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Option #1: Develop Applications Relative to Course Objectives 

As part of successfully completing this course, you should be able to master the eight course objectives:

1. Demonstrate the need for project management metrics.
2. Establish the importance of metrics in effective management of time, cost, and scope.
3. Apply the knowledge of project metrics to identify the key characteristics of properly defined metrics.
4. Characterize Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) as used in metric-driven project management.
5. Apply value-based project management metrics as important in selecting the right metrics.
6. Explore project performance dashboards including designs, use, and limitations.
7. Explore the applications of visual project management tools, including project performance dashboards.
8. Create proper performance indicators for application in measurement-driven project management.

In this portfolio project, you are to show your mastery of the eight course objectives at a master’s level. You are to write a paper that covers each of the eight topics.

Notice that each objective is written with a verb as the first word to show some action that students must achieve for success in this class. Verbs like “demonstrate,” “apply,” and “create” require that the student takes some action on a project to satisfy the requirement. You should find a project to use in this portfolio where you may take those actions and document them in your paper. You might apply earned value analysis on a project underway to satisfy course objective number 5, for example.

Verbs like “establish,” “characterize,” and “explore” require that the student shows mastery of current thinking on the subject. This part of your paper may be taken from research, or interviews. You might explore an application of dashboards by interviewing a project manager and performing research on current thinking about dashboards, for example.

Therefore, your paper should include sections to address the following:

1. Identify and describe an actual project that was successful in part because it used project metrics, what those metrics were, and why they were a contributing factor to success.
2. Research and report on current thinking in both research and practice about effective management of time, cost, and scope with metrics.
3. Research and report on current thinking in both research and practice about the key characteristics of properly defined metrics, and identify and describe an actual project to compare its use of metrics to your research to determine if the metrics were properly defined.
4. Research and report on current thinking in both research and practice about KPIs.
5. Show your application of value-based project management metrics on a project with which you are familiar and interpret the results of your application.
6. Research and report on performance dashboards including designs, use, and limitations, and visual project management tools, including project performance dashboards.
7. Create proper performance indicators for application in measurement-driven project management on a project with which you are familiar.

Since the key sections of your work correspond to individual module of the course, it is recommended that you progressively develop your project based on the weekly topics.

Paper Requirements:

• Prepare a portfolio paper to address the eight-course objective. All eight course objectives must be addressed. The Course Objectives are: 
  1. Demonstrate the need for project management metrics and benefits of metric-driven project management.
  2. Establish the importance of metrics in effective management of time, cost, and scope.
  3. Apply the knowledge of project metrics to identify the key characteristics of properly defined metrics.
  4. Characterize Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) as used in metric-driven project management.
  5. Apply value-based project management metrics as important in selecting the right metrics.
  6. Explore project performance dashboards including designs, use, and limitations.
  7. Explore the applications of visual project management tools, including project performance dashboards.
  8. Create proper performance indicators for application in measurement-driven project management.
• Incorporate at least 10-12 current peer-reviewed scholarly references (current means published in past five years). The CSU-Global Library (Links to an external site.) is a good place to find your sources. Additionally, be sure to visit the Library’s Project Management Resource Guide (Links to an external site.) for assistance with research and writing.
• Incorporate any constructive feedback provided by your instructor on your work in Week 2.
• Properly organize your writing and include an introductory section with thesis and mapping, headings/subheadings for the body of your work, discussion, recommendations, and a conclusion.
• Any diagram, figure, or table should be included in an appendix, but clearly discussed in the text portion of the paper. Appendices should be included after the references.
• Format your entire paper in accordance with the CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA (Links to an external site.).

Your paper must be 10 pages long, not including the required title page and references page or any other supplemental pages such as appendices that you choose to include.

There are many evident trends that impact workforce planning (for example, growth in the Hispanic population, an aging population, geographic growth in some places and declines in others, and possible changes in government economic policies). For this discussion, select a trend, and, using at least two sources, describe how you believe this trend will impact an organization’s ability to forecast its workforce needs.

In your opinion, what benefits are of greatest value to employees? To the organization? Why?

PART 1

Think about how human resources are handled at the company you work for, or one you have worked for in the past. In the discussion thread, comment on the following questions:

1. What steps of the human resources cycle does the company handle well? Why?

2. What steps of the human resources cycle are handled poorly? Why?

3. How is culture impacted by the Human Resources department?

Thoroughly review the following video:

Based on your review, please respond to the following:

As important as compensation is to employees so is how compensation is communicated by the organization. As Chief HR Officer for the company what key ideas would you implement in the company to ensure communication of the compensation plan is effective? Be specific.

Respond to peer

Must be a substantive response and further the conversation.

APA format

175 word minimum

1 reference minimum

Cherese Mason

1:18 PM

Like any industry, human resources in health care is important. The healthcare industry just like any other industries have obligations such as interviewing, hiring, retention and handling legal matters. New hire orientation and the coordination of training and development is facilitated by HR. HR is also responsible for the accurate implementation of legally mandated employee benefits (Nica, 2013). When there are disputes between employees or management, it is a human resources job to manage these situations as they arise (including terminations). In healthcare, human resources are responsible for making sure that all licensing requirements, certifications, and credentials (if there’s not a designated Credentialing Coordinator) are up to date for all personnel (nurses, doctors, technicians, etc.). Various risk and safety mandates are required in healthcare. OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) is a law/act to ensure the safety of employees in the workplace. HR’s responsibility is to train employees on the basics of workplace safety. As an OSHA compliance measure, any injuries or illnesses that happen in or on the premises of the workplace must be reported to HR on a specified form. If audited/inspected, the report must be presented or risk being fined for violating compliance standards. These are just some of the reasons why human resources play an essential role in the healthcare industry.

Reference

Nica, E. (2013). The Importance of Human Resources Management to the Health Care System. Economics, Management 

What policy issues must employers address when developing benefit plans? What federal laws influence employers’ pension and health plans?

• Conduct a case study analysis on the information management system of a company you choose from a list of possibilities and provide that analysis in a Word document of approximately 800–1000 words.

Meeting customer demands and high efficiencies are the goals of the majority of supply chains, and companies strive to develop sustainable long term supply chain solutions.

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By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

• Competency 1: Design a supply chain to support an organizational strategy. o Describe an organization’s information management system (IMS).• Competency 2: Improve efficiency in the supply chain. o Evaluate the competitive aspects of an organization’s IMS.o Describe how the IMS helps coordinate between supplychain partners.• Competency 3: Manage a supply chain in order to satisfy customers. o Explain how an IMS helps monitor orders and inventory levels and satisfy customers.o Explain why managing information is equally or more important to a company than moving products.• Competency 4: Communicate in a professional manner that is consistent with the expectations for supply chain managers and participants. o Exhibit proficiency in writing, critical thinking, and academic integrity by appropriately attributing sources• To deepen your understanding, you are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of the business community.

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For the following questions, refer to the National Geographic video, Ultimate Factories: IKEA, and Kinnander’s article, “IKEA’s Challenge to the Wooden Shipping Pallet,” listed in the Resources.

• What is the importance of developing a sustainable supply chain?• What are three initiatives that IKEA is doing to make its supply chain sustainable?• For this assessment, consider that you work for a company that develops and sells case studies and case study analyses. Your company’s primary customers are colleges and universities wanting to use them within their courses, but your company also has customers using them for management training and development. Your manager asked you to conduct research and write a case study analysis about a company’s information management system (IMS). She’s specifically interested in you doing this associated with one of a small set of possibilities she provided to you. You may use the same company you selected in a prior assessment or you may select a different company from the following list:• L. L. Bean.• Amazon.com.• Starbucks.• Intel.• Johnson and Johnson.

You and your manager discussed the high level outline of your case study analysis and agreed you should address the following items. As the basis for your research, you can use any of the resources noted in this course, in the Capella library, and on the Internet.

6. Analyze and describe the company’s information management system. As part of your analysis, analyze if its IMS gives the company a competitive advantage over their competition.7. Recommend improvements for the competitive aspects of the organization’s IMS.8. Analyze how the IMS helps coordinate between supplychain partners.9. Analyze how the IMS helps to monitor orders and inventory levels and satisfy customers.10. Analyze why managing information is equally or more important to the company than moving products.

Based on the intended audience, your report should be well organized and written in clear, succinct language. Target 800–1000 words. Follow APA rules for attributing sources that support your analysis and conclusions.

Academic Integrity and APA Formatting

As a reminder related to using APA rules to ensure academic honesty:

11. When using a direct quote (using exact or nearly exact wording), you must enclose the quoted wording in quotation marks, immediately followed by an in-text citation. The source must then be listed in your references page.12. When paraphrasing (using your own words to describe a non-original idea), the paraphrased idea must be immediately followed by an in-text citation and the source must be listed in your references page.• Print• SCM Case Analysis: Information Technology Scoring Guide

SCM Case Analysis: Information Technology Scoring Guide 

Criteria 

Non-performance 

Basic 

Proficient 

Distinguished 

Describe an organization’s information management system (IMS). 

Does not identify an organization’s information management system (IMS).

Identifies an organization’s information management system (IMS), but does not describe its significance with respect to competitive advantage.

Describes an organization’s information management system (IMS).

Analyzes an organization’s information management system (IMS). 

Evaluate the competitive aspects of an organization’s IMS. 

Does not analyze the competitive aspects of an organization’s IMS.

Analyzes the competitive aspects of an organization’s IMS, but the relationship or significance is unclear.

Evaluates the competitive aspects of an organization’s IMS.

Recommends improvements for the competitive aspects of an organization’s IMS. 

Describe how the IMS helps coordinate between supply chain partners. 

Does not identify how an IMS helps coordinate between supply chain partners.

Lists ways an IMS can help coordinate between supply chain partners, but does not describe their value or significance clearly.

Describes how the IMS helps coordinate between supply chain partners.

Analyzes how an IMS helps coordinate between supply chain partners. 

Explain how an IMS helps monitor orders and inventory levels and satisfy customers. 

Does not identify how an IMS helps monitor orders and inventory levels and satisfy customers.

Lists ways an IMS can help monitor orders and inventory levels and satisfy customers, but does not describe their value or significance clearly.

Explains how an IMS helps monitor orders and inventory levels and satisfy customers.

Analyzes how an IMS helps monitor orders and inventory levels and satisfy customers. 

Explain why managing information is equally or more important to a company than moving products. 

Does not describe why managing information is equally or more important to a company than moving products.

Describes why managing information is equally or more important to a company than moving products.

Explains why managing information is equally or more important to a company than moving products.

Analyzes why managing information is equally or more important to a company than moving products. 

Exhibit proficiency in writing, critical thinking, and academic integrity by appropriately attributing sources. 

Does not exhibit proficiency in writing and critical thinking; does not appropriately attribute source.

Exhibits inconsistent proficiency in writing, critical thinking, and appropriately attributing sources.

Exhibits proficiency in writing, critical thinking, and academic integrity by appropriately attributing sources.

Exhibits proficiency in writing, critical thinking, and academic integrity by appropriately attributing sources, and supports analysis with relevant resea

Stop and Shop-Scan IT

Read Case 12-1 “Stop and Shop-Scan IT!” and then answer the following questions.

What is the benefit of the Scan It! data to Stop & Shop?

What are some disadvantages, please be specific? 

How would you as the President of an organization assess the level of maturity of Stop & Shop’s use of analytics? 

What concerns might shoppers have about their privacy?

The Fig Technologies Executive Leadership Council (ELC) has received several requests for transfer to the United States from nations of diminished tolerance. The ELC has asked you to develop a presentation briefly explaining the history of diversity-based legislation. In your presentation, describe the challenges of legislating diversity, and compare historical legislation of diverse populations to more recent diversity legislation. Also, explain how diversity legislation impacts ethnic, orientation, and gender groups as well as those of age, appearance, and perceived disability.

At least two additional resources should be used in addition to your textbook, one of which must come from the CSU Online Library. All sources should be cited and referenced properly using APA formatting. The presentation should consist of a title slide, a minimum of 10 slides of content, and a reference slide. Since this is a presentation, at least one slide should include a graphic or chart to present information.