The purpose of the Session Long Project is to give you the opportunity to explore the applicability of the Module to your own life, work, and place in space and time, and to experiment with the Module to see how the otherwise academically rigorous presentation of a topic may, with more or less work and/or trauma, become “up close and personal”. This is done in a number of different ways — sometimes cumulative papers, sometimes practical hands-on experimentation with a tool of some sort, sometimes reflections on a place of work or life. The common thread is personal application, aimed at demonstrating a cumulative knowledge and understanding of the course’s material.

For this course, the Session Long Project will take the form of putting together background from each of the four perspectives for a balanced scorecard approach to an organization or organizational unit with which you are familiar. In the final module, you will have a go at strategy mapping. You’re not building a complete balanced scorecard — that would be far beyond our current scope – but you’ll have a chance to see what goes into it and how it gets put together into a coordinated whole. As in the cases, you’ll be drawing on your previous course work to help.

The Module 1 assignment has two parts. First, you need to identify an organization to which you have access to at least some information concerning financial data; staffing and human resource systems; marketing and customer relations; information systems; and operations. While most material on the Balanced Scorecard is written from the private, for-profit point of view, it’s perfectly possible to use this approach with public or non-profit organizations as well.

For the second part of this assignment, consider the organization’s mission and strategy from the perspective of its financial operations (from your work on the case, your previous course work, and your background reading, you should be reasonably clear what such operations are). In this section of the assignment you’ll begin to identify objectives and measures relevant to that perspective. If you’re unclear on just what objectives and measures are, here is a presentation that describes what they are and how to write them. 

SLP Assignment Expectations

When you have thought about it and made your selection, please specify (2-3 pages):

• The name of your organization
• What this organization does – its mission, vision and overall strategy
• The access you have to information about this organization — remember, you’ll need information about its financial performance, marketing, internal operations, strategy, and management systems.

Once you’re reasonably clear on what’s involved, think about your organization and its finances, and then:

• Identify at least three objectives for improving the organization’s financial position, and show how they relate to the mission, vision and strategy of the organization.
• For each objective, develop at least one meaningful performance measure (metric).
• For each objective, identify at least one expected level of performance (target).
• For each objective, identify at least one new action or program that needs to be developed to ensure successful implementation of the organization’s strategy (initiative).

Here’s a table that you may wish to copy and fill in:

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Human Biology

Carbohydrates: the main unit of carbohydrates is a simple sugar or monomer made up of mostly carbon, hydrogen and oxygen which function mostly deals with energy as in how it’s stored and transport, and plant structure. Combined these molecules form sugars, starches, and cellulose.

Lipids: are fats  consisting of  fatty acids attached to  glycerol,  Dietary  fats are mostly  triglycerides consisting of three fatty acids, which are attached to three carbons of glycerol.

Nucleic Acids are either RNA and DNA, the molecules that store  hereditary information and have the ability to process it.  The basic unit is a nucleotide which includes  a sugar, a phosphate and a purine or pyrimidine base.

Proteins   consist of chains of amino acids.  They make up muscle bone and many structural elements of your bodies They help transport molecules, they regulate various functions most importantly as enzymes.

-A condensation reaction is the forming of a water molecule and occurs when an enzyme removes a hydrogen atom from one sugar and an — OH or hydroxyl functional group from the other sugar and join the two sugars together. Condensation reactions can produce proteins, polysaccharides, and triglycerides.

Lipids act as a fuel reserve as well as provide structure and protection to a cell’s membrane. Lipids include fats, oils, waxes and cholesterol; they repel water and provide an energy source. They also have insulating properties, because they do not transmit heat well. If the structure of a lipid is altered it is not able to perform it’s functions, such as providing a protective coating to the cell membrane and the cell would be readily exposed to infections, and could also dissolve. Lipids are a very important part of the cell structure.

Carbohydrates are primarily  an energy source, to store energy and provide structure to molecules. Carbohydrates are formed from one or two monosaccharides that create a simple sugar and a chain of simple sugars compose complex carbohydrates. You can remove electrons from them, which are sources of energy. (They get passed down the electron transport chain and can be used to make ATP- the universal energy currency of the cell).  Triglycerides have more removable electrons so they are the richest source of energy.  Obviously a chain consisting of many individual sugars will have a lot more energy than just a simple sugar.

Proteins:  Made up of amino acids.  In the R group of each aa is what makes it different and gives that aa its particular quality.  The order of the amino acids in the polypeptide chain is what then also determines the secondary structure, how the protein will fold up and gives that protein its particular characteristics.

Nucleic acids store genetic information and transmit that information from one generation to the next, and they also transmit information from one cell to the next during replication for cell use. Nucleic Acids are made up of 4 different bases.  The order of the four nucleic acids along a linear DNA molecule is the code, 3 bases code for a particular amino acid.  The structure as a double helix also allow for replication and transcribing.  We will be learning more about this in the coming weeks. Some  of you said that NA  are an energy source.  While it is true that one of the bases is ATP but a base is not a nucleic acid  and so NAs are not  generally regarded as energy sources.

Lock and Key

The enzyme is usually a protein that is used over and over again to speed up chemical reactions.  It is not changed itself. Enzymes have at least one active site that causes a specific substrate to bind to it.  This brings them in to contact with each other.  They may slightly change their form and it lowers the energy of activation for a chemical reaction to take place. 

2. Fluid Mosaic Model  The membrane consists of a “mosaic” of protein molecules floating in a fluid bilayer of phospholipids. The lipid bilayer consists of two layers of phospholipids with the heads of the lipids outside and the tails of the lipids “sandwiched” inside the heads. Proteins are embedded within the lipid bilayer or attach to the bilayer’s outer or inner surface  and can  move around helping move particular substances in and out of the cell.

Methods of Transport

Diffusion  The movement of a solute down a concentration gradient in relation to water, requires no energy

 Osmosis. The diffusion of water through a semi-permeable membrane and in a way is the opposite of diffusion since in relation to the solute it is moving to an area of higher solute concentration, not lower, but is considered a special form of diffusion.

Facilitated Transport  This also requires no energy, but makes use of transport proteins to help move molecules in and out of the cell.

Active transport-

a crucial aspect of active transport is that the cell needs to expend energy in the form of ATP to transport  molecules that either are against a concentration gradient or to open up channels so that molecules can get through.

Endocytosis and Exocytosis   occurs to to move large molecules and particles through the cell that cannot just go through the membrane. In endocytosis a cell “engulfs” substances next to its surface. An indentation forms on the plasma membrane, and the substances are trapped in this indentation and pinches off to form a vesicle. The vesicle transports the substances into the cell. Exocytosis is the opposite. A vesicle full of substances moves to the cell surface and the membrane of the vesicle fuses with the cell membrane. The contents of the vesicle are then released to the outside of the cell.    This also uses energy.

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