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Identify your key stakeholders. Explain how your stakeholders might positively or negatively influence the outcome of your project.Now you need to further your stakeholder analysis in a manner that will support developing a strategy for managing your stakeholders’ engagement. To help you develop your strategy, you have at your disposal four tools described in the Chapter 13, Section 13.1.2.1.After you have completed your stakeholder analysis using these four tools, use the information you have discovered and documented to develop your stakeholder management strategy as described in the Chapter 13, Section 13.2, “Plan Stakeholder Management.\”New Content

For the Unit 1 assignments use the following  Review the scenario first and then continue on with your assignment. Consider saving the PDF or printing it out for your reference.You have been meeting with the CEO, the project sponsor, your manager, and the heads of all the other departments to discuss the project and their expectations. You are starting to be concerned about the level of risk of this project and whether or not the organization really understands it. As far as you can tell, the company has never done formal risk management, taking a more relaxed approach to risks. You are starting to develop your risk management plan; you will present it to your manager and the sponsor in two weeks along with some other project planning deliverables. This list will be used in later activities throughout the course. 

You are the new manager of the manufacturing department of ABC Shoe Company. You are creating a project to manufacture a new type of shoe that is beneficial to runners. Your boss has asked you to explain the importance of strategic capacity planning and to provide an outline of one approach to the business design strategy using methods for schedule productionto ensure successful completion of the project.Create a PowerPoint presentation for a meeting to introduce the business design strategy for this project. Your content should include the following:Your format should include the following:

Over the past few modules, you have refined your critical reading and evaluation skills. In this assignment, you will apply those skills to analyze a list of Web sites. You will then need to identify parodies or hoax Web sites.Remember that there are two types of analysis:Review the following list of Web sites, and identify which of them are legitimate and which are not. Complete the following tasks:Based on your analysis, respond to the following:Note that your response to this assignment will also be submitted as a piece of writing for for a review of your writing skills. Therefore, make sure your response to this assignment is logical, clear, and well organized. Also, proofread your response for spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors. 

Try your hand at stabilizing the U.S. debt by using Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget Simulation at . Read through the “Intro” and click “Next” in order to follow the simulation instructions. Answer the following questions once you have completed the simulation:

  Due Week 9 and worth 125 pointsImagine you work at a company and it is time for an employee named Jim’s annual review. While he was a model employee the first nine (9) months of the year, recently Jim has been coming in late. It has not been just a few minutes each day, either. It is starting to cause problems in the production line. In this assignment, write a one (1) page summary of your conversation with Jim. How will you address his recent performance issues while still praising him for his previous nine (9) months of good work? Your goal is to balance the negative and positive feedback so that Jim will leave motivated to do his best.Write a one (1) page paper in which you:The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

As a new employee at Canyon rental, an outdoor outfitters and supply shop, your boss has asked you to look at the internal control system within the store. He is seeking a loan for expansion and must have his books audited. The auditor asked about his control procedures and documentation. He has no idea what the auditor is talking about. Your boss has asked you to do what you need to understand the system and has asked for a memo with your observations and recommendations by the end of the week. Through interviews and observation you notice the following:In your memo, give a summary of the elements of an effective internal control system. Comment on each of your observations and if there is a weakness provide a solution. Your memo should be 2-3 pages.

You have been appointed to be a part of a special committee that is responsible for devising policy procedures and a budget for the organization’s earthquake preparedness. The last earthquake in 2003 exposed areas of weakness within the organization, regarding the need for emergency equipment and supplies. You and your committee will need to draft a proposal that will address what earthquake emergency equipment and supplies will be required, as well as a budget that will show how much the items and overall expenses will cost to maintain and replace expired items. The budget needs to include how many staff members will be needed to operate the emergency preparedness department. You should begin your proposal by identifying the population size being served by your public administration organization and by identifying any other factors about the population being served that are relevant to your overall proposal. Examples of other factors could be matters related to geography, the needs of a particular subpopulation, or regional weather patterns.Secondly, the committee will need to propose an earthquake policy to address the proper protocols if and when an earthquake should occur. The policy needs to stipulate what emergency procedures need to be followed. The policy should include the frequency of earthquake drills by all personnel and who is responsible for stocking the earthquake supplies and maintaining the emergency preparedness budget. Finally, the committee needs to include a rationale in the proposal for what challenges the organization may face in implementing and maintaining the operations of the emergency earthquake preparedness.

Stakeholder, Rhetoric, Visual Rhetoric (aesthetics, color, media, typography, space), Rhetorical Appeals (Ethos, Pathos, Logos, Kairos), Rhetorical Fallacies   Students will identify an issue or topic that interests them and research the multiple stakeholders connected to the issue. From these stakeholders, students will select  and think critically about the visual and rhetorical strategies this particular group implements in their campaigns. Finally, students will choose (such as advertisements, PSAs, static images used on a website, flyer, billboard, etc.), and analyze how these visual arguments reflect the organization’s goals.   Students will…Students will write a 1,000 – 1,200 word essay that analyzes how the two images represent the interests of the stakeholder (the stakeholder’s goal or message), taking into consideration audience, message, purpose, rhetorical appeals, and / or rhetorical fallacies. In doing so, students should point to specific details from the image to support their claims. In order to effectively analyze the images, students will need to have an accurate understanding of each stakeholder’s goals. Students are required to use a minimum of two sources: one must be the course textbook or an assigned article; the second must be a source from the stakeholder.  This assignment will be evaluated using the . Students should support the claims they make about the stakeholder’s perspective / position using outside research. Students may use primary resources from the stakeholder, the textbook, and / or outside resources. Individual instructors may require students to use a certain number of outside sources. At a minimum, students should reference Using MyReviewers, you will provide feedback via peer review. The peer review process allows you to respond to your peers’ drafts as fellow writers working toward the common goal of producing  insightful visual rhetorical analyses. Both you and your peers will be using each other’s comments and recommendations to improve your work. Thus, your individual commitment to peer review has a real impact on the success of the entire class.    Early Draft   The Early Draft should be used as a brainstorming space where students can begin thinking about the connections between the issue, the various stakeholders, and the visual arguments. Students may use this draft to outline, freewrite, map, etc. as long as the exercise leads to more formulated claims in the subsequent draft.   Intermediate Draft   The Intermediate Draft should be a working draft (1,000 – 1,200 words) that analyzes how these visual arguments reflect the concerns of the stakeholder and discusses visual rhetorical strategies that establish relationships between the two images. This draft should include a thesis, all major points, evidence to support these points (including in-text citations from appropriate sources), and a Works Cited page. The draft must also  analyzed by the student which should be embedded into the document.   Final Draft   The final draft will be a polished 1,000 – 1,200 word essay that that analyzes how these visual arguments reflect the concerns of the stakeholder and discusses visual rhetorical strategies that establish relationships between the two images. This draft should include a thesis, all major points, evidence to support these points (including in-text citations from appropriate sources), and a Works Cited page. It should be free of grammar and spelling errors and should follow proper MLA structure both in formatting the paper and citing sources. The draft must also  analyzed by the student which should be embedded into the document.    

Using the in , continue to build the  for the product you have selected/ invented/ created. Complete the following in MS Word: Be concise and complete in your analysis of each plan element. Your employer wants to know you have left nothing out in your analysis.This assignment represents Section 4 of the Marketing Plan. Use the  to identify the sections of the Marketing Plan and the marketing elements contained therein. This assignment will focus on Section 4– Place & Promotion ().You will create a complete Marketing Plan by the end of the course. You will write the Fourth section of the Marketing Plan for this assignment. Use the Marketing Plan  to identify the sections of the Marketing Plan and the marketing elements contained therein. This assignment will focus on Section 4 – The Place & Promotion (). Relate all responses using the WBC scenario and the product you have selected to market in . Create a 4- to 6-page Word document for this Marketing Plan Section. Apply a standard business writing style using the Market Planning Guide sections as your (headers/ sub heads/ bullets) to your work. Be sure to cite your work in the APA format.Use the following file-naming convention: . For example, if your name is John Smith, your document will be named SmithJ_M4_A2.doc.Submit your assignment to the  by .