CASE SCENARIO:
Scenario 7: Small Supermarket Chain
Changing demographics have forced an owner of a small supermarket chain to reconsider its overall retail strategy.  Originally, the trading area served by the chain had a high concentration
of older shoppers.  Now, it has become increasingly inhabited by young singles and by working couples.  The current strategy is built on the store’s picking and delivering orders to a
customer’s home for a $5 additional charge, a “heat and serve” department featuring broiled chickens and fried fish, and a large selection of high-quality meats and fruits and vegetables.
Promotion has been through a weekly circular distributed with the Sunday local newspaper.  The chain’s owner wants to better target the youngerSHOPPER  without alienating the older
shopper. The owner has mapped out some of the major purchasing factors for his older customers:

· Older customers who are mobile may shop at multiple food stores or shop multiple times per week.  Those who are less mobile use the store’s picking and delivering option and order on a weekly basis.  The picking and delivering option is especially popular during snowstorms.
· Many older customers seek out store specials.  They are also prone to use manufacturerCOUPONS .
· Many older customers are concerned about the salt content of prepared foods.  Some also prefer bland food recipes and comfort foods such as mashed potatoes, meat loaf, and roasted chickens.  The owner has also mapped out some of the major purchasing factors for his young singles and working couple
customers:
· These customers typically have smaller annual supermarket purchases due to their eating several meals per week at restaurants or on a take-out basis.
· A number of young customers would rather order via computer or by fax.
· Some would prefer a computer system that contained last week’s purchases so that commonly purchased items could be more easily reordered.
· Many of the younger customers do not purchase the store’s prepared foods.  Instead, they prefer ethnic
foods (such as Italian, Chinese, and Japanese) that can be purchased on a take-out basis in local restaurants or on a prepared basis in larger supermarkets.

In evaluating its current strategy against the needs of both segments, the supermarket chain’s owner is aware that the firm currently does not offer fax or computer-based ordering, and that
its selection of ethnic prepared foods is poor.
All of the supermarket’s stores are located in strip neighborhood shopping centers. Typically, the neighboring stores in these centers include a dry cleaner, pharmacy, and bakery.  The
supermarkets are open from 8 A.M. to 9 P.M. seven days per week.

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Discussions

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Personal Experiences

Think of an organizational change that you experienced.  Describe how you were impacted by the change.  What could the leadership have done to make the transition more successful?  Cite one or more change models to support your assertion.  Review several of your peers’ posts.  Compare your experiences with at least two peers and identify lessons you can apply to future organizational changes.

Your initial post should be at least 200 words in length. Support your claims with examples from required material(s) and/or other scholarly resources, and properly cite any references. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts by Day 7.

Failures of ChangeOrganizational change is not always successful.  Identify factors that can cause change initiatives to fail and the five pillars that can cause them to succeed.  Highlight an organization that failed to adapt and evaluate which of these factors and pillars were demonstrated by this organization.  Review several of your peers’ posts.  Discuss any similar or opposing perspectives you have, with at least two of your peers.  Take care to be professional and polite even if your beliefs or viewpoints differ.

Your initial post should be at least 200 words in length. Support your claims with examples from required material(s) and/or other scholarly resources, and properly cite any references. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts by Day 7.

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Quiz

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This exam consists of 10 multiple choice and true/false questions. The amount of time the exam will take to complete will vary by individual.

 

The major shopping areas in the community of Springdale include Springdale Mall, West Mall, and the downtown area on Main Street. A telephone survey has been conducted to identify strengths and weaknesses of these areas and to find out how they fit into the shopping activities of local residents. The 150 respondents were also asked to provide information about themselves and their shopping habits. The data are provided in the file SHOPPING. The variables in the survey can be found in the file CODING.

We will concentrate on variables 18–25, which reflect how important each of eight different attributes is in the respondent’s selection of a shopping area. Each of these variables has been measured on a scale of 1 (the attribute is not very important in choosing a shopping area) to 7 (the attribute is very important in choosing a shopping area). The attributes being rated for importance are listed below. Examining the relative importance customers place on these attributes can help a manager “fine-tune” his or her shopping area to make it a more attractive place to shop.

18 Easy to return/exchange goods

19 High quality of goods

20 Low prices

21 Good variety of sizes/styles

22 Sales staff helpful/friendly

23 Convenient shopping hours

24 Clean stores and surroundings

25 A lot of bargain sales

1. Perform the following operations for variables 18–25:
   1. Compute descriptive statistics (5-number summary, mean, mode, range and standard deviation) for each variable along with an explanation of what the descriptive statistics tell us about the variable.
   2. Are there any data points for any of the variables that can be considered outliers? If there are any outliers in any variable, please list them and state for which variable they are an outlier. Use the z-score method to determine any outliers for this question.
2. Based on the results for question 1, which attributes seem to be the most important and the least important in respondents’ choice of a shopping area? Which items from #1 did you use to decide on the least and most important attributes, and why?
3. Determine the correlation coefficient between variable 19 and variables 21 – 25. Please provide an explanation of the relationships.

Paper Requirements

Write a report that applies the Written Assignment Requirements under the heading Expectations for CSU-Global Written Assignments found in the CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA Requirements. Items that should be included, at a minimum, are a title page, an introduction, a body which answers the questions posed in the problem, and a conclusion paragraph that addresses your findings and what you have determined from the data and your analysis. As with all written assignments, you should have in-text citations and a reference page too. Please include any tables of calculations, calculated values and graphs associated with this problem in the body of your assignment response.

NOTE: You MUST submit your Excel file with your report. This will aid in grading with partial credit if errors are found in the report.

 

• Identify the event in the history of medicine and health care delivery that you see as the most significant.Explain why you feel it is significant and what impact is has on health care today

 

• Identify and explain two commonly attributed reasons for the unremitting rises we are experiencing with regards to health care costs.

 

• Differentiate between the two methods for physician reimbursement: capitation and fee for service

 

• Choose on health care profession that you learned about this quarter and briefly describe the profession.(Cancer Registrars)
• Explain the intent of the Flexner Report.Identify the reports result on medical education.

 

• Discuss the importance of ambulatory care services as a part of the U.S. health care system today.

 

• Explainthe role of the Board of Trustees and CEO/President in the hospital organization.

 

• What is a long-term care and how is it different from other types of health services?Describe one type of long-term care facility. (Nursing Home)

 

• Describe two types of mental health providers and the role that they play in the mental health sector.

 

• Discuss three benefits of Electronic Health Record and how this has transformed health information technology.

 

Profile of a Successful Company ( BASED OFF THE COMPANY GOOGLE)

 

a.Explain how the company has communicated its mission and vision within the organization. In other words, explain how the company demonstrates the importance of the mission and vision to employees and other stakeholders.

b. Identify the role that management played in helping this company execute itsstrategic management plan. Justify your response. You could consider including a specific example of a time when this management plan led the company to success.

c. Describe how management has helped to positively influence the organizational culture within this company. You could consider using some specific examples, actions, or strategies that show how management has positively influenced organizational culture.

d. Explain management’s pivotal role in the decision-making process within this company. Be sure to include specific decisions made by management based on principles of ethics. You could discuss specific decision-making models used by the company that may have helped the company be successful.

e. Evaluate how the use of the functions of management within this company has adhered to the principles of ethics. You could consider how using the functions of management while adhering to the principles of ethics may have impacted the employees of the company.

f. Explain how this company strategically uses human resources to develop its personnel. You could consider how this use of human resources has enhanced the company’s business processes. Guidelines for

 

Submission: Final Project One Milestone Two must be one to two pages in length with double s

Imagine that you are asked to provide advice on implementing web services for a site. Discuss the merits and drawbacks of SOAP- and REST-based web services and for XML versus JSON as a REST data format.

Let us design our own CarML language. Define XML tags for describing your car and your friends’ cars using these tags. Think about what properties should be defined as attributes and what properties are best described as elements. Make sure your documents are well-formed.
Define an XML DTD for CarML. You may want to revisit XML documents you defined in the previous exercise and rethink the element and attribute structure as you are defining the DTD. In the end, all your car specifications should be valid XML documents.

Define an XML Schema equivalent to the XML DTD from the previous exercise. Compare the two.

Are there constraints that can be expressed using XML Schema but not DTD? Provide examples.

What type of element should be used in an XML schema for the following XML document?
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”ISO-8859-1″?>
<lees_email xmlns:xsi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance” xsi:schemaLocation=”lee_schema.xsd”>
<to>To: Bob Roberts</to>
<subject>Lawn Maintenance</subject>
<date_sent>August 3 </date_sent>
<body>We will be out to mow your lawn this week</body> <closing>See you then! Warm regards, Lee</closing>
</lees_email>
Construct a threat model for an online ticket reservation system. For each threat, include an attacker profile (goal, experience, resources), the specific objective of the attack, the possible methods of attack, and the harm that would result from a successful attack.

What is well-formedness and validity in the context of XML? How do they differ? Is every well-formed document valid? Why? Is every valid document well-formed? Why?

. Identify and discuss the key differences between the presidential and parliamentary systems of government.  Your answer should include a comparison of electoral processes which brings a party to power, how the executive and his/her cabinet are selected and the checks and balances the legislative branch uses in each system to control the executive branch.

 

2. Traditionally, Political Parties perform six functions in the political process.  Identify and explain any four of them. Then identify and explain one way interest groups and political parties differ.

 

3.  In essay form explain how entitlements are different from welfare.  Then explain what constitutes a welfare payment and how much welfare accounts for in overall federal spending.  Finally, how has Tax Expenditures enabled the US to avoid being labeled a European Welfare State?

 

4. Examine the Supreme Court. Explain how its members are selected, what consideration if any is given to race, gender or ideology in the selection process, what cases the court predominantly hears,  and the difference between judicial activism and judicial restraint.

PART I: answer each question with at least 100 words.

Q1: Discuss use of variables and mathematical expressions in assignment statements.

Q2: Describe output information using Visual Basic® controls.

Q3: Define the use strings and characters.

 

PART II:

 

Write a 2 page research paper (excluding the title page) on VB input and output as discussed in the chapter-3 of the textbook.  Explain the concepts using at least one example. Use three resources (Wikipedia sources are not permitted) and list each resource used at the end of paper in the reference list section.

Write a 750- to 1,050-word paper on ways in which an organization can use a management system to manage file and print resources for a group of Windows Servers®. Discuss the effect of having management software in this area and cover the effectiveness of at least two current systems managing file and print resources.

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Please, do not copy wiki summary answers, I have already explored them. I request an explicit 8-9 page paper.

Make sure you respond to each question. This is a final. you can add page numbers as well. Coxx and McCubbins book is available at www.bookzz.org. These books are american politics classics revised. If you have taken an American politics class, you should have come across those.

 

Questions

(1) Compare and contrast the theories of congressional behavior espoused by Mayhew in Congress: The Electoral Connection, and by Cox and McCubbins in Legislative leviathan: Party Government in the House.

(2) Evaluate the empirical findings if provided. if no empirical evidence is provided, does the lack of empirical evidence detract from that theory?

(3) Is either argument time-bound, such that it applies better to certain periods of time than others, or do both of these theories apply across all time periods?

(4) Which theory do you find most credible and accurate? why? Make sure that you critically evaluate the