You have been helping me we this project . In this part I need the follwing :
Step 2: Teach, Collaborate, and Create (Module 4) a plan for integrating a service learning project into one or more classrooms by first conducting professional development with at least one professional colleague and community member, but preferably a small learning community. Work with interested colleagues to create an implantation plan for a service learning project with students in classrooms. This elder learnign services.

? Invite potentially interested colleagues to your service learning professional development activity.( Hypothetical scenario)
? Use your summary PowerPoint presentation and Informational Handout about service learning as tools for presenting the service learning pedagogy. This we have already worked Use a strategy from the collegial professional interactions models that you studied this was the last you helped me ..
? Collaborate with your colleagues and community members (this may be one of each) to think about areas of the curriculum in which student learning could be improved by integrating a service learning project . this is the part to work now.
? Discuss ways to assess student prior knowledge and level of engagement around an identified curriculum area. Work collaboratively to plan the implementation of a service learning project into the academic curriculum through a lesson or unit design. This part of the elder community service this is the part to work now.
? Distribute your 1-page evaluation/feedback form to the colleagues who attended your professional development activity. Be sure to collect the evaluations after completion. hypothetical
? Based on your collaboration with colleagues, create a lesson or unit plan that will use service learning as a strategy for meeting your stated academic learning outcomes for the students. Include additional social-emotional and character development goals as well as goals to address student diversity and the inclusion of all students. Develop a way to measure what students know in relation to these learning goals before beginning instruction. this is the part to work now,
? Plan to implement your service learning project during the semester, during Weeks 11 and 12.
? Create and submit to the Dropbox a 2- to 3-page reflection paper-RP1 (in APA format) that details everything you did in Step 2. Include insights you gained from meeting and working collaboratively with colleagues and community members to plan for service learning project implementation. This the paper I would like your help ( this is the work )
? Include a copy of your pre- and post-evaluation measure as well as your lesson-unit plan with academic and social-emotional and character development goals. If you method of evaluation for student learning and positive environment includes focus group or individual interviews, include the questions used. This would be with the elder service learning community ( This is the work )
? Use the following template link for the creation of your paper:
o http://writingcenter.waldenu.edu/Documents/APA/APA_Course_Template_APA_6th_ed.doc

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The overall goal of the Session Long Project is to examine health care delivery in the United States from a personal perspective. As the second assignment toward completing the Session Long Project you are going to assess your plan.

Assignment expectations:

Submit a 2-3 page paper that responds to the following questions:

How does your health plan/coverage rate in terms of Access?
How does your health plan/coverage rate in terms of Quality?
How does your health plan/coverage rate in terms of Cost?
How does your health plan/coverage rate in terms of Continuity of Care?
SLP assignment expectations:

Please be sure to cite all sources and provide a reference list at the end of the paper (at least 3 references).
The length of your paper should be 2-3 pages typed and single-spaced.
Please prepare your work using appropriate format. This link from your course syllabus page will help reinforce formatting expectations: http://www.tuiu.edu/guidelines/Well-Written-Paper.pdf

A strategic plan is designed to be in use for three to five years (or more). Write a strategic plan using the information below.

Executive Summary:
Start with an executive summary of your strategic plan.

Company Background:
The organization that I chose is the Sony Corporation for my strategic plan. Provide a brief background of this organization including its products, services and customers. Include the organizations strategic planning model (including the history of successes and failures
associated with the process).

Mission Statement & Vision Statement:
How does the mission, vision and values aid to the organization in reaching its desired end state? Include the mission statement and vision statement and refer to it in your analysis.

Internal Analysis & External Analysis:
Write an assessment of the organization including their ability to accomplish goals and objectives as set in their previous strategic plan(s) and, their ability to respond to internal and external changes and challenges.

SWOT analysis of your plans focus area(s):
Incorporation of the SWOT findings into clearly stated goals and objectives for a 3-5 year period focusing on your strategic plan area(s). You will have 3-4 goals for each year with 3-4 measurable objectives for each goal. Goals can
span several years. Outline your goals and objectives clearly and then provide a narrative explanation for each.

Long Term Objectives:
Designate the long term objectives in your strategic plan.

Strategy Analysis and Choice:
Choose the generic strategy and grand strategy. Then chosen and discuss why you have chosen each and how they will fit within the framework of the organization.

Plan Goals and Implementation:
Discuss the goals and implementation for the business strategy. Include in this discussion the organizational structure and the leadership and culture.

Critical Success Factors:
Describe the critical success factors.

Controls and Evaluation:
List and describe controls and evaluation methods.

Please asign to requested writer

Assignment ?(8 page Minimum)

Budget Analysis assignment:
This assignment will involve an analysis of the syracuse budget see rescources for attachment and specifics. See attached grading rubic

This written analysis paper (8 pages minimum) will include three major sections:

(1) Evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of the operating budget document
(2) Analysis and evaluation of the capital budget
(3) Recommendations for improving the budget process and public presentation

Develop an organizational quality improvement (QI) plan for the Mayo Clinic.

The complete QI plan must be no more than six pages. Organize the plan as it would be presented to the organization?s board of directors for approval. Summarize previous sections, prepared with the intent to present the most important points of the research.

Executive Summary: A one-page overview of the plan

Introduction/Purpose: Introduce the organization and state its mission. Describe the types of services the organization provides. This section must be approximately half a page. (This information covered in Organizational Quality Improvement Plan ? Part I)

Goals/Objectives: Describe what goals the organization has to meet its mission. These are principles that shape how the organization views and achieves quality. Examples may involve the concepts of safety, effectiveness, timeliness, and patient centeredness. This section must be approximately half a page. (This information was covered in Organizational Quality Improvement Plan ? Part I)

Scope/Description/QI Activities: Describe what departments, programs, and activities are affected by the plan and why they are involved in its implementation. This section must be approximately half a page. (This information was covered in Organizational Quality Improvement Plan ? Part II)

Data Collection Tools: Describe the type of performance data to be collected and why that data is focused on. Describe why each data collection and display tool was selected for the QI plan. This section must range from half a page to a full page. (This information was covered in Organizational Quality Improvement Plan ? Part II)

QI Processes and Methodology: Describe the methodology and processes used to implement the plan. This must explain why each methodology and process are in the plan and why they were chosen. This section must range from half a page to a full page. (This information was covered in Organizational Quality Improvement Plan ? Part III)

Comparative Databases, Benchmarks, and Professional Practice Standards: Describe what the organization will use as a standard to compare performance. This section must be one paragraph. This may be through a number of methods such as a comparative database or a competing organization?s annual report. (This information was covered in Organizational Quality Improvement Plan ? Part III)

Authority/Structure/Organization: Describe the authority structure of the plan?s implementation. This must describe who is responsible for implementing the plan. Include a description of each role involved in the plan. This section must be approximately half a page:

? Board of directors
? Executive leadership
? Quality improvement committee
? Medical staff
? Middle management
? Department staff

(This information was covered in Organizational Quality Improvement Plan ? Part IV)

Communication: Identify who the performance activity outcomes are communicated to and who does the communicating. This describes who is responsible for overseeing data collection and preparing data reports. This section must be approximately one paragraph. (This information was covered in Organizational Quality Improvement Plan ? Part IV)

Education: Describe how staff will be educated regarding the plan. This covers how each staff member will be initially oriented to the plan and each employee fits into the plan based on job responsibilities. This section must be approximately one to two paragraphs. (This information was covered in Organizational Quality Improvement Plan ? Part IV)

Annual Evaluation: Describe what elements of the plan are annually evaluated for improvement. This section must be approximately one paragraph. (This information was covered in Organizational Quality Improvement Plan ? Part IV)

Conclusion:

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Assignment Requirements:
Public Policy Course - Culture, Organization, and Technology course


Purpose of assignment: To conduct an assessment of culture, organization and technology in one organization using ethnographic skills.

Each student will conduct unique individual research and write a paper. This assignment is an indepth evaluation and analysis using qualitative research methods. This assignment provides an opportunity for students to relate course material directly to their work experiences or academic areas of interest.

The final product must be well-planned and well-executed. Evaluation is based on timely completion, structure, organization of the material, and analysis.

Before Starting
1. Complete the previous assignment understanding that it is preliminary research.
2. Consider what evidence of competing interests you found in the organization.
Competing Interests
As you observed and talked to people in the previous assignment, you may have noticed inconsistencies such as misunderstood categories, multiple ontologies, differing value systems, or outright disagreements. These are signs are competing interests. They also may be the evidence of some larger possible conflict, transition or emerging innovation.

Reflect on a situation where there are competing interests in the organization. Consider how each side makes claims and builds arguments to support their point. The situation should be significant, potentially affecting the organizations future in an important way. The situation may be personified in specific people but look for situations that are broader than two strong personalities. Obvious sources of competing interests such as

a reorganization (e.g., mergers, acquisitions, downsizing, layoffs).
a leadership change with new people, shareholder expectations or management styles.
a modernization process that introduces new technologies and standardized practices.


Assembling Evidence
Gather your observations, interviews and documents from the previous assignment. Reflect on your talk, the discussion and any points you did not have time to elaborate on. Find answers to questions you did not know. Reread class readings that were particularly relevant to your experience. Consider how your ethnographic data supports any one of the possible questions below:

A. What is the change and why is it happening now? How might it affect the organizations goals, way of working, or survival?
B. Who are the parties involved (e.g., managers, technical specialists, support staff, contractors, civil servants, employees at headquarters, employees in the field)?
C. What are the interests, language, categories, agendas, goals, motivations, operating assumptions, or expectations of each party? How do people frame what they want?
D. How does each party portray the oppositions interests, language, categories, agendas, goals, motivations, operating assumptions, or expectations?
E. What is the larger circumstance in which the organization is embedded?
F. How does the larger context constrain, enable, or otherwise affect the conflict?

If you need assistance organizing your essay, consider addressing a question, explaining the origins of the controversy, writing a case study, or resorting to Bardach (2009) as a guide. Please discuss any other alternatives with me in advance. Think hard about how the ideas in the readings can, or cannot, account for what you have observed. Connecting your experience to the readings is THE CRITICAL aspect of the assignment.

Tasks
1. Write a well-balanced seamless essay.
2. Support your ideas with data, observations, interviews, documents, and, of course, references from class readings.

Requirements
A. The final paper will be under 18 pages. It must be coherent and easy to understand while making smooth transitions between paragraphs. **No grammatical errors.


Instructions for this order:

For this order, you are to write a 14page paper about the assignment as it is described above. The specific organization you will be analyzing for this assignment is the Office of Officer Evaluations Systems within the U.S. Coast guard. Keep in mind that the U.S. Coast guard is a branch of the Department of Homeland Security.
-For this order you must write as if you were an employee of the department and specifically worked for the office of officer evaluations systems. Please visit the following links to get an idea of what this organization is all about.
-This is the organization where you work > http://www.uscg.mil/psc/
-This is the office/division where you specifically work > http://www.uscg.mil/rpm/rpm1/
-Your job is specifically with Officer Evaluations Systems (OES) as described on the above link. This is a military atmosphere with civilian and military employees combined.
-I have conducted an interview of the staff at the office to figure out what their job is and what are some of the criteria that can be analysed in this paper. (see attached intervie Q&A)
-In order to incorporate course related concepts and methodology, you will need to familiarize yourself with the course content. (See Attached Course weekly content)
-I will be attaching all of the reading materials from this course
-This assignment requires you to use the course materials as references within you writing. You must use at least 15-20 references from the readings and incorporate them in your paper (see attached references by course topics to use)
-Use headers to identify different sections of analysis and structure within your paper.
*** Dont forget to apply course related concepts from the readings, into your essay***


Format: Times New Roman, 12pt, APA Style. NO GRAMMAR ERRORS***
Also use the rhetoric style of writing within your parper
LOGOS (i.e. the reason for this isand explain why)



ETHOS PATHOS(i.e emotions,feeling,values, culture)

Further more, view the attached reading within Week5_Holliday 2007 P503 which talks about further structure

Citations:
- Again, you should have at least 15-20 Sources from the course reading contents.
Citations are a necessary element of all graduate-level writing. Use citations in written assignments. The intention behind citations is to give the reader enough information to find your source. In the professional context, clients often want to learn more and to understand the broader concepts that apply to their situation. In the academic context, it is a signal that shows that you are learning. Citations will also help you if you want to find a source again for a future project.
Citations show the source for a direct quote, any number, or a fact not commonly known.
I recommend using the 6th edition of the APA citation style (American Psychological
Association, 2010) however use any style familiar to you. There is excellent advice and help on the APA site http://www.apastyle.org. Below are examples of APA bibliography style.
Book: American Psychological Association. (2010). Publication manual of the American
Psychological Association (6th ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychological
Association. ISBN: 9781433805592 Chapter in a book: Wyatt, S. (2003). Non-Users Also Matter: The Construction of Users and Non- Users of the Internet. In N. Oudshoorn & T. J. Pinch (Eds.), How users matter : (pp. 67). Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press
Article: Van Maanen, J. (1979). The Fact of Fiction in Organizational Ethnography. Administrative Science Quarterly, 24(4), 539-550. Online only: Author, A. (date). Title of document. Retrieved from http://xxxxxxxxx on M/D/Y.


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You are now required to prepare a marketing plan to present to senior management. You must promote Look into the Sky Education program amongst schools and community to lift fund raising and spread awareness of RFDS( Royal Flying Doctor Services). Attached are details in the resources section of the program.

The following must be included as a research:
*Industry Analysis
*Market Summary
*Market Features
*PESTLE Analysis
*Competitor Analysis
*SWOT Analysis
*Setting up objectives to increase strength and reduce weakness
*Market Research and Information
*Undertaking some base research on key aspects like size, demographics etc
*Market Strategy
*Marketing Objectives (SMART)
*Target Market (here being schools, communities, urban areas etc spreading the program)
*Positioning
*Marketing Mix (4P's:Product, Place, Promotion, Price)
*Financials
*Actual budget provided by client
*sponsorship targets (both are mentioned in resources provided about program)
*Evaluation and control procedures for implementation of marketing plan
*Contingency plans
*Conclusion
*References

kindly include diagrams if possible especially of analysis and make sure PLAGIARISM FREE.

APA format, 12 point, Times New Roman, double space, Topic of paper Consultation and Education Department at Greenby Community Mental Health Center,

1 Page
* Introduction-with minimum of 100 words count
* Develop at least one process evaluation measure and at least one outcome evaluation measure for the Consultation and Education Department at Greenby Community Mental Health Center to display the program?s effectiveness and efficiency- with minimum of 200 words count

Page 2
*What are the scope and purpose of your process evaluation measure and outcome evaluation measure and how did they influence your design-with minimum of 250 words counts

Page 3
* What issues and challenges may arise from evaluating the Greenby Community Mental Health Center? identifying 3 issues and why, and 3 challenges and why-with minimum of 275 word count.

Page 4
* Explain why an evaluation may be helpful to the Consultation and Education Department director?s? with minimum of 200 word counts
*Conclusion- 75 to 100 word counts

reference page

Teaching learnin plan for a new onset 43 year old white female 30 labs overweight 2 years of college include

__ B. Knowledge Deficits/Learning Needs (pt goals, how plan will be carried out)

Teaching Plan (30 Points)
__5/5__ Lesson Content Outline (
__5/5__Teaching/Learning Principles/Theory Used
__5/5__Prevention: Primary, Secondary, Tertiary (diet, exercise, immunizations, screenings)
__5/5__Teaching Strategies
__5/5__Resources (Include handouts. List and reference pamphlets, professional teaching tool kits, that can be accessed from the internet by the patient will need urls address and I will need to be able to access myself etc.)
__5/5__ Methods of Evaluation

Implementation (10 Pts)
__2/2__ Date, site and time Patient wil be taught in the MD office over 1 hour
__6/6__ Participation Data (Demographics include participants, Patient will be alone in the Doctors office
Evaluation (20 points) __10/10__Pt response and level of understanding
__10/10__Pt knowledge, behavior, attitude, skills
__10/10__ Teaching/Learning Outcomes
__10/10__ Recommendations for Future Education/Reinforcement Patient will nee follow up with docyor every 3 months with lab studies

Please include quotations from these text books in addition to other references that you provide:
Proctor T. 2010 Creative Problem Solving for Managers: developing skills for decision making and innovation, 3rd ed.
Stokes, D. and Wilson, N. (2006) Small Business Management and Entrepreneurship. 5th ed. London.
Henry, J., (2006) Creative Management, Sage. 3rd ed.

Essay is based on group work undertaken previously. Essay Word Limit is 2000 words.
Title: Provide an evaluation of:

A) The creative techniques used to arrive at your (recently set-up) business and the value of a service/product (for 50% essay mark) - 1000 words and

B) the entrepreneurial traits of your business team structure and the methods used to arrive at your business set up with a Business Plan in the appendix (for 50% of essay mark) - 1000 words
NB: the business plan is almost written so I will refer to it myself in the essay.

The essay need to reflect the following:
a) evidence of analysis: purely descriptive approaches will not attract pass marks
b) evidence of understanding of the nature of problem solving, the range of methods and techniques available and their usefulness in different situations. Evidence of understanding of entrepreneurship, the place of the individual as entrepreneur and the conducive effect of established entrepreneurial traits upon the firm and its management as a catalyst for innovation
c) evaluation (in context) of the effectiveness of creative problem solving for its users and the effectiveness of entrepreneurship within the firm.
d) demonstrate the extent of reading on the subject
e) show good evidence of independent study
f) use a range of concepts and theories, demonstrating relevance to the tasks.

I will email work undertaken from group work such as which techniques used, outline of product and team traits.
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The Scenario:
Things Happen

For the past 2 years, the local visiting nurses association has sponsored a program that provides a network of services to the elderly in low-income sections of the city. Less than a year ago, the association initiated a support program for the nurses who work in this intensive and demanding outreach effort. Shortly after the latter program began, you were hired to evaluate its impact on participants self-reported beliefs, attitudes, feelings, skills, and interests. At first you were reluctant to take on the job, given that the staff overseeing the support program had already administered a pretest survey they had designed to measure these variables. This meant that you would have to work within the constraints imposed by this instrument. You decided that it would be possible to conduct a valid evaluation under these circumstances, and added a number of questions to the original survey that would be used in the follow-up survey at the end of the 6-month support intervention. You also planned to interview as many of the participating nurses as you could after the program ended.
After the association had accepted your proposal, you attended a few of the weekly support sessions so that you would not have to rely solely on the written program description to get a sense of the specific dimensions that the intervention was intended to affect. You found that the program in practice reflected quite closely the program as planned. In the months that followed, you were in regular contact with the support programs staff, and they consistently assured you that the intervention was running smoothly.
Fast forward to the present. The support program recently ended, and you have begun to interview participants. And all does not appear to be well. About halfway through the program, one of the nurses had been robbed at gunpoint during a visit to a client in a public housing project. At the time, the staff had informed you of the event but said nothing to indicate that the support program had been affected in a way that would have implications for the evaluation. It turns out, however, that in response to the robbery the support sessions increasingly began to focus on issues of safety, often to the neglect of other issues that were supposed to be covered to be covered in the curriculum. When you review the follow-up surveys completed by participant, your fears are confirmed. On nearly all of the dimensions that the intervention was designed to address, no pre-post differences were found. Surprisingly, this was the case even for the survey items dealing with safety-related concerns. It appears, based on your interviews, that the session facilitators handled discussions of safety in a manner that did not reduce participants sense of vulnerability.
It is unfortunate that the support program coordinator did not display more candor in describing to you the influence of the robbery on the sessions. You might have been able to modify the postprogram survey and perhaps add a midcourse survey as well to target in a more refined, responsive fashion some of the areas that the revised program did manage to address with at least some success. As things currently stand, the data suggest that the support intervention was pretty much of a bust, a verdict that may be excessively bleak.
The bottom line is that you want your data analysis to be fair to the program, and youre not sure that the data you have enable you to achieve that goal. However, the intuitive appeal of a support program for these nurses may be affecting your judgment. Is your belief in the inherent worth of such an intervention getting in the way of looking objectively at what actually took place over the past 6 months? You dont relish the task of data analysis and interpretation that awaits you, and youre not sure of the best way to handle it.

Read the Things Happen scenario. (5 pages)
A. Analyze the extent to which, and the ways in which, each of the Guiding Principles for Evaluators (attached) is relevant to this scenario.
B. Do you bear any ethical responsibility for the failure to adapt the evaluation to the changing circumstances of the support program? Why or why not?
C. If you were the evaluator in this scenario, what would you do now? Explain your reasoning.

Please organize the paper as follows:
Systematic Inquiry
Competence
Integrity/Honesty
Respect for People
Welfare
Your responsibility
What to do?

- I've written the part of target audiences, Buying, selling, and communications processes, message, goals and objectives, etc,. as in the file "strategy draft 1.doc" that i upload
- so u can come up with the plan and draw up a marketing communication strategy of Eagle Riders Australia which will target on only Chinese market from Mainland by considering these following aspects of a marketing communication:

- Situation analysis
- Resource management
- Implementation
- Evaluation

Please mention in these following aspects:
- media strategy: pls mention about media that u will use in this marcom plan. Can u write which media we shall use in china in order to promote this project, why, and to which target group? How are we going to implement it to be effectively plan and get into Chinese market?
- resource and human resource management part in relation to who we need in this plan and how we are going to allocate them in China, and why? See the document i upload
- situation analysis should mention the situation about: 1. Situation facing organisation? 2. Background of the situation? 3. Significance or importance of situation?
- Budget part has to be the budget for the media that we are going to use, how much it cost

U can add anything else if u think it's neccessary
I'll also upload the resource materials for u as a guideline how to write those aspects

Strategic Plan Outline

Executive Summary
Environmental Analysis
1) Internal Environment
2)External Environment
Long Term Objectives
Strategic Analysis and Choice
Plan Goals and Implementation
Financial Projections and analysis
Critical Success Factors
Controls and Evaulations

*Combined with the new free AOL.com

This is to written as a business strategic plan on the topic mentioned above. A business strategic plan should include a vision statement, mission statement, objectives, values, strategies, programs, and its goals. A SWOT analysis is needed for this plan. Other considerations for this plan should include status, porduct/service offerings, target markets, marketing strategies, sales palns, projections, technology, operational plans, financial projections, and a conclusion. A business plan outline and rough draft should be included along with the final business plan.

Demonstrate your understanding by developing a plan to assess learner performance. This plan should include the following elements:

* Create an assessment and Describe the purpose of your assessment plan. Then, write a learning outcome that supports the purpose you have described.
Tip: This purpose must involve the learning of some knowledge or skill.

* Identify a task or a situation in which the learners will be able to demonstrate the knowledge or skills they have gained.

* Create a fully developed holistic rubric.
Tip: You can use Bloom's Taxonomy to adjust the level of cognitive rigor in the assignment. For example, asking learners to describe a concept is easier than asking them to apply it.

Identify the constraints you will impose on the assessment.

Then, write a 3 page paper that explains and supports your assessment plan. Justify your selection of assessment context, evaluate your holistic rubric, and explain why you selected the testing constraints you did.

Pretend that this question answered two (2) different students:

Describe the four major activities of a health plan.

1) First student - 300 words and must include 1 online reference. Response should adhere to APA guidelines, including the citation of secondary sources.

2) Second student - 300 words and must include 1 online reference. Response should adhere to APA guidelines, including the citation of secondary sources.

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ATTN:

1) Please, identify each student answer. Try not to make answers to look alike. Answer in paragraphs, not in essay type format.

2) Use only online sources (!) and free accessible web sites. Do not use any payable libraries or websites, where you need to log in to view the articles, since I need to go over and review the articles! Please include the link in the references.
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In case you need textbook for reference: E-book version (Essentials of Health Care Finance) is on the website http://www.coursesmart.com/login

Login information:

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Thank you.

Application: Community Health Project, Part 3??"Outcomes and Evaluation

A community health program must incorporate plans for sustaining positive changes, as well as plans for determining how to improve the program when outcomes are not positive. The aim of every program should be continuous quality improvement.

In this Application, you will describe the model or processes you would use to evaluate your project. What are the criteria that would show whether the project is successful or not? How would you monitor and assess them? You should do further research as needed, to determine your strategies for evaluation. Include a minimum of 5 additional references that support the model, processes, and outcomes you plan to use.

In a 5- to 8-page paper:

Summarize the essential elements of the evaluation process or model, and explain how it fits with the elements of your project. Describe how you would monitor, assess, and evaluate the program. You must determine appropriate methods??"for instance, a paper or online survey, a focus group, a measurement of weight or blood pressure, an observation of food choices, or a review of records??"and state your rationale.


Reformulate your projects objectives, as stated in Application Part 2, as measurable desired or expected outcomes. Remember that measurable objectives are both time-sensitive and outcomes-oriented. Examples are: Reduce obesity levels in the selected adolescent population by 25% over a 3-year period as measured by BMI index, or By fiscal year end, have 90% of eligible persons participating in health services as measured by year end services report. Describe the types of data you need to gather from your implementation to assess these outcomes.


Explain your reasons for selecting these measurable outcomes and how your outcomes will fulfill desired standards or goals. For example, did you use established goals as found in Healthy People 2020 or the American Cancer Society? Did you create your own? If so, what evidence supports your choices?


Anticipate one possible negative outcome and describe a strategy that has the potential for improving that outcome.


Illustrate how your intervention could be sustained over time. Describe the elements that are needed to keep the program going successfully.


Include at least 5 new references.
Your written assignments must follow APA guidelines. Be sure to support your work with specific citations from this weeks Learning Resources and any additional sources. Refer to the Pocket Guide to APA Style to ensure your citations in the text and reference list are correct.


Customer is requesting that (Sokkertrapp) completes this order.

INDIVIDUAL LEARING PROJECT 1:
COMPANY ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION PROJECT INSTRUCTIONS

In this project, you will select an organization, or a segment of an organization, and interview key employees for the purpose of gathering information concerning the organizations critical success factors. Please be sure to inform those interviewed for this project that any proprietary information included in this project will be kept confidential. You will then develop a SWOT analysis to clarify and aid in the identification of the organization's / segment's CSFs. The written project requires you to prepare and submit the following in order:

1. Brief description of the organization/segment??"1 paragraph.
2. SWOT analysis in chart form??"Four categories - Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats - each item should be clearly and concisely stated.
3. Balanced Scorecard in chart form. Clearly and concisely list CSFs in each of the four categories identified in the text. For each CSF indicate in a separate column explain how the measurement of the CSF will transpire.
4. A discussion of the CSFs chosen for the organization/segment??"why were these particular factors selected? Why are they important in accessing the success of the company? (2??"3 pages)
5. An evaluation of the organization/segment to determine if it is achieving each of the CSFs. Analyze each CSF and use data from the measures indicated in the balanced scorecard as support for the conclusions. (2??"3 pages)

Some additional guidelines are as follows:
1. The paper should be a minimum of 5 pages, excluding the two charts.
2. The paper should be written in APA format.
3. The use of first and second person should be avoided (e.g. I, we, you, etc.).
4. You should use a minimum of your textbooks and two additional scholarly sources. Wikipedia, Investopedia, and the like are not considered scholarly sources and should not be used. Any use of these sources, will be grounds for a 50-point deduction.
5. Any personal communication should be cited appropriately within the text; however, it is not needed for the reference section.
6. The project should include a properly formatted cover page.
7. An abstract and Table of Contents are not needed.
8. The final assignment should be submitted in the SafeAssign link.
9. If the information within the SWOT chart or the BSC chart needs to be cited, then the student may deviate from APA and use superscripts, with the citations placed underneath the chart. This is the only deviation from the APA manual that is allowed.

Please remember that late assignments are generally not accepted.

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For the Final Project, you will develop a strategic plan for an actual nonprofit or public organization. As you progress through the readings and assignments in the course, think about how you might want to develop your Final Project. The Learning Resources, the Discussions, and the Application Assignments all will assist you in completing each section of the Final Project.



Your Final Project should contain the following sections:







1. The Organization

?Select and name a public or nonprofit organization of your choice (your own or one with which you are familiar).

?Briefly describe the organization (services it provides, number of employees, geographic location, your role/position, if any).



2. Organizational Mandates



?Identify three organizational mandates and the implications of the mandates on the organization's strategic planning and future success.

3. Mission and Values



?State and clarify the organization?s specific mission and values.

?Include the Socratic questions you would use to evaluate the mission's clarity.

4. Stakeholder Analysis



?Identify key stakeholders and their roles and characteristics and explain why they are important.

?Analyze the level of stakeholder support for the strategic planning process.

?Specify ways to solicit or maintain their support for the process.

5. Assess the External and Internal Environments



?Conduct a SWOT (SWOC) analysis for the organization:

?Identify and explain three strengths.

?Identify and explain three weaknesses.

?Identify and explain three opportunities.

?Identify and explain three threats (challenges).

?Explain what you have learned from your analysis and how it might influence your strategic plan or the strategic planning process.

6. Strategic Issues



?Identify three strategic issues of the organization and the approaches used to identify them.

?Explain why these strategic issues are important to your organization.

7. Strategies to Address the Issues



?For the three issues you selected, identify and describe how you would address each one.

?Justify your strategy for addressing each issue

8. Adopting the Strategic Plan



?Describe your plan for gaining an official decision to adopt and proceed with the strategic plan.

9. Organizational Future Vision



?Create a brief vision statement for where your organization would be if the strategic planning process is successfully implemented. (Read Chapter 8 in the course text, Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations, for guidance.)

10. Implementation Process



?Explain three key steps you would take to implement the strategic plan in your organization.

11. Monitoring and Re-evaluation



?Describe two issues or strategies you think might be problematic and could need modification.

?Explain how you would monitor, modify, or eliminate the issue or strategy based on a re-evaluation of the strategy.

12. Reflections on the Strategic Planning Process

Conduct a homeland security assessment on Lynchburg, Virginia. Identify homeland security stakeholders who are involved in emergency management and the potential hazards both natural and manmade. Then, conduct research to identify hazards and ways to mitigate these hazards (recommended sites are FEMA, Department of Homeland Security, and State and Local Government sites). Prepare a report outlining the following factors related to your assessment of Lynchburg and Identify:

-homeland security stakeholders
-hazards and risk management and preparedness issues
-elements of disaster response, recovery, and incident command
-professional accountability
-Complete an evaluation of the application of other countries' responses and policies as applied to Lynchburg. Is it feasible?

Please include recommendations and state Biblical perspectives for each.

e-Retailing
Semester 1 2009
The e-retail plan (2500 words): Individual 30%

PLEASE READ IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE E-RETAIL PLAN FORMAT AND THE E-RETAIL PLAN MARK SHEET

Aim:
To develop an e-retail plan for a product or service. The e-retail plan is based on a new business, not on an existing business.

Rational:
The assessment item is designed to engage the students in integrating e-retailing theory and practice. REMEMBER, your role is to act as an entrepreneur or an e-marketer whos planning a venture startup.

Process:
1. Select a product or service. According to De-Kare Silver, different product categories have more or less virtual appeal.
2. Define and describe the product/service from a customer-centric perspective. REMEMBER, consumers purchase the benefits of the product/service, not the product/service itself.
3. Determine the target market.
4. Analyse the current operating environment for all companies within the product class you choose. REMEMBER, you have competitors (high street, online, or both). It is YOUR DECISION to use any analysis models that are appropriate: PESTE, SWOT, SNAKE DIAGRAM, PORTER GENERIC STRATEGIES MATRIX, ANSOFF MATRIX, etc. The purpose is to clearly understand your market opportunities and where your product/service fits into the market place (market positioning).
5. Develop an e-retail plan
REMEMBER, a new online business presents a lot of challenges such as high perceived risks and lack of consumer trust. As an e-marketer, you should consider how to attract consumers to your store (website), how to build an engaging website (website design), how to effectively communicate with your target audience (the e-retailing mix and the communication mix), and especially how to create CUSTOMER VALUE and how to develop a long-term customer relationship. A unique e-retail plan requires a high degree of creativity. To ensure the quality of the e-retail plan, it is ESSENTIAL for you to integrate market research and e-retailing theories.

Report:
The group report is 2500 words maximum

Specific Format Requirements:
1. Report length 2500 (maximum) words for the body of the report. The word length excludes the title page, the table of contents, the reference list (APA style) and the APPENDIXES.
2. Use 1.5 line spacing; 12pt New Times Roman or 11pt Arial Font. At least 2.5cm margins.
3. Add a Table of Contents.
4. Print the body of the report double-sided if possible.
5. Add a COMPLETE AND ACCURATE reference list of all academic works, business materials and websites, cited using APA style.
6. Include a copy of the e-retail plan Mark Sheet.

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E-retail plan format:

Title

Preface

Table of contents

References

List of Tables

List of Figures

Appendix


1.0 Overview
Who What Where When How
2.0 Brand, Product and Service offering
define & describe current activities
3.0 Situational analysis
Briefly state you feel is the operating environment
3.1 Existing plan and other information
Review of existing plan and any other secondary information on firms brand that may be useful
3.2 Analysis Models
use any traditional or adaptive marketing models that you feel are appropriate
Number accordingly
Explain why you are using the models
Present the table / diagram
Briefly comment on the highlights of each model
3.x PESTE
3.x SWOT
3.x Perceptual maps
3.x PLC
3.x Snake Diagram
3.x etc etc (BCG, Ansoff, Porter ------)

3.x e-retailing metrics
Review e-retailing plans & objectives, strategies & performance metrics
3.x Situational Summary
What are the highlights of the situation analysis
4.0 Strategies
Link e-retailing with e-marketing strategy
4.1 Revenue streams
Identify revenue streams identified by e-retail models
4.2 Market opportunity analysis
Perform market opportunity analysis
4.3 Segmentation & Target
Target stakeholders
4.4 Brand differentiation
Method of brand differentiation
4.5 Market positioning strategy
Market positioning strategy
4.6 Market/partner distribution strategies
Market/partner distribution strategies
4.7 Distribution
Distribution process
4.8 Communication
Communication issues & approaches
4.9 Strategy Summary
What are the highlights of the proposed strategies
5.0 Implementation plan
Briefly state your approach to implimentation
5.1 e-retailing mix (7Cs)
Use the 7c define, describe, support suggested activities
5.2 product/service offer
define, describe, support suggested activities
5.3 Pricing strategies
define, describe, support suggested activities
5.4 Distribution/supply chain
define, describe, support suggested activities
5.5 Integrated Marketing Communications
define, describe, support suggested activities
5.6 Relationship management
define, describe, support suggested activities
5.7 Organisational structure/integration
5.8 Implementation Summary
What are the highlights of the proposed implementation
6 Budget

6.1 Revenues
What is likely to be sold and why
6.2 Costs
What are the likely costs
6.3 Budget comments

7 Evaluation and control

7.1 Contingency plans

7.2 Monitoring procedures

References
It is expected that the majority of your references will relate to the theoretical concepts discussed rather than the product category itself
Appendicies

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e-Retail plan Mark sheet:

Degree of relevance of issues to e-Retailing strategy.

Clarity and richness of the explanations and analysis. Evidence of integrating theory and practice

Logical structure of argument.

Breadth of research and quality of source material (relating to e-Retailing issues)

Written expression - concise, straightforward and easy to read as well as grammatically correct

Correct referencing, lack of typos' spelling and grammatical errors, a bibliography and table of contents.

TOTAL

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Specific guidelines: REQUESTING FOR WRITER "PURPLE MOON"

Evaluation Assessments For this assignment you will obtain two evaluations (in pdf format is preferable, and local from your geographical area is preferable as well, though not required). If you work for a public agency, consider finding an evaluation done of your agency or of a program in your agency. You will need to turn in the evaluations along with your assignment. Turn them in as links or as pdfs.(I'm requesting the two evaluations are from Virginia Department of Social Services or Virginia Public Schools)

Where the answers are not in the evaluation itself, students may need to call the evaluator to get further information. Using ideas from the text, and specifically referencing the text to support your answers where appropriate, address the following items (please use this question/answer format):

Textbook: Freeman, H. E., Lipsey, M. W., & Rossi, P. H. (2004). Evaluation: A Systematic Approach. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications(7th edition)-
*Chapter 2, in which I will send in a separate e-mail has all information needed as textbook reference.

1. What is the program or policy that is being evaluated (brief description).

2. Who is doing the evaluation? (e.g., name, in-house or external, etc.) Who is sponsoring it?

3 . What prompted the evaluation? Why are they doing it now?

4. Who were the stakeholders, and how did the evaluation involve them in the evaluation process, if at all? (Refer to Rossi for stakeholder types).* see chapter 2 (p. 48-49)

5. Is the evaluation summative or formative? Why? Justify your answer.

6. What kind of evaluation is it? (e.g., outcomes, needs assessment, CBA, etc.)? Why? Use Rossi to justify your answer. Keep in mind that sometimes an evaluation overlaps more than one evaluation category. * see chapter 2

7. What are the general questions the evaluation itself is trying to answer?

8. What is the evaluation design and key methods?

9. If this is an outcomes/impact assessment, how does the evaluation deal with issues of causality (program effect)?

10. What are the major findings and recommendations (briefly)?

11. How does the evaluation illustrate some of the terms and concepts? Explain, and integrate the text.

12. What are some possible shortcomings of this evaluation?

** Approximately four to five pages on EACH evaluation should be sufficient (thus, a total of 12 - 15 pages, double-spaced, typed, numbered)).
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Report specifications:
Table of Contents

1. Executive Summary

2. Company Description

3. Strategic Focus and plan

Mission/Vision

Goals

Core Competency and Sustainable Competitive Advantage

4. Situation Analysis

SWOT Analysis

Internal Strengths and Weaknesses

Management

Offerings

Marketing

Personnel

Finance

Manufacturing

Research and Development (R & D)

External Opportunities and Threats

Consumer/Social

Competitive

Technological

Economic

Legal/Regulatory

Industry Analysis

Competitor Analysis

Company Analysis

Customer Analysis

5. Market-Product Focus

Marketing and Product Objectives

Target Markets

Points of Difference

Positioning

6. Marketing Program

Product Strategy

Price Strategy

Promotion Strategy

Place (Distribution Strategy)

7. Financial Data and Projections

Past Sales Revenues

Five-Year Projections

8. Organization

9. Implementation

10. Evaluation and Control



1. Executive Summary

The Executive Summary sells the marketing plan to readers through its clarity and brevity. The summary should present a description of the product/service, its target market, and its need within the market. The summary should also provide an overview of the main points of the plan and should emphasize an action orientation.



2. Company Description

The company description should highlight the recent history and successes of the company or organization.



3. Strategic Focus and Plan

While not included in all marketing plans, the Strategic Focus and Plan sets the strategic direction for the entire organization.

One approach to crafting a strategic focus is Porters four generic business strategy model.


Mission/Vision

The Mission/Vision statement is a qualitative statement that specifies the markets and product lines in which a business will compete. A mission statement can dramatically affect the range of a firms marketing activities by narrowing or broadening the competitive playing field. An effective mission statement must be clear and direct.



Goals

The Goals section of a marketing plan sets both financial and non-financial targets. Goals should be in quantitative terms, where possible, to facilitate measuring the companys future performance.

An example of a non-financial goal: It is recommended that Philip Morris diversify its product lines to achieve 50 percent of sales revenue in non-tobacco products in the next five years.

An example of a financial goal (note it is specific and measurable): It is suggested that XYZ Inc. increase sales from $10 million in 2000 to $15 million in 2001.



Core Competency and Sustainable Competitive Advantage

Whereas the mission defines the scope of a business or business unit and the goals define its strategic performance dimensions, its business unit competencies determine the means for achieving success.

An example of a competitive advantage: McDonalds competitive advantage is its large number of restaurants, more than double its competitors, making it more convenient for customers than any other fast food restaurant in the world.

4. Situation Analysis

The essence of the situation analysis is taking stock of where the firm or product has been recently, where it is now, and where it is headed. The situation analysis is the first of three steps in the planning stage.


SWOT Analysis
The SWOT analysis is an effective short-hand summary of the situation analysis. The acronym is used to describe an organizations internal Strengths and Weaknesses and its external Opportunities and Threats. This analysis provides a solid foundation as a springboard to identify subsequent actions in the marketing plan. The SWOT analysis can be effectively presented in a tabular format followed by a text discussion that elaborates on the information in the table.

An analysis to identify internal strengths and weaknesses usually includes the following areas in an organization:

When analyzing: Consider:

Management experience level, management style, size
Offerings uniqueness, quality, price,
Marketing type and scope of marketing plan
Personnel quality and experience of workforce
Finance sales revenues
Manufacturing quality and dependability of suppliers
R & D plans for continual product improvement, R & D budget



An analysis to identify external opportunities and threats usually includes the following factors:

When analyzing these factors: Consider:

Consumer/Social size and stability of market
Competitive number and size of competitors
Technological the effect of technology on any facet of the business
Economic current and projected economic situation of market
Legal/Regulatory the effect of legal and regulatory factors on any facet of the business


Industry Analysis

The industry analysis section should provide the backdrop for a more detailed analysis of the competition, the company, and the customer. An in-depth analysis will give both internal and external readers of the plan confidence in the companys ability to understand its own industry.

Competitor Analysis

An effective analysis of the competition should demonstrate that the company has a realistic understanding of its major competitors and their marketing strategies. As in with the industry analysis, a realistic assessment makes readers feel confident that the marketing actions in the plan are well grounded.

Company Analysis

The company analysis provides details of a companys strengths and marketing strategies that will enable it to achieve its marketing goals.

Customer Analysis

A thorough customer analysis answers the question: Who are our customers? Understanding your customers and what they want is critical in satisfying them and providing genuine value.


5. Market-Product Focus

Marketing and Product Objectives

Setting product objectives and identifying target market segments significantly increases the chance that a product will be successful. The objectives and goals should be stated in measurable terms so that they can be measured during the program implementation and control phases of the marketing plan.

Target Markets

Because an organization cannot satisfy the needs of all consumers, it must concentrate its marketing efforts on the needs of specific niches or target markets. In describing the target markets, consider why a particular target market was selected and how the product or service meets the needs of the target market.


Points of Difference

Points of Difference are those characteristics of a product that make it superior to competitive substitutes. The greatest single factor in a new products failure is the lack of significant points of difference.


Positioning

A products unique points of difference are communicated by way of a positioning strategy.



6. Marketing Program

Everything that has gone before in the marketing plan sets the stage for the marketing mix actions---the 4 Ps----covered in the marketing plan. Product, price, promotion, and place (distribution) strategies are all detailed in the Marketing Program section of the plan.

When describing these strategies: Include these elements:

Product Features, brand name, packaging, service, warranty


Price List price, discounts, allowances, credit terms, payment period


Promotion Advertising, personal selling, sales promotion, publicity

Place Outlets, channels, coverage, transportation, stock level



7. Financial Data and Projections

All the marketing mix decisions covered in the marketing program have both revenue and expense effects. In this section of the marketing plan, both past and projected financial data is included. A key indicator of what future sales will be is to examine past sales.


8. Organization


A marketing program needs a marketing organization to implement it. This section of the marketing plan may iclude an organizational chart with both current and projected positions represented.

9. Implementation Plan

The implementation plan shows how a company will turn plans into results. To implement a marketing program successfully, hundreds of detailed decisions are often required. These marketing tactics are detailed operational decisions essential to the overall success of marketing strategies. Unlike marketing strategies, marketing tactics involve actions that must be taken immediately.


For each strategy describe what has to be performed to carry it out. For example, if the plan calls for adding television advertising, implementation might involve contacting an ad agency and arranging a meeting, agreeing on objectives, targeting audiences, and scheduling a flight of advertisements. If the plan calls for increasing the price, a breakeven schedule of alternative prices might be performed.


10. Evaluation and Control

The purpose of the control phase of the strategic marketing process is to keep the marketing program moving in the direction set for it. In the control phase, the marketing manager compares the results of the marketing program with the goals in the written plans to identify deviations. The marketing manager then acts on the deviations to correct the negative and exploit the positive ones.

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useful website: blackboard.com

Blackboard SWOT

Strength:
- number of awards
- 60% market share. Industry leader.
- Merged with WEBCT
- Partnership with U.S military
- Partnership with Microsoft
- Feedbacks from strong universities such as University of British Columbia, Illinois Chicago, San Francisco, Texas, Princeton
- The backbone programming of Blackboard is in Java and what makes it different is importing API packages into each other instead of importing packages into just classes which is what normally programmers do. This gives the Enterprise system the ability to grow very large and easier to maintain.
- Blackboard Building block feature allows external programs to integrate with in blackboard easy. This would turn into memory saving advantage where blackboard server limit will not be pushed
Weakness:
- Not user friendly. Too many clicks to get tasks done. Not easy to find your way in there. Complicated.
- Have been growing in terms of functionality very aggressively with out thinking about ease of the end user
- Uncontrollable purchasing codes from out side have been making the sytem chaotic
- There is not though for overall design. No consistency
- Poor customer service
- Blackboard inc. tries to be the host server for its client which make them focus on server management rather than their design which is their core competency. In addition, traveling users confidentiality is not secure. For example a university student information in Canada would have to travel all the way to Washington DC, where blackboard server is hosting and come back.
- Blackboard servers seats in different cities of US and the head office does not do a good job in managing them all. That makes them slow to responding their clients
Opportunities:
- To incorporate what users like best with other systems (Competitors of blackboard) such as WEBCT
- Use new programming technology Ajax will help to be more user friendly and interactive and timely
- Use their partners most advanced technology. US military always has the most advanced technology.
- Opportunity of grow in Europe an Asia. The language of blackboard system could easily transfer by just loading different language packages. If I am teaching
French then I can load French language in my blackboard course easily. There is no need of computer or technology knowledge and there is no need for extra programming with in the system
Threads:
- Fully open source systems such as: angels, Moodle, Skai which are cheaper. Since blackboard target its academic institutions and academic institutes like the idea of open source since it fit into their political model.
- Blackboard law suits
- There must be more


For this marketing plan we target Academic institutes. Using Ajax programming language for the next version of blackboard which would be 7.8.
To do this the front interface of Blackboard needs a complete rewrite. Means some of the API will be closed.
Since Ajax is new there are not many expert programmers in this area. Blackboard incorporate needs to conduct programs to help their developer be an expert with Ajax. It needs to make resources available to them. On the other hand, institutions who are their clients need to upgrade their developers to support new version. (Note: sometimes universities would purchase the license and would be their own host instead of fully outsourcing it. This is because they want to have a better control over the system).


Blackboard pricing factor:
Since this is B2B price is negotiable and therefore, no clients would get the same price
For the version 7.8 that we are creating price depends on if:
New client
Existing client
Hosted
Hosting
In addition, there is a core price for blackboard basic package and in addition to that there are the following functions:
- Content: Is and area belong to each user. A virtual hard drive. User may upload documents and share them with other users
- Community: for example a philosophy department of a university can form a community of all the philosophy students and faculties with in all campuses. To share ideas, events. networking tool
Institution may choose to purchase these additional features.





Promotion:
Blackboard usually promote through:
-its website
- Behind black board: is a community of all external blackboard developers. (Developers who are hired by institutions not by blackboard Inc itself)
- Conferences

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The Term Paper is about Building a Profit Plan (Chater 5 of Book title "Performance Measures & Control for Implementing Strategy by Robert Simons.
Ojectives of Budgets
Profit wheels steps 1 Estimate the label of sales, 2 Forcast operating expenses (variable and fix exp) 3 Calculate expected profits. 3 Investment in new assets (operating assets and long-term assets 5 Variables and sensitive analysis (eworst case, most likely and best case scenario.
Cash flow forcasting for operation. Computing cash flow two methods: Direct and Indirect method. Discuss some 1 Return on Equity,(ROE),Assets 2 Asset Utilization (ROCE), Compare ROE with industry expectation. Conclusion Budget is important

Determination of Useful Project and Recipient Country or Region/Implementation Plan
Research and evaluate alternative solutions to a real-world global public sector problem in a specific country or region and recommend the best course of action.
This will be a 7 pages paper that involves conducting the research necessary to carry out an important public sector project. Your research will include knowledge from public sector management of strategic planning, human resources, marketing and finance, and the role of NGOs (Non Government Organization) and IGOs (Inter Government Organization) to develop a plan to implement the project in a specific country or region. You may NOT choose N. America, the US, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand or Ghana.
Steps
Step #1: select, research and discuss a common public sector project for example: providing a sustainable source of potable water, a program to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS, micro investment, improving food safety, access to primary education, resettlement of refugees etc. countries.
Step #2: select a real country or region for example: West Africa, Middle East, Cambodia etc. for which the project would be appropriate and explains why the need exists.
Step #3: views the information that has been gathered, assumes the role of a government project manager in the selected country or region and
1. develops an implementation plan for the program including at a minimum the finance, human resources and marketing activities and
2. the consideration of any potentially helpful IGOs and NGOs and what their role may be.
Step #4: Complete the research and write a 7 pages paper that conforms to the grading rubric below.
Sources
It is expected that the sources for this paper will include scholarly research, official reports from governments, IGOs and NGOs, and credible news sources, which are limited to major newspapers such as The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Times (London), and to newsweeklies such as TIME and The Economist.
Citations
It is expected that the paper will conform to accepted standards of formatting and documentation, including proper citations and references as found in the Manual of Style for Writers by Kate L. Turabian or an equivalent manual of style, such as the MLA or APA guide.
Format
The final product must
o be typed, double spaced [even between paragraphs], 12-point Times New Roman with margins no wider than one inch.
o be paginated and no other headers or footers.
o should be prepared in a word processing software (submit paper in only Microsoft Word or Rich text format only.)
o Footnotes are mandatory. Only author name and page number in body of paper for example (Smith, pg 44). Full footnotes will be at end of paper not at the end of each page.
o Pictures, Graphs and lists will not be included in the body of the paper. If you need these to support your facts, then they will be placed at end of paper as an addendum, referenced in body of paper, and will not count for your paper length.
o Bibliography is mandatory and will include all sources used, which should include, for each entry, the author, title, city and state of publisher, publishers name, year, and page number. You may NOT cite Wikipedia as a source in the papers.
o Paper is to be in narrative format and not outline or bullet format. Paper will be reformatted if submitted in outline format.
Paper will be reformatted if not in compliance with formatting rules discussed above to determine true length of paper.