Category: Essays

Discussion Topic: You the Consumer

How does competition amongst companies affect you in your daily life (personal and or professional)? Provide a real-world experience that might apply. For instance, consider how you recently chose between at least two products or services offered from rival companies.

What factors made you decide to purchase one over the other? How do these companies compete?

Please respond to this topic in the Discussion Board link in the left navigation.

Be sure to review the Discussion Rubric in the Syllabus

Computer Science Paper 500 words

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What do wireless clients use to identify a specific wireless access point?
How do multiple access points identify themselves as part of the same network?
What are the differences between 802.11a and 802.11g specifications?
Devices that support the 802.11g standards are typically compatible with which other wireless standard?
How does MIMO differ from channel bonding?

Analyzing and Evaluating Introductions and Purpose Statements 2 pages/500words 3 sources apa format due in 4 hours from now

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The attachment labeled “Article B” is the main article to use for the assignment. The other attachments are needed to do the assignment as well, but Article B is what needs to be used.

I have also added a little more info on what needs to be done.

Review Chapters 5 and 6 in the course text, Research Design.
Review the book excerpt “A Typology of Research Purposes and Its Relationship to Mixed Methods.”
Review the annotated journal article “Developing Long-Term Physical Activity Participation: A Grounded Theory Study With African American Women,” which is annotated to reveal the how an introduction and purpose statement function.
Look to the Introduction Checklist and Purpose Statement Checklist for more guidance in analyzing and evaluating the introduction and purpose statement in your assigned article.
Identify the purpose for research in your article according to the nine purposes of research found in “A Typology of Research Purposes and Its Relationship to Mixed Methods.” It is possible that your assigned article may have more than one purpose.
Assess and evaluate the introductions and purpose statements. As part of the evaluation, be sure to describe how well the introduction achieves its purpose and, if applicable, include suggestions for improvement.

With these thoughts in mind:

Post by Day 3 a 3-paragraph analysis and evaluation of the article’s introduction and purpose statement. Be sure to include which one (or more, if applicable) of the nine purposes for research from “A Typology of Research Purposes and Its Relationship to Mixed Methods” the article represents. Then, in a final paragraph, ask any questions you may have about introductions and purpose statements.

Investment Performance and Decisions

From the e-Activity, predict the performance of the DOW for the next two years. Provide support for your prediction.
Analyze the factors that influence investment decisions at different stages in an investor’s life cycle, and make a recommendation at which stage the average investor should consider financial investments. Provide support for your recommendation.

What is the difference between a dump and a sanitary landfill? Describe how landfill gas and leachate can be successfully managed.

Your response should be at least 150 words in length. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

2. What is the TRI and what are its main drawbacks? How do you think those drawbacks could be addressed?

Your response should be at least 150 words in length. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

With your analysis complete, prepare a brief summary in which you relate the components of ethics, legality, and fairness in decision making. How does effective organizational communication support ethical and legal decision making that one would also deem fair? Is it always possible to make a fair decision based on the necessary ethical and legal implications? Why or why not?

Support your paper with a minimum of two scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including older articles, may be included.

Length: 3 pages, not including title and reference pages

Your paper should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards

Construct an Excel table with the following columns: Decision, Ethical Implications, Legal Implications, and Fairness Implications. Then, use the Internet or library research to find three decisions made by three different corporate CEO’s within the last 5 years. At least one of the decisions must be international in nature. Summarize each decision in the first three rows of the first column. Next, assess the ethical, legal, and fairness dimensions of each decision as related to the health of the company and enter your analysis to the appropriate cells in the table.

The table should have a total of 12 populated cells. Each cell should contain a minimum of 75 words. Format the table so that all of the text in each cell is visible without the reader having to modify table formatting in any way

For all discussions in the class, please create ONE thread containing your responses to all the questions.Then as your classmates create other threads, read the thread and respond. Thus your overall effort will be the thread you create plus your replies to others ( TWO)’ threads. For your own thread please be thorough and thoughtful and cite specific ways the question and or video has been applied to your own job. Also, please make your thread by THURSDAY night 11:59 so others can spend the rest of the week replying. Students creating threads after Thursday will be subject to points loss.

Week 1 Questions

1. Watch the video, Developing the CEO Within You. Are you cannon fodder in your present job or are they developing you into a leader?

2. How has your appreciation for good relations with your supervisor changed as a result of the reading, “Don’t Forget Your Boss”?

3. Evaluate a specific unethical act by the business community with which you are familiar such as theEnron collapse, the Madoff scheme or the Wall Street mortgage banking scandals etc. How do these unethical actions relate to the material in Chapter 4 of the text?

Discussion 6.1 supply chains

Discuss the following:

a. Why is increased coordination needed to manage supply chains?

b. Give three examples.

c. How can coordination be increased both internally within the firm and externally with customers and suppliers?

These questions correspond with discussion questions 5 and 6 at the end of Chapter 10 in your textbook.

Discussion 6.2:Production Disruption

Watch the B2E Case Study 9 scenario “Production Disruption.” Identify the ethical issues that may be unique to the field of Operations Management in this company and the ethical issues relating to corporate responsibility. Discuss ways to successfully role-model and promote ethical values and principles with B2E.

Discussion 7:PERT and CPM

Review the material in sections 14.5 and 14.6 of your text. These sections provide an overview of the PERT and CPM methods of project scheduling. In addition, watch the second video clip (2514 KB) profiling the construction of the “super bridge” at Alton, Illinois, which provides an interesting comparison of these two methods. After reading both sections from your textbook and watching the video clip discuss these concepts.

Discussion 8:Lean concepts

There is an explanation of the lean thinking concepts on page 15 of your textbook. After reading this, explain how the lean thinking concept could be applied to inventory management.

LP6 Assignment: Boeing

Read the profile of Boeing and the company’s 787 Dreamliner found in your textbook. This profile serves as an excellent example of how a company used an infrastructure change to improve its supply chain.

In making this improvement, which of the five ways of implementing an infrastructure change, identified in section 10.6 of your text, did Boeing employ? Research a company that has used the second main approach (i.e., a structural change) which is commonly employed by organizations to improve their supply chains. Write a brief profile of the company you’ve selected following the pattern of the Boeing profile you’ve just examined. The profile should be one to two pages in length.

Submit this profile assignment to your instructor via the dropbox “LP6 Assignment: Boeing.” This assignment is worth 100 points and will be graded according to the following scale.

LP7 Assignment: Materials Planning

Chapter 16 in your textbook sets forth the fundamental principles essential for understanding the concept of materials requirements planning. Create a basic outline that captures the key points of the chapter. As a guide for your outline, it will be helpful to note the “key points” that are listed at the end of the chapter (section 16.8).

For a refresher lesson in creating an outline, refer to the NAU Research and Writing Center’s Research Writing Guide Tips.

Submit your outline to your instructor via the dropbox “LP7 Assignment: Materials Planning.” This assignment is worth 100 points and will be graded according to the following grading scale.

LP8 Assignment: Virtual Supply Chains

Locate two articles on the topic of virtual supply chains. Synthesize each article into a one-page summary using your own words. Include the following:

Definitions of virtual supply chains
How virtual supply chains function
Advantages of virtual supply chains
Disadvantages of virtual supply chains
How virtual supply chains have reshaped business sectors

Submit this assignment to your instructor via the dropbox “LP8 Assignment: Virtual Supply Chains.” This assignment is worth 100 points and will be graded according to the following grading scale.

Budgetary Priorities

The president and the Congress identify budgetary priorities by the level of funding appropriated to address those public policy problems. In a two- to three- page paper (not including title and references pages), identify and analyze a specific public policy problem that has not received sufficient funding from Washington or from your state. Consider an issue such as health care, education, veterans’ care, foreign aid, or job training programs. In your analysis, explain the policy issue, assess the funding situation, and analyze the impact of insufficient funding on stakeholders.

Your paper must be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the approved APA style guide and should cite at least one scholarly source in addition to the textbook.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.