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What Is the Field of Consulting?

As you know, there may be times when an organization needs help. This help could be to improve an existing process or to launch a new initiative. Not all organizations have the internal skills, capabilities, or time to accomplish everything they want to do. When an organization lacks the skills or when it needs a fresh new perspective, an outside consultant can work with the organization to accomplish its goals.

Tasks:

In this module’s discussion, answer the following:

Based on an organization you are familiar with, identify one project that would be suited for help from an outside consultant.
Why would your chosen organization benefit from a consultant on this project?
What could a consultant bring that the organization does not have?

Scenario: You and your classmates are members of a consulting group that has been asked by the principal of a fine arts private academy to do a research project. The principal would like you to conduct research that compares and contrasts the educational quality between the private fine arts academy and the local public school for learners in grades 3–8. The principal plans to use the research findings to make curriculum decisions. In the Discussion Board, consider the following with your fellow consultants:

What are 3 types of data that you would collect to examine the programs?
What specific types of instruments would you use to collect the 3 types of data? Why?
Do you believe that the 3 types of data are quantitative or qualitative? Provide your fellow consultants with a thorough rationale for your choices.
How would you state, for your client, the principal, the purpose of the research project? Why do you think this statement is appropriate to the type of investigation you anticipate?

Scenario: You and your classmates are members of a consulting group that has been asked by the principal of a fine arts private academy to do a research project. The principal would like you to conduct research that compares and contrasts the educational quality between the private fine arts academy and the local public school for learners in grades 3–8. The principal plans to use the research findings to make curriculum decisions. In the Discussion Board, consider the following with your fellow consultants:

What are 3 types of data that you would collect to examine the programs?
What specific types of instruments would you use to collect the 3 types of data? Why?
Do you believe that the 3 types of data are quantitative or qualitative? Provide your fellow consultants with a thorough rationale for your choices.
How would you state, for your client, the principal, the purpose of the research project? Why do you think this statement is appropriate to the type of investigation you anticipate?

Roles of Managers and Individuals Paper

Prepare a 700- to 1,050-word paper assessing the various roles of managers and individuals in the change process.

Include an examination of the two types of change agents as well as and a manager’s role in combating resistance and championing change.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

In this SLP assignment, write a paper in which you do the following:

Describe the four (4) common causes of chronic diseases.
Discuss effective preventive efforts for diabetes that must oc­cur to yield health benefits.

Prepare a 3-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation with detailed speaker notes that describes the process you would use to design, develop, and implement a security management system to protect the organization’s intranet and Internet access point. Use complete sentences, with correct grammar and punctuation, to fully explain each slide as if you were giving an in-person Presentation.

-Address the types of malicious code attacks and how your security management system will address these attacks.

Topics for Research and Analysis

Promotional Goals: Identify specific objectives related to the promotion of EDUS’s acquisition of the institution. In addition, identify specific objectives related to informing potential students of new capabilities and offerings resulting from the acquisition. (Promotional goals vary. Some organizations need to create awareness of their product’s benefits compared to competitors. Other promotional goals may involve communicating new uses for an item, or informing customers or lower prices.)

Business Environment: Identify cultural and legal factors that might influence promotional decisions – both in announcing the acquisition within the region and recruiting new students to the institution. (In some countries, certain information is required in television commercials selling products aimed at children.)

Media Plan: Analyze media availability to determine cost-efficient methods of communicating with potential students within the country and within the geographic region. (While television, radio, newspapers, magazines, and the Internet may be common in industrialized countries, developing economies may require other different media. In some countries, advertising messages are broadcast through large speakers mounted on moving trucks.)

Promotional Strategy: Compare the benefits of push-and-pull promotions for acquiring new students at the institution. Devise a promotional strategy that will help EDUS expand the student body and also inform potential students of increased capability of the institution resulting from this acquisition.

Economic, Cultural, and Political-Legal Environment: Investigate the economic, cultural, and political-legal environment that might affect promotional messages and media relevant to this acquisition.

Budgetary Priorities

The president and the Congress identify budgetary priorities by the level of funding appropriated to address those public policy problems. In a two- to three- page paper (not including title and references pages), identify and analyze a specific public policy problem that has not received sufficient funding from Washington or from your state. Consider an issue such as health care, education, veterans’ care, foreign aid, or job training programs. In your analysis, explain the policy issue, assess the funding situation, and analyze the impact of insufficient funding on stakeholders.

Research best practices for system integration approaches, such as the systems development life cycle (SDLC) approach, migration strategy and implementation approach, acquisition utilizing requests for proposals, and many others.

Select 2 of the best practice approaches, and discuss how they support responding to professional and ethical issues that could potentially impact your integration project.
Provide specific examples of how the application of best practices for system integration impact project success.

Application: Creating a Flowchart

Workflow analysis aims to determine workflow patterns that maximize the effective use of resources and minimize activities that do not add value. There are a variety of tools that can be used to analyze the workflow of processes and clarify potential avenues for eliminating waste. Flowcharts are a basic and commonly used workflow analysis method that can help highlight areas in need of streamlining.

In this Assignment, you select a common event that occurs regularly in your organization and create a flowchart representing the workflow. You analyze the process you have diagrammed and propose changes for improvement.

To prepare:

· Identify a common, simple event that frequently occurs in your organization that you would like to evaluate.

· Consider how you would design a flowchart to represent the current workflow.

· Consider what metrics you would use to determine the effectiveness of the current workflow and identify areas of waste.