Deactivated Kelie Hein  3 posts Re:Topic 1 DQ 1 Two GCU library scholarly databases that will help me find the best research articles for my proposal are two databases that I appreciate, and currently use often: CINAHL Complete and PubMed.  I like CINAHL Complete because it is quite specific to nursing.  It also provides many full text articles free of charge, which is unfortunately not that common.  Some databases provide only abstracts, and some require one to purchase the article (which can be 50 dollars!).  I like PubMed because it has a wide array of health science articles that are peer-reviewed, but often have language that is easier to understand.  PubMed is also quite user friendly. These two databases are better than Google Scholar and/or a general internet search, for several reasons.  While Google Scholar provides scholarly articles, it can sometimes be difficult to limit the search.  Inexperienced users an easily become overwhelmed with the amount of data the search returns.  A general internet search is not only daunting in terms of qualified research, but can be dangerous as well: Wikipedia sources, the evil of internet research, are often returned with general internet searches.  Anyone can post on Wikipedia (and the internet in general).  Scholarly databases are the safe way to go: safe for the researcher, and safe for the patients under the researcher’s 1 3 Strategies That Facilitate Influencing Power AcelRx Pharmaceuticals Inc Company STRATEGIES THAT FACILITATE INFLUENCING POWER Acel Rx Pharmaceuticals Inc. has always provided quality service to its clients but the adoption of an online drugstore is a project that could make the services even better. However, various measures have to be put into place to facilitate the success of the project. Strategies to Adapt Organizational Change To adopt the online marketing and networking with customers then the Acel Rx Pharmaceuticals Inc. has to undergo some organizational change. Though the internet is the Internet could enable profound changes in the nature and structure of the healthcare industry and, ultimately, the delivery of healthcare services its adaptions should be strategic. First, there is need to carry out the change in phases with the start-up phase being clarifying the expectations and roles, assessing readiness, contracts and getting buy-in. In this phase is usually where the relationship between you (the initial change agent) and your client starts, whether you are an external or internal consultant. This means that Acel has to establish who its clients actually are, define the project conduct field research on the opinions of the customers after which they have to make the customers feel the problem at hand and the need to adopt this new technology which is aimed at making things better. It is important that the change agent should have good communication skills both verbal and non-verbal and a good listener. Second in line is a jo.

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Kelie Hein
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Re:Topic 1 DQ 1
Two GCU library scholarly databases that will help me find the
best research articles for my proposal are two databases that I
appreciate, and currently use often: CINAHL Complete and
PubMed. I like CINAHL Complete because it is quite specific
to nursing. It also provides many full text articles free of
charge, which is unfortunately not that common. Some
databases provide only abstracts, and some require one to
purchase the article (which can be 50 dollars!). I like PubMed
because it has a wide array of health science articles that are
peer-reviewed, but often have language that is easier to
understand. PubMed is also quite user friendly.
These two databases are better than Google Scholar and/or a
general internet search, for several reasons. While Google
Scholar provides scholarly articles, it can sometimes be
difficult to limit the search. Inexperienced users an easily
become overwhelmed with the amount of data the search
returns. A general internet search is not only daunting in terms
of qualified research, but can be dangerous as well: Wikipedia
sources, the evil of internet research, are often returned with
general internet searches. Anyone can post on Wikipedia (and
the internet in general). Scholarly databases are the safe way to
go: safe for the researcher, and safe for the patients under the
researcher’s
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2. Strategies That Facilitate Influencing Power
AcelRx Pharmaceuticals Inc Company
STRATEGIES THAT FACILITATE INFLUENCING POWER
Acel Rx Pharmaceuticals Inc. has always provided quality
service to its clients but the adoption of an online drugstore is a
project that could make the services even better. However,
various measures have to be put into place to facilitate the
success of the project.
Strategies to Adapt Organizational Change
To adopt the online marketing and networking with customers
then the Acel Rx Pharmaceuticals Inc. has to undergo some
organizational change. Though the internet is the Internet could
enable profound changes in the nature and structure of the
healthcare industry and, ultimately, the delivery of healthcare
services its adaptions should be strategic. First, there is need to

3. carry out the change in phases with the start-up phase being
clarifying the expectations and roles, assessing readiness,
contracts and getting buy-in. In this phase is usually where the
relationship between you (the initial change agent) and your
client starts, whether you are an external or internal consultant.
This means that Acel has to establish who its clients actually
are, define the project conduct field research on the opinions of
the customers after which they have to make the customers feel
the problem at hand and the need to adopt this new technology
which is aimed at making things better. It is important that the
change agent should have good communication skills both
verbal and non-verbal and a good listener.
Second in line is a joint discovery to identify priorities for
change. The more collaborative the change agent is in working
with the clients of the organization the more likely that the
change will be successfully adapted. This means active
involvement of clients in data collection, analysis, and
recommendation making processes (Rozman, Draghici, and Riel,
2017). This will help connect with the patients easier since the
organization will have a proper understanding of this patient
and the minute challenges that are faced.
Thirdly is to involve the clients in organizational development
activities to address the priorities in order to adopt internet
putting into consideration all the challenges that will come
alongside the change from the manual system to the digital
system. Being on par with the clients who are the most affected
by the planned shift is an advantage.
Communication Strategy
The success of any project is dependent on how information
traverses from one stakeholder to the other. It will be necessary
to employ the following communication channels. Hallway
discussions, Bathroom discussions – these conferences are vast
for one on one communication, but also are clear and do not
establish false expectations with casual comments dropped.
Lunch conferences, drink at the bar after works provide casual
environments that can be great for connecting, getting feedback,

4. ideas, and work to build support. Sporting events such as
tennis, golf, etc. are an easy forum to get the input on what
support exists, feedback on ideas, maintain inspiration to
support your communication and build stakeholder support
(Howard, 2015). Voicemail is frequently underutilized as email
is so ordinary but still exposed to be additional frequently
listened to than an email will be read. By using voice inflection
for animation, necessity, etc. it can be more compelling. This
can be a solo voice mail, voice mails transmit to great group or
you could follow the use of automatic vocation to get the word
out depending on the dimension of the audience.
Grapevines within an institution are very important and should
be enhanced among members without victimization. This is the
only way the managerial team implementing this project will be
able to know what the existing workers in Acel feel about the
idea of adapting the internet and networking.
Motivational Strategy
Rewards and incentives always increase the morale of various
parties in an organization. It would be efficient for Acel to
inform the clients that there will be rewards for the retailers
with the highest sells. Also, it would also work to the success of
the project to reward the patients who invite more patients to
use the online drugstore. This incentive could be earning a
discount or non-monetary rewards like a pack of the drugs.
Control Strategy/Project Evaluation
Constant evaluation of the project to ensure that the project
attains its technical performance, schedule and cost objectives
is necessary. Therefore a team has to be chosen to evaluate the
project before it starts, also to ensure constant oversight of the
ongoing project in case of issues like website technicalities,
hacking of the system or complexities in using this new system
and act accordingly. The team should keep proper records to
ensure an exact match of the budgets.
Project Scheduling
Time and meeting the deadline for the implementation time of
the project is necessary. Therefore the managerial team in Acel

5. will have to do backward planning categorizing the parallel
tasks, the predecessor tasks, and dependent tasks while
assessing time durations that should include slack time.
Creating traffic for the website may pose a challenge in terms of
numbers, therefore, to avoid inconveniences time cater for
delays. Strict adherence to the critical path from the
introduction to the public launching of the website should be
noted.
Types of Tasks
Tasks
Duration
Predecessor tasks
Setting up the database of the organization.
Training the staff
Identification of qualified retailers
Control tests between the retailer and a population
First 12 months
Month 12-18
Dependent tasks
Training the staff
Identification of qualified retailers
Month 6
Month 6-12
Parallel tasks
Acclimatization of staff and retailer to the system as well as
monitoring of the database
Month 12-18
The slack time is included in the given durations
Budget Control
Budgeting is also very important with empirical evidence of
good results from the companies that incorporated proper
budgets in their projects. A budget is important if it is timely

6. .the managerial team has to conduct regular evaluations of the
budget based on the actual costs, cost variance earned value,
planned value then after completing a check is to be done on
return on investment and this should include random revisits.
Additionally, as the project goes on the managerial team has to
consult the stakeholders on what the feel.
Input and Output Quality
Any economically feasible project ensures that the amount of
output per unit input generates several units of profits even
after catering for variable and constants costs. In this case, the
web designs and labor should be proportional to the profit that
the project will earn. The output quality should match the
shareholder's expectations and the managerial team should work
hard towards the quality output (Hitchcock and Willard, 2009).
Not only does the quality of output determine the financial
stability of the firm but also can build or destroy the market for
the products based on reputation. This will be achieved by
constant monitoring of the website, continuous improvements
on the gaps of the new system, customer feedbacks, and mistake
proofing.
Change Management Strategy
Only a fool would do the same thing again using the same
method and of course the in the similar means and anticipate
dissimilar outcomes. There are four main features of change
management in every institution: dissatisfaction in the results, a
vision, strategies to implement the change and the resistance to
the change. The best strategies to employ are as follows:
familiarize the workers with change, the use of internet and they
can state the efficiency and the flaws that need to be addressed.
This will enable to know what attitude they hold for the online
drugstore idea. Then, there is need to communicate with the
employees who are the facilitators of the project and show the
urgency for making the online marketing and services. Since all
parties may not share the same interest then there is need to
choose a team of the employees who are interested and obligate
them to enhance teamwork. There is the possibility of resistance

7. and since every party is important problem solving and the
management team should be able to set aside ways to deal with
risks and inconveniences as well as impromptu situations.
Additionally, there is need to take care of the emotional,
political or any other issue come up. The managerial team could
also create short video clips to demonstrate how to use the
website in making orders or any service.
Scope Management
The managerial team for the implementation of the project
should come up with a clear-cut outline of the tasks that each
individual has to perform in order to facilitate the success of the
project (Swayne, Duncan and Ginter, 2012). Then scheming
and checking processes while focusing on documenting
tracking, scope creeps, tracking, and disapproving/approving
project changes. Lastly, an audit of the project deliverables and
an assessment of the outcomes of the original plan should be
done.
The success of any project is the goal of the managerial team
and the company as well. However, it does not come on a silver
platter there is need to involve all stakeholders and not just
involving but getting them to participate in the implementation.
The success of a project depends also on the ability to monitor
the project, strict adherence to time and budgets. With all this
put into consideration, the online drugstore by Acel will be a
viable force in the pharmaceuticals industry.

8. References
Hitchcock, D. E., & Willard, M. L. (2009). The business guide
to sustainability: Practical strategies and tools for
organizations. London, England: Earthscan.
Howard, B. (2015). We-commerce: How to create, collaborate,
and succeed in the sharing economy.
Rozman, T., Draghici, A., & Riel, A. (2017). Ensure growth
and sustainability of your business by integrating emerging
manage-ment approaches into company’s manage-ment
system.
Swayne, L. E., Duncan, W. J., & Ginter, P. M. (2012). Strategic
management. John Wiley & Sons.