With the Cascada project closing out the design phase and ramping up the construction and implementation phase, it's time to review the project staff assignments. You know there are some tasks that need resources. Project Staff Assignments Project Engineers Kamal Jafa Lynnette Abela Development Team Leads Larry Senters Stacy Whitmire Outreach Specialist Jason Marks Budget Officer Lindsey Fine Contracts Officer Robin Micks Health Information System Liaison Kyle Holohan, State Department of Health Environmental Liaison Ali Reza Ataie, State Department of Environmental Protection Media Plan and Campaign Director TBD Cyber Security Team Lead Kao Vang 2 Additional Cyber Security Specialists TBD Implementation Manager TBD Assistant Project Manager TBD One of your areas of concern is the media plan and campaign. Making sure the public is well-informed about construction and which areas will have traffic disruptions is an essential part of a successful project when public money is involved. You also need to ensure the patients are aware of the advantages of the Patient Portal so the feature is fully utilized once implemented. There are no available in-house resources that can help with this task. As a result, you will need to look for outside help. One of your old college classmates, Amanda Prichett, is a very competent public relations consultant. Even though she doesn't have a lot of health care experience, you know she would do an excellent job. In addition, she charges very reasonable fees, which is particularly appealing because you want to keep the project budget under control wherever possible. Another possibility is a public relations firm, Ortega Associates, that NEIT Capital Management has used on previous projects. Ortega has an excellent reputation for its work on health care projects, but as a regional firm, it can be quite expensive. You consider the best way to move forward. Considering Prichett as a candidate for the media planning role does raise some ethics questions. You decide to take a look at the Project Management Institute's Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct. Read: "PMI's Code of Ethics and Professional ConductPreview the document."
Make and Support Your Decision
You need a resource to lead the media plan and campaign during the construction phase of the project. You decide to: Hire Amanda Prichett despite her lack of health care project experience because you are confident that she will perform the job at a reasonable price. Hire Ortega Associates, knowing that the firm will perform the job at a more expensive price but that it has extensive health care project experience. Have another member of the team evaluate different public relations vendors—including but not limited to Amanda Prichett and Ortega Associates—and make a recommendation.
What to Submit
Once you've made your selection, write an email to Victor Nguyen, NEIT Capital Management’s Project Management Office Director, explaining your decision. Your email must clearly identify which option you chose, justify your choice, and address reasons why the other options are not the best choice.
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How does shaping demand differ from anticipating demand? Who can shape demand, and how is it accomplished?
(3-4 paragraphs please) (4-5 sentences each)
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Identify two sales promotion activities of a company in an international market:
1. Describe what the company aims to promote
2. What are the benefits and drawbacks of each?
3. Which do you think is more effective? Why? (considering the characteristics of the product/target market)
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GLOBAL MACROTRENDS AND THEIR IMPACT ON SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Ch. 11 Mitigating Demand-Driven Imbalance
Can a firm work with a government to shape demand?
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1. Types of Company training?
2. What is career planning all about?
3. Which are the main components of an employee's job satisfaction?
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After graduating with a degree in International Business in his home city (Calgary), George found a job in a Canadian subsidiary of a Swedish multinational that has many subsidiaries around the world.
In this case, George could be considered as
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In Ch. 16, we explore the idea of strong and weak cultures. Do we want a strong culture in business? Why or why not?
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Eric received an email from Amazon Customer Service that said "Thank you for contacting us." But Eric did not contact them. Instead, an attacker had contacted them and pretended to be Eric. When Amazon Customer Service asked the attacker to identify himself all he had to do was give Eric’s name, email address, and mailing address—which the attacker got from Whois, which contains Eric’s registration information for his website. However, Eric knew to protect his actual mailing address so the registration information on Whois was actually a hotel close to Eric’s house. Because the information matched what was on file, Customer Service told the attacker the mailing address of Eric’s order, which was his real home address. Eric contacted Amazon, found out these details, and told them not to release any of his information to anyone who contacted Customer Service, to which Amazon agreed. Fast forward two months. Eric again received another "Thank you for contacting us" email. After contacting Amazon again, he found that this time the attacker had tried to get the last four digits of Eric’s credit card number on file through more social engineering tricks.
Fortunately, this time Amazon did not surrender that specific piece of information (although they had ignored his previous instruction not to give out any information). Had they provided the credit card number the attacker would have had enough information to pass the "I’m-the-real- Eric" test on almost any of Eric’s online accounts (using his name, email address, mailing address, and last four digits of his credit card) and trick their Customer Service into resetting Eric’s password. This would then allow the attacker to get into Eric’s online accounts and purchase a virtually unlimited number of items charged to Eric’s credit card. What went wrong? Should the first Amazon Customer Service representative have been reprimanded? What policies should Amazon have had in place to prevent this? What technologies should there be in place to prevent this? As a customer, what should you do to protect your online accounts?
Write a one-page paper on your analysis.
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Read the following scenario and answer the question in 5–10 sentences.
You are a real estate broker and the owner of a real estate investment company. Due to a deal that went wrong, you were sued and are now facing a personal money judgment. The amount of the judgment is so large that you will never be able to pay it off. Bankruptcy is looking like your best option. You review your current books and find several open escrow accounts pending to close anywhere from next week to six months from now. How will your potential earnings being held in the escrow accounts be included in your bankruptcy filing?
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Topic 1: Gift-giving in the United Arab Emirates
Introduce the topic in general terms and give the reader an incentive to read more. Try to attract attention to why this topic is important for the reader.
200 words
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How does target corporations position their products within their industry?
Are there any unique characteristics of this company's internal culture, norms or environment? What are the leadership attributes of this organization? (Answer this about Target corporation as well)
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Courtney is considering two plans for reducing the guest’s waiting time. The first proposal would be to implement a single waiting line in which guests would be served by whichever of the 5 clerks becomes available first. Observations of arrivals during the peak check-in time show that a guest arrives on average every 40 seconds. It takes an average of 3 minutes for the front-desk clerk to register each guest.
The second proposal would designate one employee as a “quick-service” clerk for guests registering under corporate accounts, a market segment that comprises about 30% of Silver Park’s guests. Since these guests would be pre-registered, it would take an average of only 0.5 minutes for the front-desk clerk to register them. Under this plan, the non-corporate guests would form a single line and proceed to the first available of the 4 remaining clerks. The average time for registering a non-corporate guest is 3.4 minutes.
Which proposal should Courtney implement? Provide appropriate quantitative evidence to support your recommendation.
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GLOBAL MACROTRENDS AND THEIR IMPACT ON SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
How does shaping demand differ from anticipating demand? Who can shape demand, and how is it accomplished?
(3-4 paragraphs please) (4-5 sentences each)
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what are some barriers to advancement opportunities for women and minorities in many organizations
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The topic for the paper I need assistance on is the long term effects of the coronavirus on business and society.
A large number of businesses have closed, unemployment claims have risen to an all-time high, the US stock markets have tumbled in a manner not seen since the great depression, and all this is happening just a few months after we saw the economy achieve a series of all-time low unemployment records for different groups along with all-time high stock market averages.
With all these things in mind, my assignment is to select an industry that is of interest to you and then write a short essay on the changes that you believe will take place in that industry, its firms, the operating procedures of firms and possibly also in available jobs and job requirements. I was thinking small restaurant business industry,
I need assistance with this 500-word essay. Thank you!
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