Miley Cyrus
The core competence analysis emphasizes whether an organization has unique selling points that will help it succeed in business. These are relevance, difficulty of imitation, and breadth of application (MindTools, 2013). Miley Cyrus scores well on all three counts, which means that she has the core competencies needed to succeed in the entertainment performer field.

Cyrus has maintained a high degree of relevance, which is critical to success as a popular entertainer. She parlayed a high level of exposure in a role as Hannah Montana into an adult music career. In particular, she has taken steps of late to cement this transition both for her fans and for the media. Had she not taken these steps, her relevance as a child performer who is no longer a child would be in steep decline. By re-inventing herself as a mature performer in the mainstream she has improved her relevance.

Cyrus competes in….

programs discussed help build core competencies and competitive capabilities at L'Oreal.
L'Oreal is an international company that strives to ensure that all of its diverse employees feel at home and work together. L'Oreal FIT (Follow-up & Integration Track) acts as a two-year, personalized integration and support program designed to facilitate the transition of the employee into the corporate culture of the company. It is "adaptable to the needs of all new employees at L'Oreal. This global integration programme allows us to enrich and perpetuate our group's professional culture while taking account of each subsidiary's cultural characteristics and local needs" (L'Oreal FIT, 2011, L'Oreal). The program focuses on educating the employee so he or she can truly understand the product and the mission of the makeup company, regardless of his or her area of expertise. It is focused on providing the employee with a "personalised schedule of meetings, training and round-table….

Disney's Exit From Video Game Publishing
Disney's primary strategic objective is to product high-quality content through their entire product mix which consists of a wide variety of different goods, services, and media products. Disney's mission statement reads as:

"The mission of The alt Disney Company is to be one of the world's leading producers and providers of entertainment and information. Using our portfolio of brands to differentiate our content, services and consumer products, we seek to develop the most creative, innovative and profitable entertainment experiences and related products in the world (The alt Disney Company, N.d.)."

Disney has just recently made a decision to cut its video gaming segment which was referred to as the Disney Interactive Studio and was staffed by roughly three hundred employees; despite the fact that the publically boasted about the success of the self-published video game unit and the market gains that it was making merely weeks ago….

Competency
Although both nurse practitioners and nurse educators are advanced positions in the nursing field, these positions differ because they require different core competencies. This study compares the two professions. It also analyzes the similarities and differences in implementation of the competencies within the roles selected.

Nurse practitioners

Nurse practitioners are licensed nurses with graduate level training at the doctoral or master level. These nurses promote health, conduct comprehensive assessments, and prevention of injury or illness. Nurse practitioners were traditionally described as primary care givers. However, while currently working in various environments like tertiary care, defined examinations, and competencies have been created targeting nurse practitioners dealing with acute care cases. Nurse practitioners have been trained on multiple of specialties such as adult health, acute care, family health, pediatrics, gerontology, psychiatry, women's health, and Neonatology. Nursing practitioners have defined competencies in the specialty areas of psychiatric mental health and acute care (Wittmann-Price, 2013).

Nursing….

Competencies
Among the Core Competencies for nursing educational components provided by the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education, "Patient-Centered Care" is listed first. The important task for nursing students in this component is to provide:

"…holistic care" that fully recognizes "an individual's preferences, values and needs," and also "respects the patient or designee as a full partner in providing compassionate, coordinated, age and culturally appropriate safe, and effective care (MACN).

ithin this milieu, the student should be assessing healthcare needs "through the patient's eyes" and the student should be respecting and encouraging the patient's opinions and decisions relative to his or her care (MACN). The student should fully understand the "multiple dimensions of patient-centered care" which includes: a) understanding the preferences and values of the patient and the patient's family; b) coordinating the integration of the care; c) providing physical and emotional comfort and support; c) communicating the patient's values, needs and preferences….

Nurse Practitioners Providing the Full Spectrum of Health Care Services
As the National Organizatoin of Nurse Practitioner Faculty (NONPF, 2013) competencies indicate, full spectrum of health care services should include health promotion, disease prevention, health protection, anticipatory guidance, counseling, disease management, palliative care and end of life care. This is a standard that is vital to primary care nursing because patients expect and have a need to obtain each of these services, as they are all part of quality care.

As the study by Flanagan-Kaminsky (2013) points out, end of life care is something that more and more patients in the Veterans Affairs Hospice program and looking to receive (p. 69). This is just one example of the type of quality care that patients and their families expect from nurse practitioners and health care providers. Counseling is another aspect of this type of care and is included in the study as an….

The public will also be presented with information from the experiential view of someone who in the past failed to have their child immunized. Evaluation will be conducted by distributing surveys/questionnaires about access to immunizations in the previous 12 months. The model will be modified by identifying weak points in the efforts to inform the public.
(2) providing information to the public about cancer screening: the public will be given written and verbal information about cancer screening for their family and about how to access cancer screening in the community of providers. A special speaker will provide information about how cancer screening helped save their life. Evaluation will be conducted by distributing surveys/questionnaires about access to cancer screenings in the previous 12 months. The model will be modified by identifying weak points in the efforts to inform the public.

(3) Providing information about safe sex: the public will be given written….

Return guests comprise approximately 15% of bed and breakfast guests with another 15% of guests being individuals who have been referred by former guests of the bed and breakfast. Therefore, it can be understood that "quality of stay and customer satisfaction" are both important factors in the decision making process of the guest when choosing to stay at the bed and breakfast as compared to staying at another establishment. Qualities of the room that contribute to the overall satisfaction of guests include the following:
Mattress and pillow quality - 88%

Towels - 84%

Linens - 82%

Washcloths - 75%

Glasses - 62%

Reading lights - 61%

Soap - 50%

Reading material - 30%

The work of Tucker and Lynch entitled: "Hospitality, Tourism and Lifestyle Concepts" states that there are several categories of host types based on social control strategies and interactions with guests. Each of these types of accommodations along with the host categorization and the social control….

"The corporation, like a tree, grows from its roots. Core products are nourished by competencies and engender business units, whose fruit are end products."
Core competencies are the roots of the tree, feeding the trunk of core products, which branches out into business units, and fruit into end products. If there's a disconnect between the roots and the rest of the tree, the tree will never bear fruit and will eventually die.

For this reason, companies must organize around their core competencies to enhance competitiveness - to bear the most fruit. To do this, the organization must identify what their core competencies are, and ensure that they meet three basic requirements.

They provide potential access to a variety of markets.

They contribute to the customer benefits of the product.

And, they are difficult for their competitors to imitate (Prahalad & Hamel, 1990).

When these core competencies are discovered, organizations are able to enter new and….

Competency
Creating Core Competencies in a Corporate Context

Yielding the best possible results from a large corporate entity requires a clear strategic orientation or a set of concurrent strategies through which employee actions might be governed. Often, however, the highly segmented nature of those corporations engaged in multiple sectors and industries can cause such strategic orientation to become garbled, distorted or obscured. It is thus that the article provided by Prahalad & Hamel (1990) offers a counterpoint to the regimented use of business units as a way of aligning a corporation. Instead, the article espouses the construction and magnification of core competencies as a way of creating dynamic and movable assets from individual employees. The discussion here evaluates the concept of core competency in the corporate context, advocating this as a way of supplanting bureaucratic structuring in favor a more knowledge-based strategy for personnel orientation.

Body of the assignment

The article by Prahalad….

competencies of the direct care provider and the indirect care provider are similar in many ways because both are based on the idea that quality care is the ultimate goal for any stakeholder in healthcare. The competencies are also different in some ways because direct and indirect care providers must focus on roles that are oriented towards using different skills from one another. This paper will compare and contrast the core competencies of the role of a nurse educator with those of a nurse practitioner to show how they are the same and different in a variety of ways.
The core competencies of the nurse educator are based on the idea that the instructor needs to be a leader for students. The National League for Nursing (2017) identifies 8 core competencies for the nurse educator -- and every one of them has something to do with leadership at root --….

Competence of a Corporation
Accurate comprehension of the article = blue

Critical analysis of the strengths and weakness of the ideas, concepts or theories = yellow

* Provision of specific comments in the form of criticism, disagreement, synthesis, paradox, curiosity or genuine confusion= green

The premise of the article The core competence of the corporation (Prahalad, Hamel, 1990) is predicated on the assumption of greater communication and collaboration, coupled with accountability on the part of senior managers, leading to organizations discovering their core competencies. The authors make the point that core competence has more to do with communication, involvement and a deep commitment to work across organizational borders (Prahalad, Hamel, 1990). Using examples from Canon, GE, NEC and others, the authors look to support these core concepts with examples and illustrations.

Analysis of The Core Competence of the Corporation

The authors have written a narrative that accurately captured the dynamics that led to the exceptionally….

Competency-Based Education
Chambers, D. etal. (1996, I June). "Another look at competency-based education in dietetics." Journal of the American Dietetic Association 96 (6): 614.

While this article is focused on the usefulness of competency-based education specifically within the field of dietetics, it is helpful for those in other fields as well because it presents an excellent argument about why competency-based education is such a powerful tool. While other training (and evaluation) methods have tended to focus on specific skill sets, competency-based education is extremely helpful in teaching the integrated skills needed for higher-level positions, including helping to inculcate the kinds of critical-thinking skills that are important for management positions.

Foley, G. (1995) Understanding Adult Education and Training. Allen & Unwin: Sydney.

This is one of the most important works on adult education and training within a specifically Australian context (although a number of international examples are included). The first book to offer a comprehensive….

Competencies for All Health Managers
Health care management is one of the most rapidly expanding Professions with great opportunities in both direct and non-direct care. Due to great complexity in the health care environment, the health care providers should have specific managerial and leadership skills. According to (Buchbinder and Thompson, 2012) Direct care are those groups that provide a direct care to the client. Where as Non-Direct care is which provides an indirect care to the client by providing services and products to the direct care setups. The health care managers are required in an out patient care setup, clinic and in physician practices. A large hospital setup also requires a large number of health care managers. While the opportunity for managerial jobs position is expected to increase in a non-direct setup as well as in equipment providing industry and pharmaceutical companies due to the increase in the number of hospital….

Competency Development Plan
First, a little bit about myself. I am a qualified electrical mechanic and I am currently working as an Electrical Maintainer for J&P Richardson Industries in Wacol, Qld. I have been in this capacity for the past eight years. I have come to the conclusion that it is time to take the next step in my career development. For me, that includes seeking out progressive positions, but it also entails upgrading my education. I am seeking a Certificate IV in Instrumentation in order to facilitate my personal growth.

I began my career in Germany, where I apprenticed at a large commercial and industrial services company called Elektro Technik Niesky GmbH, in the town of Niesky in the far East of the country. I stayed there for seven years, finally leaving in 2001 to pursue more advanced opportunities in Australia. I first began work with Stevan Advanced Electrical in Brisbane.….

Yes, there are several essay topics that can present opposing viewpoints on Nestle's corporate level strategies. Some potential essay topics include:

1. "Should Nestle continue to prioritize profit maximization over social responsibility in its corporate strategy?"
2. "Is Nestle's aggressive acquisition strategy beneficial or detrimental to the company's long-term success?"
3. "Does Nestle's focus on expanding into emerging markets help or harm local economies and communities?"
4. "Should Nestle prioritize sustainability and ethical sourcing in its supply chain, even if it means higher costs for consumers?"
5. "Is Nestle's diversification into new product categories a wise strategic move, or does it dilute the company's brand....

Corporate Level Strategies of Nestlé: Opposing Viewpoints

Nestlé, the world's largest food and beverage company, has employed various corporate level strategies to maintain its competitive advantage. However, these strategies have sparked contrasting viewpoints among experts.

Essay Topic 1: The Advantages of Nestlé's Portfolio Diversification

Proponent Viewpoint: Nestlé's extensive portfolio diversification, spanning food, beverages, pet care, and pharmaceuticals, provides several advantages:

Reduced risk: By operating in multiple industries, Nestlé mitigates the impact of fluctuations in any single market.
Exploiting synergies: The company can leverage its expertise and resources across different divisions, creating cost efficiencies and cross-selling opportunities.
Increased growth potential: Diversification allows Nestlé to....

1. Analyzing Nestle's diversification strategy: How has Nestle expanded its product portfolio and entered new markets to drive growth and increase market share?

2. The role of acquisitions and mergers in Nestle's corporate strategy: Discuss how Nestle has used M&A activities to drive growth, acquire new capabilities, and enter new markets.

3. Examining Nestle's sustainability strategy: How has Nestle incorporated sustainability and ethical practices into its corporate strategy to create long-term value and achieve competitive advantage?

4. Evaluating Nestle's global expansion strategy: How has Nestle expanded its international presence and adapted its business model to different markets and cultural contexts?

5. The impact of....

Nestlé's Corporate-Level Strategies: Opposing Viewpoints

Nestlé, a global food and beverage company, has employed various corporate-level strategies to achieve growth and sustain its market dominance. While these strategies have been largely successful, there are opposing viewpoints on their long-term implications and effectiveness.

Viewpoint 1: Acquisition-Led Growth

Nestlé's aggressive acquisition strategy has been a key driver of its growth. It has acquired numerous companies, including Gerber, Dreyer's, and Kraft Heinz, to expand its portfolio and gain market share.

Supporting Arguments:

Acquisitions provide immediate access to new markets and distribution channels.
They allow Nestlé to diversify its revenue streams and reduce dependence on specific products or....