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In this scenario, you will assume the role of quality assurance manager at Vila Health's Independence Medical Center. You have been asked to review the current EHR system after some concerns were raised about the system not being fully compliant with new regulations and meaningful use guidelines. After your review, you will present your findings and recommendations to the leadership team.
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Prepare a PowerPoint presentation of 8–12 slides concerning the best practices and emerging models in HIM and EHR. In your presentation:

    Explain meaningful use guidelines and what they mean to an organization's current state of compliance.
    Explain the new MIPS and what this means for the organization's EHR system.
    Explain an organization's current EHR system and its data process to meet regulatory guidelines.
    Analyze how an EHR system could improve the quality of care, simplify existing processes, and improve patient outcomes.
    Explain best practices for an organization to maintain meaningful use compliance as it relates to current incentive programs and policies.
    Recommend evidence-based approaches for implementing new practices for end-user functions, training, and ongoing compliance.
    Communicate analysis and recommendations of an EHR system in a manner that is clear and concise

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For this assignment, you will need to identify a topic that is trending on social media. It can be anything of your choice - a brand you follow, a news story, a celebrity or anything else trending in social media.  Compare and contrast how different social media outlets are promoting your trend.  Consider the following and prepare a written analysis of 1 - 2 pages.  
•    Are the messages comparable across multiple social media outlets?
•    Are different outlets promoting different aspects of your trend?
•    If you didn't know anything about the topic prior, would you be able to gain adequate knowledge just by looking at a few social media platforms?
•    Is the social media engaging (are the posts being shared, liked and/or commented on)?  
•    If you had to prepare a content strategy for this trend or topic, what would some other messages be?

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1. Read Strategic Management in Action Case #3: Netflix
   
   2. Post a 2-4 page paper answering the following:
   
   3. Which strategy (Prospector, Reactor, or Defender) do you feel Netflix should use?
   
   4. Relative to Netflix's resources, capabilities, competencies, and core competencies, how have they contributed to its success.
   
   5. Explain how Netflix focuses on the three functional concerns (product, people, and support processes). Look at design and how it is delivered to the customer. Mention production and operations also.
   
   6. Point out Netflix's competitive advantage relative to its value chain.

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Answer the questions below:

I’ll TWEET You at the Water Cooler

Bob was the CEO of Cornerstone, a global consulting firm.  With 160 consultants based in 17 offices in 11 countries,  Cornerstone was considered a medium-sized firm in its principle area -- innovation man-agement.  It had experienced steady growth over the last seven years by Bob’s predecessor, and had reasonable success in attracting both clients and staff.
Bob had a broad network of clients and colleagues as a result of professional organization member-ships with whom he kept in touch and with whom he had often spoke about industry news and trends.  Recently, several of Bob’s friends had told him about how they had started blocking many of the social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, and other social media tools from the the workplace computers and network.  Usually Bob did not get involved in instructional technolo-gy (IT) decisions unless they involved large investments or strategic alliances; for example, in supply chain integration.  
Six months earlier a large client of Cornerstone (an oil company) with had experienced a severe securi-ty breach when employee internet use enabled hackers to access confidential information about oil reserves and pricing.  Such use had caused difficulties with certain applications and had caused several computers to crash.  On one weekday, the main support application for the entire Exploration Division had been down for six hours.  Another business day it was plagued with challenges when consultants were unable to enter their billable hours into the tracking and billing system.  
The oil company’s IT Department had decided to shut down access to a wide swath of external inter-net applications until they could find ways to maintain security and ensure which business applications could run efficiently.  The Executive VP of Information Systems noted:
“We simply do not have the manpower to deal with the technical issues that have to be solved in order for employees to use social media sites and Google tools.  Not only does it take an army of people to make sure that security is not breached and uptime guaranteed, but, it also requires additional Help Desk resources for managing requests and problems.”  
Bob now needed to decide how to balance the restrictions his own IT Department wanted to impose upon employee use of the internet; and specifically, social media with the business benefits he thought it offered the company.
Another big client Bob knew well had forbidden employee use of social networking sites on their work computers because they felt as if productivity was suffering.  The problem was largely, but not exclu-sively, the result of abuse by certain individuals, but the client’s top management now regarded any external use of the internet as a productivity killer.  An anonymous survey showed that most of the emails sent in a day were private and that most of the external websites accessed were social net-working sites.  To make matters worse, some employees were using work computers to post infor-mation on their personal blogs that was critical of the company and its products.  The situation re-minded Bob of what a CEO friend had told him over coffee in Switzerland:  
“Trust is good but control is sometimes better.  Bernie Madoff’s clients can give you 60 billion reasons for not trusting anyone.  And don’t you remember it was Ronald Reagan who started his talks with the Soviets by saying : 
“Trust but verify.”

Productivity had become Bob’s primary concern as profitability had decreased over the last 18 months.  During the last meeting his directors had given him explicit directions to monitor productivity so Bob’s top priority had now become finding ways to improve employee efficiency.  Restricting internet access seemed an obvious area for investigation.  What was most important was the number of billable hours each consultant submitted each month and social website use certainly was not billable by any stand-ard Bob could imagine.
However, when he went to see his HR Director Carolyn, he heard a completely different take on the matter:
“Corporations that limit internet use make the assumption that there is a wall between personal and work life.  This may be true for some people.  When they go home, they turn off the office phone and computer and turn on the per-sonal phone and computer.  However, many people blur the boundaries between work and personal life.  This is espe-cially true in today’s knowledge-intensive economy, where output and results count for more than an employee’s physical presence in a specific location for a specific time.  Moreover, there are some employee groups who may need high flexibility to make ends meet.” 
Carolyn, an insightful observer of human behavior continued:
“Downtime at work is not a new phenomenon.  However, the way I see it with the arrival of the internet, it has been redefined.  Reading the newspaper or walking the halls has been replaced by surfing the web and connecting with friends on the internet.  Most people are not capable of concentrating on specific tasks for extended periods of time.  We all remember this from school or our college days.  Breaks are needed and in fact, research shows that a moderate amount of social media usage and other similar “decompression” exercises can actually increase productivity.  Per-haps Facebook is the new cigarette break.” 
Bob asked her if there was a business reason for not limiting social media use. 
“Companies that don’t take advantage of social media websites will lose out in the war for talent.  By restricting them, companies are alienating the next generation of employees who see these sites as part of their “toolkits.”  They inte-grate the sites into their way of working through swift access to information and their professional contacts.  When companies block access to widely used sites, they are basically saying they don’t trust their employees.  It’s doubtful that blocking access to these internet sites will increase youngsters’ appetites for corporate life  or retain those who are already there.”
Talking with a friend he had known in high school who had launched several successful internet ven-tures, Bob heard a similar opinion.  
“Companies that cut off access to the diverse and timely information on the Internet particularly through social net-working tools are at a competitive disadvantage.  Isolation leads to inferiority and cultures that do not adapt to change become extinct.  “No man is an island” and the same can be said of organizations.  To cut oneself off from information streams, means getting rid of market connections and potential multiplication effects.  There are clear advantages associated with using a growing and evolving network for work purposes.  These are seen with both in-ternal and external internet use.”
Returning to his office, Bob reflected on the fact that unlimited external website use by employees resulted in decreased productivity, compromised the security of confidential company data, and gave disgruntled employees the tools to spread negative publicity quickly.  Limiting or prohibiting internet use at work had its own disadvantages:  Increased controls created a sense of distrust in employees, curtailed the company’s ability to take advantage of the internet and social media, and meant that employees occasionally working from home, or needing to occasionally manage personal issues from the office, may not have this flexibility.
Bob recognized that social media applications like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and LinkedIn are a part of modern life, but he was beginning to see how their use in the workplace revealed a tension be-tween trust and control.  While Bob wanted to ensure productivity and control, internet use by em-ployees whose judgment or ethical standards may be questionable compelled him to foster an atmos-phere of trust and collaboration.  He wondered if his debate was just a larger version of previous poli-cy discussions he had had about employee use of applications such as  Google toolbar or of work phones for personal calls.  Bob didn’t know what to do next……………….

CASE QUESTIONS:
1.    Discuss the ethical issues and their implications to be considered in the case.
2.    Should Bob just forbid use of all social websites and give IT the go ahead to block all of these sites?  Or should he choose to let internet use be unrestricted?
3.    Outline how you would handle the situation if you were Bob.

Please use  credible sources for any facts and figures and provide references.  Please base your ethical argument on a body of literature that supports your approach.  Post your responses to the Tweet Me Forum.

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The Effect of Training and Development on Corporate Services Team Performance

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Huber (2004) wrote on the topic of organizational learning and knowledge acquisition. He noted that a firm or organization’s survival is linked to three dependencies:

• Survival in a dynamic and competitive business environment requires innovation.
• Innovation requires new knowledge, or a new way of combing current knowledge.
• New knowledge, or a new way of combing current knowledge, requires learning (Huber, 2004, p. 118).

Considering all of the changes and learning that has been accomplished in your field of study during the past two decades, what have you studied or seen as innovative or linked to the creation of new knowledge?

During your course of study, you have been exposed to the areas of distance learning and virtual teams (whether working as a group or with your instructor(s) on a one-on-one basis), so you have seen innovation in terms of moving the classroom from a physical location into a virtual state. With this virtual state in mind, more and more organizations have been able to operate globally to a larger degree. Thus, the sharing of knowledge between organizations has become a valued commodity in the workplace and marketplace.

Specifically, as you write your response to this question, you may want to incorporate how your current level of knowledge can be used in an innovative way to help strengthen or increase the knowledge in your field. Also, you may want to consider how your experience in distance learning has changed or not changed your views on globalization, distance learning, and/or knowledge management.

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describe how a Human Resource department should align the strategies and goals of the organization, to the methods of motivating their workers towards maximum performance.

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Analyze the Case Study "Take it or Leave it" on page 51-52 of your textbook. Prepare a paper answering the following questions:

·        Why did Martin become disappointed?
·        Do you think that Beth's decision was reasonable? Why or why not?
·        What are some factors that Beth should consider when transferring employees from Atlanta to San Jose?  From San Jose to Atlanta?

Support your analysis with at least two recent scholarly sources to substantiate your insights.

·        The analysis should be presented in APA format.
·        The analysis should be 3-5 pages in length, excluding the title page, abstract and references.
Case 1: Take It or Leave It

Both John Johnson and Martin LeBlanc are employed as systems software engineers for a budding social media company with offices in San Jose, California and Atlanta, Georgia. In fact, John and Martin studied at the same university and were in several courses together. Both were hired last year at about the same time, assigned to work in the Atlanta office. John accepted the company’s salary offer of $65,000 and Martin negotiated a slightly higher starting salary. Both salaries were competitive with starting pay for software engineers employed in Atlanta.

After six months on the job, Martin’s manager, Beth Liu, called him into her office to discuss his early job performance. Beth lavished Martin with praise, citing his technical skills prowess, for taking the initiative to recommend system improvements, and his demonstrated ability to work well with others. Of course, Martin was pleased, and he expressed satisfaction in his role and he promised to make more impressive contributions to the company.

Beth said that she was pleased to hear Martin’s thoughts and indicated that she looked forward to his further contributions. Then, she went on to say that a software engineer in the San Jose office left the company and asked him to fill the vacancy. Martin was excited to hear the news because he had hoped to work in the San Jose office one day.

Before leaving Beth’s office, Martin asked her to confirm his new salary rate. Beth was puzzled by the question because Martin would be assuming the same role in San Jose. She reminded him of this fact and indicated that his salary would remain the same. Following company policy, Martin could expect to receive future pay increases based on performance or promotion into a higher-ranking job. His excitement turned to disappointment and he had second thoughts about moving to San Jose and began wondering whether he should take it or leave it.

Questions:

1.      2-6.Why did Martin become disappointed?

2.      2-7.Do you think that Beth’s decision was reasonable? Why or why not?

3.      2-8.What are some of the factors that Beth should consider when transferring employees from Atlanta to San Jose? From San Jose to Atlanta?

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Module 07 project


Research Training Manual

Competencies
* Develop research strategy skills for business analysis.
* Examine the use of qualitative and quantitative studies for business research.
* Explore problem-solving skills for business analysis.
* Propose business strategies based on research and analysis using relevant information sources.
* Create professional documents for presenting research, analysis, and business strategy recommendations.
* Explore techniques, tools, and approaches to design and produce an effective professional presentation for an appropriate business audience.
Scenario
You are a new manager in a research and development department at an agricultural chemical company. Your department engages in high-level scientific research for new product development and improvement upon existing products. Your department also engages in business research to support your sales and marketing teams. While both types of research employ the scientific method, the approach differs.
Company policy dictates that business research documents be formatted in a specific way and include the following elements: research strategies, research methods, data analysis, and business strategies based on findings. There is also an expectation that the research results will be presented in settings outside of the R&D department. This may be in the form of a summary document or a presentation.
You have decided to prepare a manual for your entry level business research analysts that provides a guide for the format and presentation of their final research project. The manual will be a step-by-step reference guide for the completion and presentation of a research project. The manual will include direction on the elements described above.
Write a manual in Microsoft Word for business analysts that will assist them with the completion and presentation of a research project.
* Section one should be titled Research Strategies and should include the following subsections:
    * Problem statement - Define what a problem statement is and how that evolves into a research question.
    * Research Objectives – Define what research objectives are and how they are related to the research problem.
    * Literature Review – Define what a literature review is, its purpose, and the type of information that will be included.
        * Ethics in Research – Explain ethics in research and why they are important.
* Section two should be titled Research Methods and should include the following subsections:
    * Sampling Design – Define what a sample is in business research and how to determine strategies for a choice of sample.
    * Research Design – Define what research design is and the various methods used to collect and analyze data.
    * Data Analysis – Define data analysis and the various approaches to display data.
    * Limitations – Define limitations and how they can affect research results.
* Section three should be titled Business Strategies and should include the following subsections:
    * Conclusion – You will explain what should be included in the conclusion of a business research report.
    * Recommendations – Describe how recommendations are developed based on a business research report.
* Section four should be titled Presentation and should include the following subsections:
    * Executive Summary – Explain what an executive summary is and how to effectively present data in this type of document.
    * Presentation – Describe the elements of an effective presentation and visualization tools that can be employed to ensure success.
Resources
* Business Source Complete
* Business via ProQuest
* APA Guide

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1) Use Peng, Threats of the Five Forces to analyze the case. Review the list of forces and threats and contemplate the causal relationship between them. Can you explain each relationship between a condition (e.g., economies of scale are low/high) and its impact on a force (e.g., threat of new entrants is high/low)? Can you explain the mechanism by which a condition affects a force, e.g. what’s the causal link between economies of scale and threat of new entrants? 

2) How attractive is the smartphone industry in 2013? What are the most important competitive factors in this industry? 

3) What role do complementary products and services play in this industry? Which companies have been the most successful in leveraging the benefits of complementary products or services? 

Using the data contained in the case, analyze the smartphone industry in 2013. What practical advice can you offer for Samsung? Be sure to support your theoretical insights with evidence from the case.
❖ Understand why and how industry affects the performance of companies
❖ Conduct analysis to understand the structure of an industry and determine its attractiveness

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Module 05 Project 


Write a Paper on Business Ethics, Business Intelligence, Operational Performance, and Market Trends


Competency
Analyze operational decisions of healthcare organizations and the impact on business performance outcomes.
Instructions
New changes in healthcare are causing rising concerns with how healthcare organizations may be performing. With that being stated, you will focus on the following areas as to explain and evaluate operational performance and market trends in this 21st-century healthcare dynamics.
Create a 2-4 page detailed research paper that provides at least 1-3 or more examples or explanations that will address the following healthcare issues:
1. Examine the importance of business ethics vs. social responsibility.
    * Ex. Developing codes of conduct that is adverse to corporate social responsibility.
2. Compare and Contrast the use of data analytics in a data-driven society without the use of a proper IT software program to collect business intelligence.
    * Ex. Some providers are not using current and more applicable software programs to analyze their data; instead, they are relying on memory and checking hard copies folders to analyze patient outcomes.
3. Explain the gap in making decisions and the validity of healthcare trends on performance without the correct data.
    * Ex. Lack of using EMR or EHR may cause gaps in decision-making and accuracy of collecting appropriate data, which may subsequently impact performances and trends.
NOTE - APA formatting and proper grammar, punctuation, and form are required. APA help is available from this link - APA.

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When you protect a worksheet, you have the option of assigning a password to it. What are some of the potential problems these procedures prevent? Describe the purpose of digital signatures. What are the benefits of using digital authentication?