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Objective: Develop an Internal Factors Analysis Summary (IFAS) for Chipotle
Mexican Grill through 2013.
Internal factors are those the firm has control over. I will be doing
reality checks when reading your work, asking, “Does the firm control this
activity or not?” For instance, a firm has control over the dates to
release new products, or what products to sell each year. But, the firm does
not control the economic conditions that would determine the demand for those
products.
Fill in the table in TemplateSA-EXH2-IFAS.docx available in this
location and Course Resources. The table has five columns: Internal Factors,
Weight, Rating, Weighted Score and Comments.
Use short names for the factors, but flesh them out in the comments so they
make sense when you approach them later on. A generically named factor can be
listed on both the EFAS and IFAS so long as the comments made the difference
clear between the two. But a wiser student would modify the names so this
situation does not arise.
The textbook is clear enough to work on all columns but the Comments. Your
comments make all the difference in the quality of the EFAS.
Use the TemplateSA-EXH2-IFAS.docx as the template for your work.
Ensure that your format displays correctly and is readable.  Do NOT
copy from the text or from the Template IFAS text!  Use your own critical
analysis and critical thinking.  The template is provided to assist you
with the layout–i.e., make it easy for you to construct the chart. 
The template also gives you a good idea of the appropriate explanations
required in the Comments blocks about the why an SF, potential quantified
impact, how weighted, and how rated.
Comments are expected to be 4-5 sentences in length and depth and offer a
clear explanation of the strategic factor (SF) in 4 aspects:
Why it is a
strategic factor (SF), core competency (CC) or distinctive competency
(DC); (1-2 sentences only)
A quantified
estimate of the potential impact (QPI) of the SF; (1 sentence only)
How you assign
the weight; (1 sentence only) and
How you assign
the rating. (1 sentence only)
·        
Keep the 4-5 sentences of your Comments in order
for clarity and ease of understanding.  The recommended order is: 
Why SF comments; QPI comments; Weight comments; and finally Rating comments.
For the QPI comments, estimate the potential impact on the firm in the
future in a quantitative manner using some metric:  sales, revenues,
costs, market share, profits, logistics pipeline, CSI, etc.  Express the
quantitative potential impact (QPI) in Dollars $$.  If you express the
potential impact in $$, that makes each strategic factor comparable against
the other strategic factors. And expressing the impact in sales makes them even
more easily comparable.   Make sure you are making significant
estimates based on the size of your company based on annual revenue
values in your 5-Y financials. You develop this estimate.
The monetary value of the QPI is useful to compare the
strategic factors and rank them in relevance.  Ranking them will
help you to assign the Weights (2nd column in the table) to
each strategic factor. Use a positive analysis (quantitative) rather than a
normative analysis (feelings, desires).  Focus on what is the potential
gain for your SF opportunities or the potential loss from a SF threat in
the future.  History lessons are not needed nor applicable.
You should estimate and predict the impact in the future. Be
creative. 
Don’t develop future actions or alternatives here in the IFAS about
how a firm may or should take action on a particular SF.  The
brainstorming development of those alternative actions comes with the TOWS
Analysis that we will start presenting in Module 4.
HINT:  To focus your thinking on addressing “why” you selected
each SF and “why it is important,” start your “why select/important” sentence
with words like this:  “I selected this SF because…..” or “This SF is
important because…”  By using this lead-in phrase you should be able to
concisely state why that particular SF is important.
HINT:  To focus your thinking on addressing the quantitative
potential impact (QPI) in the future of each SF, be sure your QPI sentence
contains words like this:  “potential impact of $____” or “potential
increases to ____ are $____ per year” or “reduction in sales by $____ per
year.”  Be sure to state the potential impact in dollars so you can
compare the potential impacts of your various SF.
How to write the Weight and Rank comments: To assign
weights, explain the importance of the SF to the firm’s future
survival.  Is the SF of vital importance or low importance on a scale of 1
to 0?  What is the impact of the SF on the future survival of the firm?
What SF has the biggest impact?  Which one(s) are the Big
Dogs?  Make a logical explanation of why the weight you have assigned is
what it is.  Comparison and ranking between SF is a useful technique to
assign the weight.  See your potential $$$ impacts from your “Why”
analysis above. The bigger the $$$ impact is, the bigger the weight should
be.  Remember the weight column adds to 1.0.
HINT:  To focus your thinking on addressing the importance of
the SF to the firm’s future survival, be sure to include the key word
“survival” in your weight sentence.
To assign ratings provide an explanation of how well, or how
badly, the firm is handling each specific external SF RIGHT NOW –
not in the future or not in the distant past – but right now.  Use
the scale of 1 – 5, poor to outstanding; comparing the firm’s performance
against the industry standard rating of 3.  Give a logical explanation of
why the rating you have assigned is what it is.  Do they handle it well or
are they lost?  Are they performing in average way as other competitors
are? Remember the industry average performance is rated at 3.
HINT:  To focus your thinking on addressing how well your firm
is handling each SF, understand what the 1-5 scale means and then use your
rating number from the rating column with matching words (low, average, above
average, high, etc) in your rating sentence.
Remember to keep your decision-making at the strategic level –the Big
Picture level. You are acting at the CEO/SVP level. But you are also acting at
the lower levels to brainstorm, generate alternatives, perform critical
analysis, and make recommendations to the CEO/SVP levels. The decision-maker
CEO/SVP decides on the most important strategic factors.
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The TemplateSA-EXH4-FinRatio.docx is only a reference because you
will perform the calculations of your financial ratios in Excel. In fact, the
5-Y financials of the firm you are working about has a sheet that connects the
financial ratio formulas with respective data in Balance Sheets and Income
Statements for the five years of analysis in the same workbook.
To facilitate the Excel calculations, your 5-Y Financials has already the
formula and connections for the 1st year of your case. Review those
formulas to understand what is going on. Then, copy/paste that column for the
other remaining years.

ibrary Assigment Content
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 
Being able to distill information quickly and accurately is an important study skill. Academic, peer-reviewed articles provide you with an abstract, but an abstract just gives you a general idea whether the article is worth skimming or reading. An executive summary of a business report, however, is a document that—while concise—should pro-vide enough information to allow executives to act on it without necessarily having to read every word of the report. If you are asked to summarize a news article, for example, you need to provide the gist of it to the reader who then ought to be able to clearly understand the original without having to read it. As a rule of thumb, executive summaries tend to be nutshell versions, boiled down to approximately 10 per-cent, of the original. A 100-page report might result in an executive summary of up to ten pages. If the report has five sections, the executive summary needs to address each of these sections, too. Think of the executive summary as a miniature version of the original document, following the structure but leaving out details, examples, and other supporting information. Another benefit of being able to summarize skillfully is that you verify your understanding of the concepts in your reading. If you can’t summarize the original accurately from memory, in your own words, you probably need to reread it to understand it better.
Instructions
*Select a substantial news analysis or feature article in a reputable business publication, i.e., The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Bloomberg Businessweek, Money, Forbes, The Financial Times, or the business sections of big U.S. dailies (e.g., The New York Times, The Washing-ton Post, or U.S. News & World Report).
*Choose an article of length and substance, at least 2,000 words long. Tip: If you access the article in a research database, a word count will be provided for you.
*Write an executive summary, retaining the basic structure of the original, choosing precise, specific words for conciseness, while omitting details and examples that only serve as supporting evidence or explanation. Do not distort the meaning or inject your own opinion. Your summary can be up to 200 words long, i.e., two short paragraphs.
*Provide the source and other citation information for your assignment (Reference Page)
*Submit your executive summary as a memo. (Review and duplicate the sample from your textbook Chapter 13, Model Document 13.2 page 474). For better viewing review “pdf” attached.

In this assignment you are asked to read chapter 5 (of the Principles of
Finance) in its entirety and create a voice over PowerPoint describing the four
financial statements:
1) Income Statement
2) Balance Sheet
3) Cash-Flow
Statement
4) Statement of Retained earnings.
Specific components to address in your presentation include. 
The purpose and
importance of each statement
The structure
and key elements of each statement
Explain how
EBITDA is used as a measure of a companies profit
Identify the
relationship between the balance sheet and the income statement
Differentiate
between the expenses and the payables
Explain how the
Statement of Owners Equity is related to the Retained Earnings Statement
Explain what is
meant by a common-size statements and how they can be used
Explain what is
meant by a comparative statement and how they can be used
Discuss the key
SEC reporting requirements and why they are important

Why is it important for an organization to have a clear definition of diversity?
Primary posts are a minimum of 250 words and require a minimum of two sources (the book can be one). Two response posts are required and should be a minimum of 150 words. Responses should advance the topic and be substantial. “Good job” or “I agree” are not sufficient.
Posts should be well organized into paragraphs, 6-10 lines long at most. Two references are required (one can be your book). A reference list is required at the end of your primary post in APA style.

Module 3 – Case
BUILDING AN ETHICS-BASED WORKPLACE CULTURE
Assignment Overview
Ethics Program Implementation
As you can see by your reading, a lot of energy goes into the implementation of an organizational ethics program. And Lockheed Martin has clearly allotted considerable resources to assuring their program is successful. In this assignment we’ll be focusing on what the company did to ensure the implementation of a successful program that was flexible enough to accommodate the changing needs of the organization.
Case Assignment
Please address the following questions: 
On page 83, Terris discusses the company’s ethics code. Why is the code considered important to the company’s ethics program? 
Discuss the importance of ethics training and employee involvement. What are some of the things Lockheed does to make the training process interesting and worthwhile? 
How does Lockheed measure success with respect to ethics in the workplace?
What are some of the things Lockheed does at the operational level to make its ethics program work?
Assignment Expectations
Write a 3- to 4-page paper, not including title page or references page addressing the issue and upload it by the end of this module.
Your paper should be double-spaced and in 12-point type size.
Your paper should have a separate cover page and a separate reference page. Make sure you cite your sources. 
Use APA style, and proofread your paper.
Upload your paper by the end of the module.

DONE – The 1st step is to write interview questions and conduct interviews with doctors, nurses, and admin staff of a small medical practice. You DO NOT need to worry about this: refer to the “interview questions” doc for the questions I created, refer to the “Smithville…” doc for the fake people to interview (you can also click on the link in the main instruction to interact with the fake interviewees), and refer to their pre-set responses for the SWOT analysis. 
YOU DO – The 2nd step is to write up a SWOT analysis, analyzing the implementation of that new online scheduling system at Smithville. There is a link in the main instruction doc at the bottom, directing to a tutorial on how to craft a SWOT. You can refer to the format of that example. 
NO external sources are needed unless incredibly essential. 

PROJECT TITLE Feasibility of Introducing Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Augmented Reality (AR) Glasses for Managers in Lidl Stores across Ireland 
AIM To assess the viability of Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Augmented Reality (AR) Glasses for managers in Lidl stores across Ireland 
OBJECTIVES 
1. Evaluate the impact of AI & AR Glasses for managers in Lidl stores across Ireland.
2. Determine the costs and benefits of AI & AR Glasses for managers in Lidl stores across Ireland. 
3. Assess other applications of AI & AR Glasses for managers in other areas of Lidl. 
Please see attached documents for more information and research conducted for this project.

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read Chapter 10: The Future of Human Resource Management from the textbook. You may want to review Chapters 1 through 9 from the textbook.
The primary function of HRM is to increase the effectiveness and contribution of employees attaining organizational goals and objectives. Consider all the areas of HRM that have been discussed in this course:
performance management
human resources planning, recruitment, and selection
human resources development
compensation and benefits
employment and labor laws and regulations
In your paper,
Summarize each HRM area listed above providing a high-level overview.
Discuss HR functions within a performance management system that contribute to effective training and development.
Explain how an effective performance management system, along with compensation and benefits, can attract, develop, and retain talented employees.
Analyze employment and labor laws and regulations that impact these areas of HRM listed above and the relationships between employees and employers.
Describe how the functions of HRM work together in order to optimize organizational and employee behavior.
For additional support with completing your final paper, please refer to the following tools:
Finding HR Journals in the UAGC LibraryLinks to an external site.. This tip sheet may support you in researching through the University of Arizona Global Campus Library.
What is CRAAPO?Links to an external site. This may assist you in determining the reliability of an HR website.
Scholarly and Popular Resources(1)Links to an external site.. This tutorial explains the differences between scholarly and popular resources.
Human Resources Research with Library OneSearchLinks to an external site.. This tip sheet may support you in researching through the University of Arizona Global Campus Library.
The Functions of HRM final paper
Must be seven to eight double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA StyleLinks to an external site. as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA Formatting for Microsoft WordLinks to an external site. resource.
Must include a separate title page with the following:
Title of paper in bold font
Space should appear between the title and the rest of the information on the title page.
Student’s name
Name of institution (The University of Arizona Global Campus)
Course name and number
Instructor’s name
Due date
Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic VoiceLinks to an external site. resource for additional guidance.
Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
For assistance on writing Introductions & ConclusionsLinks to an external site. and Writing a Thesis StatementLinks to an external site., refer to the Writing Center resources.
Must use at least five scholarly, peer-reviewed, or credible sources in addition to the course text.
The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible SourcesLinks to an external site. table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source.
To assist you in completing the research required for this assignment, view Quick and Easy Library ResearchLinks to an external site. tutorial, which introduces the University of Arizona Global Campus Library and the research process, and provides some library search tips.
Must document any information used from sources in APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA: Citing Within Your PaperLinks to an external site. guide.
Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center. See the APA: Formatting Your References ListLinks to an external site. resource in the Writing Center for specifications.
Carefully review the Grading RubricLinks to an external site. for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

Read Chapters 7-9 in Walston
Read Chapters 7-9 in Wayland & McDonald
Read: The external Environment and Its Relationship to Strategy Power Point Presentation
Choose a local healthcare organization with which you are familiar. Conduct a SWOT analysis on the organization. After completing the SWOT analysis, use the template in Exhibit 8.12 (Walston text) or Chapter 9 (Wayland & McDonald text) to prioritize the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats you identified. Your SWOT analysis should be accompanied by a discussion of your findings for each segment (i.e., S, W, O, T), which will total 800 words.