HSA525 – Assignment 1: SWOT Analysis Assignment 1: SWOT Analysis    Due Week 3 and worth 200 points    What is a SWOT analysis? The SWOT is an organizational performance tool used to conduct a situation analysis. The acronym SWOT stands for the following factors:   Strengths – internal factors that leverage organizational performance   Weaknesses – internal factors that will affect the health care organization (cost, quality, etc.)   Opportunities – external factors that improve initiatives for the organization   Threats – external factors that could negatively affect organizational performance   The SWOT analysis should match the organization’s resources and capabilities to the competitive environment in which it operates. The analysis should help guide the organization’s formulation and selection of strategy. The SWOT analysis framework is often represented in a 2 x 2 matrix. (See template below.) Strengths and weaknesses are internal to the company and can be directly managed by it, while opportunities and threats are external (meaning the company can only anticipate and react to them).   Using the health care companies selected in Week 1, create a slide presentation with no more than 12 slides (with bullets) and note pages that include the following (Note: Use the bullets below to help you structure your presentation):    The first slides should introduce your companies and why you chose them.   Include your completed SWOT diagrams (one for each company).    Include a comparison of each company’s SWOT.    Identify a minimum of three factors that affect each firm’s environment. You must include the internal and external environments (e.g., resources, market, competitors, geographical, global) in each factor. Rate the top two concerns, based on your professional experience.       Assess and provide recommendations that will:   1. enhance the strengths,   2. minimize the weaknesses,   3. maximize the opportunities, and   4. overcome the threats.   HSA525 – Assignment 1: SWOT Analysis  Assume you are meeting with your internal or external stakeholders. Create a Stakeholders Recommendation in which you:     Summarize your SWOT analysis to the stakeholder selected.     Provide short-term recommendations.      Include two or more references to support your rationale.    Extra Credit (15 points): You may earn up to 15 points of extra credit for submitting a slide presentation that includes either a voice or video recording in which you present your SWOT analysis. (This is in addition to submitting original deliverable requirements.)     Strengths  Weaknesses      Opportunities  Threats      Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the presentation, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric.   Points: 200  Assignment 1: SWOT Analysis   Criteria   Unacceptable .

1. HSA525 – Assignment 1: SWOT Analysis
Assignment 1: SWOT Analysis
Due Week 3 and worth 200 points
What is a SWOT analysis? The SWOT is an organizational
performance tool used to conduct a
situation analysis. The acronym SWOT stands for the following
factors:
Strengths – internal factors that leverage organizational
performance
Weaknesses – internal factors that will affect the health care
organization (cost, quality,
etc.)
Opportunities – external factors that improve initiatives for the
organization
Threats – external factors that could negatively affect
organizational performance
The SWOT analysis should match the organization’s resources
and capabilities to the
competitive environment in which it operates. The analysis
should help guide the organization’s
formulation and selection of strategy. The SWOT analysis

2. framework is often represented in a 2
x 2 matrix. (See template below.) Strengths and weaknesses are
internal to the company and
can be directly managed by it, while opportunities and threats
are external (meaning the
company can only anticipate and react to them).
Using the health care companies selected in Week 1, create a
slide presentation with no more
than 12 slides (with bullets) and note pages that include the
following (Note: Use the bullets
below to help you structure your presentation):
chose them.
leted SWOT diagrams (one for each
company).
environment. You must
include the internal and external environments (e.g., resources,
market, competitors,
geographical, global) in each factor. Rate the top two concerns,
based on your
professional experience.
1. enhance the strengths,
2. minimize the weaknesses,
3. maximize the opportunities, and
4. overcome the threats.

3. HSA525 – Assignment 1: SWOT Analysis
stakeholders. Create a
Stakeholders Recommendation in which you:
analysis to the stakeholder selected.
-term recommendations.
Extra Credit (15 points): You may earn up to 15 points of extra
credit for submitting a slide
presentation that includes either a voice or video recording in
which you present your SWOT
analysis. (This is in addition to submitting original deliverable
requirements.)
Strengths Weaknesses
Opportunities Threats
Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality,
logic / organization of the
presentation, and language and writing skills, using the
following rubric.

4. Points: 200 Assignment 1: SWOT Analysis
Criteria Unacceptable
Below 70% F
Fair
70-79% C
Proficient
80-89% B
Exemplary
90-100% A
1. Introduce
your
companies and
what
specifically
drew you to
them.
Weight 10%
Did not submit or
did not introduce
companies.
Partially
introduced
companies and
what drew you
to them.

5. Satisfactorily
introduced
companies and
what drew you to
them.
Thoroughly
introduced
companies and
what drew you to
them.
HSA525 – Assignment 1: SWOT Analysis
2. Include
SWOT
diagrams.
Weight: 10%
Did not submit
SWOT diagrams
or submitted
incomplete
SWOT
diagrams.
Partially
completed the
SWOT
diagrams.

6. Satisfactorily
completed the
SWOT
diagrams.
Thoroughly
completed the
SWOT diagrams.
3. Include
SWOT
comparison.
Weight: 10%
Did not submit or
submitted
incomplete
SWOT
comparison.
Partially
completed the
SWOT
comparison.
Satisfactorily
completed the
SWOT
comparison.
Thoroughly
completed the
SWOT
comparison.

7. 4. Identify a
minimum of
five factors that
affect the firm’s
environment.
Weight: 15%
Did not submit or
incompletely
identified a
minimum of five
factors that affect
the firm’s
environment. Did
not submit or
incompletely
included the
internal and
external
environments in
each factor. Did
not or
incompletely
rated the top two
concerns based
on your
professional
experience.
Partially
identified a
minimum of five
factors that
affect the firm’s

8. environment.
Partially
included the
internal and
external
environments in
each factor.
Partially rated
the top two
concerns based
on your
professional
experience.
Satisfactorily
identified a
minimum of five
factors that affect
the firm’s
environment.
Satisfactorily
included the
internal and
external
environments in
each factor.
Satisfactorily
rated the top two
concerns based
on your
professional
experience.
Thoroughly
identified a
minimum of five

9. factors that affect
the firm’s
environment.
Thoroughly
included the
internal and
external
environments in
each factor.
Thoroughly rated
the top two
concerns based on
your professional
experience.
4. Assess and
provide
recommenda-
tions that will
enhance the
strengths,
minimize the
weaknesses,
maximize the
opportunities,
and overcome
the threats of
the
company.
Weight: 20%
Did not submit or
incompletely
assessed and
provided

10. recommenda-
tions that will
enhance the
strengths,
minimize the
weaknesses,
maximize the
opportunities,
and overcome
the threats of the
company.
Partially
assessed and
provided
recommenda-
tions that will
enhance the
strengths,
minimize the
weaknesses,
maximize the
opportunities,
and overcome
the threats of
the company.
Satisfactorily
assessed and
provided
recommenda-
tions that will
enhance the
strengths,
minimize the
weaknesses,

11. maximize the
opportunities,
and overcome
the threats of the
company.
Thoroughly
assessed and
provided
recommendations
that will enhance
the strengths,
minimize the
weaknesses,
maximize the
opportunities, and
overcome the
threats of the
company.
HSA525 – Assignment 1: SWOT Analysis
5. Create a
Stakeholders
Recommenda-
tion in which
you summarize
your SWOT
analysis to the
stakeholder
selected and

12. provide three
recommenda-
tions.
Weight: 20%
Did not submit or
incompletely
created a
Stakeholders
Recommendation
in which you
summarized your
SWOT analysis
to the
stakeholder
selected and did
not submit or
incompletely
provided three
recommenda-
tions.
Partially
created a
Stakeholders
Recommenda-
tion in which
you summarize
your SWOT
analysis to the
stakeholder
selected and
partially
provided three

13. recommenda-
tions.
Satisfactorily
created a
Stakeholders
Recommendation
in which you
summarize your
SWOT analysis
to the
stakeholder
selected and
satisfactorily
provided three
recommenda-
tions.
Thoroughly created
a Stakeholders
Recommendation in
which you
summarize your
SWOT analysis to
the stakeholder
selected and
thoroughly provided
three
recommendations.
6. Include two
or more
references.
Weight: 5%

14. Did not provide
references.
Did not meet
the required
number of
references;
some or all
references are
poor-quality
choices.
Met number of
required
references; all
references are
high-quality
choices.
Exceeded number
of required
references; all
references are
high-quality
choices.
7. Clarity,
writing
mechanics,
and formatting
requirements
Weight: 10%
More than six
errors in

15. mechanics
present. APA not
attempted.
Five to six
errors in
mechanics
present. APA
citation is
attempted but
not accurate.
Three to four
errors
present. APA is
mostly correct.
Zero to two errors
present. APA is
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ITS 832 CHAPTER 5
FROM BUILDING A MODEL TO ADAPTIVE ROBUST
DECISION MAKING USING SYSTEMS
MODELING
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY
DR. JORDON SHAW

16. INTRODUCTION
• Systems modeling
• Focus on decision making abilities
• Legacy System Dynamics (SD) modeling
• Recent innovations
• What the future holds
• Examples
SYSTEMS MODELING
• Dynamic complexity
• Behavior evolves over time
• Modeling methods
• System Dynamics(CD)
• Discrete Event Simulation(DES)
• Multi-actor Systems Modeling(MAS)
• Agent-based Modeling (ABM)
• Complex Adaptive Systems Modeling(CAS)
• Enhanced computing supports model based decision making
• Modeling and simulation has become interdisciplinary
• Operation research, policy analysis, data analytics, machine
learning, computer science
LEGACY SYSTEM DYNAMICS MODELING

17. • 1950s – Jay W. Forrester
• Primary characteristics
• Feedback effects – dependent on their own past
• Accumulation effects – building up intangibles
• Behavior of a system is explained
• Casual theory – model generates dynamic behavior
• Works well when
• Complex system responds to feedback and accumulation
RECENT INNOVATIONS
• Detailed list of individual innovations
• Deep uncertainty
• Analysts do not know or cannot agree on
• Model
• Probability distributions of key features
• Value of alternative outcomes
• Two primary evolutions
• Smarter methods (Data Science)
• Usability/accessibility advances
WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS
• Better models
• More data (“Big Data”)
• Social media

18. • Advanced capabilities for
• Hybrid modeling
• Simultaneous modeling
MODELING AND SIMULATION
EXAMPLES
• Assessing the Risk, and Monitoring, of New Infectious
Diseases
• Simple systems model with deep uncertainty
• Integrated Risk-Capability Analysis Under Deep Uncertainty
• System-of-systems approach
• Policing Under Deep Uncertainty
• Smart model-based decision support system
SUMMARY
• Modeling has long been used with complex systems
• Recent evolutions have advanced modeling
• Increase computing power
• Social media and Big data
• Sophisticated analytics
• Multi-method and hybrid approaches are now feasible
• Continued move into interdisciplinary study

19. • Advanced modeling for complex systems