For this assignment, you are required to read the article entitled “HazMat Emergencies: Decontamination and Victim

Chain of Survival,” by Gunderson, Helikson, and Heffner (2014), and write a review. The article may be found in the

Academic Search Complete database in the CSU Online Library. Your review must include the following:

 Summarize the key points presented in the article.

 Describe the key elements of a solid emergency response program.

 Discuss why proper decontamination of victims is important.

 Discuss your opinion or what you can conclude from the article.

Using the Internet, research a significant person or organization in history that assisted people, or was an advocate against inequality. Whether through philanthropy, civil rights, teachings, lifestyle, etc., this person/organization has had a significant impact upon people. Answer the associated questions below.

Organization:

1. Describe the mission and purpose of the organization. 2. Who started the organization? Describe him or her (only if applicable). 3. What changes have occurred in society based upon the work of the organization? 4. What, if any, influence has the organization had?

Person:

1. Describe his or her lifestyle. 2. Discuss what led him or her to become an advocate for those in lower social standing.

3. What do you believe we can take away from this person and apply today? 4. Did his or her advocacy invoke a change? Have others followed in his or her footsteps? 5. What, if any, influence has the person had on others.

Crafting a Compensation and Benefits Plan

Now that you have considered how to recruit and retain the employees you want in your organization, create a compensation and benefits package using this business proposal format. The package must be consistent with the objectives of job satisfaction for the valuable employees in an organization of your design.

The compensation package must include the following:

• Compare and contrast salary and benefit packages of at least three comparable organizations in the same industry.
• Examine what 21st-century employees consider to be benefits (see this week’s recommended readings for a start).
• Consider what helps to keep employees engaged in their work (see State of the American Workplace: Employee Engagement Insights for U.S. Business Leaders and Surprising, Disturbing Facts From the Mother of All Employee Engagement Surveys for some ideas).

Select an Initial Public Offering (or a Secondary Offering) completed in the last 10 years in the U.S. capital markets, and discuss and analyze this IPO in seven- to eight-pages, double-spaced. Each student should select a separate company as the subject of the paper. This paper should be submitted to the Week 5 IPO Paper Dropbox.

The paper should discuss the following about the company.

1. Identify the company and its industry.
2. Discuss important financial and other facts about the company from its SEC filings.
3. How successful was the IPO in raising capital?
4. What has happened to the company since the IPO?
5. What is the trend in the stock price of the company since the IPO?

Abstract

There are many things such as self-organizing behaviors that we human can learn from nature. Examples are like the flocking of birds and the foraging of ants. Such behaviors are commonly labelled as swarm Intelligence. Swarm intelligence is defined as a group of agents whom collective interaction magnifies the effects of individual agent behaviors, resulting in the manifestation of a swarm level behavior beyond the capability of a small subgroup of agents.

 

In recent years, there is an increasing research on developing swarms of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), or drones for surveillance and reconnaissance. This is because with multiple UAVs working together can complete a much more elaborate job. However, with complexity of multiple random behaviors in swarm intelligence, there is a need to study on collision avoidance as well as the path planning concepts to prevent catastrophic accidents.

1.             PROJECT DEFINITION

1.1.                Project Objective

The objective of this Capstone Project is to study the swarm concepts of collision avoidance and path planning swarm intelligence as part of the autonomous coordination for UAV systems.

 

The project aims to:

 

1. Analyze various collision avoidance and path planning concepts and algorithms.

 

2. Review on the algorithms with regard to the organization and coordination of multiplex UAV operations.

 

3. Study on the concept and limitations of simulation platform for swarm intelligence.

 

4. Implementing of the concepts into simulation.

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?

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

Critically evaluate information from core business functions and the value chain to enhance knowledge of organizational strategic position and direction.

Analyze strategic issues.

Create a comprehensive organizational strategy assessment.

Recommend approaches for strategic issues with significant organizational impact.

Recommend approaches for strategic issues with significant impact to competitive advantage.

Recommend strategies and approaches to mitigate ethical dilemmas in strategy.

Communicate in a manner that is professional and consistent with expectations for members of the business professions.

Assignment Description and Instructions

 

First, synthesize the strategic issues articulated in the Strategic Fit of the Firm Assessment from Unit 3 and Strategic Fit With the Industry Environment Assessment from Unit 4. You will compare and contrast strategic issues and assign a nominal ranking of potential impact of the issue on the organization. Defend your synthesis by referring to specific information in the previous analysis reports.

Next, formulate strategic recommendations to address those issues you determine from your synthesis to be critical to the strategic fit between the firm and its industry environment. Recommendations will be explicitly cast using the Strategic Frame Assessment from Unit 1. Specifically, business strategy and competitive advantage recommendations will identify costs, differentiation, and hybrid type. Corporate strategy recommendations will identify diversification, vertical integration, and globalization. A recommendation to address ethical dilemmas will refer to the source of instability—economic, social, political, and technological—that is leading to societal pressure for change to enhance social legitimacy. Assumptions relative to the strategic elements of the firm will serve as a measurement of strategic progress.

Keep in mind the following points:

Synthesize concerns and opportunities, and articulate them as strategic issues. What are the critical issues? Why are these particular issues critical?

Evaluate the strategic issues including the degree to which they may impact the strategic position, direction, decisions, and activities of the organization.

Propose strategies and recommend approaches to mitigate strategic issues that represent ethical dilemmas.

Propose strategies and recommend approaches for strategic issues that have significant impact on the strategic direction of the firm, or sustained competitive advantage of the organization.

Ensure your report includes an executive summary that references the VP’s expectations communicated in the project kick-off meeting.

Description of LASA

In this assignment, you will create a business analytic s implementation plan. The plan will consist of explaining business analytic s to management, addressing the advantages and disadvantages of business analytic s, the challenges of utilizing business analytic s, along with a backup plan in case management does not accept the first option.

Scenario

You have been hired as a business analyst for a well-known design firm. Currently, they utilize technology for their day-to-day operations but not to analyze data to help with making business decisions. Your task is to convince management that the usage of business analytic s would be a great benefit to the business and it would help the business to make well-informed decisions and thus action plans that would align with the business’s strategic planning.

The firm currently has technology in place but does not have any connected systems. The databases are all independent of each other but they do utilize a client/server environment. The firm currently has one location and it is looking to add a second location in another part of the state, but is unsure as to whether it would be beneficial to the firm.

Instructions

Using the Argosy University online library resources and the Internet, research business analytic s implementation plans. Select at least 4 scholarly sources for use in this assignment.

Write a proposal in which you explain the importance of using business analytic s.

Objectives of proposals:

1. Describe the business and provide a summary of the business analytic s they could apply to their business in multiple scenarios.
2. Describe the benefits and disadvantages of business analytic s, as well as how the organization can be proactive in addressing any disadvantages. Include at least 3 benefits and disadvantages.
3. Address any challenges the organization may face using business analytic s, as well as how the organization can be proactive in addressing the challenges. Be sure to address at least 3 challenges.
4. Propose three business analytic techniques. Compare them and discuss at least two benefits and disadvantages of each.
5. Create an implementation plan to integrate business analytic s into your organization.
6. Create a backup proposal in case management does not approve your initial proposal. The backup proposal should have at least 3 changes different from the original plan.

“What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.” – W. H. Auden.  Do you agree with this idea, or do you give more credence to what you experience through mass media?  Use personal examples as necessary.

Chapter 10 identified various ideal and theories to support the politics of globalization and given that we’ve just completed an election for the presidency of the United States, it’s important to connect any of these theories to the political processes in this country.  The reason that we review the political processes in this country is understand how we view the issue of globalization and what policies or processes we will institute as they originate from our political ideology.

Please select any of the theories from this week’s reading (e.g. neoliberals, skeptics, protectionists, etc.) and see if there is any connectivity to either of the candidates that sought the presidency of the U.S.  You may choose any of the persons seeking this seat and not limit your selection to either President Obama or Mitt Romney.

Prepare a summary of your findings that includes that following:

• Executive Summary
• Identification of their political ideology with an explanation of how you arrived at that conclusion
• An example of their known or suggested trade policies that support their view