Hey again! It has to be APA, incl. references and citations, and is to be turned in to Turnitin for plagariasm.  I will upload the Rubik.

Assume that you have recently been hired as the director of continuous improvement of a company. You are an outside hire with limited history of the firm and personal capital at the firm, and you are responsible for lean production, total quality management (TQM), six sigma, and best practice implementation. Lean production means doing more with less, such as less inventory, fewer workers, or less space. A recent trade in quality management is lean six sigma (also known as lean sigma) that integrates six sigma and lean production. The capacity for which you were hired has existed for three years with a direct line of report to the vice-president of operations and dotted line of report to the head of information technology (IT), the chief information officer (CIO), and the director of internal controls and audit. You are the second person to fill in this position. You have a team of internal consultants; half of your team has six sigma black belt or equivalent capabilities with the remainder having a solid understanding of operations and IT. You also have a budget for two external vendor resources. You have taken six months to familiarize yourself with the organization and its people, mission, goals, strategy, and structure. In this time, you have also evaluated current operations. At the end of this period, you are assigned to deliver a report identifying the three most promising avenues for achieving best practices within the company. You have already been told that the company suffers from both aging and complex information systems and that your recommendation must include a major upgrade of those systems. The executive officers anticipate major investments in IT over the next several years. Your best practice implementations, coupled with new technology, must be measurable in terms of speed, quality, productivity, and efficiency or other key performance indicators that you identify in your report.

For this assignment, you will choose a company with which you are familiar. You are encouraged to choose a company for which you currently work or have worked, but you may choose some other firm if you believe it will be a compelling analysis.

You may choose one area of the company, such as a manufacturing plant or product design, to focus on if you can make a strong case. Your recommendations should have the following features.

• Repeatable: If you “fix” three things in a manufacturing plant, you should be able to tackle the “next” three in iteration.
• Scalable: If they work in one plant, they should work in all of them.
• Replicable: Your process for improvement should be repeatable in different, disparate parts of the organization.

This is a key initiative at the “C” level, and your recommendation will reach the board of directors.

Your paper must include the following sections:

1. Strategic Overview: (1 page) 
   Provide a brief description of the following elements:
   1. The company, including its products or services
   2. Marketing strategy: target market segments, value proposition, market position, and source of competitive differentiation
   3. Organizational structure
   4. Any other relevant facts
2. Analysis of the Supply Chain: (4 pages)
   Analyze the supply chain for your identified company by explaining the following key elements of the supply chain:
   1. Identify key inputs, including less tangible assets, such as human resources and information. How are these key inputs sourced, reconfigured into a product or service, and delivered to your customers?
   2. Identify the key processes that add value, and evaluate the supply chain performance relative to the competition. What are the key inputs for each process? How are these inputs processed or configured into the final offering for your customers?
   3. What is the value added at each step?
   4. What is the role of information technology and e-commerce in serving your customers?
   5. What are the key performance measures for evaluating your supply chain?
   6. Research online sources to explain how the performance on these measures compares to that of your competitors?
3. Plan to Improve Operating Processes: (3 pages) 
   Create a plan for improving the performance of three specific operating processes in your company. Your plan should address the following:
   1. Identify three elements of the supply chain that you recommend as targets for improvement.
   2. State the performance improvement opportunity for each element, and indicate how it will improve process speed, quality, efficiency, and productivity.
   3. Explain what specific action or change you recommend for each supply chain element selected.
4. Explanation of the Results of Performance Improvements Regarding Product or Service: (2 pages) 
   Explain the following:
   1. How will your product or service be improved as a result of these changes to the supply chain activities?
   2. How are you altering the specific features or attributes of your product or service?
   3. Why are these specific changes important to your customers?
   4. How do these changes enhance the value proposition and competitive position of your company?
   5. What lasting capabilities and improvement are you introducing into your company through these changes?
   6. How will you measure the scope and impact of your improvements? What are your key performance indicators?
5. Assessment of the Impact on Human Resources: (1–2 pages) 
   Detail how your plan impacts your company’s HR and human capital strategy by explaining how the organization’s structure supports the new process configuration you are recommending. Your response should address the following questions:
   1. Are the roles and responsibilities in your organization properly defined and aligned to enable these changes? Who will perform these new/modified process activities, and what changes to their jobs do you anticipate?
   2. Is decision-making authority assigned so that the process changes you propose can be implemented and properly managed under the current structure? Who will own the process and the results? Based on the current structure, will they have the authority to make changes as necessary?
   3. Are the individuals with the right skills in place to implement these changes? If not, how will you attract the talent necessary to implement your changes? How will you retrain the existing employee base? How will you handle attrition? How will you reduce the risk of impacted protected classes?
6. Changes:
   Explain changes to the compensation and incentives at your company that are necessary to reinforce your recommendations and increase efforts for continuous improvement throughout the organization. Explain how your plan motivates employees, customers, and suppliers better.

Write an 10–12-page paper in Word format. You may rearrange the above sections if it improves the quality of your paper. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M5_A1.doc

Assignment Component

Content Knowledge: Understanding

Communicates understanding of assignment by synthesizing data to explain a strategic overview of your company, its services, and all other required data.

CO 1

MSM PO: 2, 4, 5
MBA PO: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3

ILO 1, 3, 6

Response incorporates analysis and synthesis of central concepts of the assigned topic.

Response reflects understanding of the nature of the specific topic within the discipline and its applications in contemporary times.

Response provides necessary details and specific examples.

Content Knowledge: Application Component 1

Communicates the ability to analyze the supply chain for your identified company by explaining all the following required key elements of the supply chain.

CO: 3

MSM PO: 2, 4
MBA PO: 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.3

ILO: 1, 2, 3, 6

Response demonstrates a working command of the disciplinary content knowledge.

Response examines the specific issue within the context of the topic area using relevant details and examples.

Response analyzes the specific aspect of the issue to applicable areas within the discipline and their relevance to real-world contexts.

Response is adequately supported by current and relevant literature.

Content Knowledge: Application Component 2

Communicates the ability to synthesize data to create a plan for improving the performance of three specific operating processes in your company (including answers to all required elements).

CO: 3

MSM PO: 2, 4
MBA PO: 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.3

ILO: 1, 2, 3, 6

Response demonstrates a working command of the disciplinary content knowledge.

Response examines the specific issue within the context of the topic area using relevant details and examples.

Response analyzes the specific aspect of the issue to applicable areas within the discipline and their relevance to real-world contexts.

Response is adequately supported by current and relevant literature.

Content Knowledge: Application Component 3

Communicates the ability to synthesize data to explain results of performance improvements regarding the product/service (including answers to all required elements).

CO: 2

MSM PO: 2, 3, 5
MBA PO: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.3

ILO: 1, 3, 5, 6

Response demonstrates a working command of the disciplinary content knowledge.

Response examines the specific issue within the context of the topic area using relevant details and examples.

Response analyzes the specific aspect of the issue to applicable areas within the discipline and their relevance to real-world contexts.

Response is adequately supported by current and relevant literature

Content Knowledge: Application Component 4

Communicates the ability to configure data to explain how your plan impacts your company’s HR and human capital strategy and how the organizational structure supports the new process configuration you are recommending. Explains any changes to the compensation/ incentives for your company that is necessary to reinforce your recommendations.

CO 1,4

MSM PO: 2, 3, 4, 5
MBA PO: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3

ILO 1, 3, 5, 6

Response demonstrates a working command of the disciplinary content knowledge.

Response examines the specific issue within the context of the topic area using relevant details and examples.

Response analyzes the specific aspect of the issue to applicable areas within the discipline and their relevance to real-world contexts.

Response is adequately supported by current and relevant literature.

Written Communication/
Personal Effectiveness

Conveys through written word understanding and application of an understanding and application by delivery of a report identifying the three most promising avenues for achieving best practices within the company.

CO: 2

MSM PO: 2, 3, 5
MBA PO: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.3

ILO: 1, 3, 5, 6

Writing is concise and clear in content, language use, grammar, organization, and sentence structure.

Writing is free of major grammatical and usage errors.

Oral Communication/
Personal Effectiveness

Conveys through oral communication, such as a PowerPoint presentation, an understanding and application delivery of a report identifying the three most promising avenues for achieving best practices within the company.

CO: 2

MSM PO: 2, 3, 5
MBA PO: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.3

ILO: 1, 3, 5, 6

Presentation is concise with a logical flow of thought.

Content includes clearly articulated key points that are free of major errors.

Presentation is visually appealing and addresses audience considerations adequately.

Total:

Talk over the details

Name: Ibrahim Zirekoglu

Professor: David Coia

Course: ENG 115

Date: 2/1/2014

Heath is one of the basic needs that require a lot more attention in terms of public recognition. There are people in the world who cannot access quality and affordable health care. The[DAC1]  move by some governments to introduce medical schemes to make healthcare esily accessible is good. However, the majority of the population in the middle and lower classes cannot benefit from this scheme despite its many advantages.  For one to subscribe, they have to overlook a number of potential factors. Medical insurance providers operate on very strict rules and regulations that govern their daily transactions (Green & Rowell, 2013). These include timely payment of premiums and the prescribed amount for the insured. The organization-Trust Free Care Centre-has developed a plan to give attention to those who cannot get medical care due to poverty and related issues. The opening of a clinic in the area to cater for the less privileged financially will be a major breakthrough in the area for the natives[DAC2] .

Economic issues

The capacity to afford healthcare is dependent on the economic independence of a person. The introduction of medical insurance, on the other hand, is a major problem tom the poor. This is because those who cannot potentially afford to pay for the premium find themselves in horrible situations when sickness occurs (Green & Rowell, 2013). Therefore, when one faces an important and unavoidable need, a reliable source of income is necessary. Unemployment comes as a threat to them because it could deprive them of the ability to pay. This is because it is a permanent and very uncompromising situation. When people lacks money, they suffer a number of ailments from psychological to mental illness.

There are people who are actively in employment but earn little. [DAC3] This makes them languish in a class where everything they yearn to do becomes a nightmare. With the ever-increasing healthcare costs, medical insurance companies also hike their premiums. Therefore, potential insured cannot access this scheme to help them when they are sick. They become unable to meet the minimum requirements to join the insurance sector that can improve their lives. This makes them shun even seeking medical attention when the need arises. These important economic factors discussed above hinder people for living simple worth lives. The organization[DAC4]  has the capacity to consolidate all the available economic factors to make the program a success. This will[DAC5]  include the need to doing all possible things to ensure that all people can afford health care. In addition, this will be beneficial as it will enhance lowering of the poverty levels. [DAC6] 

Needs of the population

The population in question for this benefit has health as their core special need. This translates to having an instance in which medical care affordability in reach for everyone.[DAC7]  The need to have reliable heath care is worrying to most people. Since sickness is a natural phenomenon in most instances, people deserve to have a healthcare system that is affordable to them always. This is the effort to decrease mortality rates in the region. Health is one factor that individuals or even organizations should not underestimate. The people to get this offer [DAC8] will have a major relief and boost to guide them, out of critical situations. This will make the grateful and willing support the effort for the benefit of all people (Slottje & Tchernis, 2010).

Process involved in the program

The project is an initiative by a caring non-profit organization. Serving the local community is in the interest of this organization. This will come as an extension of service delivery to the supportive society. There is various processes in place to oversee the successful implementation of the plan. This includes getting acclamation for the public on the move to continue with the implementation stage. The community is welcome in terms of decision-making elements and giving their thoughts and ideas. The ideas will have to gain approval for the government health sector. Proposals from the public for tendering and construction of the project will be welcome thereafter. On completion of the project, the organization will oversee the successful stocking of the clinic with proper facilities and employment of qualified medical staff. This will enhance the smooth running of operations in the clinic for and safe handling of patients (Feldstein, 2011).

Benefits of the project

There are benefits that will come with the project if launched. This includes the access of health care to the poor and middle class inhabitants of the community (Slottje & Tchernis, 2010). The costs will for accessing the services will be very friendly since the organizations aim is not profit. The objective for starting the project is giving to the community. On top of this, project will eliminate the need to have insurance schemes for the lower class. The scheme eats a lot into the income of a person. This money will rather benefit the people in plans to live well. This will thus lead to a reduction in health problems. Ultimately, the program will lead to a reduction in poverty levels. [DAC9] This is since most people will not have a difficulty in looking finding money to satisfy the need. Therefore, they will live above the standards of living in the place improving their lives.

Conclusion

According to Feldstein (2011), the move to have a clinic for locals in the area is beneficial to many people as it will give them the health attention they require. Healthcare being a primary need, access to it would have many advantages to the beneficiaries. That would in turn lead to having energetic and vibrant individuals in the society. That would encourage people to expand such projects to other places leading to have a healthier world with the prevailing financial situations. The will of doing something outdoes the effort to discriminate in terms of finance on health matters.

References[DAC10] 

Feldstein, P. J. (2011). Health policy issues: An economic perspective. Chicago: Health

Administration Press.

Green, M. A., & Rowell, J. A. C. (2013). Understanding health insurance: A guide to billing and

reimbursement. Clifton Park, NY: Delmar Cengage Learning.

Slottje, D. J., & Tchernis, R. (2010). Current issues in health economics.Bingley, UK: Emerald.

INCLUDE AN ABSTRACT

5-6 page Paper
 
For this assignment, you should focus on the reading material for weeks 1-7 and YOU MUST READ the NORTEL CASE STUDY that is in the resources section of your classroom – It is also on page 535 of your text and in the resources tab in our classroom. If you choose, you may also research the library for additional background about Nortel (If you choose to do some additional research).
 
The breakdown of your paper should be as follows:
 
Introduction of Your Paper:
 
Provide an introduction of the topics that you will discuss below (Base your introduction on our reading material from weeks 1-7-It is basically all of the reading material from our class)
 
Body of your paper: (5-6 Pages total in length)-Your thoughts should be supported with key words from our text. You must answer all five questions below and include AT LEAST THREE key words from our text when responding to EACH QUESTION. That means that you would use 15 of the key words in our text for this paper. This will show me that you are attempting to support your thoughts with key material from our text and that you are able to apply the material from our class. The five required questions are as follows:
 
1. From an ethical perspective, describe the factors that contributed to the rise and fall of Nortel.
 
2. What mechanisms should be put in place to better align managers with the interests of shareholders?
 
3. Would you describe the meltdown of Nortel more as a failure of “people” or of “capital market processes”?
 
4. What happened to Nortel is similar to what happened to WorldCom and Enron inthe early 2000s, and to Lehman Brothers, Citigroup, and many other banks during the 2008 financial crisis. Why do businesspeople keep making the same mistake?
 
5. Discuss how to prioritize the following remedies to stop such recurrences: business education, regulation of accounting/financial markets, regulation of incentives, or regulation of punishment. Also, tell me your thought process about your decision about priorities.

General guidelines: Paper should also include the following components:

A. Title Page & Abstract – Include a title page with your name, student number, title of your review, course number, course name, session, section, semester and date.

B. Introductory Paragraph – Include an introductory paragraph.

C. Font and Spacing – Use Arial or Times New Roman 12 pitch font with double spaced lines.

D. Length – Write a 5-6 page review not including the title page and citation page.

E. Reference Page – Include all sources on a Reference page

F. Utilize the APA Style for the review and to documenting sources.
G. Punctuation, essay format (thesis, supporting paragraphs with transition and topic sentences, and summary) grammar and documentation count toward your grade. 

THIS IS AN APA PAPER AND YOU SHOULD FOLLOW APA format.