Select an organization (NIKE) and based on publicly available information, complete a strategic assessment to include industry/competitive analysis. Identify, describe and evaluate the overall organization strategy and the functional strategies of marketing, management, (FINANCE), operations and technology.
What potential areas of diversity exist in healthcare?
2. How might you learn more about your local community and its unique needs? What are the barriers to meeting these unique needs? How can the barriers be overcome?
Consider the causes and effects in the following thesis statements. List a cause and effect for each one on your own sheet of paper.
•The growing childhood obesity epidemic is a result of technology.
•Much of the wildlife is dying because of the oil spill.
•The town continued programs that it could no longer afford, so it went bankrupt.
•More young people became politically active as use of the Internet spread throughout society.
•While many experts believed the rise in violence was due to the poor economy, it was really due to the summer-long heat wave.
EXERCISE 21
Write three cause-and-effect thesis statements of your own for each of the following five broad topics.
•Health and nutrition
•Sports
•Media
•Politics
•History
“Why Companies Must Close The Data Literacy Divide”. What metrics/data points are important in your field? How are you working on developing your own understanding of these metrics and deepening your data literacy? How do you think companies/institutions can develop this skill set in people?
The Last of Hanako
What kind of role was given to Hanak’o in her relationship with her male friends?
2. The narrator didn’t visit her after all. Why?
3. What is the theme of this story?
