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Familiarize yourself with the following terms and concepts discussed this week in preparation for completion of this assignment: strategic management, competitive advantage, strategic plan, mission statement, vision statement, core values statement, AFI. Create a 700- to 1,050-word entry in your Strategic Management Research Journal. You will use information from this entry in your presentation due in Week 5. Respond to the following prompts in your journal entry: Determine how AFI strategy framework acts as an integrative facilitator for strategic management planning. Identify the guiding principles used for preparing effective statements that describe the mission, vision, and the core values of an organization. Review the mission statement in Chapter 1 of Strategic Management: Concepts (p. 13), and determine whether the Caterpillar Inc. mission statement conforms to the description in the text. State the reasons the mission statement conforms or does not conform. Research public information, such as news releases, financial reports, and marketing analyses. Based on your research evaluate the alignment between what Caterpillar is currently doing and their mission, vision, or values statement.
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The purpose of the final project is to create a corporate strategy for implementing sustainability in a publicly traded corporation, in particular, identifying the legal and ethical challenges a corporation would face in transitioning to a triple-bottom-line approach, sustainable business practices that would positively impact society, goals that would align the corporate mission to a sustainable strategy, and communication strategies that would engage all stakeholders in the transformation. This supports developing an understanding of best practices for creating business opportunities that are sustainable and positively impact publicly traded corporations and society while analyzing characteristics of leaders in publicly traded corporations who have successfully implemented sustainability strategies and promoted social awareness. The final deliverable for this assessment is a project report that includes an analysis of a publicly traded organizations business practices and recommendations for sustainability based on your analysis of your chosen bottom-line company and two triple-bottom-line companies. This project is divided into three milestones and the final submission. The milestones will be submitted in Modules Two, Four, and Six. The final deliverable is submitted in Module Seven. Prompt Create a recommended strategy to transform the bottom line corporation, which you select and the instructor approves for your project, to triple bottom line management. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed: I. Company Overview Select a publicly traded organization that you will use to conduct your project report. a) Provide a historical overview of the company, outlining its goals, mission, and the products, goods, or services it provides specific to its position in the industry. b) What key geopolitical, historical, economic, cultural, or technological issues or themes have influenced the corporations management strategy? This is where you will identify and describe issues and themes that have influenced the company. These will be important for you to consider when moving into the Analysis Corporate Social Responsibility and Management section. II. Analysis Corporate Social Responsibility and Management Research the various aspects of corporate social responsibility and triple-bottom-line management that the company would need to know to pursue sustainable initiatives. a) Why would corporate social responsibility be important to this company? What are the social trends driving triple-bottom-line management for this company? b) Describe the bottom-line management processes for this company. How does the company increase its net earnings and reduce associated costs? c) What are the primary differences between bottom-line management and triple-bottom-line management for this company? d) What legal challenges might this company face when pursuing sustainable initiatives that will impact corporate social responsibility and triplebottom-line management? III. Analysis Sustainable Businesses and Leaders Research the aspects listed below. Select two companies that have leaders with a proven track record in social responsibility and triple-bottom-line management as the basis for this analysis. The purpose of this analysis is to identify factors that could be used to develop recommendations for your selected company surrounding sustainable initiatives and triple-bottom-line management. a) Identify the corporate social responsibility strategies of your publicly traded corporations. Describe key aspects of how these strategies address corporate citizenship, globalization, and sustainability. b) What are the common characteristics of innovative and measurable goals among these companies in driving a sustainable business strategy? For example, this is where you would address key aspects of pollution prevention, energy efficiency, renewable energy, carbon emissions, and/or lifecycle management that are commonalities among these companies. c) What types of sustainable business practices do socially responsible corporations employ? Provide examples to qualify your response. d) What social competencies and practices of executive leaders in a socially responsible company would be critical to implementing a triplebottom-line approach? This is where you would address whether their long-term view, communication skills, value system, and personal influence foster shared moral purpose and vision. For example, CEOs such as John T. Chambers of Cisco began as a wireman in the company and worked his way up the chain. Consider what types of social competencies and practices he employed to be successful. e) What ethical challenges do leaders in socially responsible corporations face in leading transformation in those organizations? f) What are common practices for sustainability reporting and accountability among the companies you selected? Go beyond a basic description their reporting and accountability practices by assessing how those practices are common across the companies. IV. Recommendations Create corporate strategy for implementing sustainability in this publicly traded corporation that is currently using bottom-line management that could transform it to triple-bottom-line management. Your recommendations should be specifically crafted for the executive leadership team for this organization. a) Analyze the potential legal and ethical challenges that your selected corporation faces in its domain/industry when implementing sustainable business practices. This is where you will describe how sustainable business practices both internal and external can impact the bottom line for the short-term and long-term financial strategy of the company. b) Which sustainable business practices should your selected corporation employ in positively impacting society? Why? c) What measurable goals align the corporate mission to a sustainable strategy? In order to cover this comprehensively, you should address at least three goals your chosen corporation strives for. d) What communication strategies will you use to engage the employees, stakeholders, and shareholders to promote the transformation to triplebottom-line management? Milestones Milestone One: Company Overview In Module One, you will submit a bottom-line company for instructor approval. This submission is required, but not graded separately. In Module Two, you will complete Milestone One based on the publicly traded company the instructor approved for you to use for your final project report. Provide a historical overview of the company and identify the key geopolitical, historical, economic, cultural, or technological issues or themes that have influenced the corporations management strategy. This milestone is graded with the Milestone One Rubric. Milestone Two: Corporate Social Responsibility and Management In Module Four, you will research the various aspects of corporate social responsibility and triple-bottom-line management that your company would need to know to pursue sustainable initiatives, and answer the questions for this milestone submission. This milestone is graded with the Milestone Two Rubric. Milestone Three: Triple-Bottom-Line Companies In Module Three, you will identify two triple-bottom-line companies that you will use for Milestone Three. This submission is required, but not graded separately. In Module Six, you will analyze the following factors used by your two triple-bottom-line companies to identify best practices that your bottom-line management company should adopt to successfully transition to a triple-bottom-line approach. ? Social responsibility strategies for publicly traded corporations ? Goals ? Business practices ? Social competencies of leaders ? Ethical challenges ? Reporting and accountability practices This milestone is graded with the Milestone Three Rubric. Final Submission: Project Report In Module Seven, you will submit your revised Milestones One, Two, and Three, and combine them with your recommendations for corporate strategy. This submission is graded with the Final Project Rubric. Deliverables Milestone Deliverables Module Due Grading 1 Company Overview Two Graded separately; Milestone One Rubric 2 Corporate Social Responsibility and Management Four Graded separately; Milestone Two Rubric 3 Triple-Bottom-Line Companies Six Graded separately; Milestone Three Rubric Project Report Seven Graded separately; Final Project Rubric Format The final project should use the following format: ? Double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins ? Page numbers on all pages, including the cover page ? Use of APA format for all elements ? The project report should be a minimum of 8 pages, not including references Please note that a running header is not required. The final project should be organized as follows, using these section heads: ? Cover page: APA format cover page ? Section I. Introduction: In your own words, brief the reader on the contents of your final project in one paragraph. ? Section II. Milestone One (revised based upon instructor feedback) ? Section III. Milestone Two (revised based upon instructor feedback) ? Section IV. Milestone Three (revised based upon instructor feedback) ? Section V. Recommendations (your new content) ? Section VI. Summary: In your own words, summarize the paper for the reader in one to two paragraphs. You may, for example, provide the reader your personal perspective of the triple bottom line and its impact on publicly traded corporations today and in the future. ? Reference page: Reference page using APA 6th edition format
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Answer the question supporting your interpretation with evidence from the assigned texts ( the symposium) and illustrating it with examples from observations, or engagement with other texts, movies, etc

Write an essay of 250-500 words about Singing in the Rain and compare this movie to two of the movies previously assigned in class.you can choose from:king kongcasablancawizard of ozcitizen kane

NFPA Codes In a 2 page, double-spaced paper, APA format, describe how National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) codes and standards impact fire and emergency services. Support your responses with the following: 1. Information from this week’s reading; AND 2. Specific examples.

Community engagement has been broadly defined as involving communities in decision-making and in the planning, design, governance, and delivery of services. Community engagement initiatives that focus more on health interventions and less on a community are often grounded in a specific theory employed by researchers to understand the ways in which people develop, think or act. Examples of theories that motivated intervention design include social learning, social cognitive, social-ecological, coalition, diffusion of innovation, social network or behavioral theory (Brunton, et al., 2017).The need to promote improved human-environment interactions through stewardship is ever-pressing, which applies to terrestrial, marine, aquatic, and aerial environments in both rural and urban environments. The term environmental stewardship has been used to refer to such diverse actions as creating protected areas, replanting trees, limiting harvests, reducing harmful activities or pollution, creating community gardens, restoring degraded areas, or purchasing more sustainable products. It is applied to describe strict environmental conservation actions, active restoration activities and or the sustainable use and management of resources. Stewardship actions can also be taken at diverse scales, from local to global efforts, and in both rural and urban contexts (Nathan, Bennett & Edward 2018).Examples of the principles and strategies of environmental stewardship used in community engagement to build sustainable communities are:Ensuring representativeness – One of the challenges is how to ensure that those community members whose voices are heard are representative of the community; Ensuring equity – Communities are diverse, and particular care needs to be taken to ensure that the less powerful voices and groups are engaged and not marginalized; Establishing community views – One can seek to establish community views by summing the separate opinions of individual community members; Asking too much of community members – In seeking to involve community members in decision-making and partnerships there is a danger of asking too much of them, causing stress and exhaustion (O’Mara-Eves, Brunton & Thomas 2015).Low-income, minority, and tribal communities face an array of challenges. Many continue to deal with the types of disproportionate environmental concerns and lack of access to decision-making that sparked the environmental justice movement decades ago. Others, whose neighborhoods have been cleared of contaminated sites and are attracting new development, are confronting rising costs of living and displacement. The benefits of community engagement has been advocated as a potentially useful strategy to reduce health inequalities (O’Mara-Eves, Brunton & Thomas 2015).ReferencesBrunton, G., Thomas, J., O’Mara-Eves, A., Jamal, F., Oliver, S., & Kavanagh, J. (2017). Narratives of community engagement: a systematic review-derived conceptual framework for public health interventions. BMC public health, 17(1), 944.Nathan, J., Bennett, T. S. & Edward H. A. (2018). Environmental stewardship: A conceptual review and analytical framework. Environmental Management, 61(4): 597–614.O’Mara-Eves, A., Brunton, G. & Thomas, J. (2015). The effectiveness of community engagement in public health interventions for disadvantaged groups: a meta-analysis. BMC Public Health, 15: 129.

Changes in culture and technology have resulted in patient populations that are often well informed and educated, even before consulting or considering a healthcare need delivered by a health professional. Fueled by this, health professionals are increasingly involving patients in treatment decisions. However, this often comes with challenges, as illnesses and treatments can become complex. What has your experience been with patient involvement in treatment or healthcare decisions? In this Discussion, you will share your experiences and consider the impact of patient involvement (or lack of involvement). You will also consider the use of a patient decision aid to inform best practices for patient care and healthcare decision making. To Prepare: Review the Resources and reflect on a time when you experienced a patient being brought into (or not being brought into) a decision regarding their treatment plan. Review the Ottawa Hospital Research Institutes Decision Aids Inventory at https://decisionaid.ohri.ca/. Choose For Specific Conditions, then Browse an alphabetical listing of decision aids by health topic. NOTE: To ensure compliance with HIPAA rules, please DO NOT use the patients real name or any information that might identify the patient or organization/practice. Post a brief description of the situation you experienced and explain how incorporating or not incorporating patient preferences and values impacted the outcome of their treatment plan. Be specific and provide examples. Then, explain how including patient preferences and values might impact the trajectory of the situation and how these were reflected in the treatment plan. Finally, explain the value of the patient decision aid you selected and how it might contribute to effective decision making, both in general and in the experience you described. Describe how you might use this decision aid inventory in your professional practice or personal life.
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To prepare: Look at outcomes established for at least one evidence-based change currently underway or previously accomplished within your practicum setting. What lessons can be learned to support the development of outcomes for your proposed change? What outcomes would you identify for your proposed change? How are these tied to AACN Essentials? What other standards or guidelines should be considered? What interdisciplinary factors need to be considered as you craft these outcomes? Think about other clinical and administrative groups, as well as patients. How will the outcomes be measured? Be prepared to support your Discussion postings with evidence from the literature and specific examples related to your practicum setting.

In the media introduction to this module, it was suggested that you as a nurse have an important role in the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC). With a focus on patient care and outcomes, nurses may not always see themselves as contributors to the development of new systems. However, as you may have observed in your own experience, exclusion of nurse contributions when implementing systems can have dire consequences. In this Discussion, you will consider the role you might play in systems development and the ramifications of not being an active participant in systems development. To Prepare: Review the steps of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) as presented in the Resources. Reflect on your own healthcare organization and consider any steps your healthcare organization goes through when purchasing and implementing a new health information technology system. Consider what a nurse might contribute to decisions made at each stage of the SDLC when planning for new health information technology. Post a description of what you believe to be the consequences of a healthcare organization not involving nurses in each stage of the SDLC when purchasing and implementing a new health information technology system. Provide specific examples of potential issues at each stage of the SDLC and explain how the inclusion of nurses may help address these issues. Then, explain whether you had any input in the selection and planning of new health information technology systems in your nursing practice or healthcare organization and explain potential impacts of being included or not in the decision-making process. Be specific and provide examples.
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You are to develop a security risk model and using this model, assess risks cognisant of the supplied raw data. The supplied data provides, in part, a Case Study Scenario (The Smith-Brooks Corporation) where you facilitated a group session to gather the following data: 1. Threat Statement (from your Assignment 1) 2. List of identified Risks, generated in the Case Study Scenario group brainstorming session (see the Excel sheet). 3. Risk Analysis Data, with raw risk data from each person within the group (see the Excel sheet). Your task is to develop and present a security risk model. Once developed, apply the supplied raw risk data to assess and communicate the risk. You are to include, where appropriate, all necessary formulas, tables, spread sheets, etc., to be able to effectively communicate the risk. Total Weight: 30% Word length: 1,000 to 2,000 words (not including figures or tables) Due Date: Week 13, Monday 11.59pm