...Integrative Problems and Virtual Organization Strategy Paper Meline Constantin, Angela Currier, Brett Kinney, Nicole Mcclelland, James Schmidt, and Kevin Sult FIN 370 June 20, 2011 Cheryl Heath Integrative Problems and Virtual Organization Strategy The medical world has started to join corporate America. Large companies run multiple hospitals and medical facilities across the world and it puts smaller community hospitals in a position that is not always beneficial. Patton Fuller Community Hospital is no exception. They have decided to expand to help meet the demand of the public and to help their hospital make profits necessary to keep the facility running. However, there are some decisions that need to be made. The hospital could have an IPO or could merge or be acquired by another hospital. To decide which option is best, Team B will weight the pros and cons of each option by showing the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats created with each option. Strengths of an IPO, Acquisition and Merger The strengths of an IPO in a hospital would be to raise more capital for PFCH to use for their various corporate purposes such as working capital, acquisitions, and marketing, to name a few. With PFCH taking advantage of an IPO we can take advantage of new larger opportunities that can start building toward incorporation and statewide expansion. IPOs also allow the company to access their capital more rapidly, and are...
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...Syllabus College of Information Systems & Technology NTC/362 Version 1 Fundamentals of Networking Copyright © 2013 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course provides a foundation in the basic telecommunications and networking technologies fundamental to the industry and to the broad field of telecommunications. Analog, digital, and radio frequency technologies are covered. Also covered in this course is an introduction to the OSI protocol model, network-switching systems, basics of wireless communications, and network security. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: · University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. · Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read the policies governing your current class modality. Course Materials Goleniewski, L. (2007). Telecommunications essentials. (2nd ed.) Boston, MA: Pearson. Panko, R. R., & Panko, J. L. (2011). Business data networks and telecommunication (8th ed.) Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall All electronic materials...
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...Integrative Problems and Virtual Organization Strategy FIN/370 Integrative Problems and Virtual Organization Strategy The Huffman Trucking Company was founded by K. Huffman in Cleveland, Ohio in 1936 with one tractor-trailer. By 1945 the company grew to 16 tractors and 36 trailers. Some of the most important clients are the U.S. Government, automotive, electronic, and plastic industries. The company has four locations: Cleveland, OH, Los Angeles, CA, St. Louis, MO, Bayonne, NJ (Apollo Group, Inc. 2011). The company grew through the increase of internal sales, and the acquisition of five different carriers from the East. Up until now, this growth has enabled the Huffman Trucking to continue to be privately held. Huffman Trucking now wants to expand operations and is considering three separate options to do so. This paper will compare Huffman’s options to go public, acquire another organization within the same industry, or merge with another organization. Going Public By going public the Huffman trucking company will improve its liquidity, gain more acquisition opportunities, as well as the ability to gain capital at a lower cost ("Going Public Experts", nd). The process of going public is not all beneficial; some of the down sides are the extensive time needed to complete the process. Furthermore, the payments of millions of dollars in fees such as legal, accounting, printing, listing, filing, along with the government fees pay to meet the tough standards regulation...
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...|[pic] |Course Syllabus | | |College of Information Systems & Technology | | |NTC/362 Version 1 | | |Fundamentals of Networking | Copyright © 2013 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course provides a foundation in the basic telecommunications and networking technologies fundamental to the industry and to the broad field of telecommunications. Analog, digital, and radio frequency technologies are covered. Also covered in this course is an introduction to the OSI protocol model, network-switching systems, basics of wireless communications, and network security. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at...
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...Integrative Problems and Virtual Organization Strategy FIN/370 Integrative Problems and Virtual Organization Strategy In this paper, Team C will discuss Huffman Trucking Company and recommend a strategy that is best for this company and what will benefit the company the most. It will discuss the strategies such as undertaking IPOs, merging with other companies and ways to get other companies, as a way to help their company to branch out. Some of the other things that will be discussed are the benefits and risks, the advantages and disadvantages of all the approaches that should be taken into consideration for what is the best way to strategy for the business, the strengths and weaknesses of each approach, and the opportunities that each one has to give. Finally, the last thing discussed is the globalization on financial decisions, factors of the exchange rate risks, and the mitigation of exchange rate risk. The one thing that Huffman Trucking Company has is strength and they can use this if they decide to go public through the IPO. By doing this Huffman Trucking will be able to raise extra capital for the company. This will then increase the liquidity of the stocks and it will increase the revenue to invest or it could extend the business. This will give the Huffman Trucking Company an opportunity to market the company to the public to extend the company’s service. This strength is to be able to limit their competition. Therefore, this will increase the business’s...
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...Integrative Problems and Virtual Organization Strategy Paper Integrative Problems and Virtual Organization Strategy Paper Fuller-Patton Community Hospital (FPCH) has been in operation since 1975. The management of FPCH would like to upgrade and expand its operations in the community. In order to do so, a large influx of resources would need to be obtained. There are a variety of ways FPCH could add to its resources in order to accomplish its vision. These include taking FCPH public by holding an Initial Public Offering (IPO), acquiring another facility out right, or merging with another facility. This will be to compare and contrast each of these resource opportunities and to ultimately decide on a course of action. Strengths of the Various Resource Opportunities As stated, FPCH has various opportunities to generate an influx of resources in order to be able to expand their operations. The first of these opportunities is to enter an IPO. An IPO is the initial sale of stock in the hospital to the public, basically making those who purchase stock partial owners in the company. An advantage to an IPO is there is an instant influx of cash resources into the business. This influx of cash can then be used to make the upgrades and expansions that FPCH is envisioning. In addition to the instant influx of cash, another benefit of an IPO is that it generates publicity for the hospital and can increase their market share because of the added exposure. Another avenue that FPCH is...
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...Communication in Resolving Team Conflict John Cathey 50023176 Manuscript Assignment MGT 567.01W: Managing Groups & Teams Abstract Organizations have been creating teams in an effort to improve communications, processes, respond to customers, or develop new processes or services. Conflict within teams is not new nor is it unexpected or always destructive. Organizations are looking at new ways to form teams and technology has increased the ability to form teams from diverse locations. Teams no longer must be formed from a single location, there are now virtual teams. These teams may be made up of members from different time zones or countries. There is also a new form of team to explore, communities of practice, a group of people that share information, insight, tools, and experience about a subject or area of interest (Kerno & Mace, 2010). What types of conflict arise in these types of teams, do managers need to manage the conflict differently, or does conflict affect these teams differently? This paper looks at the types of conflict found in each of these teams as well as the impact conflict can have on team productivity. It is important for those managers responsible for teams understand the impact of conflict and how to successfully manage it to ensure the team meets or exceeds the goals set by the organization. This paper will provide some insight to assist managers with that task. The Importance of Communication in Resolving Team Conflict Managers know...
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...Organizational Behavior, 15e (Robbins/Judge) Chapter 14 Conflict and Negotiation 1) ________ is defined as a process that begins when one party perceives another party has or is about to negatively affect something the first party cares about. A) Problem solving B) Assessment C) Conflict D) Negotiation E) Collective bargaining Answer: C 2) Conservationists have had a perpetual conflict with the government of the United States over the fast and rampant depletion of the earth's natural resources. They argue that the United States must reduce its consumption level significantly to rectify this problem. Which of the following, if true, would most strengthen the conservationists' argument? A) The United States has been conserving forests for several years. B) Most countries have not taken any measures to reduce their consumption levels of natural resources. C) There are several countries that have more requirements for resources than the United States. D) The United States accounts for one-third of the total world resource consumption. E) New resource deposits are constantly being discovered. Answer: D 3) According to the traditional view of conflict, all conflict is ________. A) harmful and must be avoided B) natural and helps generate discussion C) necessary and improves creativity of a group D) healthy and improves productivity E) rational and cannot be avoided Answer: A 4) According to the ________ view of conflict, conflict can be a positive force in a group and some...
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...SEGMENTATION WITH NEURAL NETWORK B.Prasanna Rahul Radhakrishnan Valliammai Engineering College Valliammai Engineering College prakrish_2001@yahoo.com krish_rahul_1812@yahoo.com Abstract: Our paper work is on Segmentation by Neural networks. Neural networks computation offers a wide range of different algorithms for both unsupervised clustering (UC) and supervised classification (SC). In this paper we approached an algorithmic method that aims to combine UC and SC, where the information obtained during UC is not discarded, but is used as an initial step toward subsequent SC. Thus, the power of both image analysis strategies can be combined in an integrative computational procedure. This is achieved by applying “Hyper-BF network”. Here we worked a different procedures for the training, preprocessing and vector quantization in the application to medical image segmentation and also present the segmentation results for multispectral 3D MRI data sets of the human brain with respect to the tissue classes “ Gray matter”, “ White matter” and “ Cerebrospinal fluid”. We correlate manual and semi automatic methods with the results. Keywords: Image analysis, Hebbian learning rule, Euclidean metric, multi spectral image segmentation, contour tracing. Introduction: Segmentation can be defined as the identification of meaningful image components. It is a fundamental task in image processing providing the basis for any kind of...
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...Abstract Today the world has more and more of free flow of information leading to transfer of knowledge from a person or an organization to others. Whereas this invariably leads to faster development, it also impacts the competitive advantage held by the innovators of processes or technology. It has therefore become strategically important for one and all in business to understand the knowledge, processes and controls to effectively manage the system of sharing and transferring the information in the most beneficial fashion. This paper dwells upon definition, types, scope, technology and modeling of knowledge and Knowledge Management while examining its strategic importance for retaining the competitive advantage by the organizations. What is knowledge? Plato first defined the concept of knowledge as justified true belief'' in his Meno, Phaedo and Theaetetus. Although not very accurate in terms of logic, this definition has been predominant in Western philosophy (Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1995). Davenport et al. (1998) define knowledge as ``information combined with experience, context, interpretation and reflection''. The terms knowledge'' and information'' are often used inter-changeably in the literature and praxis but a distinction is helpful. The chain of knowledge flow is data-information-knowledge. Information is data to which meaning has been added by being categorized, classified, corrected, and condensed. Information and experience, key components...
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...MGT/311 Final Examination Study Guide This study guide will prepare you for the Final Examination you will complete in the final week. It contains practice questions, which are related to each week’s objectives. In addition, refer to each week’s readings and your student guide as study references for the Final Examination. Week One: Individual Employee Characteristics Objective: Evaluate individual characteristics of employees. 1. Jan is a security officer. Jan believes that it is important to know exactly who is in the office at any given time. She notices that some employees do not sign out of the office when they take lunch, which makes it impossible to keep track of who is actually in the office. Jan becomes frustrated with those employees. She makes note of them and reports them to their supervisors. In the above scenario, what is the behavioral component of Jan's attitude to the employees who did not sign out of the office? a. Jan does not like that some employees do not sign out of the office when they take lunch. b. Jan finds it impossible to keep track of who is actually in the office. c. Jan becomes frustrated with those employees who do not sign out of the office. d. Jan notes which employees leave the office without signing out, and reports them to their supervisors. 2. Joseph was very excited about moving into his new office with a window, after 4 years of working in a cubicle. However, after moving in, he found that nothing...
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...1. Jan is a security officer. Jan believes that it is important to know exactly who is in the office at any given time. She notices that some employees do not sign out of the office when they take lunch, which makes it impossible to keep track of who is actually in the office. Jan becomes frustrated with those employees. She makes note of them and reports them to their supervisors. In the above scenario, what is the behavioral component of Jan's attitude to the employees who did not sign out of the office? a. Jan does not like that some employees do not sign out of the office when they take lunch. b. Jan finds it impossible to keep track of who is actually in the office. c. Jan becomes frustrated with those employees who do not sign out of the office. Jan notes which employees leave the office without signing out, and reports them to their supervisors. 2. Joseph was very excited about moving into his new office with a window, after 4 years of working in a cubicle. However, after moving in, he found that nothing had really changed. His level of work satisfaction remained the same. Which of the following explains what happened to Joseph? a. People tend to overestimate the pleasure they will receive from a future positive event. People tend to overestimate the sadness they will feel when experiencing a future negative event. c. People experience both positive and negative emotions differently. People tend to do a good job...
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...APPLICATION OF e-LEARNING IN TEACHER EDUCATION Abstract The increasing demand for education at all levels of learning poses a major challenge on the quality of education being offered. This paper discusses the growing popularity of e-Learning and how this mode of learning can enable teacher trainees across the globe to benefit from the best of education from regions that pride in the high quality of education offered by their institutions. This paper further shows how e-Learning, has made immense contributions in bridging the gap in the quality of teacher education. Finally, proposals on the way forward are made. The Author Mr. Robert Masinde, [B.Ed (Arts) University of Nairobi, M.Phil in Educational Communication and Technology Moi University]. Currently pursuing D.Phil in English Education at Moi University and lecturer Department of Communication Studies with research interests in e-Learning and New Media. Moi University, P.O Box 3900 Eldoret Email: robjuma2001@yahoo.com Introduction In many less developed countries, the quality of education has been compromised by lack of trained teachers, insufficient learning materials, and poor infrastructure. The cost of teacher training is also prohibitive due to poverty. There are also limited chances in teacher training institutions whereas many high school graduates meet the minimum requirements for admission. Most teacher education institutions are understaffed thus compromising the quality of teaching and research. They...
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...company is the human resource department. Not only is it the driving force of the company it is also one of the most critical factors of the company’s structure. A successful corporation must employ the right individuals who are suitable for their position. Every profession and job comes with an expectation of appropriate compensation which is commonly based on industry standards and competitors set rates. As the company within this paper is faced with problems of inflated expenditures, defects in the product WooWoo which resulted in delivery delays. Although negative these glitches are common and a successful company needs to be prepared to execute a plan of action to address and correct problems when they arise. Executives are required to ensure that the problems do not trickle down to the workforce, which can drop the motivation level and reduce team work between the employees as is the case in this study. The following measures represent actions that can be taken in order to design an effective motivational plan for the organization. Starting with investing in compensation packages. Given that the company currently only employs 50 employees, and considering that the sales of its widget are high, a slight investment in the compensation packages of all employees should be considered in order to increase motivation, job satisfaction and high productivity. Refining the compensation package allows the employee as well as the entire team to be incentivized to increase...
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