This application assignment requires you to share a newsworthy story OR a workplace experience that demonstrates how one course concept from Module 5 has been used in practice.  The concept that you select may come from the readings, audio lectures, and/or required videos.   

• *ORIGINALITY REQUIRED:  This Application Assignment must be your original work for MADM 752.  Your assignments should be your own work and in your own words.  Course material and external sources must be cited and given proper credit using APA style.  In addition, assignments submitted to other classes should not be recycled or re-used for an Application Assignment in this course.  Your Turnitin similarity score will detect these types of submissions.  MADM 752 is specifically about small business and family enterprise.  Therefore, the concept you choose should be related to small business and family enterprise based on the material covered in this week’s module.  View the Turnitin Requirements section below.

News Story Option (if chosen): 

• News story must be from a credible source within the last 4 years with appropriate citation.
• Context must be provided on why the story is immediately relevant to the topics being covered.
• Responses which are purely opinion and anecdotal are not considered to be substantive in nature.
• Two additional external sources to support information required In addition to the news story from a credible source.
• Original news story from an external source plus two additional external sources required.
• Assigned textbook chapters from the course do not count as external sources.

Workplace Experience Option (if chosen):

• DO NOT SHARE CONFIDENTIAL OR PROPRIETARY INFORMATION with the class If you decide to introduce a workplace scenario that you have dealt with or are dealing with at present, 
• Use discretion when sharing work related information.  Use aliases instead of real names to maintain privacy.
• Two external sources required to support your information in addition to workplace experience.
• Workplace experience plus two external sources required.
• Assigned textbook chapters from the course do not count as external sources.

Assignment Structure:

• The title of application assignment and first sentence of assignment must indicate course concept from Module 5.
• First part of application assignment must provide only a brief summary of your work related news article/workplace experience to frame your discussion so that what you are discussing is clear but is not the majority of the post. 
• Remainder of application assignment and the primary focus of it is not describing your article/experience in great detail but rather meeting the relevant criteria outlined in the application assignment rubric using your work related article or workplace experience as the context.

Turnitin Requirements:

• For each application assignment, your similarity score must meet a threshold of no more than 20%.
• Assignments with greater than 20% similarity must be revised and resubmitted to Turnitin until the 20% threshold is achieved.
• For resubmissions, it may take up to 24 hours for a new similarity score.
• It is the student’s responsibility to allow enough time for resubmission of their assignment to Turnitin if their initial report did not meet the 20% threshold.
• Assignments with more than 20% threshold will receive a zero.

CASE STUDY:  Pre-school-aged white female living in a rural community 

With the information presented in Chapter 1 of Ball et al. in mind, consider the following:

• By Day 1 of this week, you will be assigned a new patient profile by your Instructor for this Discussion. Note: Please see the “Course Announcements” section of the classroom for your new patient profile assignment.
• How would your communication and interview techniques for building a health history differ with each patient?
• How might you target your questions for building a health history based on the patient’s social determinants of health?
• What risk assessment instruments would be appropriate to use with each patient, or what questions would you ask each patient to assess his or her health risks?
• Identify any potential health-related risks based upon the patient’s age, gender, ethnicity, or environmental setting that should be taken into consideration.
• Select one of the risk assessment instruments presented in Chapter 1 or Chapter 5 of the Seidel’s Guide to Physical Examination text, or another tool with which you are familiar, related to your selected patient.
• Develop at least five targeted questions you would ask your selected patient to assess his or her health risks and begin building a health history.

By Day 3 of Week 1

Post a summary of the interview and a description of the communication techniques you would use with your assigned patient. Explain why you would use these techniques. Identify the risk assessment instrument you selected, and justify why it would be applicable to the selected patient. Provide at least five targeted questions you would ask the patient.

4 references not more than 5years

Demonstration of Proficiency

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

• Competency 1: Lead people and processes to improve patient, systems, and population outcomes. 
  • Explain how at least 2 chosen artifacts illustrate personal growth and achievements in leading people and processes to improve patient, systems, and population outcomes.
• Competency 3: Transform processes to improve quality, enhance patient safety, and reduce the cost of care. 
  • Explain how at least 2 chosen artifacts illustrate personal growth and achievements in transforming processes to improve quality, enhance patient safety, and reduce the cost of care.
• Competency 6: Collaborate interprofessionally to improve patient and population outcomes. 
  • Explain how at least 2 chosen artifacts illustrate personal growth and achievements in interprofessional collaboration to improve patient and population outcomes.
• Competency 8: Integrate professional standards and values into practice. 
  • Explain how chosen at least 2 artifacts and a professional resume illustrate personal growth and achievements in the area of integrating professional standards and values into practice.
  • Present a well-organized ePortfolio in a clear and professional manner, using correct grammar, spelling, and APA style.

You should complete this assessment last.

Professional Context

A portfolio is a great way to for nurses to “record and provide evidence of skills, achievements, experience, development and learning, not only for themselves, but for the information and scrutiny of registration boards, employers, managers and peers” (Green, Wyllie, & Jackson, 2014, p. 8). As you collect the artifacts that best showcase your strengths, you begin to track, reflect on, and evaluate your own learning and growth over time.

this assessment it is connected to assessment 1?

title: Demand Management Plan

Prepare a 7-page demand management plan, including a forecasting, inventory management, and scheduling analysis, as well as recommendations, for a provided scenario or business of your choice.

Introduction

This portfolio work project, a demand management plan, will help you demonstrate competency in forecasting, inventory management, and scheduling. 

Scenario

For this assessment, choose either Option 1 or Option 2. You do not need to do both. You will apply one of these scenarios in the Requirements below. Both options will be graded using the same scoring guide.

Option 1

Wild Dog Coffee Company, a locally owned company with a single coffee shop location, serves a wide selection of espresso beverages, small breakfast and lunch menu items, and a limited evening menu. The company is planning to expand the business by adding an additional location. While different menu items may be tested at the new location, their core processes will remain the same. You have been working on a process improvement in preparation for the expansion and are now turning your attention to demand management.  

Option 2

If you chose Option 2 for Assessment 1, use the same business for this assessment, or select a different business. Note that it is recommended that you use the same business for each assessment in this course, using the following criteria for your selection:

The company fits the assessment requirements and you have access to the information needed to complete the assessment.

The business information is disclosed in the assessment for faculty’s reference.

You can distribute the business data without disclosing confidential information.

Your Role

Option 1

As an owner of Wild Dog Coffee Company, you and your business partners are planning the opening of a second location. You need to prepare an analysis and recommendations for demand management, including forecasting, inventory, and scheduling, for your current location, so you can refine the model before opening the second location. 

Option 2

Your boss, a director, has tasked you with a demand management project. She is relying on you to prepare an analysis and recommendations for demand management that can be presented to the executive team of the company. You completed a special project for her a few months ago that went very well, and you are pleased to have received this new assignment.

Requirements

Include the following in your demand management plan:

Assess the impact of advertising on product demand.

If using Wild Dog Coffee Company, the following basic assumptions will help you prepare a demand forecast:

The other owners of Wild Dog Coffee Company handle the business’ marketing and sales functions, and they believe that advertising expenditures impact the sale of coffee beverages. They want you to confirm whether or not their advertising dollars are driving sales. Here is what was agreed upon by all the owners:

Wild Dog Coffee Business InformationQuestionsResponsesHow many espresso beverages are made each hour?30, on averageHow many ounces of espresso beans are used for each beverage?1.5 ouncesHow many hours per day is the coffee shop open?6:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m., Sunday–SaturdayHow many days each month is the business open?364 days per year. The coffee shop is closed on Christmas day.

You have the following six months of data to work with for pounds of espresso beans (y) used each month and monthly advertising expenditures (x):

Espresso Bean Use and AdvertisingMonthLbs/Beans (y)Advertising Dollars (x)1987$1,05021,412$1,50031,020$1,00041,140$1,25051,322$1,50061,399$1,500

Interpret the forecasting model for the selected product.

Use a simple linear regression model to show your forecast.

If using Wild Dog Coffee Company, forecast the pounds of espresso beans needed for month 7 if the advertising budget for month 7 is $1,350. Interpret the model and respond to the following questions for Wild Dog Coffee Company:

How many espresso beverages will the company need to prepare, on average, each day?

How many pounds of espresso beans will the company need, on average, each day?

To what extent do advertising dollars predict the need for espresso beans?

Prepare an inventory management analysis for the selected product.

In your analysis, include two different approaches to inventory management. What are the pros and cons of each system you analyzed? 

If using Wild Dog Coffee Company, the following provides additional information you have gathered from the inventory management analysis:

Since Wild Dog Coffee Company is small, the company must manage inventory very carefully. While larger companies can have lots of inventory on the shelf, Wild Dog simply does not have the cash to do that. As such, you have a number of pressures for small inventories. Wild Dog does not have the ability to store a lot of beans, to cover the cost of capital, or to withstand unnecessary expenditures for taxes, insurance, and shrinkage. Shrinkage is important because roasted espresso beans only maintain their optimal freshness for two weeks.

Demand is approaching 1,400 pounds of espresso beans per month.

Only one type of espresso bean is stocked.

Demand is not constant on a daily or weekly basis.

If you run out of espresso beans at any point, you will have to close the business until the next shipment of beans arrives.

Espresso beans are shipped in 25-pound packages. (This is your base inventory unit.)

The cost per pound of beans averages $9.00.

Espresso beans are delivered seven (7) days after placing the order and on any day of the week.

Shipping is free on orders over $250. Otherwise, shipping is $19.95 per order, regardless of weight. (This is the only ordering cost you incur.)

Holding costs are 10 percent/year/unit.

Standard deviation for daily demand is 1.84 pounds.

Analyze the business’ scheduling management.

In your analysis, detail two different staffing scenarios for Wild Dog Coffee Company or your selected business. What are the pros and cons of each staffing scenario?

Use a Word table or Excel spreadsheet to show both staffing scenarios for each day of the week. Include the daily and weekly total staffing costs and number of hours worked for each employee.

If using Wild Dog Coffee Company, the following provides additional information you have gathered from the staffing analysis:

Shifts have been scheduled according to who wants to work which shift. This has generally worked out well, but you realize you need to tighten up the scheduling process in order to optimize a staffing model. Two employees are required to make a coffee beverage. One employee takes the orders, and a barista makes the coffee drink and hands it to the customer.

Baristas are paid $14/hour, regardless of whether they are full-time or part-time.

Full-time employees (up to 40 hours/week), other than baristas, are paid $12/hour.

Part-time employees (up to 20 hours/week), other than baristas, are paid $9/hour.

All full-time employees receive company benefits that equate to 15 percent of their hourly rate. (This is known as a benefits load.)

All full-time employees are paid at 150 percent of their regular rate for all hours worked over 40 hours per week. Full-time employees can only work a maximum of 50 hours per week. The benefits load is not applied to overtime hours.

All part-time employees are paid at 150 percent of their regular rate for all hours worked over 20 hours per week. Part-time employees can only work a maximum of 26 hours per week.

It costs $500 to hire each additional employee, and it costs $250 to terminate an employee.

Full-time employees are likely to resign if moved to part-time status.

The coffee shop is open 84 hours per week. There are two additional hours allocated each day for one employee to perform opening and closing activities. (That is, one hour is allocated for opening duties and one hour is allocated for closing duties.)

Your current level of staffing for coffee beverages is as follows:

Baristas – 1 full-time; 3 part-time.

Non-barista – 1 full-time; 2 part-time.  

Recommend an inventory management system and staffing plan for a selected business and product. 

Detail the results of your analysis for Wild Dog Coffee Company or your selected business’ product to substantiate your recommendations

Deliverable Format

Requirements:

The demand management plan is to be a minimum of 7 pages, not including the title, reference, and appendix pages.

Use a demand management plan template of your choice.

Related company standards:

The demand management plan is a professional document and should therefore follow the corresponding MBA Academic and Professional Document Guidelines (available in the MBA Program Resources), including single-spaced paragraphs.

In addition to the title and reference pages, include the following in the appendix:

Linear regression model for product forecasting.

Word table or Excel spreadsheet for staffing scenarios.

Use 2–3 scholarly or academic sources, where applicable, one of which must come from the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, or MIT Sloan Management Review.

Use APA formatting for citations and references.

Evaluation

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies through corresponding scoring guide criteria:

Competency 1: Analyze how operations management theories and models effect the development and delivery of products or services to the marketplace.

Interpret the forecasting model for the selected product.

Competency 2: Use logistics and supply chain management tools to manage the distribution of products and services.

Prepare an inventory management analysis for the selected product.

Competency 3: Use data to evaluate the effect of operations management decisions on organizational goals.

Assess the impact of advertising on product demand.

Analyze the business’ scheduling management.

Competency 4: Evaluate the effectiveness of operations management strategies to achieve quality and customer service goals.

Recommend an inventory management system and staffing plan for a selected business and product. 

Competency 5: Communicate business needs, opportunities, and strategies with multiple stakeholders.

Write coherently to support a central idea with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics as expected of a business profession

Conducting statistical analysis can prove an intimidating task for some students. However, statistical analysis is the critical component of social work research that can link interventions to client outcomes. Statistical analysis software simplifies the task of the mathematical computations. It is the social worker’s responsibility to choose the proper research design and type of statistical analysis.

This week, you analyze the relationship between study design and statistical analysis in a case study. You also interpret the results of the research from the case study and a SPSS data that will be provided to you.

Discussion: Selection of a Statistical Analysis Approach

Though data analysis occurs after the study has completed a data collection stage, the researcher needs to have in mind what type of analysis will allow the researcher to obtain an answer to a research question. The researcher must understand the purpose of each method of analysis, the characteristics that must be present in the study for the design to be appropriate and any weaknesses of the design that might limit the usefulness of the study results. Only then can the researcher select the appropriate design. Choosing the appropriate design enables the researcher to claim the data that is potential evidence that provides information about the relationship being studied. Notice that it is not the statistical test which tells us that research is valid, rather, it is the research design. Social workers must be aware of and adjust any limitations of their chosen design that may impact the validity of the study.

To prepare for this Discussion, review the handout, A Short Course in Statistics and pages 210–220 in your course text Social Work Evaluation: Enhancing What We Do. If necessary, locate and review online resources concerning internal validity and threats to internal validity. Then, review the “Social Work Research: Chi Square” case study located in this week’s resources. Consider the confounding variables, that is, factors that might explain the difference between those in the program and those waiting to enter the program

Part 1- 3 paragraphs

Post an interpretation of the case study’s conclusion that “the vocational rehabilitation intervention program may be effective at promoting full-time employment.” Describe the factors limiting the internal validity of this study, and explain why those factors limit the ability to draw conclusions regarding cause and effect relationships.

Part 2- 1 page paper APA

Statistical analysis software is a valuable tool that helps researchers perform the complex calculations. However, to use such a tool effectively, the study must be well designed. The social worker must understand all the relationships involved in the study. He or she must understand the study’s purpose and select the most appropriate design. The social worker must correctly represent the relationship being examined and the variables involved. Finally, he or she must enter those variables correctly into the software package. This assignment will allow you to analyze in detail the decisions made in the “Social Work Research: Chi Square” case study and the relationship between study design and statistical analysis. Assume that the data has been entered into SPSS and you’ve been given the output of the chi-square results. (See Week 4 Handout: Chi-Square findings).

To prepare for this Assignment, review the Week 4 Handout: Chi-Square Findings and follow the instructions.

Submit a 1-page paper of the following:

• An analysis of the relationship between study design and statistical analysis used in the case study that includes:
  • An explanation of why you think that the agency created a plan to evaluate the program
  • An explanation of why the social work agency in the case study chose to use a chi square statistic to evaluate whether there is a difference between those who participated in the program and those who did not (Hint: Think about the level of measurement of the variables)
  • A description of the research design in terms of observations (O) and interventions (X) for each group.
  • Interpret the chi-square output data. What do the data say about the program?