homework

QUESTION 1

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"Inventory Analysis and Optimizing Staffing"

· Recommend a strategy for financial administrators to balance the tension between having inventory on hand when it is needed versus the carry cost to the organization. Provide support for your recommendation.   

· Assume that you are a health care administrator in a hospital, and you are responsible for staffing levels. Suggest an approach to staffing for 24/7 coverage that optimizes patient care, minimizes cost, and produces the highest level of employee satisfaction. Provide support for your rationale.

QUESTION 2

"Core Market Offerings and Defining the Product"  Please respond to the following:

· From the case study, take a position on whether Tropicana did or did not make a major mistake in changing its product packaging. Next, suggest the next two (2) steps that you believe Tropicana should take in its branding strategy in order to counteract the initial negative response to the new product packaging. Provide a rationale for your response and do not duplicate your classmates’ responses.

· * From the scenario, prioritize the attributes of Golds Reling’s brand from the brand map presented in the scenario according to the attributes that you believe would be most important to the new tablet’s target market. Provide support for your response.

Question 3

"Are You Sitting on a Million Dollar Idea?" Watch the video below and then respond to the questions that follow:

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Think about products that you would love to see revamped to meet your needs or a new product that has not yet been created.

· Create a video showing the product that you would like to see revamped. Describe the changes you would like to see.

· Suggest who the target market is for your new creation.

· Upload your video to the discussion thread using Kaltura. Note: Review the Kaltura tutorial "Student Video Assignment Submission", located in Week 5. You may use an iPad, cellphone, laptop, desktop, or traditional video recorder to record your discussion response.

· Click here to view the grading rubric for this discussion.

Video Segment Reference:

CBS Sunday Morning. (2014, March 23). Quirky, the mother of online invention [Video file]. Retrieved from  https://youtu.be/7PscV4X_X5g .

Question 4

"Pricing Products and Distribution Channels" Please respond to the following:

· * From the scenario, evaluate the capacity of the most common distribution channels available for the new product launch to provide consumers with easier access to the product. Speculate on the extent to which Golds Reling, Inc. could use each channel to meet profit goals. Choose the most beneficial distribution strategies, and suggest two (2) ways in which this selection could potentially affect consumer adoption of the new product. Provide a rationale for your response.

· Imagine that you are a manager at a brick and mortar store that has an online storefront as an additional source of revenue. The company has tasked you with creating ideas to improve logistics in order to increase profitability. Upload a short (one to two [1-2] minute) video using Kaltura to share your ideas. Review the Kaltura tutorial “Student Video Assignment Submission”, located in Week 6. You may use an iPad, cellphone, laptop, desktop, or traditional video recorder to record your discussion response. You may embed your video or include the link in the discussion board. Note: Your video must be professional and of academic quality.

Question 5

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"Managed Care Contracting and Ratio Analysis"

· * From the scenario, interpret the operating indicators used to analyze the financial performance of the organization. Indicate specific ways in which this information will help management improve the performance of the organization. Provide support for your rationale. 

· Assume that you are a hospital administrator, and one of your responsibilities is selecting financial ratios to be included on your management dashboard. Determine the two (2) most critical financial ratios for you to monitor at your facility, and indicate how each of these ratios would help you assess the current performance of your facility. Provide support for your rationale.

Question 6

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"Using Ratios as Performance Indicators and Inflation and Health Care Costs"  

· Suggest one (1) key financial ratio that a health care administrator should create a trend analysis for. Suggest one (1) key insight that may be gained by the administrator in regard to the performance of the organization. Provide support for your rationale. 

· Use the Internet or Strayer databases to research the current and projected inflation rates and the related impact expected on health care costs. Next, assess the level of importance of one (1) key driver of the inflation of health care costs. Indicate how this inflation can be managed strategically in the future to minimize the financial impact. Provide support for your rationale.