Dotcom.com is a software engineering and systems development consulting firm that needs some organizational improvements in the area of project management processes that will cut cost and potentially increase the profit margin for the company.

Share your answers for the following questions.

Discuss how you would begin redesigning dotcom.com’s project management processes to minimize the problems it is experiencing with poor scope management.

Why do you think configuration management and project change control are difficult to perform in the middle of a complex software development project, such as those implemented at dotcom.com?

Share any experiences you have with project change requests.

Before beginning work on this assignment, please review the expanded grading rubric for specific instructions relating to content and formatting.

Money has different values based on time. Money in your pocket has a current value, but money owed to you has a varying value based on how sure it is that you will receive it and when. It is possible to estimate its value. In this assignment, you will analyze the value of money on the basis of this Weeks learning.

Review to attain more information on how the value of money is based on time.

Find the following values for a lump sum assuming annual compounding:

• The future value of $500 invested at 8 percent for 1 year
• The future value of $500 invested at 8 percent for 5 years
• The present value of $500 to be received in 1 year when the opportunity cost rate is 8 percent
• The present value of $500 to be received in 5 years when the opportunity cost rate is 8 percent
• Analyze present and future values and their implications for the balance sheet and the budget of an organization.

Submission Details:

• To support your work, use your course and textbook readings and also use the South University Online Library. As in all assignments, cite your sources in your  work and  provide references for the citations in APA format.
• Your assignment should be addressed in a 2- to 3-page document.

Executive Summary Instructions

This week, develop an executive summary for your long report. Remember the executive summary should be one to two pages and focus on the highlights of your report. Submit the executive summary above using the link provided. Please note that only the Executive Summary should be submitted this week.

In this assignment, you are to use the same corporation you selected and focused on for Assignments 1, 2, and 3.

Consider the corporation you have selected to use in your first three assignments.

Research the company on its own website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission , the University’s , the , and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions.

You will do a 15-minute presentation to the Board of Directors of the corporation. Develop an eight- to twelve-slide PowerPoint presentation with speaker notes or record a video based upon Assignments 1 through 3. You may choose to compare your chosen corporation to a major competitor with whom you would like to work. You will make recommendations to the Board of Directors based upon your analysis and decision on why the corporation remains or is not a good fit for you. 

Requirements

Determine the impact of the company’s mission, vision, and primary stakeholders on its overall success as a competitive employer in the industry.

• Create a SWOT analysis for the company to determine its major strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
• Based on the SWOT analysis, outline a strategy for the company to capitalize on its strengths and opportunities, and minimize its weaknesses and threats.
• Discuss the various levels and types of strategies the firm may use to maximize its competitiveness and profitability.
• Outline a communications plan the company could use to make the strategies you recommend above known to all stakeholders. 
• Assess efforts by this corporation to be a responsible (ethical) corporate citizen and determine the impact these efforts (or lack thereof) have on the company’s bottom line. Provide specific examples to support your response.
• Develop an executive-level PowerPoint presentation with 812 slides with speaker notes and appropriate graphics or professional video.
• Go to  and locate at least three quality references. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not quality as academic resources.
• References must be submitted on a Works Cited page using .

Use the to ensure that your assignment meets the above requirements.

The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is as follows:

• Develop a corporate presentation based on a SWOT analysis, strategies for maximizing competitiveness and profitability, a communications plan, and an assessment of efforts related to ethics.

You have just opened a healthcare center in a major American city. You have a handful of employees and your main business is to provide urgent-care medical services, pharmacy, patient education, and various kinds of therapy. Answer the following questions?

1. How will you be competitive and provide services at a reasonable cost using technology and innovation?

2. How will you be able to sustain a competitive advantage using technology and innovation?

3. What measures would you take to initiate innovative strategies within your company?

4. Explain what type of innovations is available to you, including dominant design, and incorporate that into your strategy for initiating innovation strategy.

5. What type of technologies, innovations, and so forth. will enable you to become a first mover and describe how and when you will implement these strategies?

6. Describe your strategies for assessment of company performance by using Porters fiveforce model, stakeholder analysis, and other measures. What areas of competition do you need to be especially cognizant of in order to remain competitive and relevant in the healthcare provider industry?

Your report should be 4 pages in APA format and contain detailed and convincing reasons in support of each one of your recommendations. It is imperative that the support offered for each of your recommendations be based on analysis-based conclusions.

Complete the Self-Assessment 2-1 on page 43 of the text. Are you “a planner”? Briefly discuss your results, especially areas in which you scored lowest. What do you think you could or should do to improve in these areas? Can you help out any other discussion group member on what they might try to do to become a stronger planner? Can they help you out?

 Complete Skill Builder 3-2 on pages 110-111. You only need to share your answer to the “Apply It” question, but you can share your other answers if you like. Discuss these, including what caused you to answer the Apply It question the way that you did.  Have you had similar experiences to others in your discussion group? 

Your Project Sponsor has approved your project proposal and has asked you to come up with a proposal for the execution, control, and closure for the project.

Instructions:

For this assignment, you will provide a four to six (4-6) page paper, in which you must:

1. Provide a brief summary of your chosen project.
2. Identify and discuss your projects greatest challenges (at least three) and provide a recommendation for addressing each of the challenges.
3. Examine how you manage your project performance via Earned Value Management (EVM). Identify at least three key EVM metrics you will use for your project.
4. Discuss your plan to properly close your project when it is over.
5. Use at least three (3) academic resources for this assignment. These resources should be related to your chosen project and the content provided in Assignment 3. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• This course requires the use of . The format is different than other Strayer University courses. Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the students name, the professors name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.

Students must write their research for their Journal Article Summary on organizational behavior

DEFINITION: a brief definition of the key term followed by the APA reference for the term; this does not count in the word requirement.

SUMMARY: Summarize the article in your own words-this should be in the 150-200-word range. Be sure to note the article’s author, note their credentials and why we should put any weight behind his/her opinions, research or findings regarding the key term.

DISCUSSION: Using 300-350 words, write a brief discussion, in your own words of how the article relates to the selected weekly chapter reading Key Term. A discussion is not rehashing what was already stated in the article, but the opportunity for you to add value by sharing your experiences, thoughts and opinions. This is the most important part of the assignment.

 The role of ICE Intercontinental Exchangeof the market in the economy/company/fund 

One page, APA

You must cite all sources. Ensure that you have some scholarly sources (at least 3 recent scholarly sources published after 2010). The other sources of information for the project should be your textbook, the internet, library and statistical data.