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CDP (Business Model Hypotheses) and CDP (Customer Hypotheses)

Key Task #1: Chart out answers to each of these questions for your core product idea. Make a
table that summarizes each question and your answer to the question (a spreadsheet is fine).
Based your answers, please color-code your answers to identify the level of validation for your
answer to each question: GREEN – green means that you have compelling
quantitative/qualitative support for your answer from analyzing both the analogs and antilogs,
data from the early adopters and early majority, or industry experts, and you are willing to stake
your venture (i.e., your grade in this class) on the validity of this information. YELLOW – means
you have partial quantitative/qualitative support for your answer based on analogs, antilogs, from
early adopters/early majority, or from industry experts. RED — means that your answer is still a
SWAG. The Yellow and Red answers are going to be the basis of your hypotheses.
Problem:
• Who are your customer visionaries and where will you find them?
• What problems do these customers have?
• How aware are customers of the problem?
• What is the magnitude of this customer pain?
Solution:
• What are the key features/attributes of your product/service?
• What specific problems will these features/attributes solve?
• What is the minimum feature set (i.e., minimum viable product) that you can launch with
to reach the early adopters? Which features does the MVP leave out?
• What current solutions does the customer utilize now?
Customer Segments:
• Who are the different customer segments that will purchase/use your product/service?
• What market type are you entering into? New product in existing market? Re-defining/resegmenting
an existing market? Create a new market?
• What are the key attributes of the early adopters v. early majority in targeted customer
segments?
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Unique Value Proposition:
• What is the economic “value” of the pain your target customer segments are currently
experiencing (i.e., “what are the measurable, specific proposed results?”
• What is the economic, social, psychological, etc. value of the solution (set) to your
targeted customer segments you are offering?
• How would your customers justify purchasing this product or service (i.e., what is their
ROI?)?
• How does your price compare with the social, psychological, economic, etc. “value” of
the pain they are currently experiencing?
Key Task #2: The objective of Key Task #2 in the CDP is to validate the key assumptions and
areas of uncertainty (i.e., the yellow and red answers from the table you created) by making
contact with key early-adopters/product evangelists (i.e., customers).
• Step #1: Make a list of 10 specific “friendly” early-adopters (customers), innovators,
competitors, and industry experts that you can contact to present your hypotheses.
o The goal here is to identify “friendly” contacts who will give you honest feedback
on your ideas. You are not trying to sell them anything, but rather just validate
your key hypotheses and your overall vision. Also, you don’t formally present
your hypotheses to these customers, but rather you summarize your assumptions
and ideas, and get their feedback. (Play the student card)
• Step #2: Develop a mode of contact and a semi-scripted interview script for contacting
for these friendly customers/places where you can effectively solicit feedback on your
hypotheses.
o In developing your script, please make special note of the information you are
looking for and how specific answers might inform your hypotheses allowing you
to move the hypotheses from yellow and red to green.
(STOP HERE FOR CDP #1)
• Step #3: Make contact with as many of these individuals as you need to conduct
interviews to gather at least two points of data which point to a validated answer to your
hypotheses.
o These interviews will bring up new insights and ideas. You need to be able to
figure out if these new data points require you to revise your hypotheses and pivot
or to seek out new earlyvangelists that can give you additional feedback about
your concept. At the end of this process, you don’t want any red hypotheses after
you finish this task. (Note: If you are meeting the customer in person, you need to
always travel with a partner from your team). Record their answers in either a
video or audio format. If you decide to take hand-written notes, your partner will
need to take the notes so you can focus on the Q & A. Please make sure none of
your interviews last longer than 45-minutes with a single respondent.
• Step #4: Analyze the responses of your customer and be prepared to pivot your concept
based on customer feedback.
o Be sure to consider the following questions when pivoting: What specific
information did you glean which validates/invalidates your current hypotheses?
What information did you learn that confirmed your current vision? What
information did you learn that was potentially contradictory to your current
vision? Based on these answers, please summarize your findings for the early
adopters and identify any pivots that you might need to take as you continue to
move your idea forward. When you make pivots, please update your table from
CDP1 with the new direction you are taking, and be sure to mark the revised
hypothesis as either yellow, red, or green.

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GILT and MYHABIT

 
Services Visits and Analyzes Assignment
The objective of this assignment is to build upon the content of the textbook by comparing and contrasting with GILT and MYHABIT. This assignment will require you to evaluate, analyze, and then compare, and contrast a service-based business based on the topics listed below.
Simple brief introduction, answer these questions and give the recommendations
Don’t write about the whole website of T GILT and MYHABIT. Please only focus on consumer service of each individual website.
You are required to evaluate, analysis and then compare and contrast the following issues.
1. What service was done well by each of the service provider? Elaborate and point out several specific examples of GILT and MYHABIT?
2. For each service provider, what aspects of these services had a positive influence on your perceptions of the overall service experience? And similarly, what aspects of this service experience had a negative influence on your perceptions of the overall service experience? Explain your answer in detail for GILT and MYHABIT.
3. Which of the following characteristics (color, design, layout, user interface and human-interactive programs) in each of the service providers physical evidence of GILT and MYHABIT influenced your customer experience? 4. What other aspects of the physical evidence of GILT and MYHABIT were present?
5. How did each providers GILT and MYHABIT use their physical evidence as a differentiator? To enhance the customer’s experience? To facilitate service delivery?

6. What recommendations would you make to improve the customer service experience of GILT and MYHABIT? Please provide one for each service provider.

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Mental Health CPD and reflection

PART A
You must complete at least two separate online CPD activities, the activities involve a minimum of six hours of self directed work in total. These CPD activities will comprise your portfolio for submission, together with the reflection in part B..
In your portfolio you must:
Outline your objectives for completing each online CPD activity using the SMART format for documenting each objective.
A SMART goal must be SPECIFIC e.g. specific illness, measurable, attainable, realistic and timely.
Choose Online CPD activities developed for health professionals not those directed at community education. You must also show that you have accessed a range of activities from different website
You need to include evidence of successful completion (an email of registration for a webinar does not constitute evidence of completion of the CPD activity). For example:
Please screen shot of successful completion of the CPD activity
Certificate of completion
Other appropriate verification
PART B
Submit a 1200 word critical reflection on the process of completing PART A. You need to address the following the following questions in your response:
Why did you select the specific CPD activities?
How has completing these activities contributed to your ongoing learning about mental health for practice
How can apply this learning to your work as a newly registered RN
What ongoing learning needs have you identified as a result of completing this activity?
What strategies will you utilise address these ongoing learning needs?

You must use a minimum of five academic references to support your discussion in Part B. Appropriate use of first person is acceptable in the critical reflection.

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obesity in children

• Analyze the impact of implementing change in your practice environment, including the factors that need to be considered regarding stakeholders and end users.
• Summarize the methods you would use to ensure that those are adequately addressed.
Implementing EBP Projects
• Identify the desired outcomes of reducing obesity in children.
• Describe any macro or micro systems issues that may inhibit implementation and strategies for resolving those issues.
• Explain how resolving obesity in children will improve quality and patient safety
Evaluating EBP Projects
• Describe evaluation strategies.
• Formulate new practice guidelines based on the possible results of the evaluation of outcomes.
• Describe, if appropriate, new standards of care relevant to the new practice guidelines for obesity in children.

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Vitalism

The vitalist philosophy was used to explain the difference between living and inert matter. With the rise of the scientific revolution and biomedicine the vitalist philosophy was cast aside. What is vitalism and the vitalist philosophy and how is it relevant to CAM practitioners. Discuss in relation to na

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Ancient Philosophy

 
In Book I of the Republic Socrates analyzes various definitions or accounts of Justice, beginning with Cephalus’ and ending with his own. What are the four definitions? What is wrong with them, in cases where there is something wrong? How does the notion of self-interest help to explain the progression of the arguments/definitions?

What are the parts of the soul and how does Plato argue for them? How does he account for, i.e. define, the virtues in terms of a tripartite soul? If you can, explain how the education of desires helps him account for the virtues?

Each topic has parts, so please address them all.

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Read Supermarkets: A new wave of competitors

 
This assignment is based on the Reed Supermarkets case. Your analysis should run no more than 8 pages in total, double spaced in Word excluding appendix exhibits.

Assume that your team has been hired by Meredith Collins, the Vice President of Marketing for Reed Supermarkets to help them find the most effective means of gaining a leadership position in the Columbus market. Your situation analysis will address the following key questions listed below.
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1. Of the general segmentation approaches discussed in class, select two that your team feels to be most appropriate for the current state of the supermarket category in Columbus, and describe them.
a. Of the two approaches that you selected, which one do you believe has the most profit potential for Reed, and why?
2. What is Reed’s position in the Columbus market? Create a perceptual map of the market, selecting the factors that you believe to be most relevant as axes and plot the leading stores as appropriate.
a. Where is the area of greatest opportunity? Can Reed meet this opportunity? Why or why not?
b. Write a statement positioning Reed Supermarkets optimally for this opportunity.
3. The management team at Reed has been given a growth share goal of 16% (+2pp) by Reed CEO Jack Morrissey. Assuming that this is possible to do, from where will the share growth most likely be sourced? Will it come from dollar stores; Aldi; or other types of stores mentioned in the case? For whichever type of store you choose to be the most likely source of volume,
a. Discuss Reed’s competencies vs. this store type in terms of the factors affecting consumer channel choice.
b. How can Reed compete effectively vs. your selected store type across the elements of the marketing mix? Be sure to address all mix elements.
4. What type of store does your team view to be the biggest competitive threat to Reed Supermarkets? Is it dollar stores as was suggested in the case; or something else? Why do you say this?
a. Complete a brief SWOT analysis for Reed, including Strengths and Weaknesses (internal factors), and Opportunities and Threats (external factors). Provide your top 3 elements for each quadrant.
b. Versus the competitor that you’ve selected, what Strengths and Opportunities can Reed exploit? What Weaknesses and Threats will be most difficult for Reed to surmount?
5. What pricing strategy does your team recommend that Reed Supermarkets pursue moving forward?
a. Should they maintain their current position; retreat from further price competition and focus on branding and additional higher margin items; adopt a more price-oriented strategy (through increased dollar specials or EDLP); or some other strategy?.
b. What are the risks and rewards associated with Reed embarking on your recommended strategy?
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A Human Service Agency

 

After viewing the Youtube clips in the Reading folder and reviewing the key global outcomes in chapter 24, write your reflections as to how some specific research might benefit the specific area of human/social services provided by your organization or an organization with which your have familiarity. Minimum length – 3 paragraphs / 4 sentences each.

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Retail store 

You are required to:
i) Describe the activities of 4 retail stores in UAE in terms of types of retail, location, relative store size, merchandise assortment, target audience, store design/layout (with photo), promotion activities and services offered (6%);
ii) Discuss how or why you like and dislike each of the store identified in i) above (6%)
iii) Identify future retailing practices you would want to experience (1%)
– Good essay structure, referencing and binding would earn 1 %.
– Application of any three human senses would earn 1 %.

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Interpretive Essay

 
The purpose of this interpretation assignment is to provide you with an opportunity to practice and hone your skills of biblical interpretation. The focus of this project is the New Testament letters. Duvall and Hays explain and illustrate the four steps of the Interpretive Journey for New Testament letters in Journey into God’s Word: Your Guide to Understanding and Applying the Bible (pp. 100–102). However, you really have to get a good grasp of chapter one before moving on, because it is in chapter one that the authors give a detailed explanation of the Interpretative Journey. After reviewing chapter one, and after carefully reading pages 100–108 in Duvall and Hays, you should be ready to apply the four steps of the interpretative journey to Galatians 5:16–18.

Step 1: Grasp the text in their town. During the first step of the interpretive journey, you will use your observation skills to read the text carefully and discover what the text meant to the biblical audience. During this step you will need to read about the cultural and historical background of the passage. For our purposes here, a good study Bible along with Bible dictionaries and commentaries will give adequate background information on the text under consideration (Gal 5:16–18).
During step 1 you will also identify the literary context of your Gal 5:16–18. You will need to read the entire letter to the Galatians. It is preferable to read the letter in one sitting. After all, that is how the NT letters were intended to be read. As you read through the letter, try to ignore the chapter and verse divisions and read it as a literary unity. Think in terms of topical paragraphs as you read the letter. You will then summarize the text in 100–125 words. In order to understand the literary context of Gal 5:16–18, you will need to summarize the main point of the paragraph that precedes it (i.e., Gal 5:13–15), the paragraph that contains your text (Gal 5:16–18), and the paragraph that comes right after your text (Gal 5:19–26). You will notice that different Bibles versions divide the paragraphs a bit differently, but go with the divisions I have given here. After this exercise you will be able to state what your text meant to the first-century audience.

Step 2: Measure the width of the river to cross. Step 2 of the interpretive journey is discovering the differences between the biblical (original) audience and us today. We are separated from the biblical audiences (whether OT or NT) in time, culture, language, situation, etc. These differences create a divide, a river as it were, that prohibits us from making a direct move from the original context to our context. Consequently, step 2 is an essential process in which you will discover the significant differences between our situation and that of the biblical audience (Duvall and Hays, 16). You will also identify the unique aspects of the situation that is depicted in the biblical passage. You will write, in 50–75 words, a description of the differences that define the width of the river you need to cross.

Step 3: Cross the Principilizing Bridge. In light of how our situation is similar to and different from that of the biblical audience, try to identify the theological principle or principles reflected in the text. The theological principle will rise naturally out of the biblical text. It will be part of the meaning of the text and not something you read back into the text. In order to decide whether you have truly discovered a theological principle, ask yourself the following questions:

1. Is this theological principle clearly reflected in the biblical text?

2. Is it timeless rather than tied to a specific situation?

3. Is the principle culturally bound?

4. Is it consistent with the teaching of the rest of Scripture?

5. Is it relevant to both the biblical audience and the contemporary audience?

If you can answer “yes” to these 5 questions, then you have found a theological principle. Review the example in Duvall and Hays, pages 19–20. Write out the principle(s) in 50–75 words using present-tense verbs.

Step 4: Grasp the text in our town. Now it is time to apply the theological principle that has been derived from the biblical text to us today. While there may by only one theological principle in a biblical passage, several applications may be appropriate. Ask yourself how individual Christians today should apply the theological principle(s) in their lives. In 100–125 words, write out at least two real-life applications of each principle. Follow the three elements below when deciding on these applications:

1. Identify the key elements present in the intersection between the principle and the text’s original situation.

2. Consider a scenario in contemporary life that contains all the key elements of the principle.

3. Make an application to today, keeping it specific. The application should be both faithful to the meaning of the text and relevant to the contemporary audience.

It will be important to review chapter 8 in Journey into God’s Word in order to complete step 4 in good fashion. Duvall and Hays provide an excellent example in this chapter of all four steps of the interpretative journey using Phil 4:13 as the destination text.