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Week 9 Assignment – Problem-Solving Essay: Part 2Overview The 18th-century French writer known as Voltaire has been quoted as having said, “No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.” When faced with a problem, what do you do to solve it? This assignment asks you to apply a six-step problem-solving process to a specific problem scenario. Instructions
Week 9 Assignment – Problem-Solving Essay: Part 2Overview The 18th-century French writer known as Voltaire has been quoted as having said, “No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.” When faced with a problem, what do you do to solve it? This assignment asks you to apply a six-step problem-solving process to a specific…
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Principles of Marketing Week 9 Discussion 1 Today, competition for products and services is fierce. Consumers have hundreds of shopping options, thanks to the Internet. If you don’t like what your local mall has to offer, go online and order from anywhere in the world. With so much competition, businesses must pour their money into creating loy
Principles of Marketing Week 9 Discussion 1 Today, competition for products and services is fierce. Consumers have hundreds of shopping options, thanks to the Internet. If you don’t like what your local mall has to offer, go online and order from anywhere in the world. With so much competition, businesses must pour their money into…
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Humans organize and classify organisms based on their characteristics. The three domains of life are currently divided into six kingdoms, one of which is Kingdom Animalia. This kingdom is further divided into 35 over phyla. Both lions and wolves belong to Class Mammalia and Order Carnivora, which is Latin for “flesh devourer”. To the right is an image displaying the families within Order Carnivora. Locate Family Canidae (wolves) and Family Felidae (lions). How long ago was their most
Humans organize and classify organisms based on their characteristics. The three domains of life are currently divided into six kingdoms, one of which is Kingdom Animalia. This kingdom is further divided into 35 over phyla. Both lions and wolves belong to Class Mammalia and Order Carnivora, which is Latin for “flesh devourer”. To the right…
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THE BALANCE SHEET Before you start the assignment, test your understanding of concepts covered in the assignment. It is not a graded quiz, but a tool for reviewing some key points. The tool can be used multiple times. The purpose of this SLP is to apply ratio analysis to assess the financial health of ABC Company. Use the balance sheet presented in the case during this module to compute solvency and effici
THE BALANCE SHEET Before you start the assignment, test your understanding of concepts covered in the assignment. It is not a graded quiz, but a tool for reviewing some key points. The tool can be used multiple times. The purpose of this SLP is to apply ratio analysis to assess the financial health of ABC Company. Use…
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PERSUASION For this assignment, review the basic concepts of persuasion discussed in Cialdini (2001) and McLean (2012). Make sure you are clear on the distinction between argument, persuasion, and propaganda. Once you have finished reviewing the background materials, think about communication that you receive in your daily life that is intended to sway your attitud
PERSUASION For this assignment, review the basic concepts of persuasion discussed in Cialdini (2001) and McLean (2012). Make sure you are clear on the distinction between argument, persuasion, and propaganda. Once you have finished reviewing the background materials, think about communication that you receive in your daily life that is intended to sway your attitudes,…
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Assignment Overview For this assignment, take a close look at both the required readings and videos on general concepts of persuasion, such as the Six Principles of Persuasion by Cialdini (2013) or in Section 14.2 of McLean (2012). Then take a look at the Art of Persuasion by Burg (2011) and see which one of them is the most useful for you. Case Assignment
Assignment Overview For this assignment, take a close look at both the required readings and videos on general concepts of persuasion, such as the Six Principles of Persuasion by Cialdini (2013) or in Section 14.2 of McLean (2012). Then take a look at the Art of Persuasion by Burg (2011) and see which one of…
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Assignment Overview For this Case study, we will be looking at a fictional case of a manager caught between a rock and hard place. Nick Cunningham is a manager at Synergon, a high-powered company involved in purchasing poorly managed companies and then restructuring them to become more profitable. However, Synergon has now purchased Beauchamp, Becker, and Company, which is a well-managed and highly profitable company. Nick is in an awkward position because he is in charge of managing this merger, but he also knows that the success of the merger is dependent on Beauchamp’s managing directo
Assignment Overview For this Case study, we will be looking at a fictional case of a manager caught between a rock and hard place. Nick Cunningham is a manager at Synergon, a high-powered company involved in purchasing poorly managed companies and then restructuring them to become more profitable. However, Synergon has now purchased Beauchamp, Becker,…
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Case Assignment Since 2013 there has been on-and-off talk of Sprint purchasing T-Mobile. (They are the third- and fourth-largest mobile phone carriers in the United States.) This move is led by Masayoshi Son, the chair of Japanese conglomerate SoftBank, which owns Sprint. Mr. Son is a bold entrepreneur w
Case Assignment Since 2013 there has been on-and-off talk of Sprint purchasing T-Mobile. (They are the third- and fourth-largest mobile phone carriers in the United States.) This move is led by Masayoshi Son, the chair of Japanese conglomerate SoftBank, which owns Sprint. Mr. Son is a bold entrepreneur who is known for his penchant for…
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Overview This is the fourth in a series of five sequential assignments (the course project) in which you continue to act as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of a hypothetical, e-commerce start-up company of your design. You have been working on delivering an information technology project plan in anticipation of the company relocating to a new facility. In the first course project deliverable, you created a project plan inception document and supporting Gantt chart. In the second course project deliverable, you developed the business requirements to be incorporated into the information systems design you are creating. You also updated your original supporting Gantt chart based on
Overview This is the fourth in a series of five sequential assignments (the course project) in which you continue to act as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of a hypothetical, e-commerce start-up company of your design. You have been working on delivering an information technology project plan in anticipation of the company relocating to a…
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The purpose of this project is to increase your understanding of how drugs work in the brain and body and to demonstrate this understanding to the lay public in a way that they can readily understand. What You Need To Do: You have been hired as a professional consultant for a show on the abuse of _______ (insert your choice of drug here) to ensure the accuracy of the content. Your job is to create a power point presentation from which they can base a segment of their show. These are the steps you need to take to complete this job. -Review Chapters 4 and 5
The purpose of this project is to increase your understanding of how drugs work in the brain and body and to demonstrate this understanding to the lay public in a way that they can readily understand. What You Need To Do: You have been hired as a professional consultant for a show on the abuse…