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This paper should be 5 pages of text with one title and one reference page. The FTO I chose is Boko Haram. The instructions are below:
: Foreign Terrorist Organization Profile
Students are to choose a terrorist organization that has been identified as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) by the United States Department of State. The list can be found here:

http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/fs/37191.htm

Students are to then prepare a threat profile on their chosen FTO. The paper should discuss the history of the FTO, preferred methods of attack (including identifying and discussing past attacks), it’s goals and objectives, it’s connections with other FTO’s, membership, source of funding and the United States’ level of interest. This paper will be graded based on content, organization, and use of proper grammar. This paper should be 5-7 pages and submitted in APA format.

Details of the task One Central Park is a leading international building and civil engineering contractor, OCP employs some 1000 people throughout the UK. One Central park has an annual turnover in excess of £1.1million.

The organisation Head quarter office is in Manchester with two branch offices in Liverpool and Leeds. Additionally the organisation has a mobile workforce requiring access to the organisation network. Providing staff with 24/7 secure remote access to confidential project information whenever and wherever they are is critical to OCP’s efficiency and success.

One Central park realised that it needs secure network connections between the HQ and branch offices, where branch offices staff and mobile workers are only allowed access to specific HQ resources (FTP and HTTP); another requirements are to minimise internal and external network security threats by implementing firewall technologies, and strict access to the network critical devices using centralised authentication.

OCPs IT executives have asked you to research effective ways to meet the organisation network security needs and enforce compliance policies. Your research found that with Site-to-Site and Remote IPsec VPN, Access Control Lists, Cisco Zone-Based Firewall ZBF and Windows server firewall, Microsoft Active Directory integrated NPS RADIUS, and Microsoft Active Directory services. OCP could tackle the following vital challenges:
• Connect HQ with branch offices securely over the Internet
• Limit access to the HQ network resources and critical devices.
• Centralise network access authentication and security setting distribution.

OCPs IT executives have asked you to present a report that will list the potential benefits and challenges of implementing the technologies mentioned above.

Assessment criteria

Marking Criteria

• Describe the procedures of authenticating access to Cisco router CLI through active directory using Microsoft NPS RADIUS Server [10%]

• Examine network security threats that could be mitigated by Access Control Lists, and examine ways of using Access Control Lists to secure the network [10%]

• Specify the features you can implement within the Zone-Based Firewall on a Cisco router, and how they can increase network security [10%]

• Identify security strategies that contribute to the maintenance of network security.[15%]

• Identify strategies for dealing with breaches in security and how to restore the network to a secure state. [10%]

• Document the security configuration process and solution strategies. [5%]

• Sentences, paragraphs, spelling set at a high standard

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

1.To foster teamwork and a culture of quality improvement, a new director of an ambulatory care center in a hospital has begun holding twice-monthly management team meetings, consisting of several physicians, nurses, physician assistants, financial managers, and others. Attendance at these meetings has been erratic, and enforcing attendance is difficult because many of these people report to their discipline chiefs rather than to the director of the center. What advice would you give to this person to promote more consistent participation?

2.A community task force has been formed to improve the coordination of care for the frail elderly. Given the large number of people and agencies involved in providing services to this population, how would you balance the need for representation with the need to keep the task force size to a manageable level?

3.You are a member of a hospital project team assigned to develop a new pediatric oncology service line. Your team is expected to develop a business plan for presentation to the senior management team and the hospital board. A specific timetable has been established for producing a set of deliverables. The team leader is a well-known oncologist with a very strong clinical background and reputation. However, his team leadership skills leave something to be desired. Among other problems, meetings are cancelled at the last minute, delegation of tasks is ambiguous, and the focus and direction of the project changes scope at virtually every meeting. As a team member, what alternatives do you have to improve team management? Which alternative would you select as having the best chance of success?

4.Along with other hospital business managers, you have been a member of a management team. Recently, you have been promoted, and your former business manager team members now report to you. As the new leader of the management team, what challenges will you face in managing the team? How would you approach these challenges?

5.As described in this chapter, teams go through stages of development. As a team leader, what is the practical value to understanding these stages? How could this knowledge improve your effectiveness as a team leader?

Identify a piece of art, music, architecture, philosophy, or literature from the early Middle Ages and explore this example in depth. Consult the University Library databases or outside resources.

Write a 300- to 350-word journal entry about this example and describe why this area piques your interest.

Include an image or link to the humanities piece to support your journal entry

Materials
University Library
New Structure of Society
Role and Power of the Church
Women in Middle Ages
Discovering the Humanities

List the two most important trends within the last 3 months, as found in the WSJ. Relate each trend to at least three WSJ articles (for a minimum total of 6 articles). You will be asked to share your trends report with class in a seminar environment. Submit assignments to ulearn. Bring a copy to the class discussion.
Total approximate page length = 2-4 pages. Below are the grading weights.
Use the following Headings:

Trend #1:
Brief Explanation of Trend (wt=5/50)
Brief Justification for Choice (wt=5/50)
Impact on the Hospitality Industry (wt=10/50)

Trend #2:
Brief Explanation of Trend (wt=5/50)
Brief Justification for Choice (wt=5/50)
Impact on the Hospitality Industry (wt=10/50)

Bibliography (wt=5/50)
Grammar, Style (wt=5/50)

Term Paper: A final paper that focuses on the course content, applied in the setting of your current or
past employer, will be due in Module 7. In this paper you will focus on the following:
1. Provide a description of the company that you work for. As part of your description include a
discussion of the type of organizational structure.
2. Describe an agency problem within the firm and discuss what you think is causing the problem
and how the problem might be better controlled.
3. Describe the job dimensions of the firm and discuss whether or not you believe the current design
is appropriate for the firm. Discuss any suggestions you might have for improving the job design.
Grouped by function or by product or geography or a matrix organization? Provide a diagram if
helpful to illustrate. Is this organization effective?
4. Describe the compensation package for executives and employees within the firm. Discuss whether or not you believe that the compensation package is effective and any suggestions that
you might have for improving the compensation package

Executive Overview – gives general overview of case including key issues or problems
and recommendations.
Analysis – briefly describes the overarching framework for the case and its background.
No additional information should be used other than that provided in the case text.
Problem Statement – more focus on statement of problem or central issue within case.
More than one issue may be relevant so limit write-up to the three most interesting or
troublesome issues. Name and explain these explicitly.
Options – give several options for the focal organization concerning these problems or
issues.
Recommendation – name one explicit action that will help or fix that which is named in
the problem statement.
Implementation and Control – briefly explain how the recommendation may be carried out
and how it can be controlled, altered or adjusted if necessary.
Analytical Tools
There are a number of analytical tools to help you organize, analyze, and display your
information in a convenient and easy to interpret form. Some of these techniques allow you to
quantify the decisions by making judgments about the situation. You should select those tools
which best fit the particular case situation. Following are some of the tools that are available:
1) Performance Analysis – You should make comparisons of key financial and market data
at both the corporate and business unit level with major competitors and/or industry
averages. Compare key expenses to sales, such as percent R&D of sales, percent sales and
administrative expense of sales, percent of accounts receivable of sales, and sales per
employee or sales per store.
2) BCG Portfolio Mapping / Product Mission Matrix – Developing a matrix that compares
variables between companies, such as product lines or financial results, is an easy way to
illustrate differences. A simple two-by-two matrix sometimes illustrates the relationships
between variables. This can also be expanded into a larger matrix, sometimes referred to as
portfolio mapping, such as those developed by the Boston Consulting Group. You can be creative with the mapping technique and use it for a variety of comparisons, such as a business compared with competitors, a SBU or product line compared with others within the
same company, or SBU’s compared to industry. You can modify the BCG techniques to fit your particular needs. Be sure to carefully label and identify the components used in mapping.
3) Key Success Factors / Strength Assessment – Identifying key success factors for the company and its competitors is another useful analytical tool. By utilizing a rating and weighing technique, you can quantify qualitative evaluations. The first step is to identify the
key success factors, and then apply a weighing to each of those that totals one hundred percent. The weighing represents the importance of each factor relative to the others. Next,
using a scale of one to five, with five being very strong and one being very weak, rate the
company on each of the success factors. Also rate its key competitors. This shows rather
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quickly the comparison on each factor, and when multiplied by the weighing and added
together, can provide one number that represents the total key success factor comparison with
each major competitor. This technique can also be used as a starting point in developing a
map such as strategic groups map.
4) SWOT Analysis – A SWOT analysis is designed to identify the strengths and
weaknesses of the company (internal factors) and the opportunities and threats for the
company (external factors). A SWOT analysis is often a good starting point, but you need to
draw conclusions as a result of the analysis. For example, is the company in a strong
competitive position? What can it do to turn weaknesses into strengths and threats into
opportunities? Can it continue to pursue its current strategy in a profitable manner, or will the
strategy need revision?
5) Competitive Strategy Models (Porter) – A useful point to begin the analysis of strategy
is to use Porter’s Competitive Strategy Model. Porter believes that to be successful, a company
must select one of three generic models of competitive strategy. These are Low Cost Producer,
Differentiation, and Focus or Niche. This can be followed by developing Porter’s Five Forces
Model. The Five Forces Model displays the major sources of competition. These five forces of
competition include direct competitors, substitute products, customers, suppliers, and new
entrants into the marketplace. Successful use of the Porter Model Analysis includes
identifying the sources of competition, the strength and likelihood of that competition
existing, and strategic recommendations for the action a company should take to develop
barriers to the various forms of competition.
6) Best Case/Worst Case/Expected Case Scenarios – In developing business plans it is
useful to develop future financial scenarios based on a best case/worst case/expected case
basis.
7) Break-Even Analysis – In preparing a business plan or evaluating a project, it is helpful
to develop a break-even analysis, in essence that point where cost equals sales with no profit
or no loss. Two basic ways of calculating break-even point are the amount of sales that would
be necessary to break even or the number of units that must be sold to break even. A very
important aspect of this calculation is the classification of cost between fixed and variable as it
applies to the period of time under consideration. For example, if you are using a two-year
planning horizon and you have a two-year lease on your property, that would be considered
fixed for this purpose. If you have a store that is open a set number of hours per day, the
minimum is one employee available during the hours the store is open. This could be
considered fixed, while the addition of other employees could be considered variable.
8) Common-Sized Financial Statements – The comparison of balance sheet and income
statements over time and across companies will be facilitated by using common-sized
statements. Convert every category from dollar terms to percentages. For the income
statement divide each item by total sales. For the balance sheet divide each balance sheet item
by total assets.
9) Valuation of a Business – There are a number of factors that go into determining the
value and appropriate price for a business. The degree to which the buyer wants to buy and
the seller wants to sell, the various terms and conditions associated with the sale, and the
actual negotiation capabilities are all factors in arriving at the final price. However, there are
two methods that help quantify the decision and provide a basis for negotiation.
(a) The price earnings ratio is the amount investors are willing to pay per dollar of reported
profit. It is determined by dividing the selling price per share by the earnings per share and
comparing the P/E ratio with comparable firms or the industry average.

Teaching Tolerance: sponsored by the southern poverty law center – http://www.tolerance.org/hiddenbias. After reading the introduction page on Hidden Bias, select the hyper-link in the first paragraph, at the top of the page titled: Project Implicit. From the Project Implicit homepage- choose one of the two options in the box titled – Project Implicit Social Attitudes.You can either “register or continue as a guest”. If you register for the study your results will become part the national sample and your assessment results represented in the study’s national findings. On next page you will need to read the ‘Preliminary Information” page and select “I Wish to Proceed”. On the next page you will see several assessments of hidden bias. For this assignment you are to complete the Race IAT and the Gender/Career IAT assessments.
(2.) Take the Implicit Bias Assessments for both race and gender/career.
(3) Once the assessments are complete copy your results statement from both assessments to be used as the opening sentence of your thread. Your results may read: you show no, slight, moderate or strong automatic preference for one group or the other. The chart showing percentages below this results statement represents the finding form the U.S. population sample who have completed the assessment before you. The same holds true for the gender assessment results statement.
(4) Develop a discussion thread including (4a) A statement analyzing the concept of Hidden/Implicit bias & your feelings concerning the validity of the instrument and validity of your personal results (4b) A statement regarding your speculations regarding the source of your assessed bias, if any (4c) A statement regarding the national results and their implications for prejudice and discrimination in the U.S. (4d) A description of how this experience and insight might affect your future thoughts and actions

This discussion focuses on Program Outcome 1: Apply foundational knowledge and an understanding of business systems, processes, and technology within and across core disciplines. For this discussion, complete the following:

– Review Program Outcome 1 in MBA Program Outcomes for more information about the importance and role of this outcome.
– Review the relevant criterion in the Capstone Project and Presentation Scoring Guide to familiarize yourself with the specific expectations for demonstrating the outcome.
– Describe how you will demonstrate your achievement of the outcome in your capstone project

compare&contrast/ Wilson, Peter H. The Thirty Years’ War: Europe’s Tragedy.
Paper details

HIS 121
History Paper Guidelines SPRING, 2015
ASSIGNMENT
Your assignment is to pick one of the books on the list accompanying this document, read the book and write a 1,000-word book review on the book. In essence, this is a compare-and-contrast essay – it is not a book report. A sample outline is included to show how to do your paper. In order to complete this assignment successfully, you will have to read additional books and other materials to evaluate the book and assess the book’s strengths and weaknesses