Strategic Plan: Implementation Plan, Strategic Controls, and Contingency

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Write a 1,400-word minimum strategic implementation plan in which you include the following:

• Create an implementation plan including:
  • Objectives
  • Functional tactics
  • Action items
  • Milestones and deadlines
  • Tasks and task ownership
  • Resource allocation
• Recommend any organizational change management strategies that may enhance successful implementation.
• Develop key success factors, budget, and forecasted financials, including a break-even chart.
• Create a risk management plan including contingency plans for the identified risks.

Format your paper according to APA guidelines.

Assignment 1: LASA 2: Generating a Policy Proposal

Although some states and cities have passed laws to ban texting and using handheld phones while driving, there is no current law to ban all cell phone use while driving. However, according to the National Safety Council (2009), 28 percent of all crashes—1.6 million per year—are caused by cell phone use and texting by drivers. The mission of a new national nonprofit organization called FocusDriven, patterned after Mothers Against Drunk Driving, is to make phone use while driving as illegal and socially unacceptable as drunk driving. US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood supports FocusDriven and its efforts: According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,LaHood said this movement will become “an army of people traveling the countryside” to push for bans on cell phone use and tough enforcement (Schmit, 2010).

As a political advocate interested in this issue, you will be writing a policy proposal that utilizes the current research to propose a solution to the issue and submit it in this assignment.

Please note that your proposal is not an opinion/position paper, and your conclusions need to be based on the scientific research you reviewed earlier. Please follow the typical steps in proper academic writing (planning, outlining, drafting, revising, proofing, and editing) to generate the following proposal structure:

Introduction

In the introduction, you should set up the purpose for the proposal, provide a bit of background on the topic, and present your thesis.

Policy

Now that you have researched a variety of studies (in M4: Assignment 2), compile that information together to create a recommendation for policy makers regarding cell phone use while driving.

1: In a one-page summary, compare and contrast the results of the various studies regarding the cognitive abilities that are affected during cell phone use while driving.

2: Using that research, develop and explain particular recommendations for policy makers. For instance, restrict texting, or regulate the use of hand-held phones. All your recommendations must be supported by your research findings.

3: Based on the gaps in current research, describe the variables, populations, and situations which you would like to see future research address.

Conclusion

Review the important current research, your conclusions from that research, and how the future could look in both policy and research. Keep your goal in mind: To convince the reader to support your current policy proposal and future research to examine this issue more closely.

Your proposal should be written in APA style (which includes a title page with running header and a reference page), and free of typographical and grammatical errors. The body of your proposal should be 3-4 pages long.

Select a company that interests you (which may be the company where you aspire to work) and search for information on this firm in our excellent library resources and on the Internet. After acquiring information about this company, its products and services, customers, and competitors, write down five different types of decisions that you believe this company’s leadership has made within the last two years (for example, open new stores, start offering coupons, etc.).

For each decision, list:

• Information the company’s executives would have needed in order to make these decisions
• How this information could have been collected
• From which sources this information could have been collected

Your assignment should be a paper 2-3 pages long, not including the required title and reference pages. Adhere to the CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA Requirements. Include at least three scholarly sources (you may use the recommended readings) to support your answers. The CSU-Global Library is a good place to find these sources. Remember to use in-text citations as appropriate and to include your sources in your reference page.

Important Note: I would like to work for the University of Kentucky in the marketing department!

The paper is to present briefly the basic aims of this policy to describe its evolution and to touch upon the contemporary challenges faced by it.

It should have around 3 000 words minimum – 3 500 words maximum (excluding references and bibliography) and must have the form of a scholarly paper.

Plagiarism: be aware that anything copied without quotation marks and references is treated as plagiarism. Paper with no reference will be rejected.

Requirements relating to a scholarly paper, such as providing evidence that supports your theses, statements and claims, as well as proper referencing. Bibliography should have a sufficient number of academic sources (at least 20)

Editing rules: title page; font, Times New Roman 12; margins, 2,5 cm; double space between verses; italics for book/periodical titles; single quotation marks, etc. The paper must be logically structured (introduction; the main body subdivided into paragraphs; conclusions) and meet the minimum language standards.

IR Essay Writing Standard

Write your own haiku! Check out links to better understand the haiku format. Be sure to incorporate the two necessary elements: combine nature with an “aha!” moment/realization. Check
out the Haiku links, hits, and hints before you attempt to write your
own haiku. Students are not expected to rigidly keep to the 17 syllable
format; however, students are not to exceed 17 syllables! If you have knowledge of haiku, it is not necessary to read the entire link. This is a discussion board, no specified length was posted by the instructor. The writing should be solid in its content.

1.  Read:
http://www.hsa-haiku.org/archives/HSA_Definitions_2004.html

2. DB#5.pdf – Documentation