Assignment 2: Scanners and Xerox

With the advent of scanners and the universality of the portable document format (PDF), the market for optical copiers is shrinking rapidly. Can a company such as Xerox Corporation survive? In this assignment, you will address this question.

Research the issues faced by Xerox from 2000–2010 and the solutions found using the assigned readings, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet. Specifically review the company’s annual report at the following:

• Xerox Corporation http://news.xerox.com/investors/reports

Respond to the following:

• Identify multiple business pressures on Xerox.
• Describe some of the company’s response strategies.
• Identify the role of IT as a contributor to the business technology pressures (for example, obsolescence).
• Identify the role of IT as a facilitator of Xerox’s critical response activities.
• Support your positions with reasons and examples based on your research.

Write a 3–5-page paper in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M2_A2.doc.

BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY

Identify the technology used in businesses and describe the types of technology used to support general business functions. Discuss challenges presented to management due to managing existing technology. How does technology impact the sales, marketing, finance, and production, human resource, and other functions within the business?

Give an account of Calvin’s sacramental theology. How does his compare with Luther’s?

This assignment is designed to assess your understanding of one of the key topics in the subject. The assignment is designed to allow you to:

1. Demonstrate a depth and breadth of knowledge of key historical developments in sacramental theology.

2. Critically evaluate the sacramental theology of various ancient and modern liturgical texts of baptism and/or the eucharist.

3. Analyses critically recent theological developments on sacramental theology.

4. References according to Chicago or APA styles.

Essential/Prescribed texts
Alasdair Heron, Table and Tradition: Towards and Ecumenical Understanding of the Sacraments (Edinburgh: The Handsel Press, 1983). Chapter 6

McGrath, The Doctrine of the sacraments

White, J. Reformation perspectives on Christian initiatives. In Documents of Christian worship. T&T Clark, Edinburgh, 1992, pp. 166-173.

The effect of Foreign Direct Investment in development of automobile sector in developing countries in the example of JV “MAN Uzbekistan”

The rationale for the actuality of the topic of the dissertation is that investments are the drivers of the economy that provide the movement forward – this is the axiom of any economic theory. Each state should make efforts to attract both domestic and foreign investors primarily to the sphere of material production.
For this purpose, a certain investment policy is developed and implemented, and an appropriate investment climate is formed. Economic reforms, consistently implemented in independent Uzbekistan and in many developing countries, presuppose the achievement of rational sectoral, reproductive and territorial proportions, the development of integrational processes, economic growth and others.
Developing the entire set of these sectors is closely connected with the implementation of the relevant investment policy, the formation of an effective system of regulations and investment processes support.
In the years of independence, Uzbekistan became one of the fast growing countries among the former USSR countries, that attracted an attention of many developed states. Beginning from the 1992 foreign investments started flowing into the economy of Uzbekistan, many joint-ventures came into the market. Particularly, by the initiative of the government was created “UzAutoSanoat” LLC that focuses on making deals with foreign automobile producing companies and localizing their production in Uzbekistan, and is considered a single of its kind in the Central Asia region. Today three vehicle producing joint-ventures are the results of the work of “UzAutoSanoat” LLC and are operating in Uzbekistan, these are: SamAuto LLC, General Motors Uzbekistan LLC, MAN Uzbekistan LLC.
Purpose of writing this dissertation is to show how joint ventures effect on development of a whole automobile sector in developing countries in the example of Uzbekistan, making analysis of functioning of JV “MAN AUTO UZBEKISTAN LLC”, as well as finding the ways to improve the attraction of foreign investments in the industry of the country.
It’s important to mark out, that main attention in this dissertation work will be given to the question of creating automobile JVs with foreign partners, cooperation of which helps to realize main purposes and tasks of joint ventures.
Hypothesis of research is that the developed offers and practical recommendations of this dissertation work allows to maintain of how attracting foreign investments to the automobile industry helps to improve this sector.