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Demand Concepts
Discussion 1 Questions:
Opportunity Costs
What do economist

 
Demand Concepts
Discussion 1 Questions:
Opportunity Costs
What do economists mean by “opportunity cost?”  What are your opportunity costs in taking this course?
Demand v. Quantity Demanded
What is the difference between a decline in the quantity demanded and a decline in demand? Give an example of something that you now buy less of. Is it an example of a decline in the quantity you demand or a decline in your demand?
Behavioral Economics
Traditional economic theory makes a number of simplifying assumptions that may not always be true, e.g., that people always make rational decisions that are in their own best interest. In recent years, a new subdiscipline of economics has emerged called behavioral economics that attempts to employ a more realistic set of assumptions about how people behave to explain economic decision-making. 
Based on information in this link (Behavioral Economics For Dummies Cheat Sheet), present two examples from your own experience that illustrate principles of behavioral economics.
Further reading for those with an interest:
Ariely, Dan. 2009. The End of Rational Economics. Harvard Business Review, Jul-Aug.
Connick, Hal. 2018. Read this Story to Learn How Behavioral Economics Can Improve Marketing. Marketing News. Jan.
Discussion 2 
 
Plagiarism (Exploratory)
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 Description
The retail store has experienced significant growth in the recent

 Description
The retail store has experienced significant growth in the recent months. The customers have expressed an interest in being able to purchase the retail store’s products electronically. Currently, the retail store has a simple Web site, but it is not clear that the system can support dynamic interaction on the Web site or online purchases. The main database system that is used in the physical store has not been working correctly, however, and this is an issue. The retail store wants to be able to eventually integrate an online database system with the current order entry system that is used to support sales made in the local store. The retail store also needs the database system to enforce the rules that have been established for their business practices. What can be done to support the goals and objectives for meeting the needs of their customers?
Review these examples to help you with this assignment.
It is assumed that Microsoft SQL Server Express Edition (with management tools) was chosen as the database platform. It can be downloaded for free at this Web site.
You have been asked to develop a solution in the form of a Database System Development Plan for your retail store using the following format:
Database System Development and Implementation Plan

Use Microsoft Word
Title page

Course number and name
Project name
Your name
Date

Table of contents (TOC)

Use auto-generated TOC
Maximum of 3 levels deep
Be sure to update the fields of the TOC so it is up-to-date before submitting your project.

Section headings (create each heading on a new page with TBD as content except for sections listed under new content below)

Each week, you will add a section to this Database System Development and Implementation Plan and submit it for grading. As a preview, each section will contain the following:
Database System Overview (Week 1 IP)
Entity Relationship Model (Week 2 IP)
Structured Query Language (SQL) Scripts (Week 3 IP)
Database Administration Plan (Week 4 IP)
Future Database System Implementation Plan (Week 5 IP)
Database System Overview (4–5 pages)
The project deliverables are as follows:
Describe the general business environment for the case study organization.
Include a database system goals and objectives statement.
Include a narrative that discusses how the proposed database system addresses the presenting business problem(s).
Include a narrative that demonstrates how the proposed system aligns to the mission statement and strategic goals of the organization.
Identify the mission and goals of the case study retail store, and provide your analysis as to how this part of the project fulfills the mission and/or goals of the case study organization.
All sources should be cited both in-text and in references using APA format.
Name the document “yourname_CS660_IP1.doc.”
Submit the document for grading.
Reference:
Microsoft (2023). Industry-leading Performance and Security with SQL Server 2019. www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-2019

 Description: MUST REVIEW CASE SCENARIO BELOW TO COMPLETE ASSIGNMENT 
Problem-b

 Description: MUST REVIEW CASE SCENARIO BELOW TO COMPLETE ASSIGNMENT 
Problem-based learning (PBL) is broken down into three phases: understanding the problem, exploring the available information, and resolving the problem. Each phase includes a series of steps, as follows:
Understand the problem.

Meet the problem: Orient yourself to the problem.
Determine what is known and what needs to be known or discovered.
Define the problem statement: What exactly is the problem?

Explore the available information.

Collect information from a variety of sources.
Share and document information from discovery.
Generate possible solutions for comparison and consideration.

Resolve the problem.

Determine the solution that best fits.
Present and justify the solution.
Debrief the problem with a conclusion and the lessons that you learned.

Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas:
Review the Course Scenario for this course. This will be the basis for this discussion and for your future assignments for the course. Please first analyze this scenario and specific information about the retail store, and then discuss the following questions:
What are the specific mission and related goals for the retail store?
What critical success factors need to be considered throughout this project?
What ideas do you have for determining the quantitative and qualitative variables needed for measuring success?
What specific steps need to be followed to ensure that the proposed solution addresses the mission and goals of the retail store?

Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400–600 words th

Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions (listed below) with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas:
Before you start this assignment, please read the story titled Sporting Goods Store Reporting. This can be found in the Relational Database Languages M.U.S.E for Unit 3 or at this direct link: Sporting Goods Store Reporting.
After reviewing the story, conduct research online into the various possibilities for analyzing and approaching the system documentation problems presented and propose possible solutions. Address the following:
Discuss the specific problems that the story has demonstrated and your recommendations how the problems can be resolved based on your personal experience and research.
Discuss why the database technology can be used to facilitate problem-solving in this case with specific examples.
How can you apply the lessons that you learned from the story to your own retail store problem?

 Description – Add to Unit 1 IP  see attached outlined – This is Week 2 IP
 Del

 Description – Add to Unit 1 IP  see attached outlined – This is Week 2 IP
 Deliverable Length: Word document of 4–5 pages (excluding references and cover page) 
The retail store has provided you with a list of some of the business rules that they use to conduct business on a daily basis. The company has also provided you with the subjects of interest to them, namely those things that the company wants to track in the process of taking orders from their customers. What can be done to effectively document the relational database system solution that you are proposing to the retail store?
Review these worked examples.
The project deliverables are as follows:
Subjects of Interest (proposed entities)

Customers
Orders
Products
Add a minimum of 3 of your own subjects of interest based on your retail store.

Business Rules

Each product is assigned to a maximum of 1 category.
A person who has placed at least 1 order is a customer.
All products have a minimum reorder level.
Add a minimum of 3 of your own business rules based on your retail store.

Entity–Relationship Model (4–5 pages)

Include a list of the business rules that will be enforced by the proposed database system.
Include a list or table of the entities, attributes (including data types), relationships, and cardinality constraints.
Include an entity–relationship (E–R) diagram that uses crow’s foot notation and graphically depicts the entities, attributes (including data types), and relationships (including degree and cardinality constraints).
Verify that the data design that is depicted in the E–R diagram adheres to a minimum of third normal form (3NF), and if necessary, provide documentation and justification for the use of a higher level of normal form.

Provide your analysis as to how this part of the project fulfills the mission and 1 or more goals of the case study organization.

Note: Use Microsoft Visio or equivalent to create the E–R diagram. You will embed the diagram in the Word document and also provide it as an attachment.
All sources should be cited both in-text and in References using APA format.
Name the document “yourname_CS660_IP2.doc.”

 The discussion assignment for this week includes a review of the Key Assignmen

 The discussion assignment for this week includes a review of the Key Assignment outline completed by one of your classmates, as well as a substantial response to at least 1 other student. (See attached file)
Primary Task Response: The discussion assignment for this week will be a review of the Key Assignment Draft from other students. Your first task is to post your draft to the discussion area so that other students will be able to review your work. Attach your document to your main discussion post with the subject “Project Rationale,” and include a paragraph of 3–4 sentences describing your rationale for approaching your project problem and how you did the research to determine what type of database system to use. Include any additional notes that you feel are appropriate in the post. You are not being graded on your Key Assignment draft at this point. The purpose of this assignment is to help improve the quality of your Key Assignment.

 
Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400–600 words

 
Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions (listed below) with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas:
Before you start this assignment, please read the story entitled At-Home Health Aides Database. This can be found in the Relational Database Modeling M.U.S.E. for Unit 2 or at this direct link: Home Health Aides Database.
After reviewing the story, conduct research online into the various possibilities for analyzing and approaching the system documentation problems that are presented, and propose possible solutions. Address the following:
Discuss the specific problems that the story has demonstrated and your recommendations how the problems can be resolved based on your personal experience and research.
Discuss why the database technology can be used to facilitate problem solving in this case with specific examples.
How can you apply the lessons that you learned from the story to your own retail store problem?

Part 1
 Becoming Familiar with PARC 
 
we are exploring the concepts of proximi

Part 1
 Becoming Familiar with PARC 
 
we are exploring the concepts of proximity, alignment, repetition, and contrast (PARC).
Please watch the following four brief video lectures on the PARC concepts:

Proximity (https://app.screencast.com/a3VE0Urm0txEL)

Alignment(https://app.screencast.com/e0p0ZaewDwb6T)

Repetition(https://app.screencast.com/jnVhaCcdDD4Dk)

Contrast(https://app.screencast.com/ymvCJgIEs9hN4)
For this discussion topic, please complete the following:
Examine the website for the James Bond 007 museum: http://www.007museum.com/
Write a brief paragraph in which you analyze the website’s application of proximity, of alignment, of repetition, and of contrast.
Part 2
 Library Exercises 
 
The following task is designed to help you become familiar with UMGC’s Information and Library Services OneSearch interface. Completing these exercises will help you get started on developing a topic for the report to the supervisor.
Please watch the following video tutorials:
library tutorial #1
library tutorial #2 on the use of the asterisk
Assume you work as an intern for the dean’s office in a business school that offers an MBA (Masters in Business Administration) degree.
Your supervisor has asked you to conduct research on the use of AI tools in classes in business schools.  Your business school wants to remain competitive with other business schools, and your supervisor has heard that other business schools are incorporating AI tools, such as ChatGPT, into their curricula.
The instructions you have been given by your supervisor are quite broad. But let us assume that this is the directive you have been given.
For this reason, you will conduct a very general search on the use of AI tools in business schools. You are not quite sure how to focus the topic, but you know that you would like to pursue this general topic and focus it later.
Using the strategies discussed in library tutorial #1, search on some terms and find four articles on this topic.  Your search can be quite broad at this stage.  Try to use some search phrases that require that you use quotation marks, as the video demonstrates.
Please write the search terms you used. In addition, please write the titles of the four articles and the journals in which they appeared.  You don’t have to cite anything in APA format, or anything of that nature.  Just post the article and the journal titles.
Then, applying the tips in library tutorial #1, focus your search from question #1 by using the Subject option..
How many search results do you find after limiting the search by using Subject option?
Revert back from the Subject option to the Any Field option (as the video demonstrates).
Then, using the strategies discussed in library tutorial #2 on the use of the asterisk, conduct the same search, but this time use one of your terms and place an asterisk next to a form of the term in order to search on all forms of that term.
What term did you search on with the asterisk?
How many search results do you get?
Choose one article you found in this entire exercise. List it in APA format as if it were a reference for a paper you are writing.
video links
https://leocontent.umgc.edu/content/umuc/tus/wrtg/wrtg393/2248/library-tutorial–1.html
https://leocontent.umgc.edu/content/umuc/tus/wrtg/wrtg393/2248/library-tutorial–2-on-the-use-of-the-asterisk.html

Your task is to analyze the case titled “Maybank: Organisational Transformation

Your task is to analyze the case titled “Maybank: Organisational Transformation through Human Resources.”  Please use “The Student Guide to the Case Method” to perform this analysis. This is supposed to be an analysis, not a summary of the case. It should analyze: What is the background of the company? What is the problem they are facing? What are potential solutions? Which is the best solution and why?Your are expected to adhere to the following:
Apply research in your analysis using at least two published sources for each of Steps B – D.
Use APA format, 12-pt font, Times new Roman.
Paper should be around 8-10 pages double-spaced including title and Bibliography
Create a title page with your name, course number and name, and date submitted.
Append a Bibliography page for the cited research.
Use major headings that coincide with the steps outlined in Section 4 of “The Student Guide….”
Apply sub-headings sparingly and for further structuring as necessary.
Submit your document in Word format only, please.
No plagiarism

 
The first two writing assignments for the class are as follows:
WA1: three

 
The first two writing assignments for the class are as follows:
WA1: three personas for WA2
WA2: a set of instructions on how to complete a task on a website
The following link takes you to a sample paper for writing assignment #1:
WA1: Sample WA1 – personas for Banana Blossom
The following link takes you to a sample paper for writing assignment #2:
WA2: Sample WA2 – set of instructions for ordering online from Banana Blossom.
Read through the assignment instructions for WA1 And WA2.
Read through the two sample papers.
Watch the video that reviews both sample assignments.
Answer the following questions:
For each persona in the sample paper for WA1, please point out at least one pain point or unique situation.
Select one of the personas in the sample paper for WA1. How do the instructions in the sample paper for WA2 accommodate that persona?
What website are you considering for WA2? In addition, what task will you write instructions for on this website?
 
The first writing assignment for the class is to write three personas as you prepare for writing assignment #2.
For discussion topic 1, you read through the assignment instructions for WA1 And WA2. In addition, you read through the two sample papers.
For this discussion topic, please post a draft of one of your personas.  Your draft does not have to be 120 words in length, as the assignment instructions require.  However, your draft should include the following:
the persona’s name, occupation, location, and age.
the url of the website on which you will write the set of instructions for writing assignment #2
a unique situation or pain point that the persona will experience. This has to be a unique situation or pain point that your set of instructions will help the persona overcome.