Twin-Tech Designs

You have been asked to present at a professional organization’s meeting and the topic requested was “Twin Technologies – Low-Tech and High-Tech Job Aides”.

Create one version that is interactive for a live audience in the same room with you. Provide some time for your own presentation as well as some time for group participation.

The organization’s webmaster is going to video tape your presentation but wants you to provide a design for an interactive event, for those individuals who were unable to attend. The Webmaster will build this interactive event in Flash. Therefore, you can combine slides, questions, and designated video segments of you presenting or of participants responding to questions. Use the Interactive Technology Design Template provided. Define for the webmaster, what how to translate the low-tech in-person design into a somewhat interactive, web-based design. Use the Interactive High-Tech Design Template. 

Finally, submit here a one Page paper summarizing of your insights and discoveries during this exercise and a link to your design, using APA format.

Your paper should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. Please include citations to support your ideas

Write a paper of 20–25 pages that demonstrates the ability to design a large-scale transformative change initiative utilizing the theories and methods explored in the course (including theories supporting the open systems model). Your paper should describe the qualitative (character) measures and the quantitative (performance) measures of a real life or fictional organization of at least 5,000 employees. Your paper should include the following information:

• Introduction: Give a  brief description of the organization, including an organization chart,  industry position, and financial information. 
• Diagnosis of the problem: Why is a transformation needed? Possibilities include technology changes, loss of market share, or decreasing profits. In this section of the paper, you will describe the internal and external      environment of the organization that you are in charge of transforming. 
• Transformation strategies: What transformation strategy or strategies do you plan to employ based on your diagnosis? Include qualitative and  quantitative measures for any strategy that you decide to employ. Also include roles and responsibilities for each element of your transformation  strategy. 
• Summary: Provide a summary of the expected output from your transformation strategy,  including a before-and-after comparison of organization performance.  Include time frames for all performance improvements. 

Nutrition in the Wilderness

Having explored backcountry medical concerns over the past three weeks, we should have seen a continuing trend of proper planning and preparation as the primary preventative practice (the 6 Ps) for nearly all medical concerns (and other identifiable risks). Another more specific topic that we should have identified, is that of proper nutrition and hydration. 

Your body works most efficiently when it has stores of energy readily available to use. Proper hydration and nutrition allow your body (and brain) to work at their highest capacity. 

This week please read the following article- Nutrition in the Wilderness_An Exploration of the Nutritional Requirements of Backcountry Travelers.pdf

Supplement your reading with your own exploration of internet sources (blogs such as- https://blog.nols.edu/2015/07/02/what-you-should-be-eating-in-the-backcountry (Links to an external site.)) (info sheets- https://www.pcta.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/204-Backcountry-Nutrition-Myths-Facts-Quiz-Answer-Key.pdf (Links to an external site.)).

After you have completed the readings create a three-day backcountry menu that you could use on your next trip. Your menu should list the DAY, FOOD ITEMS, and CALORIC VALUE for BREAKFAST, LUNCH, DINNER, and SNACKS. (Example- Capture.JPG)

Please create this menu as if you are in the backcountry, away from the amenities and services of the front country. For example, you may have a camp stove or open fire, but probably do not have an ice chest. Or make the argument that you are backpacking in the snow, to a backcounty hut (https://www.backpackerspantry.com/blog/7-best-backcountry-wilderness-huts-in-america (Links to an external site.)) and you may be able to keep food cold, and cook over a stove. Ground your pragmatic decision in reality, with a flair of imagination in planning for this potential trip. 

Post your menu below to share your creative ideas with the rest of the class

Write a 1-2 page paper. Paper should be typed, double-spaced using Times New Roman (font size 12-point) with 1-inch margins on all sides

No Cover Page is require for this assignment. Please include your name, professor’s name, Title of the paper and the date of submission of the assignment. 

Please provide references on a Reference Page that includes two reputable sources.

Remember all papers must follow Strayer Writing Standards, not APA for citing sources in the text of the paper and on the Reference Page. See the link in BB titled, “Strayer Writing Standards.” Failure to cite sources amounts to plagiarism and will not be acceptable in this class.

This is a resource – you are not required to answer all these questions but your answers should reflect an understanding of all these questions.

1. Pursuant to contract law, is the waiver of liability legal and do Brian’s verbal assurances become part of the contract? Why or why not?  

· Foundation comes from reading Chapters 11, 12 – Jennings, Marianne. (2018). Business: Its’ Legal, Ethical and Global Environment (11th ed.). Mason, OH: Cengage Learning. 

· Explain contract law and contract formation with required elements

· What is a waiver of liability and what makes it valid?

· Can a contract be verbal or is it required in writing?

· Can what someone says override the contract terms or, become part of a contract?

· When can liability be waived?

2. Does Peta have a product liability case against the mower manufacturer Ferrari for a design defect, manufacturing defect, or failure-to-warn defect?  

· Foundation comes from reading Chapter 13 of textbook. 

· Explain product liability and the causes of action.

· When is a manufacturer liable for their product and when are they not?

3. Does Lori have a claim for her injuries and can she recover pain and suffering damages or worker’s compensation?  

· Foundation comes from reading Chapter 13 of textbook and, research on state worker’s compensation laws. 

· What is worker’s compensation and when is it available to employees?

· What is the law as to worker’s compensation? 

· How does worker’s compensation differ from suing in court?

· Explain damages and what is available to recover for product liability?

Use at least two (2) quality resources in this assignment. 

· Quality resources are course textbook, published books, academic journal articles, expert reports and case law. 

· Wikipedia is not accepted. 

 Looking for Good A++ work for the following Assignment. Need done by 10/23/2020. No plagiarism please. Good quality work. 

As a first-year Human Resource Specialist at “State of Estates” estate planning firm, your boss (Will N. Trusts) presents you with the following two scenarios:

Scenario 1

Gary, an estate planner, works on a contract basis for our clients at “State of Estates”. On occasion, we contract Gary to handle a specific client for a specific estate planning job. Per our contract with Gary for these specific clients, he is paid commission on a weekly basis based on the overall fee received by the firm. When working for these specific clients, Gary is able to use our office space, equipment, and any supplies necessary to complete the job. To ensure consistent work product and regulatory compliance, Gary submits his work to a supervisor, who approves it and send it to the client on behalf of our firm. Recently, we had to lay Gary off in the middle of a job and he filed for unemployment compensation.

• What legal tests could be employed to determine whether Gary is an independent contractor or employee?
• Based on these tests, what is your conclusion as to Gary’s status: independent contractor or employee?

Scenario 2

Susan, a financial products representative in our Nebraska office, landed a major Mutual Fund client just six weeks before planning to retire. In the interim, and before her commission was paid, she was let go by our firm. We did not have a contract for employment with Susan. She is now suing us for wrongful termination.

• Would any exceptions to Susan’s at-will employment apply under these circumstances?
• Does it make a difference if Susan was employed in our Florida office?

Apply the concept of employment at-will and its various exceptions, including differences in approach to at-will among the states.

Write two 175-word memorandums based on the scenarios in one document. The memos should be written in third-person voice, and include citation of references (both in-text and at the end of the memo) in APA format.

Architecture and Infrastructure

Think about a company you know well.  

What would be an example of IT architecture at that company?  

What about IT infrastructure?

What is the difference between a decentralized architecture and a centralized architecture?

How might you apply what you learned from weeks 1-4 to your current or previous place of employment? Please be specific.

 Discuss the differences between a project mission, vision, goals, and objectives. 

Discussion 1

Prior to beginning work on this discussion, go to American Airlines (Links to an external site.)’ and Samsung Electronics (Links to an external site.)’ most recent annual reports by clicking on the “Investor Relations” link found at each company’s website. The companies and their Internet addresses are listed below.

Company Name

Website

Product

American Airlines Group Inc. (AAL)

http://www.aa.com (Links to an external site.)

Airline tickets

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (SSNLF)

https://www.samsung.com/us/ (Links to an external site.)

Electronics

American Airlines and Samsung are offering their products and services like many other companies over the internet. In an initial post of at least 200 words use the most recent annual filings for American Airlines and Samsung Electronics in Form 10-K to answer the questions below:

• Determine the following for each company:
  • A product description
  • A product price
  • A list of costs that are required to produce and sell the product selected in the product description as listed in the annual report on SEC Form 10-K
  • Whether the costs identified above are fixed costs or variable costs.
• Which of the products do you believe has the largest markup on variable cost?
• While Samsung is a hugely popular brand, holding its shares has never been easy for U.S. investors. How can an investor buy Samsung stock in the US?

Discussion 2

Prior to beginning work on this discussion, please read about the Economic Value Added® (EVA®) and the Balanced Scorecard management systems on the websites of the Corporate Finance Institute (Links to an external site.) (CFI) and the Balanced Scorecard Institute (Links to an external site.) (BSI) respectively. 

The consulting firm Stern Value Management designed the EVA® and the Palladium Group designed the Balanced Scorecard as breakthrough performance measures to rank ordering processes for investments and help clients create value.

Prepare in an initial post of at least 200 words a report describing the Balanced Scorecard and the Economic Value Added and their claimed advantages. Then compare these two systems to corporate and divisional performance measurement.

Begin by selecting a contemporary safety issue for today’s first responders. Research a specific Emergency Support Function (ESF), and locate an article from the library that focuses on the protection of first responders or receivers who support your chosen ESF. Your article should have been published within the last decade; be peer-reviewed; and be published in a credible, academic journal. 

Address the components listed below in your critique. 

• Discuss the specific ESF. 
• Describe how this function is focused on the protection of the first responders or receivers. · 
• Identify any practices or policies related to first responder safety, the role(s) of the safety officer, or first responder occupational health.    
• Explain how this article shows consideration and evidence of how the protection of first responders or receivers within a community or workplace can be strengthened. 

For example, if you were to choose firefighting as your ESF, you might conduct a search in the CSU Online Library by using key terms such as firefighter safety. As a result, the article below may be produced. Although you cannot use the following article for your critique, the resource merely works as an example to represent the type of article that would be appropriate for this assignment. Notice that the article is current and has been published in a peer-reviewed academic journal.

Campbell, M. J., Dennison, P. E., & Butler, B. W. (2017). Safe separation distance score: a new metric for evaluating wildland firefighter safety zones using lidar.  International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 31(7), 1448–1466.