Orlando Rivero

• EdD
• Managing Director at Southwest Florida Healthcare Consultants

Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing strategic decision-making in organizations by enabling data-driven insights, predictive analytics, and real-time scenario planning. The current paper explored the transformative role of AI tools in managerial strategies, their impact on decision accuracy and efficiency, and the challenges associated w...

This chapter aims to examine various facets of the unemployment rate concerning individuals aged 16 to 24 in the United States. The issue of unemployment in the United States remains a significant and enduring topic of discussion. As of July 2012, the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics reported an unemployment rate of 8.3%, drawing widespread...

Online education is the fastest growing segment of higher education. Unfortunately, many students attending college online fail to successfully earn their college degrees. The high attrition rate among online students proves costly for both the student and the university and is a multifaceted problem. This study investigated whether academic adviso...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the number of Alzheimer's and Dementia incidences occurring in Honduras and afford recommendations to improve public health policies to assist the elderly. According to The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (2016), there has been an increase in the number of Alzheimer's incidences in Honduras. Moreo...

American firms continue to improve services/product lines in order to stay competitive within their respective industry. Unfortunately, expectations can be out of the norm, resulting in misguided organizational change. Studies have suggested that misguided organizational change initiatives trigger managers to mistreat employees. Consequently, most...

The purpose of this article is to seek an understanding as to how organizations are able to evolve despite the challenges attributable to the increase of competition and the reduction of resources. Studies have suggested that the lack of leadership is to blame for promoting misguided organizational change. Other experts suggest that corporate leade...

The purpose of this article is to review recent trends related to Starbucks Corporation and the characteristics of innovation and change in the global coffee industry. Starbucks has 5,415 licensed stores in the Americas; 1,143 licensed stores in Europe/Middle East/Africa; 3,000 licensed stores in China/Asia Pacific; and 66 in all other segments (Se...

The purpose of this paper is to examine organizational change initiatives that have led to misleading job expectations. Due to scarce resources, employees are overwhelmed with unrealistic work expectations, which have led to job dissatisfaction in the workplace. Unfortunately, employees are unable to make swift career changes which eventually lead...

The purpose of this article was to present the importance of using public relations to communicate the intent and application of corporate sustainability by organizations that are involved in this practice. Since there are three areas that corporate sustainability is involved with, corporate/business. The CEOs of organizations responsible for the...

Organizational change continues to be a focal point for most American organizations. Although, American firms have been successful in promoting organizational change in the workplace, unrealistic expectations continue to be endorsed in most organizational structures. Consequently, this organizational dilemma has led to misguided expectations re...

For the last several years, United States firms have been fascinated with the study of emotional intelligence (EI). The rapid change agent to improve products and services has had an impact on the overall work environment. Studies have suggested that most organizational change initiatives are unsuccessful due to the lack of communication among m...

The purpose of the article is to review the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) convergence and its effect toward organizational change initiatives. It is expected that IFRS will replace U.S. GAAP in the near future. Most importantly, in 2010, the Securities and Exchange endorsed the convergence of IFRS and also urged firms to switch...

The purpose of the article is to review recent trends as it relates to modern journal publications. With that being said, open access journals have had an impact on the journal publication industry. Subsequently, open access journals have led to a decrease in book publications but an increase of journal publications in America among faculty members...

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that marketing in Greece is underdeveloped because the nation does not have an adequate number of private corporations due to insufficient industrialization. Advanced marketing practices are the result of the corporate form of business. Industrialization in Greece was followed by arapid shift to post-Fo...

The purpose of this paper is to review recent trends as they relate toorganizational change and how these trends have affected the overall workenvironment. Over the years, UnitedStates corporations have successfully done well financially. However, due to downsizing initiatives andthe outsourcing of products and services to other countries in order...

The United States unemployment rate continues to be a focal point of discussion. Although in July 2012, the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics reported an 8.3% unemployment rate in America, this figure only reflects workers between the ages of 16 and older. With this being said, there is a segment of the population unrepresented within the to...

The purpose of this article is to describe the importance of establishing organizational development initiatives during organizational change. The sense of urgency to promote change in the workplace has been a focal point for most organizations in an effort to remain competitive. Unfortunately, the humanistic approach has been exchanged for undeliv...

The spread of Rumors/Grapevines/Rumor-mills continues to be an issue for most mid\large organizations throughout the United States. Rumors have been an integral part of American political views and have had an effect on most organizational change initiatives. The notion of not knowing something provokes human instincts to seek the truth among emplo...

On November 1, 2001, the Miami-Dade County Animal Services Unit established the first and only Free Spay and Neuter program in the nation. This program allows county residents to spay/neuter their pets at no cost to them and is a key solution to reducing pet over population in Miami-Dade County. Irresponsible pet owners and those who have failed to...