Assignment: Speaking Out About Malt
Read Case 8.3: Speaking Out about Malt, located on page 311 in your textbook. Determine whether Mary acted irresponsibly or disloyally in your opinion. Describe the actions that you think Mary should take next. Explain what you would do if you were in Mary's position.
DISCUSSION QUESTION: "IT Alignment and Strategic Planning"
Please respond to the following:
• Determine the basic components of a strategic information system (IT) plan within health care organizations. Next, specify the main roles of leadership team-including Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO)-in the process of IT alignment and strategic planning.
• From the e-Activity, analyze the manner in which the use of technology improves the overall quality, safety, and efficiency of health care delivery. Next, speculate on one risk of using technology within health care system, and suggest one way to mitigate the risk in question. Provide a rationale to support your response.
DISCUSSION QUESTION
Writing Check-in
1. Please share your thesis statement and one paragraph from your Informative Essay - Revision and then respond to the following: Discuss what is challenging you or what you are proud of regarding your chosen paragraph.
Peer Feedback:
After you have posted, provide a classmate with feedback.
1. Discuss your observations regarding your classmate's post.
2. Offer ideas for improvement where needed, and celebrate one or more strengths in your classmate's writing.
How to give feedback: A "good" peer review is specific and combines suggestions for improvement and praise for what works well. A "poor" peer review does not give specifics and does not offer insight to help your classmate reflect on or improve his or her writing.
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Informative Essay
Have you ever needed just the facts?
At times a formal, objectively written approach is more appropriate or even critical for establishing credibility so that your audience will listen and get informed! The key to informative writing is making the shift from personal opinion to objective facts. This assignment will provide you with the important opportunity to practice making this shift to a style that is required in so many workplaces and throughout your academic program.
For this assignment, you will write an informative essay on the topic you have previously chosen. You will need to identify a problem, need, or process related to your topic. Then you will inform your audience and provide supporting evidence from a minimum of two credible sources that have been provided in the webtext. Keep in mind, you will continue to use the standard essay format: Introduction paragraph with a thesis statement, body paragraphs that specifically support the points in your thesis statement, and a conclusion paragraph.