Unit VIII PowerPoint Presentation

Human Behavior Fire Research Project Develop a PowerPoint presentation on one of the following topics:

 Human behavior/factors for public fire safety educators in your departments. Target Audience: Fire Safety Educators in your department.

 Model behavior for fires at a nursing home. Target Audience: Employees of a nursing home in your jurisdiction.

 Considerations of designing a fire drill for college dormitory residents. Target Audience: Dormitory Resident Assistants for a local college/university in your jurisdiction.

Once you have chosen your topic, your presentation should also incorporate:

 how psychology and sociology factors influence the human behavior within your topic;

 how socioeconomic factors may influence your topic;

 how human behavior affects evacuation and rescue procedures for you topic; and

Use the list of research documents located in Suggested Reading, as well as research documents you find on your own as sources for your presentation. Your PowerPoint presentation:

 Should have at least 10 slides not including a title slide and a reference slide.

 Be creative. Use photos, graphs, etc.

 Must be specific to your department or your jurisdiction.

solve the following problem. Norma’s Cat Food of Shell Knob ships cat food throughout the country. Norma has determined that through the establishment of local collection centers around the country, she can speed up the collection of payments by two and one-half days. Furthermore, the cash management department of her bank has indicated to her that she can defer her payments on her accounts by one-half day without affecting suppliers. The bank has a remote disbursement center in Iowa.

If the company has $5 million per day in collections and $3 million per day in disbursements, how many dollars will the cash management system free up? Justify your answers. If the company can earn 8 percent per annum on freed-up funds, how much will the income be? Justify your answers. If the annual cost of the new system is $800,000, should it be implemented? Explain why or why not.

Over the years, technology has not only changed the way individuals utilize it but also how organizations utilize it. As each generation of technology improves and changes, the availability of technology in the field of business analytics also changes. Therefore, businesses need to do all they can to keep current with these trends and ensure their staff is current as well.

Using the Argosy University online library resources and the Internet, research the latest technology that is being utilized in the field of business analytics for data-driven decision making. Select at least 2 scholarly sources for use in this assignment.

Complete the following:

Find and describe at least three technological components that are required for data-driven decision making. Be sure to explain how each component is relevant to business analytics. Describe how a company would implement each of these components of technology. Explain the purpose and how it would be utilized within the company. Explain any other considerations that should be taken into account. Utilize at least 2 scholarly sources in support of your assertions.

Make sure you write in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in appropriate and accurate representation and attribution of sources; display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

Write a 3–4-page report in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M2_A2.doc.

ou have kicked off the District 4 Production Warehouse Move project, your contractors are in place and working on receiving the proper building permits.

You originally were told the permits would only take 2 weeks to obtain but the contractors are telling you it will now take 3 weeks. You need to build the additional week into your schedule for each permit that will be obtained.

In addition, your framing and drywall contractors have just told you they are running late on their other jobs and can only release half their crew for your project. This will double their schedule.

Build the extra time into your schedule by doubling the installation work timelines for both the framing and drywall. Your project plan should also be updated with the new 3-week timeline for obtaining permits. Use the project plan you created for this task.

You are now looking at an extended project delivery date. Your project sponsor was very clear that you must be done in a 4 month timeframe so you will need to look at options for reducing your schedule to fit into the 4 month window.

You have an option of hiring another contractor to help with the framing and drywall work but it will increase your budget by $200,000.

Determine your best course of action for bringing this project in on schedule and update your project plan to reflect your recommendation. Develop a 5-6 slide presentation for senior management outlining your proposed solution. You are seeking approval to proceed with your new plan.

Submit both your updated project plan in PDF format and your PowerPoint presentation

The success of an organization depends heavily on its structure, strategies, and culture. In this assignment, you will develop an understanding of the importance of these elements in the success/failure of an enterprise.

This assignment is the first of the two LASA assignments you will complete in this course.

Using the Argosy University online library resources and the Internet, research methods of conducting internal and external environment analyses. Select at least three (3) scholarly sources to support the information in your report.

Description of LASA:

In this assignment, you will assess an organization’s current position in the internal and external environment.

Scenario:

You have been hired as a consultant to evaluate the performance of a manufacturing or service organization. As part of your function, you need to assess the organization’s current position with regard to their business operations, strategy, and organizational structure, as well as identify potential ethical issues management may face. The executive management team has asked you to submit a report of your findings.

Instructions:

Choose a publicly traded manufacturing or service organization to be the subject of your work for LASA 1 and LASA 2. (You should choose a different organization than you have used for previous assignments.) Select an organization about which there is an abundance of information made readily available to the public (via the corporate website, industry publications, business journals, etc.).

In preparation for your report, conduct your review of the organization using the following approach:

Evaluate the company’s business strategy and global competitiveness plan. Conduct an internal assessment using SWOT analysis. Assess the external environment via an external scenario evaluation. Sketch the company’s organizational structure. Using the tools of business process design, define the organization’s business process. Identify any potential ethical issues that may impact the traditional management functions of the company and recommend preventative measures. Utilize at least three sources in your research. Your document should be written in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

Write an 8–10-page report in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M3_A2.doc.

The creative essay assignment for the Contest (“Creative Assignment”) is to answer the following 2 essay questions: 1. Describe a problem in the world that you would like to solve using STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) skills. This could be a local or global problem. Why do you want to solve it? 2. In the film Hidden Figures, the women featured in the film are referred to as hidden figures as a result of those around them not appreciating or understanding the women’s talents. Describe the ways in which you also might be considered a hidden figure? What unique talents do you possess that may not be fully appreciated by the world around you? Entrant’s complete answer to the 2 essay questions above will constitute Entrant’s essay submission (“Essay Submission”). Each essay question will be subject to a 300 word limit. Judging Criteria Judging Criteria (“Judging Criteria”) is as follows: ➢ Originality and Creativity – ➢ Adherence to Creative Assignment – ➢ Overall Connection to STEM –

To be competitive, many fast-food chains expanded their menus to include a wider range of foods. Although contributing to competitiveness, this has added to the complexity of operations, including inventory management. In what ways did the expansion of menu offerings create a problem for inventory management? One form of inventory is safety stock, which is primarily carried by companies to ensure a variety of products is available at all times. However, safety stock ties up capital and hinders cash flow.

Using the Argosy University online library resources and the Internet, research safety stock.

Then respond to the following:

As a manager, what recommendations could you provide to reduce inventories as it relates to safety stock? What parameters would lead you to believe that (a) large safety stock, (b) small safety stock, and (c) zero safety stock would be advantageous for the organization? Be sure to provide examples and data in support. After your initial post, discuss the following:

What are some of the ways in which a company can reduce the need for inventories? How has technology aided inventory management? How have technological improvements in products such as automobiles and computers impacted inventory decisions? Write your initial response in 200 to 300 words. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

Using the District4WarehouseMove WBS.xls provided, create a project plan for the District 4 Warehouse Move project. Use the PDF document, Project Plan Check – District4Move, to check your work to be sure you have created your starting project plan correctly. ProjectLibre is required for this task. If you have not yet downloaded ProjectLibre, please click here and follow the directions to do so now.

Note: you will need to insert a column to include your WBS codes, then you will need to sequence the tasks to show tasks by work package.

Based upon the details in the WBS and the project case, determine which tasks need to be completed first and which tasks are dependent upon other tasks to be completed prior to starting. Using this information identify predecessors in your project plan’s predecessor column. Complete the predecessor column by entering the line number of tasks that must be completed in order for each task to start. This will create your project timeline.

Using ProjectLibre’s Network or flow diagram view, determine the critical path for this project. In a MS Word document, list the activities that are on the critical path. Considering the risks identified in the risk table below, identify which risks would be most likely to increase your project timeline. Justify your responses. Submit both your completed project plan and your MS Word document. District 4 Production Warehouse Move Project – Risk Table

1 Permits are not received per the schedule

2

Finish work contractors walk off the job half way through

3

Framing and drywall contractors are running behind schedule and can only produce half their crew as scheduled

4

Work benches are poor quality and 1/3 will have to be rebuilt