Formative 1:

Explore business core competencies and choose at least two that your organization (you may research one or use one you previously or currently work for) demonstrates.

This may assist you in this research.

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  Formative 2: Reflect on your lecture with the following dynamic resources: Marketing, Operations, Development, Financial, Human Resources, and Corporate Reputation. Select two dynamic resources from the list. Then, using your organization (you may research one or use one you previously or currently work for), explain the three characteristics of both in how it applies to your organization.

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    Summative: Using your organization (you may research one or use one you previously or currently work for), explain the following:Overview of the Organization

    • Provide a brief introduction to the selected organization. Describe its industry, primary products/services, market position, and any recent strategic moves or developments.

    Resource Integration and Alignment: Analyze how well the organization integrates its resources to support its strategic objectives. Consider the alignment between resource allocation and strategic priorities:

    • How does the organization prioritize resource allocation across different business functions or geographic regions?
    • Are there any areas where resource allocation could be optimized or improved?

    Challenges and Opportunities: Identify potential challenges and opportunities related to the organization’s resources:

    • What are the key challenges or constraints faced by the organization in leveraging its resources?
    • Are there any emerging opportunities that the organization could capitalize on by leveraging its existing resources?

    Recommendations for Resource Management: Based on your analysis, provide recommendations for improving resource management practices within the organization:

    • How can the organization better leverage its resources to enhance its competitive position?
    • What steps should the organization take to address any identified resource gaps or weaknesses?

    Conclusion

    • Summarize your paper

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    • Word Document (5-6 pages in length, excluding the title and reference pages)
    • APA formatting required

Read by Patricia Hill Collins, respond to the following:

In 12 pages,

• Explain the difference between Black feminism and womanism.
• According to Collins, why can focusing too much on labels be a problem?
• Do you think labels (like feminist or womanist) are important, or do they create division? Briefly explain your opinion
• Use at least one idea from the reading
• Write clearly and support your opinion

Atlantic Southern Airlines (ASA) had an unhappy customer. Casey Segal-Jain flew from Baltimore, Maryland, to Seattle, Washington. The flight stopped briefly at Detroit Metropolitan Airport, where Ms. Segal-Jain got off the plane for half an hour. When she returned to her seat, her $400 prescription reading glasses were gone. She asked the flight attendant where the glasses were, and the attendant said they probably were thrown away since the cleaning crew had come in with big bags and tossed everything in them. Ms. Segal-Jain tried to locate the glasses through the airlines lost-and-found service, but she failed.

Then she wrote a strong letter to the airline demanding reimbursement for the loss. She felt that it was obvious that she was returning to her seat. The airline, however, knows that an overwhelming number of passengers arriving at hubs switch planes for their connecting flights. The airline does not know who is returning. Whats more, flight attendants usually announce that the plane is continuing to another city and that passengers who are returning should take their belongings. Cabin cleaning crews speed through planes removing newspapers, magazines, leftover food, and trash. Airlines feel no responsibility for personal items left in cabins.

YOUR TASK. As a staff member of the Customer Relations Department of Atlantic Southern Airlines, deny the customers claim but retain her goodwill using techniques learned in this chapter. The airline never refunds cash, but it might consider travel vouchers for the value of the glasses. Remember that apologies cost nothing. Write a claim denying the customer’s claim.

Prompt:

Background

For your final project, you are creating your own hypothetical scenario within the following parameters and applying the concepts covered this term.

• The INDUSTRY:

  First, select one of the following industries for this project and research the use of AI in this industry. (This has been covered in the Lessons also.)

  • Agriculture
  • Transportation
  • Healthcare
  • Finance
  • Aerospace
  • Education

• The COMPANY:

  Now, for this project,

  • Create a hypothetical U.S. private for-profit civilian company of 200+ employees that is in business in the industry you have selected. The company is a C-corporation owned by multiple unrelated shareholders.
  • Give your company a name.
  • You might research current businesses in the industry for ideas, but the assignment is to create a hypothetical company.
  • You are the VP of Innovation of this company.

• The AI:

  Next:

  • Imagine a new AI application that might help productivity, ensure the business’ continuity, streamline efficiency, and thus free up time in tasks that humans now perform in the company.
  • This can be a potential AI app you completely dream up, or it can be a new one just being released on the market that you find in your research.
  • Identify which of the six (6) AI subfields is the primary AI type (see Week 2 Lesson) of this new AI. There are potential new apps in a variety of areas to consider for any industry now or in the future. To help your ideas for creative research for this paper, you could look atfor exampleAI assistance in such areas as AI-robotics, wearables, financial applications, cybersecurity, safety, product upgrades, customer support, medical diagnostics, supply chain, or transportation.

• **NOTE:

  You are looking at the companys acquisition and use of a proposed new AI app that might support/enhance the companys business in some wayNOT a new product for the company to develop, sell or manufacture. Here is an analogy: It’s like acquiring a new broom to sweep the company’s production floor, not a new broom to create, develop, market, and sell to customers for their floors. Your company is not creating or building the AI app. It is considering if it should acquire and use it in its business operations.

The Assignment Task & Format Instructions and How to Organize Your Content :

The following provides an outline for your papers content with explanatory notes about what you should cover for each section. Use the APA Sample Student Paper you have used in prior Assignments for a template of how to structure your paper.

The Project:

Having imagined and created the hypothetical company in the selected industry and a new AI application as directed above, here is the Project Assignment:

1. You are the company’s Vice President of Innovation.
2. The CEO and Board have asked for your research and recommendation about the new AI app.
3. Prepare an APA7 paper that covers the points outlined below for the hypothetical you have created.
4. Write this paper in the third personNOT using I, we, us, you, or your.
5. Use the following outline for your content, which incorporates the Lesson material we have covered for the Course Objectives.

**TIP: Embrace the hypothetical as if it were a real business and mentally immerse yourself as the VP advising the CEO and Board. Use the company name where appropriate. Use the AI app name where appropriate. In other words, make it real.

**Paper Content Outline (Follow APA7 format as in prior Assignments):

Suggested title: Executive Report on the [Company Name]s Use of [Name of AI Application]

Introduction

In this section, you setting up your paper and introducing your topic. Describe the industry, the company, and the companys particular business in the industry. Explain what the company does (examples: services, manufacturing, retail, etc.), which will in turn drive the type of AI application it would be using. Summarize how AI is transforming business and how a new AI appnamed [app’s name]is being considered for the company. There are pros, cons, and other issues to consider in making the decision.

How AI is Transforming Business

In this section, summarize how AI has transformed business in general and how it is transforming, in particular, the company’s industry that you selected for your topic. Briefly summarize how this transformation is affecting the company’s need to advance.

Proposed New AI Application

In this section, explain the companys interest in a new AI application named [app’s name] and the potential benefit this AI might bring for the business. Describe the AI application of interest (as you have imagined itas indicated in PROMPT/Background above).

NOTE: This does not require a detailed technical description of the AI. What is the main AI subfield involved, and what will be the AIs function for the company? For example: [Name of the AI app] will use natural language processing to [description of app function] OR The company is considering a new AI wearable device called [name of the AI app] which machine learning [description of app function].” Then describe what it does. In these examples, it is not necessary to explain how NLP or ML itself works, only correctly align the subfield with the proposed AI app for the company. The function and benefit of the AI app for the companys operations is the focus of your description. In short, what is the AI, and what does it do?

Pros, Cons, and Benefits of AI

In this section, first describe the general issuespros and consof AI in business, including the benefits of AI. What are the benefits? What are the issues? Issues should include legal/ethical issues, change issues (e.g. work force disruption), concerns such as bias and corruption, and future implications. This provides a baseline for discussing the specific AI for your business.

Evaluation of AI for a Business

Summarize the pros, cons, and benefits for the (1) specific industry and company of your hypothetical, and (2) how they apply to the proposed new AI app the company is considering. What is the CEO/Board going to want to know? What is the benefit of this AI for the company? What are the downsides? The issues of concern? Explain the considerations and steps your company should cover in evaluating whether to implement the proposed new AI application for the future.

(Utilize Week 6 Lesson & eReserve readings as part of your research for this section.)

Recommendation for [Company Name]’s Implementing [Name of the AI Application]

What is the recommendation: use the app or pass on it? Why? Also in this section, assuming the business decides to use the AI application, recommend and explain at least three (3) steps the company should employ in its implementation. (Refer to Week 6 Lesson and eReserve readings as part of your research.) These should be three (3) main general steps important to cover.

Conclusion

Wrapping up: Summarize the benefits and considerations of AI and the business using this AI application and recommendation.

References

This is a separate page listing the APA7 citations of your supporting research. All should be cited in text in the paper.

You must use a minimum five (5) credible sources.

and

All references listed on the References page must also appear as in-text citations in the paper, correctly supporting your narrative.

Paper Structure:

• Prepare your paper in Word in APA 7th Ed. Style. See the APA Help module in Course Content.
• Write in third-person.
• NO abstract. NO table of contents.
• Length: 2,1002,300 words (excluding Title Page and References Page).
• References Minimum of five (5) credible References; all sources listed on the References page must be cited in-text, supporting your narrative.
• See help sources below and Grading Rubric for further guidance.
• TIP: Use the Grading Rubric/Exemplary standard as a checklist for proofing your final paper draft. For grammar and spelling, Turnitin provides feedback if you submit a draft in advance. Word also has a grammar/spelling/usage app you can run on your draft.
• Your paper will automatically go through Turnitin with your submission and is also subject to review for misuse of generative AI. Assignments are setup with unlimited submissions so you can check your work through Turnitin multiple times before the due date. Strive for a Turnitin score below 20%. Scores above 20% indicate there may be an issue your instructor is more likely to penalize.

NOTE: For the Weeks 3 and 5 Assignments, you had Word templates for guidance. This Assignment follows the same APA format. Set up your paper using subheadings. Suggested subheadings are provided in instructions above.

Respond to the following post:

“The 2019 Business Roundtable statement marked a significant shift in how corporations view their purpose. For decades, U.S. corporate governance prioritized shareholder primacy, maximizing shareholder returns as the key goal. The revised statement adopts a stakeholder model, recognizing broader duties to employees, communities, suppliers, customers, and shareholders. This approach better reflects that sustainable success hinges on strengthening the entire ecosystem surrounding a business.

In my view, the priorities outlined in the statement should be ordered as follows: 1) Investing in our employees, 2) Supporting the communities in which we work, 3) Dealing fairly and ethically with our suppliers, 4) Delivering value to our customers, and 5) Generating long-term value for shareholders. I prioritize investing in employees because they are the foundational drivers of innovation, productivity, and organizational culture. When companies provide fair compensation, training, and professional development, they create an engaged workforce capable of delivering superior products and services. The Business Roundtable specifically emphasized that investing in employees includes fair wages, benefits, and opportunities to develop new skills for a rapidly changing world. Without a committed and capable workforce, the organization’s other goals become difficult to achieve.

Second, supporting the communities in which companies operate is essential, as businesses do not operate in isolation. Corporations rely on local infrastructure, public institutions, and community trust to operate effectively. By investing in local education, sustainability initiatives, and social programs, businesses contribute to stable environments where both citizens and organizations can thrive. Stakeholder capitalism emphasizes that corporations are embedded in a larger social fabric and must consider the well-being of communities alongside financial performance. Companies that invest in communities build stronger reputations, attract talent, and create long-term economic stability.

Third, dealing fairly and ethically with suppliers strengthens supply chains and encourages long-term partnerships. Ethical supplier relationships ensure reliability, innovation, and resilience, especially important in global supply networks where disruptions can significantly affect operations. Suppliers are strategic partners rather than transactional vendors, and fairness in contracts and collaboration helps create shared value across the entire supply chain.

Delivering value to customers is vital. Customers determine a company’s success. Strong stakeholder relationships naturally lead to customer satisfaction, making it an outcome rather than the sole purpose.

Finally, long-term shareholder value remains important but should come last. Shareholders provide the capital for growth, but their returns depend on an organization that treats other stakeholders responsibly. By prioritizing employees, communities, and ethical partnerships, firms achieve financial returns through sustainable growth rather than short-term gains.

This order also reflects biblical wisdom on leadership and stewardship. Proverbs 11:25 states, A generous person will prosper; whoever refreshes others will be refreshed. This principle shows organizations thrive by investing in the well-being of employees, communities, and partners, rather than pursuing only financial gain. By prioritizing people and ethics, companies foster lasting prosperity that benefits society and shareholders.

The Business Roundtables shift, therefore, reflects not only a modern management philosophy but also a timeless moral principle: organizations thrive when they serve people first.

References:
Robinson, Carin. Why Private Company Boards Need Outside Directors. The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, 23 May 2022,

Business Roundtable. Business Roundtable Redefines the Purpose of a Corporation to Promote an Economy That Serves All Americans. Business Roundtable, 19 Aug. 2019,

NIV. Proverbs 11 NIV – – Bible Gateway. , 2011,

View the video Knowledge Management Basics by Learn and Gain (5:04 mins) at

• After viewing the video, address the following in your discussion post:
  • How does the video define knowledge?
  • What is the purpose of knowledge management?
  • Describe the objective of knowledge management.
  • Explain the DIKW structure and how you would apply it.

In 2019 the Business Roundtable moved away from shareholder value as the primary purpose of a firm, to include a broader view of stakeholders. The updated statement can be found in the press release at the link below.

In your initial post indicate: 1) If you agree with this change. If yes, why? If not, why not? 2) Regardless of your view stated in item 1, how and why would you choose to order the five bullet points delineating corporate purpose. 3) Integrate at least one specific bible passages into your first post, and one additional outside press article. Include the reference to the outside article at the end of the initial post.

1) Professional ethics assignment

Complete the following sections:

• 1-2 paragraphs: Do you buy into the seamless garments idea? Is having consistent ethics of life important/correct? Why or why not? (10 points)
• 4 paragraphs: Pick one of the items presented in the video: Immigration, abortion, or programs for the needy. Explain briefly what we should do, and make sure to use 1 paragraph (minimum) for each of the aspects of a proper “should” argument. This isn’t a research paper, but make sure not to make uncited factual claims. (30 pts
• 2) – professional ethics discussion Looking at the three major parts of a moral issue: 1. non-moral facts, 2. concepts, and, of course, 3. the moral or ethical aspects. Is it ethical for companies to prioritize efficiency and profit through automation, even if it leads to significant job displacement? State your position, including the three major parts within your analysis.

3) Life science assignment (uploaded) in uploadeds

4) life science discussion Fitness

It is important to know your own level of personal fitness. The great thing about knowing your fitness level is that you can always improve and measure again! If you do not like your levels, use the time you spend in this class to improve. As you learn more about your body, try to carve out time to better your health. At the end of the six weeks, you can come back and redo the fitness tests (if you choose – it is not a requirement) to see if you have improved your overall fitness levels.

To begin, go to this website:

Read through the materials and then perform the tests listed. After you finish with the fitness tests, discuss your results here as well as what you can do to improve (or maintain) your current fitness level. You do not have to provide any specifics of your tests, just the basics.

You are the Information Security Director for a medium-sized company. You recently experienced a ransomware attack that cost the company $500,000.00. After the attack, your CEO held a meeting and informed you and the other IT professionals that it WILL not happen again. Write a Directive to the company’s employees summarizing the requirement for all personnel to adopt the new 2-factor authentication for IT equipment access. Include a 30-day timeline to adopt the new policy and the consequences of not adhering to it.

Submission Instructions

• Write a 400500 word policy using APA format.
• Your essay should include an introductory paragraph and a conclusion.
• Follow APA format for structure. An APA template is attached here. Conduct research associated with 2-factor authentication and, at a minimum, cite three (3) credible references, from the past 5 years, & beyond the course materials. Do not rely on BLOGS/non-authored work; internet searched websites are not the only sources, use the library. Please note that Wikipedia and similar websites are not credible academic references.

For this Discussion

After watching the video and reviewing this week’s readings, reflect on the following and share your thoughts.

1. Can a business be ethical?
2. What are the goals of competitive intelligence?
3. Is it ethical to gather competitive intelligence?

We are always looking for ways to improve our classroom, so below is a Google Notebook Deep Dive an AI generated dive into our discussion with just a little bit more…listen in for a synopsis of sorts of the video, our discussion, and food for thought…