...Brittney Hughes September 7, 2014 Each day children attend school to receive an education. But although school is necessary and beneficial for becoming productive citizens, there are experiences such as bullying and racism that make them not want to go. These experiences end up marking youth for the rest of their lives. Some children find an outlet to their problems by bulling others. Over the years bullying has grown tremendously affecting our schools and communities and as a result our future generations and their lively hood are at stake. Historically, bullying took place in the mid 1970s. Dan Olweus, a research professor of psychology, was the first to conduct an intensive study on bullying among students using his own systematic researching methods (Voo, 2007, p. 112). He created the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program (OBPP), which had significant results in reducing school bullying (Hazelden Foundation, 2007). Olweus’s efforts and solutions contributed greatly to the fight against bullying increasing awareness, initiating other professionals to conduct more research, and expanding the knowledge of bullying (Voo, 2007). Because of Olweus’s efforts researchers suggest that there have been a positive impact on decreasing school violence and bringing safety awareness to schools. Bullying and racism are problems that have been a part of America’s...
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...Case questions What are the strengths and weaknesses of scenario planning? What is your evaluation of UPS’s 1997 scenario planning exercise? Its Horizon 2017 planning exercise? How do the two efforts compare? Evaluate the following elements of UPS’s approach to strategic planning: The UPS charter The Centennial Plan The Strategy Road Map Why was John McDevitt put in charge of “strategic integration?” Should he remain in that role? What is the strength and weakness of scenario planning? Strength Build foundation for source of long term competitive advantage Provide backdrop of strategic decision (pg.6) • Acquisition of Mail Boxes Etc. Change mind-set • Make people think beyond the operational mind • Prepare to be proactive and creative Enable to be sensitive for change in external environment Alternative views of the future Provide and prepare the company for potential change in the future’s market. Weakness Lack of realism Requires learning curve to have adequate result Too abstract and difficult to apply Indirect linkage to daily operation or strategy Depend on participants’ motivation and knowledge Not point out the strengths and weakness of company What is your evaluation of UPS’s 1997 scenario planning exercise? Evaluation on 1997 Scenario planning Initiative to build foundation for source of long term competitive advantage Positive aspects • Become backdrop of UPS Charter and changed mission statement • Initiate...
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...TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION RESOURCES System Development Life Cycle Guide Version 1.1 ● 30 MAY 2008 Texas Project Delivery Framework SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE GUIDE Version History This and other Framework Extension tools are available on Framework Web site. Release Date Description 30-May-2008 Version 1.1 released. Modified all references to “Project Plan and related plans” to “Project Plan” in order to align with Framework 2.0 and Change Request 38. 25-Sep-2007 Version 1.0 – System Development Life Cycle Guide released. DIR Document 25GU-1-1 ii Texas Project Delivery Framework SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE GUIDE Contents Introduction ................................................................................................................................1 Use of the System Development Life Cycle Guide ....................................................................2 Section 1. System Life Cycle Processes...................................................................................3 1.1 Introduction ......................................................................................................3 1.2 System Life Cycle Processes and the Organization ........................................4 Section 2. Development Process ..............................................................................................5 2.1 Introduction ..........................................................................
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...Having to learn of the existence of a tool called scenario analysis was itself a blessing for me. Scenario planning affords us the opportunity to make decisions in context of various futures that may play out. It incites us to challenge our assumptions about the future. By basing our plans and decisions in line with the most likely scenario, we can be ensured that our decision are sound even if conditions change According to Ged Davis “the use of scenarios does not imply we will be absolutely right – we only need to be less surprised than those who are not thinking in this light … ideally, to be able to interpret what others see as crises as normal human affairs”. Scenario planning can be applied at the work place, it can also be applied to one’s personal life. I decided to include in this report a demonstration of how scenario planning can be applied at the work place. The following steps illustrate this 1. Problem definition – The problem in this case is how a particular project in the company can be completed within budget at the end of the scenario horizon i.e. end of 2016 2. Data gathering – The next thing to do is to identify trends, factors that may affect the plan. Here I am looking at trends such as the political situation in the company - will there be prolonged strikes at some point? How will this affect the plan? Another point to consider is cost of hire? Will this go up during the course of the year? Or will the schedule be affected due to unavailability...
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...company and specifically address planning, organizing, leadership, control and the external environment. Section1 - The External Environment As a manager at Just Web Inc you will play an important role in assessing the external environment. It will be important for you to understand your role in the customer’s needs through these assessments. Theses assessments will give you a baseline to start all projects as well as recognize a need for change prior to losing market share to other ISP’s. It is written “that to remain competitive they must explicitly manage their intellectual resources and capabilities” (Zack,N.D.) At Just Web Inc we will periodically assess the external environment to stay relevant in our business plan, structure, and methodology. To complete these periodic assessments we will use the strategic management process. This process is a six step process that you will use to identify goals, complete external and internal (SWOT) analysis, formulate a strategy, implement strategies, and then evaluate the results (Robbins & Coulter, 2009). Once this plan is developed it will give a path or process for the analysis, formulation, and implementation of our plan. After that I complete it provides us with the opportunity to assess our results. This is an excellent time to involve employees so that they can participate in the change. Section 2 – Planning As a manager at Just Web Inc, you will be responsible for planning in your department. Depending upon...
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...strategic planning of the executive leaders of the company. Mike Eskew, the Chairman and CEO, said, “the future of our company will be no better or worse than the quality of planning we do to prepare for it.” Eskew realized that preparing strategy for a company is the most vital catalyst for success. While typically strategy is set with short period goals, UPS found it necessary to develop a set of long-term goals for which they can make decisions that impact their company years down the road. The way that UPS decided to set their long-term framework was through scenario planning. Scenario planning is a strategic method that has the team map driving forces defined by two axes, creating four quadrants. These four quadrants are then identified by combining the forces into four possible outcomes known as scenarios. Overtime, the scenarios are defined and written out such as positives and negatives of each scenario, a description of how it might come to fruition as well as naming each scenario so that it is easily referred to in future strategy decisions. Over a period of almost 20 years, UPS decided to take strategy planning seriously: 1991 Coporate Mission and Strategy Statement introduced 1996 Strategy Advisory Group and Corporate Strategy Group formed 1997 First scenario planning session 1999 UPS Charter completed and broadly communicated 2002 Management Committee off-site, resulting in Centennial Plan Strategy Road Map developed 2004 Second scenario planning...
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...STRATEGIC PLANNING AT UNITED PARCEL SERVICES Reaction Paper Blank Part A Before the 1990s UPS had a small group in charge of formulating project plans (Garvin & Levesque, 2006, p. 3). However, as the company grew in size and the volume of projects, a formal strategic planning group had to be formed. When Eskew became CEO in 2002, the formation of a Management Committee was among the first accomplishments he made. The Committee was tasked to direct the company to its vision for 2007, its first centennial. Eskew's concern, that changes are needed in UPS's strategic planning process, is valid. If the company continues to form only ad hoc groups to focus on achieving a long-term vision, then the sustainable commitment in the group's members cannot be assured. Eskew believes that the only way to move forward is to stop reinventing the wheel. This belief implies that the strategic planning process has to be more systematic than it is, currently. However, the scale of goals to achieve and tasks to accomplish for the Strategic Planning process have become larger as time progressed. UPS will only be capable of transforming itself once more if it has a proportionate level of commitment. A clearer and more straightforward connection between the different components of the strategic process is needed in order to sustain the focus and chart directions. Delegating such task to a Management Committee is a positive step to address the need to link the various components...
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...part will depend on the breadth as well as the depth of this Report. Team and Region/Sector Information: • Enterprise Selected (e.g., an Island, digital service center, a small business or government agency): An e-commerce store in samoa. • Team members involved in Self Assessment (Please Fill the Following Table). This assignment should be done individually. Member Name Login ID Used Scenarios Created (give specific Names on SPACE) Harish Raju Harishraju65@gmail.com TeachIndia Manisha Anugu Manu.3256@gmail.com OneIndia Krishna Govada Chaitu.gk07@gmail.com Technoid Meenal Gattu meenaljawalkar@yahoo.com PrimaryEDUindia EXPERIMENTS by Using SPACE -- An Overview Please record your results and observations after conducting the following detailed hands-on experiments by using SPACE, found at www.space4ict.com: • You have already used SPACE to develop the detailed plans for each service that you have in mind • Create a service bundle for your enterprise (EAI) by using SPACE and generate the BIC and the Sample Portal for your scenario by using SPACE. You will need Stage3 access to SPACE for this, • Create a service bundle for B2B services in SPACE by using Stage4 capabilities. • Use the SPACE games to learn and explore some of the games related to integration. • After SPACE, you should find and evaluate at least one other tool available for integrated architectures that has similar capabilities. (Extra credit of 10 Points) ...
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...9-306-002 REV: JUNE 19, 2006 DAVID A. GARVIN LYNNE C. LEVESQUE Strategic Planning at United Parcel Service We fully recognize that it is not possible to develop a true strategic plan more than a few years out and that business plans should have an even shorter horizon. But we are convinced that it is possible and wise, indeed necessary, to develop a set of very long-range scenarios that can form the foundation for our future strategic plans. — Michael (Mike) J. Eskew, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, United Parcel Service (UPS) As Mike Eskew walked through the long, open atrium of UPS’s corporate headquarters late in March 2005, he thought about his upcoming lunch meeting with Vice President of Corporate Strategy Vern Higberg. Higberg was preparing a presentation for the senior management strategy committee, the Strategy Advisory Group, on improvements to the strategic-planning process. While the company had made major progress in planning for the future over the past 10 years, Eskew had charged Higberg and his colleagues with developing recommendations for moving forward, citing one of his predecessors, who had said, “The future of our company will be no better or worse than the quality of planning we do to prepare for it.” Company Background History In 1907, 19-year-old Jim Casey borrowed $100 from friends to start the small company that eventually became UPS. From its humble origins delivering messages for the city of Seattle, Washington, UPS...
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...This case gives us an opportunity to reflect on the difficulties of strategic planning and the strengths and weakness of the process used . It also provides a comprehensive introduction to scenario planning. Scenarios are possible views of the world that provide context in wich managers can make a decision In a range of possible worlds, decisions are better informed and the strategy is more likely to succeed In scenarios we can understand the drivers of change and have more control of the situation. 1. What are the strengths and weaknesses of scenario planning? Strenghts Allows one to project the future back into the present to help articulate the strategies necessary to achieve the point in future the scenario is conducive to success or help implement strategies to avoid the scenario in cases where it is not going to be successful - Allow a shared view of the future to be developed - Provide the oportunity for an organization to consider how they want to be positioned in that future - Promotes flexibility and responsiveness - Permit to see the mayor drivers of change: globalisation, economics, technology, - It can be used to do Risk assesment, identify early warning indicators and decide how will we respond. Weakness Simplification of the future: Difficult to predict the future as the number of variables used maybe less |than required for a better plan. Scenario planning is expensive because it requires a huge commitment of time: time consumer and...
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...|[pic] |Syllabus | | |College of Social Sciences | | |HSM/270 | | |Program Planning and Grant Proposal Writing in Human Services | Copyright © 2009, 2007 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course provides practical knowledge in program planning, grant proposal writing, and program evaluation. Students will examine the planning process from conceptualization to implementation and evaluation. Also discussed is how to locate private and public funding for human service programs and agencies. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending...
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...Scenarios planning is the main technique to study the future, and it have been used since long time by the government planners, corporate managers and military analysts, as important tool to help them in making decision to face the uncertainty. The idea of scenario planning is to establish about possible future where it can minimise surprises and broaden the span of managers. Today the scenarios planning they have become extremely popular. ( Chermack, T. J. 2003). Scenario planning is a group‐based decision making tool, which has its roots in post‐ WWII military planning and the petroleum industry of the 1970s such as Royal Dutch Company. Unlike its cousins, forecasting and prediction, scenario planning does not attempt to project future outcomes based on data from the past. These methods can often lead to “tunnel vision”, due to their preference of one outcome over another. Scenario planning, as described by Peter Schwartz, Chairman of Global Business Network (GBN), “…is a tool for better decision making…Business and governments employ this tool because it helps them to make better strategic decisions.” (Schlegel, G. L., & Murray, P. 2010) The History of Scenario Planning Scenario planning arose out of a need to plan for futures filled with much uncertainty. This uncertainty is particularly magnified in military operations, which is why scenario‐type planning can be traced back to 19‐century military ...
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...This website can help you tremendously: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/ References Owl Purdue (2011). Retrieved March 1, 2011 from http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/ While you did a wonderful job with the title page, it is not APA appropriate and you need to use APA style of writing when formatting your assignments. 4/5/2013 4/5/2013 Microsoft account Laura Harris Microsoft account Laura Harris Program Planning and Evaluation PEACE Domestic Violence Agency Program Planning and Evaluation Plan Program Planning and Evaluation PEACE Domestic Violence Agency Program Planning and Evaluation Plan Program Planning and Evaluation PEACE Domestic Violence Agency Program Planning and Evaluation Plan The overall purpose of this Program Planning and Evaluation paper is to make a comparative analysis of program planning and evaluation processes in a human service organization like PEACE. We do not use first voice will also look at how technical and political factors can affect program planning and evaluation processes. According to Michael Quinn Patton (publication date), program evaluation is carefully collecting information about a program or some aspects of a program...
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...Project Activities and Sequencing Scenario 4: Smartphones for upper management Courtney Dennard CPMGT/301 Dr. Jeff Atkinson 8/10/2015 In the context of project scenario four, the firm currently issues its executives with smartphones with abilities to access the internet. As one of its major undertaking, the firm seeks to expand its smartphone program to include all employees that own a mobile phone and a laptop. The company has ten senior members of the executive who are prioritized by the scheme, as well as another one-hundred employees that own a cell phone and a laptop. Notably, fifteen employees that have been signed up for the training will require the program’s expanded internet service. In case funding gets approved, this project is intended to save considerable finances in the long run. The Scope of the Smartphone Project The scope of the Smartphone project is to establish the deadline for project, in terms of the time duration it will take to finally realize the programmed expansion across the firm (Kerzner, 2013). In the context of this project, finalization of the firm’s member upgrade should be achieved within a period of one month. The project scope also includes the information necessary for successful completion of the project. Importantly, acknowledging the cost of the intended expansion under scenario four must be considered prior to any subsequent project decision making (Heagney, 2012). Such cost analysis must include any potential system upgrades...
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...An Introduction to Agile Software Testing 1 Course Objectives After this seminar, you will: Understand what an Agile project Know the differences between Kanban and Scrum Understand what and how a tester performs the testing in Scrum process Understand what testing techniques required for a tester in Agile Know what challenges of Agile Software Testing 2 Course Content What is an Agile Project? What are Scrum and Kanban? What are Scrum & Kanban Processes? What are testing Activities in Scrum? What are Agile Testing Techniques? 3 What is an Agile Project? All projects are “agile”, but some agile projects are more agile than others How to “agile” a project An Agile purist would point to agile manifesto and its principles Individuals and interactions over process and tools Working SW over comprehensive documents In practice, “Agile” labeled to projects that its delivery of each increment taking no longer 4 weeks Is it met level of agility? Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan 4 Agile Project An introduction of Scrum and Kanban 5 What is Scrum? Scrum in 100 words • Scrum is an agile process that allows us to focus on • • • delivering the highest business value in the shortest time. It allows us to rapidly and repeatedly inspect actual working software (every two weeks to one month). The business sets the...
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