Day: August 25, 2020

art

August 25, 2020 Leave a comment Art, Not applicable

Read and Review the following:

M. Rakowitz (Enemy Kitchen) (Links to an external site.)
Ai Weiwei (Name List Investigation) (Links to an external site.)
Joseph Beuys (Wikipedia) (Links to an external site.)
Christine Hill (The Volksboutique) (Links to an external site.)
https://www.ideo.org/ (Links to an external site.)
https://www.plusacumen.org/about (Links to an external site.)

Define the following (In an essay, in your own words, using examples):

Social Practice
Relational Aesthetics
Social Sculpture
Public Art
Design for community

Business powerpoint presentation

August 25, 2020 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Business and Management

n chapters 10, 13, and 14, you learned the elements of developing business presentations. This term presentation requires that you identify an urgent need in your company or department. Create a formal multi-media presentation to present to your boss or company owner, sharing about the need, the reasons why you think this should have immediate attention and your recommended solutions. You have flexibility in choosing an area/topic with which you are familiar. Some examples could be the need for hiring more sales representatives, purchasing more computers, adding tuition reimbursements to the employee benefit plan or any topic that you are knowledgeable about. Here are some recommended guidelines:

– Choose your topic carefully

– Develop an outline

– Think about the audience to whom you will be presenting

– Determine your desired outcome

– Remember that you may need to inform before you persuade

– How can you add interest to this presentation?

– What information do you need to gather?

– How will you support your points to convince your boss?

– What resources can you use? Document any outside resources used on your last slide.

– A minimum of 8 slides, a maximum of 12 (not including title or references)

This must be your original work. Do not copy and paste any parts of your presentation from other sources, unless in quotation marks and cited. Failure to do so will result in a violation of the BC honesty policy. Keep in mind you can use PowerPoint or you can pick another tool!

nursing

August 25, 2020 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Health Care and Life Sciences

For this assessment you will create a 2-4 page plan proposal for an interprofessional team to collaborate and work toward driving improvements in the organizational issue you identified in the second assessment.

The health care industry is always striving to improve patient outcomes and attain organizational goals. Nurses can play a critical role in achieving these goals; one way to encourage nurse participation in larger organizational efforts is to create a culture of ownership and shared responsibility (Berkow et al., 2012). Participation in interdisciplinary teams can also offer nurses opportunities to share their expertise and leadership skills, fostering a sense of ownership and collegiality.

You are encouraged to complete the Budgeting for Nurses activity before you develop the plan proposal. The activity consists of seven questions that will allow you the opportunity to check your knowledge of budgeting basics and as well as the value of financial resource management. The information gained from completing this formative will promote success with the Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal. Completing this activity also demonstrates your engagement in the course, requires just a few minutes of your time, and is not graded.

Demonstration of Proficiency
Competency 1: Explain strategies for managing human and financial resources to promote organizational health.
Explain organizational resources, including a financial budget, needed for the plan to be a success and the impacts on those resources if nothing is done, related to the improvements sought by the plan.
Competency 2: Explain how interdisciplinary collaboration can be used to achieve desired patient and systems outcomes.
Describe an objective and predictions for an evidence-based interdisciplinary plan to achieve a specific objective related to improving patient or organizational outcomes.
Explain the collaboration needed by an interdisciplinary team to improve the likelihood of achieving the plans objective. Include best practices of interdisciplinary collaboration from the literature.
Competency 4: Explain how change management theories and leadership strategies can enable interdisciplinary teams to achieve specific organizational goals.
Explain a change theory and a leadership strategy, supported by relevant evidence, that are most likely to help an interdisciplinary team succeed in collaborating and implementing, or creating buy-in for, the project plan.
Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly, evidence-based communication strategies to impact patient, interdisciplinary team, and systems outcomes.
Communicate the interdisciplinary plan with writing that is clear, logically organized, and professional, with correct grammar and spelling, using current APA style.
Reference
Berkow, S., Workman, J., Aronson, S., Stewart, J., Virkstis, K., & Kahn, M. (2012). Strengthening frontline nurse investment in organizational goals. JONA: The Journal of Nursing Administration, 42(3), 165169.

Professional Context
This assessment will allow you to describe a plan proposal that includes an analysis of best practices of interprofessional collaboration, change theory, leadership strategies, and organizational resources with a financial budget that can be used to solve the problem identified through the interview you conducted in the prior assessment.

Scenario
Having reviewed the information gleaned from your professional interview and identified the issue, you will determine and present an objective for an interdisciplinary intervention to address the issue.

Note: You will not be expected to implement the plan during this course. However, the plan should be evidence-based and realistic within the context of the issue and your interviewee’s organization.

Instructions
For this assessment, use the context of the organization where you conducted your interview to develop a viable plan for an interdisciplinary team to address the issue you identified. Define a specific patient or organizational outcome or objective based on the information gathered in your interview.

The goal of this assessment is to clearly lay out the improvement objective for your planned interdisciplinary intervention of the issue you identified. Additionally, be sure to further build on the leadership, change, and collaboration research you completed in the previous assessment. Look for specific, real-world ways in which those strategies and best practices could be applied to encourage buy-in for the plan or facilitate the implementation of the plan for the best possible outcome.

Using the Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal Template [DOCX] will help you stay organized and concise. As you complete each section of the template, make sure you apply APA format to in-text citations for the evidence and best practices that inform your plan, as well as the reference list at the end.

Additionally, be sure that your plan addresses the following, which corresponds to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Please study the scoring guide carefully so you understand what is needed for a distinguished score.

Describe an objective and predictions for an evidence-based interdisciplinary plan to achieve a specific goal related to improving patient or organizational outcomes.
Explain a change theory and a leadership strategy, supported by relevant evidence, that is most likely to help an interdisciplinary team succeed in collaborating and implementing, or creating buy-in for, the project plan.
Explain the collaboration needed by an interdisciplinary team to improve the likelihood of achieving the plans objective. Include best practices of interdisciplinary collaboration from the literature.
Explain organizational resources, including a financial budget, needed for the plan to succeed and the impacts on those resources if the improvements described in the plan are not made.
Communicate the interdisciplinary plan, with writing that is clear, logically organized, and professional, with correct grammar and spelling, using current APA style.

Investment Project & Justification

August 25, 2020 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Business and Management

Below are the instructions and feedback from the instructor for corrections:

Investment Project: Describe
Describe the investment project. Be sure to provide sufficient detail to give the loan committee a firm sense of the parameters of the activity, the need for it, and what financial metrics are relevant for determining success. In other words, what do you propose to do, where, what marketplace need will it fill, and how will you measure success?

Feedback from Instructor:
Good discussion of your proposed project. What specific metrics are you going to use to measure success? You did not provide a detailed list or rationale for your metrics.

Investment Project: Resources
Specify the resources the project will require and where these resources will come from. In addition to noting the amount of the loan you are requesting, you should also consider human resources, facilities, government approvals, intellectual property, access to natural resources, and other resources that might be required to carry out the project.

Feedback from Instructor:
You did not provide any budget to discuss your investment amount. You needed to provide specific dollar costs or estimates of costs. Upon what did you base your investment amount? You provided limited analysis to support how you derived the required amount. You really need more financial analysis.

Investment Project: Time Frame
Time frame. When will the project start, what is the anticipated economic life of the proposed expansion, and how will you decide if, when, or how to exit? Justify your choices with appropriate financial metrics.

Feedback from Instructor:
This section lacks real specifics. You need a more precise timeline, supported with specific detail derived from cited research. When will it finish? What are your specific metrics to measure success? Exit strategy? How did you come up with $1 billion in sales? That is significant.

Justification: Why Now
Why is now a good time for this investment given the global context? Justify your response, citing specific external factors such as trade regulations, foreign currency considerations, or trends in foreign direct investment that might affect business financial decisions.
Feedback from Instructor:
Is China appropriate now given the current economic and political situation?

Justification: Strategic Fit: Priorities
How does the investment align with the companys organizational and financial priorities? Support your argument with evidence from company reports and financial statement analysis designed to persuade the lender that the investment is a good strategic fit for your company.

Feedback from Instructor:
You really needed to go into greater depth here describing how the proposed expansion fits Nordstrom’s strategy. You start well, but need more research-supported analysis and discussion, especially involving the companys reports and financial statement analysis.

Justification: Strategic Fit: Microeconomic
How does the project fit within the global microeconomic environment? Support your response with evidence. For example, would the expansion tap unmet demand for the companys key products or services or fill a new niche? How do you know?

Feedback from Instructor:
You do not address specific microeconomic factors like supply and demand for your product which is key elements for any product when reviewing the microeconomics involved. You need greater use of accurate application of economic concepts.

Justification: Strategic Fit: Comparative Advantage
How does the project build on the organizations core competencies and comparative advantage? For example, does the company have a strategic advantage from intellectual property, regional expertise, suppliers, or organizational structure?

Feedback from Instructor:
This section starts satisfactorily, but needs more discussion of Nordstrom’s comparative advantage versus competitors, especially when it some to the new market that you are proposing. What specifically does Nordstrom do better than its competitors?

Kitchen Remodel

August 25, 2020 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Business and Management

You would need to undertake the role of “Project Manager” to identify at least ten (10) Activities for either of the following the following case: Kitchen Remodel. You can assume that you have a fully capable team with the necessary skills to complete all project work. All Activities identified will be the project scope and should be a fairly comprehensive list of the significant activities necessary to complete the project. Draw upon your own experiences and/or research (i.e., online search, etc.) to develop your list of Activities. Each Activity must:

1)Have plausible estimates (duration and cost) – anticipated expenses should include your time, purchase of materials, hiring of resources, etc.
2)Be logically related/sequenced
3)Consist of multiple sub-tasks (i.e., each Activity can be broken down further into several smaller tasks)

Case: Kitchen Remodel. Remodel either part or your entire kitchen. The project should take roughly one (1) month to complete. Assume that you will either hire contractors or pay friends/family to assist with at least some of the work.

Please use the template that I attached.

Storytelling

August 25, 2020 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Marketing

For the rest of this course, we’ll be exploring and creating interactive fiction starring some of the personalities you’ve created in the first half of the class. Last week, you were introduced to the concept of choice-based fiction and the idea of agency. The text from that lecture can be found in the Reading, Listening, Viewing section from last week if you want to refresh your memory.

There are two types of choice-based fiction:

Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA)
Interactive Fiction (IF)
The major difference between these two types is format, not concept.

A CYOA is an actual book. You start from the beginning, then make a choice that sends you to a specified book page. From there, you read another section and make another choice to continue. There are hundreds of possible branching story paths that you can select. Some end quickly. Others explore a much longer, richer story.

An IF is sometimes confused with a game. However, in a game, the goal is usually to “win” through making the right choices. An IF is a choice-based story that is more like an exploration leading to a story conclusion than a win/lose experience. Unlike a CYOA which is definitely in book form, an IF is a device-based experience (Web, cell or tablet). That means it provides a richer media experience, and can include some combination of images, video and sound as well as story choices.

Below are some Interactive Fiction (IF) examples for you to try this week to get a sense of how choice-based narrative is written, and the different story forms it can take. Note that because these are text-based, it is much easier to see the number and range of choices provided than in a game.

Never read a CYOA before? I’ve brought 6 selections into the lab. These are part of our personal collection, so please do not take them out. Read at least one book for at least 30 minutes, restarting at least once to follow a different set of choices. If you *have* read CYOAs before, instead, on the Discussion Board you can identify the name and author of at least one CYOA that you read previously and use it to answer the homework questions about CYOAs.

The stories here in the lab:

To Be or Not To Be by Ryan North (2 copies)
Romeo and/or Juliet by Ryan North
Meanwhile by Jason Shiga
Pretty Little Mistakes by Heather McElhatton
Infected by James Schannep
My Lady’s Choosing by Kitty Curran & Larissa Zageris
Please also try at least TWO of the following IF options, playing each for at least 10 minutes or until the end of the free demo. We’ve chosen a variety of story types and experiences, but all of these are fictional. Note that there are many other ways to use interactive narrative, including non-fiction explorations, “live someone else’s experience” simulations, and even movies that enable you to control what parts of the story you focus on or which characters you follow.

Depression Quest: http://www.depressionquest.com/
Cat Petting Simulator 2014: https://neongrey.itch.io/pet-that-cat
The Axolotl Project: http://www.samanthavickgames.com/axolotl/#3i
Who Are You Mr. Cooper: https://tlft.itch.io/who-are-you-mr-cooper
Seven Days in Purgatory: https://kypello.itch.io/seven-days-in-purgatory
Element Date: https://davidtmarchand.itch.io/element-date
Please document which CYOA and IFs you selected, and consider the following questions in the Discussion Board for this week:

1. Which of these styles did you like best? Worst? Why?

2. Are these worlds “believable” in the sense that they are internally consistent? If not, what would need to be changed for you to accept their premise? What would make them more compelling/interesting for you?

3. Based on our in-class lecture about agency and choice and the Goldilocks example, how do you feel about the types and ranges of choices in the CYOAs and IFs that you read/experienced?

Any topic (writer’s choice)

August 25, 2020 Leave a comment APA, Business and Management

Professional paper

Reference with citation

200-250 word only

Please reply to the below

As we approach the end of Unit 5 I though I would bring attention to the ‘Psychological Contract’, which I have seen mentioned in this discussion.

What is the Psychological Contract and why is it particularly important for this discussion?

A related theme of our recent discussions appearing in some of your assignments has been employer branding  – is there a connection between the psychological contract and employer branding?

Any topic (writer’s choice)

August 25, 2020 Leave a comment APA, English and Literature

Read Excellent Strategic Management Showcased: Priceline.com Inc. on page 90 of your course textbook. As you read, pay close attention to Pricelines strategy, and write a case study describing the following points: What are Pricelines internal strengths and weaknesses? Who are Pricelines competitors? Do you see Pricelines strategy as effective or ineffective? Why? Your case study must be at least one page in length, not including a title and reference page. Outside sources are not a requirement for this case study, but if you choose to use them, they must be cited and referenced according to APA standards. Information about accessing the Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below.

Any topic (writer’s choice)

August 25, 2020 Leave a comment APA, English and Literature

Read Excellent Strategic Management Showcased: Priceline.com Inc. on page 90 of your course textbook. As you read, pay close attention to Pricelines strategy, and write a case study describing the following points: What are Pricelines internal strengths and weaknesses? Who are Pricelines competitors? Do you see Pricelines strategy as effective or ineffective? Why? Your case study must be at least one page in length, not including a title and reference page. Outside sources are not a requirement for this case study, but if you choose to use them, they must be cited and referenced according to APA standards. Information about accessing the Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below.

business organisations and private company law

August 25, 2020 Leave a comment Law, OSCOLA

pick any 2 questions from the 4 depending on your preference, each question has a word limit of 1100 words. Please keep in mind this is Business organisations and private company law in the UK. The briefing will be attached along with a couple of example questions with steps on how to answer them just so you can have a general idea of how they want the questions to be answered.