People are the key to success for your business. Complete the management section of your business plan, and share it here. It should include: your key personnel, line of authority, management style, and organization plan. Also share: What management strengths and weak points did you find? Why? How can you capitalize on your strengths? How can you improve upon your weak points? Why is this a challenge for todays entrepreneur?
Month: December 2020
Make sure that there is a flow in text.
Please include abstract please see screenshots
Task: Individual Essay:
In the context of a hotel resort and your knowledge of the subject areas studied in the Hotel Services Management unit, discuss how hotel resorts may combine appropriate facilities and organizational resources, operational effectiveness and relevant customer services to ensure customer satisfaction. You may cite examples of good hotel resort industry practice and combine this with your knowledge of the subject areas studied in the Hotel Services Management unit.
Maximum 2000 words.
Marking Criteria:
a) /30 The quality and extent of the discussion associated with the identification of
appropriate hotel resort facilities and organizational resources, operational
effectiveness and relevant customer services.
b) /30 The quality and extent of the discussion related to customer satisfaction in the
context of the combination of appropriate hotel resort facilities and organizational
resources, operational effectiveness and relevant customer services.
c) /25 The extent and relevance of the industry practice and Hotel Services Management
unit subject content referred to.
d) /15 The overall presentation of the essay and the degree of substantiation and
referencing evident.
Please note: the term ‘quality’, in the marking criteria above, refers to the relevance, intelligibility and coherence of the discussion.
This assignment I really need an A in because this essay is 70% of my grade. Make sure everything flows together the structure. and connect the paragraphs transition. Included examples of my writing style,
my school follows the MMU harvard style which I attached.
1. Please explain what the environmental costs of intensive farming (conventional agriculture) are. In your answer, explain the connection to the Green Revolution, chemical fertilizers and the common conventional agriculture. Additionally, in your explanation, use at least 5 terms from the following list and use them to further develop your argument. Please note Your answer should be written as a narrative with a beginning, middle and end. The reader of the text must understand what the environmental costs in the narrative are.
Organic matter
Earth worms
Eutrophication
Loss of seed Biodiversity
CCD
Deforestation
GMO
Roundup
Deforestations
Tragedy of the commons
Your answer should not exceed over 1.5 pages.
2. You are asked to write a position piece for the United Nations with recommendations to address an issue we studied in our course. Pick an issue from the course’s units, explain it and let us know – what would your recommendations be? In you answer, please refer to at least 2 academic papers which support your opinion.
Knowledge sharing websites, such as Wikipedia and EcoWiki, are NOT considered academic sources.
Your answer should not exceed over 1 page.
Create a 6- to 8-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation in which you:
Explain the importance of leadership to a team.
Explain leadership practices you incorporated into your leadership style.
Provide examples of how you incorporated those leadership practices within your team.
Discuss leadership strategies the other managers can use to motivate their own teams.
Summarize the challenges you encountered through the teams process and what decisions you would have made differently.
Team formation
Conflict Resolution
Resource Planning and allocation
Leadership
Assignment Prompt:
This week you will develop an Exit or Harvesting Plan for the company you built a business model for in Week 6. There are many scenarios where a business owner would want (or need) to exit or downsize segments or product lines in his or her business, or possibly exit the entire business. Retirements, deaths, competitive changes, consumer needs, economic downturns, and loss of interest are only a few of the possible reasons for having an “exit or harvesting” plan roughed out and ready to implement. Before getting started on the exit plan portion of your model, make sure you review the resources in the Reading & Resources section of week eight’s lesson.
Assignment Instructions:
For this project, you will be creating a 15 to 20 slide PowerPoint program you will submit by this Sunday midnight. In your presentation, you will develop an exit strategy for your business model utilizing five different scenarios:
Scenario 1: A Major downturn in the economy that has caused cash flow to go negative and is expected to last for 2 to 3 years. As the entrepreneur, you have enough cash saved in the business to last 6 months at your current employment, inventory, and fixed overhead cost levels. What is your exit strategy
Scenario 2: There is a devastating natural disaster (hurricane or earthquake) that has ruined your facilities and completely interrupted your business. It will be months before insurance can be collected to rebuild your facilities, rolling-stock, and inventory. What is your exit strategy?
Scenario 3: A major operation has moved into your market area and the competitive pressure has caused you to reduce prices on one product line to the point that you are barely making a profit. This scenario is different, here you are asked to think and communicate what options are worth trying before “harvesting” that product line. Second, what steps are needed to harvest the struggling product line if your strategies don’t work.
Scenario 4:You have lost your financial backing from the institute you have been using for the past three years. As in scenario 3, what refinancing options are worth trying, how long do you give yourself to evaluate and investigate these options, and, finally, if nothing works, what is your exit strategy.
Scenario 5: You are approaching retirement age, have no heirs who which to run the business. You would like to sell the business and use the proceeds for your retirement. There are no “options” for this scenario, you are wanting to sell the business. Your job is to do some research about how to sell a small business, then put together a workable plan to sell the business looking at all of the options to sell that are possibly open to you.
A possible organization for your presentation is given below. However, you are free to add your own “touches” to this presentation so long as all of the bases (see below) are covered. You are also free to choose a business template you feel best supports your PowerPoint presentation. If you need to brush up on your skills with Microsoft PowerPoint, here is an excellent (no charge) resource to watch some very short videos on using Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 (365) GCFLearnFree.Org/Powerpoint16
1 Presentation “Title slide” with your name, company name, and a Title for your presentation
1 Slide with a short description of the Business
1 Slide with your definition of an Exit/Harvesting Strategy
1 Slide with all 5 Scenarios listed
5 Sub-Title slides that separate the presentation into each of the five
1 to 2 slides under each of the 5 sub-title slides defining your exit strategy for the scenario. Make sure you include a short paraphrase of the scenario as the title for each of the 1 or 2 pages .
1 Slide for References (minimum 3)
Include speaker notes on all slides that further enhance your bullet points on the slides
In previous weeks, you went into the New York Times Small Business Case Study file and chose either an e-commerce or service related business to report on. This week you will head back into the extensive list of small businesses case studies provided by the New York times and choose a product-oriented small business to describe the that business must plan for in order to assure continued viability. Start this discussion the same way you did in week 2, by noting the business name, owner, and type of business the entrepreneur is in. Then review the challenges this business found itself in and what solutions it applied. Finally, recommend one additional solution to the challenge the entrepreneur could have considered.
https://www.nytimes.com/search?query=Case+Studies
In previous weeks, you went into the New York Times Small Business Case Study file and chose either an e-commerce or service related business to report on. This week you will head back into the extensive list of small businesses case studies provided by the New York times and choose a product-oriented small business to describe the that business must plan for in order to assure continued viability. Start this discussion the same way you did in week 2, by noting the business name, owner, and type of business the entrepreneur is in. Then review the challenges this business found itself in and what solutions it applied. Finally, recommend one additional solution to the challenge the entrepreneur could have considered.
https://www.nytimes.com/search?query=Case+Studies
For this week’s assignment, you will be developing a Business Model for a business opportunity of interest to you. Your discussion assignment this week is to describe your initial thinking about the business for which you have chosen to Model. To the extent you can, introduce your fellow learners regarding: (a) the products and/or services offered; the facilities, equipment, inventory, and other assets needed; the target market and customer demographics on which you will focus; and what expertise you, as the entrepreneur, bring to the business.
Assignment Prompt:
This week your assignment is to begin researching a small business of interest to you and then start the process of organizing and writing of a formal business model. You will want to select a small business or franchise for which you have some expertise, knowledge, experience, and (most importantly) considerable interest. Before you attempt this Model, please review some of the resources listed in the Reading & Resources section of the Week 6 Lesson.
Once you have reviewed the resources in the lesson, the next step in this process is to watch the video hyperlinked below. We will be using the model design that is covered in this short 9-minute video. Before you start the video, download and print out a copy of the Outline sheet that has been inserted below, it will help you in your note taking as you watch this video.
The Business Model Canvas – 9 Steps to Creating a Successful Business Model – Startup Tips
Now that you have a good feel for the business you want to model, and the format we are going to use to develop your Business Model, it’s time to get to work formatting your business plan. We will follow an organization much like the video you just watched, with two exceptions (see the outline below):
Section 1 – The company description, location, and name
Section 2 – The Value Proposition
Section 3 – Customer Segments
Section 4 – Channels
Section 5 – Revenue Streams
Section 6 – Key Resources Required
Section 7 – Key Partners
Section 8 – Key Activities
Section 9 – Cost Structure (no numbers required, just layout what is important to plan for as important (a) fixed costs, (b) variable costs, (c) activity costs, (d) logistics costs, and (e) legal, license,
Instructions:
How you present this Model is up to you, it can be a PowerPoint presentation or MS Word report. Your submission will be assessed according to the following criteria
The thought that was put into each of the 9 segments. Was everything considered and has the author considered all of the important factors affecting each part of the model? Is it complete with no missing elements?
How creative was the model presentation
How professionally narrated, written, or presented the Model is?
Manage your time carefully, this project could easily take more time than some of the others. Submit your Model by Sunday, Midnight.
Work Cited and NO Plagiarism
I only need two-paragraph
Advances in research in the area of genetics have allowed for the ability of genetic modifications. Should individuals be able to make genetic modifications as they deem fit? Why or why not?
