Assume you are the owner of a small business with which you are familiar. Outline the basics of a management succession plan for passing the business on to the individual of your choice. 

•Referring to the same small business, determine the most appropriate way for that business to minimize its exposure to risk. Explain your rationale.

Follow and meet all requirements that are shown in the grading guide 

The peer reviewed articles are attached below as well

Purpose of Assignment 

The purpose of this assignment is to select the best organizational form, and to discuss ethical concerns with the business scenario. 

Assignment Steps 

Scenario: Andrew and Lynn wish to open a pet grooming shop called Cute Canine Day Spa. Lynn's mother Belinda would like to contribute the startup costs in exchange for a share of profits, but she doesn't want to participate in the daily operations of the business. She also doesn't want to have any personal liability in the business. 

Write a 350- to 700-word paper with the following information:

Which business organizational form would be best given the above circumstances, and why?

Without the knowledge of  to Lynn or Belinda, Andrew begins to use Cute Canine Day Spa's checking account to pay all his personal bills. Are his actions ethical? Why or why not?

Cite a minimum of two scholarly references.

Format your paper in accordance with APA guidelines. 

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.

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AI, IT, AP, RFID, ADSL, AES, AMPS, ARPANET, ASIMO, AES, ANN’s, CBR, GA’s, NLP, AICPA, AIRES, ALU, AML, AWS, CF, EC2, CRM, AICPA, ASCII, AOL. These are just a very few terms related to the computer industry, emerging technologies and intelligent information systems. Do RFID tags at Wal-Mart help emerging technologies? Review the videos provided and discuss in no less than 250 words how your company/organization utilizes Intelligent Information systems or technological applications from a management perspective. Note: Some videos may have commercials and/or advertisements preceding the actual video.(You will need to make an additional, different post of no less than 50 words in the comment. see below)

What is RFID?

Duration: (4:31)

IS in Action- WalMart Supply Chain. wmv

Duration: (7:14) User: dgalletta

Intelligent Transport System

Duration: (5:55) Toyota UK

Please post your initial response with no less than 250 words early during the week (1st post) so that others will have time to review them for commenting.

After reviewing your peers posts, make one reply that consists of no less than 50 words (2nd post). 

The Discussion post you need to respond to in 50+ words is also uploaded here. Please send me both the main post with 250+ words and response with 50+ words.

Please read the below:

This week's discussion may be either accessed through this tool or from the course menu.

Read each discussion question until you understand what is to be researched for your post and follow the directions for each one.

Please post your initial response with no less than 250 words early during the week (1st post) so that others will have time to review them for commenting.

Do not use "copy and paste" from the source in your response, but rather use your own words in the posting. Observe Faulkner's College policy concerning plagiarism as stated on page 27 of the Student handbook.

After reviewing your peers posts, make one reply that consists of no less than 50 words (2nd post) – Will be shared in the attachment ."I agree" or "Great post" response does not constitute a complete submission.

Strategic Organizational Communication Paper The paper for COM 3120 should be 3-5 pages long. Below in the instructions, you will find that the paper is divided into three parts. You will be graded on the content of your answer, the reasoning/argument you make between the theory and the facts of the case study as well as writing (grammar and punctuation). The relative lengths of the three parts should be as follows:

• Part One: 1 page minimum 

• Part Two: 2 pages minimum 

• Part Three: 1 page minimum 

INSTRUCTIONS: 

Part One: Description of the Organization Choose an organization that you want to research and discuss. Describe the organization giving relevant background information. Make sure that you identify the organization’s mission. This is most often found in a mission statement. 

Part Two: Strategic Communication in the Organization Choose at least 4 but no more than 6 of the following aspects of strategic organizational communication to discuss: 

• Public relations 

• Managing an organization's image or reputation 

• Internal communications 

• Public affairs and issues management 

• Media relations 

• Risk and crisis communication 

• Marketing 

• Integrated marketing communications 

• The marketing mix 

• Advertising 

• Branding 

• Relationship marketing and the use of marketing data bases 

• Technology and strategic organizational communication  

Part Three: Assessment and Recommendations As a conclusion to your research on the strategic communication of the organization you chose, make an evaluation of how effective you believe this organization uses strategic communication. Is the strategic communication very effective, somewhat effective, not effective, dysfunctional and/or destructive, etc. Justify your assessment. Make recommendations for how the organization could improve its strategic communication (even if your assessment was that the organization used strategic communication effectively). _________________________________________________________ 

Formatting Guidelines

• 12 point type size 

• Double line spacing 

• 1-inch margins 

• Indentations at beginnings of paragraphs, with no space between paragraphs

Documentation Guidelines: If you incorporate sources into your paper, use standard APA style. Make sure that you have both in-text citations and a references or works cited list at the end of the paper.

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Part 1 – Creating Offerings

Learning Outcomes

Offering. Student can describe an offering based on features, benefits, price, and costs of ownership

Type of consumer offerings. Student can suggest marketing strategy implications based on the type of consumer offering under examination.

Product line extensions or new product development. Student can suggest possible product line extensions or related product or service offerings based on the student’s chosen product or service offering.

Product lifecycle. Student can suggest potential marketing strategies based on the product or service’s lifecycle stage.

Directions

Your job in this Writing Assignment is to develop marketing mix strategies to ensure a value offering for the target market you identified in the previous assignment. We begin with the value offering this week.

We don’t expect you to develop strategies based on a total knowledge of the product or service since you are not, or most likely not, employed by your product or service’s company. We will be looking to see if you can apply the marketing concepts to the real-world situation.

Again, do not fall into the trap of reporting on the product or service. This is obvious because your assignment will look like a rewrite of the company’s website. Don’t be afraid to make strategy recommendations based on what you have discovered about the product or service, and how you think it can move forward. Be creative, be reasoned, take risks.

Remember your product’s target market(s) from the previous paper. Always keep them in mind when making your recommendations. You now work for the company, and your goal it to help them grow sales.

Prepare your assignment beginning with a title page with your name and the name of your product or service. Then answer each of the following eight questions (four in part 1 and four in part 2) in order and number the beginning of your response to each question. You do not need to repeat the question. The paper should contain approximately 5 pages of analysis for the responses to the eight questions.

1. Offering. Describe your product or service offering as it is currently in terms of features and benefits, price and the total cost of ownership as discussed in the week's readings. Is it more product dominant or service dominant? What are the tangible and intangible aspects?

2. Type of consumer offering. Based on the four categories of type of offerings discussed in course content, describe the category in which your product or service offering belongs. Based on your new target market, would that category of the offering change and if so, how? How would it change the marketing strategy?

3. Product line extensions or new product development. Should the current product or service be modified to more fully meet the needs of your new target market? Would the changes constitute a new product line, a product line extension or a new product? If no product changes are needed, how does the same product or service meet the need of your target market differently than current customers? Would the product line extension or new product allow the offering to occupy uncontested space in the perceptual map for the target market as covered in the previous paper?

4. Product lifecycle. In which stage of the product lifecycle is your product or service offering now? Would the changes described in number 3 above change the lifecycle stage and if so how? What would this mean to the lifecycle marketing strategy?

Part 2 – Using Marketing Channels and Price to Create Value for Customers

Learning Outcomes

Marketing Channels. Student can outline a multi-channel distribution system

Marketing channel strategy. Student can recommend a marketing channel strategy for a product or service offering that assures the correct amount of intensity.

Value chain. Student can discuss how each channel in the product or service offering adds value to the customer.

Pricing strategy. Student can analyze a current pricing strategy and make recommendations for modifications.

Directions

This part of the assignment assesses your ability to relate marketing mix concepts of distribution and pricing to your product or service offering. You will also have a chance to recommend new distribution and pricing strategies based on your new target market to meet their needs.

Answer each of the following four questions, in order, numbering each of your responses. There is no need to repeat the question.

1. Marketing channels. To the best of your ability, outline the marketing channels of your product or service offering as they currently exist. Refer to Figure 6.2 for some ideas. Most product and service offerings will have more than one channel, so your system should include at least two; for example (1) a direct channel for internet sales: manufacturer –> customer; and (2) an indirect channel such as manufacturer –> distributor –> wholesaler –> retailer –> customer. If your product or service only has only a direct channel, explain why. Would this channel strategy change as a result of your new target market? Why or why not?

2. Marketing channel strategy. Why type of distribution intensity strategy does your product or service currently use? How do you know this? Would this distribution intensity strategy change for your new target market? Why or why not?

3. Value chain. Referring back to your marketing channel diagram, discuss what each member of the value chain does to bring value to the consumer.

4. Pricing strategy. Referring to the various pricing strategies outlined in the week's readings, which one does your product or service currently use? Would you recommend any changes for your new target market? If so, how would you change it and why?

General Submission Requirements

Prepare as a word-processed document (such as Microsoft Word). Use a simple 12-point font such as Times New Roman. Use black ink for majority of your work and only use colors if it enhances your ability to communicate your thoughts.

Your assignment should be the equivalent of approximately five pages of double-spaced text, approximately 1/2 page for each of the eight questions (four in Part 1 and four in Part 2). You may attach exhibits that will not be counted towards the page count of double-spaced text. The cover page and Bibliography page are not part of the five pages of written analysis.

Week Eight Leadership and Management of Change Discussion

Read:

Ch. 16 Leadership

Ch. 18 Managing Change and Stress

Kreitner, R. & A. Angelo, ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR, 6th ED. (2013) McGraw-Hill, Boston

The team has counseled the management of a very dysfunctional organization with the goal of providing the means to be very functional and smooth running but before they are on their own two more essential topics need to be discussed, and they are leadership and the management of which go hand in hand. 

Before the team moves into various styles leadership the managers need to be familiar with the essences of the Ohio State Studies and the University of Michigan Studies (Kreitner , 470-71), The team needs to discuss these studies with the management as they will give them an underpinning to understand the various theories of leadership.  At the fore front of leadership theories is the "Path Goal Theory" (474) and this theory should be explained to the management and what sort of leader behavior is does it advocate.  The team should include examples in its explanations. 

The team should discuss with the managers, "Laissez-Faire and Transformational Leadership but suggest which style would be the best fit for this organization that is just becoming functional. 

An organization is organic, a living thing that must constantly adjust its changing internal and external environment and change can be very stressful for those employees who are affected by it.    Discuss with management the external forces that are forcing change on any organizations, it is change or die. 

The internal forces for change are primarily related to personal adjustments, the creation of stress and why employees resist change should be discussed, why are they threatened?   The team should give management some strategies to implement the change process. 

The managers should be familiar with organizational development  (OD) and have a strategy to implement it.

The team is ready to turn management lose to create a functional and dynamic organization now it is up to them.  Please be creative and discuss all aspect of this forum. 

ISIS has made direct threats to U.S. service members in the U.S. and American citizens via social media. Days later, DHS and the FBI confirm the group has infiltrated the U.S. homeland, 13 group members, unconfirmed if the group was already on U.S. soil or entered by air, land, or sea.

Your Task

It’s election day, April 7, 2015. A “lone wolf” terrorist in Ferguson, Mo., takes random shots at a line of voters, killing 20 and injuring eight.

Research strategic response models for countering terrorist threats.

Discuss two of the following:

identification of the threat;

characterize deterrence, prediction, mitigation (i.e., preparation and protection),

managing public outrage/crisis/fallout, attribution, post-incident response.

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Week Eight Leadership and Management of Change Discussion
Read:

Ch. 16 Leadership

Ch. 18 Managing Change and Stress

Kreitner, R. & A. Angelo, ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR, 6th ED. (2013) McGraw-Hill, Boston

The team has counseled the management of a very dysfunctional organization with the goal of providing the means to be very functional and smooth running but before they are on their own two more essential topics need to be discussed, and they are leadership and the management of which go hand in hand. 

Before the team moves into various styles leadership the managers need to be familiar with the essences of the Ohio State Studies and the University of Michigan Studies (Kreitner , 470-71), The team needs to discuss these studies with the management as they will give them an underpinning to understand the various theories of leadership.  At the fore front of leadership theories is the "Path Goal Theory" (474) and this theory should be explained to the management and what sort of leader behavior is does it advocate.  The team should include examples in its explanations. 

The team should discuss with the managers, "Laissez-Faire and Transformational Leadership but suggest which style would be the best fit for this organization that is just becoming functional. 

An organization is organic, a living thing that must constantly adjust its changing internal and external environment and change can be very stressful for those employees who are affected by it.    Discuss with management the external forces that are forcing change on any organizations, it is change or die. 

The internal forces for change are primarily related to personal adjustments, the creation of stress and why employees resist change should be discussed, why are they threatened?   The team should give management some strategies to implement the change process. 

The managers should be familiar with organizational development  (OD) and have a strategy to implement it.

The team is ready to turn management lose to create a functional and dynamic organization now it is up to them.  Please be creative and discuss all aspect of this forum. 

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Feasibility Report

Title of Research Project:

· Problem or Issue Statement: A general statement of the problem or issue; give a brief description of what the proposed research seeks to accomplish, highlighting what the proposed research may validate or reveal about the intended beneficiaries interest.

· Practical Feasibility: Will the proposed research lead to direct implementation or will the research validate the issue and support an interim step designed to explore potential solutions? Outline practical action items, deliverables, you project will provide satisfactory evidence for next step requirements. Identify any potential or known constraints that may impede the research project.

· Social Feasibility: Consider whether the proposed research would prove acceptable to the people who would be directly or indirectly affected by the implementation. Describe the effect on stakeholders (increased profit, decreased expenses, expanded brand recognition, etc.) from the introduction of the further research or solution implementation. Discuss the potential benefits to the beneficiaries and how any success will be measured.Consider whether there will be a need for re/training, hiring new staff, or acquisition of new equipment. Review any administrative expenses or project costs. How will continuity be maintained, successes measured?

· Economic Feasibility: Consider the cost/benefits of the proposal/proposed research. Include the updated or revised budget thatdetails the costs that will be incurred as reasonably covered by grant $150,000. If necessary, create projections to explain research expenses versus next steps or implementation costs. Align any potential benefits to these costs in measurable time/dollar intervals. Detail the researchers’ anticipated progress and grant drawdown. Will long term benefits eventual payback the grant? How?

· Literature Review/Scholarly Research: Provide a minimum of two annotated references. The annotations should be at least one full paragraph (5-7 sentences, 10 maximum). The purpose of the annotation is to explain how prior research informs the current proposal. How will these resources be used to support the introduction and background sections of the revised proposal. Add any relevant periodicals as necessary.

· Alternative Solution: Consideration of alternative solutions/approaches must be included in this documented. At least two alternative business or theoretical options should be presented. Detail the differences between these options and the proposed research approach/implementation plan. Justify your choice as stated in the proposal.

At this point, all of the planning for the project has been done and if the feasibility report content supports the project as likely to succeed within predictable constraints, then make a final statement:

Revise and resubmit the proposal

Revise and withdraw the proposal

Revise and implement the proposal

-The Research team-

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Enterprise risk management (ERM) is used in many different business settings to evaluate and continuously improve processes.

The chief operating officer (COO) of your health care organization was recently hired from outside of health care and has used other risk management models in the past. The new COO wants to understand how better to use ERM for a health care setting.

Write a paper detailing how ERM is similar and different between health care organizations, which are primarily service-based, and non-health-care businesses that are primarily product-based.

Your paper should explain ERM concepts in health care as they relate to the following:

• Quantitative areas: Revenue cycle management, information technology, medical coding and patient safety, etc.  
• Qualitative measures: Human resources, patient comfort, and outreach satisfaction, etc. 

Your paper should explain differences between service-based and production-based ERM models, with an emphasis on the intangibles of health care.

Deliverable Length: 3 pages, excluding cover page, abstract page, and reference page. Students need to support their work with at least 4 academic or professional peer-reviewed sources published within the past 5 years.

 APA – deliverable is cited properly according to the APA Publication Manual (6th Ed.)