Section 4: Budgeting and Timeline Tools

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As you have been examining this week, budgeting and timeline tools are vital for determining necessary resources and planning for a proposed change. For your Course Project, you use these types of tools to assess resources that may be required for the successful implementation of your strategic plan.

To prepare:
Review the information on budgeting in this weeks Learning Resources. Which tools (e.g., Revenue Projection Model, Capital Budgeting Analysis, Depreciation Calculator, Profit and Loss Projection) would be most useful for developing your strategic plan?
Use one or more budgeting tools to outline the financial resources for your proposed change. Reflect on any challenges that arise as you evaluate the financial resources required for this change now and in the future.
Review the information on PERT and other timeline tools in this weeks Learning Resources, including Dr. Hustons presentation in the media program.
Use PERT or another tool to analyze and represent the activities that need to be completed to successfully plan and implement your proposed change. Be sure to note dependencies (e.g., a task/milestone that must be completed in order to trigger the next step) and realistically assess the minimum time needed to complete the entire project. 

To complete:
Outline the financial resources for your proposed change. Describe the budgeting tool(s) you used to arrive at these determinations. Explain what challenges, if any, you encountered through the budgeting process. Provide documentation (e.g., Excel worksheets) to support your analysis.
Outline the timeline for the implementation of your proposed change using PERT or another timeline tool. Consider how your timeline can allow leeway for variance.

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PLEASE USE THE ATTACHEMENT OF REFERENCE PLUS THE Section 3: Balanced Scorecard YOUR WORKING ON

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    Ask the user to input the degree of the polynomial.

    Based on the inputted degree, ask the user to input the different polynomial coefficients.

    Generate a range X of values between  100 and 100.

    Calculate polynomial P(x) for all values of range X. These results should be allocated in a vector P.
    Plot the graph of P(x) in a figure titled Graph of Polynomial.

    P(x) should be plotted in blue.
    The title should be in blue, Font Size 16, Font Weight bold.
    The x-axis should be labelled x-axis in red, Font Size 12, Font Weight bold.
    The y-axis should be labelled y-axis in red, Font Size 12, Font Weight bold.
    The figure should display major and minor grid lines.
    x-axis limits should be set between the first and final roots 2.
    y-axis limits should be set between the extrema 2.

    Find in vector P the indices for which P(x)=0 and the indices at which P(x) sign changes. Based on these indices the root will be determined.
The root must not be determined using any embedded Matlab functions such as fzero, roots, poly, polyval, etc.

    The code should return in the command window the number of roots, and the roots value sorted in ascending orders.

Course Project: Developing a Strategic Plan

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Section 3: Balanced Scorecard

Managers, like pilots, need instrumentation about many aspects of their environment and performance to monitor the journey toward excellent future outcomes.

Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton, The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy Into Action

To prepare:
As introduced in Week 8, continue to refine your balanced scorecard. (Refer to Week 8 for the preparatory instructions as necessary.) Your balanced scorecard is one tool you can use to evaluate the effects of your planned change on performance.

SEE ATTACHED TOPIC NURSING SHORTAGE IN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH IS COSTING MONEY TO HOSPITALS
BASES ON THIS ATTACHMENT THIS ASSIGNMENT NEEDS TO  BE COMPLETE

To complete:
Create a balanced scorecard that could be used to measure and evaluate the impact of your planned change on performance, and determine if the costs are justified in terms of the outcomes.
Include what you would measure in terms of finances, customers, internal process, and learning and growth.

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REFLECTION ASSIGNMENT: EXPERIENCING THEATER

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Plays are meant to be performed rather than read. The purpose of dramatic arts often extends far beyond the words written on a pagestaging, lighting, costumes intonation, expression, and audience experience are all part of the experience of a theatrical production. To help develop your understanding of Othello and the cultural role of the dramatic arts, you will view a production of the play this week and write a two-page reflection to explain your viewing experience. Please make sure you review the Assignment Connection portion of this week’s lesson, as it will provide some additional help.

Below, please find two adaptations of Othello.

Otelo (Links to an external site.) (Spanish version)

https://globalshakespeares.mit.edu/otelo-bittencourt-jefferson-2014/
Othello (Links to an external site.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCdHpKXw_Tg
(1981, William Marshall version)

You may also find this short interview helpful:
Is Othello a Racist Play?  (Links to an external site.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAcmVH8vqZw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAcmVH8vqZw&feature=emb_title

For this assignment, you will view one of the above versions of Othello. You will also find this website (Links to an external site.) valuable in helping you understand how to analyze a play. Once you’ve gone through the website link and watched the play, please complete a reflection that addresses the following.

Identify the performance that you have selected and why you chose that performance.
Describe the staging, lighting, costumes, and characters of the performance. How do these match or revise the written version of the play?
What type of mood and tone does the performance create? How?
What parts of the play are easier to understand through performance? What are some details that stood out through the performance?
What does the performance suggest about the role of theater in contemporary culture? (Please write a strong paragraph that thoughtfully answers this question.)