Review the Strategic Management Project Background document.

Review the following terms and concepts discussed this week to prepare for this assignment:
vertical integration
taper integration
backward vertical integration
forward vertical integration
strategic alliances
global strategy
international strategy
innovation

Create a Word doc and title it Strategic Management Research Journal Part 4.

Write a 525- to 700-word response to the following prompts in your journal entry:
Identify Caterpillar Inc.s short-term and long-term goals.
Evaluate how mergers and acquisitions in the last 3-5 years have contributed to Caterpillar Inc.s performance and affected its organizational goals.
Determine the most critical merger or acquisition that has contributed to Caterpillars performance and success in achieving organizational goals. Defend your choice.
Evaluate the effectiveness of Caterpillars operational plan for global strategies (international, multi-domestic, global-standardization, or transnational). Include supporting research or data.
Note: You will use information from this entry in your presentation due in Week 5.

AS WITH ALL APA ASSIGNMENTS, ALWAYS CITE YOUR REFERENCES AND SOURCES.

1. In this assignment, we are going to pretend that you are starting a company of your own.  What product or service you will be selling?

2. Who will be the target customer group for this product/service?  What are their characteristics? 

3.  What will be your marketing message to reach these customers?  Why do you think this message may resonate with them?

4. What are 3 specific ways that you going to reach/sell to your customers based on the customers’ characteristics?  Please be very specific with details about how you would do it.  Research online and figure out how much it would likely cost for each of these methods that you mentioned and how many customers will you likely be able to acquire with each method.

I want to model the shear wave velocity of a soil using matlab. The outcomes from the programming must result the variations of S-wave velocity versus depth. you can get some soil parameters from the internet to do the simulation. You must send me the reference in the word document ( where you will take your information from). The work must make sense in real engineering world. Conclusion and recommendation, and introduction must be provided. The out come from the work must be discussed properly. After doing the work, extract all results and place it in Ms word and send including the matlab coding. Please make sure to include table and figure in the work plus literature review relating to this topic ( using rayleigh waves to extract the shear wave velocity in the soil deposit) in the work. Include the references.  I want to chat with the engineer that will be doing this work. I want to know as to whether he/she understands what I want to do here.

Choose one or two tales weve read thus far, and use one secondary critical, academic, peer-reviewed sourcessome of the sources were reading count as these, tooto critically analyze a theme of interest in the tale(s). This should not be a book report, but a critical and analytical discussion, using a secondary source to back up a thesis statement. This should be approximately 4 pages, and use correct grammar, mechanics, quoting/citing, etc.

Review the following terms and concepts discussed this week to prepare for this assignment:
organizational structure
organizational culture
inertia
Holacracy
PESTEL model

Create a Word doc and title it Strategic Management Research Journal Part 3.

Write a 525- to 700-word response to the following prompts in your journal entry:
Assess whether Caterpillar Inc. is using the appropriate measures to verify its strategic effectiveness.
Summarize Caterpillar Inc.s organizational structure.
Determine whether Caterpillar Inc.s organizational structure is considered a traditional organizational structure or a Holacracy.
Justify why its important for Caterpillar Inc.s leadership team to study and understand the companys internal and external environments.
Evaluate Caterpillar Inc.s competitive position and how they have responded to shifts in the external and internal environments.
Recommend strategies in operational changes to support Caterpillars strategic plan, future business decisions, and improvement in business performance.
Note: You will use information from this entry in your presentation due in Week 5.

AS WITH ALL APA ASSIGNMENTS, ALWAYS CITE YOUR REFERENCES AND SOURCES.

Essay

The essay for this lesson is required to be 1,000-1,500-words and clearly demonstrate your understanding of the prompt. Essays should be 5 or more paragraphs with a clear introduction, thesis statement and conclusion, written in APA format (https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/).

Both Nietzsche and Marx believe that the actualization of the human essence, and thus self-realization, are accomplished through creative activity, yet both reckon that most people are prevented from achieving this and thereby living meaningful lives. Present their diagnoses of this situation and briefly sketch their solution to this problem.

References

Nietzsche, “On the Use and Abuse of History for Life”

Richardson, J. (2008). Nietzsches Problem of the Past. In Dries, M., Nietzsche on Time and History (pp. 87-111). Berlin, DEU.: Walter de Gruyter.

Pelz, W. (2012). Karl Marx A World to Win (1st ed., pp. 84-89). Boston Pearson Education, Inc.

Everything else is in the documents.

Project Summary
Description
Your web application project for the Semester is to design and develop a task/chore roster system for shared spaces that allows managers to set tasks, notifies users of their tasks, and allows users to mark tasks as complete.

Upon loading the system should display
Current tasks that need to be done today
The user who is assigned that task
Users should be able to sign up and log in so they can
View their scheduled tasks
Manage their profile/user information
Manage their availability
Manage the types of tasks they can/want to do.
Managers should be able to sign up and log in to:
Manage their profile/manager information
Create and manage different tasks.
Group tasks.
Assign tasks or groups of tasks to users.
Users/managers should be able to choose to link a social media/email/other account, allowing login via that platform, to make logging in easier.
One of the following two special features must also be present:

Email notifications
Users can request that an email notifications be sent to them for current/upcoming tasks.
Users should be able to choose when email notifications are sent
Users should be able to set multiple notifications and/or different notifications per task.
~ OR ~
Calendar Reminder
Users can connect their online calendar to the system (Google Calendar/Outlook)
Tasks automatically added and updated on users’ online Calendars.
Software Requirements
The web application must developed and run in the CS50 IDE.
You should also make regular (at least weekly backups/downloads of your work)
The web application must use NodeJS, Express, and AJAX .
The database must be a SQL database.
Your markup/code must pass W3C Validation and ESLint linting.
You may use other libraries/frameworks not addressed in this course, however your implementation must still demonstrate your understanding of the concepts taught in this course.

This assignment is an alternative option for visiting a museum or art gallery. For this paper, you will select and curate a minimum of 510 works of art by 510 different artists to include in your own art museum. Use your textbook and online sources to help you find these works of art. A good resource for this assignment is the Google Arts and Culture website from the Google Cultural Institute. Here you can immerse yourself in cultural experiences across art, history and wonders of the worldfrom more than a thousand museums across 70 countries.

Assignment Instructions
Write a 23 page report, 500750 words that describes your experience.

Create a 12- to 14-slide presentation, complete with speaker notes for Caterpillar Inc.s leadership team, in which you summarize your key findings, propose recommendations, and provide rationale for your recommendations.

Address the following topics and prompts in your presentation:

Topic: Caterpillar Inc.s Vision
Summarize your evaluation of the alignment between what Caterpillar Inc. is currently doing and their mission, vision, or values statement.
Recommend any changes you would make to Caterpillar Inc.s mission, vision, or values statements to improve organizational goals.

Topic: Caterpillar Inc.s Competitive Advantages and Disadvantages
Summarize your analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of Caterpillar Inc.s competitive advantages and disadvantages.
Recommend operational changes to improve Caterpillar Inc.s competitive advantages and business performance.
Propose a plan to measure and monitor the effectiveness of your recommended operational changes in Caterpillar Inc.s competitive advantages to achieve organizational goals.

Topic: Caterpillars Global Strategy
Summarize your assessment of Caterpillar Inc.s global strategy.
Recommend operational changes to improve Caterpillar Inc.s global strategy and business performance.
Propose a plan to measure and monitor the effectiveness of your recommended operational changes to Caterpillar Inc.s global strategy to achieve organizational goals.

This assignment is an alternative option for visiting a museum or art gallery. For this paper, you will select and curate a minimum of 510 works of art by 510 different artists to include in your own art museum. Use your textbook and online sources to help you find these works of art. A good resource for this assignment is the Google Arts and Culture website from the Google Cultural Institute. Here you can immerse yourself in cultural experiences across art, history and wonders of the worldfrom more than a thousand museums across 70 countries.

Assignment Instructions
Write a 23 page report, 500750 words that describes your experience.