Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) are critical components of a marketing plan. For this assignment, you will build a marketing plan for an organization, product, or service of your choice.

Begin by selecting an organization, product, or service for your marketing plan and complete the following:

• Describe the organization, product, or service that you selected for this assignment.
• Using the SWOT analysis, evaluate your market and future competition for your selection.
• Provide your recommendations for benchmarking and creating a competitive advantage based on your analysis.

Develop a 6–8-slide presentation, excluding the title and reference slides, in PowerPoint format.

Apply APA standards to citation of sources. 

By Wednesday, August 17, 2016, deliver your assignment

The Politics of Medicare and Medicaid

One of the significant challenges for Medicare and Medicaid is not necessarily the implementation of the program but the influence of the political climate in regard to both the financial support and control of the programs.

For this Dropbox Assignment, choose two articles related to the politics of Medicare and Medicaid from the list below. The articles can also be found in the South University Online Library.

• Aaron, H. J., & Butler, S. (2008). A federalist approach to health reform:
             The worst way, except for all the others. Health Affairs, 27(3),
             725–735.
• Kaiser Family Foundation. (2011). Federal core requirements and state
             options in Medicaid: Current policies and key issues. Retrieved
             from http://www.kff.org/medicaid/upload/8174.pdf
• Kronick, R., & Gilmer, T. (2012). Medicare and Medicaid spending variations
             are strongly linked within hospital regions but not at overall state level.
             Health Affairs, 31(5), 948–955.
• Kronick, R., & Rousseau, D. (2007). Is Medicaid sustainable? Spending
             projections for the program’s second forty years. Health Affairs,
              26(6), 271–287.
• Mann, C. (2003). The flexibility factor: Finding the right balance. Health
             Affairs, 22(1), 62–76.
• Weil, A., & Scheppach, R. (2010). New roles for states in health reform
             implementation. Health Affairs, 29(6), 1178–1182.

Choose an issue mentioned in these articles pertaining to the politics of Medicare or Medicaid. Use the following as a guide to develop a report on the selected issue:

• Explain the main points of the articles.
• Explain in detail the issue as it pertains to the politics of Medicare or Medicaid.
• Discuss the impact of the issue relative to the provisions for services to Medicare or Medicaid recipients.

In a Microsoft Word document, create a 2page report on your analysis of the selected issue.

Support your responses with examples.

Cite any sources in APA format

Assignment 3: Excel Problems

At the end of each module, you will apply the module’s concepts by completing comprehensive assignments from the textbook.

Complete problems P16A-17B (p. 898), P16A-19B (p. 899),  P18-24A (p. 979), P18-26A (p. 980) in your textbook.

Present your analysis of the assigned problems in Excel format. Enter non-numerical responses in the same worksheet using textboxes.

By Wednesday, September 3, 2014 deliver your assignment to the M2: Assignment 3 Dropbox.

Create the file with the following name: LastnameFirstInitial_M2A3.Excel.xls.

Week5                 PROJECT RISK MANAGEMENT

Write a 200- to 300-word short-answer response to the following: three assignments

1.  Supporting Activity: Change Requests

2.  Supporting Activity: Successful Project Risk Management 

3. Conceptualizing and Initializing the IT Project 

Write a 100- to 200-word short-answer response to the following: five assignments

4. Project Implementation, Closure, and Evaluation

5. Project Implementation, Closure, and Evaluation 

 Why would it be difficult to evaluate whether or not a project achieved its MOV shortly after the information system is implemented?

6. Project Implementation, Closure, and Evaluation

• What is the purpose of evaluating the project’s MOV?

7.  Project Implementation, Closure, and Evaluation 

8. Project Implementation, Closure, and Evaluation 

• What is the difference between a shortsighted and a knowledgeable project sponsor? How can making this distinction help the project manager during project closure?

Individual: Project Postmortem

Week4

Learning Team: Project Costing

 The allocation and cost of resources need to be carefully monitored if a project is to be delivered on-time and on-budget.

At a minimum this section will contain the following:

• Allocation of resources to project tasks (both labor and material)

• Cost estimates for project resources

• Gantt diagram showing duration estimates for all tasks and their sequencing (including precedence relations) and highlighting any critical path(s) arising from task dependencies ultimately determining the minimal duration of a project

   

  In addition summarize any relevant facts about the project duration, number or type of resources, critical task sequencing, or how duration estimates were arrived at, and any financial implications (for example, budget or cost reports of the project as well)

   

  •Develop a baseline for your project plan so that all future variances are captured.

   

  Write 2 to 3pages on your findings.

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

  Learning Team: Project Evaluation and Control

  Week5

   

  Revise and submit all sections of your Learning Team project along with the Week Five section below.

   

  It is essential for establishing confidence that a project will be executed effectively and with minimal waste. A plan for performance measurement requires identifying which critical element should be measured, how they are measured, and when they are measured to communicate if the project is on track.

   

At a minimum the section will contain the following:

• Measurable objectives identified as milestones on the Gantt chart

• Risk mitigation strategy for analyzing and reporting unplanned changes as well what procedures you plan to implement for handling change control issues

• Description of project reporting regarding the on-going evaluation and status of project efforts to stakeholder and participants on the project team

• Method for determining whether the project has met its objectives and how the project is terminated

   

  Write 2 to 3 pages on your findings

Are you included? Personal Analysis

Supporters of full inclusion assert that all students, regardless of language or intellectual ability, should be educated within the same classroom environment where the curriculum is adapted to meet everyone’s needs. Advocates for this model believe it most closely resembles the ‘real world’ where society is fully integrated professionally and personally and that all students deserve an equal opportunity to be provided access to the core curricula. Those who oppose full inclusion feel it is academically and financially unrealistic for schools to provide an appropriate education experience with such a diverse population in one classroom setting, where forcing all students to conform to one teaching model is more exclusionary than providing various education service models (e.g., resource, pull-out, self-contained). 

Your focus:

Imagine you are a 5th grade teacher in a full inclusion model classroom with 28 students. The class is being co-taught by you and a special education teacher. Three students are ELL, five have an IEP for various mild/ moderate disabilities including two students who have been identified as having an emotional/behavioral disability. 

Madison B. is one of your non ELL, non-disabled students. Madison’s mom, Mrs. B is a concerned parent and indicates that Maddy comes home complaining about boredom; there are too many other kids in the class and Maddy has to wait a long time to get help. 

Part 1: 
Explain in a detailed one- to two-paragraph response how will you address Mrs. B’s concerns and help her feel that you and your classroom is a good fit for Maddy? Consider how you will handle this concern to make the class support Maddy’s needs. What will you tell the mom and what will you do differently in the classroom for Maddy? How will you continue to support the needs of the other students at the same time?

Be mindful that most principals expect the teacher(s) to differentiate the instruction in order for all students to benefit from the instruction. 

Part 2: 
In a separate paragraph, explain your view of full inclusion in this kind of a situation.

Part 3: 
Construct a two-to-four page reflection, not including title and reference pages, following proper APA 6th edition formatting requirements that describes your vision for inclusion practices of diverse populations such as in this example.  In an unbiased perspective, explain how you would handle this situation in your current or future classroom. Use citations from reliable web pages, journals, and scholarly articles to help you formulate a solid response. Be sure to use at least two references to support your decision.

• Use citations from reliable web pages, journals, and scholarly articles to help you formulate a solid response. Be sure to use at least two references to support your decision.
• Writing will contain no errors in grammar, spelling, or punctuation.
• Paragraphs will include clear topic sentence and transition sentences making the writing flow.
• Submit the assignment for evaluation not later than the final due date listed on your course schedule.