...intelligence: decision locus and political hotbed By: Julie Stephens Case, Module 2 ITM 501: Mgt. Info. Syst. And Bus. Strategy Trident University Dr. James Marion, Core Professor October 25, 2011 To have a successful organization in today’s economy; employees must be given the tools needed to keep up with the changing market. Many top executives have made tough decisions and have made good decisions and poor decisions along the way regarding Business Intelligence. Business Intelligence (BI) is a term that refers to a variety of software applications used to analyze an organization’s data. It is a discipline made up of several activities, including data mining, analytical processing, query and report writing. This paper will discuss two Business Intelligence case studies and lessons learned from the studies regarding creating, implementing, and using business intelligence. LESSONS LEARNED Reviewing Marshfield Clinic’s early investment in an electronic patient records system is a concern. Although many clinics are turning to electronic patient records now, an early investment may mean that the system they elected to implement is not capable with newer technologies that management may want to incorporate in the future. Not anticipating changes and making preparations for it could cause issues later. Because this system has been utilized by the clinic for a period of time, did they take into consideration the increasing amount of patient...
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...Since Roe was decided in 1973, there have been countless efforts by anti-abortion activists to enact state laws that restrict abortion rights, often in the guise of protecting women’s health. But few laws have gone as far as the Texas statute, which places so heavy a burden on hundreds of thousands of women across the state — particularly those in poorer rural areas — that it has effectively destroyed their constitutional right to an abortion. Lawmakers claimed that the law, which requires abortion clinics to meet the strict standards of ambulatory surgical centers and their doctors to have admitting privileges at local hospitals, was necessary to protect women’s health. Everyone knows this is a lie. Even the law’s backers have openly admitted...
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...This case study describes the lawsuit between Greg Mitchell, Sara Hartman, Dangerfield Inc., Continental Concessions and Sandman Resorts. Sara Hartman arrived at Sandman Resorts, where she planned on staying a week as a guest. Heavy snowfall was increasing at six inches a day and even though the driveway had been cleared earlier that day, snow continued to coat the pavement. Greg Mitchell, the valet parking attendant, gave Hartman a receipt that stated “The Management is Not Responsible for Damages Incurred by Valet Parking Customers” on the back but Hartman did not read it. She began walking in between the cars just as Mitchell started to accelerate forward. When he saw Hartman between the two cars, he attempted to brake but hit the accelerator instead. This caused Hartman to be wedged in between the two cars. In order to help her, Mitchell got out of the car, but slipped on the icy pavement causing injuries to himself. Both Mitchell and Hartman suffered severe injuries from the accident. Hartman sued Mitchell, Dangerfield, Sandman, and Continental, while Mitchell sued Hartman, Continental, Dangerfield, and Sandman for negligence and for the dangerous conditions that caused the accidents. In this scenario, Dangerfield Inc. and Continental Concessions, LLC are sister companies and are wholly owned subsidiaries of Sandman Resorts, and s-corporation. Continental Concessions is a limited liability company (LLC), which is a partnership that allows tax treatment with limited liability...
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...Financial Forecasting: Riverview Community Hospital Alpine Village Clinic is a small walk-in clinic located next to the primary ski area of Alpine Village, a winter resort close to Aspen, Colorado. The clinic specializes in treating injuries sustained while skiing. It is owned and operated by two physicians: James Peterson, an orthopedist, and Amanda Cook, an internist (Gapenski and Pink, 2009). The clinic has an outside accountant who takes care of payroll matters, but Dr. Cook does all the other financial work for the clinic. However, to help in that task, the clinic recently hired a part-time MBA student, Doug Washington. First Bank of Aspen is the primary lender of Alpine Village and due to a forecasted reduction in bank deposits, First Bank has asked each of its commercial loan customers for an estimate of its borrowing requirements for the first half of 2010 (Gapenski and Pink, 2009). Dr. Cook asked Doug to come up with an estimate of the clinic’s line-of-credit requirements to submit at the meeting. A line of credit is a short-term loan agreement by which a bank agrees to lend a business some specified maximum amount. The business can borrow against the credit line at any time it is in force, which typically is no longer than one year. When a line expires, it will have to be renegotiated if it is still needed. The amount borrowed on the line, or some lesser amount, can be repaid at any time, but any amount outstanding must be repaid at expiration (Gapenski and Pink, 2009)...
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...Same sex couples that decide to have children are a big issue today because it seems to still be new to some. Some judges that have to make decisions on child custody cases dealing with same sex parents have to update themselves with the new laws dealing with same sex relationships. Some judges end up getting their cases overturned if they are not attentive to the new laws. Invitro also has had some complications with the rights of the parents. In all the children’s welfare is the most important thing in these situations. Same sex parents have equal parental rights as the standard male and female parents. After they split and have a child or children involved they can end up having a custody battle. Judges have to be very careful and be very educated on this matter in order not to end having their judgment overturned because they simply violated the other parent’s constitutional rights. This happened in a case I read about dealing with a same sex couple that split up and had a child. The partner of a lesbian birth mother in a civil partnership can now be considered in law to be the child's second parent, if the child was born after 6 April 2009, and can be named on the child's birth certificate (http://www.bionews.org.uk/page_116900.asp). The male sperm donor did not want to be involved at all. This just left the two ladies battling it out for parental rights. The female that carried the child thought she had all the legal rights as the parent but it played out differently. The...
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...Wal-Mart: Is There a Downside to Going Upscale? Wal-Mart is an American public multinational corporation which operates in different product lines. It has food and beverages, clothing, consumer electronics, as well as medical clinics. However, the company faced problems with slowing growth and rocky transitions leading them to some changes, developments and innovations to improve their competitive edge. Wal-Mart has been affected by the changes in the external environment. Before, consumers patronize their low-priced goods. They were just selling low-priced apparels, which were regarded as cheap. However, as time pass by, markets have been saturated. Consumers’ preferences changed, and what they need to do is to adapt with those changes to avoid being left out. Wal-mart is trying to match up with its chief discount rival, the Target. Due to the change that happened, Wal-mart was forced to move to selling of high-end and trendy products. Their products were priced high, and at the same time they are marketing its quality. Demographics also caused the change. They are targeting the aging baby boomers – those where the group of people with high spending power. To ensure that the strategy will be a success, they opened an experimental store wherein they noticed that the sale of expensive consumer electronics topped Wal-mart’s income, compared to the previous years, that the company’s major source of income is the food and beverages. There is also a clothing line, Metro 7, which...
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...Case Who is suing whom? What is the cause of action? What is being claimed? Who won? Urzi V. Board of Education for the Borough of North York (Icy Sidewalk Case) Parent suing the school board Fall at the schoolyard led to a injury in the knee; fell in Europe leading to a hip fracture from a weak knee Claiming recovering for damages sustained in her second fall Plaintiff aka the Parent Hedley Byrne & Co Ltd. V. Heller and Partners Ltd. (Bank case) Investor (3rd Party – Adv. Co) suing Bank Advertiser wanted to make sure that Easipower was suitable for investing in so ask Bank if they could determine if they were reliable and trustworthy for an amount of $100,000 per annum Claiming recover of the money loss when Easipower went into Liquidation ($17,000) Plaintiff aka Hedley Byrne the advertising company Dixon V. Deacon (Auditor case) Shareholder suing the auditors Dixon purchased shares off of another individual in the company known as NBS based on parts of the audited financial statements Money loss in investment of NBS Defendant aka Deacon. Case was dismissed Hagerman V. City of Niagara Falls Et Al (Hockey case) Resident suing the City At a hockey game, sitting behind the goalie, a net is up for pucks that fly over the board, during the game a puck flies over the board and over the netting used to catch the pucks. At point in time...
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...Hyperthyroidism according to The Mayo Clinic (2015), is a condition in which your thyroid gland produces too much of the hormone thyroxine. In simple terms the thyroid becomes over active. This will increase the body’s metabolism in which a variety of symptoms may occur. These symptoms range from weight-loss, anxiety, fatigue, and heart rate and blood pressure increase. The patient can receive treatments such as, radioactive iodine, anti-thyroid medications, tyroidectomy, and beta blockers (symptom relief only). Those people who are more at risk are women, and those above the age of sixty. Also, a diet high in iodine, salt water fish consumption, can lead to hyperthyroidism. Grave’s disease, an autoimmune disorder is the most common cause of...
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...nevertheless that could change. The law regarding abortion and women’s rights are being observed at for changes for the worst, the elimination of abortion clinics, a diminution in the number of qualified abortionists and the harassing of women who consider an abortion. This raises an important question, “Should the decision of having an abortion be up to the mother or society?” To decide which choice is right, stakeholders will be analysed and issues surrounding abortion will be looked at. Though the ideal choice is for the mother to decide. Abortions are the deliberate termination...
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...professional performed abortions. Women are often denied the procedure and sent to clinics outside of Prince Edward Island to receive proper care. This province is very Catholic, therefore majority of the citizens are in favour of the government not funding abortions. Nearly all hospitals in any Maritime Provinces will not perform abortions on women from outside of the province. Women who get this of news are left “confused and scared about what was happening inside”(Harrowing Experiences of Medical Abortions on Canada's Prince Edward Island Renews Criticism) their bodies. As a result, close to 200 women from Prince Edward Island will travel to Nova Scotia or New Brunswick...
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...CHRISTINE HARRIS-VAN KEUREN ELIOT SHERMAN Cleveland Clinic Dr. Delos “Toby” Cosgrove, cardiothoracic surgeon and president and CEO of Cleveland Clinic, emerged from the operating room on a January afternoon in 1996 having just changed the way he, and subsequently the world, approached heart surgery. A trip to Stanford University Medical School had convinced him it was possible to operate on the valves of the heart through a three-inch incision instead of the nearly foot long incision that was standard practice before splitting the patient’s breastbone with a saw to reach the heart.1 After refining the technique in the lab, he had successfully performed the first such operation. Eight months later, Cosgrove performed two of these surgeries back-to-back, broadcasting his work live via satellite to 4,000 surgeons in 40 cities around the world. The Cleveland Clinic’s broadcasting capabilities facilitated this demonstration of the substantial benefits of his minimally invasive method of heart surgery, which reduced the risk of infection and involved less bleeding, pain, and trauma, significantly reduced the amount of time needed for recovery, and could be used in about three quarters of the heart valve surgeries performed in the United States.2 So compelling was this exhibition that within a year use of the technique had “exploded” throughout the medical community.3 Such innovation had been the lifeblood of Cleveland Clinic since its founding in 1921. Even as he continued early...
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...Abortion In Thai Perspective By Nattapong Pienpitak ID : 213210116 ENG 103 Stamford University International College 9th December, 2014 Introduction Abortion or some says “miscarriage” has a long story and can be dated back to our ancient civilization such as China, Egypt, and Roman empires. There are several evidences to indicate that abortion is committed since ancient time. There are many ways to abort fetus inside mother’s stomach which are considered all inhumane, however, people still doing it till this very day. There are three main methods of abortion which people use around the world which are, medical abortion, surgical abortion, and other methods. However, the information in this essay will not focus on the process of those abortions, but it will mention why people should oppose abortion especially Thailand. According to Population Policy Data Bank (2012), in late 1970, more than 300,000 illegal abortions were performed in rural area of Thailand and most of operations were performed by untrained or non-medical personnel. Thailand is one of the countries that have alarming abortion rates in the world which is considered to be very unacceptable because Thailand is a Buddhist country. Abortion in Thailand is seen by large majority of Thai people as murder. In other word, in public perspective, abortion is considered to be very fatal and can be considered as last alternative. There are three main understandable reasons for Thai...
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...Abortion: Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice ENGL 135, Composition Abortion: Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice Abortion is when a woman’s pregnancy is surgically terminated through the use of surgical methods or medication (Planned Parenthood, 2014). The risks associated with having an abortion are excessive bleeding which can result in death, damage to the cervix, and damage to the womb which can lead to inability to have children in the future (NHS.uk, 2014). Abortion is a very controversial topic that everyone has a different opinion on. Even though the U.S. Supreme Court declared abortions a fundamental right in the Roe v. Wade case in 1973, Americans are still divided about whether or not the procedure should be legal (ProCon.org, 2015). Although, abortion is not an option for myself, but do support women’s right to choose what is best for their own bodies and circumstances. Opponents of abortion identify themselves as pro-life. They believe that human life has value and everyone should be given a chance to live and not be murdered by having an abortion. They also believe that personhood begins at conception, and therefore abortion is the immoral killing of an innocent human being (Procon.org, 2015). They also believe that abortion inflicts suffering on the unborn child. It is unfair to allow abortion when there are couples who cannot biologically conceive and are willing and waiting to adopt (Procon.org, 2015). Pro-life supporters believe that human life is precious, worth living...
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...Chapter 1 Problems 3. An orthopedic group practice has decided to develop a pediatric sports medicine program. Identify potential target markets for this new service. Potential target markets for this service would be in an inner city community that has a concentrated amount of middle/high school consumers with multiple athletic programs. Being in the inner city, potential consumers would typically resort to the emergency room, urgent care clinic, or a pediatrician. Another potential target market could be a pediatric medical group with sub-specialties. The available specialties are endocrinology, psychology, and cardiology. Adolescent child tend to break bones frequently. Having a pediatric sports medicine department would be beneficial with therapy and healing. 4. In developing the new pediatric sports medicine program, what are some of the uncontrollable environmental factors to consider? Some uncontrollable environment factors to consider in this market would be Economical, Social, and Rivaling Competitors. 5. A major concern for many health care professionals is the belief that marketing “creates” needs. Explain the complexity of this issue. Marketing in healthcare does not create needs. A “need” is defined as a “condition in which there is a deficiency of something”. In the above orthopedic group practice, they realized that there was a need/want for a pediatric sports medicine program. Health care professional’s responsibility demands treatment of that need...
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...Exit-Voice-Loyalty-Neglect (EVLN) model is an important framework used to describe employee responses to job dissatisfaction in one of four ways: by exiting, speaking out about it, loyalty, or job neglect. Based on these ideas of the EVLN model, Wendy has allowed conditions to worsen by enforcing the ‘neglect’ approach when she decided to take time off work. In addition, she had unsuccessfully attempted to voice her level of job dissatisfaction to any of the staff until the recent outburst that occurred at Tanya’s office doorway. According to Lee and Whitford (2007, p. 3) although “Voice can be a substitute for exit, and exit can be a ‘reaction of last resort’ when voice fails” without the presence of loyalty the likely outcome of all situations is ‘exit’. For this reason, it can be stated that the most likely future actions of Wendy will be to ‘exit’ the clinic or to be repositioned in a new department because she cannot no longer show...
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