DQ1: Write a four paragraph response about factors and skills needed to have a successful healthcare information technology project.   DQ2:  With a four paragraph response, give an example of an intangible value from a healthcare information project and what approach an organization might use to measure that value.

800-1,000 words You are the senior vice president in charge of strategy and implementation. You have been approached by the CEO of your bank to start investigating the issues involved in expanding what right now is just a domestic bank to an international one. Explain some of the issues that you need to investigate. Include the following in your paper:

• What do you need to know regarding the macro environment of the countries that you want to research?
• What do you have to ask your CEO in terms of the bank’s overall strategy, future structure, implementation parameters, and controls?
  • How far is the bank willing to go on social and economic responsibility in other locations?
  • What will the role and responsibility of management be?
• What are some of the legal issues you may have to deal with?
• Why would your CEO be interested in expanding overseas?
• How is a bank different from a manufacturer when it comes to its international strategy and objectives for increased efficiency, managing risks, and learning to adapt?
• What are some of the sources of competitive advantage for a bank as opposed to a manufacturer?
• Do issues around foreign trade improve a bank’s profitability or do foreign trade issues and agreements just affect manufacturers?
  • Explain your answer, and give examples.

Leadership Factors Write a three to four page paper (not including the title and reference pages) about your leadership factors according to the Authentic Leadership Self-Assessment Questionnaire. Your paper needs to: Explain the scores you received on the Authentic Leadership Self-Assessment Questionnaire. Describe your perception of the accuracy of these measures. Discuss the implications of the scores for your effectiveness as a leader. Give specific examples to support your ideas of effective leadership. In addition to the requirements above, your paper: Must be double-spaced and 12 point font Must be formatted according to APA style Must include an introductory paragraph with a thesis statement Must conclude with a restatement of the thesis and a conclusion paragraph Must reference at least two scholarly resources Must include a reference page written in APA format

Case Study Reflection Write a 2- to 3-page paper. Your written assignments must follow APA guidelines. Be sure to support your work with specific citations from this week’s Learning Resources and additional scholarly sources as appropriate. Refer to the Pocket Guide to APA Style to ensure that in- text citations and reference list are correct. Submit your assignment to the Dropbox by the end of this Unit. In 2007 San Francisco began its Healthy San Francisco Plan designed to provide health care for all San Francisco citizens. In 2007, it was estimated that San Francisco had 82,000 uninsured citizens. Under the plan, all uninsured citizens residing in San Francisco can seek care at the city’s public and private clinics and hospitals. The basic coverage includes lab work, x-rays, surgery, and preventative care. The city plans to pay for this $203 million coverage by rerouting the $104 million the city currently spends treating the uninsured in the emergency rooms, mandating business contributions, and requiring income-adjusted enrollment fees. The plan requires all businesses with more than 20 employees to contribute a percentage toward the plan. Many business owners consider this a burden and warn they will not stay in the city. The Mayor sees universal health access a moral obligation for the city. Take one of the following positions.

• San Francisco has an obligation to provide its citizens with health access. -OR-
• San Francisco does not have an obligation to provide its citizens with health access.

Discuss the following in your assignment:

1. What is the government’s role in regulating healthy and unhealthy behavior?
2. Has the balance between personal freedom and the government’s responsibility to provide health and welfare of its citizens been eroded? Why or why not?

800-1,000 words You are the senior vice president in charge of strategy and implementation. You have been approached by the CEO of your bank to start investigating the issues involved in expanding what right now is just a domestic bank to an international one. Explain some of the issues that you need to investigate. Include the following in your paper:

• What do you need to know regarding the macro environment of the countries that you want to research?
• What do you have to ask your CEO in terms of the bank’s overall strategy, future structure, implementation parameters, and controls?
  • How far is the bank willing to go on social and economic responsibility in other locations?
  • What will the role and responsibility of management be?
• What are some of the legal issues you may have to deal with?
• Why would your CEO be interested in expanding overseas?
• How is a bank different from a manufacturer when it comes to its international strategy and objectives for increased efficiency, managing risks, and learning to adapt?
• What are some of the sources of competitive advantage for a bank as opposed to a manufacturer?
• Do issues around foreign trade improve a bank’s profitability or do foreign trade issues and agreements just affect manufacturers?
  • Explain your answer, and give examples.

Assignment 2: Required Assignment 2—IT Strategic Planning Using a company of your choice, determine the strategic business goals. Develop an IT strategy that aligns to the business goals. You can use the balanced scorecard approach or you can develop your own method for defining and aligning the IT strategy to the business strategy. You will need to cite at least two credible sources that will provide justification for your strategy or approach. Finding a company: If you are employed, it is best for you to use your current place of employment so you can practically apply the concepts in this assignment. Alternatively, you can use a nonprofit organization or any other organization you may have ties or access to. Your IT strategy should include: Business Goals and Objectives List at least two or three specific business goals for the next year or two with an explanation of the business’ rationale for the goal. List an objective for each business goal to explain what the company needs to do to achieve the goal. IT Strategies aligned with business goals and objectives List one or two IT strategies for each business goal These should be recommended strategies that would enable the business goals and objectives to be achieved. If your company already has IT strategies, you may provide an analysis and justification or new recommendation for each of the strategies Organizational Structure Describe the structure of the organization including: Organizational design Organizational culture Leadership factors (the types of leadership displayed within the company) Business processes Physical layout (i.e., how many offices, virtual offices, international locations) IT Infrastructure Describe the current IT infrastructure including: Hardware Software Network IT resources This should be a high-level overview IT Challenges Describe internal and external challenges IT faces in meeting the business needs Include social and/or ethical considerations Risks Describe risks IT might face when implementing change As you develop your strategy, you may want to consider the following: An effective IT strategy will enable the business operations, helping business leaders achieve business goals more efficiently and effectively. Focus on top priorities. Take the time to understand organizational issues, how they are related, and how they affect performance. Determine what will happen if nothing changes and where IT can have the greatest, positive impact. Identify how IT supports business processes. The business is relying on their capabilities to achieve the business goals. The IT strategy should include a plan for supporting those business capabilities, creating efficiencies, and competitive advantage for the business. Define IT priorities and governance for IT. Without priorities and a process for IT governance in place, progress will be slowed. An agreed upon plan for governing IT will enable the decision process. Understand the challenges. Improving processes and increasing efficiencies through IT implementation also requires behavioral and sometimes organizational change. With these changes come inherent challenges. Understanding and planning for those challenges will increase the chance of success in meeting the business goals. Write an 8–12-page paper in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M5_A2.doc. By Wednesday, July 8, 2015, deliver your assignment to the M5: Assignment 2 Dropbox.

Click the link above to submit your assignment. Students, please view the “Submit a Clickable Rubric Assignment” in the Student Center. Instructors, training on how to grade is within the Instructor Center. Assignment 2: Project Motorcycles Due Week 4 and worth 250 points You are a project manager for a medium-sized manufacturer of motorcycle cruisers. The engines in motorcycle cruisers, like the ones you manufacture, are usually categorized by size rather than the number of cylinders. In the past, your company has successfully manufactured and marketed the best-selling of these fuel-efficient cruisers that occupy the middleweight class. The rather nebulous middleweight class comprises motorcycles broadly ranging in engine size from 500 cubic centimeters, or cc, to 1000 cc. Executives at your company are now interested in motorcycles with larger motors and would eventually like to produce motorcycles in the touring class, specifically designed to excel at covering long distances with motors larger than 1100 cc. The proposed target market for these larger motorcycles consists of males between the ages of 35 and 60 in global markets. Price points for the larger motorcycles cover income ranges from $55,000 to $100,000. Management has decided that your company will meet the objectives stated herein within the next five (5) years. During the proposed changeover, the company will continue to manufacture the middleweight cruisers to serve its existing clientele. Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:

1. Select one (1) of the types of project organization that would suit the development of the larger touring class motorcycles. Outline the process steps that your company would take in order to develop the motorcycle. Provide a rationale for the response.
2. Recommend one (1) strategy to the senior executives that the organization might use to balance short- and long-term needs. Specify the crucial resources that you would need as a project manager to run the existing business interests at the same time that the business changes to the production of touring class motorcycles.
3. Suggest the project management leadership style that is most conducive to overseeing the operation of the business growth plan.
4. Recommend at least three (3) risk mitigation strategies to address project plan details that might be forgotten or overlooked. Justify the selection.
5. Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

  The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Design an organizational structure, staff a project office, and establish a communications system to effectively manage projects.
• Analyze the role of executive management in the life of a project.
• Apply the project manager’s critical skills, in terms of project leadership, team building, time management, conflict management, and effective communication with executive sponsors, peers, team members, and project clients.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in project management.
• Write clearly and concisely about project management using proper writing mechanics.

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Final Paper Focus of the Final Paper You’ve just been hired onto ABC Company as the corporate controller. ABC Company is a manufacturing firm that specializes in making cedar roofing and siding shingles. The company currently has annual sales of around $1.2 million, a 25% increase from the previous year. The company has an aggressive growth target of reaching $3 million annual sales within the next 3 years. The CEO has been trying to find additional products that can leverage the current ABC employee skillset as well as the manufacturing facilities. As the controller of ABC Company, the CEO has come to you with a new opportunity that he’s been working on. The CEO would like to use the some of the shingle scrap materials to build cedar dollhouses. While this new product line would add additional raw materials and be more time-intensive to manufacture than the cedar shingles, this new product line will be able to leverage ABC’s existing manufacturing facilities as well as the current staff. Although this product line will require added expenses, it will provide additional revenue and gross profit to help reach the growth targets. The CEO is relying on you to help decide how this project can be afforded  Provide details about the estimated product costs, what is needed to break even on the project, and what level of return this product is expected to provide. In order to help out the CEO, you need to prepare a six- to eight-page report that will contain the following information (including exhibits, but excluding your references and title page). Refer to the accompanying Excel spreadsheet (available through your online course) for some specific cost and profit information to complete the calculations. Final Paper Spreadsheet I. An overall risk profile of the company based on current economic and industry issues that it may be facing. II. Current company cash flow

a. You need to complete a cash flow statement for the company using the direct method. b. Once you’ve completed the cash flow statement, answer the following questions:

i. What does this statement of cash flow tell you about the sources and uses of the company funds? ii. Is there anything ABC Company can do to improve the cash flow? iii. Can this project be financed with current cash flow from the company? Why or why not? iv. If the company needs additional financing beyond what ABC Company can provide internally (either now or sometime throughout the life of the project), how would you suggest the company obtain the additional financing, equity or corporate debt, and why?

III. Product cost: ABC Company believes that it has an additional 5,000 machine hours available in the current facility before it would need to expand. ABC Company uses machine hours to allocate the fixed factory overhead, and units sold to allocate the fixed sales expenses. Bases on current research, ABC Company expects that it will take twice as long to produce the expansion product as it currently takes to produce its existing product.

a. What is the product cost for the expansion product under absorption and variable costing? b. By adding this new expansion product, it helps to absorb the fixed factory and sales expenses. How much cheaper does this expansion make the existing product? c. Assuming ABC Company wants a 40% gross margin for the new product, what selling price should it set for the expansion product? d. Assuming the same sales mix of these two products, what are the contribution margins and break-even points by product?

IV. Potential investments to accelerate profit: ABC company has the option to purchase additional equipment that will cost about $42,000, and this new equipment will produce the following savings in factory overhead costs over the next five years: Year 1, $15,000 Year 2, $13,000 Year 3, $10,000 Year 4, $10,000 Year 5, $6,000 ABC Company uses the net-present-value method to analyze investments and desires a minimum rate of return of 12% on the equipment.

a. What is the net present value of the proposed investment (ignore income taxes and depreciation)? b. Assuming a 5-year straight-line depreciation, how will this impact the factory’s fixed costs for each of the 5 years (and the implied product costs)? What about cash flow? c. Considering the cash flow impact of the equipment as well as the time-value of money, would you recommend that ABC Company purchases the equipment? Why or why not?

V. Conclusion:

a. What are the major risk factors that you see in this project? b. As the controller and a management accountant, what is your responsibility to this project? c. What do you recommend the CEO do? Writing the Final Paper 1.    Must be six to eight double-spaced pages in length, and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. 2.    Must include a title page with the following:

a.    Title of paper b.    Student’s name c.    Course name and number d.    Instructor’s name e.    Date submitted

3.    Must begin with an introductory paragraph that has a succinct thesis statement. 4.    Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought. 5.    Must end with a conclusion that reaffirms your thesis. 6.    Must document at least three, but no more than five sources in APA style, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. 7.    Must include a separate reference page, formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment