed below:

Kloppenborg, T.J. (2015). Contemporary project management (3rd Ed.). Stamford, CT: Cengage Learning.

Discussion: The Social and Value Dimensions of Technology

Directions: Please answer BOTH of the questions. Total words need to equal 75 or more words.

Question A

Describe how technology affects society?

Question B

What is meant by the democratic dilemma in science and technology?
2) Paper: The Social and Value Dimensions of Technology

Discuss social issues raised by technology regarding privacy and intellectual property.
Read the Case Study 38: “Software for a Library” from the text book and answer the questions at the end. Also, discuss the social ethical issues involved in this study and how they can be resolved. (use the template: Evaluation of Case Study)
Explain the terms determinism, optimism and pessimism in evaluating technology with regards to social effects. (write at least 2 paragraphs for each)

3) Some Questions that needs answered

How does the line-drawing approach help solve ethical problems and limit the risk on projects? (Approximately 2 paragraphs).
How does working with a team cause potential ethical problems? How can these issues be limited and avoided? (Approximately 2 paragraphs).
What makes engineering a true profession? What are the reasons of engineering not being considered to be the same level as medicine and law? (Approximately 2 paragraphs).
Why is analyzing a case study central to ethical problem solving? What benefits does this analysis provide? (Approximately 2 paragraphs).
Is the problem solving approach presented in this course similar or different from the engineering problem solving approach? Explain how and why it is different or similar? (Approximately 2 pa

Harley-Davidson: Business Overview for New Planning Team Members

As a member of Harley-Davidson’s strategic planning team, you have been asked to create a five- to six-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation titled “Harley-Davidson Today: A Brief Overview of the Business” to orient members who have been newly added to the strategic planning team.

The PowerPoint presentation should include at a minimum the following:

The CEO’s vision and overview of 2009 performance
The organizational structure and management team
A brief description of each of the brands/business units and the products and services offered
Key corporate goals and objectives such as new products, new markets, and new customers
Total Revenues in 2009 and Net Profit in 2009

Submit your orientation presentation to the M1: Assignment 3 Dropbox byWednesday, October 28, 2015.
Assignment 3 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Created PowerPoint presentation to provide an orientation overview of Harley-Davidson’s business.
10
Included in your presentation: the CEO’s vision and overview of 2009 performance
15
Included in your presentation: the organizational structure and management team
15
Included in your presentation: a brief description of each of the brands/business units and the products and services offered
15
Included in your presentation: key corporate goals and/or objectives such as new products, new markets, and new customers
15
Included in your presentation: total Revenues in 2009 and Net Profit in 2009
15
Presentation is clear, concise, and well organized; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation

If you are told only that you scored in the 80th percentile, do you know from that description exactly how it was calculated? Explain.

 

2. For the numbers 1, 2, 4, 16, compute the following:

 

ΣX

ΣX^2

(ΣX)^2

 

ADHD Treatment (AT) case study

3. (AT) What is the independent variable of this experiment? How many levels does it have?

 

4. (AT) What is the dependent variable? On what scale (nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio) was it measured?

Write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you:

Summarize the current and emerging wireless educational technologies.
Describe the wireless components needed for added business value in the educational environment.
Assess the additional staffing and support requirements needed to support the wireless technologies.
Analyze the potential technical and regulatory problems with implementing a wireless network in an educational organization and describe the mitigation methods to overcome these potential problems in the education industry.
Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA 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 outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Compare and contrast wireless systems and their recent advances.
Evaluate the application of Wireless LANs, MANs, and PANs.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in wireless networks.

Write clearly and concisely about wireless computing topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

Define the Procedure & analytical calculation of unknown  mass of acid

Briefly Discussed on Experiment  procedure & on the basis of Data Calculation

Briefly Discussed on Experiment procedure & on the basis of Data Calculation

Identify the ClientThe client can be your own work group or organization, a family business you are involved with, a business you worked for previously, a volunteer organization you work or have worked with, or a public or private company. The client you choose should be a small group or organization where you, as a consultant, can influence change. Do not select “the military” or “the U.S. government” or “Giant XYZ Corporation.”

 

2. Identify the ProblemWith your knowledge of the client you have identified and the learning you have acquired to this point, identify a management problem you will investigate and for which you will provide recommended solutions. Only write a paper to identify the problem; do NOT try to solve it.

 

What are the mission, vision, values, and goals of the company/division/workgroup?

In considering the mission, vision, values, and goals, where does progress halt?

Is there data to substantiate this or is it a perception of you and/or the manager?

Who is involved: the manager, the employees, and/or stakeholders?

How long has this problem existed?

What and how are expectations and requirements communicated?

When expectations or key deadlines are missed, what happens?

What factors contribute to the problem (politics, structure, decision-making factors, etc.)?

Are technical skills or training contributing to the problem?

Are there ethical issues relating to the problem?If so, how have those issues been handled to date?

 

These questions do not all need to be answered, nor is this list all inclusive; they are provided to help you get started and inspire your own questions to explore

3. Conduct Needs AssessmentNow that you have identified a client and the management problem you will investigate, you will conduct a needs assessment. When conducting a needs assessment, you first identify the “what is” relating to the problem you have chosen to address and contrast that to “what should be.”Some questions you can explore to help you are:

 

What is the problem?

How does the desired performance relate to the mission statement?

Is the problem organization-wide or isolated to one or a few individuals?

Have organizational initiatives created the problem?

Does the problem relate to individual performance issues?

Is training adequate to support the desired outcome?

Is the issue related to job design?

What criteria is used to measure performance?

Is performance criteria appropriate, i.e. attainable and measurable?

Are there Informational Technology issues related to this problem?

 

These questions do not all need to be answered, nor is this list all inclusive; they are provided to help you get started and inspire your own questions to explore while completing this assignment.

 

Guidelines for the paper:

Use an APA formatted header on every page, including the title page.

Margins are 1 inch on all sides.

All content is double-spaced and left-justified.

Indent the first line of every paragraph five spaces or use the TAB key. Do not leave extra space between paragraphs.

Use Times New Roman 12-point font.

References should be on a separate page at the end of the paper.

No more than 5 pages

At least 2 source