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In your final project, you will analyze an investment opportunity applying key components of advanced microeconomics theories to typical business decisions. You will assume the role of an entrepreneur, and you will conduct an analysis focusing on an investment opportunity of your choice. In your analysis you will carefully evaluate key factors influencing the demand for the product, cost and supply issues, the role of market structure, and competitive analysis on firm strategy. You will also analyze the effects of government regulations and market intervention on potential profitability, and you will use price and non-price strategies to support product introduction. Using the above analyses, the last step in your final project requires you to model the potential financial viability of the proposed new product using approximate figures. You will determine whether or not to recommend investing in the development and commercialization of the investment opportunity to your business partners.

Prompt

In task 4-4, you will evaluate variables specific to production and resource costs for the improvement of organizational costs for the investment opportunity chosen for your final project. In this milestone, you will submit a 2–3-page paper that analyzes your investment opportunity production and resources factors by costs, constraints, and effects of technology. Your paper should include the following:

· Costs: Assess what key non-price variables could be expected to affect production costs of the new product. How can these aspects be leveraged to effect efficient methods of production and acquisition of resources to improve upon organizational costs?

· Constraints: Assess constraints that could affect future production and costs. How can these aspects be leveraged to effect efficient methods of production and acquisition of resources to improve upon organizational costs?

· Effects: Assess the effect of potential technology changes on production, costs, or competition. How can these aspects be leveraged to effect efficient methods of production and acquisition of resources to improve upon organizational costs?

Format: The production and resources paper should follow these formatting guidelines: 2–3 pages, double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, 1-inch margins, and citations in APA format.
Attachments

These written assignments should not exceed four pages. Up to three pages of supporting material (tables, figures, graphs) may be attached. This material should be referenced in the text of the write-up. Professional quality writing and presentation are expected. Write-ups must be double-spaced, in 12-point font with 1” margins.

Your answers and recommendations should be based on quantitative and qualitative analysis of case data. Your analysis should anticipate potential objections to your recommendations and illustrate its superiority over other alternatives. It should be analytic and deliberative in tone. The most persuasive documents are the ones that debate more than advocate. After all, if you do not look at all alternatives, how do you know that you have chosen the best one? In answering the case questions, do not describe the case, but focus on the following three factors: 1) careful analysis of the situation, 2) description of your decisions or recommendations; 3) supporting logic and analyses. Assignments will be described in more detail as we get closer to the due date. Note that these assignments require data analysis as well as creativity/judgment

Based on the three customer personas, which consumer segment should Ontela target?
2. Create a positioning statement for your chosen target persona and identify the key themes that should be emphasized in the messaging for the PicDec service to this segment.
3. What are the risks of using qualitative persona to select target segments?

(B)
1. Based only on the cluster analysis data, which preference related variables are most useful for segmentation identification and evaluation? Which variables are least useful?
2. Create descriptive profiles for the customers segment represented by each cluster, without using information provided in Exhibits 3 and 4.
3. Now use the profiling information in Exhibit 4 to create a revised profile for each cluster. Is this profile different from what you guessed based only on the preference data?
4. Which segment(s) would you recommend as a target for PickDeck? Justify.
5. Develop a positioning statement for your elected target customer(s)..

Locate your state’s constitution and examine the major elements and articles of the constitution.

Review its contents and functions. Search for information about the branches of government and the funding sources for your state government.

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper that addresses the following:

How are the main components of government set up by your state’s constitution?

Which branch of your state government seems the most powerful, on paper? What evidence do you use for your choice?

Does the state constitution contain a Bill of Rights? If so, what appears to be the most important feature?

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines

Locate your state’s constitution and examine the major elements and articles of the constitution.

Review its contents and functions. Search for information about the branches of government and the funding sources for your state government.

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper that addresses the following:

How are the main components of government set up by your state’s constitution?

Which branch of your state government seems the most powerful, on paper? What evidence do you use for your choice?

Does the state constitution contain a Bill of Rights? If so, what appears to be the most important feature?

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelin

Locate your state’s constitution and examine the major elements and articles of the constitution.

Review its contents and functions. Search for information about the branches of government and the funding sources for your state government.

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper that addresses the following:

How are the main components of government set up by your state’s constitution?

Which branch of your state government seems the most powerful, on paper? What evidence do you use for your choice?

Does the state constitution contain a Bill of Rights? If so, what appears to be the most important feature?

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines

An employee, who had access to the highly-sensitive information stored on the organization’s intranet, has been terminated from your workplace. As the chief information security officer, you suspect that the employee plans to retaliate by hacking into the organization’s information systems.

Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper describing what the terminated employee may target, what methods they may use, and the damage their activities might cause to the IS. Include your preventive actions and responses as the chief information security officer.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines. With a two or more References

find a company that has a positive impact on its community, its environment and that is profitable, to interview the leader, employees, research the company and to write, draw, record an inspiring story about them, the leadership skills that it takes to be responsible and sustainable, their positive impact on their local community, planet.

Your story will be submitted to Flourish Prizes award, the best stories will be uploaded online on their website and your selected company will run the chance to win the United Nations Flourish Prizes award.

The Flourish Prizes is a new Prize created collaboratively by different business schools worldwide and approved by the United Nations

Leopold “Butters” Stotch (hereafter referred to as Butters) works as Paris Hilton’s pet bear. He is considering a binary choice today. Starting from now, Butters’ lifetime earnings as a pet bear will be $10,000,000. His lifetime expenses in this job will be $50,000 in dry cleaning of his bear suit, $200,000 in food (because Paris only gives him bear food), and $3,000,000 in costs associated with failed escape attempts. Instead, Butters could become an author; not just any author, but the genius voice of our generation who changes literature as we know it (like Kanye or Pitbull, but for books). His lifetime earnings as an author would be $8,000,000. His expenses for this job would be $20,000 in materials and office equipment, along with $500,000 for a rural home in which to work and live. He would have to borrow the money for those expenses, and he would have to pay back $10,000 in interest. Finally, while he is unemployed and working on his first novel, he could be earning $500,000 working as Paris Hilton’s pet bear.

What is Butters’ accounting profit of being Paris Hilton’s pet bear (show your work)?

What is Butters’ accounting profit of becoming an author (show your work)?

What is Butters’ economic profit of being Paris Hilton’s pet bear (show your work)?

What is Butters’ economic profit of becoming an author (show your work)?

Butters must make a binary choice. Should he be Paris Hilton’s pet bear, or should he become an author? Why should he make that choice

Evidence-based medicine (EBM), previously translational medicine, can be defined as improving care based on empirical research and/or hands-on practice. The EBM’s approach is based on either direct patient care (bottom-up) or an experiment translated into guidelines (top-down). EBM is used in either in conjunction or as quality assessment tool(s) for continuous quality improvement (CQI). The healthcare leader must utilize the evidence to promote healthcare quality.

Explain the process of evidence-based analysis.
Highlight the major players and their roles in EBM policy (i.e., government, providers, patients, etc.).
Explain the EBM “Levels of Evidence” as defined in your course text.
Review the case “Constraints of the ACA on Evidence-Based Medicine.”
Provide a written analysis of the case “Constraints of the ACA on Evidence-Based Medicine” in Chapter 9 of your textbook. (Utilize the “Levels of Evidence and Grades of Recommendations” as defined by the National Guideline) Clearinghouse.
Summarize the policy of EBM in your conclusion.

Your paper

Must be 4 to 6 double-spaced pages in length (not including title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined .
Must include a separate title page with the following:
Title of paper
Student’s name
Course name and number
Instructor’s name
Date submitted
Must use at least four scholarly sources in addition to the course text.
Must document all sources in APA style as outlined