irtual Private Networks (VPNs) are used to establish a secure remote connection. Examine whether or not they are totally secure and if not, what additional features would make them so. Explain whether or not you would use a VPN to establish a remote connection with your business? Why or why not? Provide a rationale for your response
Most Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) encrypt their traffic to make it secure. Examine the various types of encryptions and choose the one that you would recommend that your organization use. Provide a rationale for your response.
Prepare a 250- to 350 word brief comparing and contrasting policy monitoring and policy evaluation. This brief is intended for a high level executive of your agency/organization, so ensure that you keep it concise and relevant. Be sure to answer the following questions:
What is policy evaluation?
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines. At lease 3 references, NO PLAGIARISM, Word Count, Quality, time frame!!
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Thesis Statement
The main Assignment in this course (due in Unit 6) is to draft a Term Paper titled “A Case Study of _________________” which uses a real-world case study of crisis intervention.
In order to prepare you for the Assignment, you are asked in this unit to submit a one sentence thesis statement for your paper.
As a reminder, the thesis statement (TS) is the most important sentence of any paper you write and should be written before any other part of your paper. Your TS is the beacon for the rest of the paper and the body of your paper must follow and reinforce your TS.
Because your TS is the most critical part of your paper, you should write and edit it before you write any other part of your paper. If your TS is good, it is likely that the rest of your paper is good; if your TS is bad, it is highly likely your whole paper will be bad.
Below is a good six-part test to determine if you have a good TS:
Does it answer the question clearly and directly?
Does it tell you what you are going to cover in your paper; is it a good road map for your paper?
Does it have a point of view and include your opinion?
Does it engage the reader? Is it interesting, and thus memorable to the reader?
Does it answer the “so what” question? Why should the reader care about your point of view? Why is this important to the reader?
Is the writing sharp, crisp, and to the point?
A TS is NOT the following:
A restatement of the question
Boring and “blah”
Just a standard sentence
Rambling and unfocused
The question your paper should answer is: What are the lessons learned from your case study that can be used to better deploy crisis intervention in response to future traumatic incidents
One page, APA format, and at alteast one source. Please answer the two question below for the company PepsiCo;
Examine the costs of production for PepsiCo.
a) Analyze the various costs a firm faces, their trends over time, and how they have impacted PepsiCo profitability.
b) Apply the concepts of variable and fixed costs to your firm for informing its output decisions. For instance, analyze how different kinds of costs (labor, research and development, raw materials) affect the firm’s level of output.
The artist Georges Seurat is one of the world’s most fascinating artists. His technique of pointillism was pivotal in inspiring future generations of painters to think about painting in both individualistic and non-conformist ways. This week’s reading references many artists from different movements (i.e. Pablo Picasso, Leonardo da Vinci).
Conduct research on an artist from any movement that you find interesting. Choose one of their works. Analyze the image using the four visual cues from your reading: color, form, depth, and movement. Explain how the artist makes use of these four cues.
In your deconstruction of the image, also explain how the physiology of the eye helps you to see the four cues.
This paper should be 2-3 pages long. Be sure to cite any resources using proper APA notation.
With this paper there needs to have sub titles (E.g. Color, Form, Depth and movement). Also at the end of the introductory paragraph my professor wants to see a preview statement. so “This Paper will go over the color, form, depth and movement from “painting or picture.
Designing Value-Based Service
As the rate of innovation increases, companies face expanding product/service lines, shorter product and service lifecycles, and more frequent product/service transitions. All of these can bring tremendous value but also pose enormous challenges and risks.
The article “The Art of Managing New Product Transitions” by Erhun, Gonclave, and Hopman (2007) from the readings for this module includes a matrix titled “Product Drivers and Risk Factors,” which focuses on Intel, a company that manufactures high-tech products (p. 76). Based on your readings and research, address the following issues:
Redesign the product risk factor matrix so that the factors are appropriate for a services firm that delivers traditional tax accounting and audit services. For example, among the supply risks, assume that the company relies on individuals with specific knowledge of the tax law in the jurisdictions where its clients operate, be it state, federal, or foreign.
Now, assume that the firm wants to develop a management consultancy practice. (Alternatively, you may choose to add a legal services line instead.). Create a separate new matrix that summarizes the additional risk factors for this firm launching a management consultancy or legal services line. What additional risk factors are you adding to your matrix?
Explain how the business risks differ between traditional tax and audit services and management consulting services. In your opinion, what are the three biggest risks the firm faces if it diversifies into the new service line?
Recommend whether the firm should organically grow into a consultancy service or acquire a third party to achieve new goals. Justify your recommendations.
Develop a 7 slide presentation in PowerPoint format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M2_A2.ppt.
Be sure to include the following in your presentation:
A title slide
An agenda slide
A reference slide
Headings for each section
Speaker notes to support the content in each slide
n about 4 months, you will be graduating from the police academy. Your friend, Jim, works at the same precinct to which you are applying. You know that upon your employment with the law enforcement agency, you may be required to take a polygraph test with questions about prior arrests, drug use, or theft—any questions that could disqualify you as a police officer. Your friend tells you to lie on the questionnaire and not to include information from your old college days when you both were arrested for marijuana possession. Although the case was dismissed, it still is in the court system. Jim stated that his district does not employ the polygraph; it just has a questionnaire. Jim admitted to lying on his questionnaire to seek his employment.
Are ethics limited to duty, or does it extend to personal desires?
What are the implications of lying on a questionnaire even though the department may not find out the truth?
What would you gain if the truth was told?
If you do tell the truth, would you include the information regarding your friend, explaining that you and your friend were arrested?
Discuss the implications of including your arrest and the implications for including your friend. Use theoretical concepts associated with ethics to help you determine the consequences (good or bad) associated with immoral behaviors and how you formulate your decision
Outsourcing may provide tremendous advantages for firms. It may allow companies to specialize, reduce costs, and focus narrowly on the core competencies they deem strategic; however, companies also have to think about what they may lose both qualitatively and quantitatively. For example, when outsourcing, managers need to be certain that what they source from outside is not a key component of their value proposition.
A way to reduce those risks is to use an approach called vertical integration. The meaning of vertical integration is developing the ability to produce goods or services previously purchased or to actually buy a supplier or a distributor. It can take two forms: backward and forward. These forms relate to how the corporation moves in its supply chain to pursue the vertical integration. If the movement is towards the suppliers, it is called backward integration. Conversely, it is known as forward integration.
Using the module readings, Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet, research outsourcing. Based on your research, respond to the following:
What are the risks and benefits of the outsourcing approach?
What are the strategic advantages of outsourcing to vertically integrated firms?
ByJanuary 14, 2016, post your response to the appropriate Discussion Area. Through January 18, 2016, review and comment on at least two peers’ responses.
Write your initial response in 300–500 words. Your response should be thorough and address all components of the discussion question in detail, include citations of all sources, where needed, according to the APA Style, and demonstrate accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation
Library Research Assignment
2-4 pages APA Format Running head, number pages, abstract, Introduction, conclusion, references. No more than 20% Originality Verification
You are new member of internal affairs and are still getting to know everybody. You have been asked by your lieutenant to write a report using his notes on a case. Although there is a great deal of paperwork marked “Confidential,” he told you to only write the report based on what was in the blue folder. As you are writing the report, you opened the other folders in the packet and noticed that some information was left out—information that could implicate another officer in the field. The officer in the field is your lieutenant’s brother, who is a major in the city’s police department. You start to think that there may be a cover-up going on.
Using the library, Internet, or other media sources, find various articles pertaining to police corruption and misconduct to write a paper of 2–4 pages that discusses the following:
Should you do exactly what was asked of you, or should you approach the lieutenant’s supervisor?
What are the implications of writing the report as asked?
What are the implications of approaching your lieutenant’s supervisor?
What are the implications of the actions or nonactions in this situation that can impact your job status, other parties involved, and the community?
Incorporate theoretical concepts to associate this scenario with morality, ethics, and specific behaviors that influence the consequences (good or bad) associated with moral and immoral behaviors