Create an 8-12-slide PowerPoint presentation that summarizes the AFI Framework and the results of the internal and external analyses. Your presentation must also include a SWOT matrix for the company and your recommendations for strategies to move the company forward, that align with organizational structure and governance, and reflect ethical responsibility.

Introduction

This portfolio work project will you demonstrate your understanding of strategy and the factors that must be considered when formulating and implementing strategy.

Scenario

Organizational leadership of your company has requested that you present your analyses of the company, as well as recommend potential strategic actions that could be taken to address issues raised by your analyses.

Your Role

You are a strategic analyst for the company you have selected to use in this course.

Requirements

Develop a PowerPoint presentation of 8–12 slides that synthesize the work you did on Assessments 2 and 3 and incorporate feedback from your instructor. Use the speaker’s notes sections of each slide to expand your talking points. Be sure your presentation includes:

• A summary of the AFI framework.
• Results from your internal analysis (VRIO or Value Chain).
• Results from your external analysis (PESTEL and Five Forces).
• A SWOT matrix for the company.
• Recommendations:
  • Do the current strategies need to be changed?
  • What strategies will move the organization forward?
  • How do your recommendations align with organizational structure and governance?
  • Do your recommendations reflect ethical responsibility?

Deliverable Format

• PowerPoint presentation.
  • 8–12 slides (in addition to the title and references slides).
  • Include additional details on each slide in the speaker’s notes section.
• Additional requirements.
  • Title slide.
  • References slide.
  • APA formatted references from at least five sources.
• Be sure you consider the audience.

Evaluation

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies through corresponding scoring guide criteria:

• Competency 1: Assess the importance of strategic management for supporting long term success and sustained competitive advantage.
  • Summarize the strategic framework for a company.
• Competency 2: Apply strategic thinking approaches to resolve business-related challenges.
  • Develop a SWOT matrix for a company.
• Competency 3: Analyze the internal and external environments of an organization in order to formulate and implement successful strategies.
  • Summarize the findings of an internal environmental analysis.
  • Summarize the findings of an external environmental analysis.
• Competency 4: Apply strategic concepts and models to ensure the fit between strategy, organizational structure, capabilities, and goals; and the external environment.
  • Recommend strategic actions for a company that align with organizational structure and governance, and reflect ethical responsibility.
• Competency 5: Communicate business needs, opportunities, and strategies with multiple stakeholders.
  • Correctly format citations and references using current APA style.
  • Write content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.

To prepare:

• Consider the outcomes of your project or other evidence-based projects with which you have been involved. Were your findings as anticipated? What unexpected outcomes, if any, arose?
• Apply the concepts you have studied in previous courses to the data you gathered for your project or for other evidence-based projects. Consider social, political, technological, and financial factors as well as factors related to quality and your area of specialty.
• How does your analysis of the project outcomes inform the discussion and implications of your project? What impact could your findings have as they ripple out through multiple systems?
• Have you identified any ethical implications that require attention? If so, what are they?

Post a cohesive response that addresses the following:

• Discuss the implications of your project outcomes or the outcomes of other evidence-based practice projects. Integrate concepts from previous courses to explain the significance of your findings, and be sure to address ethical implications.

Assignment Details

Translating Evidence into Clinical Practice

Choose one evidence-based practice that you see yourself using as a provider in your clinical practice and discuss how it meets the listed benefits.

Why should we, as healthcare providers, use evidence-based practice?

Evidence-based practice benefits:

• Leads to highest quality care and patient outcomes
• Reduces health care costs
• Reduces geographic variations in the delivery of care
• Increases healthcareprovider empowerment and role satisfaction
• Reduces healthcare provider turnover rate
• Increases reimbursement from 3rd party payers
• Reduces complications and payment denials
• Meets the expectation of an informed public

Include 3 evidence-based articles to support your work that are less than 3 years old.

Before finalizing your work, you should:

• be sure to read the Assignment description carefully (as displayed above);
• consult the Grading Rubric (under the Course Home) to make sure you have included everything necessary; and
• utilize spelling and grammar check to minimize errors.

Your writingAssignment should:

• follow the conventions of Standard English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.);
• be well ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful;
• display superior content, organization, style; and
• use APA 6th Edition format as outlined in the APA Progression Ladder.

Population groups with differences determined by culture, religion or ethnicity also show differences in terms of illness behavior and beliefs.

Discuss a patient population that are at risk and apply evidence-based practice guidelines in management of their illnesses across the age continuum.

 Social Media – Public Information Officer

One of the challenges facing the Public Information Officer (PIO) is social media. Social media is both a friend and foe of emergency agencies.  

1. What is the role and responsibilities of the PIO?  

2. And what do Twitter, Facebook, and other social media sites mean these days to the PIO?  

3. Using the internet or professional journals, find two articles and post the links to the two articles.  One of these should show how an emergency agency uses social media in a positive manner, such as to inform and involve the local community being served.  

4. The other link should show how social media was used in an unprofessional manner and made the agency involved look bad in the eyes of the public.  

5. Give a one paragraph summary of each link.  

400-450 words excluding reference, APA style format and a minimum of 3 references.

A Work Product in which you will design a set of learning experiences that could be implemented as part of an effective curriculum for preschool children (ages 3–4). Ideally, curriculum planning is a collaborative process. For this Work Product, you will interview a teacher to learn more about his or her curricular goals and find out how you can collaborate with one another to achieve those goals. You will also observe in the teacher’s classroom in order to learn more about the children in the setting. If you are currently working as an early childhood teacher, collaborate with a colleague in your setting to complete this Assignment.

Choose one of the following questions and write a 400 word answer on it.

1. We might expect to find quite a few examples of courageous and honorable behavior among the heroes of the TrojanWar. Surely, we see these within the Iliad, but we also see much that seems less than virtuous or wise. Comment.

2. Much of what happens in the ancient world of the Iliad seems to be beyond the control of a mere mortal. Fate or thegods, or sometimes more powerful men and women, intervene and change things. Everyone else is simply along for theride. Or, at least it seems that way sometimes. Perhaps not. Is there anything like genuine free will and the possibility forindividual choices and destinies to exist within this ancient world? Explain.  

3. Consider the way violence is described in the Iliad, and the way the characters respond to acts of violence. From whatwe have read, is violence accepted and supported in this culture, or is it opposed? Clearly some violence is permittedsince these characters are engaged in a 10-year war, but is violence (and war) seen as a necessary evil, or as somethingglorious? Could it be both, or neither one? Explain.

Overview/Description:

The purpose of this assignment is to describe, evaluate and discuss application of a nursing grand or mid-range theory. This assignment also provides the learner an opportunity to connect theory and research to nursing phenomena. Learners will develop an 8-10 page paper (excluding the title page and references) using APA style to address the elements listed below.

Choose one theory from the following:

1- Modeling and Role Modeling Theory – Erickson, Tomlin, and Swain

2- Health as Expanding Consciousness – Margaret Newman

3- Nursing Process Theory – Ida Jean Orlando

Theory/Author Name and Background

1. Select a Grand or Mid-Range Theory that is appropriate to your practice setting.

2. Describe the theorist’s background in detail and discuss how their experiences have impacted the theory development.

3. Examine crucial references for the original and/or current work of the theorist and other authors writing about the selected theory.

4. Identify the phenomenon of concern or problems addressed by the theory.

Theory Description

1. Explain whether the theory uses deductive, inductive or retroductive reasoning. Provide evidence to support your conclusion.

2. Describe the major concepts of the theory. How are they defined? (theoretically and/or operationally) Is the author consistent in the use of the concepts and other terms in the theory?

3. Interpret how the concepts are defined. Implicitly or explicitly?

4. Examine the relationships (propositions) among the major concepts.

Evaluation

1. Identify explicit and implicit assumptions (values/beliefs) underlying the theory. On what assumptions does the theory build?

2. Examine if the theory has a description of the four concepts of the nursing metaparadigm. If so, how are they explained in the theory? If the metapardigm is not explained, what elements do you see as relevant to the theory and why?

3. Discuss the clarity of the theory. Did it have lucidness and consistency?

Application

1. Examine how the theory would guide nursing actions.

2. Describe specifically how you can use this theory in your area of nursing (Practice, Education, Informatics or Administration).

Download the Theory Critique Template.

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