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Resource: University of Phoenix Material: Week Five Health Care Financial Terms worksheet.

Complete the University of Phoenix Material: Week Five Health Care Financial Terms worksheet.

Using a company of your choice, determine the strategic business goals. Develop an IT strategy that aligns to the business goals. You can use the balanced scorecard approach or you can develop your own method for defining and aligning the IT strategy to the business strategy. You will need to cite at least two credible sources that will provide justification for your strategy or approach.

 

Finding a company: If you are employed, it is best for you to use your current place of employment so you can practically apply the concepts in this assignment. Alternatively, you can use a nonprofit organization or any other organization you may have ties or access to.

 

Your IT strategy should include:

• Business Goals and Objectives
• List at least two or three specific business goals for the next year or two with an explanation of the business’ rationale for the goal.
• List an objective for each business goal to explain what the company needs to do to achieve the goal. 
• IT Strategies aligned with business goals and objectives
• List one or two IT strategies for each business goal
• These should be recommended strategies that would enable the business goals and objectives to be achieved.
• If your company already has IT strategies, you may provide an analysis and justification or new recommendation for each of the strategies
• Organizational Structure
• Describe the structure of the organization including:
• Organizational design
• Organizational culture
• Leadership factors (the types of leadership displayed within the company)
• Business processes
• Physical layout (i.e., how many offices, virtual offices, international locations)
• IT Infrastructure
• Describe the current IT infrastructure including:
• Hardware
• Software
• Network
• IT resources
• This should be a high-level overview
• IT Challenges
• Describe internal and external challenges IT faces in meeting the business needs
• Include social and/or ethical considerations
• Risks
• Describe risks IT might face when implementing change

As you develop your strategy, you may want to consider the following:

• An effective IT strategy will enable the business operations, helping business leaders achieve business goals more efficiently and effectively.
• Focus on top priorities. Take the time to understand organizational issues, how they are related, and how they affect performance. Determine what will happen if nothing changes and where IT can have the greatest, positive impact.
• Identify how IT supports business processes. The business is relying on their capabilities to achieve the business goals. The IT strategy should include a plan for supporting those business capabilities, creating efficiencies, and competitive advantage for the business.
• Define IT priorities and governance for IT. Without priorities and a process for IT governance in place, progress will be slowed. An agreed upon plan for governing IT will enable the decision process.

Understand the challenges. Improving processes and increasing efficiencies through IT implementation also requires behavioral and sometimes organizational change. With these changes come inherent challenges. Understanding and planning for those challenges will increase the chance of success in meeting the business goals.

 

Write an 8–12-page paper in Word format.

 

Apply APA standards to citation of sources. 

 

By Wednesday, October 12, 2016, deliver your assignment.

Create a journal entry of 700 to 1,050 words from the perspective of one of the following 1960s personas:

 Student at the University of Mississippi when James Meredith tried to enroll

 Witness to the assassination of Malcolm X

 Protestor at the Lincoln Memorial who hears King give his “I

Have a Dream” speech

 A freedom rider headed to New Orleans in 1960

 Store owner and witness to the Watts riots in LA

 African American participant in one of the Selma marches in

1965

 An African American supporter and political organizer for Robert

Kennedy in 1968

Consider the social, economic, and political forces at work. For example, if you have chosen to be a student at the University of Mississippi, describe the court cases that resulted in the desegregation of the campus.

Ensure that your journal entry aligns with fact and that all facts are supported by proper citations.

Include two sources other than your textbook. You may include the videos this week as part of your sources.

Format the text of your journal entry consistent with APA guidelines.

The U.S. government’s expansive role in public policy is caught in a swirl of conflicting cross-currents. On the one hand, popular expectations about government’s responsibility to solve problems often exceed the capacity of state and local authorities to respond effectively. On the other hand, policies developed at the national level may not sufficiently reflect the great diversity of interests across the US to be effective at the local level. Moreover, the search for effective policy is further complicated by theoretical debates about the constitutional framework of federalism (e.g., what limits on national power can be derived from the 10th Amendment?).

Select a policy issue that is in the middle of these cross-currents between national, state, and local authority. It must be a policy area other than education (the focus of Discussion One in Week Two). Some examples include: federal health care policy (e.g., Obamacare, Medicaid–not Medicare); federal transportation policy (e.g., federal transportation subsidies); federal highway policy (e.g., federal rules about the minimum drinking age, speed limits, or safety); federal urban planning and renewal policy; federal poverty, welfare and unemployment policies; national security policies that intersect/conflict with local police power; and federal disaster planning and relief. These are only examples. The policy area that you select must have a significant federalism component that requires national, state, and local interaction. It should also involve issues with a strong potential for tension or conflict among different levels of government.

Research and write an essay on a specific policy in the area that you select. (Note: The word “policy” is used interchangeably with the word “program.”) Your essay must:

1. Clearly identify a specific federal policy (the policy must raise issues of federalism because it requires national, state, and local interaction and invites tension across different levels of government), and summarize the elements of the policy, including the problem it is supposed to solve or improve.
2. Summarize the history of the policy. In your summary, explain how the policy raises issues of federalism.
3. Analyze the main pros and cons in debates about the policy.
4. Evaluate the pros and cons from two perspectives:
   • The policy’s effectiveness. In your evaluation, clearly explain your definition of effectiveness and how it should be measured or determined.
   • The policy’s consistency with the constitutional framework of federalism. In your evaluation, clearly explain your interpretation of American federalism’s constitutional framework and why the federal policy is or is not consistent with it.

Follow these requirements when writing the short essay:

1. The body of the essay (excluding the title page and reference page) must be at least 750 words long.
2. The essay must start with a short introductory paragraph which includes a clear thesis statement. The thesis statement must tell readers what the essay will demonstrate.
3. The essay must end with a short paragraph which includes a conclusion. The conclusion and thesis must be consistent.
4. The essay must logically develop the thesis in a way that leads to the conclusion, and must be supported by facts, fully explained concepts or assertions, and persuasive reasoning.
5. The essay must address all subtopics outlined above. At least 20% of the essay must focus on subtopic six, listed above (your evaluation of the various pros and cons about the policy).
6. Your essay must cite at least one academic article found in the Ashford Online Library and at least three other kinds of sources (e.g., Supreme Court opinions, magazine or newspaper articles, the course textbook, and reliable websites).
7. Use your own words. While brief quotes from sources may be used, altogether the total amount of quoted text must be less than five percent of the body of your essay.
8. When you use someone else’s words, they must be enclosed in quotation marks followed by an APA in-text short citation (author, year, and page) to your source. The in-text citation must correspond to a full APA citation for the source on the reference page at the end of the essay.
9. When you express someone else’s ideas, arguments, or facts in your own words, your statement must be followed by an APA in-text short citation (author, year, and page) to your source. The in-text citation must correspond to a full APA citation for the source in the reference page.
10. The form of the title page, the body pages, and the reference page must comply with APA style. Additionally, the title page must include the course number and name, the instructor’s name, and the date submitted.
11. The essay must use logical paragraph and sentence transitions, complete and clear sentences, and correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation.