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Tools of Organizational Change

Select one of the following tools: the nine steps in Ackerman and Anderson’s roadmap for change, Cummings and Worley’s five dimensions of leading and managing change, or the three components of organizational change. Explain how a leader could use this tool in guiding an organizational change. Review several of your peers’ posts. Respond to two peers who did not choose the same tool as you. Discuss the similarities and differences between the tools.

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.

Integrated Business Communication. Write a three to four (3-4) page paper that addresses the following:

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As a future executive, explain what you think are the most important communication issues you will have to face as you embark upon your career.
Discuss whether communication will become more complex, or less complex, and why.
Address what role technology will play in the communication of thoughts and ideas.
Discuss how the information gap between generations, cultures, income levels, and education can be resolved.
Include a statement of your personal philosophy on the future of integrated business communication.

Assignment 3: Benefits of Business Analytics

Business analytics can provide a significant benefit to organizations. If the organization utilizes business analytics and analyzes the data correctly, they will be able to make informed decisions that will benefit the organization in many ways. They could use it to make decisions to address not only short-term company goals but also long-term strategic planning.

Using the Argosy University online library resources and the Internet, research two businesses within the same industry; one that utilizes business analytics and one that does not. Select at least 2 scholarly sources for use in this assignment.

Respond to the following questions:

Compare and contrast the two companies in terms of their use of business analytics to improve their position in the industry. You may select an organization you currently work for or one that you worked for in the past.
Provide your rationale as to whether or not the use of data analytics has helped the company accomplish its goals.
Describe the challenges the company may have faced by choosing to utilize business analytics that the other company did not face.

AS DIRECTED ,NO PLAGIARISM

You are asked to answer the question: How does knowledge of Information Systems (IS) benefit business managers in decision-making?

Consider the following points in preparing your response:

Describe the business factors that create pressures on the organization
Discuss the process of decision making
Decisions make or break an organization and should be based on fact not guess work
There are inherent risks in not making decisions
Apply the phases involved in the conditions that call for decisions

What have you learned as key points regarding leadership and management? How will you integrate these into your own development as a leader? What are concrete skills and areas of development you hope to pursue? Please address these points, including references to the assigned reading and materials for the module.

Epidemiology is the study of epidemics. More specifically, it is the study of the occurrence and distribution of health problems. Using any of the epidemiological techniques outlined in the chapters from this week’s reading, address the questions for one of the case studies outlined below.

Epidemiological Case #1: Gastroenteritis at a University in Texas
Epidemiological Case #2: Norovirus in Vermont

There are two parts to this assignment:

Part I: Provide a brief statement of the investigative issue. Describe the epidemiological steps you would take by addressing the questions asked within the case study you select.

Part II: Address the questions noted at the end of your selected case study. Your paper should be at least four pages in length, but can exceed this depending on how much detail you provide on the epidemiological steps you take for your case. You should use at least one additional scholarly source in addition to the textbook. Format your paper and all citations according to APA style guidelines as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
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Write an essay on “The Rise of the West” by analyzing and synthesizing the readings and the contents of the video of week one. You must address the following questions in your essay.

(1) What is a “Eurocentric” version of the origins of the modern world? (2) What is a “non-Eurocentric” version of the origins of the modern world? (3) How are they similar, and how do they differ? (4) Why does the author of this book choose a non-Eurocentric narrative?

What constitutes an ideal childcare setting for a 6 month old?

Suppose you were seeking a child-care setting for your 6-month-old baby. What would you want it to be like, and why? Address issues such as (but not limited to):

Physical setting

Personnel qualifications

Health, safety, and nutrition

Mental, emotional, and cognitive stimulation

Cost

Proximity

Support your opinions with citations from at least three academic sources (not websites or popular press).

 

You are to use the SAME topic as Assignment 1 but as an APPLICATION piece

· RESEARCH not Opinion

· You will use the 5 references from Assignment 1 PLUS 3 ADDED REFERENCES

· ALL papers must be done in the APA format.

· Do not write this paper in first person (do not use the words I, mine, my, myself, me, we, us, ours, ourselves)

· As you write your paper, give a VERY BRIEF review of your topic, then begin answering questions/items from Assignment 2, at the end write a short conclusion

· 800-1200 words

Topic: The Growing Use of Prescription Drugs among Teens

In Assignment 2: Application, you will address the same issue from an applied perspective:

What is being done to address this problem?

Is there a consensus about how to improve this problem, or is there a great deal of controversy?

What solutions have already been tried for this problem?

How successful have these solutions been?

What are the barriers to solving this problem?

What resources are available in YOUR community to deal with this problem?

Future approaches to the problem

How will this problem be addressed in the future?

How successful are these solutions likely to be?

Encrypt Words Routine and File Manipulation in Python Program using Notepad

Encrypt the following words using a Caesar cipher with a distance value of 5. Provide an algorithm written in python to generate the cypher.
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Write a program to open testFile.txt for input, append your name to the end of the file. Print out the number of lines contained in the file and close it. Program needs to be written in Notepad.