The food and beverage department and its housekeeping counterpart employ the vast majority of the employees in a full-service hotel. These departments are very labor-intensive because it is not practical to use technology to replace human workers in these areas. To what extent do you think technology will replace employees in the food and beverage department in the future? Why?

(a) Consider a one input production technology utilizing labor that is represented by the function, x = Aln(L) with A>0. Is

the producer’s choice set convex? Show your working.

(b) Find the total cost function associated with this production technology.

Note: Show all necessary working and steps so that understanding the solution is easy.

Why is Google encouraging developers to create apps for Google Glass rather than building those apps itself?

Describe some other types of wearable technology.

Formulate different metrics that a wearable technology for fitness could provide a customer.

Argue for or against the following statement: Wearable devices invade consumer privacy

HIPAA, Legal, and Regulatory Discussion

• Presents evidence from recent scholarly publications to address the impact of technology on nursing care related to:

- Patient privacy and HIPAA standards

-Healthcare regulations

- Legal guidelines on appropriate use of technology

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Please read and share your thoughts on this recent brief article from the Journal of Accountancy on accountant skills needed for success in a tech-enabled future. Do you agree? Can you think of other skills that future accountants will need?

JOFA Article: (https://www.journalofaccountancy.com/issues/2018/jun/technology-skills-for-accountants.html)

"Many experts expect accountants' work and duties to change fundamentally in the coming years. As technology is developed to handle tasks that accountants traditionally have performed, CPAs' attention is likely to shift toward advisory roles, investigating exceptions and anomalies identified by technology, and developing processes and controls that will enable technology to perform certain necessary tasks. The technology will allow for a more complete audit that uses all available data rather than samples. And the scrutinizing of anomalies will provide opportunities for auditors to provide more useful information to clients.

Here are some of the skills CPAs will need to succeed in these new duties:

Understand how processes work. Even the most well-designed technological solutions are useless if they are not set up properly and monitored to determine whether they are performing effectively. Advising and consulting on business process improvements also will be a promising niche for CPAs in the future.

Communicate effectively with technologists. Successful CPAs who understand processes likely will not have the technological skills to code and implement systems. Technology experts, meanwhile, are unlikely to understand accounting and auditing rules and the deliverables required from systems. CPAs will need to be able to team with technologists and describe the decision trees that must be embedded in the technology to process the correct data and deliver the desired intelligence.

Learn to advise or consult, not command. Accountants are used to providing rule-based, definitive answers about making appropriate journal entries, information to be included in footnotes, and whether financial statements are materially misstated. But as accountants take on more advisory and consulting duties, they will need to learn how to provide opinions and advocate for their ideas without being overbearing.

Analyze data and communicate with clients. As technology results in the automation of more compliance-based services, accountants will have more time to spend with clients. To make the most of this time, accountants will need to learn how to analyze data for business insights and then be able to communicate those insights to clients."

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Technological Innovation

With refining the methods used of fossil fuel like coal or petroleum production to reduce and lessen the impact on climate , and biofuels, an important area of investigation and investment to be mentioned are new offshore wind parks (solar energy has been abandoned as a major R&D area in 2008). An offshore wind farm with a generation power of 108 MWh has been developed with energy provider company Nuon, which is 10 km west of the Dutch coast at Egmond aan Zee (5). Shells offshore has a lot of technical knowledge and background related with oil and gas platforms which helped ensuring the  115 tonne turbines to withstand the harshest weather.

New ways of Stakeholder Engagement

The company has started to create a close relationships with their external stakeholders.This way communication of shell with its stakeholder will help in maintaining conatcts with the academic world, the governmental bodies like states department and NGO’s ( Non government organization) . This  relationships/Communication  will provide two-way information (informing NGOs about latest Shell related news and guiding information of NGO into the Shell organisation). Shell is also regulalry performing the impact assessments to see the impact of this strategy and setting up engagements and involvement with NGO’s and local communities to investigate check the impact of new upstream and upcoming projects,so that sustainable cooperation with local communities can be held . One of the  example is the project in the Arctic region which prooved to be very successful and highly impacted the local communities . Corporating with IUCN and Wetlands International, Shell is studying implications of construction of new upstream projects on tundra and permafrost environments and trying to analyse it overall and generalized impacts . For this the convenient and Traditional knowledge of Eskimos about ice seasons, whale and seal movements is therefore very crucial. It helps Shell to plan better its offshore production, not to disturb traditional fishing and hunting for the sake of the sustainability .

Describe the “innovation environment” at Adobe systems during the time the Kick Box program was developed.

2. a. What are the most important elements of the kick box program?

b. How do they affect the participants’ abilities to learn about the ‘Intrapreneurship’ process and to launch new business concepts?

3. a. Should Adobe work to expand the reach of the Kickbox Program?

b.What re the benefits and potential risks of doing so?

c. How long should a program like this be continued?

4.       Should Adobe change the way in which it supports and sustains high potential business concepts identified by the Kick Box process ?

5.       How would you assess Adobe’s goals and ambitions for the Kick Box program overall?:

As part of his effort in promoting innovation and healthy relationship among all the

employees working in different locations (branches), Andrus started an annual activity

where groups of employees (based on location) compete to pitch their most extreme ideas

to one another. Each group would present their ideas, then the branches vote one by one.

(They are not allowed to vote for their own branch) Each branch awards 8 votes to their

favorite, 4 to the second, 2 to the third and 1 to the fourth. Clearly, tactical voting is

important, so the order of voting is changed every year. This year, the branches vote in

order from most northerly to most southerly. The results before the last two branches have

voted are shown below (in voting order). Who still stands a chance of winning? Walk me

through your entire thought process!

1. As part of his effort in promoting innovation and healthy relationship among all the employees working in different locations (branches), Andrus started an annual activity where groups of employees (based on location) compete to pitch their most extreme ideas to one another. Each group would present their ideas, then the branches vote one by one. (They are not allowed to vote for their own branch) Each branch awards 8 votes to their favorite, 4 to the second, 2 to the third and 1 to the fourth. Clearly, tactical voting is important, so the order of voting is changed every year. This year, the branches vote in order from most northerly to most southerly. The results before the last two branches have voted are shown below (in voting order). Who still stands a chance of winning? Walk me through your entire thought process! (30 points)