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Scenario Healthy Dynamics have been around for 25 years and has a company-wide strategy in place, but the old strategy has proven to be ineffective of late in generating new ideas and revenue streams. The current plan provides wellness strategies for their clients and a commitment from the staff of Healthy Dynamics to deliver high quality, effective customer service and comprehensive wellness strategies. Currently Healthy Dynamics offer its clients the following wellness program components: smoking cessation, health risk assessment, biometric screening, nutrition education, cooking demonstration, and chronic disease prevention education. The company is considering either a merger or acquisition to prevent bankruptcy. Both options will result in layoffs, and your department will be affected with an anticipated 80% reduction in staff. You have been assigned to produce a strategic planning model to prevent either of these possibilities. Should Healthy Dynamics take a leap and dive into other healthcare services, such as medical equipment and digital health, or add new components to their wellness program offerings to make it more comprehensive for their clients? Your first steps are to figure out where you think the company should go (vision), what you are hoping to achieve (mission), and then identify how you will move forward (objectives). Instructions Compile a PowerPoint presentation using speaker notes and/or voiceover narration that includes: · A well-defined vision and mission statements that advances your winning idea to increase revenue for the future and drive business success · 3-4 Strategic Objectives (What action will you take to achieve the vision and mission?) · Follow the “Verb + Adjective + Noun” format · Create strategic objective statements. How will you achieve each objective “explaining the objective’s intent and meaning?” (2-3 sentences each) · A PowerPoint presenting a minimum of 5-6 slides (excluding title and reference slides) that include speaker notes and/or voiceover narration .

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your winning idea to increase revenue for the future and drive
business success
· 3-4 Strategic Objectives (What action will you take to achieve
the vision and mission?)
· Follow the “Verb + Adjective + Noun” format
· Create strategic objective statements. How will you achieve
each objective “explaining the objective’s intent and meaning?”
(2-3 sentences each)
· A PowerPoint presenting a minimum of 5-6 slides (excluding
title and reference slides) that include speaker notes and/or
voiceover narration

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Scenario: Danny is a 22-year-old college student, who has been brought into your office by his parents. Danny has agreed to let his parents be involved in his counseling. You first meet with Danny’s parents who explain to you that Danny has never been involved in counseling prior to this incident. They stated they felt his problems were not serious enough to bring him into counseling. His mother reports that Danny can be the real life of the party and that most people find him very charismatic. She says that there was one incident in which Danny tried to harm himself due to a girlfriend cheating on him. She said that her husband felt that it was a pretty typical response for an adolescent. She said lately he has been staying up late playing video games and getting on the average of 2-3 hours of sleep per night. She said she worries about his lack of sleep but he doesn’t seem to show any signs that the lack of sleep is impacting his ability to function normally. He is currently getting all A’s in his college courses, but his recent incident has jeopardized his place at the university. Danny comes into the office and explains to you that the whole incident is a big misunderstanding. He said to you that he doesn’t want to come to counseling because he is not crazy. He said his parents and the college administrators are requiring that he comes in for evaluation and commits to the recommendations of the counselor regarding if there is a need for therapy. You ask him to tell you a little bit about the incident that caused him to come into your office. He explains to you that he really likes fast cars, but his parents don’t have a lot of money. He said he received a scholarship to a private university due to his outstanding grades. He said the only problem is that the other kids have a lot of money and can afford the items that he desperately wants but can’t afford. He said he saw another student leave his car running in the parking lot and went into the student center building. He said he was feeling like he was on top of the world and this was his golden opportunity to take that car for a spin. He said he had no plans for stealing the car, he was merely taking it for a test drive. When Danny came back to the building, campus security was interviewing the owner of the car. When he tried to explain to the other student and campus security he was taking it for a quick test drive, he was escorted into the building to talk to the administration. Since it’s a small private university, the student and administrators agreed not to press charges but he was placed on probation and had to commit to psych evaluation as well as following any recommendations made regarding therapy. When you were speaking to Danny, you asked him if he was really trying to steal the car. He replies to you how dumb would he be to take the car back to the scene of the crime if he really had intended to steal the car. Then you ask him if he ever feels depressed. He says of .

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Scenario Due to the Always Fresh expansion, management wants additional network controls to protect their growing network. Tasks Consider the Windows servers and workstations in the domains of a typical IT infrastructure. Based on your understanding of network security controls, recommend at least four possible controls that will enhance the network’s security. Focus on ensuring that controls satisfy the defense in depth approach to security. Summarize your network security controls in a summary report to management. You must provide rationale for your choices by explaining how each control makes the environment more secure. Required Resources ▪ Internet access ▪ Course textbook Submission Requirements ▪ Format: Microsoft Word (or compatible) ▪ Font: Arial, size 12, double-space ▪ Citation Style: Follow your school’s preferred style guide ▪ Length: 2 to 4 pages Self-Assessment Checklist ▪ I selected appropriate network security controls for the Always Fresh network environment. ▪ I provided rationale for my choices by explaining how each control makes the environment more secure. ▪ I created a well-developed and formatted summary report with proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation. ▪ I followed the submission guidelines. .

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Scenario Colonel Pat Bacon is the newly-appointed director of the department of state police. She has only been on the job 1 week when she receives reports of questionable conduct by some of her officer employees. When she looks into the matter, she discovers a culture of noble cause corruption , including the following three major ethical lapses: Planting of evidence Lying in court Falsifying police reports. The police officers justified their conduct by saying that they were convicting dangerous suspects. Write a memorandum from Colonel Bacon to her employees. The memo should be crafted as if it really was written from the Colonel to her employees as an internal-office memo, but the memo should also, for the sake of the Assignment and its educational value, cite sources properly in APA format. The memo from Colonel to her employees must address the following issues: Define noble cause corruption . Identify at least three critical points at which her officers make ethically-informed (if questionable) decisions. Analyze the possible ethical breaches involved in this scenario in the context of what you learned about noble cause corruption. Compare and contrast possible alternative responses to each ethical dilemma. (What is an alternative, for example, to planting evidence?) Clearly set forth the Colonel’s expectations for ethically-sound conduct by her employees. .

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Scenario Changing access controls can have some undesirable effects. Therefore, it is important to carefully consider changes before making them and provide mechanisms to reverse changes if they have unexpected consequences. The organization's management has asked you and your team for developing procedures for changing any access controls. The purpose of these procedures is to ensure that staff: § Understand and document the purpose of each access control change request § Know what access controls were in place before any changes § Get an approval of change by management § Understand the scope of the change, both with respect to users, computers, and objects § Have evaluated the expected impact of the change § Know how to evaluate whether the change meets the goals § Understand how to undo any change if necessary Tasks Create a guide that security personnel will use that includes procedures for implementing an access control change. The procedure guide must contain the steps Always Fresh security personnel should take to evaluate and implement an access control change. You can assume any change requests you receive are approved. Ensure that your procedures include the following: § Status or setting prior to any change § Reason for the change § Change to implement § Scope of the change § Impact of the change § Status or setting after the change § Process to evaluate the change APA format - minimum 2 resources 2-3 pages Times New Roman - 12pt Double spaced Attached is the textbook - Covering Chapter 3 & 4 .

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