Strategy Course Works Samples For Students

CHAPTER REVIEW

Jane Tompkins explains what does ‘Planting a naysayer’ means. It is the strategy of improving a piece of writing by introducing the anticipated arguments and justifications. She explains that, in the process of writing a piece of work, everything goes smoothly. However, in the middle of the process, doubts and fears may arise about how the work will be perceived by the readers; possible arguments which may arise and anticipation of criticisms. Ignoring this thought and moving over with the writing will be a big mistake, says the author. Instead, the entire work needs to be read through and incorporate all possible arguments ...

1) Introduction

The Katrina Hurricane disaster is an experience for which it seemed that the United States government was ill prepared. According to analysts, New Orleans was never equipped with any disaster preparedness strategies to combat a hurricane much more one of the Katrina magnitude. This was a known irregularity, but public health and government officials took no time to address these issues. For example, it was further reported that the infrastructure on which New Orleans was built ...

There is need for an organization to develop an effective internal communications strategy. It is essential for an organization to be proactive in planning this sort of communications strategy in this digital age. This is because proper communication strategy enables an organization to handle situations or crises with understanding. If communication is not done effectively, then the organization will not be able to meet its set goals and objectives.
‘Employees gain a sense of ownership through exposure of the company’s most sensitive information, such as potential acquisitions and earnings and projections’. This was the most meaningful quote in ...

Insider action research faces several challenges associated with the political dynamics of the researcher being a member of the system/community/organization he is researching. The political dynamics, if not well managed, have the potential to undermine the research endeavors and impede the planned change (Coghlan, 2007). The main challenge is the challenge of the validity of the data because the inside researcher is suspected to be biased, emotionally attached to the system/organization under study and thus what constitutes valid data is intensely contested and politicized. Other challenges include gaining access to data, using data, publishing and disseminating the results. In addition, ...

IKEA is considered as retailer internationalization since IKEA’s plan into entering a new location is organizing strategic objective, understanding the local nature of markets and using outlet as a retailer’s product. A strategic planning is required for IKEA when internationalizing into a new location they are moving into so as to be successful. Psychic distance and Uppsala model should be applied into their strategy and wherever they move into would be a success as IKEA already possess a strong brand image, also has strong relationship of network structure, large number of suppliers and customers would easily associate with them

Implementation of the Recommendations

With respect to the recommendation ...

While much has been hypothesized regarding Omnibus Bills, it is of the essence to note that they primarily refer to laws containing a wider array of substantive matters brought before the legislature with the sole intent of convenience. An Omnibus Bill is structured in such a way that it ties the legislature; hence, hindering them from making any changes on a bill. For this reason, the strategy behind Omnibus Bill is to coerce Congress members to adopt, vote, and enact laws that they may not support. An Omnibus Bill often introduces certain things in a bill, which the congress may not wish to ...

Summary and perspectives

In chapter 10, the author discusses the concept of oligopoly and how it affects the environments where oligopoly is a characteristic. Under this circumstance, the people who come up with decisions ensure that strategies are brought into place. Moreover, the amount of funds given to the different players has come as a result of strategies made by the firm. To this extent, it should be noted that the payoffs given out as payments could result into two major scenarios. Losses or profits ensue as a result of the respective decisions made by industry players. There are different strategies that individual players can ...

In this article, McCabe (2014) described the findings of a study where she explored the relationship between gender constructs and learning styles. This was based on the premise that learning styles could affect students’ learning outcomes. To collect data, the researcher conducted a quantitative study where she administered questionnaires to 161 freshman undergraduate students at a private university, with measures based on the Kolb Learning Style Inventory (LSI) (McCabe, 2014). Her findings showed that although the men showed a preference towards the abstract approach ...

Johnson & Johnson has gained relevant experience in the field of public relations, given that the group of companies was founded over thirty years ago; it definitely had a role in the evolution of public relations. Indeed, J&J has been held aloft in the PR world for nearly 30 years as the torch-bearer of the “right way’ to handle a crisis (Yaxley, 2010). Its public relations personnel, strategies, implementation process and assessment have matured over the years. Johnson & Johnson is a holding company which majorly deals in pharmaceutical products which are under constant scrutiny due to issues of quality ...

Chapter 4

- The firms are pursuing cost leadership strategy and in this strategy advertising is essential. It is considered fixed cost because it is showing the people or shifting their focuses on the products with similar qualities as their competitors’ products but at a lesser price. On the other hand, product-differentiation strategy is based on advertising the unique qualities of the products and their reasonable costs.

- The actions the firms can take to ensure that economies of scale exist are 1- they make sure that the volume of production reach the optimal level where the average cost per unit ...

Assume you are consulting for a media conglomerate that is perplexed by the parting fates of Blockbuster and Netflix. As a consultant, you want to highlight the varying fates of the two companies via a strategic audit. Focusing on (i) customer (ii) product and (ii) market audits, compare and differentiate Netflix and Blockbuster’s differing fortunes to date with 1 difference between the companies for each audit and a KPI (measure) to understand customer engagement, product success and market performance. Explain the reasoning behind each KPI. First of all it is important to comprehend what is meant by the term strategic audit. For any ...

For any business, entering new markets comes with its fair share of regulation. This could be political, social and economic. Political analysis, however, passes as the most important thing to analyse before entering new territories. According to Luthans and Doh (2012), there are three main techniques that can be used to analyse political risk.

Firstly, there is the relative bargaining power analysis. Here, the company making an entry into the said country should strive to ensure that its bargaining power position is better that that of the country. This essentially provides the company with an upper hand in ...

Any business venture that is set up is always aimed towards improving the standards of living and human social welfare. Eradicating poverty is one of the key business objectives,and there is a need for every business to ensure that there are strategies put in place to reduce poverty levels and equip people with the right skills. Relying on financial donations from existing businesses does not offer long term solutions towards eliminating poverty in the society.

Relationship Between Business Strategy and Poverty Alleviation

Having a system that all put into place poverty reduction measures ensures that the business meets it social obligation of eradicating poverty. Innovative approaches in ...

Abstract

Change is said to be constant and may affect an organization either positively or negatively. Surprisingly, even when change is expected to yield positive results or will bring growth and development to the organization, employees still have the audacity resist it. This has brought about the conclusion that people always resist to change. Our organization is not an exception. In this respect, this report identifies a strategy which the organization may adopt to reduce resistance to change. The report will also explain why such a strategy will be effective and appropriate for the organization.

Introduction

The organization should seek to understand the ...

Strategic planning denotes the process through which managers assess the company’s future prospects and make a decision on suitable strategies for attaining long-term goals (Heizer & Render, 2014). This paper discusses three approaches to devising and implementing strategy namely economic imperative, political imperative, and quality imperative. Moreover, selects an imperative that can best function for Apple Inc.

Economic imperative is a global strategy based on differentiation, cost leadership, as well as segmentation. On contrary, political imperative denotes strategic formulation as well as implementation using strategies, which are nation-responsive and developed to protect or promote local market niches.

On the other ...

- DQ1. ARE THE VIEWS PRESENTED IN THE TWO ARTICLES CONSISTENT OR DO THEY VARY, AND IN WHAT WAY? AFTER COMPARING THE TWO VIEWPOINTS, HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE THE ROLE OF STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP IN ORGANIZATIONS? WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE AND WHAT SHOULD BE THEIR GOALS?
The views presented in the two articles are consistent in that they appreciate the need for strategic leadership in the turbulent and changing modern business environment (Boal & Hooijberg, 2000; Ireland & Hitt, 1999). However, there are some inconsistencies. Ireland and Hitt’s article dwells on six components of effective leadership while that by Boal and ...

Marketing Strategy

A marketing strategy implies the line of approach that an organization pursues to maximize opportunities with the aim or goal of increasing sales and to attain competitive advantage. It (marketing strategy) includes all short, medium and long-term activities that aim at achieving the desired goals of competitive advantage and increased sales (Peter, Olson & Grunert, 1999, p.333). Pricing, on the other hand, is the most direct approach that a firm/company uses to communicate with the clients or customers. Pricing strategy is the most difficult pillar of marketing to implement. This is so because it integrates vertical and horizontal decision making in ...

Question 1

Enterprise architecture can be described as an approach involving the analysis, planning, and formulation of a strategy coupled with a criterion of execution aimed at improving the performance of a business entity. Advancements and the transformation of businesses enhanced by the availability of gadgets and computers have revolutionized Enterprise Architecture to be not only a tool of performance, but also aid to competitive advantage (Jonkers). The clearance of this business cue extends with respect to the potential of enterprise architects. The need to plan and implement a strategy remains a paramount objective for every business. The significance of planning coupled with execution of new ideas ...

Introduction

People are very privileged to witness and experience a profuse and diverse natural resources and wildlife on our planet. However, this abundance of natural resources comes with a big stewardship responsibility. For many years, people have known the moral obligation to conserve and guard the diversity of wildlife.
Loss of different species is very common nowadays. This loss is brought by population growth, habitat fragmentation and loss, invasive disease and resource removal (IPCC, 2001). Scientists state that the world is now living the sixth vast extinction. Countless species are in jeopardy. For instance, in the United States, more than five-hundred ...

P1: Marketing is a social process, which identifies, forecasts and satisfies the needs of the customers in a profitable way. Marketing strategies are overall plans, which fulfill the needs of the customers . Marketing techniques ensure the effective delivery of a market plan. The three marketing techniques available are growth strategies, survival strategies and branding techniques. The four categories of growth strategies are “market penetration, market development, product development and diversification” . Market penetration refers to increasing the number of consumers buying the product. Market development refers to marketing an existing product to a new market. Product development refers to selling a ...

Summary and perspectives:

Chapter 13 discusses topics that are considered supplementary to the coverage of other topics discussed prior. These include topics such as Limit Pricing to prevent entry, Predatory Pricing to lessen competition, Raising Rivals’ Cost to lessen competition, Price discrimination a strategic tool and many others. Apart from being supplementary topics, the topics aim at giving practical adjustments to market failure at points that the others have failed. However, these advanced topics are faced with limitations that can only be achieved in mature markets.

For instance, limit pricing cannot be perfect to a point of eliminating incomplete ...

In an organization, senior leadership may resist a strategic development. This resistance may be based on several justifications. The first is that this leadership may note that a strategic change may constraint their organization in financial terms (Morrill, 2013). Therefore, instead of threatening the solvency of their organization, such leadership may decide to abandon a strategy. Reasons may include heavy expenditure on equipment acquisition and high staff training costs, for instance.

The other reason is that the senior leadership may find a strategic change as unsustainable. Given the need for complementing resources and additional dedication, substance of a strategic change may prove difficult ...

Abstract

The INTASC Standards provides a framework for teaching that entails eight principles for the professional educator. The focus of this paper centers on Principle Six: “The educator understands and uses formal and informal strategies to evaluate and ensure the continuous intellectual, social, and physical development of the learner.” This paper asserts that this is the most important principle for the professional educator to demonstrate proficiency in. This paper also discusses the importance and benefits of student evaluation in the improvement of academic programs.

Introduction

This paper aims to address the requirements of Assignment 2.2 in Walden University’s EDAD ...

A feasibility study analyzes an idea to determine if the idea is viable. A cost-benefit analysis, on the other hand, is a process through which the costs of taking a particular action are compared to the benefits accruing from the procedure. The costs are deducted from the total benefits, and the remaining amount makes the benefit or profit accruing from that procedure. If the figure is negative, the procedure is deemed not to be a viable action. The two processes may happen simultaneously and are often related to each other. The link arises from the fact that during the feasibility study, when ...

Question 1

In a team situation, I generally find myself falling into two different roles which are discussed into two categories.

Part A: Marketing Strategy for Eircom, IrelandWhile working in group work and a group presentation on Marketing Strategy for Eircome, Ireland I had to work with three other colleagues: every team was to consist of four employees. The team had been assigned a common task. In this case, I was acting as the head of the group and was in charge of finances, logistics, overseer and advisory roles. As the person in charge of logistics, I had to ensure ...

1 Introduction

Nigeria poses a set of unique business and cultural challenges to international organizations functioning in the country. Shell Oil Development Company Ltd. is one such global organization. This paper seeks to evaluate the business environment in Nigeria and the strategy followed by Shell to adapt to it.

2 Business environment in Nigeria

Nigeria is one of the most populated countries in the African subcontinent. The country has a vast wealth of natural resources, especially oil, which accounts for the numerous international businesses ...

Abstract

The INTASC Standards provides a framework for teaching that entails eight principles for the professional educator. The focus of this paper centers on Principle Six: “The educator understands and uses formal and informal strategies to evaluate and ensure the continuous intellectual, social, and physical development of the learner.” This paper asserts that this is the most important principle for the professional educator to demonstrate proficiency. This paper also discusses the importance and benefits of student evaluation in the improvement of academic programs.

Introduction

This paper aims to address the requirements of Assignment 2.2 in Walden University’s EDAD 7200-8040 ...

Predicting the future is difficult. However, it is the key to success in many industries including the stock market. Many companies announce their results, and while doing so, talk about their expectation of performance in a given period (August, Mayer, & Bixby, 2012). This is assumed by these companies to go a long way in helping investors to make decisions. While these expected forecasts may be an important indicator of the company’s future and where it is headed, investment experts opine that it cannot be the sole basis for an investor’s decision. Different companies adopt different methodologies. Big technology companies ...

As the economy continues to grow, organizations continue to pump investments in an effort to attain greater efficiency and minimized costs. Information technology plays an important role in such efforts. Organizations use technology to increase output by integrating systems used for front-end and back-end operations. Such integration provides all the departments within an organization with correct and complete information that gives insight of the customers’ perspective. It also avails the opportunity for organizations to systematize their end-to-end corporate developments.

In order to achieve this, an organization should not understate the importance of a good methodology. One such ...

1. Executive Summary

UniTour (short for “Uniting Tourism”) is a niche travel service provider that offers affordable prices for families and young groups of people. UniTour targets people who want to take a break from the technology and enjoy the genuine virtue of real-life communication. The second major target segment are families with communication problems. With the help of UniTour’s special services, its customers can experience a truly unique vacation that improves their relationships and encourages them to get to know each other better. UniTour’s motto is “No cellphones. No laptops. Only what truly matters.”

Key components of ...

The corporate strategy of the firm is based on a number of factors and various elements. There are virtually tens of viewpoints and narratives on which a firm can build its core objectives. These viewpoints serve as a basis towards uniform criteria for strategy development and maximum utilization of firm’s capabilities. The corporate strategy making has gone a long way since the industrial revolution and the introduction of mass production. Various theories have been proposed by business theorist and intellectuals that revolve around maximizing a firm’s performance and competitive advantage. The evolution of those thought processes and later experiments in real business ...

Introduction

Costco, the third largest retailer chain in the U.S. and the seventh largest retailer in the world, has significantly grown in the last ten years, a critical period disrupted by the great recession, e-commerce revolution, and global competition. Although a big number of retailing enterprises failed to survive the difficult challenges of the decade, Costco demonstrated an outstanding revenue growth performance over its key competitors – Wal-mart (includes Sam’s Club), BJ’s, Target, Sears, and JC Penney. However, based on an analysis of the 10-year financials of Costco and its key competitors, the profit performance of Costco has not ...

Introduction

Identification of Strategic Position

I would like to undertake the analysis of the firm TESCO, which is the market leader in UK. I would like to determine the Strategic Position of TESCO with respect to its capability, culture, purpose, and environment. It is important for TESCO to utilize its resources optimistically in order to continue its market dominating position in a given London Market scenario. They, however, need to improve upon their work culture and define a specific purpose so as to serve the different needs of the internal and external environment.

For this purpose, they can look down ...

Strategies for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) show differential developments over years. Traditional classroom settings of language learning are becoming less and less viable for effective language learning and acquisition. This paper aims to provide a schematic presentation of five major approaches to TESOL namely, vocabulary, communicative, whole language, total physical response and musical approaches.

The vocabulary approach is a long adopted method for TESOL. Research on Chineses students (Gu and Johnson, 2006), for example, shows vocabulay-based strategies enhance vocabulary repertoire as opposed to language proficiency.

The communicative approach, meanwhile, introduces a different perspective on language learning ...

Target Corporation is a major retailer with 1934 stores in the United States and Canada. It has 1,801 stores in United States and 133 in Canada. Schauber (2014) states that it mostly caters for middle and upper-income customers. Its products category includes household essentials, food and pet supplies, apparel and accessories and Home furnishing and décor. The company’s headquarters is in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

It was founded in 1902 and as of 2013, ranked 36th on the Fortune 500. Target worked hard to turn around after a difficult year in 2013. The company suffered a massive cyber-security breach, and ...

For a very long period of time, the corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been well thought-out as a trend that arrived when a certain generation entered the workforce and become a stronger consumer existence in corporate America. In the society, business has been playing a big role which has triggered so many companies to subscribe into ways of minimizing the need for CSR or for methods to turn social responsibility in to a factor of making profits. Some people believes that CSR is an interruption that cease businesses performing to their prospective which cripple the economy while others believes that an effective CSR policy together ...

Quiz 1

Decision making is normally described as the essence of the manager’s job based on various entities that encompasses management which is the main role of the managers. Decision making defines the ability of the organization to achieve the set organizational goals. The respective roles and functions of managers such as planning, controlling, organizing, staffing, and others are some of the attached entities that enable the managers make decisions hence essence of manager’s job towards increasing or enhancing organizational performance (Daft, 2005).

Quiz 2

Organization’s culture can largely define or influence the way managers make decisions based on the ...

Child immunization is the program that needs to be done frequently. The immunization of children can help both the parents and the children in several ways. The outcomes of the immunization of the children will lead parental awareness of the benefits of the vaccine, reduced prevalence of the disease that is vaccine-preventable, reduced burden of the preventable diseases through the vaccine in immunized children, and change of attitude in the parents.

The different types of evaluation that will be involved in this immunization program will formative, process, impact and outcome evaluations (Hodges & Videto, 2011). The formative evaluation evaluates ...

Based on the need to develop a model or metric for performance measurement in companies, the business needs to focus centrally on the four core elements that define the strength of every business. The four areas are the threads that hold the business to its destiny at all times. They include; the financial perspective, customer perspective, internal business processes and the learning and growth perspectives. It is believed that if the business is able to strategize effective management of its intangible assets, then developing a measure for the intangible asset is inevitable

Therefore, balanced scorecard creates an in-depth focus and insight ...

Part A

According to Kerzner (2004), strategic planning for project management is the development of a standardized method for project management which can be used severally and produce a high likelihood of achieving a project’s goal. Strategic planning increases and improves the chances for the success of any given project. Strategic planning, according to Kerzner, considers all aspects of a firm from the working relationships of the employers and employees to the various roles played by the project sponsors in ensuring the success of a project. Strategic planning involves the steps of choosing and formulation of the most effective method, implementation, monitoring and control and ...

ABSTRACT

Procurement is a necessary and a useful component for the local or multinational organizations. Moving in the present market, Procurement is playing a role of crucial importance in the success of globalization. This report discusses why the function of procurement has increased on such prominent basis in the present competitive global environment, as the risk of supplying critical commodities tighten. Risk factors of the procurement will be identified, and the planning and development required for the procurement will be studied. This report will also examine how organizations can form strategies to reduce these critical risk factors.

INTRODUCTION

Procurement includes all the aspects of ...

Research Agenda

Introduction:
Does it pay to invest company’s time and resources in expanding its diversity, and in getting its employees to work together peacefully and happily? What are the specific talent management strategies that give rise to diversity and how they can be used to an organisation’s advantage? It is a known fact that any organisation can achieve long term success and productivity by effectively applying diversity training in a cross cultural and diverse work environment.

Primary research question and brief analysis:

“What is the most prominent talent management strategy that is required to attract a diverse workforce?” In order to make name in international markets, ...

(BMW ) Bayerische Motoren Werke is a German automobile engine, and motorcycle manufacturing company founded in 1916.it is a global producer of high-class vehicles. BMW has become extremely successful following its exclusive innovation in production of automobiles, as well as promotion of the brand. One of the main competitors is Audi Company, which is also a manufacturer of equally competitive luxury vehicles. Audi was founded in 1932, where it traded as FWB and it was founded in Germany.

Audi is a result of merging of four companies that operated in Germany as car manufacturers. This is represented by the four circles label with each ...

Summary of Negotiation Process

The process of negotiation is part of the daily procedures in the faculties of business and no exceptional in engineering. The process is a two-way initiative, a give-take setting making the undertaking an important step in the present and the future status of the company. Poor negotiation attributes can cripple and devastate business and just as swift in loosing clients (ECV 4923, ‘Lecture notes’ 1).

In the case scenario provided it is evident that the supply contract process was elaborate; that is, it involved supplying a wide range of products and encompassing a number of sub-contractors and high prospective risks. However, the ...

According to Luthans and Doh (2012), there are four cultural strategic predispositions that MNCs adopt when dealing with issues in the global market. These predispositions include geocentric, regiocentric, ethnocentric, and polycentric strategies. My go-to strategy is the geocentric predisposition because it integrates global systems during the decision making processes.

As an international manager, I would use this strategy by hiring employees on the basis of performance. This means that the company will be sourcing for the best employees in the global labor market regardless of their place of origin. This will strengthen my ability to promote diversity and innovation ...

Introduction

The research problem of a study, significantly, affects the direction and the research approach taken by the researcher to accomplish his or her aims and objectives. Hence, this part of the research must be well understood. In this essay, an analysis of a research focusing on the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) was conducted. The particular focus of the analysis is on the research problem of the study.

Justification for studying the research problem

Perhaps, one of the strengths of the research is its success in explaining why the research problem is relevant to be addressed in the study. The justification that is given is ...

Customer value is a combined product of culture, system and process within social and business environment and customer value is becoming more and more commercial imperative. With that in mind, organizational ability to utilize on different customer values is critical to build its marketing strategy and capture its target audience with right message. The value that a company can bring to the customer therefore is not the instrument, but the final product and the responsibility of the marketing professionals is to transform the understanding of instrument of the company to actual outcome – value that it creates for its customers.

Southwest ...

Introduction

The analysis applies important microeconomic concepts capable of increasing the competitiveness of Kudler Fine Foods. Different organizations operate in different marketing structures depending on the type of business, size, and goods and products sold. According to Colander (2010), the four basic types of marketing structures that businesses currently operate on are oligopoly, monopolistic, perfect, and monopoly. Understanding competitive strategies adopted by Kudler Fine Foods assists in establishing the type of market structure where the company operates. Additionally, the analysis will discuss the effect of the chosen market structure on the organization and the relationship between the market structure and ...

What is the difference between deliberate strategies and emergent strategies?

Deliberate strategy is an approach coined by Michael Porter that intends to provide focus, control and direction when it comes to formulating strategies. Since this kind of approach requires direction, an organization that seeks to formulate deliberate strategy requires clear and well-articulated intentions containing specific details for better understanding. This kind of approach involves cooperative actions from stakeholders to achieve the identified strategy through the intended plan. On the other hand, an emergent strategy involves consistency and order in the engagement of an organization to achieve the intended outcome .

How might emergent strategies help with a future strategic planning process?

Emergent strategies are beneficial for companies that intend to ...

Learning strategies are the operations that a learner utilizes to facilitate the acquiring, storing, retrieving and using the information. In short, learning strategies are the particular actions that a learner may take to make his or her learning process easier. There are five strategies for learning TESOL; cognitive strategies, mnemonic strategies, metacognitive strategies, effective strategies and finally social strategies.

The cognitive strategies allow learners to learn by making associations between the new information and the already known information. They also facilitate the mental restructuring of information. Examples of such learning include; analyzing, guessing when relying on the context, taking systematic notes, ...

Introduction

Riordan Manufacturing is a principal global manufacturer dealing with parts, fan parts and plastic containers. It is entirely possessed by Riordan. However, in the year 1992, Riordan manufacturing plant was procured from Michigan. Later in the year 2000, Riordan was moved to China (Chase et al., 2011). The fan parts manufacturing are scheduled based on the forecasted production using the average records obtained from sales conducted in three years. Its strategy is centered on making stocks that benefit customers who urgently need products with most orders filled immediately received from inventory (Soares et al., 2009).

Riordan often analyze its strategies ...

Strategic planning involves the organization activities that are undertaken to manage the change that takes place in the external environment of the company. There are three main elements of strategic planning: (Abraham, 2012).

- Strategic Planning and Control – This process requires the changes that should take place in the organizational objectives, in resources and policies that should be used to attain these objectives. Hence, strategic planning and control requires the changes that will help in changing the direction of the organization objectives.

- Management of Planning and Control - This involves ensuring that all the resources that are ...

A chief information officer also known as a CIO serves as one of the most important executive dealing with the healthcare institutions. He normally works along with the Information Technology staff of the health organizations in order to support the implementation, designing and provision of technology which could be imbibed in the healthcare for its betterment. A chief information officer playing the role of protagonist in today’s consistently advancing technological era, has to face a lot many challenges which could rather be regarded as exciting new opportunities to incline the healthcare towards a more connected, patient- centric and collaborative approach.(‘ ...

Part I Organizational Structure

The structure of the organization is a plan layout of how responsibilities, activities and duties of the organization are to be carried out. Hence, the structure of the organization defines how certain aspects of the operation of the firm are organized towards the achievement of the goals and objectives of the institution (Pugh, 1990, p. 64).The organizational structure usually details the roles that each part of the organization is mandated with which includes individual responsibilities (Russell, 1992, p. 640). The Island Urgent Care (IUC) organizational Structure is a lean structure with a hierarchy that is headed by the founder Robert Ruggeiri, ...

Facilitator:

Globalization is a worldwide phenomenon that prominently took place in late 1980s and the early 1990s affecting businesses considerably. Some of the renowned aspects linked to globalisation include, strategic alliances and joint ventures. In this context, the strategic alliances are a phenomenon that essentially accompanied globalization presenting in late 1980s and the early 1990s. According to Kang and Sakai (2005), in a research carried out in United States by Thomson Financial Securities Data, businesses had engaged in more than 9200 strategic alliance deals, both at local and international levels by 2005. However, this year recorded the highest number of deals in the ...

In response to the domestic HIV epidemic, the U.S. president Barrack Obama signed an Executive order the HIV Care Continuum Initiative. The initiative addresses the continuum of HIV through a directive to Federal agencies to prioritize the issue. The executive order calls for efforts as well as federal resources so as to increase HIV testing, services as well as management hence better the patient access. The President’s order further directs the creation of an HIV Care Continuum Working Group to oversee the implementation of the executive order.

The establishment of the HIV Care Continuum initiative by the president indicates a ...

I. Long-term Objective Statement

A. Statement

1. The sales revenue for Wendy’s will increase by 25% over the next four years.

B. Justification

1. Wendy’s sales have been projected to rise by 25% with the initial opening of more of its outlets and franchises in the Asian market. The Indian and Chinese markets offer a great potential to Wendy’s as a global fast food chain (The Wendy's Company, 2014). The revenue will further be boosted with more introduction of healthy foods in Wendy’s menu in all it franchises (Hitt, Ireland, & Hoskisson, 2007). Healthy eating has emerged as a key determinant ...

Intervention Strategy

The proposed intervention strategy is centered on improving English language proficiency within the Gulfton community. The premise behind this strategy is that improved language proficiency will facilitate better communication skills that will lead to (better) employment, improved knowledge around legal status and rights, better healthcare and other amenities, and improved outcomes relative to children’s education.

This is a multifaceted strategy that aims to reach out to multiple groups of residents. In laying out an intervention strategy it is highly important to determine up front how to articulate a plan, implementation, refinement, etc. This will be laid in greater detail in ...

Introduction

Cooperative strategy is an essential means through which firms of different sizes are responding to the competitive forces in the current marketplace. It allows firms to operate together to offer products and services that surpass what anyone of them could offer on its own. Cooperative strategy also has various merits for the customers of the firms as well. Among the alternative rationales that are established for cooperative strategy on a business level, the most effective in developing a sustainable competitive advantage are complementary strategic alliances. This paper, therefore, aims to discuss the reasons as to why complementary strategic alliances are the ...

According to Crisp and Reid (2007), recruitment is all about strategy, how a person fits in a team and whether they make it stronger. One should not recruit people who will end up weakening the team no matter how much technical skills they possess. The recruitment strategy I want to implement involves selecting the best individuals based on behavior and degree of project orientation. The most qualified applicants will have researched on the company and will have an idea of the company’s goals. A qualified applicant must also have the required technical skills, and they should have something unique to ...