Unit IV

For this unit’s assignment, develop a minimum of a three-page essay describing a specific classification system that is universally adopted in the United States. 

Please be sure to include at least three references, one of which must be from the Waldorf Online Library.

Please select one of the following classification systems from the list below to incorporate in your assignment. 

1. ICD-9 CM 

2. ICD-10 CM 

3. SNOMED-CT

 4. National Drug Codes 

5. DSM 

Including the following in your paper: 

1. Brief overview of the code set selected

 2. Main advantage and disadvantage (limitations) of the selected code set 

3. Assessment of how this code set is used for data capturing and storage of information

 4. Comparison and contrast of your code set against any other code set 5. Reference page formatted per APA 

Marketing Plan Phase 3

Now that you have defined your goals and conducted your situation analysis, it's time to create a strategy to help you to achieve your goals. Next, you will complete your Marketing Strategy. In the Marketing Strategy, the marketing manager defines the company's strategies for increasing sales and gaining a competitive advantage.

Complete Marketing Strategy by providing 1-2 paragraphs about each of the following items:

Marketing Strategy

1. Positioning Strategy: Discuss your strategy for positioning and differentiating your product. What market segments will you target? What is your value proposition? Discuss how you will differentiate your product from similar competing brands.
2. Product Strategy: Discuss your product and strategy for building a strong brand.
3. Pricing Strategy: Determine how you will price your product or service. Talk about how you expect to remain competitive with your pricing and still earn a return on your investment. How will your product price compare to the competition? Don't forget to take all of your variable and fixed costs into account when defining your pricing strategy.
4. Distribution Strategy: How do you intend to get your product into the hands of the consumer? Incorporate the use of the Internet and other technologies in your Distribution Strategy. Also, discuss a traditional method for distribution such as, mail, retail, sales representatives, etc. Finally, specify the exact distribution channel that you will be using. Distribution channels include: direct distribution channel (product goes directly from manufacturer to consumer), or indirect distribution channel where intermediaries are used. An example of an indirect distribution channel would be the product going from the manufacturer to the wholesaler to the retailer to the customer or from manufacturer to retailer to consumer.
5. Marketing Communications Strategy: Your communications strategy must incorporate traditional methods, as well as methods utilizing the Internet and Social Media. Discuss the elements of the promotion mix that you will use to promote your product.
6. Marketing Research: Describe your plans for market research. What will be your approach and which tools will be utilized? How will you conduct your studies and what will you be measuring?

Compare Yourself To Your Invisible Mentor

For this assignment, determine the best leadership theory for you to portray and then compare that to your “invisible mentor” in a paper. Examine yourself using leadership theories, and determine the best theory you should use. Do the same for your mentor – determine the leadership theory they exhibit. Then, compare yourself to your mentor.

For the assignment, submit the following in a two-minute presentation. Your presentation will consist of voiceover/narration (from you) with visuals. The visuals can be created using PowerPoint, Prezi, or something similar.

How do I create an audio recording for my class assignment?

• Analysis of the leadership theory you should portray.
• Assessment of the leadership theory your “invisible mentor” portrays.
• Comparison between the two:
  • What is similar?
  • What is different?
  • How should you adapt your leadership to be more effective?

Save your assignment as a Microsoft Word document. 

Developing A Purchase Process

Choose 1 major restaurant  chain and provide a overview on

                        A history of the  chain

                        The type of cuisine(s) and theme

                        The number of restaurants

                        The average restaurant size(seating capacity) and layout (both front and

                         back of the house layouts)

                         The standardized menu (both food and beverage)

Describe the restaurant chain's central commissary including  the products it supplies and it doesn't supply, and analyze how the central commissary benefits a single restaurant unit

Select at least three 3  purchasing technologies  from the following list: inventory-tracking,  storage management, product ordering, product identification,  and bar-code reader. Explain how those you have chosen will be used to optimize the purchasing process for this restaurant chain.

Explain how the new purchasing process for this restaurant unit follows and abides by 5 five major purchasing objectives. Provide a rationale for each objective.

Use at least three 3 quality references. NOT Wikipedia and similar websites

It must be doubled spaced, Times New Roman (12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references  must follow A PA

1.  Complete the problem attached above regarding Best's Bicycles Problem   

2. Write a 2 page paper that summarizes the use of the following new product development method (using memo or APA format – use 2 external references):

Stage-Gate Process

Review the Stage-Gate process on pages 122-123, then research at least 2 professional or peer-reviewed sources that provide an example of the development and commercialization of an innovative new product (example the Tesla auto in 2002).  Please include introduction, conclusion and references

3.  Product and Service Process Matrixes

Research the Product and Service Matrixes on pages 144-145 and 149-150, then research and write a 2 page paper (using APA format, excludes title and reference pages) that compares and contrasts the matrixes (at least 2 sources required). Please include introduction, conclusion and references

Brand Image or brand strategy

Brand Image or brand strategy:

 The image that our brand is trying to accomplish is that of unity. With our technology people from all over the world can communicate with one another in real time.

   We will market to military, fortune 500 companies, and world travelers.

Product Name:

 MMI X-lator 2.0

Advertising Slogans or Tag lines:

 We speak when you can’t.

 A little birdie told me…

 For when you need to listen up.

  MMI Technologies- Unifying the world one conversation at a time.

Product Attributes

 This product is a light-weight blue tooth device that would work with your smart phone device. The user would download our free application through their app store. This app would allow the user to listen to a person, speaking in a foreign language, and have a real-time translation in their ear. The MMI X-lator 2.0 will be able to work independently of the smartphone. The app would be used for push updates. Next generation would allow for adaptive learning. This would allow the device to pick up on local dialects and even learn spoken languages where technology currently does not have translator options.

Product Benefits

 There are many benefits and uses for this product. The military can use this for with their troops on the front lines. This would negate the need for translators or risking not having a translator if one is unavailable. Multi-national companies that currently rely on translators to talk to business partners in other countries could use this technology and not worry if things are being lost in translation. Finally, those that enjoy traveling throughout the world would be able to communicate with the locals with simplicity.

Response 2:

We have finally reached the phase of the marketing plan/campaign where we will be coming up with a definitive product name and slogans for our new smart watch.  The way in which we will distinguish our product from our competitors will be by marketing this watch as a universal fit for both A ndroid and IOS operating systems.  This smart watch will be the first of its kind.  Some of the benefits of this product will be that since it is universal, it will appeal to people who want a smart watch but are afraid they may not have the same phone for years on end.  It can also be used by different family members who have different phones as well.  In addition, t his will help from a manufacturing stand point .    

Product Name –   

ANDRIOS SMART WATCH  

Advertising Slogan Or Tag Line –   

Uncommonly universal for the unique individual.  

V ersatility never looked so good.  

The first smart watch that can handle it all.  

Product Attributes –   

Some of the many unique product attributes for the Andrios will be its unique versatility amongst different operating systems.  Again, this watch will be the first of its kind in terms of dual platform usage. Some of the other attributes will be blue tooth connectivity to multiple devices, fast sync technology no matter which operating system you are using or switching over to.  The ability to connect to two different operating systems simultaneously and transfer files se a mlessly .  The Andrios will also have smart charging capability, this will allow it to charge wirelessly either from a docking pad or from a phone battery itself.   

Product Benefits –   

The biggest benefit the Andrios will be able to provide will be multiple operating system operations.  This is the biggest feature of this watch.  Again, this will help with manufacturing.  Instead of making two different watches, we can focus on one.  This will save money on multiple fronts , especially on the manufacturing and marketing budgets.  Customers will be able to feel confident with their new smart watch, if they decide to change operating systems which we see a lot more people doing nowadays, they will have a smart watch that is still useful.  Some of the other benef its and features we highlighted above will be the first of their kind for any smart watch currently on the market.  This will be a huge benefit for MM since we will be the first to market with this innovative technology.  

1. Does the difficulty in determining the current value of an asset create a problem in determining the depreciation expense that should be charged for a year? Explain your answer.

2. Why would public service organizations need to measure income?.

3. What are the problems with the objective evidence and cost conventions, and how can they be overcome?

4. Is the information on the balance sheet, activity statement, and cash flow statement independent of one another or connected? Explain your answer.

The response to each question should be must be at least 200 words in length in APA format.

 References:

Financial Management for Public Health and Not-for-Profit Organizations (4th edition)

Assignment reading attached!

Question 1: Prepare an annual program budget for the Stratton Township Park including golf operations; the pool; concerts; other park activities including tours, nature visitors, and general concessions; and administrative costs. Show the line-item details for each function by natural account and summarize the budget for the park as a whole. 

Because of the current fiscal situation, the Stratton Township needs to reduce its operating costs. As usual, the park is on the list of targeted operations. As the finance director for the township, you have been asked to work with the park’s manager to explore possible options. 

Question 2: Based on the information in the budget, find the break-even green fees for the golf course and the break-even admissions charges for the pool. You may assume that the volume of users will not change with increases in pricing. You may also assume that the course will operate for a full 130 days. 

a. Do both break even analyses based on the cost of delivering services with and without the allocated management salaries. 

b. Do you think the park can realistically charge these fees to park users? What might the consequences of raising fees be economically, politically, and in a public relations sense? 

Question 3: The park manager wants to know whether it makes sense to shut down one or more of the operations at the Stratton Township Park. Determine the impact of shutting down the golf course, the pool, the concert series, and the tours, and show the overall marginal impact of making each of these changes. Be sure to include all marginal revenues and all marginal expenses in your calculations. 

Question 4: After completing these analyses, the manager has decided to recommend three changes to the Park’s budget. 

First, he plans to increase green fees for golf to $5 above the break-even price excluding allocated management costs and rounded to the next highest multiple of $.50. Since competitive private clubs in the region cost $100 or more for a round of golf, he does not believe that an increase in price will result in a decline in the number of golfers using the course. 

Second, he wants to raise pool admission charges to $4.50. Given the demographics of those who use the pool, he believes that raising prices by $1.00 will result in a 5% drop in attendance. 

Third, he wants to eliminate three of the concerts the township had planned for the next year. 

Prepare a revised budget for the Stratton Township Park reflecting these changes. Will these budget modifications meet the township’s goal of reducing the subsidy it would have given to the park in the next fiscal year by 20%? 

Question 5: After receiving your analysis of the impact of eliminating the concerts and raising green fees and pool admission charges, the park manager has asked you to come up with some additional proposals for meeting the township’s subsidy reduction goal. What would you recommend?

References:

Financial Management for Public Health and Not-for-Profit Organizations (4th edition)

Assignment reading attached!

FMW8RP

The research paper must meet the following requirements: 

• include an original thesis statement, 

• be at least 7 pages in length (not including the title page and references page), 

• include at least 12 references 

• Correctly employ APA style formatting. 

 Reference

Financial Management for Public Health and Not-for-Profit Organizations (4th edition)

Module 03 Course Project – Popular Television Program

For this portfolio assignment, you are required to research and analyze a TV program that ran between 1955 and 1965.To successfully complete this essay, you will need to answer the following questions: What is the background of this show? Explain what years it was on TV, describe the channel it aired on, the main characters, setting, etc.. What social issues and historical events were taking place at the time the show was being broadcast? Did these issues affect the television show in any way? Did the television show make an impact on popular culture? Your thesis for the essay should attempt to answer this question: Explain the cultural relevance of the show, given the information gathered from the show's background, and cultural history. How can television act as a reflection of the social, political, and cultural current events? This essay should be 2-3 pages, in APA style, utilizing the college's library resources. Please include at least one scholarly resource as a minimum in your essay.

Examples: 

The Civil Rights Movement   

Sidney Poitier was a famous Hollywood actor during the 1960's, and was the first black man to win an Oscar for his role in 1963's "Lillies of the Field". 1967's critically acclaimed film, "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" starred Poitier as a young black man who was marrying a white woman, and shows the troubles they both faced when introducing each other to their families. 

The Civil Rights Movement   

During the 1960's, African American actors were finally beginning to take center stage on television, and in Hollywood. Bill Cosby was a rising star in 1965, when he became the costar of the hit TV show, "I Spy". Many naysayers said at the time that Cosby would never make it as a star. Cosby went on to be one of the most successful actors, comedians, and producers for television in American popular history. He is also an activist for the black community, and is a source of pride and respect for American popular culture.