The major essay assignment for this class asks you to consider an issue that has immediate importance to a specific place and the people who care about it for a variety of reasons. You will be taking a position on this issue with the purpose of persuading your audience. For this discussion assignment, you will propose your topic for this essay.  

Two options for proposing your essay topic: 

1. You may select an issue that is important to your community, your city, or even your state. The issue you select should be important to the place you select and to a certain group of people (perhaps you are even one of the people affected). ************ FLORIDA********

Assignment Guidelines:

By Wednesday, October 15, 2014, post your responses to the Discussion Area. All responses should be posted to the appropriate topic in this Discussion Area.We advise that you read all lecture materials and textbook chapters before completing this discussion assignment, as these materials will prepare you to complete it successfully. If you have reviewed all of these materials and still have questions, don’t hesitate to contact your instructor with specific questions prior to submitting the assignment.

Participation Requirements:

By Saturday, October 18, 2014, comment on at least two of your classmates’ submissions. Your replies to classmates should be made with an eye to expand, clarify, defend, and/or refine their thoughts. You can ask questions or respond generally to the overall experience. Be sure to be honest, clear, and concise, referring to specific words and passages from your classmates’ postings. Always use constructive language, and avoid negative language. Work toward a tone and spirit of intellectual curiosity and discovery.

Assignment 1: Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness

Due Week 2 and worth 300 points

Choose one (1) public corporation in an industry with which you are familiar. Research the company on its own Website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR database (http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml), in the University’s online databases, and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions.

Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

1. Assess how globalization and technology changes have impacted the corporation you researched.
2. Apply the industrial organization model and the resource-based model to determine how your corporation could earn above-average returns.
3. Assess how the vision statement and mission statement of the corporation influence its overall success. 
4. Evaluate how each category of stakeholder impacts the overall success of this corporation. 
5. Use at least two (2) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.

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 or school-specific format. 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.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Determine ways in which the vision, mission, and stakeholders of a firm impact that firm’s overall success.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in business administration.
• Write clearly and concisely about business administration using proper writing mechanics.

I have to submit the paper on turnitin.com for plagrism. please make sure you check to make sure the paper pass….thanks

Ima Phool is a ultrasound technologist for Mercy Hospital. Ima was approached by Arthur Ritus, who represents a competing medical facility. Ima was offered a substantial raise to leave Mercy and work for the new company. When Ima’s boss heard about the offer, he told Ima, “If you agree to stay with us for at least five years, I promise that next year you will receive a promotion with a 15% raise and a 5-year contract.” Ima turned down Arthur’s offer and stayed with Mercy. Eight months later, Ima was dismissed due to corporate downsizing. Ima sued for breach of contract.

• Can Ima legally enforce her boss’s promise?
• What theory or theories would Ima use?
• Provide arguments for both sides, determine which party wins, and provide support for your decision.

 You are a respected and tenured IT professor and you also manage the university computer operations that consist of a server farm of 8 servers and an NAS of 100 terabytes. The CIO is excited to announce that the university enrollment is increasing at a steady rate, and as a result, the number of college students enrolling at the university has increased dramatically. This has caused the data requirements to grow 27% in the last 6 months.

Your boss at the university has asked you to provide a 2-year plan to address this unprecedented growth. Create a 3-4 pages proposal for your 2-year plan. Include the following:

• Primary problems that exist in meeting the growth requirement and your proposed solutions
• A list of common problems that you may encounter while adding storage to meet growing data storage requirements
• Your proposed solutions

: Security, Change Management, and Architectural Adaptation 

The online course management system from previous assignments is now through the requirements phase of development; however, the university has requested that a communication feature be included in the system. This requirement, along with the additional nonfunctional requirements associated with this addition, were not part of the initial project specifications.  

Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:

·         Create a list of requirements prior to the deployment of the online course management software along with a description of each. In addition, explain how you would address each requirement.  

·         Predict the effects of introducing a communication feature this late into the life cycle. 

·         Recommend ways to mitigate the issue(s) caused by adding communication features this late into the life cycle. 

·         Identify the security mechanisms that should exist in both the existing and additional requirements of this system.  

·         Draw a UML sequence diagram to illustrate the security features for each of the items identified in Question 4 of this assignment through the use of graphical tools in Microsoft Word or Visio, or an open source alternative such as Dia. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.

·         Identify another application, other than course management, that could possibly adopt the architecture of the course management system. Explain the changes that would be necessary to make this architectural adoption possible, specifically in regard to the components and connectors.

·         Use at least four (4) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources. You may use the resources above or others of your choosing.

·         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 or school-specific format. 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.

·         The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

·         Compare and contrast the computing infrastructure and its associated challenges in which the applications are deployed. 

·         Create an effective change management process to address and solve a proposed business problem.

·         Use technology and information resources to research issues in the delivery of software solutions.

·         Write clearly and concisely about topics associated to software architecture techniques using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

The planning for the community building session is almost complete. The last details are how to conduct the plenary sessions for sharing information across groups to develop key priorities and themes that will need to be addressed.

There are 2 sessions that need to be planned. One is to review the work done by intact work teams. In this larger session, the goal is to spot patterns and identify themes that can be used to plan actions. These patterns or themes will come from the stop-continue-start charts developed by each functional group. In this way, not only will the changes that need to happen be identified, but aspects of effective work (those things that work well and should be continued) can also be reinforced.

The external consulting team strongly recommended a “cross functional by level grouping” for the first step. Their aim is to promote understanding of priorities and show how different issues at different levels of the organization can be aligned. The internal consulting team is excited about being the primary facilitators for these sessions. Everyone recognizes that a structured approach will be critical (for timing and to control decision-making inputs). The approach called Nominal Group Technique, or NGT, seems to be ideally suited to this task.

You want to prepare yourself for conducting the session. Use the library, Internet, or other resources to research NGT. Because each grouping will be of differing size, you want to tailor the overall steps of NGT to the situation you will facilitate. To do this, you must create a meeting session plan—a 2–4-page document that will answer the following questions:

• What is the goal of the session?
• How will the nominal group technique be used to achieve this goal?
• How will the members of the team work together (guidelines for effective participation)?
• What specific steps and tasks will be involved in achieving the goal?
• How much time will be allocated to each step or task?
• What voting mechanism is most appropriate for the size of the group and the specific stage of the process?
• What will the outcome look like? What will the group present to the other levels?

Download a sample format here. Your assignment is to complete the missing sections (in red) and develop any additional participant materials or instructions to assist the group in completing the task.

2-3 References

Deliverable Length:

Shortage of nurses

(1) After my interview with these four young people, I reflected on the quiet sense of “difference” I sensed with many of these Upward Bound students. (2) As a college teacher who has also taught seventh-grade science, I have some experience with the faces and attitudes of adolescence. (3) Upward Bound students had those faces. (4) There was the puzzled coping with changing bodies—hormone hell. (5) There was ambivalence about “authority figures” and uncertainties about whether or not the world would have some place for them. (6) There were the studied rationalizations about lapses on homework assignments, moments of despair, adolescent angst—all of that. (7) But there was also that “difference.” (8) Maybe it’s one part knowing people care and one part beginning to trust the future. (9) I wasn’t sure.

(Turner, “Onward and Upward: Upward Bound Helps Open College Doors,” Virginia Journal of Education, June 1992. Adapted as fair usage.)

 5. Which one of the following statements accurately reflects bias in relation to this passage?

A. The author shows no bias.

B. The author feels that adolescence is a bad time for making choices.

C. The author is biased against adolescents.

D. The author is biased in favor of the Upward Bound Program.