...Executive Summary Peachtree Healthcare consists of a network of 11 large and midsized institutions that came about by way of mergers. Max Berndt is the current CEO of Peachtree and he has been instructed by the Board of Directors to ensure quality, consistency, and continuity of care across the entire network, and to deliver all that with the highest levels of efficiency, economy and respect for patients and staff. The Board believes that total standardization of IT systems would achieve the business goals of Peachtree but Max believes in selective standardization which would still allow physicians the flexibility they need in order to provide the best care possible. The current IT systems in place in Peachtree are out of date, complex due to the mergers, and are failing. The IT infrastructure is consuming so much maintenance energy that further technological innovation was becoming an afterthought. In order to combat the issue Max wanted to know what it would cost to rearchitect technology across all of Peachtree’s facilities. Two options were presented by Candace Markovich the Chief Information Officer. The first option is Monoliths – massive systems running massively ambitious enterprise software that would compel the arduous redesign of every business process. This would provide the standardization the Board wanted but would hinder the flexibility of physicians. The cost of implementation is higher than the budget and would run about five hundred million to a billion dollars...
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...Manholes: Manhole is an opening constructed on the alignment of the sewer for facilitating a person access to the sewer for the purpose of purpose of inspection, testing, cleaning & removal of obstruction from the sewer line. Object: The following are the objects of the construction of manholes * They permit inspection, cleaning, maintenance of sewer line. The obstructions in the sewage flow are collected in manholes and then they brought to the surface. * The manholes allow the joining the sewers or changing the direction or alignment or both. * A manhole sometimes receives the contribution of sewage from sewers of various sizes and coming from various directions. * If manholes covers are perforated, the manholes may allow the escape of undesirable gases and thus, ventilation of sewers can be achieved. * The manholes facilitate the laying of sewers lines in convenient lengths. Location: Manholes should be built at every change of alignment, gradient and diameter. At the head of all sewers and branches and at every junction of two or more sewers. On sewers which are to be cleaned manually which cannot be entered for cleaning or inspection, the maximum distance between the two manholes should be 30 meters. Constructional details: The manholes are constructed directly over the centre line of the sewer. They are circular & rectangular in shape. Manholes should be of such size as will allow necessary cleaning & inspection of manholes. Rectangular...
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...61/80 Q-2 SPA WORKS MEMO To: Glen Mori, President From: Meghal Desai, Information System Manger Date: 1 January 2014 Subject: Proposed Advisory Committee Hello Glen. In the preceding years, rapid growth of spa works has created new customer base by acquiring new locations and capturing competitors market. Actually, increase of daily operations and business transactions, the current legacy system has been creating lots of issues with financial statement and decision making process because of data from numerous sources have to be combined. Such a rapid growth needs a change in legacy system in terms of selecting new committee members. As a result and as per request from a President to form a new advisory committee has been proposed to provide assistance and guidance in creation of new integrated system. This will improve Spa works business process. Below stated five committee members presented with their roles and tasks: 1) Human Resources manager: Spa Work has been going through the stage of expansion. Human Resources Manager is the key member of this organization. Main goal of Spa Works is to improve their legacy system and these will only possible through people and HR. Human Resources manager is responsible for all people related activities like recruitment, training and retention of employees as well as their daily concerns that consists of payroll, tax provisions, and benefits. Human Resources team also needs to comply all government related policies and follow...
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...The Balanced Scorecard (BSC) Framework, Implementation Methodology and Recommended Application - Executive Brief (April 2012) - Introduction Balanced Scorecard is an integrated, organization-wide management system that drives, in an aligned manner, the transformation, improvement and modernization efforts of all hierarchical levels towards the accomplishment of organization’s Strategy. For this reason, Balanced Scorecard is also known as a Strategy Execution system. More precisely, Balanced Scorecard represents a framework for aligned Strategic Planning and for the consistent management of the organizational and individual performance in the execution of the Strategic Plan. Furthermore, Balanced Scorecard is a communication tool that helps each employee better understand where the Strategy drives the organization, what the plan is for reaching that destination and what their departmental and individual measured contribution is to that convergent effort. With such understanding, the employees – whether directly involved in the planned Strategy Execution, or not – can also change and improve the way they perform their daily jobs through micro-decisions that are both convergent and complementary to the execution of organization’s Strategic Plan. BSC History Balanced Scorecard has been launched twenty years ago as a first set of principles for balanced strategic Objectives and Measures/KPIs setting and measurement. The “parents” of Balanced Scorecard are Dr. Robert S. Kaplan...
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...i. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In the case “Avoiding the Alignment Trap”, the objective is to inform the readers that companies relying on technology to distance themselves from competitors can sometimes be a problem versus doing them good as they can potentially fall into the “alignment trap”. This term is used to refer to companies who believe that IT and business priorities have to be tightly linked or aligned to produce growth not putting into consideration other factors. The key problem is aligning a poorly performing It organization to the right business objectives won’t get the objective accomplished and hence the company falls into the alignment trap. IT can pose as a bottleneck to growth in most companies if executives are focusing on the wrong remedy for IT problems if they are not considering other factors. The case recommends that the path to IT-powered growth is to reduce complexity, source IT staffing and software wherever it makes the most sense and create start to finish accountability connected to business results. Once this is accomplished, then align their entire IT organization to the strategic objectives of the overall business using governance principles that cross organizational lines and making business executives responsible for key IT initiatives. ii. CURRENT SITUATION Currently, eleven percent of the surveyed respondents are caught in the alignment trap where they are spending 13% more than the average company on IT but are receiving 14% lower revenue...
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...Insights No. 96 May 2012 The Middle-Income Trap: Comparing Asian and Latin American Experiences by Anna Jankowska, Arne J. Nagengast and José Ramón Perea ♦♦ Chinese Taipei; Hong Kong, China; Korea and Singapore (the East Asian Newly Industrialised Countries or NICs) have been successful in attaining income convergence with high-income countries while Latin American countries remain caught in the Middle-Income Trap. ♦♦ The East Asian NICs pursued export-led growth by targeting strategic industries which facilitated gradual diversification and upgrading into new products that required similar skills and inputs. ♦♦ Comparing the experience of the NICs to Latin American economies reveals that successful diversification and upgrading of a country’s export structure requires coherent and complimentary policies in the areas of education, infrastructure, innovation and access to finance. The experience of Latin American with the Middle-Income Trap has been very different from that of the NICs. While the latter were able to surpass middle-income status in a relatively brief period of time, Latin American countries have remained in the middle-income zone for decades. This contrast can serve as an illustrative basis for comparison for new countries entering the middle-income group. The East Asian NICs’ recipe for income convergence: gradual upgrading towards higher value industries The Asian NICs’ experiences suggest that escaping the Middle-Income Trap is a function of structural transformation...
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...14.5 MW MAI HYDROPOWER PROJECT FEASIBILITY STUDY Submitted by : Alish Bamanu Kumud Adhikari Akash mahat Bishal Shrestha Kumar Jeeva Tamang Submitted to : Yalam vaidya Kings College Table of Contents: SUMMARY ....................................................................................................................................... 1 SALIENT FEATURES ...................................................................................................................... 2 1. PROJECT BACKGROUND .................................................................................................... 4 2. THE PROJECT AREA ............................................................................................................ 4 3. REPORT INVESTIGATIONS ...................................................................................................... 5 4. BASIC STUDIES ................................................................................................................. ... 7 4.1 HYDROLOGY AND SEDIMENT STUDY .................................................................................... 7 4.2 POWER MARKET ................................................................................................................. 8 4.3 GOVERNMENT POLICY ......................................................................................................... 8 4.4 GEOLOGICAL AND GEOTECHNICAL STUDIES .............................
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...Why Strategy Execution Unravels—and What to Do About It Donald SullRebecca HomkesCharles Sull FROM THE MARCH 2015 ISSUE SUMMARY SAVE SHARE COMMENT TEXT SIZE PRINT 8.95 BUY PDF Why Strategy Execution Unravels—and What to Do About It VIEW MORE FROM THE March 2015 Issue EXPLORE THE ARCHIVE Since Michael Porter’s seminal work in the 1980s we have had a clear and widely accepted definition of what strategy is—but we know a lot less about translating a strategy into results. Books and articles on strategy outnumber those on execution by an order of magnitude. And what little has been written on execution tends to focus on tactics or generalize from a single case. So what do we know about strategy execution? We know that it matters. A recent survey of more than 400 global CEOs found that executional excellence was the number one challenge facing corporate leaders in Asia, Europe, and the United States, heading a list of some 80 issues, including innovation, geopolitical instability, and top-line growth. We also know that execution is difficult. Studies have found that two-thirds to three-quarters of large organizations struggle to implement their strategies. Nine years ago one of us (Don) began a large-scale project to understand how complex organizations can execute their strategies more effectively. The research includes more than 40 experiments in which we made changes in companies and measured the impact on execution, along with a survey administered...
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...could have used during the production phase and after the vehicle entered the consumer market. The recommendation will be backed by examples of external and internal social pressures that have influenced the decision to recall the Ford Pinto. In addition, the evaluation of this case during 1971 and in current day is illustrated in the readings to compare and contrast the situation based on the ethical standards during each time period. By illustrating various viewpoints on the Ford Pinto Case Study from external sources, the identification of unethical practices implemented within the Ford organization during the 1970s is provided, along with the suggestions from a personal perspective on this issue. Ford Pinto Recommendations (I adjusted alignment and the spaces after periods on my...
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...C DESIGN ERS R E D I STACY LONGSTREET T S SE N IOR A RT DI REC TOR R P G R& D A RT DI REC TOR S GWENDOLYN F.M. KESTREL , JENNIFER CLARKE WILKES, KOLJA RAVEN LIQUETTE DEVELOPMENT TEAM KARIN JAQUES, STACY LONGSTREET C OV E R A RT I S T BRUCE R. CORDELL , ANDY COLLINS, ROB WATKINS EDITORS STEVE PRESCOTT I N T E R IOR A RT IST S MICHELLE LYONS, CHRIS SIMS EDITI NG MANAGER KIM MOHAN DESIGN MANAGER STEVEN BELLEDIN, ED COX, DAARKEN, WAYNE ENGLAND, EMILY FIEGENSCHUH, CARL FRANK, DAN FRAZIER, BRIAN HAGAN, RALPH HORSLEY, CHRIS MALIDORE , JIM NELSON, ERIC POLAK CA RTOG R A PHE R CHRISTOPHER PERKINS DEV ELOPMEN T MANAGER MIKE SCHLEY GRAPHIC DESIGN ER JESSE DECKER DIRECTOR OF RPG R&D DEE BARNETT G R A P H IC P RODUC T ION S P E C I A L I S T BILL SLAVICSEK P RODUC T ION MA NAGE R S ERIN DORRIES IMAGE T ECHN ICIAN JOSH FISCHER, RANDALL CREWS CHRISTINA WILEY Playtesters: Kraig Horigan, Jason H. Haley, Richard Hughes, Richard Stephenson. Some information in this book is taken from or derived from Draconomicon: The Book of Dragons by Andy Collins, Skip Williams, and James Wyatt. Based on the original DUNGEONS & DRAGONS® rules created by E. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and the new DUNGEONS & DRAGONS game designed by Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, Skip Williams, Richard Baker, and Peter Adkison. This product uses updated material from the v.3.5 revision. This WIZARDS OF THE COAST® game product contains no Open Game...
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...S T R A T E G I C M A N A G E M E N T - Samenvattingen papers - | Naam | | 1 | Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail | x | 2 | Conceptual models and the Cuban Missile Crisis | | 2 | The Hidden Traps of Decision making | x | 3 | Control in the age of empowerment | x | 3 | The Real Budget Crisis: Stop Rewarding Forecasting and Negotiating Instead of Real Performance | x | 3 | Note on flexible budgeting and variance analysis | x | 3 | Borealis Case | | 4 | Note on Organization Structure | | 4 | Note on Organization Culture | | 4 | Designing Organizations for Performance: The Alignment of Design and Strategy | | 5. | On the folly of rewarding A, While hoping for B | | 5 | Incentives within Organizations | | 5 | Strategy to implementation: Seeking alignment | | 5 | Measuring performance | | 7 | GE’s growth strategy: The Immelt inititative | | Week 3 Control in Age of Empowerment Creativity and control don’t have to conflict Failure to control employees appropriately Managers can encourage innovation among employees while ensuring adequate control by using four powerful management systems or levers. 1- Diagnostic control systems Traditional monitors of critical performance outcomes such as costs and revenues 2- Belief systems Encompass the company’s values, mission and other statements of philosophy 3- Boundary systems Based on power of negative thinking Tell your employees what not to do 4- Interactive control...
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...Proctor and Gamble There are many steps needed for successful change implementation. the successful change implementation. Many organizations require change to survive the economical battles of doing business. The communication style of management is also an important area for change. There are multitudes of articles and information regarding organizational change and many of them has have conflicting information on what is most important. The factors of change can be slightly different based upon the type of business, but the basics are always the same. How an organization communicates the need for change, the plan for change as well as the implementation of change are the broad spectrum of the success or failure of change. Not clear. The following literature reviews attempt to This literature review support the hypothesis that Proctor and Gamble would benefit from creating desire to change, communication, planning and resources. These are four of the most important phases of successful change implementation for Proctor and Gamble. Proctor and Gamble Problem Overview Underline not needed. Proctor and Gamble is an innovative, multinational company. Currently, Proctor and Gamble lacks an effective distribution system in some segments as well as poor location in some foreign countries and high cost of inputs. Another area of weakness is the employment of foreign based local management who don’t have international business experience. doesn’t have any international...
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...Do not reinvent the wheel. Use my references when you prepare references for your conferences. Yes, all academic writing follows APA, including the conferences. My reasoning? Practice makes perfect. Periodically APA changes its style manual. And periodically I check it. If you see something, let me know. Please note that during the first week of class we introduce ourselves and read my lecture on academic integrity. I will say that most students have no issues with academic writing, and I do use the class as an opportunity for students to work on their writing skills, if needed. Conference 1 (We start the Stenzel text conference 2) Policy: If the CIO is to be valued as a strategic actor, how can he bring to the table the ethos of alignment, bound to the demands of process strategic planning to move IT to the forefront of the organization's future? Is there a lack of information on strategic planning? Nope. I think the process of planning is poorly understood, and rarely...
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...Unit 6 Lab 1: DNA Fingerprinting Arielle Chambers Ms. A. Wain ITT Technical Institute SC 2730 9 February 2015 1. What kinds of patient samples are used for the purpose of identifying possible pathogens? a. Fluid from lymph nodes b. Stool sample c. Urine sample d. Blood sample e. Sputum sample 2. What does PCR do, how does it work, and why is it useful? PCR is also known as the Polymerase Chain Reaction, it is a fast and inexpensive way to amplify small segments of DNA (genome.gov). PCR works by amplifying a segment of DNA, the sample is heated first the DNA denatures, or separates into two pieces of single-stranded DNA (genome.gov). After that an enzyme called Taq polymerase synthesizes builds two new strands of DNA, it uses the original strands as templates (genome.gov). The process results in the duplication of the original DNA, each of the new molecules contain one old and one new strand of DNA (genome.gov). Each of these strands can be used to create two new copies, and so on, and so on. The cycle of denaturing and synthesizing new DNA is repeated as many as 30 or 40 times, leading to more than one billion exact copies of the original DNA segment (genome.gov).The entire cycling process of PCR is automated and can be completed in just a few hours. It is directed by a machine called a thermo cycler; it is programmed to alter the temperature of the reaction every few minutes to allow DNA denaturing and synthesis (genome.gov). PCR is useful...
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...Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as D&D[2] or DnD) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG) originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. (TSR). The game has been published by Wizards of the Coast since 1997. It was derived from miniature wargames with a variation of the Chainmail game serving as the initial rule system.[3] D&D's publication is widely regarded as the beginning of modern role-playing games and the role-playing game industry.[4] D&D departs from traditional wargaming and assigns each player a specific character to play instead of a military formation. These characters embark upon imaginary adventures within a fantasy setting. A Dungeon Master serves as the game's referee and storyteller, while also maintaining the setting in which the adventures occur and playing the role of the inhabitants. The characters form a party that interacts with the setting's inhabitants (and each other). Together they solve dilemmas, engage in battles and gather treasure and knowledge.[4] In the process the characters earn experience points to become increasingly powerful over a series of sessions. The early success of Dungeons & Dragons led to a proliferation of similar game systems. Despite this competition, D&D remains the market leader in the role-playing game industry.[5] In 1977, the game was split into two branches: the relatively rules-light game system of Dungeons & Dragons...
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