{"id":23634,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/establishing-baselines-and-assessing-success"},"modified":"2017-08-03T16:09:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T16:09:59","slug":"establishing-baselines-and-assessing-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/establishing-baselines-and-assessing-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Establishing Baselines and Assessing Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"the_content_wrapper\">\n<p>MT400<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Establishing Baselines and Assessing Success<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unit 8 Assignment<\/p>\n<p>In this Assignment, through the development of pilot studies and contingency plans, you will engage in developing the following professional competencies:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u2014\u008f Write an action plan<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Arial; font-size: medium;\">In this Assignment, you are going to evaluate a specific business process based on criteria detailed below. If you already have selected a business process, continue using that and skip to the next paragraph. <\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">If you have not yet selected the business process <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Arial; font-size: medium;\">you will use for these Assignments, then begin by selecting one. E-mail your instructor and clearly describe the objective of this process, the participants, and the strategic significance for the company. The business process you select must have a clear beginning and an end, with identifiable, specific steps. Your instructor will confirm that the process you selected is suitable, or ask you to select another one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For this Assignment, write a paper that answers the following questions (use the subheadings\/numbered questions below to organize your paper):<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">P<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">ART <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1 \u2013 I<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">MPLEMENTATION <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">S<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">TRATEGIES<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the first section, you will use critical thinking skills to tackle the problem of revised process implementation. You will evaluate various implementation strategies and pick the best option for your project.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Analyze the suitability of the four implementation strategies discussed in your book to your project, determine the best one and describe how you would design the implementation for your specific process based on this strategy.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Arial; font-size: medium;\">\u00e2\u2014\u008f <\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">For each strategy <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Arial; font-size: medium;\">explain the specific pros and cons of using it for your project. Do not simply repeat the generic pros\/cons from the book- your analysis should be based on how each strategy applies to the process you selected and the nature of your selected organization. Discuss the makeup of your organization as well as the requirements of your process and anticipate how each strategy may experience difficulties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u2014\u008f Select the one you think will work the best in your situation. Justify your selection.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u2014\u008f Explain how this strategy must be customized for your selected process.<\/p>\n<p>Kaplan University School of Business<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>MT400<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table dir=\"LTR\" border=\"1\" width=\"553\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"7\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"TOP\" width=\"20%\" height=\"42\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">Unit 8 Assignment<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Total # of Tires Sold<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"TOP\" width=\"20%\" height=\"42\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Materials Cost Per Tire<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"TOP\" width=\"20%\" height=\"42\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Labor Cost Per Tire<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"TOP\" width=\"20%\" height=\"42\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Average Retail Price Per Tire<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"TOP\" width=\"20%\" height=\"42\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Average Profit Per Tire<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"TOP\" width=\"20%\" height=\"10\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Arial; font-size: medium;\">22,594<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"TOP\" width=\"20%\" height=\"10\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Arial; font-size: medium;\">$21.23<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"TOP\" width=\"20%\" height=\"10\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Arial; font-size: medium;\">$12.67<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"TOP\" width=\"20%\" height=\"10\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Arial; font-size: medium;\">$119.00<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"TOP\" width=\"20%\" height=\"10\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Arial; font-size: medium;\">$85.10<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After the table is complete, address the following questions:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1. Why is it important to ensure that the baseline data is accurate?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2. Was the project successful? Why or why not?<\/p>\n<p>Directions for Submitting Your Project<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Compose your Assignment as a Microsoft Word document and save it as Username-MT400- Assignment-Unit#.docx (Example: <\/span><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Arial; font-size: medium;\">TAllen-MT400 Assignment-Unit 8.docx<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">). Submit your file by selecting the Unit 8: Assignment Dropbox by the end of Unit 8.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Arial; font-size: medium;\"><strong>Grading note: <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">In the grading rubric below, you will see a section on analysis and critical thinking. The points in this section will partly be based on your ability to apply the concepts discussed in your Assignment to the specific circumstances and details of the process\/organization you selected. Writing in general terms without applying the concepts and analyzing your specific project may get you points for content section, but you will lose points in the analysis section.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Review the grading rubric below before beginning this activity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MT400 &nbsp; Establishing Baselines and Assessing Success &nbsp; Unit 8 Assignment In this Assignment, through the development of pilot studies and contingency plans, you will engage in developing the following professional competencies: &nbsp; \u00e2\u2014\u008f Write an action plan In this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/establishing-baselines-and-assessing-success\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}