Category: Business Finance – Operations Management

 

1. One of the causes of project failure occurs when a project does not meet its scheduled deadline. What are some of the causes for schedule delay? How can project team members help maintain a project’s schedule?

2. Why is the critical path important to your project schedule and how can your project team members help in this area?

 

1. Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness
   Overview
   Choose one public corporation in an industry with which you are familiar. Research the company on its own website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR database, the University’s online databases, the Nexis Uni database, and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions.
   Requirements
   Write a four- to six-page paper in which you do the following:
   
   • Assess how globalization and technology changes have impacted the corporation you researched.
   • Apply the industrial organization model and the resource-based model to determine how your corporation could earn above-average returns.
   • Assess how the vision statement and mission statement of the corporation influence its overall success.  
   • Evaluate how each category of stakeholder impacts the overall success of this corporation.  
   • Go to Basic Search: Strayer University Online Library and locate at least three quality references. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not quality as academic resources.
   • Use the Assignment 1 Template [DOCX] to ensure that your assignment meets the above requirements.
     Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
   • This course requires use of new Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The format is different than other Strayer University courses. Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details.
   • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow SWS or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
   • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
   • The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is the following:
   •  Determine the impact of globalization and technology changes, strategic models, vision and mission statements, and stakeholders on a corporation’s success.
   • Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic and organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the scoring rubric.
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Project Part 1: Project Proposal

Assignment Requirements:

There are four parts to the final course project. The first part of the project is the initial proposal, which will be submitted to the instructor for approval. The first part of the project will identify the company of choice that will seek an expansion opportunity to an overseas area of choice. Be sure to identify the country and mode of entry. In addition, provide and introduction and overview of selected company along with an initial analysis of the growth opportunity.

Steps to complete Part 1

Introduction:

Provide an introduction and overview of the selected company along with an initial analysis of the growth opportunity.

Identify the following:

 Country of choice

 Mode of entry

Submission Requirements:

Submit a two- to three-page Word document using 12-pt. font and APA format

 

Instructions

Answer questions 2, 4, and 6 from chapter three of the Kumar text. A successful response will fully answer each question. Please make sure you document your work and provide sufficient explanations on how you got to each answer.

This assignment is worth 50 points. Question 1 is worth 10 points and questions 2 & 3 is 20 points each.

2.  Distinguish between design capacity and system capacity.

4. A manufacturer of TV watches uses three TRS7 electronic chips in each TV watches produced. Demand estimates for the number of TV watches that could be sold next year are shown

     

Demand   X

20000

40000

50000

 

P (X)

0.30

0.50

0.20

(a) Assuming the firm decides to produce on an expected value basis, how many TRs7 chips should they plan to produce for next years sales?

(b) What capacity is required to meet 150 percent of expected demand?

  

6. An automatic drive-in teller at American National Bank has the capacity of handling 2,000 entries per regular banking day (according to the firm that sold it the bank). However, because of limitations imposed by automobile access, the teller is available 60 percent of the time. It is actually being used for about 800 entries per day. What is the system efficiency? 

Attach Files:

Go to Chapter 3 on this website for references, copy the link below and paste in url box to search.

 https://6o3230i0a-mp01-y-https-ebookcentral-proquest-com.prx-herzing.lirn.net/lib/herzing-ebooks/reader.action?docID=437706 

Part 1 Respond to the following:

(Paragraph for each part)

• Can any firm beat Amazon in the marketplace? If not, why not? If so, how can they best do so? How formidable a competitor is Google for Amazon? Please explain. What are Amazon’s major strengths? Does it have any weaknesses? Please explain. Is Jet.com a potential concern for Amazon? Why or why not?
• Given the importance of understanding the external environment, why do some firms fail to do so? Provide examples of firms that did not understand their external environment. What were the implications of the firm’s failure to understand that environment?
   
• Part 2: 
• Many companies use their brand as a competitive advantage. Given your knowledge about the global economy, identify three brands you believe have the strongest likelihood of remaining a source of advantage in the 21st century and explain why. Explain the effects you believe the Internet’s capabilities will have on the brands you identified in the previous discussion and what the owner of the brand should do in light of them.

 Individually, students will read 5 journal/research articles that pertain to marketing a service (as opposed to a product). Students will then write a 3-5 page report (excluding cover page, abstract, and references) synthesizing those 5 articles. APA methodology applies to this assignment. 

 

Company Z provides telephony services to customers. These services include VoIP. You are hired to create a security assessment for company Z for an upcoming audit by the counties authoritative agents to certify company Z compliant to ISO 17799 Standard for The professional Practices for the Business Continuity Planner and ISO 27001/27002. In this security assessment you are asked to conduct a complete

1. network security threat assessment 
2. network security vulnerability assessment 
3. risk assessment 
4. countermeasures and mitigation 
5. the last part of your work will include your personal experiences and what you have learned in this class reflected towards securing your system’s network 

You may use web resources as references, however make sure to include all your resources and cite from them with author, year of publication, and the corresponding page or paragraph numbers. MINIMUM 2700 WORDS, 13 SCHOLARLY APA REFERENCES.  I HAVE ATTACHED A SAMPLE PAPER, DO NOT PLAGIARIZE! DUE 1/18/2020 AT 10AM EST 

You want to launch a business internationally, and you need to choose 3 countries1 in the Middle East, 1 in Asia, and 1 in Latin America.

• What are some of the components of these cultures that you need to understand from a business standpoint?
• How are they different in each country? Specifically, what considerations will be necessary to facilitate collaboration across these cultures? Identify supervisory skills appropriate to respond to your considerations.
• Can you have a U.S. management style in these countries? In support of your answer, show how various issues would influence the success of multicultural teamwork.
• How are their economic systems classified? Explain why they are classified as such.
• After studying these countries, explain whether you should or should not move forward with your business plan.