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Introduction In the modern world that is technology-oriented, the success of many specialists depends upon the use of proper tools and databases that ensure timely access to information. Professionals involved in the provision of healthcare do not present an exception since many tasks such as managing patient appointments and hospital workflows cannot be fulfilled without the use of automated computer systems. Master patient index (MPI) systems and similar tools play a significant role in the automatization of healthcare processes, but internal problems often cause the disruptions of work at different departments. In the assigned case, similar issues are caused by the incompleteness of data provided by the software vendor. Governance Standards and the Prevention of Further Problems Project governance belongs to the number of the most important problems to be discussed prior to the development of any projects that can impact internal working processes. It involves a set of practices that helps facilitate and control the implementation of new projects and, therefore, allows preventing many problems with computer systems or other innovations. Speaking about the governance of projects, it is also pivotal to note that such decisions are inextricably connected with the distribution of responsibility (Alie, 2015). The latter turns out to be extremely important for the successful development and implementation of new tools. Thus, setting governance standards helps determine the roles of different specialists involved in project development and testing and their areas of accountability, which is helpful for productivity. The points listed above should be taken into account to accept a range of standards helping to avoid such business problems. As is clear from the case being discussed, the key issues related to the situation with MPI include the absence of physical data models for the previously used system. Apart from that, the hospital’s business problems include the lack of adequate software testing activities helping to define potential problems prior to the implementation of new systems. Proper project governing standards that can be used to improve the situation and prevent the repetition of the scenario are related to four areas. In line with the PMI standards, the healthcare provider is to focus on the distribution of roles, the organization of meetings, and the establishment of proper risk assessment and testing practices (Alie, 2015). Importantly, the implementation of such standards may require the use of additional financial resources. The first standard practice to be taken into account is the creation of project teams and the distribution of responsibilities between team members. Such measures can be extremely helpful in ensuring positive results since project managers define people responsible for all tasks for each project deliverable (Alie, 2015). In reference to the hospital from the case, the use of these standards can make the planning stage well-organized and prevent the development of a culture of blame that is counterproductive. The organization of project team meetings belongs to the number of practices tha
Speaking about the modern world, it is necessary to understand that the problems related to culture, self-expression, and the links between them remain very important as they cause a lot of conflicts in different countries. Intercultural conflicts become more obvious when it comes to certain elements of the traditional clothing of Muslims. Nevertheless, in order to solve the given problem, it may be necessary to stabilize the situation without preventing Muslim women from wearing whatever they want. There is the article that appeared in The Guardian devoted to the recent activity of the UK Independence Party led by Paul Nuttall. One of the measures that this politician and his supporters would like to implement is banning the burqa, and such a decision caused a lot of discussions related to the appropriateness of covering yourself in a democratic society. Apart from being an extraneous cultural element to Europeans, women wearing burqas are claimed to prevent the police from successfully safeguarding due to an increased terrorist threat. In reference to this opinion, I can say that I disagree with the given politician due to the fact that democratic society should involve taking different opinions into account, and it is inappropriate to control the way that women dress and deprive them of their right to cover their faces in public. Moreover, I would like to mention that there are different opinions on the necessity to cover face even among Muslims, and women from other parts of the world cover their faces despite the religion that they exercise. In the end, I suppose that the arguments of Nuttall cannot be considered sound because democracy should not involve forcing other people to stop wearing clothes they find important.
The article, In Praise of the Urban Sandbox, tries to bring forth the significance and roles of computer games in educating, informing, and exploring planning initiatives. Using computer games to change the minds of city planners on the future state of an urban centethe r requires in-depth simulation of life. For instance, real-life zoning and refining the traffic model to be similar to the actual transportation planning is a hectic program (Ferzoco 8). Even though the concept of gaming proves helpful in engaging planners in designing urban settings, the earlier versions of games failed to include the three-dimensional setting, which is for the real-life setup. In SimCity, for instance, the provision to control a plot of land and even alter the terrain before including other structures and services provides insights to planners on how an urban setting ought to be to accommodate possible changes like population increase. Markedly, the belief that games provide potential opportunities for easier and joyful learning processes is doubtable since this technological application lacks the primary purpose of education, save for entertainment purposes. The article posits that in SimCity, one can find a city, take care and maintain it using the given budget allocation (Ferzoco 9). However, parameters such as taxes and population growth are not comparable to the real-life situation since population growth rates in different parts of the world are different. The simulation process only provides a single design process that does not apply to all urban settings. As policy makers and master planners, the need for social services like hospitala s, schools, and insurances are vital in any urban setting, and they have to put such factors into concern when implementing any design process in a city. In designing and developing urban centers, planners intend to make citizens happy by making the city meet possible challenges that come with new developments. Paradox Games released a highly complex game, Cities in Motion, which showed fundamental requirements in the transportation sector (Ferzoco 9). This was a major milestone considering the inability of SimCity to do the same. Nevertheless, the transportation simulation lacked real-world live settings. Therefore, the gaming does not inculcate real life aspects like shifts in economic development, global economic forces, and changes in settlement patterns. In addition, the mundane nature of these games makes it intricate to apply new designs while using the same provisions of the gaming. The games also fail to inculcate other factors like political, financial, and technical dimensions in the business model designs. Again, these games fail to notice the relevance of time in a learning process since learning is always e
Introduction All corporations aim at success. Some achieve it. Others fail. For those that achieve it, they may experience the challenge of sustainability and ultimately fade. Still, there are organisations that have been able to achieve success and maintain it over decades. Such organisations have achieved and sustained superior performance that meet or surpass both their internal and external relations’ expectations. This essay shall analyse how FedEx has created and maintained superior performance using five forces, value creation, and culture school at a micro-level focusing on Human Resources (HR) practices. FedEx aim has been able to create superior financial returns for its shareholders using its value-added services, business strategy, HR practices, supply chain management, and focused operation systems (FedEx, 2011). FedEx strive to meet all the needs of its diverse customers both in the national and international markets. In order to achieve and sustain superior performance, the company strives to establish mutually beneficial relationships with its shareholders, employees, business partners, and suppliers (Business Services Industry, 2002). The company observes safety of its employees and aims at conducting business to the highest professional levels. Concentration on human resources has made policies and functions of HR in FedEx important part of creating and sustaining superior performance. The company FedEx is a logistic company serving global markets. Fredrick Smith founded the company out of the need to serve a service-oriented economy of the US in the year 1973 that needed quick and reliable delivery services (San Jose Consulting Group, 2003). The company had suffered some losses during its entry into the international market. This was due to expensive expansion strategies. In addition, the company also used the US strategy in an international market like China. There were also cases of cultural differences, acquisition, organisational adjustments, structural policies, and adaptation of human resource issues so as to reflect and enhance FedEx culture. The company did not experience success in its attempts to conquer the Chinese market due policies that did not favour foreign operations. The company had challenges in embracing the regional culture. On the other hand, FedEx competitors such as UPS and DHL understood Chinese market and grew their strategies gradually. FedEx National Operation The logistic industry complements operation of other organisations and individuals. FedEx has competition too from other local firms that offer similar services. However, operation at the national level affects services that FedEx Ground offers. The main compe
The Caretaker by Anthony Doerr is a moving and shocking tale of Joseph, who lives in war-torn Liberia and finds himself in the USA, Oregon. This is a story of seeking redemption, struggle, and forgiveness with the self. The theme of isolation and loneliness comes out in this story. Civil war breaks out in Liberia, home of Joseph Saleeby. He loses everything that a man treasures and holds firmly to, his mother, country, and Way of life. Liberia descends to anarchy and lawlessness, and he runs for dear life and finds himself in a different country, thousands of miles from his. He is on his own, with no relatives or government to call his own. He experiences a new culture, and this leaves him feeling alienated. This is further worsened by his haunted and violent memories. He was forced to kill a rebel, saw decapitated children, rape, and other unimaginable crimes meted on his countrymen. He has no one to open his heart to, to tell his story; for a story shared is a story half solved? This tears him apart inside. He is a tormented soul who is emotionally isolated. His situation worsens when he loses his job and has nowhere to go. However, the simple act of burying the hearts of whales and tending to a garden gives him the much needed inner peace he saw desires. He feels as if he has acquired a new lease of life. Belle, a deaf girl, is lonely and depressed and contemplates committing suicide. She forms a unique friendship with Joseph and dissuades her from committing suicide. Theirs is a story of a confrontation with the self, isolation, and redemption. Haunted by isolation and loneliness in their respective struggles in life, they bond closely. Due to their plight, they create a strong and instant bond, a bond arising from need and not luxury. There’s a particular language, a language of the heart, and this helps them direct their paths of life in the right Way.
African American literature has been looked to as a means of illuminating for the modern world the development of a sense of identity out of a culture so fragmented and oppressed it seemed non-existent within the American system. When writers such as Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker and Gwendolyn Brooks presented their material, they illuminated some of the problems inherent within their society, including lack of education, lack of appreciation for their own value and lack of opportunity for the future. All three of these writers worked to capture the important concepts of their society within the figurative elements of daily life, urban or rural, as they are defined from within rather than without. In doing so, they were seeking a sense of identity for their race that did not depend on the definitions of the outside culture. By comparing works such as Walker’s “Everyday Use,” Ellison’s “Battle Royal” and Brooks’ “We Real Cool,” one begins to understand the unifying theme of the black community as a constant struggle between attaining higher social status and more comfortable conditions while still remaining caught within the bounds of an oppressive social system. At the time Gwendolyn Brooks wrote her poem “We Real Cool”, jazz was becoming popular in the urban north and black people were becoming more expressive of their own identities within the greater public. In this poem, though, Brooks is talking about teenagers who had opted to identify themselves with the white stereotype of dangerous criminals. As she says in her poem, these kids would get together in gangs and do nothing but hang out on street corners, like the white man expected them to, causing trouble and getting involved in crime. Placing herself in their position, she says “We real cool. We left school” (1-2) which leads to them participating in small crimes, beginning with lurking late and then learning to ‘strike straight.’ This same three word sentence structure continues through the remaining two stanzas of the poem to indicate how the boys then begin to associate sin with their inner selves, drinking and partying until they die an early death as a result of their actions. Because each line except for the last one ends with ‘we’, which is the first word of the next sentence, Brooks emphasizes that many black people are falling into the trap of identifying themselves with the white conception of them rather than taking strength in the voice of jazz and bla
Evaluating RFPs is a subjective process These vendors develop their products on similar platforms with little differences. Therefore, several features are common in all packages. This contributes to subjectivity during the evaluation of RFPs. The evaluation process accounted for the applicability of the package based on critical factors and features, such as interactive voice response (IVR), customer relationship management (CRM), workforce management (WFM), recording or quality monitoring, and outbound dialing, which vendors integrated into their packages. The evaluation is also considered the most cost-effective vendor. However, the final judgment was independent, rational, understandable, and consistent for all vendors, and it did not go against RFP conditions. Costs A ‘lowest possible cost’ criterion is perhaps the worst approach a firm can rely on to choose a vendor. It could lead to a poor selection of a vendor and product. Firms incur hidden costs in such products through expensive maintenance costs and training employees. Moreover, the comparative study showed that there were additional considerable costs from the design of the contact center, system configuration, deployment, customization, and modification. Such costs could even exceed 50% of the product cost. Firms should use cost criteria to determine competitive rates and choose the best vendor that would offer the right software. The right product should be economical to maintain and customize. Right vendors have the right skills, which they use to develop the best products at the lowest possible costs. Terms in telephony IVR (Interactive voice response) This is a telephony platform, which allows computers to sense voices and touch-tones through the usual phone call. It can use either pre-recorded audio or a speaker to provide further direction to callers. PBX (Private Branch Exchange) PBX is a telephone exchange service that only serves the firm, which owns it. PBX automates telephone services through software or physical devices. It can place, end, or transfer a call. ACD (Automatic Call Distribution) ACD is a telephony platform that “distributes incoming calls to a given group of agents in a station” (Waite, 2002). ACDs are common in call centers in which the caller can speak to any ‘next available agent’. Its main role is purely called distribution in a workstation. CRM (Customer Relationship Management) This software manages customer information in a call center. Telephony technologies integrate CRM with phone calls to allow for easy tracking of e-mails and managing both incoming and outgoing calls. It enhances accuracy and efficiency. CTI (Computer Telephony Integration) This is the application of a computer system to manage phone calls. Challenges in preparing an RFP One major technical challenge in writing an RFP is the project d
Executive Summary The report is to provide the analysis of Netflix’s strategy from the perspective of Niccolo Machiavelli’s ideas expressed in his work The Prince . Even though Machiavelli developed his doctrine for the use in the sphere of politics, similar principles can be easily applied in business and marketing. Considering the differences between the modern business context and the epoch contemporary to Machiavelli, the main objective of the report is to define the advantages and disadvantages of using the philosopher’s ideas for the strategic management of a modern-day company. To provide the analysis, the report is to examine the aspects of business strategy, in which Netflix adhere and eschew Machiavellian ideas. The former include manifesting the importance of innovation, the correlation between Netflix’s customer appeal and Machiavellian understanding of keeping integrity, ad collaboration with other brands following the Machiavellian principle of avoiding neutrality. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Netflix does not share the strategic approach with Machiavelli’s doctrine in terms of strategies for entering new markets and managing the competition with the other companies. Overall, the analysis shows that there are some pros and contras in adhering to the Machiavellian doctrine in modern circumstances. On one hand, the incorporation of the innovative strategies helped Netflix to find their niche on the market, and keeping the accurate distinction between the rival companies and the potential partners ensured the successful collaboration for Netflix with the other brands. On the other hand, the variety of customized genres that Netflix offers can be interpreted as a lack of integrity. Introduction The Prince is one of the most well-known works by Niccolo Machiavelli. Although it was initially written as a treatise for the governors and policymakers, Machiavelli’s doctrine can be incorporated into the other media of human activities. While in the political context, the concept of Machiavellian strategy is associated with authoritative policies, there is room for the application of Machiavelli’s ideas in the context of the corporate environment. The reason for that is the fact that a company or a corporation acts within the business environment, in the same way as a politician governs a state. Furthermore, if the company is perceived as a single organism, it is more likely to have an integrated structure and consistent strategy. In some ways, we can see the correlation between some of the approaches used by Netflix and the principles described by Machiavelli. However, they are significantly adapted to the specifics of the modern environment, including the plurality of the mar
Every child is special and deserves special care; especially when it comes to health care because the child’s body is sensitive and prone to infections and diseases. Health disparity is not a new phenomenon; people have been facing this for a number of reasons – racial, gender, ethnic, social status and the area they live in. The only fault that the child makes to deserve this disparity is to be born in a family that is facing prejudice and is stereotyped on one or more factors. This is extremely inhumane because a child’s life is measured and compared on the scale of these factors of stereotyping. However, with increasing progression in the world and rapidly increasing awareness and equality programs and campaigns, this disparity is reducing. In 2002, 68% of non-Hispanic black children were vaccinated in comparison to 78% of white non-Hispanic kids. Earlier, this disparity was very wide and diseases like measles, fever, hepatitis and influenza were common in children who were not being given equal attention (McKinnon J, 2000). As usual, stereotyping and prejudice gets the better of all the human beings in the world. In a government or state hospital, where normally the cure and consultancy is done either free of cost or at a low cost, there are usually many patients waiting at the same time for a doctor’s attention. This is because they cannot afford to go to expensive hospitals where they will receive immediate care. Ideally, a doctor should deal with a case that is dire and grave and needs an immediate check-up and concern; that is, prioritize all cases (Hutchins, 2003). However, instead of doing that here, the doctors are themselves prejudiced and biased when it comes to cases. For example, if the doctor is white, he would care about a white patient first even if the desperate need is for the other patient who is black. Such disparity is widely witnessed in gynecology cases – mothers whose babies are dying due to complications are not attended first if they are not of a race that is acceptable to the doctor. (Williams, 2003). In privately owned hospitals, there is a bias of social classes. Even if the