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Discuss each of the 7 steps in Questionnaire Design.

Discuss each of the 7 steps in Questionnaire Design.

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Analyze the challenges in the development of effective health information infrastructure (HII). Discuss how to address...

Analyze the challenges in the development of effective health information infrastructure (HII). Discuss how to address these challenges.

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Provide a reflection on what steps you would take, and what their outcomes would be, if...

Provide a reflection on what steps you would take, and what their outcomes would be, if you were to suddenly lose your health care benefits and needed to apply to the ACA program.

What could you expect based upon your coverage to be for yourself and your family,

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From Chapter 22 Implementing Enterprise risk management. JAA Inc.—A Case Study in Creating Value from Uncertainty:...

From Chapter 22 Implementing Enterprise risk management.

JAA Inc.—A Case Study in Creating Value from Uncertainty: Best Practices in Managing.

Chapter 22:  JAA Inc.—A Case Study in Creating Value from Uncertainty: Best Practices in Managing Risk

  1. Why is it important that risk criteria be created as per JAA? Do you think it is possible for any reasonable risk treatment plan to be in place without creation of such criteria?

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In regards to politics, what are some ways of identifying and assessing novelty?

In regards to politics, what are some ways of identifying and assessing novelty?

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What are the advantages and limitations of using break-even analysis to make decisions regarding which production...

What are the advantages and limitations of using break-even analysis to make decisions regarding which production process to utilize or whether to purchase the product or manufacture the product?

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Intellectual property is work that is originally thought of by an individual and then created by...

Intellectual property is work that is originally thought of by an individual and then created by that individual giving him/her the rights to such property. For this week’s discussion question respond to the following prompts:

  • Assess the need to secure such intellectual property in its digital form.
  • Compare this with the need to secure information data.
  • Support your stance with a rationale of which you think is the most important for an individual to secure

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How might Polaris Inc utilize a business-level cooperative strategy to create a competitive advantage?

How might Polaris Inc utilize a business-level cooperative strategy to create a competitive advantage?

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A client report that describes an organization that you will provide an organizational intervention. Your evaluation...

A client report that describes an organization that you will provide an organizational intervention. Your evaluation as a change agent.

Q. Identification of what exactly needs to be change in the organization through using a diagnostic model about Alibaba Group.

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STAR Co. provides paper to smaller companies whose volumes are not large enough to warrant dealing...

STAR Co. provides paper to smaller companies whose volumes are not large enough to warrant dealing directly with the paper mill. STAR receives 100-feet-wide paper rolls from the mill and cuts the rolls into smaller rolls of widths 12, 15, and 30 feet. The demands for these widths vary from week to week. The following cutting patterns have been established:

Number of:
Pattern 12ft. 15ft. 30ft. Trim Loss
1 0 4 1 10 ft.
2 4 3 0 7 ft.
3 8 0 0 4 ft.
4 2 1 2 1 ft.
5 2 3 1 1 ft.

Trim loss is the leftover paper from a pattern (e.g., for pattern 4, 2(12) + 1(15) + 2(30) = 99 feet used resulting in 100-99 = 1 foot of trim loss). Orders in hand for the coming week are 5,670 12-foot rolls, 1,680 15-foot rolls, and 3,350 30-foot rolls. Any of the three types of rolls produced in excess of the orders in hand will be sold on the open market at the selling price. No inventory is held.

Optimal Solution:

(a) Formulate an integer programming model that will determine how many 100-foot rolls to cut into each of the five patterns in order to minimize trim loss. If your answer is zero enter “0” and if the constant is "1" it must be entered in the box.
Min x1 + x2 + x3 + x4 + x5
s.t.
x1 + x2 + x3 + x4 + x5 - Select your answer -≤≥=Item 11 12-foot rolls
x1 + x2 + x3 + x4 + x5 - Select your answer -≤≥=Item 18 15-foot rolls
x1 + x2 + x3 + x4 + x5 - Select your answer -≤≥=Item 25 30-foot rolls
x1, x2, x3, x4, x5 are integers
(b) Solve the model formulated in part a. What is the minimal amount of trim loss?
Trim Loss:   feet
How many of each pattern should be used and how many of each type of roll will be sold on the open market? If your answer is zero enter “0”.
Pattern Number Rolls Used
1
2
3
4
5

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Emily is a career-driven thirtysomething with big ambitions and a young family. She is making an...

Emily is a career-driven thirtysomething with big ambitions and a young family. She is making an impact as a leader at a tech company, but after being passed up for multiple promotions, she finds herself at a loss for how to improve. Fate answers her in the form of a kind--and surprisingly direct--older man in a coffee shop. A well-respected CEO before he retired, David has deep and rich leadership knowledge. Emily needs direction, and David is the perfect mentor.

Growing Influence offers readers both practical advice on how to develop leadership skills and a relatable account of one woman's growth by applying the principles in the book. Unlike nonfiction business books or business memoirs, this story is a business fable that is both impactful and transformative.

Read the first section of Growing Influence, pages 1 - 63. We will be following Emily's journey in the book.

David talks about three types of influence: control, collaboration, concern; and talks about three types of leadership: positional, expert, and character. For your first exercise, I would like you to think and write about how you might define integrity in the dimension of character leadership for yourself (approximately 500 words).

Emily writes her own on page 67, FYI.

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Confidential Role Information for GTechnica (Seller) You are the Vice President of Sales for GTechnica, a...

Confidential Role Information for GTechnica (Seller)


You are the Vice President of Sales for GTechnica, a Massachusetts‐based developer and
manufacturer of precision electronic components for use by computer and computer accessory
manufacturers in their products. Your research and development team recently completed work
on a new processor chip – the GT7 ‐‐ for consumer‐oriented graphics accelerator cards, and your
firm has now readied a production line at your Wisconsin manufacturing plant capable of mass
producing the chip.

Graphics accelerators are video adapter cards that one can plug into a PC (in an available
expansion slot on a PC’s motherboard) designed to boost a computer’s performance on multimedia
tasks such as games or scientific applications that are graphic intensive. These accelerator cards
typically include their own memory and their own specialized processor to handle the intensive
mathematical operations involved in graphics applications. An accelerator card enhances PC
performance by freeing up a computer’s main processor and memory for other operations, while
the graphics card handles the computational load associated with graphics. The demand for
graphics accelerator cards by the general consumer market has grown significantly in the last few
years as home and small business PC users have increasingly sought more and better processing
power to handle the snazzy graphics that software developers have been adding to productivity
applications as well as games.

Six months ago, when the GT7 was first announced in the trade press, GTechnica was
approached by a European firm called SysD, which is one of the leading makers of add‐in circuit
boards for PCs, including graphics accelerator cards. SysD was interested in using the GT7 for its
latest model accelerator card, and you were able to reach a deal to sell 15,000 units (GT7
processors) to SysD at a price of $37 per unit. At the time that deal was made, this was a good price
for GTechnica, for two reasons. First, you weren’t sure when the chip was announced that this new
and relatively untested processor could fetch much more than $30 until it had more of an installed
base in the marketplace. Second, your main competitor in this market is thought to be supplying
similar (but slightly less advanced) processors for an average unit price of about $28. But as it
turned out, SysD was unhappy with their existing primary supplier of processors, and anxious to
bring out a new accelerator card with enhanced capabilities, and they agreed to pay $37 per unit.
Unfortunately, three months after closing the deal, as you were completing development on
your production facility for the GT7 (before any units had yet been made or shipped), SysD
exercised an option in the contact to delay their purchase of the processors by one year. Now you
have about nine months of underused (unused, really) production capacity for making GT7s. If you
could find another accelerator card manufacturer interested in the GT7 and close a deal quickly,
there is time to produce and ship 15,000 units before you have to turn your production capacity
back over to making GT7s for the delayed SysD contract.

As luck would have it, while at a trade show a couple of weeks ago, you ran into an executive
with a graphics hardware firm in California called AccelMedia. AccelMedia, a relative newcomer to
the market, has been growing rapidly because of the sudden popularity of its graphics accelerator
products. The executive you spoke with at the trade show told you that AccelMedia has an urgent
need for approximately 15,000‐20,000 processors for their newest accelerator card (a model called
the AMPro 50). Figuring that this could be an excellent way to make use of the temporarily idle GT7
production capacity, you then contacted AccelMedia’s Director of Component Sourcing, who
confirmed that they are seeking a supply of processors, and that GTechnica’s GT7 would meet their
specifications. The two of you agreed to schedule a meeting to negotiate the possible sale of GT7
processors to AccelMedia.

Your goal in the upcoming negotiation is to get the highest possible price per unit for the
processors that you sell to AccelMedia. Your net unit cost for the GT7 is $16; anything above that
will represent a profit for GTechnica, and given the fact that the production line will sit idle if no
deal is made (there are no other potential customers on the horizon at this point), you should
probably be willing to accept any deal that exceeds unit cost. But your boss, the Executive Vice
President for Sales and Marketing, has made it clear that you will be judged by how much better
than this you can do.

Another issue is the volume of a contract: You have the capacity to make and ship as many
as 15,000 units, and you would like a deal that comes as close to that as possible. However, you
cannot make a deal for more than 15,000 units because the production line will have to be turned
over to the delayed SysD contract at that point, and there is no other possible production capacity
that can be shifted to making GT7s in the near future. Thus, the negotiation you are about to
conduct is really a one‐shot opportunity to do business with AccelMedia.

As you wait for the meeting with AccelMedia’s representative, you are thinking through the
approach you will take.

• What is the unit price you would like to receive for the GT7s? ____$37______
• What is the unit price you will initially present to AccelMedia? ___$30_______
• What is the lowest unit price you will accept for the GT7s? ____$22______

Question 5. Define your best Objective Criteria.

MARKET VALUE - What would others be willing to pay for the same thing?

PRECEDENT - What was the basis of previous agreements?

TRADITION - How have you done it in the past?

EXPERT/SCIENTIFIC JUDGMENT - Is there a well-developed body of knowledge?

EFFICIENCY - Is this the best way to do it?

COSTS AND PROFITS - Are there margins which must be met?

POLICY - Is there an internal or external set of rules that serve as a guide?

RECIPROCITY - Would the other party feel compelled to return the favor?

STATUS - Will you defer to someone's title or position?

PROFESSIONAL/INDUSTRY STANDARDS - Is there a 3rd party standard we can refer to?

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Please use Brazil and New Zealand to create a table that compares two societal cultures on...

Please use Brazil and New Zealand to create a table that compares two societal cultures on the nine dimensions of culture identified by the GLOBE project. Depending on the countries you choose, you may need to do more research. Your table should have three columns, one with the nine dimensions, one with the first country, and one with the second country. Your table should include the scores and an explanation of what the scores mean.

Following is an example of comparing one dimension between Germany and China:

Dimension

Germany

China

Assertiveness

  • GLOBE scores: West 4.55 & East 4.73
  • Highest 25% GLOBE study
  • Work relationships are to the point and strict
  • GLOBE score: 3.76
  • Moderate range score
  • Indirect approach to communication

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what is market segmentation? and what are the different types of segmentation? also provide real world...

what is market segmentation? and what are the different types of segmentation? also provide real world examples. Thank you

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True/False ___ In the MTS environment the inventory that defines the customer service is the inventory...

True/False

  1. ___ In the MTS environment the inventory that defines the customer service is the inventory of components.
  2. ____ The objective of moving-average is to smooth out the random fluctuations while being sensitive to any possible changes that may be taking place with the underlying average.
  3. ____ Often the most recent history is the most relevant in forecasting short-term demand.
  4. ____ The mean error (ME) is concerned with the error magnitude.
  5. ____ The mean absolute deviation (MAD) is used to measure bias.

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