Category: Operations Management homework help

 
Financial benchmarking is very important for healthcare organizations. It involves running a financial analysis and making a comparison of the results to assess a company’s overall competitiveness, efficiency, and productivity.
Describe the benefits of financial benchmarking and the consequences of not practicing it within an organization. What are 3 financial benchmarks for hospital executives?
minimum 300 words

Leggere, an internet book retailer, is interested in better understanding the purchase decisions of its customers. For a set of 2,000 customer transactions, it has categorized the individual book purchases comprising those transactions into one or more of the following categories: Novels, Willa Bean series, Cooking Books, Bob Villa Do-It-Yourself, Youth Fantasy, Art Books, Biography, Cooking Books by Mossimo Bottura, Harry Potter series, Florence Art Books, and Titian Art Books. Leggere has conducted association rules analysis on this data set and would like to analyze the output. Based on a minimum support of 200 transactions and a minimum confidence of 50%, the table below shows the top 10 rules with respect to lift ratio.
Antecedent Consequent Support for A and C Confidence Lift Ratio
BotturaCooking Cooking 0.227 1.00 1.16
Cooking, BobVilla Art 0.205 0.54 1.12
Cooking, Art Biography 0.204 0.61 1.10
Cooking, Biography Art 0.204 0.53 1.10
Youth Fantasy Novels, Cooking 0.245 0.55 1.075
Cooking, Art BobVilla 0.205 0.61 1.055
Cooking, BobVilla Biography 0.218 0.58 1.04
Biography Novels, Cooking 0.293 0.53 1.035
Novels, Cooking Biography 0.293 0.57 1.035
Art Novels, Cooking 0.249 0.52 1.01

 
Review the document below which contains a list of items which might be included on an employment application.
BA 2410 – Discussion 1 Worksheet – Employment Application Items.docx BA 2410 – Discussion 1 Worksheet – Employment Application Items.docx – Alternative Formats
 
Determine which items would and would not be considered discriminatory. Space is provided on the document for you to make your own notes in preparation for your discussion post.
In your discussion post, provide a brief summary of the items that you feel are not discriminatory, and those which could be considered discriminatory.  Be sure to explain your thoughts. 

Using the scenario organization you selected for Milestone One (Case Study – Valpak “Valpak’s ability to utilize technology to transform their business is a very significant factor in their business success, and Valpak’s IT group is an integral part of the business transformation and growth of the company. To compete with the quickly changing digital savings marketplace, Valpak transitioned the entire IT organization to agile Scrum/Kanban process with two-week sprint delivery cycles. They embraced this change and quickly adapted.”), you will now develop an Approach Selection decision paper. The decision paper will be targeted for the senior program manager in the Program Management Office (PMO) of your scenario organization. The decision paper will build upon the information paper you developed for Milestone One in Module Two. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
Analyze alternatives of various project management (PM) approaches.
Provide a project management approach selection with explanation and defense of decision.
Provide an approach analysis with detailed examples.
Your Milestone Two submission, Approach Selection decision paper, must be 1–2 pages in length (plus a cover page and references) and must be written in APA format. Use double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. Include at least three references cited in APA format. 

 
The primary goal of the replies is to discuss the threads by offering analysis and critiques to include specific strengths and weaknesses and other insights for consideration. Ensure the following are met:  Reply to at least 2 different peer threads and address at least 1 strength and 1 weakness per reply.  Each reply must be supported with at least 2 peer-reviewed sources and include 1 biblical application/integration (no more than 10% of the total response).  Each reply must be 450–600 words  Use proper grammar and current APA formatting.  Do not submit the discussion posts as Microsoft Word documents. Instead post the primary content of your posts into the body of the discussion area since opening files is an inconvenience when the same information can be reviewed within the discussion.

Scenario
You are a member of a high-functioning team and want to apply for an open management position. Part of the interviewing process involves you reflecting on your own behavioral growth and development in order to demonstrate your commitment to relating to others while achieving personal and professional goals. To do this, you need to identify two different situations that indicate a focus/change needed to make others want to work with you as their manager. One situation needs to be a positive experience while the second is a negative experience.
Instructions
Create a presentation (i.e. PowerPoint, Visio, YouTube, Screen-cast-o-matic, Prezi, etc.) based on your self-awareness of your behaviors in the workplace and based on each situation you identified for self-awareness. Your presentation will need to include:
Details or background on the two situations identified (positive and negative).
For each situation, discuss what non-verbal cues were given or used.
For each situation, explain what the outcomes were.
For each situation, determine what tools could be used to make improvements (i.e. listening more, empathy, more information, etc.).
Include speaker notes on each slide.

Scenario
You are the senior clinical analyst for the Oakridge Health System. Oakridge Health System is comprised of Medicare-certified hospitals, home health, hospice, inpatient rehabilitation and long-term care facilities. The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) needs to identify a quality improvement initiative for the next fiscal year. You are tasked to write a white paper outlining the quality of care for Medicare-certified hospitals across the country.
Instructions
Your white paper should include:
Analyze your state and national health care quality based on the most recent year of data reported by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Identify one quality measure from your analysis to recommend for an initiative.
Provide an evaluation of the quality measure outcomes using quality improvement principles that will support your initiative recommendation.

My product is on  The Adidas Performance Training App  in 3-4 pages double space with references and the following:
here are two references that maybe used to help   
References
Ferrell, O. C., Hartline, M., & Hochstein, B. W. (2021). Marketing strategy. Cengage Learning.
K, M. (2020, December 28). Fitness review – Adidas training app delivers on sweat and ease – Ask that fit girl. Ask That Fit Girl. https://www.askthatfitgirl.com/fitnessworkout/fitness-review-adidas-training-app-delivers-on-sweat-and-ease/
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
Introduction: In this section of the project, you  will introduce your chosen product or service from an existing sport  organization as well as the overall goal of your marketing plan for  promoting this product or service. This will include an overview of the  current state of the sport organization and potential opportunities for  the organization.

Provide an overview of your chosen sport  organization and the product or service you have selected to be the  focus of your marketing plan. (Remember that this must be an existing  sport organization, but the product or service may already exist or may  be a new, proposed product or service.)
Introduce the overall goal of your marketing plan, including a brief allusion to the determinants of the plan’s success.
Describe the current state of your chosen sport organization (e.g., popularity, recent events, history, previous marketing initiatives).
State and describe the mission statement for your sport organization.
Briefly describe potential sales and revenue growth opportunities that this marketing plan could help develop for the sport organization.

in 3-4 pages double space with references answer the following;
Visit the Right of Publicity and Fair Use  websites and explore them for examples (i.e. specific business  situations) of the application of Right of Publicity and fair use. Note  that you may use examples beyond what is found on these websites.
For each concept, identify and explain one example of how it meets  the definition/requirements of the concept and one example of why it  does not meet the definition/requirements of the concept. In total, you should have evaluated four examples.

 
This assignment is intended to help you use leadership skills to gather project members from cross-functional departments and skill sets and lead them in the fulfillment and implementation of a mock project.
Discover the various responsibilities of a project manager by organizing a project. See Chapter 19, sections 19.9 and Cases. 
Apply project management tools and a PM outline type of your choice to structure and plan the project by defining, planning, and controlling. The project will be a continuation of how to improve the process you chose in Weeks 1 and 2.
Create a 10- to 12-slide PowerPoint presentation (supported by Excel and Word as needed), with detailed speaker notes, that includes the following:
Project description
Project Management Charts (Critical Path, Gant Chart, etc.)
Improved Process Flowchart from Week 1
Meeting cadence/rhythm and timing
Metrics to measure the project’s success
Financial and budgetary considerations
Description of the project reporting structure
Cite references to support your assignment.
Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.