...CS113: Academic Strategies for the Business Professional Unit 6 Critical Thinking and Research Assignment Full Name: Two-digit Section #: Instructions: Download this document to your computer before filling it out. Save using “Save As” and add your name to the front removing the phrase “YourName.” All of the gray boxes below should be appropriately filled in and the document saved again before submitting to the Unit 6 Dropbox. Please read through the following comments carefully to see why we are focusing on critical thinking and online research. Make sure to pay special attention to the two comments in highlighted in red: “The World Wide Web can be a great place to accomplish research on many topics. But putting documents or pages on the web is easy, cheap, or free, unregulated, and unmonitored (at least in the USA). There is a famous Steiner cartoon published in the New Yorker (July 5, 1993) with two dogs sitting before a terminal looking at a computer screen; one says to the other ‘On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.’ The great wealth that the Internet has brought to so much of society is the ability for people to express themselves, find one another, exchange ideas, discover possible peers worldwide they never would have otherwise met, and, through hypertext links in web pages, suggest so many other people's ideas and personalities to anyone who comes and clicks. There are some real "dogs" out there, but there's also great treasure. Therein...
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...The course Academic Strategies for the Business Professional has affected my development as a student and also prepared me for my academic success. I have become a stronger candidate to enter the business world because of this class. I will continue to apply what I have learned in this course in order to achieve my goals. I am grateful for everything I have learned throughout this course. This course has had a positive affect on my development as a student. Throughout the first weeks I learned how to correctly manage my stress and time. This assisted me a lot as it was a stressful time in my life when I began this course. I was able to begin using a calendar, which helped keep me on track and make me a better student. I now know that I am more of a visual learner and I understand what I need to do in order to learn more efficiently. Another way that I have become a better student is by learning reading and note taking skills. I previously had no method of doing either and would lose track of what I was doing. Now that I have taken this course, I am able to comprehend what I am reading by using the strategies that were presented to me. This course has prepared me for my academic success. It has given me the tools that I need to excel in my academic life. Multiple key concepts in this course have made me a stronger candidate to enter the business world. The first concept is critical thinking, which was covered in unit six. It is important to be able to think critically in...
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...Instructions: Download this document to your computer before filling it out. All of the gray boxes below should be appropriately filled in and the document saved again before submitting to the Unit 4 dropbox. Paragraph Writing Paragraph #1: Purpose: Describe Write a complete paragraph about a person who has influenced you in positive ways. Focus on at least one way in which this person has made an important impact upon you. Use specific ideas and examples to illustrate your points and make sure to refer to the Paragraph Structure chart located at the end of the Unit 4 Reading. Include a topic sentence, supporting details and a conclusion (minimum 5 complete sentences). There have been many people who have influenced various aspects of my life and career; based on their values, characteristics and commitment. Out of all the people that I’ve encountered, the person that stands out the most, who has influenced me in a positive way; has been my first “Supervisor”. In the five years that I have known and reported to her, she helped me to enhance my attributes in financial reporting within the healthcare company we worked for. One of my responsibilities was to analyze the finances and report them to senior management. During my tenure with my supervisor; she taught me how to navigate and understand the process of the financial reporting within the healthcare company, relative to our work. Nonetheless, with this new knowledge and understanding; my reporting...
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...Strategies for Becoming an Effective Academic Writer COM/150 September 27, 2012 Strategies for Becoming an Effective Academic Writer • Consider how the writing process you read about in this class differs from the process you have used in the past. What specifically have you done in the past compared to what you have read about this week? In the past I never have really created a Thesis Statement, I did not even know what one really was. I use to just run with my thoughts in my writing, I always felt I explained early in the writing what I was trying to get across. After I learned greater detail of a Thesis I went back to look at my previous papers, and I noticed I never had a thesis, it was more along the lines of a point versus explaining my opinion, but I received a grade for having a proper thesis. Another thing that I picked up on was outlining. This is also completely new to me. I always thought outlining was used to just show major points of topics and sub-topics. I have also played with this a little bit, and I have realized this does make the writing process a lot easier as I am not constantly rereading a topic to look for that important point I want to get across to my audience. In the past I have always knew what I wanted to write about, and knew how I wanted to get it across to the readers. I always thought I was a good writer as previously I have never had a Defense Attorney attack my report in a criminal proceeding; I have never left room...
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...Hong Kong - SHAPE Strategic Management (Business & Finance) SHAPE HK Individual coursework (40%) General guidance to students on content and approach The word limit is 2,000 words (plus or minus ten percent), including any appendix but excluding your table of references. You should indicate the number of words in your assignment on the cover. NOTE: The ability to communicate a cogent and coherent argument in a limited number of words is an academic skill required of students at level 6. Therefore anything you write beyond 2200 words will not be read. Late submission of course work will be dealt with under standard University regulations, which are available through the student portal. Assignment Question: Identify and analyse the factors that encourage internationalisation by organisations (50%). Organisations that seek to develop an international strategy have a range of strategies available. Evaluate each of these strategies (50%) What you need to do to get a good grade. 1. Read the question - You will notice that the essay has two parts to the question. Remember you must answer the entire question. The brackets offer some advice about the length of each section. 2. Understand what is being asked of you. There are three key words in the question these are 'Identify' and 'Analyse' in the first part of the question and 'Evaluate' in the second part of the question. Identify - find out, name, ascertain the factors or information that is under investigation. ...
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...interaction with text, and improves through explicit teaching of specific cognitive strategies. More specifically, the rationale for explicitly teaching comprehension skills is that comprehension can be improved by teaching students to reason strategically when they encounter barriers to understanding what they are reading (National Reading Panel, 2000). The NRP reviewed over four hundred studies on text comprehension and found that there are seven instructional strategies that appear to have a solid scientific basis for students to increase comprehension. The first strategy is Comprehension Monitoring which involves students reading text with an aggressive awareness of when they do and don’t understand something. The second strategy is Cooperative Learning, which involves students working on clearly defined reading tasks in small groups or as partners. The third strategy is the Use of Graphic Organizers or Story Maps. This helps display concepts and interrelationships among concepts in text through the use of diagrams. The fourth strategy is Question Answering, which involves students answering questions posed by the teacher, and includes immediate teacher feedback. The fifth strategy is to Generate Questions. This involves teaching students to ask their own questions prior to reading by scanning the text and then having students read the text to answer their questions. The sixth strategy is...
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...Strategy Recommendation Pre-Writing Lutricia Hunter Capella University ABSTRACT A strategy recommendation is a business plan that is use to make a business more profitable and efficient. A business uses strategy recommendations to create goals and strategies for the company. Strategy recommendations help a business to better understand what a customer wants. The presented assignment I will discuss the strategy recommendation for JcPenney. This assignment will identify the specific business that I will use for the recommendation, the reason why I chose that particular business, and two academic resources from the Capella University’s Library. A strategy recommendation is a business plan that is use to make a business more profitable and efficient. A business uses strategy recommendations to create goals and strategies for the company. Strategy recommendations help a business to better understand what a customer wants. The presented assignment will discuss the strategy recommendation for JC Penney. This assignment will identify the specific business that I will use for the recommendation, the reason why I chose that particular business, and two academic resources from the Capella University’s Library. Identity of the Specific Business That I Will Use For Strategy Recommendation The business that I will be using for my strategy recommendation is JC Penney. JcPenney was created in Kemmerer, WY in 1902 by James Cash Penney. Penney called his first store the “Golden...
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...Learning Arrangement 1. Introduction of the strategy of McDonalds The world’s leading foodservice retailer is McDonalds. McDonalds possesses more than 34.000 local restaurants in 119 countries. McDonalds mainly sells fast-food, such as French fries and hamburgers. In this chapter the strategy of McDonalds will be analyzed. A strategy is a long term plan regarding the mission of an organization. This plan will indicate which objectives they want to achieve and what kind of resources they are intending to use. The strategy of McDonalds is focused on the arrangements within the company, its franchisees and suppliers, which has been key to McDonald’s success. This enables the organization to deliver a consistent experience to its customers and meeting the customers’ needs and preferences. McDonalds owns a customer-focused “Plan to Win”, which is focused on five elements: People, Products, Place, Price and Promotion. This plan is a framework for its global business, which allows for implement adjustments in every segment of their organization and to enhance the experience of customers worldwide. The business structure of McDonalds is based on a geographic structure. Its operations is divided in five divisions: United States, Europe, Asia, Latin America and Canada. Therefore, the important strategic approach is to maintain its leading position by expanding and maintaining its business. Besides, McDonalds has to consider different needs of different customers in...
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...please include an assignment cover sheet. This will become the first page of your assignment. In addition, your assignment header should include your last name, first initial, course code, dash, and assignment number. This should be left justified, with the page number right justified. For example: SMITHTMGT7000-8-3 | Save a copy of your assignments: You may need to re-submit an assignment at your instructor’s request. Make sure you save your files in accessible location. Academic integrity: All work submitted in each course must be your own original work. This includes all assignments, exams, term papers, and other projects required by your instructor. Knowingly submitting another person’s work as your own, without properly citing the source of the work, is considered plagiarism. This will result in an unsatisfactory grade for the work submitted or for the entire course. It may also result in academic dismissal from the University. | | MGT7000-8-3 | David Bouvin | | | Strategy Development | Assignment 3 | | | No comments ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Faculty Use Only ------------------------------------------------- <Faculty comments here> ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- <Faculty Name> <Grade Earned> <Writing Score> <Date Graded>Workers The Strategic Planning Process ...
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...Shidler College of Business University of Hawai´i at Mānoa Vietnam MBA Program Fall 2011 BUS 632—Business Strategy Dates of Course: Oct. 20 - 29 Professor James Richardson BusAd C501f Office Phone: 956-7270 Email: jamesr@hawaii.edu Course Outline and Objectives: BUS 632 covers strategic management as an integrating paradigm for your business knowledge. The aim is to develop an understanding of the strategic challenges facing managers in competitive markets. Globalization, foreign competition, and rapidly changing technology have sharply increased the intensity of competition in most industries. We will learn how leading firms have devised strategies, structured, and managed their organizations to achieve competitive advantage in this challenging environment. Strategic management deals with uncertainty and unstructured situations. You will learn tools and concepts for putting some structure into your analysis of strategic issues. But most strategic choices require judgment. Case studies enable us to test our judgment and learn vicariously from successful and unsuccessful managers in a variety of situations. Hence, class discussion of the cases is a central part of your learning experience. Methods: We will combine cases, lectures, individual and group papers and presentations. Pre-requisites: First semester of Core. Textbook: Jay Barney, Gaining and Sustaining Competitive Advantage, Fourth Edition. Case Packet will be available. Assignments and Grading: 1. Participation: (15%)...
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...“Strategy articulates the firm’s preferred environment and the type of organisations it is striving to become.” – Hiroyuki Itami. Discuss why an understanding of strategy and strategic management is fundamental to an organisations success. There is no one specific and definitive meaning to the word strategy. You would generally consider strategy to be the process involved in setting goals and objectives and then, ultimately the way's of achieving these goals through the designated and limited resources. Strategy describes how a firm will achieve their goals using the necessary resources. The firms Strategy will generally be established by the leaders in an organisation. Strategy can be intentional or emergent. Mc Keown argued that strategy is about shaping the future. Mintzberg thinks its a pattern in a stream of decisions. They both think strategy is a very important part of any firm and what the firm is striving to be. The key steps in planning a strategy is usually coordinated by the top management. This involve Mintzberg's 5 P's for strategy: The consist of…. A plan, A pattern, A position, A prospective, A ploy. Plan, Strategy is a plan, usually an intended course of action, a way to deal with a situation. By this definition, strategies have two essential characteristics, they are made in advance of the actions to which they apply, and they are developed consciously and purposefully. Ploy Like plan, a strategy can be a ploy too, its really just a specific manoeuvre...
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...BUS 490 Week 8 Assignment 2 Assignment 2: Preparing a Comprehensive Case Analysis, Part 2 Due Week 8 and worth 275 points Write a 5-6 page paper in which you complete the remaining steps of a comprehensive written analysis as described in Part 6 of the textbook, specifically: 1. Prepare any two (2) of the following matrices to justify the strategies you will be recommending: SWOT Matrix, SPACE Matrix, BCG Matrix, IE Matrix, Grand Strategy Matrix, and QSP Matrix. 2. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of at least two (2) alternative strategies. 3. Recommend specific strategies and objectives for the firm to follow over the next three (3) years. Include an itemized estimate of costs for each year. 4. Compare and contrast your recommendations to the actual strategies planned by the company. 5. Specify how your recommendations can be implemented and the results you expect. Include a recommended timetable for the action items you are suggesting. 6. Explain in detail how you will review and evaluate the success of the strategies you recommended. 7. Research and cite at least three (3) reputable, academic sources. 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...
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...IT STRATEGIC PLANNING “You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there.” Yogi Berra BACKGROUND Henry Mintzberg, former president of the Strategic Management Society, points out that “strategy can not be planned because planning is about analysis and strategy is about synthesis.” 1 Failure to recognize this basic distinction accounts for the frequent failure of such exercises, as does an excessive focus on technical detail, lack of suitable leadership, and perhaps most important, failure to align technology to institutional mission and priorities. Strategic planning involves a structure or framework, a set of procedures (both formal and informal), and of course content. Beyond these basic elements, the underlying assumptions about strategic planning are that the future can be anticipated, forecasted, managed or even controlled, and that the best way to do so is to have a formal and integrated plan about it in place. The process of planning itself may turn out to be more important than the results, and that process requires, as Mintzberg suggests, both analysis and synthesis. Planning simply introduces a formal “discipline” for conducting long-term thinking about an institution, and for recognizing opportunities in and for minimizing risks from the external and internal environments. Among the hundreds available, perhaps the most well-know model of strategic planning has the SWOT (for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities...
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...1. In general, what are the strengths and weaknesses of Peace Medical? There are several strengths in Peace Medical. First, it is a successful company which has its own organizational culture and well-planned organizational develop strategy. It also had developed a sound organizational structure and had managed to staff key functional areas. Second, Peace Medical had cultivated an established set of clients throughout China and had accumulated an array of tangible assets and had established good relationships with several key stakeholders and a strong reputation. Third, Peace Medical had solicited the advice of different management consulting firms. This helped them developed a better understanding of the overall Chinese market and identify strategic priorities. Most of the weaknesses of Peace Medical reflected in the ways the company deals with the uncertainties. For instance, it lacks the competencies to gain a competitive advantage in the medical supply industry because it doesn't have deep knowledge about the entire supply chain. What's more, Peace Medical doesn't have a successful strategic alliance with a company that specialized in knowledge promotion and marketing. In addition, the strategy which Peace Medical currently has cannot guarantee that they can adjust the new developments in the external environment. 2. How can Peace Medical attain the five medium-term strategic objectives Jiang has articulated? A. Improve internal processes 1) Employees; to choose...
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...Assignment 2, BUS 490 Week 8 Assignment 2 Assignment 2: Preparing a Comprehensive Case Analysis, Part 2 Due Week 8 and worth 275 points Write a 5-6 page paper in which you complete the remaining steps of a comprehensive written analysis as described in Part 6 of the textbook, specifically: 1. Prepare any two (2) of the following matrices to justify the strategies you will be recommending: SWOT Matrix, SPACE Matrix, BCG Matrix, IE Matrix, Grand Strategy Matrix, and QSP Matrix. 2. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of at least two (2) alternative strategies. 3. Recommend specific strategies and objectives for the firm to follow over the next three (3) years. Include an itemized estimate of costs for each year. 4. Compare and contrast your recommendations to the actual strategies planned by the company. 5. Specify how your recommendations can be implemented and the results you expect. Include a recommended timetable for the action items you are suggesting. 6. Explain in detail how you will review and evaluate the success of the strategies you recommended. 7. Research and cite at least three (3) reputable, academic sources. 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...
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