Strategic Plan Objectives and Balanced Scorecard

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Develop and record a 10–12-slide, executive-level presentation, with speaker notes, of the SMART objectives corresponding to the organization’s main strategies, associated performance indicators and metrics, and strategic plan recommendations. The successful implementation of a strategic plan requires effective communication and a thorough understanding of not only the role of the organization within the greater community, but the role of leadership within the organization. By effectively engaging stakeholders and understanding the philosophy of strategic management, leaders can mitigate challenges and hurdles that face those directing change.

This assessment provides an opportunity for you to create an executive-level presentation explaining how SMART objectives underlying each organizational strategy can help the organization successfully implement its strategic plan. Then, after sharing the key performance indicators you developed off the strategic plan, you will use this ‘balanced scorecard’ to make recommendations to revise the strategies you developed in Assessment 3. By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria: Competency 1: Analyze organizational structure, design, culture, and climate in relation to environmental forces. Analyze potential long-term opportunities and operational components in the strategic planning process. Competency 2: Develop a strategic organizational plan that provides human and financial resources to support targeted organizational outcomes.

Present operational recommendations and strategic control mechanisms. Define critical success indicators that enable an organization to measure success in implementing a strategy. Analyze the effect of strategy formulation on human, financial, and technical resources. Competency 3: Recommend an organizational structure and design to optimize a strategic plan. Propose a strategic plan to optimize outcomes and mitigate risks in an organization. Competency 4: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for professionals in health care administration. Create a visually pleasing, professional presentation tailored to a specific audience. Communicate critical content clearly and persuasively in a limited time.

Change Agents in the Change Management Process

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One of the most fascinating components of the change management process is the change agent. The change agent, who can be a leader, manager, employee, consultant, or customer, is a person who is often at the center of the change management process and performs several critical functions in the overall process. In a three-to-five page paper, address the following with regard to change agents:

● Define the concept of a change agent, including the traits and characteristics that best represent a change agent in today’s organization.

● Discuss the role of a change agent in the change management process (e.g., formal or informal role, position of authority or power, etc.).

● Assess how a change agent can influence the generation, direction, success, or failure of a change initiative.

● Finally, assess any challenges a change agent may have in the change process (e.g., not agreeing with the change, management not truthfully sharing the repercussions of the change, etc.) and how these challenges should be addressed. Your well-written paper should meet the following requirements:

● Be three-to-five pages in length, which does not include the title page and reference pages, which are never a part of the content minimum requirements.

● Use Saudi Electronic University academic writing standards and APA style guidelines.

● Support your submission with course material concepts, principles, and theories from the textbook and at least three scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles.

● It is strongly encouraged that you submit all assignments into the Turnitin Originality Check prior to submitting it to your instructor for grading. If you are unsure how to submit an assignment into the Originality Check tool, review the Turnitin Originality Check – Student Guide for step-by-step instructions.

● Review the grading rubric to see how you will be graded for this assignment. TEXT BOOK Cawsey, T. F., Deszca, G., & Ingols, C. (2011). Organizational change: An action-oriented toolkit (Vol. 2). Sage.

E-marketing Primark website critique

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http://www.primark.com/ Founded in 1969, Primark is a high street retailer selling clothes and accessories at very competitive prices that represent value for money. It has a presence in the UK, Europe and USA with a total of 350 stores. You have been asked to analyse and critique their online presence of Primark with particular focus on the customer web experience and social media networking. Your critique should include an analysis of the firm’s online presence and emarketing activities focusing on: o Web experience o Social Media Networking. While you are free to format and structure your report accordingly, it is expected to include: o Title Page; o Content List; o Introduction; o Main Body: ▪ Web experience ▪ Social Media Networking o Summary/concluding remarks; o References and Appendices.

Human Resource Management – Annual Review

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Imagine you work at a company and it is time for an employee named Jim’s annual review. While he was a model employee the first nine (9) months of the year, recently Jim has been coming in late. It has not been just a few minutes each day, either. It is starting to cause problems in the production line. In this assignment, write a summary of how you would approach your conversation with Jim. How will you address his recent performance issues while still praising him for his previous nine (9) months of good work? Your goal is to balance the negative and positive feedback so that Jim will leave motivated to do his best. This assignment should focus on your goals for the conversation, and which employee relations approaches you will use to address the situation . You will create and submit your assignment by using the ecree link. Just click on the link and start writing. Your work will be saved automatically. You’ll see some feedback on the right-hand side of the screen, including text and videos to help guide you in the writing process. When you’re ready, you can turn in your assignment by clicking “Submit” at the bottom of the page. Write a five to seven (5-7) paragraph paper in which you: Explain how you will address Jim’s recent performance issues. Suggest both constructive and positive feedback designed so that Jim will leave motivated to do his best. Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements: This course requires use of Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details. Include at least 1 reference to support your paper. The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are: Explain effective approaches to the broad spectrum of employee relations, including career development, fostering ethical behavior, discipline, labor relations, and dismissals. Analyze various techniques, considerations, and designs of performance appraisal programs. Use technology and information resources to research issues in human resource management. Write clearly and concisely about human resource management using proper writing mechanics. Use double spacing throughout the body of your assignment. Use a consistent 12-point font throughout your assignment submission. (For acceptable fonts, see General Standards section.) Use the point of view (first or third person) required by the assignment guidelines. Section headings can be used to divide different content areas. Align section headings (centered) on the page, be consistent, and include at least two section headings in the assignment. Follow all other General Standards section guidelines.

Marketing – Focus group

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Perform an in-depth interview with two respondents to get insights on a marketing research problem, and conduct an online focus group with at least four participants on the same marketing research problem. Follow these four steps to complete this assignment. Step 1: Develop a Marketing Research Problem Develop a marketing research problem that interests you. This marketing research problem needs to be different from the marketing research problem for your group marketing research project. You can choose problems from your own experience, your work experience, or something else that interests you. Here are some examples: How can Amazon improve its customers’ online shopping experience? How can Walmart attract high-end customers to its stores? What extra features should Ford incorporate in its new F-150 truck? What would be the most effective way for your local bakery to promote itself for an upcoming special event? It is very important to carefully formulate your marketing research problem! Note that you are not expected to solve the problem completely, but your task is to get some initial insights into some answers. Step 2: Conduct Interviews Conduct two in-depth interviews of about 15 minutes each with two different participants. You can interview them in person (face-to-face) or online. Each interview should have only one participant. You can conveniently select participants from your family, friends, colleagues, and so on. You do not have to report their names, but you should report how you selected them. Ask whether you can record the interview. If they do not want the interview to be recorded, make notes during the interview. Prepare a list of topics or questions that you want to discuss. You can also bring stimuli if you think that will improve the results of the interview. Make sure you prepare open-ended questions and ask probing follow-up questions to get deeper insights. Step 3: Conduct Focus Group Conduct an online focus group with at least four participants. The focus group should last between 30 and 60 minutes. (Professional practice is that focus groups last between 60 and 90 minutes, but for the purpose of this assignment you can shorten this by half an hour.) Note that not all respondents may show up for the focus group, so it is wise to invite more than four respondents. Prepare a list of topics or questions that you want to discuss with them. You can also show some stimuli to the participants through video (for example, if you want to discuss a specific product you can bring it to the online forum), if you think that will improve the results of the focus group. Make sure you prepare open-ended questions and ask probing follow-up questions to get deeper insights. The questions can be similar to those used in the in-depth interviews, but feel free to adapt them for the focus group based on the information obtained in the interviews. There are multiple ways in which you can conduct and record an online focus group. You can use Zoom at Penn State to have a group conversation with multiple people at the same time and have the flexibility to record and archive the meeting to be shared and reviewed later. For more information on using Zoom, visit the Zoom at Penn State Website. Here are some quick start guides for you:

Financial Statement Analysis – Suncor Energy Inc

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Financial analysis of Suncor Energy Inc. Write a report regarding the financial health of Suncor Energy Inc relative to its major competitor (Canadian Natural) and the industry.

See attached project description file. Graphs, plots, etc and excel file with ratios are needed (attached excel file is for example only) Please spend more time on: analysis, background on industry and company (including strategy) and overall impression because those have the most points. Executive summary has only 10 points.

Marketing Plan on the topic of “Mobile Car Service-Female Drivers”

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Use the following guidelines to build the plan: 1- The marketing plan targets only FEMALE DRIVERS 2- Follow STRICTLY the attached rubric to complete the marketing plan (file name:Rubric for Marketing Plan) 3- The writing must not be less than 3000 word 4- Refer to a survey which is currently being built on same topic and will be placed in the Appendix of this writing. 5- Make sure to use academic style of writing, simple language and vocabulary 6- Avoid plagiarism in all its shapes and forms 7- Add the references and Appendix in 2 separate pages

Micro Economics

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1.Define the three types of price discrimination, clearly stating the different information requires of each type of discrimination. 2. Find a real-world example of second-degree price discrimination. Describe the important aspects of your example in detail and analyse it using economic theory. In particular, how does the producer discriminate between the types of consumers? That is, how does the producer get the consumers to reveal their private information (their type)? 3.What are the welfare implications of the discrimination in your example? Is there a potential role for government to regulate the practice?

Health services finance: Business plan

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You will begin working on creating a Business Plan for a new health care organization. The work that you do for your original discussion board post will help you with your upcoming written assignment. A full description of the upcoming written assignment can be found in the last few pages of the course syllabus. the following items are addressed in the Services section of a business plan: -Specific services that are provided by the organization -Why these services are different and/or special that those provided by other organizations -Any required work experience or degrees for each of the positions -Any regulatory requirements (e.g., licenses or accreditation) For your original post, please provide a clear and comprehensive description of your new health care business, including an explanation of each of the items listed above. Select a business that is easily explained, relatively straightforward in design, and small in size. Your written assignment will require you to prepare both a description of the services that will be offered and an annual budget — The more simplistic your idea, the easier you will find it to complete these requirements. HELPFUL ARTICLE https://www.sba.gov/business-guide/plan-your-business/write-your-business-plan

Marketing plan

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Propose your fictional product for a real company you write about the marketing plan. The company is CANON and the fictional product is “SPACE CAMERA”(which will allow take pictures and make videos of close to the earth planets and stars. It can even measure their size and approx. the age) (Target audience will be professional photographers, astronomer, scientists..so on.. and rich people since the camera will be shown as “luxury” product) Feel free to add more stuff about this product and try to be creative. Marketing plan should look like this: 1. Business Summary o Executive Summary o Marketing Leadership Team o Mission Statement o Environmental Analysis ( External Pestel / Internal ) o SWOT Analysis 2. Business Initiatives o Overarching initiatives  Marketing initiatives, goals, metrics ( SMART ) 3. Target Market o Industry Name o Buyer Persona(s) o Competitive Analysis 4. Market Strategy o Product o Price o Promotion o People o Process o Physical Evidence 5. Budget 6. Marketing Channels and Implementation ( Actions ) 7. Monitoring and Control Also make the presentation. It has to enclose 4-5 slides with the product, the environment analysis (PESTEL), the SWOT, the strategy, and the objectives.