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 You have been appointed the director of strategic planning for the Fortune Global 500 company you selected in Module One. (Toyota)
The vice president of strategy and operations (VP) has confided in you that strategic planning has been a challenge for the company over the past year; specifically, crafting new strategies and aligning them to the company’s mission and goals. You have now been tasked with creating a new strategic planning proposal to help the company explore at least one new growth opportunity to increase its revenue or market share in the industry.
Your proposal should present a detailed analysis of the company’s internal and external environments as well as specific actions the company can take over the next five years to achieve the targeted growth. Your proposal will be presented to various stakeholders at different levels in the organization, so you will need to adapt parts of your proposal to suit different needs. Additionally, you will need to send a shorter executive summary of your proposal to the leadership team.
Directions
Strategic Planning Proposal
Complete an analysis of your company and organize this information into a presentation. Compile all slides from your milestone assignments to create a final presentation for your stakeholders. Use resources such as the company website, which will have pertinent information including its sustainability report, and other relevant sources to help complete this presentation. Be sure to address any feedback you have received on your milestone assignments.
Part 1: Presentation
Your final presentation should include the following elements:
Perform an internal environment analysis of your company to understand the company’s current business environment and future goals. Present the results of your analysis.
Overview (slide 1): Provide a brief overview of the company’s products, services, and customer base.
Existing entities (slides 2–3): Identify at least two existing partnerships, mergers, or acquisitions. Explain how these entities contribute to the company’s revenue or market share.
Five-year goals (slide 4): Speculate on what the company wants to achieve in the next five years by considering their mission statement, values and goals, and relevant sections of their sustainability report.
Perform an external environment analysis of your company to identify the company’s competitive environment and find an opportunity the company can utilize to grow its revenue or market share in the industry. Present the results of your analysis.
Competitors (slide 5): Identify at least two of your company’s top competitors and explain how they compete with your company.
Competitive advantages (slides 6–11): Evaluate your company’s competitive advantages.
Summarize the unique skill sets, products, location, and values of your company.
Use Porter’s five forces to analyze your company’s competitiveness and growth potential in its industry. Assign a rating to your company for each of Porter’s five forces as very high (VH), high (H), low (L), or very low (VL). Justify your ratings.
Area of opportunity (slides 12–13): Identify one area of opportunity that will help your company increase its revenue or market share over the next five years. Explain how this opportunity can lead to an increase in revenue or market share.
Conduct a buy-build-ally analysis for your company and recommend actions your company can take to realize your identified opportunity within five years.
Implementation strategy (slides 14–17): Recommend an implementation strategy for your company.
Determine whether the company will need to buy, build, or ally with another company. Consider the skills, facilities, products, and services the company will need, to capitalize on the identified opportunity.
Use the speaker notes of your presentation to explain the strategy behind your buy, build, and ally recommendations.
Timeline (slides 18–19): Construct a timeline of what your company should achieve by the end of each year for the next five years.
(Note: Use both on-screen text and speaker notes to convey your information effectively. For example, you can use brief bulleted lists summarizing the highlights of your analysis on the slide and include more detailed explanations where needed in your speaker notes.)
Part 2: Executive Summary
Create an executive summary of your strategic planning proposal. Remember to consider the audience and purpose of this report when drafting your summary.
Purpose: Briefly explain the purpose of the proposal.
Current business environment : Describe the internal and external business environments of the company.
Outline the various analyses you conducted and briefly summarize their importance.
Describe the opportunity for growth you identified and how it will impact the company’s revenue or market share.
Recommendations : Recommend actions, such as buy, build, and ally, that the company should take to utilize the identified opportunity and explain the reasons for your recommendations.
What to Submit
To complete this project, you must submit the following:
Stakeholder Presentation
Submit a PowerPoint presentation with 18–20 slides. Sources should be cited according to APA style. Consult the Shapiro Library APA Style Guide for more information on citations.
Executive Summary
Submit a 2-page Word document with 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. Sources should be cited according to APA style. Consult the Shapiro Library APA Style Guide for more information on citations. 

Complete exercises 3 and 4 at the end of chapter 21

Please use “Clearly Visual Basic: Programming with MS Visual Basic 2010 (2nd ed.). Zak, Diane

Ch 21 Pg 396 “Clearly Visual Basic: Programming with MS Visual Basic 2010 (2nd ed.). Zak, Diane.

Ex 3 &4. In this exercise you modify the application from TRY THIS Excersice 1.

Create a short presentation in PowerPoint that provides an overview of your System Security Plan. Make sure you discuss the following:

• Baseline Analysis results
• Potential Vulnerability results
• Certification Test Matrix
• Obstacles you needed to overcome
• Recommendations and best practices

This presentation should be 5 – 10 slides.

• What scenarios do you think a router acting as a DHCPv4 server is the best  course of action?
• If the DHCPv4  server is not configured, does the dhcp service running on the router pose  a security risk?
• What happens if the default gateway of your host went down?
• What would happen if there were two possible default gateways, but the one your host      connected to went down?
• What configuration or process do you consider to be the cornerstone of layer 2 security?
• In what instances would a dedicated management VLAN be too cumbersome to      implement?
• How could DHCP Snooping negatively impact a user who is authorized to connect to the LAN?
• What is it about the data that DHCP Snooping collects that is so foundational to other LAN security mechanisms?
• Why are static routes a necessity in modern networks?
• What is the drawback to using static routes in your network?
• Given a topology, can you explain how a packet travels from source to destination?
• Which commands would help you solve a static route problem

Part 1 – Microsoft Word

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Scenario

You belong to a neighborhood group that meets monthly for informational talks. You are in charge of the upcoming talk and your topic is recycling. You may live in an area that has a recycling bin that gets emptied on a weekly basis, but your informational talk will focus on recycling centers near you. You are tasked with reporting to your neighbors where to recycle hazardous waste, electronics, and appliances that will not fit in or are not appropriate for the bins. You will need to make a handout in a Word document for your neighbors to take with them.

Research

Research what hazardous waste is and why it should be recycled properly. Do the same for electronics and appliances, noting your sources along the way.

1. Using the Internet, find three recycling centers near your neighborhood. Among these three there should be options for recycling hazardous waste, electronics, and appliances; a single recycling center may not accept all three of these, but make sure between the three recycling centers that these needs are met. You will make note of what recyclables they accept, their locations, and their phone numbers for a table you will create. Keep track of the sources of this information for your reference page.
2. Locate photos or images of each of the three types of recycling: hazardous waste, electronics, and appliances; making sure to note the sources of each photo or image.
3. Using the information from your research, write an introductory paragraph, a one-paragraph summary for each of the three types of recycling, and a conclusion paragraph, for a total of five paragraphs. You will use these paragraphs in the document you create below.

Word Document

Use Word to create a helpful and professional-looking document for your neighborhood group.

1. Create a new blank Word document. Do not use a template.
2. Save the document with the filename Recycling_MEID.docx. Replace “MEID” with your actual MEID.

Document Editing

1. Use the new document you created to complete the following:
   1. Choose a theme other than the Office default. Change the theme colors and the theme fonts from the Office default.
   2. Give your handout an appropriate title using WordArt and center the title at the top of the page.
   3. Create a border around the title and apply a fill color of your choice. Make sure you can still easily read the text.
   4. Give your handout a subtitle using your name. The subtitle should be centered under the title and have an appropriate style applied.
   5. Insert your five paragraphs (introduction, hazardous waste recycling, electronics recycling, appliance recycling, and conclusion) from your research. Be sure to insert APA-style in-text citations to credit the sources of your information and include entries in your References section at the end of your handout.
   6. Format your report using single line-spacing for your five paragraphs, and 1-inch left and right margins.
2. Use the following features to make your report eye-catching:
   1. Insert a heading for each of the five paragraphs and apply an appropriate style to the headings.
   2. Insert a picture of each of the three types of recycling within the corresponding text of your handout. Resize each image to an appropriate size and apply text wrapping to ensure the picture remains with the corresponding paragraph. Make sure to add a caption to each image and include entries in your References section at the end of your handout.
   3. Apply a picture style to each image.
3. Before your conclusion paragraph, insert a 4×4 table to give the details of the three recycling centers for your neighbors’ handy reference. Your first row should contain the column headings of the Name of the Recycling Center, Address, Phone Number, and What Recyclables they Accept. (Although you must list if they accept hazardous waste, electronics, and/or appliances, you may choose to list other items they also accept.) In the Accepted Recyclables column, bold the text that identifies hazardous waste, electronics, and appliances recyclables. Apply a Table Style other than the Office default.
4. Your conclusion paragraph can be a summary of your information or a call-to-action for your neighbors to properly recycle.
5. Insert a Watermark indicating that your handout is a Draft.
6. Check spelling and grammar.
7. Insert a three-column Footer with your name, MEID, and course/section number.
8. You must cite the resources used for the content of your handout in proper APA style. Additional information concerning APA style can be found in the Grading Matrix for Essays. Be sure that your handout includes the following items:
   1. In-text citations within the body of your handout to document the sources for all content and to connect each source to its corresponding reference.
   2. Captions under each photo or image.
   3. A References section in APA format on a separate page at the end of your handout.

Save and close the Recycling_MEID.docx document.

Part 2 – Microsoft PowerPoint

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Scenario

Your local library is hosting a technology night and they have asked you to create a brief overview of three different cellphones from three different cellular service providers. Your job is not to sway your audience, but to provide a small amount of information.

Research

1. Using the Internet, search the sites of three different cellular providers and/or manufacturers to find information on new cellphones. For each of the three cellphones you will need to find information on who manufactures the cellphone, what the model is, how much memory it has, what operating system it runs on, and what colors are available. You will also need to find out which cellular provider you will purchase it from and how much it will cost. You will select a different manufacturer and model at each cellular provider’s site, so you end up with three different models of cellphone and three different providers.
2. Locate a photo or image of each cellphone, making sure to note the source.

PowerPoint Presentation

1. Create a new blank PowerPoint presentation.
2. Save the presentation with the filename CellphoneComparison_MEID.pptx. Replace “MEID” with your actual MEID.

Presentation Editing

1. Apply an appropriate theme to the presentation other than the Office default.
2. On the first slide, enter an appropriate title and use your name as the subtitle. Use an appropriate slide layout for the slide.
3. Create three additional slides with appropriate slide layouts to highlight the information you collected during your research:
   1. For the titles of these slides, include the manufacturer and model of the cellphone (e.g., Samsung Tracfone).
   2. Information you provide in the bullets should include the cellular provider, price, memory, operating system, and colors available. Use a bullet style other than the default.
   3. Insert a picture or image of the cellphone. Resize each image to an appropriate size. Make sure to add a caption to each image and include entries in your References section on the last slide of your presentation.
4. Insert a new slide with an appropriate slide layout and insert a table that includes all of the information from the three previous slides. Give this slide an appropriate title.
5. Insert a new slide with an appropriate slide layout to add a list of References in APA style for each of the images and the sources of information from your research.
6. Apply a transition between all slides. Use timings to advance the slides.
7. Apply an entrance animation to the images on each slide. Select an appropriate timing “Start” option.
8. In the Notes pane of each slide, identify the slide layout you used.
9. In the Notes Master View:
   1. Add your name and MEID to the header of the presentation.
   2. Add your Course and Section Number to the footer of the presentation.
10. Use the options in the Set Up Slide Show dialog box on the Slide Show tab so that the presentation runs continuously on the Library kiosk.
11. You should have a total of six slides.

Save and close the CellphoneComparison_MEID.pptx presentation.

Submit Your Assignment

After completing both sections of the project, submit your Word and PowerPoint files following the instructions in the lesson.

An ANOVA is when we want to run a means test on more than 2 groups. However, the same basic structure of the hypothesis testing that we have done remains.

Using the hockey data, test if there is a difference between the true average number of goals scored by the different divisions. Second, test if there is a difference between the actual mean number of goals allowed by teams of different quality (where teams with at least 100 points is the top tier, those with 90-99 are the middle tier, and those with less than 90 make up the bottom tier).

If either of these tests show significance, run a multiple comparisons test among the groups. (Note that this is essentially the two sample testing we just did but with an adjustment to ensure that we don’t have inflated error probabilities.) Use a 0.05 significance level for all tests.

As you do this for your own data set, ensure that at least one of the two problems shows significance and requires pairwise comparisons. Unless impossible to avoid, do not use more than 4 groups — there’s nothing that says you can’t, but it’ll make your report much more tedious. Also note that if you only have 2 groups, that’s a two sample independent mean test and not an ANOVA; we did that last assignment, so ensure that you have at least 3 groups in your analysis.

Implementing a Priority Queue by using a max Heap.

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Please provide an elaborate answer to each of the following questions: 

1. How does the use of virtual memory improve system utilization? 

2. Why is the principle of locality crucial to the use of virtual memory? 

3. What are the four conditions that create deadlock? Explain your reasoning. 

4. What are the three conditions that must be present for deadlock to be possible? Please explain your point of view. 

5. What criteria are important in choosing a file organization? Justify your answer with facts. 

6. What are some advantages and disadvantages of sequential file organization? Please explain your point of view. 

7. What are the differences between a blocking I/O and a non-blocking I/O? 

8. Cite the differences between the implementation of hardware RAID and software RAID. Express your point of view. 

Notes:

Word Count: 5000 words (maximum) 

• Please read and apply the rules for referencing

• Overall presentation 10% 

• Structure 10% 

• Introduction 10% 

• Main body Critical analysis/evaluation 50% 

o Recommendations 10% 

o Conclusion 10% 

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