OR110 Week 3 Threaded Discussion

What Are the Different Styles of Writing You Should Know?

Instructions:

There are lots of different styles of writing. However, all of these styles fit into four categories. Address the following in your response:

1. List the four types of writing.

2. Address which style of writing you use most.

3. Give an example of how you use this style of writing listed above (in point 2).

This exercise helps you determine which one of the different styles of writing you should employ based on the message that you want to get to your reader and how you want to present that message. Whether you're describing a memorable vacation or persuading a group of people to vote a particular way, the style can make a huge impact on the effectiveness of your writing.

SOC100 Week 1 Working in teams Worksheet

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Working in Teams Worksheet

Short-Answer Questions

Write a 75- to 100-word response to each of the following prompts:

1.     In what ways do teams differ from groups? What factors contribute to a team? When have you worked in a team? What was your experience like?

2.     What are some different types of teams? What are the goals of each type of team? What differences are there in how team members work together in these different teams?

3.     What are some examples of effective communication and listening skills for teams? What makes these skills effective? What are some of your strengths and weaknesses when communicating in a team? How can you work on the areas that need improvement?

OR110A Assignment 8

Assignment 08

OR110 Achieving Academic Excellence

Directions:  Be sure to save an electronic copy of your answer before submitting it to Ashworth College for grading. Unless otherwise stated, answer in complete sentences, and be sure to use correct English, spelling and grammar. Sources must be cited in APA format.

 

At the beginning and end of this course you were asked to think about reasons why you wanted to succeed in your Ashworth College education. In light of these reasons, read the following questions, and then answer each one with a complete sentence or two after considering your response.

 

1.      What is your primary goal regarding your Ashworth College education?

 

2.      Describe three (3) benefits that will be achieved through this goal.

 

3.      Describe two (2) resources you have available to achieve your goal (personal, professional, relational, financial, etc.)?

 

4.      List one (1) obstacle or challenge you see that must be dealt with or tackled for you to achieve this goal.

 

5.      Upon achieving this goal, describe two (2) ways in which your life will be changed or impacted.

 

OR110 Lesson 5 Exam SCORE 100 PERCENT

Question 1        10 / 10 points
There is often more than one way to do math.
Question options:

True

False
Question 2        10 / 10 points
Which of the following is an example of budgeting?
Question options:

Deciding to go to a cheaper restaurant rather than an expensive one

Giving yourself a certain spending limit per month

Calculating monthly expenses for rent, utilities and car payments before going on a trip

All of the above are examples of budgeting
Question 3        10 / 10 points
Which of the following is an example of flexible spending?
Question options:

Tuition

Utilities

Cell phone bill

Entertainment
5-1-2
Question 4        10 / 10 points
Using approximations for everyday purchases to make it easier on yourself is known as _____________.
Question options:

Creating a list

Guesstimation

Estimation

Lying
Question 5        10 / 10 points
Which of the following percentages correctly matches the main financial buckets used in the 50/20/30 guideline:
Question options:

Financial Goals; 50%

Flexible Spending; 30%

Flexible Spending; 20%

Fixed Cost; 20%
Question 6        10 / 10 points
Suppose you are going grocery shopping and have a budget of $50 for the week allocated to food. You buy a box of cereal for $3.00, a carton of milk for $2.50, a bag of lettuce for $4.00, 5 bananas for $2.00, a package of tomatoes for $4.00, a package of chicken for $10.20, a bag of rice for $5.49, a box of granola bars for $5.12, a loaf of bread for $3.30, a jar of peanut butter for $4.00 and a box of cookies for $4.30. Determine whether or not you followed your budget and by how much.
Question options:

Under budget by $2.09

Over budget by $2.09

Under budget by $47.91

Under budget by $6.09
Question 7        10 / 10 points
Suppose that during this week you have spent $25.61 on gas for your car, $92.46 on groceries, $43.78 on a birthday gift for a friend and $19.33 on a new pair of pants. Round each purchase and create an estimate for your weekly expenses. Which of the following best reflects your estimated total weekly expenses?
Question options:

$180

$200

$220

$100
Question 8        10 / 10 points
Which of the following options is NOT a fixed cost?
Question options:

Rent payment

Cell phone bill

Grocery bill

Car payments
Question 9        10 / 10 points
When setting a budget, you should use the 50/20/30 rule.
Question options:

True

False
Question 10        10 / 10 points
Any number you multiply by 1 is itself.
Question options:

True

False

OPS571 Week 3 Lean Techniques

Purpose of Assignment 

The purpose of this assignment is for students to evaluate the lean techniques applied to business in today's workforce. 

Note: Students and Faculty seeking more information on this assignment can refer to Ch. 14 of the Operations and Supply Chain Management textbook. 

Assignment Steps 

Select a business you are familiar with which incorporates lean manufacturing or lean supply chains. 

Evaluate how this firm uses lean strategies and how much lean techniques has improved the firm's efficiency. 

Evaluate ways the firm can go even further to make improvements using lean techniques. 

Use the results you obtained from evaluating this firm to apply to your own business or a business you are interested in which currently does not use lean. 

Develop a 1,050-word report in which you describe your lean evaluation project.

 

project management changing over the last 20 years

How do you see project management changing over the last 20 years? What do you think the future of project management is? Where is it headed?

MT445Assignment-Unit3

1.      Explain the relationship between the price elasticity of demand and total revenue.

2.      2. Is the price elasticity of gasoline more elastic over a shorter or a longer period of time? Explain.

3.      3. Determine whether each of the following is an explicit cost or an implicit cost:

a) Payments for rented manufacturing equipment

b) A firm's use of a warehouse that it owns and could rent to another firm

c) Wages paid to the firm's workers
d) The wages the firm's owner could earn if he worked for another company

4.       Consider the following information in the table for Pat's Pizza Restaurant and answer the questions below.
Marginal Product of Capital 4,000
Marginal Produce of Labor 100
Wage Rate $10
Rental Price of Pizza Ovens $500
a. Is the owner of Pat's Pizza Restaurant minimizing cost?
b. Should he rent more ovens and hire fewer workers or rent fewer ovens and hire more workers? Explain.

MT445 Unit-8 inflation

1. Determine whether each of the following would cause a shift of the aggregate demand curve, a shift of the aggregate supply curve, neither, or both. Which curve shifts, and in which direction? What happens to aggregate output and the price level in each case?

a. The price level changes

i. Which curve shifts?
ii. Which direction does it shift?
iii. What happens to aggregate output?
iv. What happens to the price level?

b. Consumer confidence declines
i. Which curve shifts?
ii. Which direction does it shift?
iii. What happens to aggregate output?
iv. What happens to the price level?

c. The supply of resources increases
i. Which curve shifts?
ii. Which direction does it shift?
iii. What happens to aggregate output?
iv. What happens to the price level?

d. The wage rate increases
i. Which curve shifts?
ii. Which direction does it shift?
iii. What happens to aggregate output?
iv. What happens to the price level?

2. Determine whether the following statements are true or false.
i. Some people who are officially unemployed are not in the labor force.
ii. Some people in the labor force are not working.
iii. Everyone who is not unemployed is in the labor force.
iv. Some people who are not working are not unemployed.

3. Refer to the following data on the U.S. consumer price index and answer the questions below.
Year CPI Year CPI Year CPI Year CPI
1988 118.3 1993 144.5 1998 163.0 2003 184.0
1989 124.0 1994 148.2 1999 166.6 2004 188.9
1990 130.7 1995 152.4 2000 172.2 2005 195.3
1991 136.2 1996 156.9 2001 177.1 2006 201.8
1992 140.3 1997 160.5 2002 179.9

a. Compute the inflation rate for each year 1989-2006.
b. Which years were years of inflation?
c. In which years did deflation occur?
d. In which years did disinflation occur?
e. Was there hyperinflation in any year?

MT445 Unit-2 Assignment

1.       Explain what would happen to equilibrium price and quantity in the market for Pepsi if the following occurred (be sure to indicate WHY it happens as well):

a. The price of Coke decreases.
b. Average household income falls from $50,000 to $43,000
c. There are improvements in soft-drink bottling technology.
d. The price of sugar increases and the Pepsi launches an extremely successful advertising campaign.

 

2.        Use the following equations for demand and supply to solve for market equilibrium price and quantity:

Demand: Qd = 100 – 4P
Supply: Qs = 10 + 6P

 

3.       . Using the diagram below, answer the following questions:
a. How much is the per-unit tax on cigarettes?
b. What price do consumers pay after the tax?
c. How much tax revenue is collected?
d. What is the amount of deadweight loss?

mnc company

1.What do you think are the responsibilities of MNCs toward the environment? Give an example of a MNC that has seriously harmed (or repaired) the environment of a host country? What is your reaction to what happened?

MIS 3101 W5A2 -CNET Shopper

YOUR NAME:

ASSIGNMENT:  W5A2 - CNET Shopper

MIS3101 - South University

 

Use the CNET shopper (http://shopper.cnet.com/) intelligent agent to review and compare three laptop configurations to be used by a financial advisor and complete the table below. The 3 Laptop Columns are worth 20 points. However, if you don't supply the full path name to the CNET locations for the specifications, you will lose 10 of these 20 points. I need to verify the specifications for each laptop column.

 

The Justification column and Summary Section is where you will tie the real-world financial advisor's needs with your component selection and size of the components. These sections are worth 20 points.

 

I expect that you will use the sources I provided in the previous pages of this template. You may do additional research if you feel you need to do so. Any justification that uses sources from the previous pages should include an in-text citation.

 

NOTE:  You do not have to provide an exact price for the computer that you configured. I'm more interested that you choose the right sized components with a supporting justification.

 

NOTE:  NA = Not Applicable, which means that this cell does not need to be addressed.

 

MIS3101 W4A3 - Storage Alternatives Plan

Assignment 3: Storage Alternatives Plan

 You are the MIS manager of a company in the U.S. You need to design a disaster recovery plan that will help restore business operations after a disaster such as a tornado, flood, or terrorist attack. You are considering various types of secondary storage devices that can easily be transported to offsite locations after performing regular backups to the company's critical systems. Determine the access methods, the capacities, and the portability of the following:

• Magnetic Tapes
• Magnetic Disks
• Optical Disks

 

Decide the storage alternative you will recommend to your organization. Use the Microsoft Word template to submit your answer.

Assignment 3 Grading Criteria and Respective Point Value	Maximum Points
Applied analysis to each of the storage alternatives like magnetic tapes, magnetic disks, and optical disks.	20
Justified reasons for recommended storage alternative.	20
Total:	40

 

MIS 3101 W5 A3 -DSS

For the W5A3 Dropbox assignment, you are doing a feasibility report that will ultimately lead to the purchase of a Decision Support System (DSS). The template file is more about the structure and grading of this assignment rather that a template. You will be creating an APA formatted report as your work product for this assignment rather than using a template. The new Template file provides the following:

1.     Provides background from the text on Decision Stages, DSS Architecture, and a DSS Example

2.     Provides the basic requirements that your report must address, which in turn suggests a structure for your report (headings, subheadings, etc.)

Assignment Clarification

 

Remember that the focus of this assignment is to:

1.      Identify the key DSS characteristics that will meet the needs of the decisions making that must be performed by the Procurement VP.

2.      You are NOT trying to solve the 3 power plant and 80 supplier proposals problem. The DSS will do that for you. You are trying to detail how a DSS would behave, be constructed, and be architected for use by the Procurement VP to help solve this multivariable problem.

3.      You should assume the role of the chief information officer for the presented scenario. As the chief information officer, it is your responsibility to provide a decision support system (DSS) to assist the company's procurement officer in finding the best way to supply the company's three power plants with a sufficient quantity of coal to operate for the next twelve months. You realize that a single supplier cannot provide the quantity of coal needed. Hence the DSS will have to review the proposals of eighty suppliers to establish the correct logistics to insure the plants will have an ample supply of coal to operate for this period.

 

Requirements for your DSS Report:

 

1.      To understand how a DSS would help our company, we need to first understand the decision that the company& DSS will first need to make. Discuss this decision process using the Four Stages in Decision Making and show how a DSS can address each stage (5 points)

2.      Regarding the DSS Architecture, discuss each of the architecture components in the context of this specific situation (7 points)

3.      Discuss the DSS Architecture Model that will be used for this system:  Data-Driven DSS or Model-Driven DSS (see the RESOURCES section below) (7 points)

4.      Identify the Inputs and Outputs (Results) in detail for this DDS (6 points)

5.      Discuss how Sensitivity Analysis would be used in this situation. Provide at least 3 scenario examples (5 points)

6.      Select3 Quality Dimensions from Table 10-2 in Laudon. Discuss what you would do (processes, procedures, measurements, benchmarking, governance, etc.) to ensure that your DSS addressed each of these 3 Quality Dimensions. (5 points)

7.      Provide an APA formatted report (5 points)

 

MIS 3101- W3A3 -Broadband Network Services

ASSIGNMENT:  W3A3 - Broadband Network Services

MIS3101 - South University

 

Network Technology	ATTRIBUTES	PROS	CONS
T1	Replace this text with at least 4 attributes
DSL	Replace this text with at least 4 attributes
ADLS	Replace this text with at least 4 attributes
Cable	Replace this text with at least 4 attributes

 

DSL and ADLS are very similar and are part of the same Rubric Table Grading Requirement (10 points total). However, you must complete one row in the table above for DSL and one row for ADSL.

 

ATTRIBUTES COLUMN

Attributes are inherent characteristics of the technology and are not Pros (advantages) or Cons (disadvantages) related to the technology.Typically an attribute is a numeric value that represents a measurement of that technology's characteristic. You must address at least 4 attributes for each communications technology listed in the table above. Typical Attributes you might address are the following (you should use the textbook to understand these terms below):

 

• Speed (raw bandwidth -typically quoted by vendor)
• Performance (e.g. percentage up-time)
• Type of medium used
• Geographic Availability (cities, rural, etc.)
• Market Share (size of market)
• Customer Satisfaction (percentage)
• Cost (dollar figure per month)
• Ease-of-Installation
• MTTR - Mean Time To Repair (reliability measurement, not opinion but a numeric value)
• Packet Loss Factors (susceptible to line noise, congestion, etc.)
• Distance Limitations (distance in kilometers or miles)

 

PROS AND CONS COLUMN

You should address issues that result from the characteristics of the technology. Typically Pros and Cons are supported (cited) opinions. For example:

 

• Cost as compared to other options
• Downloading Speeds as compared to other options
• Uploading Speeds as compared to other options
• Reliability as compared to other options
• Downtime as compared to other options
• Voice (VoIP) capabilities
• Availability as compared to other options
• Distance Limitation as compared to other options
• Security Risks

 

MIS 3101 Assignmnet-1 DQ-1

Question 4: Describe the application of executive support systems (ESS) in enabling senior managers to oversee more people with fewer resources.

MIS 3101 Assignment-1 DQ- DSS and OLAP

Question 5: Discuss ways in which DSS can be used with OLAP data mining techniques to predict the outcomes of events such as the probability of the number of times a customer will respond to an offer or purchase of a specific product.

MGT1 short questions

Q1.What are the major threats to doing business in global markets?

Q2.What key challenges must India and Russia face before becoming global economic leaders?

Q3.What does the acronym BRIC stand for, and why is it important to know this term?

Q4.What are the two primary concerns associated with offshore outsourcing?

MGMT305 Week-3 DB -System Development Lifcycle

• Explain the life cycle of an information systems
• Apply the steps of the life cycle to the scenario listed below

Imagine that you run a photography printing store. Your employees have been using punch cards for time entry since you started the business. This has lead to many problems including lost cards, inaccurate hours, and employees punching in other employees. Because of these problems you are considering implementing a computerized time entry system. Describe each step of the life cycle, and apply it to your problem in your business.

MGMT305 Unit-4 DB

·         Define a decision support system (DSS).

·         What is the difference between management information systems and decision support systems?

·         Describe the different components of a decision support system and explain each one.

·         Think of an example where a decision support system helps with making internal decisions.