Analyzing the Market

The project assignment provides a forum for analyzing and evaluating relevant topics for this week on the basis of the course competencies covered.

Introduction:

In this week, you explored the first two steps involved in the strategic planning process. Specifically, you examined how to conduct the internal and external assessment. Likewise, you learned how to create the mission, vision, and critical success factors of a healthcare organization.

In this assignment, you will evaluate the condition of a specific healthcare market on the basis of the competition present. This will require that you research two healthcare organizations in a similar geographic location and either conduct a SWOT analysis or use Porters five forces model.

You will have the flexibility to select any two healthcare organizations (which offer similar services) that serve the same geographic location.

For example, you may be interested to research two skilled nursing facilities (a type of service) in Minneapolis, Minnesota (location). In this example, you would need to research two existing skilled nursing facilities in Minneapolis and complete an assessment tool for each.

Please review the following resources and using specific information from these resources, your course resources, and additional research, address the tasks posed below:

Resources:

• United States Census 2010. (n.d.). Interactive population map. Retrieved from https://www.census.gov/2010census/popmap/
• United States Census Bureau. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.census.gov/
• Medicare.gov. (n.d.). Find & compare doctors, hospitals, & other providers. Retrieved from https://www.medicare.gov/forms-help-and-resources/find-doctors-hospitals-and-facilities/quality-care-finder.html

Tasks: 

• Select a type of healthcare service (acute care, rural health clinic, long-term care, home healthcare, etc.) and a location (city/state) that interests you.
• Provide an overview of the two healthcare organizations and location you selected.
• Either conduct a SWOT analysis or use Porters Five Forces model for each of your selected healthcare organizations.
• On the basis of your findings, recommend which of the two organizations you identified has the competitive advantage in the specific geographic location you selected.

To support your work, use your course and text readings and also use the . As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.

Submission Details

• Present your response in a 4- to 6-page Microsoft Word document formatted in APA style.
• On a separate page, cite all sources using APA format.

Introduction:

The mission and vision statements are important elements in the strategic planning process. Without having an understanding of where an organization is in the marketplace, it is challenging to align itself competitively into the future.

In this discussion, you will explore the mission and vision statements of healthcare organizations in your community. Likewise, you will use the information gleaned from this week to develop an original mission statement and vision statement for a hypothetical healthcare organization that you intend to introduce into a specific marketplace. Finally, in an effort to apply the objectives from this week into your professional career, you will develop a personal mission statement.

Tasks:

• After researching two similar healthcare organizations in a specific geographic location, discuss the similarities and differences between their mission and vision statements.
• Develop a mission statement and vision statement for a hypothetical healthcare organization that you aim to develop in your community.
• Develop a personal mission statement that includes your core values, academic and professional goals, strengths, and dreams for your future.

To support your work, use your course and textbook readings and also use the . As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.

Your initial posting should be addressed at 5001,000 words 

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Market Conditions

The project assignment provides a forum for analyzing and evaluating relevant topics for this week on the basis of the course competencies covered.

Introduction:

Over the next few weeks, you will explore the steps involved in the planning process and how they work together to develop the overall strategic direction of an organization. An important element of the planning process is understanding the marketplace. In the marketing spectrum, this refers to having the ability to identify and relate to your target audience. Once you understand your target audience, you can better ascertain its decision-making process as a consumer (thereby ensuring that your organization remains strategically placed in the market). Likewise, it is important to identify the competition in the market and assess its ability to provide services. Without these abilities, there is no strategic direction for the organization to move.

In this assignment, you will assess the condition of a specific healthcare market based on its current population. This will require that you research a type of service, location (city/state), and the demographics of the respective population. Understanding these variables will help you examine whether there is an opportunity for new market entry with a similar service (creating new competition).

You will have the flexibility to select any type of healthcare service and any city/state that interests you.

For example, you may be interested to research acute care (a type of service) in Savannah, Georgia (location). In this example, you would need to research the existing acute care market and population in Savannah.

Please review the following resources and, using specific information from these resources, your course resources, and additional research, address the tasks posed below:

Resources:

• United States Census 2010. (n.d.). Interactive population map. Retrieved from https://www.census.gov/2010census/popmap/
• United States Census Bureau. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.census.gov/
• Medicare.gov. (n.d.). Find & compare doctors, hospitals, & other providers. Retrieved from https://www.medicare.gov/forms-help-and-resources/find-doctors-hospitals-and-facilities/quality-care-finder.html
• United States Department of Labor. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.dol.gov/

Tasks:

• Select a type of healthcare service (acute care, rural health clinic, long-term care, home health care, etc.) and a location (city/state) that interests you.
• Provide an overview of the type of service and location you selected.
• Summarize the population (demographics, density, etc.) of the location you selected (include unique trends, unusual population density, trends, etc.).
• Discuss the presence of competition in the location you selected (presence, density, unique services provided, etc.).
• Recommend whether you would develop new competition in this target market (consider existing competition, workforce, etc.) on the basis of your findings.

To support your work, use your course and text readings and also use the . As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.

Submission Details

• Present your response in a 3- to 5-page Microsoft Word document formatted in APA style.
• On a separate page, cite all sources using APA format.

The United States is experiencing a deficit in healthcare providers, especially physicians. This deficit is expected to increase as the population segment aged sixty-five and older continues to rapidly age. As a result of the increasing demand, some state boards are expanding the scope of practice for advanced practice nurses (nurse practitioners), physicians assistants, and other clinicians (clinical psychologists and others) to perform duties traditionally reserved for a licensed physician. For example, in some states, nurse practitioners have the authority to prescribe medications. Likewise, pharmacists are permitted to provide flu shots.

Despite intentions to fill the gap of a provider deficit, changing the scope of practice for healthcare professionals has received mixed reviews. Many healthcare associations and medical societies are voicing their strong opposition against these practices.

From the South University Library, read the following:

Considering the recent paradigm shift in healthcare, discuss this movement and its implications for competition. How can changing the prescribed privileges of a provider affect competition? What benefits and challenges exist as a result of expanding the scope of practice for a clinician? Considering this new entry into the market, is this type of competition considered disruptive innovation? Why or why not?

To support your work, use your course and textbook readings and also use the . As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.

Your initial posting should be addressed at 5001,000 words 

  

Imagine that you have been hired as an arbitrator in a legal dispute between the government of Tanzania, a U.S.-based petroleum company, and an environmental advocacy organization (e.g., Greenpeace, Earth System Governance Project, United Nations Environment Programme, etc.). 

At dispute is the financial and moral obligation of the petroleum company to terminate coastal oil exploration that is polluting the local fishing waters in the Indian Ocean.

 The Tanzanian government benefits financially from the exploration, with the promise of great riches if vast oil reserves are discovered. As a poor, third-world country, Tanzania desperately needs these revenues to provide basic subsistence (food, medicine, shelter) to its citizens. 

Legally, the petroleum country has broken no domestic or international laws; the environmental advocacy group, however, has made legal claims to the contrary, suggesting that the petroleum company, at the least, has violated international law by risking the economic livelihoods of local fishermen in Tanzania and in the neighboring countries of Kenya, Somalia, and Mozambique. The advocacy group further claims that the petroleum company has violated the basic principles of Earth stewardship by delaying humanitys movement away from dependence on fossil fuels.

Construct an essay that responds to the following:

• Briefly outline both the valid and questionable positions of each party, and suggest ways that each party might find common ground in a mutually acceptable resolution to this dispute. 

In evaluating your essay, your professor will be looking for evidence that you grasp the overall concept of assigned chapters in this Phase, that you are able to apply that knowledge in a thoughtful and meaningful way, and that your arguments are coherent and defensible.

Introduce yourself; offer your educational and professional background as well as any other interesting things you care to share. Next, offer your perspective on transparency. In Chapter 3 of their book Trust and Betrayal in the Workplace, Reina and Reina suggest that although one might “assume that they are obligated to share only what they need to complete specific tasks or projects” (p.45), this couldn’t be further from the truth.

Considering the statement above, discuss why leaders might provide information about their activities and decision making, even when employees may not be directly affected? Do you support this notion? Explain why or why not.

  

I have a written assignment due. I will attach the requirements needed to complete this assignment. Please be advised that there is a 300 word minimum for this assignment. Must use required reading for in text-citations. Must use APA formatting.

Note: Only up to 20% of content in the written assignment can be quotes from third parties. 

  Assignment 1:  Communication Process

Find a Web site that has an About Us section or a Press Release section.   
Write a three to four (3-4) page paper addressing the following:

Identify the Web site, the sender, and perceived receiver.

Analyze the integrated business communication.

Assess the media richness of the section.

Describe how the message is framed.

Identify opinion leaders.

  

Points: 320

Assignment 1: Communication Process

 

Criteria

Unacceptable

Below   70% F

Fair

70-79% C

Proficient

80-89% B

Exemplary

90-100%   A

 

1. Identify the Web site, the sender, and perceived   receiver.

Weight: 10%

Did not submit or incompletely identified the Web site,   the sender, and perceived receiver.

Partially identified the Web site, the sender, and   perceived receiver.

Satisfactorily identified the Web site, the sender, and   perceived receiver.

Thoroughly identified the Web site, the sender, and   perceived receiver.

 

2. Analyze the integrated business communication.

Weight: 15%

Did not submit or incompletely analyzed the integrated   business communication.

Partially analyzed the integrated business communication.

Satisfactorily analyzed the integrated business   communication.

Thoroughly analyzed the integrated business communication.

 

3. Assess the media richness of the section.

Weight: 15%

Did not submit or incompletely assessed the media richness   of the section.

Partially assessed the media richness of the section;   omitted some key information.

Satisfactorily assessed the media richness of the section.

Thoroughly   assessed the media richness of the section.

 

4. Describe how the message is framed.

Weight: 15%

Did not submit or incompletely described how the message   is framed.

Partially described how the message is framed.

Satisfactorily described how the message is framed.

Thoroughly   described how the message is framed.

 

5. Identify opinion leaders.

Weight: 10%

Did not submit or incompletely identified opinion leaders.

Partially identified opinion leaders; omitted some key   information.

Satisfactorily identified opinion leaders.

Thoroughly   identified opinion leaders.

 

6. Make recommendations for improving word choice.

Weight: 15%

Did not submit or incompletely made recommendations for   improving word choice.

Partially made recommendations for improving word choice.

Satisfactorily made recommendations for improving word   choice.

Thoroughly   made recommendations for improving word choice.

 

7.   Clarity

Weight: 10%

Did not complete the assignment or explanations are   unclear and not organized.

(Major issues)

Explanations generally unclear and not well organized.

(Many issues)

Explanations generally clear and/or organized. (Minor   issues)

Explanations very clear and well organized.

(Added helpful details.)

 

8. Writing Grammar, sentence structure, paragraph   structure, spelling, punctuation, APA usage.

Weight: 10%

Did not complete the assignment or had 8 or more different   errors in grammar, sentence structure, paragraph structure, and spelling,   punctuation, or APA usage. (Major issues)

Had 6 7 different errors in grammar, sentence structure,   paragraph structure, and spelling, punctuation, or APA usage. (Many issues)

Had 4 5 different errors in grammar, sentence structure,   paragraph structure, and spelling, punctuation, or APA usage. (Minor issues)

Had 0 3 different errors in grammar, sentence structure,   paragraph structure, spelling, punctuation, or APA usage.

Make recommendations for improving word choice.

The format of the paper is to be as follows:

Typed, double-spaced, Times New Roman font (size 12), one-inch margins on all sides, APA format. Microsoft Word document.

Use headers for each of the subjects being covered, followed by your response.

In addition to the three to four (3-4) pages required, a title page is to be included. The title page is to contain the title of the assignment, your name, the instructors name, the course title, and the date.

Note: You will be graded on the quality of your answers, the logic/organization of the report, your language skills, and your writing skills.

The assignment will be graded using the following rubric:

  

Outcomes   Assessed

 Analyze   the integrated business communication process and   elements.      

 Analyze   the relationship between the sender and receiver in the communication   process.

Use technology and information   resources to research issues in business communications.

 
 

  

Cultural Influences.  
 

You are meeting with an international client in the Middle East and want to make sure you have addressed any cultural issues that might impact the success of your meeting.

Numerous theorists discuss cultural concepts. Using this information as a basis, discuss the concepts you would want to analyze and evaluate in order to prepare you and other company executives for the upcoming meeting.

Determine which of the concepts you discussed would be the hardest to analyze. Explain your reasoning.

Describe a worst case scenario involving the muddling of culture concepts. Determine the steps you (or your company) can take to ensure something similar never happens to you.

“Employment Relationship and Discrimination”  Please respond to the following: Question 1:

• Question 1 : From the e-activity, visit the EEOC website link provided and select any three (3) types of discrimination and discuss. What key laws are applicable to the discrimination types you selected?  http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types.

Question 2:

• What benefits can a diverse workforce provide to an organization?
• What are the possible negative consequences for an organization that does not embrace diversity?
• What strategies can managers implement to enhance cultural awareness and overcome preconceived biases or stereotypes?