Evaluating Process and Supply Chain Design, choose 2 of the following questions to discuss and respond with a minimum of 500 words and include credible references:What is the lean concept and why is it important to study? How can lean be applied to manufacturing and service processes? Will lean work in service environments? Why or why not? Discuss ways to use lean to improve one of the following: a pizza restaurant, a hospital, or an auto dealership. Why is lean hard to implement in practice? Explain the relationship between quality and productivity under the lean philosophy.

I am needing help with these assignments please!! The city I was assigned is Bismarck, North Dakota-this is for the whole project. I have attached 2 files, One is a copy of the project instructions and the other is the same with the Rubrics included. Please go off of the Rubrics-the instructor was adamant that you either pass or fail. If you don't meet Mastery, the assignment will fail! :SDeliverable 1 - Timeline of Major Periods in Art Competency Determine the historical impact of art on modern culture, society, and the workplace. Scenario Your local library has decided to hang artwork in its lobby. You volunteer at the library and heard that the director of the library plans to go to the mall and buy artwork off the shelf in a home decor store to decorate the walls. You are outraged, and feel that the library presents an ideal space for more meaningful public displays. After all, your town has such a rich and interesting history, and there are some artists and craftspeople living in the area. You decide to approach the City Council Chair to voice your concerns, but he informs you that the library is on a tight budget, and he doesn’t see the need to spend too much of tax payers money on “decorations.” You now plan to attend the next City Council meeting to convince the town to do more with the exhibiting space at the library, and that it doesn’t have to be expensive if the displays are cultivated from regional resources. Instructions For this assignment, you will be assigned a city, write as though you live there. List five significant creations in your city/town, such as buildings in different styles of architecture, bridges, and public art. Include the year each item was created.Arrange the chosen creations in chronological order, along with names of their creators.Explain the major styles/periods in art to which each of the five creations/selections relate. Include your rationale for your selection.Identify three additional local creative residents from the past and present, whose work could potentially be displayed at the library. List the forms of art for which they are known.Your timeline should be printable so that it can be distributed to City Council members and attendees at the meeting. Use the timeline templates in Word to create a printable timeline. NOTE - Be sure the documents display proper grammar, spelling, punctuation, and sentence structure. Deliverable 2 - Grant Proposal Summary Competency Identify the role of music, poetry, prose, and visual art in the modern world and workplace. Scenario You have been asked to be on the town’s board of Cultural Affairs. When you step into your new role, you quickly realize that the organization is in trouble; the other board members have been on the board for a long time and haven’t done much in recent years. They explain that there is no money in the budget. You hear about a grant opportunity. Every year, a wealthy resident of your town, Mr. Brown, offers a grant of $10,000 to one local organization. In the past, he has never given this grant to an arts organization because, in the words of another board member, “Mr. Brown does not think the arts are important.” If you can change Mr. Brown’s mind about the importance of the arts in your community, you might just get the grant and be able to revitalize the town’s cultural arts scene! Write the grant proposal summary for review by a few board members to be sure you are on the right track for the grant. Instructions The summary should include: two to three paragraphs using persuasive language.concisely written paragraphs using bullet-points if possible.a beginning paragraph that immediately captures the reader's attention, using a story, surprising fact, or insightful quote.a complete but brief synopsis of the details in the proposal.the reason for the proposal and how the grant money will be used. NOTE - Be sure the documents display proper grammar, spelling, punctuation, and sentence structure. Deliverable 3 - Art Event for Workplace Colleagues Competency Utilize art elements in real-world contexts and the workplace. Scenario Your workplace has a line in its budget for team building events outside of work. In the past, your supervisor has passed out free tickets to minor league baseball games, passes to an amusement park, and even rented a lodge for a hunting retreat. This year, your coworkers and you received an email asking what kind of team building event you would like to attend. You responded that you would like to attend the world-renowned Flamenco dance performance that will take place in your city in a few months. You also included a note that you know your company is opening up an office in Spain, so it might be good for your company to take the opportunity to learn more about the culture. Impressed with your amazing idea, your supervisor asks you to plan one more art event for your workplace. Instructions Write a one - two page proposal for an art event for your workplace. The proposal should contain the following details about what kind of art event it will be: Where the event will take place—for example, an art show in your workplace lobby, or a trip to the theater.Who the artist(s) are with details of their accomplishments.Budget for the event. (Could be as simple as ticket prices and transportation, or could be a catered art opening.)Rationale for how your company can potentially benefit from this art event. NOTE - Be sure the documents display proper grammar, spelling, punctuation, and sentence structure. Deliverable 4 - Corporate Art Collection Proposal Competency Apply strategies for evaluating different art forms in various contexts. Scenario Your workplace has built a parking deck. The ground level is unusable for cars due to clearance issues. The company you work for recently heard that it can receive tax breaks if it invests in an art collection, so they have decided to turn the unusable first level of the parking deck into an art museum. You have been asked to spearhead this initiative. Instructions Create a proposal for a corporate art collection. Be sure your proposal answers the following questions: What type of work will you select? Include a description.Why is this type of art a good investment for your particular company? Include a rationale.What is the budget? Include the total cost with details.What other expenses will be associated with the management of this art collection? List the details with costs.What other external resources will you use to offset this budget? List the details of the resources. Deliverable 5 - Multicultural Art Presentation Competency Explain how art contributes to problem solving skills and idea creation in personal and professional experience. Scenario Your company is one of several that hopes to land an international contract with MagnifiCo, a large corporation overseas. You have recently learned that Company X, who is competing for the same overseas contract, has received some negative publicity for their lack of cultural literacy among employees. An embarrassing video has gone viral showing an American employee from Company X awkwardly fumbling through a business dinner with foreign associates. First, he insulted the lack of air conditioning in the foreign restaurant, then he nervously laughed in the middle of their prayer, and finally he nearly spit out the dinner dish he was served! The business deal was doomed. When you watched the video, you almost took pity on this American businessman clearly so out of his element. But then, you noticed in the background of the video that the entire dinner was taking place in a beautiful building; there was gothic vaulting on the ceiling, finely detailed mosaic tile on the floor, and intricate fresco painting on the wall next to their table. There was classical music playing in the background— perhaps Baroque? If the American had noticed any of these things, he could have asked his dinner companions about them. If he had learned a little about this country’s culture, he could have even made intelligent conversation about his surroundings and possibly impressed and connected with his colleagues instead of insulting them with awkward behavior. Instructions You are tasked creating a learning presentation for your colleagues on multicultural art relating to MagnifiCo’s geographic location(s) to be delivered at your next office meeting. You may choose the geographic location(s) for MagnifiCo. NOTE - Depending on your choice(s), there may be more or less distinguishing information available. For example, if you choose a large distinct nation, you may find an abundance of information for all 15 of your slides. If you pick a small isolated culture, you may need to a second or third culture in order to have enough information for 15 slides. Design a PowerPoint presentation containing: At least 15 slides, plus cover slide and reference slide.One to three different possible global locations where MagnifiCo does business.Include a minimum of 3 informative slides about each topic in the chosen location(s): well-known artistsmusicarchitectureliteraturecultural customs Deliverable 6 - Workplace Evaluation Infographic Competency Identify how art benefits wellness and creativity in the community and workplace. Scenario You just opened a small company and got your first contract to design a new product. You divided your employees up into two teams of three to see who could come up with the best new designs. You gave them a week to work. As you observed their work, you noticed how noisy it was in your open-plan space. You also noticed some arguing, and one of your best designers had to go home early with a migraine. After a week of work, you called the teams back to see what they accomplished and you were very disappointed. The designs were just not up to standard. When you asked your workers what the problem was, they had a long list of issues with the workspace. You know you need to revamp your office if your company is going to be successful, but you need to take inventory before you can begin improvements. Instructions Design an informational infographic to help employers evaluate their workplace environment. Infographic must include: At least 5 qualities of a creative workplace, with text and graphics.At least 5 obstacles to workers’ creativity, with text and graphics. Deliverable 7 - Office Redesign Recommendations Portfolio Competencies Determine the historical impact of art on modern culture, society, and the workplace.Identify the role of music, poetry, prose, and visual art in the modern world and workplace.Utilize art elements in real-world contexts and the workplace.Apply strategies for evaluating different art forms in various contexts.Explain how art contributes to problem solving skills and idea creation in personal and professional experience.Identify how art benefits wellness and creativity in the community and workplace. Scenario You are an independent contractor who has been hired by a multinational technology company to increase productivity at one branch office. The location in question is failing miserably and your contract with this company is a last ditch effort to bring this location’s productivity up, or else it will be shut down. The designers haven’t submitted a good, usable design to headquarters in months. When you begin your work figuring out what’s going wrong, you immediately see many red flags. Records show that employees call in sick frequently, come in late, leave early, and several complaints between employees have been filed by Human Resources. When you visit the office, you are immediately struck by what a dismal environment you see. Florescent lights flicker over beige cubicles, ambient noise of machines buzzing and phones ringing fills your ears, and employees look bored and tired. You notice only one communal work space piled over with old projects and clutter. The supply room is sparse. The break room is small and cluttered, and nobody is using it. You decide to interview employees and learn some alarming information; employees mostly work alone, do not seem to know each other well, some outright dislike one another, they report having no fun or enjoyment while at work, and some suffer chronic work-related health problems such as migraines and back pain. You notice wonderful diversity among employees, yet nobody seems to appreciate or understand the unique perspectives of their colleagues. It is clear to you that this office is not conducive to the kind of creative collaboration necessary to pull it out of its slump. Using what you know about the importance of art in the world and workplace, you will come up with a plan to solve these problems. Instructions Assemble a portfolio of recommendations on how to turn this office from a non-productive location to a creative hub of productivity. Portfolio should include the following parts: Part 1 Compose an introduction (1-2 paragraphs) indicating the historical impact of art on modern culture, society, and the workplace. Part 2 Create an infographic on how to use the arts to promote the following within the company: Collaboration between colleaguesMulticulturalism/diversityCommunity engagement Part 3 Construct a visual model using diagram software of the ideal creative workspace that includes the following areas: A space for individual workA space for collaborative workPublic interaction areaVisual display areas NOTE - You may add additional areas as you see fit. Each area in the workspace must be clearly numbered and the following questions answered: How will this space be used and by whom?What Elements of Art and Principles of Design will be used in this space?How does the space promote creativity and collaboration?How will the arts be used to promote creativity and well-being? Part 4 Create a descriptive resource list with contact data of at least six funding possibilities for art events. Each resource should briefly explain the resource and how the employer might use it.

Pick three stocks of your choice (Select stocks listed in the USA exchange traded market), preferably from different industry groups. Go to the recommended websites or any other website that offers historical stock price data or to published information sources such as Yahoo Finance, or Google finance or any other reliable source of financial information. Extract weekly (for example, every Friday) closing share prices for the most recent 28 weeks. Also extract the values of the stock market index, (represented by S&P500 index or All Ordinaries in US), on a weekly basis over the same time period. Required Part 1 (30 marks) (a) The rate of return in each week for each stock and for the stock market index for the 27 weekly periods. Calculate the discrete rate of return as well as the continuously compounded rate of return. Calculate the arithmetic mean return and the geometric mean return of each stock for the entire period. Use only the discrete returns for your calculations and for the calculations in the questions that follow. (10 marks) (b) The variance of returns for each stock and the index and the covariances of returns between each pair of stocks, the covariance between each stock and the stock market index, and the corresponding correlation coefficients. (5 marks) (c) Compare your results in (a) and (b) for each stock and the stock market index and comment on the risk return characteristics and performance of each of your stocks and the index. Illustrate with tables/charts as appropriate. Comment on the results, relating to what you have learnt in this course. Relate the risk return pattern and the performance of the market index and your stocks to relevant events that took place during this period. Draw on economic, political, industry and company related events that took place over this period that may have impacted on the performance of your stocks and the market index. Give bibliographic references to the sources of your information. (15 marks) Part 2 (10 marks) (a) Based on the discrete returns calculations in Part 1, compute the weekly rate of return and the variance of an equally weighted portfolio formed from the three stocks. Make use of your knowledge of matrix algebra in your calculations. (5 marks) (b). Examine and compare the pattern of the returns of your portfolio with those of the individual stocks, and the stock index. Compare the corresponding variances. Comment on your observations, relating to material learnt in this course. (5 marks) Part 3 (45 marks) (a) Extract for each week, the yield of the 26-week Treasury bill (or equivalently the 90 day or 180-day bank accepted bill from the financial media (i.e. Federal Reserve Bank: http://www.federalreserve.gov/default.htm) over your sample period. (Remember sometimes reported yields are usually annualised figures. Convert the yields to weekly numbers. Use these as a proxy for the risk free rate). (5 marks) (b) Estimate the Security Characteristic Line (SCL) for each of your stocks and the equal weighted portfolio, based on the ‘Market Model’, using excess returns (discrete returns less the risk free rate), using Excel regression analysis functions. Show your results graphically. From your results, compute the Beta and the Jensen’s Alpha of each stock and the portfolio. (15 marks) (c) Calculate the total risk (the return variance) of each stock and the portfolio. Partition the total risk to their respective systematic and unsystematic risk components. (10 marks) (d) Based on your observations and results in parts (b) and (c) above, comment on each of your stock's and portfolio's performance, and on their risk characteristics, comparing and contrasting the magnitude and the proportions of their systematic and unsystematic risk components. What further insights can you gain on the characteristics and behaviour of your stocks and portfolio compared to the analysis and observations you made in Part 1 (c) and Part 2 (b)? (15 marks) Part 4 (15 marks) From the point of view of an investor who wishes to evaluate whether the stocks that you examined are worth investing in, how useful was the analysis you carried out on these stocks? What limitations do you see in your analysis and results for investment decision making purposes? What further analysis would you wish to carry out? Explain. __________________________________________________________________________________ Examples of websites for sourcing data Major Indices in US: https://au.finance.yahoo.com/ US Interest Rate or FED data: http://www.federalreserve.gov/default.htm Stock market data: https://www.google.com/finance Other useful sites: https://www.stlouisfed.org/ https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/ https://apps.newyorkfed.org/markets/autorates/fed%20funds