Professor instructions and requirments:
1. Please discuss issues of diversity, what you have encountered, challenges that you have faced or have seen regarding cultural, race, gender, or age issues.
2. Brainstorm for ideas concerning your Persuasive Sales Speech; what product will you be selling; why are you excited by it; what can it do for others?
Discussion post 2 Essentials of management 150 words:
What is Strategy? The dominant idea in the field of strategy – that success consists of establishing a unique competitive position sustained for long periods – is no longer relevant for most businesses. In the 1960s, Peter Drucker told us that strategy was how we competed on price. In the 1980s, Michael Porter redefined it around his Five Forces, and recently it is being redefined by Gail McGrath and Clayton Christenson by change.
How do you define Strategy?
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Discussion post 3 Essentials of management 150 words:
In his book, The Innovator’s Dilemma, Clayton Christensen describes companies that do everything right, yet still fail. The external environment changes and destroys or radically changes existing business models.
Is disruptive innovation real, and how do we, as managers, anticipate it?
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What is disruptive innovation
Clayton christensen
Is disruption theory wearing new clothes etc
Discussion post 4 Health Policy and Politics 150 words:
We are looking this week at all the different pieces of the puzzle that create, fund and execute health care initiatives. Please select either one of the committees or sub committees described in Table 2.1 of our e-text on pages 15 and 16 or one of the offices or operating divisions of the Department of Health and Human Services Figure 2-3 in our e-text at page 25.
(1) describe the functions of the entity you have selected (what does it DO?) and
(2) go to https://www.usajobs.gov/ Links to an external site and search for a job at one of the agencies listed in Figure 2-3 by entering part or all of the name into the USAjobs.gov search box, e.g. Finance Committee, or Labor, etc. You MUST select a job in the Federal, State or City government for WHICH YOU COULD BE QUALIFIED. Posts listing things like physician or occupational therapist will not get any credit.
Additional rescourses for this weeks discussion
https://www.congress.gov
https://www.congress.gov/committees
https://www.hhs.gov
https://www.usajobs.gov
Discussion post 5 Health service finance 150 words:
Note: Please be sure to tell us who your employer is. If you are not currently working, please answer the question based on a prior job. If you have never worked, please answer the question based on an organization that is familiar to you such as a pharmacy or a doctor’s office.
(I am not currently working so you can talk about a pharmacy or doctors office)
Revenues (Inflows)
- Does the organization that you work for receive revenue after services are delivered or before? Why do you think this is?
- What grouping of revenue do you believe the organization that you work for uses (service line, revenue source, etc.)? Why do you think they chose this grouping? Is this a good choice or do you think there is a better option? Watch youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PVSYPDcBOo