Review the project case. Determine the scope of the District 4 Production Warehouse Move project from the information provided in the case. Using the Project Scope Checklist, prepare a scope document for review and approval by the project sponsor prior to starting the project.
Project Scope Checklist
You will be required to submit a specific section of the Capstone in each topic of the course as indicated in the assignment directions. Each section will be due by the end of the topic in which it is assigned. Review “Capstone Project Assignment Directions” for additional information.
Write the Marketing Plan for your organization (750-1,000 words). Use the topic material articles and the textbook to help in completing the assignment.
Address the following:
Describe the target market.
Identify the size of your potential target market.
Include a SWOT analysis (use a two by two table in Word).
Describe the 4Ps of marketing in your organization (product/positioning, pricing, promotion, and placement). If you have a service organization you may consider describing the 4Is (intangibility, inconsistency, inseparability, and inventory).
Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
Below is what we are basing the business off of.
There are always new and innovative products being produced daily. People like the thought of having products that can help them improve their day to day living. Pet owners don’t get to many opportunities to see new and innovative products. Pets are becoming more common in households and many pets suffer from the same illnesses as humans. The Quiet Cat would be an organization that specializes in creating products used by pet owners to administer subcutaneous fluids to their ill cats. The Quiet Cat would create devices that can immobilize and soothe a cat so that one could administer fluids quietly and easily by themselves. Any pet owner that has dealt with renal failure knows it can often be a struggle to get their beloved pet their much needed fluids. These devices would make the overall experience less traumatic and stressful for both the owner and their pet.
Our mission is to provide lifetime care to the pet parent and their pet by offering innovative solutions through unbeatable products and services. The Quiet Cat would create innovative solutions to help aide pet owners in administering at home care to their sick pets. Many pets require long term treatment and trips to the vet can become quite costly and be more than people are willing to spend. By offering innovation products and excellent customer service we aim to meet the needs of the consumer as well as reduce the number of animals dropped off at shelters due to pet owners not being able to afford the care they need. We want our customers to have a pleasant experience and know they can trust us in providing a superior product and knowing that our staff can answers their questions and concerns about the products use or safety of the product. Through the excellent customer service provided we plan to expand our company.
We plan to test a small area to see how well our products take off. We are targeting pet owners who may be having difficulty administering fluids or any medication in general to their pets. Upon doing a little research there appears to be a need for such products as many pet owners feel they are letting their pets down when they are not able to provide proper treatment. If we target a small area and find the products start to take off we can consider global expansion further down the line. We would want to team up with local vets first and explain the benefits of our products to see how well the product sells. If it seems to be doing well can consider expanding globally in the years to come.
The Quiet Cat will be providing innovative products to pet owners to assist with day to day medical needs. Should the product take off and be successful the Quiet Cat hopes to expand globally. We want to show that we can be competitive but provide long term care products and exceptional customer service. We want our name to become a household name, a brand that pet owners can trust.
Use this textbook ====Cummins, L. K., Byers, K. V., Pedrick, L. (01/2011). Policy Practice for Social Workers: New Strategies for a New Era, Updated Edition, 1st Edition. [VitalSource Bookshelf Online].
Tasks:
In this assignment, you will review how an adopted policy change can be implemented successfully to ensure that it overcomes the typical causes of implementation failure.
Tasks:
In a minimum of 500 words, post your responses to the following:
Explain what makes for effective implementation of change in general.
Examine an effective introduction of the adopted change in an appropriate organization or network. Discuss what made the implementation of this particular change successful.
Describe the review process during which policy maintenance, modification, or termination can be considered.
Explain the role of leadership in the implementation process. Discuss the relevance of continued influence and coalition building during implementation. Could there be merit in strengthening relationships between people and organizations involved in the implementation process? Why or why not?
Use this textbook ====Cummins, L. K., Byers, K. V., Pedrick, L. (01/2011). Policy Practice for Social Workers: New Strategies for a New Era, Updated Edition, 1st Edition. [VitalSource Bookshelf Online].
Tasks:
In continuation of the policy change cycle, a policy proposal is prepared and reviewed for adoption by key decision makers. Therefore, it is essential that the proposal be technically and administratively effective, politically acceptable, and legally and ethically defensible. In this assignment, you will learn how to prepare and review a policy proposal for adoption by key decision makers. USE AFFORDABLE HOUSING
Tasks:
On the basis of the readings and your research, create a 3- to 4-page paper addressing the following:
Discuss a draft policy or plan for review. What problem does it address, and what solutions does it propose?
Identify the possible stakeholders’ interests and concerns regarding the draft and proposed solutions in particular.
Identify the risks associated with the proposed policy.
On the basis of your analysis of the second and third points above, suggest modifications to the proposal to enhance its chances for adoption.
Describe the goals of the involved parties in preparing the draft. What influence efforts (if any) do you see represented in the draft? What additional influence efforts might you recommend to convince decision makers to consider the proposed changes and, ultimately, adopt them?
Identify the actions and resources required for implementing the proposal once adopted.
Describe the kind of resistance that might be encountered during the implementation of the policy. What are some steps that leaders of policy advocacy efforts can take to overcome it?
Your paper should utilize a minimum of two resources from professional literature in your research. Professional literature may include the University online library resources; relevant textbooks; peer-reviewed journal articles; and websites created by professional organizations, agencies, or institutions (.edu, .org, or .gov).
Use this textbook ====Cummins, L. K., Byers, K. V., Pedrick, L. (01/2011). Policy Practice for Social Workers: New Strategies for a New Era, Updated Edition, 1st Edition. [VitalSource Bookshelf Online].
Tasks:
In this assignment, you will review how an adopted policy change can be implemented successfully to ensure that it overcomes the typical causes of implementation failure.
Tasks:
In a minimum of 500 words, post your responses to the following:
Explain what makes for effective implementation of change in general.
Examine an effective introduction of the adopted change in an appropriate organization or network. Discuss what made the implementation of this particular change successful.
Describe the review process during which policy maintenance, modification, or termination can be considered.
Explain the role of leadership in the implementation process. Discuss the relevance of continued influence and coalition building during implementation. Could there be merit in strengthening relationships between people and organizations involved in the implementation process? Why or why not?
Gastil, J. (07/2009). The Group in Society, 1st Edition. [VitalSource Bookshelf Online].
Adams, K., Galanes, G. (03/2011). Communicating in Groups: Applications and Skills, 8th Edition. [VitalSource Bookshelf Online].
USE ABOVE BOOKS FOR CORE……
In this assignment, you will form a group with three people (co-workers, etc) In the first part of the assignment, you will choose a topic that is based on a current event or trend in the human services field (use obtaining affordable housing for low income persons) and present the same at the National Organization for Human Services Conference. Your group will create a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation that addresses the current trend or topic in human services. The second part of the assignment will be to write a 3-page paper addressing the specific criteria on how the group interacted while completing the task (the presentation). The primary focus of the presentation is to provide a task for the group to work upon. The 3-page paper is to address how the group worked on the presentation and the dynamics that occurred.
Tasks:
Create a 5-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation that outlines the introduction of the topic; the body will include the impact of the topic, and the conclusion will include how to handle the impact by a human services organization. Submit this presentation to the M3 Assignment 2 Dropbox.
Create a 3-page paper, with an introduction, a body, and a conclusion, keeping your focus on how the group interacted when creating the presentation, specifically addressing the following points:
Describe the pros and cons of planning, organizing, and presenting the content in your presentation. This paper is not about personalities but about the process that the group went through in order to finish its presentation.
Include a page of content, wherein you debrief how the group worked together, including the incorporation of group concepts such as risky shifts, response polarization, groupthink, social facilitation, social inhibition, and social loafing.
Include details about the additive, disjunctive, and conjunctive tasks that the group performed.
Support all of your answers with at least 3–4 scholarly sources, cited in APA format.
Write a full rhetorical analysis of a political text related to the 2016 Presidential election. May opt to compare two political texts but at least one of them needs to be directly related to the 2016 election. A political text could be an advertisement, a speech, a debate performance (I like Donald Trump), an interview, a social media post, a website, or others. Will target an audience of scholars, so you will use a formal academic style. Key Concepts of Rhetorical Analysis 1) Exigence 2) Purpose 3) Genre 4) Critical analysis 5) Audience 6) Discourse community 7) Reflection 8) Composing 9) Knowledge. The essay may or may not include all nine concepts, or you can focus entirely on one element. The answers you come up with will be your main argument, your thesis. You can include secondary sources, these would be quotes and opinions from expert analysts who have commented on the primary text or candidate or campaign in general. Along with paper need proposal to include 1) MLA style works citied plan to analyze 2) why you chose it/them 3) what your potential focus will be 4) a description of your purpose 5) thesis statement 6) formal outline of main points plan to make (this is the last page of the paper). Paper needs to be 2000 words or more plus the proposal. Will target an audience of scholars, so you will use a formal academic style. Key Concepts of Rhetorical Analysis 1) Exigence 2) Purpose 3) Genre 4) Critical analysis 5) Audience 6) Discourse community 7) Reflection 8) Composing 9) Knowledge. The essay may or may not include all nine concepts, or you can foucus entirely on one element. The answers you come up with will be your main argument, your thesis. You can include secondary sources, these would be quotes and opinions from expert analysts who have commented on the primary text or candidate or campaign in general. Along with paper need proposal to include 1) MLA style works citied plan to analyze 2) why you chose it/them 3) what your focus will be 4) a description of the purpose 5) thesis statement 6) formal outline of main points plan to make. Paper needs to be 2000 words or more plus the proposal.
4 page APA with abstract included on a successful global organization (example the Apple Corporation) as to why the organization is successful and how they meet the needs of people in the global environment politically, socially, and enconomicially. Arguments must be supported and defended by using outside sources to solidify the position. A minimum of three refereneces is required.
Download the attached Word document, type in your answers to the questions, rename the file with your name and “HW7”, e.g., “Jim Peters HW7”, and reattached the completed document to this assignment.
1) This question is based on Tom’s Trailer Sales case included at the end of this assignment. The text lists nine IT duties roles (Figure 12-2)[1]. Without adding any new employees but including Carla, describe how you would segregate these duties for Tom. Tom does not have the resources to develop an MIS internally and will need to outsource part of the process to Carla. Your plan should provide as much control as possible while being practical for an operation as small as Tom’s Trailer Sales. You will not be able to segregate all the duties completely for a firm as small as Tom’s. In addition, you need to consider how Tom operates and realize that all the employees run the computer system for some tasks.
| Person | Duties | Reason Duties are assigned to this person |
| Carla | ||
| Tom | ||
| Bookkeeper | ||
| Other Staff members |
2) Segregation of duties is only one form of controls over information production and distribution. Describe four additional general controls related to information systems that Tom should consider implementing and explain why you would recommend the control. Do not include any application controls.
| Control Description | Purpose |
3) The following are several multiple choice questions adapted from the CPA exam that cover types of audit tests. For each question, selected the best answer and then explain why it is better than all the alternatives. Your explanations should address all the possible alternatives presented in the question.
iii) a substantive test of transactions
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III. Determining whether the necessary internal control procedures and are prescribed and being followed satisfactorily.
What should be the order in which these four steps are performed?
iii) III, IV, I, II
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4) The following are several multiple choice questions adapted from the CPA exam that cover tests of controls. For each question, selected the best answer and then explain why it is better than all the alternatives. Your explanations should address all the possible alternatives presented in the question.
iii) assurances that informative disclosures in the financial statements are reasonably adequate.
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iii) confirmation
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iii) the understanding of the control structure indicates that evaluating the effectiveness of control policies and procedures is likely to be inefficient.
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Tom Sullivan owns a small recreational trailer business in a suburban community located close to the mountains. Tom sales are mostly trailers for vacationing and camping, and a variety of accessories for those trailers. Tom’s Trailer Sales (Tom’s) has only one location that includes a parking lot of customers and employees, a sales lot where he stores trailers for resale, and a combine business office, warehouse, and preparation shop. Tom’s engaging in various activities like installing accessories and trailers and doing repairs on trailers in the preparation shop. It stores some accessories and repair parts in the warehouse. The business office portion on the building contains offices for Tom, his bookkeeper, and his sales staff.
In addition to Tom, who is the owner and general manager, Tom’s employs six sales people and three mechanics to do the prep and repair work. The only other employee is the bookkeeper.
Tom’s Trailer does not own a computer, but Tom realizes that he needs one to remain competitive. As a first step to improving their information systems, Tom hired an MIS consultant, Carla Denton, to design and implement of a new MIS for his business. Carla spent her first two weeks talking to Tom and the bookkeeper. In her discussions with the Tom, Carla focused on clarifying Tom’s goals and expectations for the new system and determining how much time and money Tom could afford both for system’s design and implementation and for the system’s on-going operating costs.
Carla’s discussions with the bookkeeper focused on understanding how Tom’s current accounting and reporting functions worked. At the end of the second week, Carla had developed a list of goals and priorities for the new system and had accumulated copies of all forms and reports Tom’s currently generates manually.
Next, Carla built a small, prototype system in Access™ that duplicated the functions of the current manual system and then work on how to modify it to produce the additional detail that Tom wanted. She spent the next three weeks setting up the prototype, which included forms for recording data that looked similar to the manual forms and logs Tom’s currently used and reports that contained the same information as the reports Tom’s currently created. Because Tom’s was such a small operation and she wanted to keep the cost of the new system down, Carla did not produce much documentation of the system or the logic she used to produce it, but depended on the built-in documentation features of Access™. Access™ can produce very detailed listings of the technical specifications of every component in the database but does not have any way to document how those components would be used by Tom’s staff to record information and use reports in their daily activities.
At the end of the Carla’s fifth week, she had created a prototype Access™ database that could record test data and produce reports that duplicated the current, manual system. She spent the next three weeks working with Tom to finalize the systems design.
After two more months of work, Carla was able to present a completed system (i.e., Access™ database) to Tom. She had tested the system with some sample data Tom helped her develop, but felt that running the system in parallel with Tom’s manual system was too expensive for Tom. She felt she had accomplished as much as she could without running up too high consulting fees and turned the system over to Tom along with a list of hardware he would need to purchase to install computers in various locations in Tom’s operations.
In addition to the hardware specifications and Access™ database she produced, Carla spend half a day walking Tom through the system and its various components. She also developed a user’s manual of how each component of the system worked. Finally, she told Tom that she would be available to answer any questions Tom had on the new system.
The hardware configuration that Carla developed for tome included:
Tom reviewed all of Carla’s work, but was concerned about how to control the various activities associated with a computerized environment so he met with Carla again. She prepared a list of the basic activities that IT departments usually engage in and discussed with Tom the nature of each activity and the importance of segregating them from each other. Tom quickly realized that he did not have the staff to handle some of the duties, much less segregate all. Thus, he asked Carla if she would consider working permanently as an IT consultant and developing a plan of how to segregate the IT duties as best they could by including her as part of the IT function.
[1] Chief Information Officer or IT Manager, Security Administrator, Systems Analyst, Programmer, Computer Operations, Librarian, Network Administrator, Data Input/Output Control, and Database Administrator.
Continue using the two companies you worked with last week.
Write a 1,750- to 2,100-word paper in which you compare the effectiveness of each company’s marketing communication channels and tools to achieve desired branding and positioning.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.