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“Uncertainty and Risks ” Please respond to the following:

  • In the video, Michael T. Pich, one of the textbook authors, recommends two approaches for uncertainty and subsequently risks. As companies strive to remain in business, there are many economic, social, and technological unknowns. As a project leader, determine how you would explain Pich’s three classical approaches to your project team.
  • From the e-Activity, provide an example of a project choosing selectionism and learning. Read each classmate’s example and comment on at least two. Each example should be unique.

Also reply back to these two classmate posts:

1. Doug Herring

Good afternoon class,

Having a direction to run in, can benefit a project team greatly. Often times new Project Managers tend to want to run when they should be learning how to walk. This leads many projects into problems or delays that could have been prevented from the start or at least mitigated to an extent. During the planning or bid stages of a project, a project team should, to the best of their abilities, identify majority of the risks that will be involved with the project. As a project leader, the first thing I would establish for a team is the direction to run. Informing the entire team of what the end goal is allows multiple individuals to input different ways of completion. Having different ways of completion can provide your team with multiple risks that one individual may not have realized. This would be Pitch’s first step, prevention. The next phase would me sticking to your plans and maintain the knowledge of the risks that your team has already identified. Once risks are identified, there are usually standards or procedures written to prevent those risks from happening. Those standards and procedures can be referred to mitigation. The last step for the team would be the “what if” type questions. When these questions are posed at anytime in the project it is wise to take them into consideration. Hearing outside ideas keeps a project on their toes and continues to manage any identified risks or even problem areas to avoid. Having all of these identified as a team can be the make it or break it of a project and as long as your team is willing to be flexible throughout the project keeping their ideas fresh, you can greatly reduce project slack as well as prevention of spending money on risks that were unidentified.

A project that uses selectionism and learning would be the retail giant, WalMart. This company started out in Arkansas where it was only home goods. Similar to Kmart, Target and other local home good stores, WalMart began to dabble in a bit of everything by monitoring their income from which products. How certain items sold in different places of the store. Price points customers thought were reasonable and even began to expand their market stores enough to attempt to open marketside grocery stores. This attempt however did not work for the company and was quickly bought out by Dollar General. To this date, WalMart still has their hand in multiple pools ranging from car maintenance to groceries in their super stores. It was quite an amazing accomplishment that all aspects of that company function as well as they do but set up by a team of visionaries who saw that multiple people could use different things through out their trip to one store.

2. Kindell Bates

Hello Class,

How would I use, Michael T. Pich commentary on selectionism and learning? My approach would be to explain how it would be important

  1. To carefully evaluate the risk of uncertainties. By viewing different types of uncertainties for an example weather, budget, time off and other unknowns that can affect a project.
  2. Map out a Tendency plan. Just in case something that you can control is covered, example replace a person, redesign of a software, or moving to another location to complete the project if possible
  3. Feedback, most important. By excepting feedback your evolving and learning other ways to accomplish a task or project. Each project or task may have some similarities, however, there may be some differences that may prompt you to look for other resources to help with overcoming that task or project. Having an open mind to a different view.

Amazon.com

Jeff Bezos used selectionism and learn to build the most prestigious online dealer in the world.

In 1994, Jeff Bezos launch Amazon.com as a bookseller online, unlike the first company from Silicon Valley bookstore who sold their books from their technically astute customer in 1991. Amazon.com sells their book stock to any reader anywhere. Amazon.com was scrutinized and labeled to fail (AMAZON.bomb). However, Bezos dismissed the failing idea of naysayers not seeing its potential. Amazon.com grow fast and reached 180,000 customer accounts by December 1996 after the first year of business. Amazon.com expanded quickly in other areas with other merchandise; by 1996, Amazon.com would fill orders and pay commission, in other words, the site would office an eBay trading on its site. 350,000 customers by 1999. The company started to sell music and videos by 1998 and that same year starting selling produces internationally. By 1999, the company started selling consumer electronics, video games, software and home-improvement items plus products. After two years of opening its virtual doors and without even making a profit. Amazon.com became a public company, raising 54 million on the NASDAQ market. By 2002 Amazon.com launched Amazon Web Services (AWS) that offered data on internet traffic patterns, website popularity, and statistic for developers and marketers.

Kindell Bates

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As a forensic mental health professional, you will be often asked to provide basic education to correctional experts in prisons about the true nature of mental illness in general and the specific ways that mental illness is manifested in offender populations. The correctional staff is subject to common biases and misinformation related to what mental disorders look like in real life and often consider mental illness in offenders to be a yes/no (they either have it or they don’t) proposition. It is important to educate such staff about the shades of gray inherent in mental disorders, along with realistic portrayals of specific mental disorders.

Tasks:

As the forensic mental health professional in a prison, you have been asked to conduct training with various supervisors on the types of mental illnesses offenders might display in prison.

Develop a 12- to 15-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation with detailed speaker notes to generate a training program for the various supervisors in a prison. Your training program must include the following:

  • Describe the major clinical mental disorders that can impact offenders, including major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia. Explain each disorder and the prominent symptoms.
  • Explain personality disorders.
  • Identify common personality disorders of offenders in correctional settings. Explain how forensic mental health professionals assess for personality disorders.
  • Define malingering.
  • Describe the types of secondary gain that offenders are likely to pursue through malingering. Explain how malingering can be detected by forensic mental health professionals.

Submission Details:

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Read two readings in the document and answer the questions. Questions are basically leading the reading, the answers are in the reading. It will be best to read the questions before you read the reading.

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Please write an answer to each of the two questions below. The suggested lengths for your answers are intended only as guidelines.

Do not use any other sources than those assigned for the course.

1. Edmund Burke and Karl Marx all rejected the “Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen” of the French Revolution. Address the key elements of their disagreement with the Declaration. Of the two, which do you find most persuasive? (2 pages/600 words)

2. Lynn Hunt attributes immense importance to the novel in bringing about a change in Europeans’ views of rights. Lynn Hunt, Inventing Human Rights: A History (New York: Norton, 2007). ISBN 978- 0393331998

A. What is her argument, and do you accept it?

B. Evaluate Charles Dickens’s Hard Times and Hannah More’s “Slavery: A Poem” as tests of her thesis. In other words, do you think a novel such as Hard Times might have changed the way people think or feel about rights, and if so how? (4 pages/1200 words). Charles Dickens: Hard Times

General Remarks

1. Papers must be typed and double-spaced. Margins should be one inch all around, and the font size should be 12-point. Please put page numbers on your paper. Do not use unusually large fonts, larger than normal spacing between paragraphs, and large headers and footers. Proper grammar and punctuation improve the clarity and power of your essay, but your essay will be graded mostly on its content.

2. Please put your answers in one document, stapled together. Please do not rewrite the question on your answer sheet. Just type the question number and then your answer. Please leave four extra lines in between your answers.

3. You must cite any work from which you quote or cite. You may place the name and page number of the source you are citing at the end of the sentence in which a quotation or paraphrase of the author’s work appears. For instance, (Rousseau, 2).

There is no need to submit a “works cited” page since all your citations will be to the materials I have assigned. Make sure that you put any direct quotations in quotation marks.

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This week’s environmental controversy focuses on the question: should Immigration into the US be reduced? Review the background information. Then, using the References along with resources from your own research, write a 1-2 page response to the questions that follow. Remember to cite your sources using proper APA format.

Background Information

Legal and illegal immigration into the United States is discussed in your textbook. Advocates of liberal immigration argue that both legal and illegal immigrants are needed to perform difficult and low paying jobs that most citizens won’t take. Advocates also sympathize with immigrants because many of them are fleeing poverty and tyranny in their homelands. Immigrants pay taxes, help to support the US social security system, and contribute to American society.

Opponents of immigration include individuals that want to ban or significantly reduce all immigration, and those that simply want more stringent efforts to end illegal immigration. Opponents argue that current immigration policies and border patrol methods are too lenient and allow terrorists to infiltrate into the US.

QUESTIONS TO ANSWER:

How do the views presented in the articles differ? How does illegal immigration both hurt and help state economies? Do you feel that the author’s of these two articles are ignoring each others side, or is it possible that the Illinois economy is simply better equipped to absorb illegal immigration? Before answering this final question make sure to consider the affiliations of the authors.

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I need the attached lab to be completed.

It’s physical sciences.

Thanks for your help

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Complete question: Discuss the guidelines for prescribing hormonal birth control to women with a known history of depression and/or anxiety. How will you manage a patient who reports feeling depressed after starting hormonal birth control?

1. Must be APA format

2. Contain 3 APA references. None older than 5 years.

3. No length requirement as long as questions are answered appropriately

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To draw the project to a conclusion, in this workshop you will develop a complete and final draft of your Health Policy Analysis. The paper will incorporate information from the previous assignments to present a professional quality analysis suitable for use by a legislator.

The presentation is to include the following sections:

  1. Introduction
  2. Problem Statement
  3. Background
  4. Landscape
  5. Policy Options
  6. Policy Recommendation

The paper is not a copy and paste of the previous assignments. Rather, it is a concise presentation of the Health Policy Analysis. Some important things to consider. First, consider your audience. This analysis is for a member of the legislature. These are very busy individuals who are required to process large amounts of information. Direct, concise, and relevant messages work best. Therefore, this Health Policy Analysis paper can be no longer than 5 pages. Second, make sure to clearly address each section of the analysis. By the end of the paper, the reader should have enough information to make a decision. Third, sell your policy recommendation. You want the decision-maker to believe yours is the best solution to the policy issue.

Review Chapter 14 of Essentials of Health Policy and Law

  1. Review information from previous assignments.
  2. Prepare a professional quality paper presenting your Health Policy Analysis.
  3. In the paper, address the following:
    1. Introduction to the policy issue and the problem statement.
    2. The background and landscape of the policy issue.
    3. Policy options and the criteria used to come to a recommendation.
    4. The policy recommendation, including why the policy option was chosen, and ways, if any, to mitigate negative aspects of the option.
    5. Any biblical principles applicable to the recommendation.
  4. Be sure to consider the audience in the formulation of the Health Policy Analysis.
  5. The paper should be no longer than 5 pages, not including title and reference pages.
  6. Include Title and Reference pages.
  7. Use proper spelling, grammar, and APA formatting.

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I couldn’t type the questions due to the pictures associated with the questions.

Each homework assignment is required to be submitted in a single Excel file with each problem calculated on a separate worksheet within that file, clearly labeled with the question number. All formulas are required to be linked in the respective function ribbons for the purpose of authenticating calculations.

If work is to be cited it must be in APA format.

Thanks