...Running head: GAP ANALYSIS: HARRISON-KEYES Gap Analysis: Harrison-Keyes Curtney Vaughn University of Phoenix Gap Analysis: Harrison-Keyes Harrison-Keyes is a global publisher of print products. The company holds about 22,700 active titles and publishes about 2000 new titles each year. Throughout the years the company’s focus shifted to meet demand. Because of this the company was regarded as a leading publisher of business, scientific and technical information. The company has been faced with several setbacks due to many mishaps, miscommunication, and lack of conducting research. The key players of the organization are: William Guardo- Newly hired CEO Meg P. Hill- Former CEO Robert Smith- CFO Jan Peters- Senior Vice President, Business Development and Head of the Implementation Team Will Harper- Author Dharma Joyce- Executive Vice President, Global Strategy Mark Simmons- Executive Vice President Marsha Goldfarb- Senior Vice President, Marketing Mack Evans- CIO Pete Ross- Production Manager This paper will include valuable information providing information and ideas the organization might consider for their next project. Implementing a plan is the first step to beginning or recreating any project for any organization. Situation Analysis Issue and Opportunity Identification Management and members of the team need to focus on the major goals of the organization. To become...
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...Running head: GAP ANALYSIS: HARRISON-KEYES Gap Analysis: Harrison-Keyes Gap Analysis: Harrison-Keyes This paper will analyze various issues and solutions that Harrison-Keyes (HK) faced as a global print publisher. Their collection of books includes technical and business, scientific and professional and consumer books. Harrison Keyes was established in 1899 and over the last 100 years the company has shifted their focal point on meeting the demands of the market. The company is currently suffering from market woes due to low retailers exhausting the company profits. Harrison-Keyes plans to implement a strategy that will revitalize the company to be a successful and profitable industry leader. Situation Analysis Issue and Opportunity Identification Harrison-Keyes is a global print publisher that is facing challenging issues. Harrison-Keyes anticipates launching a strategy that will revitalize the company and make them a leader in the industry. Meg McGill was hired by Harrison Keyes to initiate the revitalization process because of Meg McGill knowledge of the technologically advanced industry. Meg McGill began the first phase of her e-publishing strategy. In the course of the implementation strategy Meg ran into numerous issues. The implementation process lacked defined scope. “Project scope is the definition of the end result or mission of your project—a product or service for...
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...Week Two: Harrison-Keyes Generic Benchmarking Introduction Leadership in project management and assessing challenges of developing high-performance project teams are two major components of understanding how an organization work together to achieve goals. Harrison-Keyes is dealing with poor planning and implementation issues amongst management. Team A will compare and contrast the components through benchmarking analysis by using the Harrison-Keyes scenario opposed to other companies that faced similar issues. The companies used in the benchmarking review are: K-Mart, Chrysler, Toyota, General Electric, Exxon, Coca-Cola, Cardinal Health, and Starbucks Corporation. Concept/Comparison Leadership in Project Management Harrison-Keyes lacks of visionary leadership capable to establish a viable strategic and tactical management system which effectively contributes to coordinate the project management (planning, development, selection and implementation). By having in place a effective project management, the leadership of Harrison-Keyes may plan, develop, select and implement efficient projects as Toyota Industry Corporation’s leadership did in order leverage its expertise and to turn around the company toward performance, profitability, efficiency and higher competitive corporate value. To have an effective success in project management that can contribute to an efficient leveraging the existent resources and competencies in order to gain performance, profitability, leaner operation...
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...Running Header: Harrison-Keyes, Inc. Benchmarking Harrison-Keyes, Inc. Harrison-Keyes Inc. is an organization that is trying to move into a new market that will enable them to sell their books using new media forums. Many obstacles are currently standing in their way to achieving the success that they believe they can obtain. Like many other companies Harrison-Keyes has turned to benchmarking other organizations that have encountered and overcome similar problems. We will identify organizations that have faced the specific issues that are now present at Harrison-Keyes. We will describe the situations that other organizations found themselves in, how the benchmarked company responded to the specific issue and what outcome was achieved by their responses. We will also identify the key concepts used by the benchmarked companies, and compare and contrast those concepts. Harrison-Keyes is a successful company with award winning authors writing books for them to publish. We will give Harrison-Keyes the tools that they need to keep that team together. We will establish ways for them to overcome obstacles using implementation plans, strategic and risk management as the foundation for success. Compare and Contrast Organizations that have gained recognition for best practices are often mimicked by others to gain or improve their company’s financial status and make them leaders in their markets. To find out which organizations have the best practice solutions, benchmarking research...
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...Charlie Gordon is the protagonist in the short story “Flowers of Algernon,” written by Daniel Keyes. He is a 37 year old with a mental disability and an IQ of 68. Charlie works as a janitor and although he has quite a low IQ, he has a good attitude about changing his life, and to do whatever it takes for him to get smarter. Charlie goes to Miss Kinnian’s class for slow adults to get better at spelling and writing and potentially get smarter. Miss Kinnian teaches literacy skills to mentally retarded adults because she believes that being mentally disabled doesn’t make you less of a Human. Charlie and Miss Kinnian start out the story with a teacher-student relationship, but soon, it becomes a little more than back, but as the story reaches it’s...
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...Charlie Gordon is the protagonist of “Flowers for Algernon”, which is written by Daniel Keyes. He is a mentally retarded man who volunteers to go through a experimental brain operation. It was supposedly going to make him a genius. Charlie is determined to become an astute man, but lots of obstacles get in his way. Charlie is a static character since his spelling, low intelligence level, and his belief in superstitions has stayed the same all through the story. His spelling in the beginning of the story is comparable to his spelling in the end. It is seen through his progress reports. His spelling was terrible at the beginning of the story since he has an IQ, an intelligence quotient, of sixty eight. This number is lower than the IQ of an average person, so a bunch of things in his daily life are affected, such as his ability to learn, and remember things. Having a hard time to learn means that Charlie could not remember how to spell. The quote, “I think I faled it”, is a segment from the beginning of the story, proving his spelling skills are not too strong. His not too strong spelling skills still move on towards the end of the story....
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...The assumption is seen as though, "of course, if Charlie is a martyr, the question is what is he martyred by. The only answer is mental disability itself, now far removed from the earlier pity it produced on the reader, acting as a synonym for eradication..." (Cline 4). Charlie himself isn’t the “issue”, the unfortunate disability is. "Keyes may have wanted mental disability to evoke pity if not compassion in his readers, but he eventually converts it to the novel's primary villain by threatening the "highborn" with a "tragic fall" of cognitive regression..." (Cline 4). He wanted people to feel bad for Charlie and see that the issue wasn’t exactly the disability, rather it was the operation changing how God had made him. “Charlie's return...
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...Death Penalty January 30, 2015 In the video Alan Keyes v. Barack Obama debate on death penalty show reasoning behind each person and the validation they both have in their opinions. An argument is a set of reasons (premises) put forth to support a claim, or conclusion (Mosser, 2011). That is what America is based upon is our right to free speech which allows us the right to our own opinions. The issue at hand is abortion and the death penalty which I agree with Obama that they are of no comparisons. For Alan Keyes to say that slavery and abortion are the same and to compare a slave owner to woman who chooses an abortion is so absurd it makes me sick. As Americans we have a right to choose the outcome of our decisions and while I am not for abortions what so ever, I still believe that it is a woman’s privacy and her decisions to do so. I do think that any child is a blessing from God and that to take that life is not right, but that is my opinion and my view. We don’t need to broadcast a woman’s decision. I slave owner used people for their own chosen and killed them when they didn’t obey. People are not animals and should never be treated this way. The difference here is that slaves were alive, walking, breathing individuals and were born onto this earth. Yes, while a child is alive in a mother’s womb, she may also decide what she wants to do in the long run; no one has to live with the decision but her. I do agree that we are all created equal and should be treated with...
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...If you were given the chance to increase your intelligence, would you? Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes focuses on Charlie, a man who surgically increased his intelligence. In my opinion, the operation improved Charlie's life because of his mental ability, emotional development/feelings, and understanding of others and the world around him. Charlie's life improved because of his mental ability did increase but it did eventually regress. The story shows that Charlie's mental ability increased because before the operation it said, "He said now sit down Charlie we are not thru yet," (page 1, paragraph 3) and after the operation it stated, "How was I to know that a highly respected psychoexperimenalist like Nemur was unacquianted with Hindustani...
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...While Daniel Keyes in “Flowers for Algernon,” portrayed hope for a mentally impaired man, Charlie Gordon, the operation was unsuccessful with devastating consequences. Therefore, Charlie should not have had the surgery; nevertheless, Charlie did not regret the surgery. After the operation, the conflicts between societies developed into something existent for Charlie that he had never experienced before. Charlie was thrilled with the research in effort to make him an ordinary human. What Charlie could not apprehend is that he was merely used as a human experiment to modify other mentally impaired individuals. The failure of the operation permitted Charlie, as a genius, to recognize every individual problem. Following the surgery, impediments...
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...The story “Flowers for Algernon” is based on the research of intellect and Charlie Gordon was the character. Charlie had an IQ of 68. To strengthen his I.Q. and to obtain honor and notoriety for their work, doctors performed an operation on Charlie that heightened his I.Q., but it was short-lived. The first detail that shows Charlie’s advancement is told in Progress Report 2 - March 6th, “I had a test today. I think I failed it and I think that they maybe won’t use me.”, meaning he accepts that he is not performing well and reaching to the acceptance he has more than failed. The second detail is told in Progress Report 11- April 28th, “You’ve got to be a little patient. You’re accomplishing in days and weeks what takes normal people to do...
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...I do not think Charlie Gordon was a hero. It was other scientists that made him intelligent. He became very smart and he added his own formaler as well as mathematical analysis to the medicine, but the results did not make him a hero. He was a guinea pig and his parents allowed scientist to experiment with his body. Charlie thought he was best friends with Joe Carp and Frank Reily, but they just played around with him. When Charlie became intelligent he understood that they were not his friends. Joe and Frank felt inferior. They wrote a demonstration paper to the boss that Charlie should quit his job. They got it through and he eminently got fired. Miss Kinnian was a teacher at a university. The goal there was to make experiments with Charlie. Miss Kinnian learn Charlie to read and write and always stood up for him. They started to get feeling for each other but Charlie had hallucination when they touched each other. When Charlie intelligents became greater than Miss Kennian did she feel scared and inferior. Even Charlies feelings changed, from worship, love, sympathy to gratitude. During a short time when they were on the same level of intelligence became they a couple. Miss Kennian left him when Charlie became dumb again. She was always there for him. Algernon is mouse who went through the same experiment as Charlie. Charlie did not like him because he always won over him in the maze. One day Charlie won and he was very proud. Charlie felt sorry for Algernon and wanted...
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...If you had the chance to increase your intelligence would you? In the science fiction story “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes, Charlie Gordon had the opportunity to have an Artificial Intelligence surgery (A.I.). Charlie was better off having the surgery because he got to help out many people in the science field, he also got to experience the real world and he got to feel all his emotions that have been trapped before. One positive thing that happened after the surgery is Charlie got to experience the real world with an advanced mindset. He got to see his real friends and he was able to experience interactions with other people outside the lab. “You’re like a giant sponge now, soaking things in. Facts, figures, general knowledge.”(Keyes...
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...In “Flowers for Algernon” Charlie is a man with a very low intellect. He goes through a surgery as a test subject to triple his intelligence. The surgery works and Charlie’s intelligence exceeds his teacher, the doctors that came up with and performed the surgery, and his friends and coworkers. Charlie’s way of life worsens due to the surgery. There are many reasons why Charlie’s life worsens. His friends Joe and Frank work with him at a plastic box factory and they invite him to lots of parties. In the text it says “It's a funny thing I never knew that Joe and Frank and the others liked to have me around all the time to make fun of me. Now I know what it means when they say to pull a Charlie Gordon.” This shows how Charlie lost all his “friends”...
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...“Miss Kinnian says maybe they can make me smart. I want to be smart.” (Keyes, 53) Is what Charlie Gordon tells the readers as he is writing in his progress report. In the story “Flowers For Algernon,” written by Daniel Keyes, Charlie Gordon has an IQ of 68. He doesn’t spell very well and really tries as hard as he can to fix that. There is an operation that helps him and triples his IQ, but there are many side effects. He will eventually die of brain deterioration which ultimately makes him end up moving away so that his teacher, Miss Kinnian, and the doctors don’t feel sad. I really do not think Charlie should have gotten the operation. First and foremost, he will eventually die of brain deterioration. After Charlie triples his IQ, he starts some more research about his operation and the mouse they did it on first, Algernon. After a while, Algernon dies. Charlie gets a little suspicious and does an autopsy. He finds out that he died because of the operation and he lost a lot of brain mass. “Dissection shows that my predictions were right. His brain had decreased in weight and there was a general smoothing out of cerebral convolutions as well as deepening and broadening or brain fissures. I guess the same thing is or will soon be happening to me.” (Keyes, 80) He is realizing that his brain is doing the same thing....
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