Identify and describe at least three academic resources or strategies that can be applied to the MSN program

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Part 2: Academic Resource and Strategies

New construction projects begin with a design phase, where architects blueprint the vision complete with design details. They work in collaboration with builders who use the designs to prepare the appropriate strategies, tools, and materials to bring the vision to reality. You are both architect and builder of your success. You have started to blueprint your vision in your Academic Success and Professional Development Plan. You have identified others with whom you will collaborate. Now you can begin to prepare the appropriate strategies, tools, and materials

How will you approach your studies? What types of resources are available to you, and how will you access and utilize them? Taking the opportunity to prepare these strategies, tools, and materials will help ensure you can “break ground” without incident and successfully move to the phase where you begin building your vision.

To Prepare:

  • Consider your goals for academic accomplishments while a student of the MSN program.
  • Reflect on the strategies presented in the Resources for this module.

The Assignment:

In this Assignment, you will continue developing your Academic Success and Professional Development Plan by appending the original document you began in the previous Assignment to develop the second component—academic resources and strategies. To accomplish this:

  • Identify and describe at least three academic resources or strategies that can be applied to the MSN program
  • Identify and describe at least three professional resources that can be applied to success in the nursing practice in general or your specialty in particular
  • Explain how you intend to use these resources, and how they might benefit you academically and professionally.

Assignment 5: Business Plan – Final

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Assignment 5: Business Plan – Final

Due Week 10 and worth 150 points

This assignment consists of two sections: your final business plan and your business plan financials. Note: You must submit both sections as separate files for the completion of this assignment.

You have completed all the necessary sections of your business plan and will now create a final draft. Use any/all feedback you have received to polish your plan to the point that you could confidently show it to investors and potential partners or customers.

Refer to the outline of a business plan, beginning on page 399 of the course text. Not all businesses will include all these components in this order, but use the outline as a guide. Specifically, your plan will not require the development, milestones, and exit plan sections of the business plan. 

Section 1: Business Plan – Final (MS Word or equivalent)

1. Construct a 10–30-page business plan. Note: Twentypages are sufficient for most businesses.

  • Write a 1–3-page executive summary for your business plan, in which you justify the following: 
    • A clear and concise business concept 
    • A thoroughly planned business concept 
    • A capable management structure 
    • A clear-cut market need 
    • Significant competitive advantages for your business 
    • Realistic financial projections 
    • That investors have an excellent chance to make money 
    • A realistic and developed exit plan 

Note:Read Chapters 4 and 18 of the course text,Successful Business Plan. Use the plan preparation worksheets on pages 58–61 and the sample executive summaries on pages 62–66 to help guide you; choose to write either a synopsis summary or a narrative summary and include highlights from each section of your business plan.

2. Combine all the sections stated below and revise your initial business plan draft, which you submitted in Week 8, based on feedback you have received.

  • Executive summary
  • Company description (Assignment 1)
  • Industry analysis and trends (Assignment 1)
  • Target market (Assignment 2)
  • Competition (Assignment 2)
  • Strategic position and risk assessment (Assignment 1)
  • Marketing plan and sales strategy (Assignment 2)
  • Operations plan (Assignment 3)
  • Technology plan (Assignment 3)
  • Management and organization (Assignment 3)
  • Ethics and social Responsibility (Assignment 3)
  • The Financials (Week 7 Discussion) 
    • Hints: 
      • The financials and the management description must spark enough interest to convince a reader to continue. Enhance the two mentioned sections to appropriately engage the reader. 
      • The financial section of your business plan will be derived from the previously completed financial worksheets. 

Format your assignment according to these formatting requirements:

  • Cite the resources you have used to complete the exercise. Note: There is no minimum requirement for the number of resources used in the exercise.
  • Be typed, double-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with 1-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
  • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required page length. 

Section 2: Business Plan Financials (MS Excel worksheets bundled with course textbook)

  • For year one, submit a revised income statement, cash flow projection, and balance sheet from the “Business Plan Financials” Excel template based on feedback from Project Deliverable 3: Operations. Technology, and Management Plan with Financial.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are as follows:

  • Recommend effective business strategies based on an analysis of domestic and global operating environments, market dynamics, and internal capabilities. 
  • Produce a comprehensive business plan.

Note; Number the pages 

ex. Executive Summary pages 1-3

Company description pages 4-6

etc.

Book Name ; SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS PLAN: SECRETS & STRATEGIES 

For this assignment, suppose that you work for a consulting firm, and that you have been asked to research a company and make a presentation to your client.

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Assignment Details

For this assignment, suppose that you work for a consulting firm, and that you have been asked to research a company and make a presentation to your client.  

For the presentation:

  1. Choose a major U.S. company,
  2. Research the company and the market(s) in which it competes, and
  3. Prepare a presentation of 10-12 PowerPoint slides (with detailed speaker notes).

Using information from the business press, AIU’s Library, IBIS World, and the Internet, address the following in your slides:

  • Describe the firm, include such information as its:
    • products or services
    • annual sales, and 
    • market share (this information is readily available in the IBIS World database.)
  • Describe the market(s) in which it operates. 
    • For instance, does it operate within an oligopoly or monopolistically competitive market, a perfectly competitive market, or is it a monopoly? (Choose the closest fit.)
    • Explain.
  • Does it operate in only one region of the United States? Does it operate nationally or internationally?  Explain.  
  • Who are its competitors? 
    • Give a brief overview of the other businesses in the market that it competes against. 
  • Identify and explain at least 2 economic concepts that this firm seems to use to its advantage.  
    • Examples might include product differentiation; attainment of economies of scale; advertising; whether the firm is regional, national, or international; and so on.  
  • Please include an explanation of how any significant recent events or changes in this market have affected this firm. Examples are mergers and acquisitions, technological change, legal issues, whether market demand is expanding, and so on. 
  • Provide your evaluation of how this firm might better respond to the challenges it faces.

Present your information, with appropriate pictures and graphics, in a PowerPoint presentation. 

  • Your presentation should consist of a minimum of 10 slides of content, and the following: a title slide, an introductory slide, a conclusions slide, and a references slide.
  • Use at least 2 sources when researching information to support your argument. Remember to use credible, current sources to support your presentation. Use APA reference and citation formatting for the sources that you use. Place citations on the relevant slides with 1-2 slides at the end for your reference list. 
  • The main topics or bullet points should appear on the slides with supporting visuals, while the Speaker Notes area (the box located at the bottom of each slide that allows you to type in notes) should be used to go into more depth regarding these main topics. 
  • Notes Boxes: Make sure the notes include information from the sources you have discovered in your research. This is a very important element of your assignment because it will provide both you and your audience with supporting explanations that the bullet posts simply cannot convey.

Please note the following:

  • These slides will provide you with a map that you will use when you prepare your paper submission for Unit 8.  
  • By doing careful research now, taking good notes, and organizing your presentation well, you will make your Unit 8 paper much easier to write.

The following offer information to help you with your research:

  • IBIS World Industry Reports are an excellent source of information for this assignment. IBIS World Reports are available through AIU’s Library in the Find Articles and E-books section of the e-Resources area.   
  • https://careered.libguides.com/university_AIUOnline/companyresearch 
  • https://studentlogin.aiuniv.edu/Library/CourseGuides/5/Tutorials/companyinformationresources.pdf

The following resources offer assistance in preparing your PowerPoint slides:

  • Access the template provided, or create your own slideshow following the requirements listed above.
  • Microsoft Office Web (PowerPoint): https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Basic-tasks-for-creating-a-PowerPoint-presentation-efbbc1cd-c5f1-4264-b48e-c8a7b0334e36.
  • The Smarthinking resource is also available to assist in the basics of PowerPoint.

You will argue the value of the change management plan to the overall success of the organization.

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Due Week 10 and worth 300 points

In this assignment, you will combine the previous four (4) assignments into a proposal that you could present to the executive leadership and board members. You will argue the value of the change management plan to the overall success of the organization. Add to your previous submissions a plan for sustaining the change in the long run.

Write a six to ten (6-10) page paper in which you:

Section I: Organization: Describe the organization and comment on the HR change that the organization should make. Utilize effective diagnostic tools to assess the organizations ability to change. Support assertions with theoretical evidence.

  1. Describe the company in terms of industry, size, number of employees, and history.
  2. Analyze in detail the current HR practice, policy, process, or procedure that you believe should be changed.
  3. Formulate three (3) valid reasons for the proposed change based on current change management theories.
  4. Appraise the diagnostic tools that you can use to determine an organization’s readiness for change. Propose two (2) diagnostic tools which you can utilize to determine if the organization is ready for change. Defend why you believe the diagnostic tools selected are the best choice for diagnosing change in the organization.
  5. Using one (1) of the diagnostic tools you selected, assess the organization’s readiness for change.
    1. Provide results of the diagnostic analysis
    2. Explain the results
  6. Interpret whether or not the organization is ready for change. Substantiate your conclusion by referencing current change management theories.

Section II: Kotter Change Plan: Utilizing the Kotter eight (8) step method of change, create a solid change management plan for the HR initiative you identified as requiring improvement.

  1. Ascertain how each of the steps applies to your specific organization.
  2. Develop a strategy that illustrates how you would address each of the eight (8) stages of change:
    1. Establishing a sense of urgency
    2. Creating coalition
    3. Developing vision and strategy
    4. Communicating the vision
    5. Empowering broad-based action
    6. Generating short-term wins
    7. Consolidating gains and producing more change
    8. Anchoring new approaches into the culture

Section III: Resistance and Communication: Research methods of minimizing resistance to change and create plan to address resistance within your change management initiative.

  1. Diagnose the reasons for resistance to change.
  2. Interpret the potential causes of resistance in the organization. Identify and describe three (3) potential causes of resistance to your change plan. Identify and describe three (3) potential sources of resistance to your change plan.
  3. Create a plan for minimizing possible resistance to your change management plan.
  4. Elaborate on the relationship between resistance to change and communication.
  5. Evaluate three (3) communication strategies.
  6. Recommend one (1) communication strategy that would be applicable to your organization. Diagnose why this communication strategy is best for your organization.
  7. Create a solid communication plan for your change initiative.

Section IV: Sustaining Change: Research methods of sustaining change in organizations and create a plan for sustaining proposed change.

  1. Recommend two (2) strategies for sustaining change:
    1. Diagnose the two (2) theories from a scholarly perspective
    2. Evaluate why the strategies selected are viable for the organization

Section V: Presentation: Create a visually appealing and informative presentation espousing the importance of the change management plan you developed.

  1. Create a ten to fifteen (10-15) slide PowerPoint presentation to submit to executive leadership and board members outlining and describing your recommended change. Include the following criteria:
    1. Be creative in your design so that is appealing to others.
    2. Ensure that all of the MAJOR points of the plan are covered.
    3. Create bulleted speaking notes for your presentation to the shareholders in the Notes section of the PowerPoint. Note: You may create or assume any fictitious names, data, or scenarios that have not been established in this assignment for a realistic flow of communication.
    4. Use a professional technically written style to graphically convey the information.
    5. Create a video of yourself presenting the presentation to key stakeholders. Note: View the “Creating a Presentation for Your Course” playlist, located here for tutorials on creating and submitting video assignments.

Section VI: References: Utilize good scholarly research skills and writing skills to develop a solid change plan and presentation.

  1. Use at least ten (10) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other similar Websites do not qualify as academic resources
  2. Write clearly and concisely about managing organizational change using proper writing mechanics.