Answer the following IN YOUR OWN WORDS. Respond to each of the following in a minimum of 175 words. It will be ran thru a plagiarism checker, thanks.1.What do you think the role of collaboration is in assessing organizational culture? How do you think collaboration can assist an organization to align its current organizational culture with one that will facilitate positive change?2.What do you think the role of collaboration is in initiating change? What are some of the strategies you could use to contribute to effective collaboration when initiating change?3.Describe a behavior you have expressed in the past that prevents effective collaboration. Explain how you could avoid repeating this behavior and identify a more effective one to replace it with.**there is no additional information, thanks**

Topic: Inventory Management What is a literature review?“A literature review discusses published information in a particular subject area, and sometimes information in a particular subject area within a certain time period.A literature review can be just a simple summary of the sources, but it usually has an organizational pattern and combines both summary and synthesis. A summary is a recap of the important information of the source, but a synthesis is a re-organization, or a reshuffling, of that information. It might give a new interpretation of old material or combine new with old interpretations. Or it might trace the intellectual progression of the field, including major debates. And depending on the situation, the literature review may evaluate the sources and advise the reader on the most pertinent or relevant.”[i]How is a literature review different from an academic research paper?“The main focus of an academic research paper is to develop a new argument, and a research paper will contain a literature review as one of its parts. In a research paper, you use the literature as a foundation and as support for a new insight that you contribute. The focus of a literature review, however, is to summarize and synthesize the arguments and ideas of others without adding new contributions.”[ii] The academic research paper also covers a range of sources, but it is usually a select number of sources, because the emphasis is on the argument. Likewise, a literature review can also have an “argument,” but it is not as important as covering a number of sources. In short, an academic research paper and a literature review contain some of the same elements. In fact, many academic research papers will contain a literature review section. But it is the aspect of the study (the argument or the sources) that is emphasized that determines what type of document it is. Why write literature reviews?“Literature reviews provide you with a handy guide to a particular topic. If you have limited time to conduct research, literature reviews can give you an overview or act as a stepping stone. For professionals, they are useful reports that keep them up to date with what is current in the field. For scholars, the depth and breadth of the literature review emphasizes the credibility of the writer in his or her field. Literature reviews also provide a solid background for a research paper’s investigation. Comprehensive knowledge of the literature of the field is essential to most research papers.”[iii]What is the format for literature reviews?“Just like most academic papers, literature reviews also must contain at least three basic elements: an introduction or background information section; the body of the review containing the discussion of sources; and, finally, a conclusion and/or recommendations section to end the paper.Introduction: Gives a quick idea of the topic of the literature review, such as the central theme or organizational pattern.Body: Contains your discussion of sources and is organized thematically.Conclusions/Recommendations: Discuss what you have drawn from reviewing literature so far. Where might the discussion proceed?”[iv]What is a thematic literature review?“Thematic reviews of literature are organized around a topic or issue, rather than the progression of time.”v“Sometimes, though, you might need to add additional sections that are necessary for your study, but do not fit in the organizational strategy of the body. What other sections you include in the body is up to you. Put in only what is necessary. Here are a few other sections you might want to consider: Current Situation: Information necessary to understand the topic or focus of the literature review. History: The chronological progression of the field, the literature, or an idea that is necessary to understand the literature review, if the body of the literature review is not already a chronology. Methods and/or Standards: The criteria you used to select the sources in your literature review or the way in which you present your information. For instance, you might explain that your review includes only peer-reviewed articles and journals. Questions for Further Research: What questions about the field has the review sparked? How will you further your research as a result of the review?”vi This section is required and must be included in your paper. This section of the literature review is where you integrate faith and learning in this course. After reading Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God’s Work,” write a 3–5-page section that integrates the Genesis model, i.e., the creation-fall-redemption-consummation framework, with the learning objectives of this course, which is part of the required 19 pages of content. Conclude with how your integration may be used for furthering God’s purposes for business on earth.http://booksdescr.org/ads.php?md5=D87806901321E6DF... Important Points to ConsiderThe paper is to be written in strict conformance to current APA standards, and must contain at least 19 pages of content (excluding the title page, abstract, and references), utilizing at least 12 scholarly references.The paper is to be submitted through SafeAssign at the end of Module/Week 8. It is highly recommended that you download and read the instructions to avoid any stress created by issues that are the result of waiting until the last minute. A SafeAssign draft check will be provided for you to use to improve your Originality Score prior to your final submission. Three levels of current APA headings must be used throughout the paper, as this is a graduate-level research paper.Some students do not fully understand the difference between plagiarism and paraphrasing. Paraphrasing is when you take a source or someone else’s idea and say it in your own words. When you paraphrase, you must still give the author’s name, date, title of the source, the scholarly journal where it came from, and the exact website address or book.However, when you directly quote a source, it must have quotation marks around the quote, or (if 40 words or more) it must be set in block quotation format. You must also give detailed information of where you acquired the quote.For the purpose of this academic paper, adhere to the follow rules when quoting or using a source:Do not directly quote more than 120 words from any one source.If the source is 2,000 words or less, do not directly quote more than 50 words from any one source.Do not use the same source more than a total of 3 times within the whole document for quoting or paraphrasing.Quotes must contain the section (if provided) and paragraph or page numbers of the quote, and this information must be placed in the reference.In all instances, use current APA guidelines for citations and references.

Assignment 3: EDA and Data Visualization This assignment is quite a bit different than the first two assignments. Now that we’ve built a solid foundation of spreadsheet modeling/engineering skills and done some pretty structured assignments, you are going to get a chance to be more creative. In this assignment, you are going to do some exploratory data analysis (EDA) and create data visualizations and dashboards. We spent two weekly modules exploring these topics and our Moodle site contains numerous resources for you to draw upon. In particular, our BA textbook does a nice job of reviewing some Excel EDA specifics in Chapters 2, 3, and 17.2. You should also read through the series of whitepapers I posted in the first module on this topic: Cycle Share data analysis Many cities have started bike sharing programs. These programs often capture very detailed data related to bike usage and such data can be quite helpful in managing these systems. In this assignment, we’ll be using data from Seattle’s Cycle Share program as well as weather related data from the National Climatic Data Center. You can find the three datasets in the \data folder within the zip file. Here’s a description of the files: Context The Pronto Cycle Share system consists of 500 bikes and 54 stations located in Seattle. Pronto provides open data on individual trips, stations, and daily weather. Content There are 3 datasets that provide data on the stations, trips, and weather from 2014-2016. Station datasetstation_id: station ID numbername: name of stationlat: station latitudelong: station longitudeinstall_date: date that station was placed in serviceinstall_dockcount: number of docks at each station on the installation datemodification_date: date that station was modified, resulting in a change in location or dock countcurrent_dockcount: number of docks at each station on 8/31/2016decommission_date: date that station was placed out of serviceTrip datasettrip_id: numeric ID of bike trip takenstarttime: day and time trip started, in PSTstoptime: day and time trip ended, in PSTbikeid: ID attached to each biketripduration: time of trip in seconds from_station_name: name of station where trip originatedto_station_name: name of station where trip terminated from_station_id: ID of station where trip originatedto_station_id: ID of station where trip terminatedusertype: "Short-Term Pass Holder" is a rider who purchased a 24-Hour or 3-Day Pass; "Member" is a rider who purchased a Monthly or an Annual Membershipgender: gender of rider birthyear: birth year of riderWeather dataset contains daily weather information in the service area I want you to take the perspective of an analyst who has been asked to provide a thorough analysis of the usage of this bike share program based on the data provided. Pretend a new operations manager of the Cycle Share (CS) has just started and wants you to provide her with summary statistics and data visualizations to help her understand how various location, weather, demographic and time related variables affect bike share use. Some examples of basic questions she has include things like: How many people use CS every month? Is ridership increasing, decreasing, staying the same? Do these trends differ by different rider types, age, gender or other variables? What are popular stations to rent from? Popular destinations? Popular trips? How long are trips? How is ride duration impacted by rider, station, or weather characteristics? How does ridership vary by day of week and time of day? How does weather affect ridership? Of course, these basic questions lend themselves to more nuanced questions such as whether rain or temperature has a greater effect on ridership and how do weather and temporal factors interact to impact ridership? She doesn’t even know all the questions she has and is counting on you to enlighten her. Be creative, be analytical, wow her with your insightful analysis. So, your job is to create a series of tables, graphs, dashboards, infographics, supporting text, or whatever else you think is appropriate to give your new manager the information and insight she needs to chart a good future course for the CB program. Your visualizations and analysis should be woven together in a coherent way as to tell a story to the new manager. You could do the whole thing in Excel but are welcome to also use other tools like Access, Tableau or PowerPivot. You can definitely use PowerPoint or Word or similar tools as a “container” to help structure your story. You could also use the Story feature in Tableau to structure your presentation.For example, you might use Excel to do your data prep and analysis and then paste visualizations into a Powerpoint presentation which includes your analytical commentary and summarizations. Other people might choose to use some combination of Excel and Tableau for the analysis and use the Tableau Story feature to put it all together (or just copy and paste Tableau visualizations into a Powerpoint presentation. Use your creativity and imagination to combine tools as you see fit. You CANNOT use any programmatic analysis tools like R or Python. Make sure you use principles of graphical excellence, solid Excel graph and table designs, and, most importantly, that you tell a coherent and compelling story based on the bike share data. Don’t just create a hodge podge of unrelated graphs and tables. Weave your visualizations together in some coherent and logical way. I’ve given you numerous resources in our course website to help you. In addition to the actual analysis deliverables, you’ll also be turning in a short supporting technical document (use Word) that describes the various steps you took in creating the deliverables. For example, this supporting document will describe what you did in the data prep phase and which tools you used, how you went about creating the analytical outputs (e.g. did you use Pivot Tables or Tableau or whatever). So, as you are doing the assignment, take some notes in a Word doc so that you can then turn that into this supporting technical document. Getting Started and Data Prep You might want to start by importing the CSV files into Excel and just browse through the three tables and the descriptions above to become familiar with the data. Then, think about creating any new computed columns you might want to have which will facilitate your analysis. For example, there is a datetime field called starttime in the trip table. I’d recommend creating an additional field called something like tripdate and computing the date (with no time) based on the starttime field. We learned all about Excel dates and times and this should be easy for you. Why might you want to do this? Well, if you look in the weather table you’ll see that it contains one row per date. So, if you want to try to create one big master table containing data from the trip and weather tables, you can use the date to look up values from tables as needed.Feels like a VLOOKUP, eh? STRONG SUGGESTION: If you do a bunch of VLOOKUPs to create a master data table, when you are all done, go ahead and do a Copy – Paste Special – Values into a new workbook sheet. This will make subsequent analysis much quicker since Excel won’t have to recompute a bunch of formulas. Of course, if you use Tableau or PowerPivot, you might be able to simply join the tables and avoid creating a big master table. Either or both approaches are fine. In fact, here’s a link to a short article by the Tableau folks about this very issue: http://onlinehelp.tableau.com/current/pro/desktop/en-us/help.htm#multiple_connections.html. The primary goal for the data preparation step is to make it easy to do the types of analysis you want to do. You may end up creating a few different data tables for analysis. That’s up to you. Just document what you do. Analysis Suggestions When doing a comprehensive analysis for an upper level manager, it’s almost always a good idea to start with high level, important, overall statistics and visualizations and then dive into the details to explore further. For example, do NOT start by showing some detailed analysis of how windy Tuesdays impact ridership during the spring. For example, you could start with overall volume trends and rider demographics. Get Ideas and Inspiration A few years ago, the state of Colorado held a data visualization contest focused on the state of Colorado’s public school system. All the winning entries used to be posted – however, now just the following one is still available. Again, this is just to provide some ideas and inspiration. http://infogr.am/Colorado-school-equality The Tableau Public site has some nice examples of specific visualizations done in Tableau. Remember, the goal isn’t to be “fancy”, it’s to concisely convey to the new manager what is going on with the CS program in Seattle. Deliverables Obviously, the nature of your deliverables is affected by the tools you use. There are two main parts to your deliverables: The analysis products themselves – i.e. what you’d deliver to your manager. For example this might be a Tableau Story, or a Powerpoint presentation or Word document with the graphs/tables created in either Excel or Tableau. It could even just be a nicely structured Excel file with nagivational aids, graphs (possibly interactive) and summary text in text boxes or something similar. Use your imagination and ingenuity. IMPORTANT: If you end up copying and pasting graphs/tables from Excel into Powerpoint or Word, I also want the Excel files containing the actual data and graphs/tables so that I can see how you created these things.A technical background document in MS Word that describes how you did what you did. This doesn’t need to be super detailed but should make it clear to me how:You did your data prepYou constructed the various visualizations and how you constructed overall story. IMPORTANT: You MUST put all of your deliverables into a folder, zip the folder and then upload the zip file. Give your zip file a good filename.