Visit the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) website and read the article “The Impact of Health Literacy on a Patient’s Decision to Adopt a Personal Health Record.” Provide a summary of your findings and any insights you have gained in the review of the information.

Explain with relevant data sources from the attached file.

Q: “If you’re an economist, what about your contribution to vision 2030… discuss”

Note: After answering the main question read the attached comments of your classmates and chose at least TWO comments and response.

• Avoid the usual replies like (great job, amazing work…. etc.) in your replies.

• Your reply better to be from economic perspective

• Mention which comment number you choose.

   

Use at least three sources. Use the Research Databases available from the Danforth Library not Google. Include at least 3 quotes from your sources enclosed in quotation marks and cited in-line by reference to your reference list. Example: “words you copied” (citation) These quotes should be one full sentence not altered or paraphrased. Cite your sources using APA format. Use the quotes in your paragaphs. Stand alone quotes will not count toward the 3 required quotes.

1. Apply concepts from Chapter 6 to your company. The main questions you should address

include:

a.Is the company diversified? If so, is it relatedly diversified or unrelatedly so?

b. Is it vertically integrated?

c.Is the company involved in any strategic alliances, including equity investments or joint

ventures?

d. How do your responses to a-c make sense in terms of adding corporate value to your

company?

Strategic Management: Text and Cases 9th Edition

978-1259813955

Company is Starbucks

Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility

Discussion

Corporate governance and social responsibility should be a vital component of an effective business strategy. Ensuring policies, procedures, and laws are practiced and followed allows for a business to operate within moral and ethical boundaries. Additionally, practicing social responsibilities enables a corporation to be mindful of the welfare and of the society in which it operates and provides for.

Watch the following videos on corporate social responsibility and corporate governance to get a greater understanding of the topics:

What is Corporate Social Responsibility? (YouTube 00:02:29) (Links to an external site.)

An Introduction to Corporate Governance (YouTube 00:02:10) (Links to an external site.)

POST AND DISCUSS

Describe your strategic audit company’s current social responsibility and corporate governance policies, and what they are doing or not doing to practice effective social responsibility and corporate governance.

Requirement:

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In this project, you are required to evaluate one of the websites below based on what you learn from this course and your perspective. The evaluation will cover the different aspects of E-Commerce such as business idea, website design, marketing, security … etc.

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You will need to analyze the business and provide suggestions to improve the current business situation.

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Current e-commerce businesses: (choose one)

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• www.karazlinen.com/

• www.ekuep.com

• www.sorrah.sa/

• www.eyewa.com/sa-ar

• www.nv.sa/

• www.darzan.sa/

• www.rewayah.store/

• www.etarstore.com/

• www.sahaba.store/

• www.notahstore.com/

• www.natureland.net/ksa_ar/

• www.aratopia.sa

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The following questions require critical thinking to be answered successfully. The answers to these questions will drive the ways of improvement of the current e-commerce business.

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• Know the business 3.5 marks

• Explain the design of the system 1.5 marks

• Explain the current business e-commerce features 1 mark

• Explain the business e-commerce process 1 marks

• Site Design 1.5 marks

• Business software 1 marks

• Payment and Security 1.5 marks

• Categorize marketing and advertising strategy and method. 1 mark

• Know your competitors. 2 marks

• Conclude your report. 1 mark

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• What is the business? (your choice)

• What is the idea? (the visioning process)

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• Introduce the e-commerce business you have chosen.

  • Provide an overview of the business idea

• Product and type of services.

  • What are the different types of products? Explain

  • What kinds of services does the online store provide? [ customer service, exchange and return, delivery, and payment options] Explain

• Business statement.

• Business vision.

• Business objective.

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• Where is the money?

  • What is the company’s business model?

  • What is the revenue model? Give a general idea of how the business generates revenues

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• Who and where is the target audience? Explain demographics, lifestyle, consumption patterns, etc.

• Characterize the marketplace.

  • Size, growth, demographics, structure, competition

  • Research the market and give an idea about each point

• Describe the content of the business website

• Conduct a SWOT analysis for the business (Explain each point)

  • At least three points for each

• Develop an e-commerce presence map.

  • (For example: website, email … etc.)

  • What activities does the company use these platforms for? (E.g. marketing, customer service, news…etc.)

• Explain in detail the design of the system (business objectives, system functionality, information provided)

• What are the current website features?

• What types of these features can be annoying to customers? Provide pictures.

• Explain in detail all the steps from the time user enters the website until the final user buys a product.

• Evaluate the website design focusing on the eight most important factors in successful e-commerce site design (ease of use, ease of purchase, simple graphics … etc.). You are required to evaluate each factor.

  • What can be improved in the site design to be one of the most successful e-commerce websites?

• Explain the different types of software used on the website to perform the current functionalities.

• What are the methods of payment available in the online store?

  • What other methods can be added? Explain why?

• What are the technologies used on the website to secure the online transactions?

  • What other technologies can be added? Explain why?

• What is the current privacy policy of the online store? Outline how the information is collected and used?

  • What can be added to the privacy policy? Explain why?

• Explain the current online, offline, and social media marketing strategies of the e-commerce business?

• Choose a website of one competitor in the same industry (locally or globally) and compare it with your chosen company’s site. Indicate why the competitor’s website is better or worse than the chosen company’s website. Provide screenshots with explanation.

  • What can be done by learning from your competitor’s experience?

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• What can be improved or added into the system design?

• What can be improved in the process?

• What can be done to improve the software?

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• What can you do to improve the current features on the website?

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The development of an e-commerce website requires more interactive functionalities, such as the ability to respond to user input (name and address forms), capturing customer orders for goods and services, clearing credit card transactions on the fly, consolidating price and product databases, and even adjusting advertising on the screen based on user characteristics.

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• What can be done to improve the marketing aspects of the business?

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Summarize the above points and include your recommendation to improve the e-commerce business.

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Guidelines for the assignment:

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• The answer sheet must include the following:

  • Cover page

  • Questions

  • Answers

• Make sure to include the cover page with all information required. One mark will be deducted if there is no cover page

• This is a group project (3-4 students), which is part of your course score. It requires effort, research, and critical thinking.

• You are required to choose one current business from the list.

• Each website can be chosen by one group only.

• Use font Times New Roman, 12 font size

• Use 1.5 line spacing with adjust to all paragraphs (alignment).

• Use the footer function to insert page number.

• Ensure that you follow the APA style in your project and references.

• The minimum number of required references is 5 references using APA style.

• Your whole project report length should be between 2200 to 2800 words.

• You must check the spelling and grammar mistakes before submitting the assignment.

• Up to 20% of the total grade will be deducted for providing a poor structure of assignment. Structure includes these elements paper style, free of spelling and grammar mistakes, referencing and word count.

• Your file should be saved as Word Doc. [Example]: Your name_CRN_ECOM101_ Project Assignment

DETAILED ASSIGNMENT

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STA/OPR 9750 Final Project Requirements

Structural Requirements
• An R Markdown-based document with PDF output. Include and submit all code written and used,
either as embedded R Markdown segments with echo = FALSE if used for plotting or analysis, or
separately if used for retrieving and pre-processing data).
• At least 2 output pages of exploration (including figures), using tidyverse.
• At least 4 output pages of analysis and conclusion (including figures).
• At most 10 pages.
Figure Requirements
• At least 2 exploratory figures (at most 70% figures by volume of output).
• At least 2 model/analysis figures (at most 70% figures by volume of output).
Modeling Requirements
• At least 2 fitted advanced models/simulations. See me if this is an issue.
Final Project Evaluation1
Presentation (20% of total):
• Exploration of Data, and Written Analysis, 10%: Summary of dataset (subgroups, n, number
of variables, any limitations of the data, source of data, etc.) before modeling. Also, explanation and
justification of analyses used.
• Hypothesis and Conclusion, 10%: A statement of what you are looking for in the data, how you
addressed missing or corrupt data, what you discovered, whether you were correct, etc. This grade is
based on the quality of the hypothesis and presentation of findings, not just correctness.
Analysis (60% of total):
• Appropriateness, 20%: Are the analyses motivated by your hypothesis and the form of the data?
You should be able to answer why you did what you did, for example, a linear regression instead of
random forests or a time series.
• Technical Quality, 40%: Did the code do what you claim it did? Are there errors or bugs in the
code (programming or statistical)? Did you do model validation?

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OUTLINE AND INTRODUCTION

Submit your research paper outline and include the following:

• A half page introduction about your selected firm’s supply chain.

• One paragraph for each of the selected subjects highlighting their importance to the success of the firm.

• A proposed Table of Contents.

Q1: You take $500 that you held as currency and put it into the banking system. The reserve ratio is

equal to 20%.

• Calculate the money multiplier.

• By how much will increase the total amount of deposits in the banking system?

• By how much will increase the money supply?

Q2: At the beginning of 2018, a town has 152,000 employed people and 8000 unemployed people.

The remaining 40,000 people in the town are not in the labor force.

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Based on these numbers:

• Calculate the town’s unemployment rate:

• Calculate the town’s labor force participation rate:

• Calculate Suppose that 10,000 people decide to join the labor force. Of these 10,000 people 7,800 find jobs. What is the unemployment rate at the end of 2018?

Q3: Suppose that the T-account for First National Bank is as follows: –

A)If the Fed requires banks to hold 5 percent of deposits as reserves, how much in excess reserves does First National Bank now hold?

B)Assume that all other banks hold only the required amount of reserves. If First National decides to reduce its reserves to only the required amount, by how much would the economy’s money supply increase?

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1. With different types of cloud service delivery, what are the different licensing requirements that an owner must be aware of when moving to the cloud.

2. Discuss Shared technology vulnerabilities in the cloud,

3. How does a customer know what software versions cloud providers are using? Without that knowledge how can they do a proper risk assessment?

4. What policies should be in place for users to help reduce cloud based threats.

5. How can a consumer evaluate the physical security of their cloud provider? What standards should apply. What external and internal barriers should be in place? What access controls? What sort of surveillance should be provided, power redundancy, and fire suppression? Is a service contract sufficient? Should physical inspection be available? What about physical location? Are their volcanoes, tornadoes, earthquakes or other natural disasters common? Is the site near political unrest? Access to water? Outside temperature? Is there a physical buffer? Should the walls be made of ballistic material to withstand explosions? Staffing

6. Discuss the four tiers of Uptime Institutes functional recommendations for physical security for data centers.

7. What is a hypervisor? Differentiate between type I and type II. What are the security vulnerabilities of each?

8. Which is better for security server virtualization or application isolation? Why?

9. What are desktop virtualization, storage virtualization, memory virtualization, network virtualization? What are the security issues and benefits for each

10. Global boundaries and the cloud – separating politics from security

11. The relationship of net neutrality and cloud security

12. Ensuring Proper Access Control in the Cloud?

13. Cloud security risks from misconfiguration

14. Cloud service interruptions from DDOS

15. Preventive controls for Internal (non-routable) security threats

16. Detective Controls for routable and non-routable addresses

17. How security zones, groups or domains have replaced traditional zones and tiers

18. On being a cloud broker -tasks and challenges

19. Trust boundaries and division of responsibilities

20. Elasticity effect on threat surface

21. How to insure that your cloud provider has appropriate detective and preventive controls in place

22. How to secure virtualization layer

23. Threats to the hypervisor

24. What hardening means

25. Top ten recommendations for securing virtual servers

26. Vulnerabilities resulting from web programming frameworks

27. Preventing attacks on web applications

28. The relationship between DOS attacks and your cloud invoice

29. Good browser hygiene and cloud security

30. Compartmentalization and isolation in virtual multi-tenant environments

31. Security standards in PaaS API design

32. FIPS

33. Data Protection techniques under the The Data Accountability and Trust Act

34. Comparing block symmetric algorthms with streaming symmetric algorthms

35. Message authentication codes and hash functions.

36. Externalizing authentication: Trust Boundaries and IAM

37. Sustaining IAM with rapid turnover and job changes

38. IAM Compliance Management

39. Identity Federation Management

40. OAUTH

41. ITIL

42. ISO 27001/27002

43. Vulnerability and Risk assessment

44. Incident response

45. What can we learn from CCID (Cloud Computing Incidents Database

46. Cloud Health monitoring (internal and 3rd party)

47. Reading a Cloud Security Provider agreement

48. Discussing the data life cycle in the context of cloud computing

49. Facebook’s new privacy initiative

50. Cloud Security and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure