Are there any issues that might affect the success and survival of Netflix? If there are, what can be done about them?

/in /by

STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT AND BUSINESS POLICY

You have been asked by the CEO of NETFLIX (refer to the Netflix Case in files) to undertake a comprehensive strategic investigation to identify any strategic issues they may be facing and to suggest ways of dealing with them. The two key questions to address are:

1.Are there any issues that might affect the success and survival of Netflix?

2.If there are, what can be done about them?

For this report, the CEO would particularly like you to focus on how the firm / organization can develop and sustain competitive advantage as well as maintain legitimacy. Therefore, YOU WILL NEED TO APPLY AT LEAST ONE theoretical approach that is based on competitive advantage (Marketing-inspired Strategic Thinking / The Industrial Organization Approach / The Resource-based View / Agency Theory & Shareholder Value) AND ONE theoretical approach that is based on legitimacy (Stakeholders & Organizational Politics / Institutional Theory and Organizational Culture).

Once you have completed your strategic analysis and investigation, you should write a report to the CEO of the firm / organization in question, making your recommendations. The report should be dated at the current date and should consider the firm’s / organization’s state of affairs and options at this date.

Identify an example of a variable measured at the scale/normally distributed level for which there is a statistically significant overall difference (F) between the three marital status groups. Complete the analysis and interpret the results

/in /by

Comparing Groups

Chapter 9

Using the CollegeStudentData.sav file, do the following problems. Print your outputs after typing your interpretations on them. Circle the key parts of the output that you use for your interpretation.

9.5 Identify an example of a variable measured at the scale/normally distributed level for which there is a statistically significant overall difference (F) between the three marital status groups. Complete the analysis and interpret the results. Do appropriate post hoc tests.

9.6 Use the Kruskal–Wallis test, with Mann‒Whitney post hoc follow-up tests if needed, to run the same problem as 9.1. Compare the results.

9.7 Do students’ heights differ depending on academic track and marital status, and do academic track and marital status interact? Run the appropriate analysis and interpret the results.

9.8 Do academic track and having children interact and does either seem to affect current GPA?

Write a 1000-1200 word paper on how the pandemic has impacted purchasing from a manufacturing or service supply chain perspective.

/in /by

How The Pandemic Has Impacted Purchasing from a Manufacturing or Service Supply Chain Perspective

You are to write a 1000-1200 word paper on how The Pandemic Has Impacted Purchasing from a Manufacturing or Service Supply Chain Perspective. Submit your paper in a MS Word Document, Times New Roman, 12 pt font, 1.5 spacing (cite all sources using APA format).

Discuss what business model innovation is and how an organisation can engage in business model innovation? Analyse their current technology commercialisation strategy and business model, identify opportunities present within their external market and make recommendations which may enhance their competitive position and aid their growth.

/in /by

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

BUSINESS MODEL INNOVATION

Discuss what business model innovation is?

And how an organisation can engage in business model innovation (use appropriate theory).?

You will act as consultants and work with a start-up client called eXRt Intelligent Healthcare ( ). You are required to analyse their current technology commercialisation strategy and business model, identify opportunities present within their external market and make recommendations which may enhance their competitive position and aid their growth.

Based on your Burton et al. diagnosis, generate one potential recommendations. Explain and support your recommendations by referencing Richard M Burton text Organizational Design and evidence from your diagnosis.

/in /by

Change recommendations for organization or unit

Based on your Burton et al. diagnosis, generate one potential recommendations. Be sure to explain and support your recommendations by referencing Richard M Burton text Organizational Design and evidence from your diagnosis.

Your recommendations should directly flow from your diagnosis (do not suggest recommendations that you would like to see occur but did not evolve from your diagnosis). Your SWOT/TOWS can be used to further support your recommendations or guide your recommendations.

Select an appropriate intervention for your case study. Evaluate why the intervention is applicable to the case study. Interpret the actions involved when utilizing the intervention.

/in /by

Last week, you prepared the foundation of your final project by selecting a case study and applying the appropriate action research process to the OD challenges. Based on your knowledge of intervention types, you proposed a recommended interaction for the challenge. This week, you will have the opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the individual, team, group, and organizational interventions, and what they look like during problem-solving and decision-making.

Intervention is the “doing” phase of action research. This paper will solidify your intervention selection. You will explain the actions used during your selected intervention and comprehensively apply the process to the case study. The paper must be at least two full pages in length and must include the course textbook as a reference, as well as three additional scholarly and credible sources to support the content of the paper.

In your paper,

Select an appropriate intervention for your case study.
Evaluate why the intervention is applicable to the case study.
Interpret the actions involved when utilizing the intervention.

The Intervention Selection and Application paper

this was the case study selected

Center City Hospital is a large outpatient surgery center in a mid-size urban area of Kansas. The CEO, Director of Nursing (DON), and the HR manager are concerned with a moral issue amongst the nursing staff of the organization. During the past year, the hospital has been trying to change the culture to become more profitable and patient-centered.

Organizational Design:

Full-time staffing of the hospital is operational. This includes the CEO, DON, Human Resources Management (HRM), Finance, Risk Management, and Unit Managers for each section of the surgery center. Nursing staff within the center is outsourced and nurses are hired on as conditional permanent staff. The doctors are independent contractors with the hospital and are on yearly contracts.

Challenge and Request Criteria:

The CEO, DON, and the HRM believe the morale of nurses is at an all-time low and the relationship between doctors, unit managers, and nurses is damaging to the mission of the hospital. The CEO is concerned about losing physicians due to the lack of leadership skills displayed by the unit managers. The unit managers are concerned about the stress level for the nurses and blame the arrogant behavior of the physicians as the cause of stress.

The CEO, DON, and HRM request an OD intervention for all internal managers with the intent of developing a common focus of leading a united team. The leadership team requires that this be addressed in a one-day workshop and that a visible improvement be seen over the next 12 months.

As defined by the leadership team, the intervention

is to develop stronger leadership skills within the unit manager staffing, and must result with visible improvement over the subsequent 12 months.

Define a strategic problem faced by your case study organisation. Interpret the strategic problem using concepts and theories that you have learned on this course.

/in /by

INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT

Define a strategic problem faced by your case study organisation.

Interpret that strategic problem using concepts and theories that you have learned on this course.

Recommend solutions to the strategic problem that you have identified, using concepts and theories that you have learned on this course

Some Issues To Consider:

  • Address the strategic expansion internally of Cisco and how in a few short years it grew to an imposing scale and has highly diversified offerings
  • Focus on the importance of growth through strategic expansion via acquisitions and alliances
  • Focus on the innovation value base which is part of the organization’s DNA
  • Focus on the strategic and other changes (benefits/costs) CEO Robbins initiated to move Cisco

forward – offer a critique based of theoretical relevant frameworks

  • Recognise and analyse the various cultural models that could explain the complexities of

managing cultural differences in a global world

Which kind of average has been used? What was the size of the sample used to find the average? What is the source of the data? How was the data collected? Do you think the average was chosen to give valid and reliable results, or to attract the most readers?

/in /by

Data analysis portfolio

PART 1: Presentation and Display of Survey Data

1 (a) Averages in the news

Find an example of a mainstream media report that includes the word “average” in the headline. The report should be on a subject broadly related to your degree title.

Provide the link to the article here:

Paste a screenshot of the headline and relevant parts of the report mentioning the average below:

Answer the following questions. If you cannot find an answer for a question, explain what effect this might have on the information in the article.

Which kind of average has been used?

What was the size of the sample used to find the average?

What is the source of the data? How was the data collected?

Do you think the average was chosen to give valid and reliable results, or to attract the most readers?

Based on your calculations in task 1 you will need to critically analyse methods available to reduce costs. Discuss the judgments and conclusions drawn from your analysis to underpin your cost reduction strategy clearly outlining the value of your recommendations to the business.

/in /by

Business Finance

Scenario

Dysonica is a successful international innovative company based originally in the UK but now operates internationally. It has its products available on the high street as well as selling online. Increased competition has led to many cost-cutting decisions, resulting in manufacturing being moved from the UK.

Task 1

You work for the company as a trainee management accountant and have been asked to examine the following cost information to classify it according to its behaviour to identify variable costs, fixed costs or semi-variable cost.

  • Raw materials £15,000
  • Machinery £1500 per month
  • Factory and storage rent £18,000 per month
  • Direct labour £17,500 per month
  • Utilities £500 per month
  • Office and sales staff £9,000 per month
  • Insurance £500 per month
  • Logistics £3,000 per month

There are three main methods of attributing indirect costs to production units – absorption costing, marginal costing, and activity-based costing (ABC). Use examples to illustrate your answer in the calculation of unit costing using the information provided.

Task 2

Based on your calculations in task 1 you will need to critically analyse methods available to reduce costs. Discuss the judgments and conclusions drawn from your analysis to underpin your cost reduction strategy clearly outlining the value of your recommendations to the business.

Task 3

  • You are to prepare a 12 month forecast/budget for the business up to 30 April 2023. Using the figures below complete a cash flow forecast for Dysonica PLC.
  • Capital introduced £20,000
  • Sales estimated at £25,000 in the first month increasing by 40% each month thereafter
  • Insurance £6000 paid in monthly instalments
  • Salaries £26,500 per month with an annual 20% pay rise for all employees in November
  • Raw materials (Cost of purchases) 60% of sales
  • Miscellaneous £50 per month
  • Rent £18,000 per month Review at month 6 increased to £25,000 per month
  • Accountant’s fee £1500 paid in month 1
  • Utilities £2500 paid quarterly (July, October, January, April)
  • Telephones £1000 paid quarterly (July, October, January, April)
  • Vehicles New Van £5000 and new car for manager at £15000 in the first month £200 every month there after
  • Marketing costs 5% of sales for the first six months increasing from month 7 to 10%
  • Water 100 per quarter (July, October, January, April)
  • Logistics £3000 per month increasing by 50% in the 4th month due to an increase in transportation and storage costs in the UK.
  • Machinery £1500 paid monthly

Based on your cash flow forecast create a 12 month budget to assist Dysonica with future spending, cost reduction and finance management.

Task 4

The finance director has become increasingly concerned about the costs of manufacturing in the UK. The company imports some electrical items from China. The exchange rate has been falling, resulting in increased costs for these materials. Costing information is being examined for the current year based on your forecasts.

  • You are to evaluate the performance of Dysonica based on the information in your forecast and budgets (Task 3)
  • You need to consider the financial/ non-financial implications along with external factors that impact on your cost base.

Clear justifications are needed to support the conclusions and recommendations made in your evaluation.

Discuss any relevant extracurricular activities or work experience that you feel is applicable.

/in /by

Statement of Purpose

Include a typed statement addressing your reasons for applying to the Business Administration school. Indicate how you expect the minor/major to contribute to your undergraduate education and future career plans. Discuss any relevant extracurricular activities or work experience that you feel is applicable. It is recommended the Statement be pre-written in a word processor and then copy/paste into the box below.

Note, the average Statement of Purpose length is 1.5 pages.