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HSC 350 : Continuous Improvement Quality

HSC 350 : Continuous Improvement Quality 

The assignment is for each student to submit a minimum of written account of a 5 page your progress over a minimum of four weeks. Your paper should be 12-font, Arial script, APA format and double spaced.

Your paper should include;

 

Your Statement of Purpose (why you chose your area

 

Your AIM statement: 1) What you are trying to accomplish; 2) How will you know that a change is an improvement; 3) What changes can you make that will result in an improvement. 

 

Specify your measurable goal, how you collected your data and evidence of your data collection. 

 

Include the utilization of at least (2) CQI tools (example, Fishbone Diagram, graphs, flowchart, control chart). 

 

Submit a completed PDSA worksheet outlining each phase of your Personal CQI project. (You can use any worksheet you wish).

 

Submit a PowerPoint of your Project along with your paper. Your PowerPoint is a pictorial description of what is described in your paper. It will show the success of your Personal CQI project. For example, you may include your Aim Statement, your data collection over four weeks, your PDSA for your particular goal area, and QI process tools.  

Probability Concepts and Applications

Probability Concepts and Applications

1.  Describe the rationale for utilizing probability concepts. Is there more than one type of probability? If so, describe the different types of probability.

 

2.  Briefly discuss probability distributions. What is a normal distribution? Please provide a written example of how ‘understanding distribution’ can be an asset for any business project.

 

Your paper should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. Please include citations to support your ideas.

 

This assignment will be graded using the Written Assignment Rubric.

 

Ecom 101

Ecom 101

Assignment Objectives & Requirements:

1. To create a new E-commerce business, which is located in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which include the followings:

a. Introduction about your business.

b. Product and type of services.

c. Business statement.

d. Business vision.

e. Business objective.

2. To explain your business E-commerce processes.

3. To apply a SWOT analysis to your business.

4. Building the E-commerce website.

a. How it will look likes in terms of design and format (draft).

5. Student is required to explain its E-commerce system functionality, such as:

a. The product menu will show all the product we have in stoke.

b. The contact button will have all the company contact details, social media links Facebook, Instagram, etc.

6. System design (Picture attachment).

7. Determine the suitable software and hardware needed with an explanation on why it’s needed.

a. What type of functionality needed in your website, such as CRM?

b. What type of hardware needed? Do you need a server or it will be in the cloud?

8. Identifying security issues as well as how to avoid it.

a. What type of security? To whom or to what?

b. Potential threats to your website?

c. Recommendation.

9. Categorize marketing and advertising strategy and method.

a. Demographic.

b. Marketing method.

c. Social media.

d. Local marketing.

e. Multichannel marketing.

10. Describe what are the ethics and laws within your E-commerce Website.

11. Conclude your report.

 

Assignment regulation:

 All students are encouraged to use their own word.

 Student must apply any recognized Academic Referencing Style within their reports.

 Student is allowed to cite 10% from the word limit (3000 word limit means 300 words can be cited).

 A mark of zero will be given for any submission that includes copying from other resource without referencing it.

Public Health

Public Health

 

This week, you will continue to work on your research paper.  Each week, a 3 to 5-page paper covering specific issues to consider for your epidemiological topic is due. Use a minimum of five current resources published within the past five years to begin formulating the next set of overall issues in your paper. Your paper should be 3 to 5 pages in length  and should incorporate responses to the following:Discuss the basic epidemiological concepts, which pertain in general and specifically to your selected topic.Describe, in detail, the epidemiology of your selected health-related state or event (e.g., .disease, disability ,chronic condition).Describe the occurrence, signs and symptoms, and control of your selected health-related state or event (e.g., .disease, disability, chronic condition).

Case Study (Marketing)

Case Study (Marketing)

CASE STUDY (Ritz-Carlton) QUESTIONS

1 What are the target market(s) for The Ritz-Carlton using segmentation strategies? How does this relate to their brand management strategies?

2. Who are The Ritz-Carlton’s top three competitors, and what are their advantages/disadvantages with respect to their competitive product/service strategies?

3. How does The Ritz-Carlton match up to competing hotels? What are its key differences?

4. In maintaining top quality customer service for a luxury hotel like The Ritz-Carlton,

Assignment 1: Ethics and Code of Conduct

Assignment 1: Ethics and Code of Conduct 

Review  Chapters 1 through 5 in the textbook. Then, research the Code of  Conduct / Ethics for your city and state, as well as one to two (1-2)  relevant articles that discuss codes of conduct for law enforcement  officers. 

 

Write a two to four (2-4) page paper in which you: 

 

Explain three (3) reasons ethics and integrity will be important in your future career choice in law enforcement. 

 

Determine  at least two (2) aspects in which ethics, morality, and law differ in  regards to affecting the decisions of your local law enforcement  officers. 

 

Recommend  at least two (2) ways law enforcement officers should use ethics,  morality, and a code of conduct in both their professional and personal  lives. 

 

Using  the Law enforcement code of conduct for the state of your choosing,  identify and discuss the two (2) most important aspects of the code as  they relate to law enforcement activities in your state. 

 

Support your position with two (2) relevant and credible references, documented according to SWS. (Note: Do not use open source sites such as Ask.com, eHow.com, Answers.com, and Wikipedia.) 

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements: 

 

This course requires use of Strayer Writing Standards (SWS).  The format is different than other Strayer University courses. Please  take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details.

 

Include  a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s  name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover  page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment  page length. 

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are: 

 

Explain  the role of ethics and integrity in the criminal justice profession,  and the higher standard expected of criminal justice professionals. 

 

Explain the difference between ethics, morality, and the law. 

 

Analyze the issues pertinent to codes of conduct and / or the ethics of duty. 

 

Explain key elements of choice, values, and ethics. 

Recommend ways to use ethics to improve decision making in the criminal justice system.  

Use technology and information resources to research issues in ethics and leadership in criminal justice.

 

Write clearly and concisely about ethics and leadership in criminal justice using proper writing mechanics.

Assignment 1: Argument Mapping

Assignment 1: Argument Mapping

Write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you:

 

(Note: Refer to Demonstration Exercise 3 located at the end of Chapter 1 for criteria 1-3.)

 

1.  Create an argument map based on the influence diagram presented in Case 1.3 and complete all the criteria provided in the demonstration exercise, beginning with this claim: “The U.S. should return to the 55- mph speed limit in order to conserve fuel and save lives.”

 

2.  Include in your map each of the following: warrants, backings, objections, and rebuttals.

 

3.  Assume that the original qualifier was certainly; indicate whether the qualifier changes as we move from a simple, static, uncontested argument to a complex, dynamic and contested argument.

 

(Note: Refer to Demonstration Exercise 3 located at the end of Chapter 8 for criterion 4.)

 

4.  Apply the argument mapping procedures presented in Chapter 8 to analyze the pros and cons (or strengths and weaknesses) of the recommendations that the U.S. should not intervene in the Balkans.

 

5.  Write a one (1) page analysis that uses critical thinking to assess the overall plausibility of the claim: “The conflict in Bosnia is somebody else’s trouble. The U.S. should not intervene militarily.”

 

6.  Complete an argument map to illustrate your analysis.

 

7.  Appropriately incorporate at least four (4) quality sources. A quality source can be either grey literature, such as a news article, or scholarly, such as peer reviewed works. In the case of public administration, government websites are appropriate quality resources. Note: Wikipedia, SparkNotes, and similar websites do not qualify as academic resources. Visit the Strayer University Library at http://research.strayer.edu to conduct research.

 

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

 

·  Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

 

·  Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

 

·  Use Microsoft Word, Microsoft Draw, PowerPoint, or other graphics program to create the arguments maps for the assignment. Whichever program you use, the graphical maps must be integrated into the Word Document and labeled as a Figure with a number and title. The argument maps are part of the page length.

 

The course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:

 

·  Critique the process of policy argument and development.

Management Science Through Spreadsheets

Management Science Through Spreadsheets

Prompt

In the Plan-Do-Check- Act management cycle management plans (sets objectives, develops processes and allocates resource) that the company will execute (Do). Progress in meeting set objectives is monitored and feedback is provided (Check). Based on feedback, adjustments to the plans are made (Act). While management involves more than just measuring aspects of operation you cannot efficiency manage unless you know if objectives are being met. Checking is not a onetime event; it must be repeated frequently or be continuous. This is where spreadsheets that are linked to sources of data being collected provide an advantage. As the input data values changes the spreadsheets do not need to be changed in order for them to calculate the results. 

In the case study, you are constructing a number of spreadsheets to evaluate specific aspects of a winery and its distribution operation. Certain things such as increasing wine production significantly or lowering production costs require significant time to enact whereas making changes regarding distribution can be made fairly quickly. In the case study new management wants to understand how efficient their distribution system if functioning.    

Case Study Intro

The Vinho Winery of Lodi California produces about 1 million cases of wine a year. It sells its wine wholesale to four independent wine distributors; Riverside CA, Oakland CA, Portland OR, and Seattle WA. They produce three varieties of wine; Ruby Red, Murky White, and Whole-earth Organic. 

The grapes to produce the three varieties differ and their production volumes (augmented by grapes bought from other growers) must be planned at least a year in advance of being pressed into wine and the wine must be aged a year before being sold.

Vinho Winery advertises their wines in the areas surrounding their four independent wine distributors and the cost of this marketing is included in the wine production costs. 

Vinho moves their wine by truck to the distributors. A full truck will consist of 24 pallets of wine totaling 2688 cases (16,128 bottles). The minimum shipment they will sell is a pallet of wine (112 cases) and they contract out delivery of the pallets unless the cost will exceed the cost of using a truck for a subsidiary that charges by the mile. To avoid having their trucks returning empty and paying for the round trip, Vihno has brokers arrange cargo to be carried on the return (Backhaul). Since little Lodi is not a major transportation destination only part of the return trip can be used (for example, the return from Seattle can be used to move cargo from Seattle to Eureka but not all the way to Lodi).

Vinho Winery was recently bought by a private equity firm and they want an assessment of current operations. Once completed, they want plans to optimize operations. You are the management consultant that will conduct the assessment and develop the plans.

You will be required to create and program spreadsheets for your analysis and conclude with summary statements. The source data (raw data) that you will draw upon for analysis is posted in Learning Module 3 and should be imported into the Excel work book that you will create. The source data should be placed in one tab in your Excel work book (at the beginning or end) and the tables you create should link to that data rather than creating copies of the data for each tab.   

In Milestone 1 you will be analyzing the distribution of wines to the four distributors. The specific tasks are:  

A. Determine percentage of wine by distributor (show in a pivot table and a pie chart)

B. Determine wine distribution by variety and distributor (show in a pivot table and a bar chart) 

C. Determine revenue by distributor and wine variety (show data in a table and in a bar chart) 

D. Show measures of Central Tendencies of the shipments to each distributor (use the IF Function to select the data to be used) show in a table  

E. Analyze frequency of size of shipment sizes using a histogram 

F. Create shipment histograms for Portland and Riverside  

G. Summary Statement: Discuss the significance of what you found in A-F.

In Milestone 2 you will be analyzing the costs of shipping the wines to the various distributors and the impact of transport costs and state taxes on profit. The specific tasks are:  

A. Calculate costs of shipping to Portland and Riverside by pallets (show in a table) 

B. Revenue of Portland and Riverside minus transportation costs (show in a table) 

C. Cost of production (show in a table) 

D. Revenue minus Transport & Production (show in a table) 

E. Profit after state taxes (show in a table) 

F. Summary, explain how central tendency in regard to shipment sizes impacted the bottom line 

In Milestone 3; management has asked a question and you will program spreadsheets using Excel Solver to answer the questions. Run Excel Solver to determine the solution and show the limits and sensitively reports. In addition you will provide a summary statement providing your assessment as to whether the changes being examines are worth examining further. The question is:

1) Management wants you to determine the optimum speed that the trucks should travel when going to the distributors in order to reduce Round Trip truck times to the four destinations (one trip to each) using the following assumptions and constraints: 

a. That the Cost per Mile provided in the Background is based on truck/driver costs and fuel. Semi trucks get about 6.5 mpg at 55.6 mph (speed used in this scenario) and the mpg will decrease about 0.14 mpg per MPH over 55.6 MPH. 

b. The cost of diesel for this scenario is $2.95 gallon

c. If we ask the trucks to go faster we will need to pay for the additional fuel cost

d. Management is will to consider allowing fuel costs to $6,000 if significant time savings can be realized 

e. Management has imposed a limit of 14.4 mph increase on average trucks speeds

 
 

Final Exam

Final Exam

First, be sure to provide robust and complete answers that fully expound on the question.  When in doubt, add a little more detail. Those few extra sentences will help me determine how well you understand the material.

 

Second, please do not quote sources within your answers.  Let me be clear . . . I appreciate that you might want to bring in outside material – and that’s great for other work in this course.  But for the exams, I want your answers in your own words so I can determine your level of understanding of the material.

 

Finally, do NOT copy your answers from anywhere – including websites or the textbook.  That is considered plagiarism.  Please put answers in your own words.

International Business

International Business

Before starting the case, make sure to go through the required reading material carefully. Review the concepts of exchange rates, currency hedging, and other methods of dealing with exchange rate risk. The topic of this module is difficult, so make sure you go carefully through all of the required tutorials and book chapters.

 

Case Assignment

 

When you have finished reviewing the background materials, apply your knowledge of the material to answer the following questions in a 4- to 5-page paper:

 

  1. Suppose you are a consultant who travels the world to make predictions about exchange rates for your clients. You have been hired to go to a foreign country to make a prediction about whether the value of the currency in this country will go up or down. When you arrive in this country, the first thing you notice is that everything is very expensive compared to what you are used to in the United States. Some items such as soft drinks or bottled water cost twice as much as what you pay at home. You also find that the economy in this country is starting to shrink a bit, and several foreign-owned businesses are moving out of the country. Would you tell your client that you expect the value of the currency in this country will increase or decrease? Explain your reasoning, and make references to Agarwal (2009) in your answer.
  2. Suppose a small manufacturing business purchases 90% of its raw materials and supplies from Japan. It is a very specialized business and has no place other than Japan to purchase its materials. Thus, if the value of the Japanese currency goes up compared to the dollar, profit margins will go down since it will cost the company more to purchase its supplies. What methods do you think would be best to manage this risk under these circumstances? Refer to at least one of the required readings from the background materials in your answer.
  3. Consider a large multinational consumer product company with operations in all major advanced and emerging economies. Now suppose the value of the Indian and Brazilian currencies drops dramatically and the value of the Mexican peso increases dramatically. What kind of strategic changes in marketing and/or location of production facilities do you think this company should take given these new exchange rates? Explain your reasoning, and make references to Avadhani (2010) and Shackman (2015) in your answer.
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