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Common Assignment Requirements 

The purpose of this assignment is to demonstrate your comprehension of project planning as a key function for enabling PMO success and business outcomes. To satisfy this objective, address the following assignment key elements:

• In your own words including scholarly reference support,
  • Define project planning in context of the PMO.
  • Describe the primary rationale for PMO project planning.
• Compare and contrast the project planning functions between Supportive and ControllingPMO types as described in the PMBOK Guide (6th ed.), Part 1 Section 2.4.4.3 page 48.
• Describe the application of PMO standards and metrics in PMO project planning.
• Summarize how the project planning enables PMO success while recognizing ethical considerations and challenges unique to an international PMO.

Option #2: PMO Planning Results Presentation

For the assignment Option #2, develop a multimedia-rich presentation to address the Module 4 Common Assignment Requirements.

• Your multimedia-rich presentation must contain logically cohesive flow including audio, video, and graphical content.
• The length of the presentation, beyond the title and reference portions, should be 8 slides with speaker notes (or narration transcript) which should be equivalent to five to seven minutes of narrated presentation.
• Please present your content clearly, concisely, and cohesively. The presentation must be submitted as a completely self-contained file (e.g., PowerPoint, Screencast-O-Matic, or Prezi) or as a link to a hosted Internet site.
• In addition to your course textbook, cite at least four current (within 5-years) scholarly resources (peer-reviewed, official governmental reports, and other scholarly sources) to support your suppositions, assertions, and conclusions. To enhance your learning experience, scholarly resources are available from the CSU Global library.
• Format your submission per the C (Links to an external site.)SU Global Writing Center (Links to an external site.), which includes an introduction and conclusion.

You may wish to review the Visual Presentations (Links to an external site.) section in the CSU Global Writing Center for help creating, formatting, and recording audio for your presentation according to the requirements. If you need assistance with your writing style or you need writing tips or tutorials, visit the CSU Global Writing Center (Links to an external site.). Review the grading rubric to see how you will be graded for this assignment.

Interview 2 grandparents. Compare what their expectations of grandparenting have been as compared with the reality of the experience.

Present you findings and analysis in a full 2 page typed. Double spaced report.

Using a texas prison, analyze the six (6) rules for evaluating needs and solutions based on fact and evidence and how they can be applied to the workplace. Choose at least two (2) tools and two (2) techniques that you feel would benefit the organization. Develop a plan that could be used to introduce and utilize the tools and techniques into the workplace.

The requirements below must be met for your paper to be accepted and graded:

·  Write at least 4 pages using Microsoft Word in APA style.

·  Use font size 12 and 1” margins.

·  Include cover page and reference page.

·  Cite all reference material (data, dates, graphs, quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) in the paper and list on a reference page in APA style.

Discussion #2

Directions:  Reflect on each of the previous seven weeks. Briefly describe seven leadership concepts (one from each week) that you can apply to your leadership career. Be as specific as you can.  Consider both information from the course materials and the experiences you had in your group work.  Whenever referencing concepts from course materials, be sure to provide in-text citations and references. Post due by Saturday at 11:59 p.m. 

Respond to a minimum of three classmates by Tuesday at 11:59 p.m. eastern time in the following manner: select ONE of the concepts highlighted by your classmate and describe how you could also use that new knowledge in your leadership career.

(Note the Tuesday at 11:59 p.m. Discussion deadline.)

Completing the Discussion

• Read the grading rubric for the project.  Use the grading rubric while completing the project to ensure all requirements are met that will lead to the highest possible grade.
• Contractions are not used in business writing, so do not use them.
• Direct quotes are NOT allowed if they are quotation from course materials. This means you do not use more than four consecutive words from a source document. You are to put a passage from a source document into your own words and attribute the passage, using the correct APA in-text citation format,  to the source document. In other words, once you paraphrase a source document, the source document must be shown in an in-text citation.  
• Direct quotes are NOT allowed if they are quotation from course materials. This means you do not use more than four consecutive words from a source document. You are to put a passage from a source document into your own words and attribute the passage, using the correct APA in-text citation format,  to the source document. In other words, once you paraphrase a source document, the source document must be shown in an in-text citation.  
• Paraphrase and do not use direct quotation marks.  Paraphrase means you do not use more than four consecutive words from a source document. You put a passage from a source document into your own words and attribute the passage, using the correct APA  in-text citation format, to the source document.  Not using direct quotation marks means that there should be no passages with quotation marks and instead the source material is paraphrased as stated above. 
• Provide the page or paragraph number when using in-text citations.  Note that a reference within a reference list cannot exist without an associated in-text citation and vice versa.   
• You may only use the course material from the classroom.  You may not use books or any resource from the Internet.

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   Assignment 2: Position Paper Two – Media and Society

   
  This is the second of two (2) position papers based on the following scenario to be completed in this course.
  Again,  imagine that you are running for a state office (e.g., governor,  senator, or Congressional representative) and you have to prepare a  position paper for a debate on controversial issues in the news. [Select  one (1) of the topics addressed in Weeks 5-9 of this class.]  Remember  that you are addressing a significant segment of your state’s  population and you want to be elected to public office, so your topic  will have to have a broad appeal, such as public trust and the media,  the loss of privacy, safeguarding the First Amendment, online  harassment, and the dangers of privatizing public information, among  other topics from those chapters.
   
  You  will want your position paper to demonstrate critical thinking, sound  logic, valid claims, personal passion, and credible support that is  cited correctly because the paper will be provided to the news media  before the debate and will be scrutinized by the media and reported on  regarding these criteria. 
   
  Write a two to three (2-3) page (500 to 750 words) paper in which you:
   

1. Introduce  your position using a thesis statement in the first paragraph,  including a quote, question, or statistic from your reliable sources and  an overview of the main points you will cover. (It’s important to grab  the audience’s interest and inform the audience of what the main and  support points are.) 
2. Provide two or three (2-3) major points to support your thesis statement. (Put each major point in a separate paragraph.)
3. Provide one (1) paragraph in which you identify and answer an expected argument against your view. 
4. Organize arguments and support your claims effectively. 
5. Demonstrate  personal passion for your position and critical thinking with  persuasive language, sound logic, valid claims, and credible support for  the claims. 
6. Use  the Strayer University Library at https://research.strayer.edu to  locate and provide two to three (2-3) credible and reliable sources (in  addition to the textbook) about current events, which have been  published in the last five (5) years and are cited correctly in the  position paper. (Wikipedia, dictionaries, and encyclopedias are unacceptable and will not count toward your number of credible sources.)
7. Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
   Be  typed, double-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with  one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references..Include  a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s  name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover  page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment  page length.The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
   Apply critical thinking skills to the analysis of issues involving mass media and society. 

• Use technology and information resources to research issues in media and society.
• Write clearly and concisely about media and society using proper writing mechanics.

Read the case study titled “Revitalizing a Brand”, located in the online course shell. Use the Internet or Strayer databases to research the branding and communication strategies of one (1) health services organization that is similar to the health services organizations mentioned in the case study.

Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

1. Describe the current marketing communication, identity, and brand position of Plaza Home Health Services.
2. Conduct a Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats (SWOT) analysis associated with the current marketing communication, identity, and brand position of Plaza Home Health Services.
3. Assess the importance of benchmarking in Plaza Home Health Services’ development and implementation of an effective brand strategy (marketing communication, identity, and brand position).
4. Compare branding and communication strategies of a similar health services organization with that of Plaza Home Health Services. Determine whether or not Plaza Home Health Services should apply additional best practices into its current branding and communication strategies. Provide a rationale and support for your response.
5. Use at least five (5) quality academic resources. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources. 

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Examine the marketing research process and market segmentation strategies in the health care industry.
• Analyze business planning based on an analysis of domestic and global operating environments, market dynamics (supply and demand), commercialization, and product-market expansion.
• Explain how branding strategies apply to the health care market for existing and new products.
• Determine the marketing communications strategy used in health care services.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in health services strategic marketing.
• Write clearly and concisely about health services strategic marketing using proper writing mechanics.

Write a 175- to 265-word response to the following:

• Why is it important for a health care manager to know how to prepare a financial statement? Provide an example.

Course Management of Organizations. Paper due July 28th.  4-5 pages double spaced, apart format. Currently deployed and little time to complete. I attached the assignment below. Please help. Thank you ! 

Considering the changes impacting many different industries, some companies are forced or eager to operate at a global level.  Please discuss some implications and challenges globalization presents to HR professionals within a particular industry of your choice. Provide industry-specific examples portraying your understanding of global challenges HR teams may face within that particular arena.

Architecture and Infrastructure

Think about a company you know well.  

What would be an example of IT architecture at that company?  

What about IT infrastructure?

What is the difference between a decentralized architecture and a centralized architecture?

How might you apply what you learned from weeks 1-4 to your current or previous place of employment? Please be specific.