Critically evaluate and make recommendations in a report to her on organisational change as it relates to the hotel. Include amongst other things; type of change, triggers and drivers of change, how culture impacts organisational change, likely resistance to change and leadership role.

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Change in Organisations

Read the case study included in this for you to complete the report and please use theoretical frame in the work as well as all the sources you can find relevant.

You are a Consultant specialising in Organisational Change. Sabrina a newly recruited member of the Executive Management Team for the EHG has specifically employed you to research, critically evaluate and make recommendations in a report to her on organisational change as it relates to the hotel. This will include amongst other things; type of change, triggers and drivers of change, how culture impacts organisational change, likely resistance to change and leadership role. You will also need to detail a set of recommendations at the end of your report.

Include the Theoretical framework in the report which are Bridges transition model 1991 and the Kubler Ross change curve. Include other research sources you may want.  Also include an executive summary and recommendations at the end of the report based on the research and findings.

Look at the financial statements for the company you selected and, using the previous quarter’s financial data, interpret the data and propose a budget for the next Quarter based on your current and previous analysis of company performance. Complete the budget template using this Operating Budget.

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Tesla Operating Budget

Using the same publicly traded company you used in the Environmental Scanning Interactive Assignment, and the downloadable Operating Budget Template Download Operating Budget Template, research the company online by accessing the Mergent University of Arizona Global Campus Library online database which offers company financials, descriptions, history, property, subsidiaries, officers and directors. Also, access the Business Insights: Global University of Arizona Global CampusLibrary online database which offers information on global companies, and industries. It includes SWOT reports, market share data, financial reports, case studies, business news, and company comparison charts. (View the Getting Started With Mergent (Links to an external site.) and Business Insights: Global (Links to an external site.) documents for suggested methods of searching University of Arizona Global Campus Library databases generally as well as specific advice for searching these two databases). You can always conduct research using credible online sources of corporate financial information, just be sure that wherever you obtain financial information that you cite your source.

For this Interactive Assignment, you are going to look at the financial statements for the company you selected and, using the previous quarter’s financial data, interpret the data and propose a budget for the next Quarter based on your current and previous analysis of company performance. Complete the budget template using this Operating Budget Template Download Operating Budget Template:

List your current sales, discounts and allowances, net sales, margins, operating costs, and earning before and after taxes.

Choose a minimum of two financial ratios (below) and include in your analysis.

Prepare the next quarter’s budget based on your interpretation of past data.

Include at least two of the following types of relevant financial ratios in your analysis. Review the online article Analyze Investments Quickly With Ratios (Links to an external site.) (Elmerraji, 2017) and Chapter 5 in the Abraham’s textbook to help with this portion of the budget:

Profitability Ratio

Liquidity Ratio

Solvency Ratio

Valuation Ratio

Leverage Ratio

Undertake an external analysis of your chosen organisation to identify potential opportunities to be more sustainable and responsible and threats to the ongoing sustainability and responsibility of your organization. Identify where your chosen organisation is particularly vulnerable to a possible threat to their sustainability and responsibility due to their weaknesses and propose a defensive strategy that addresses weaknesses and/or avoids a threat.

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Case Study Report of Tripadvisor

You have been hired as a sustainability and responsibility consultant for a organisation of your choice (appropriate for your degree).

You are required to prepare a highly visual (e.g., heavy use of infographics) case study report that covers the following:

Internal analysis: Undertake an internal analysis of your chosen organisation to identify its strengths and weaknesses with regard to sustainability and responsibility, using properly referenced sources.

External analysis: Undertake an external analysis of your chosen organisation to identify potential opportunities to be more sustainable and responsible and threats to the ongoing sustainability and responsibility of your organization.

Aggressive strategy: Undertake matching of strengths and opportunities to identify a competitive advantage that your chosen organisation has to be more sustainable and responsible and propose an aggressive strategy to leverage this.

Defensive strategy: Identify where your chosen organisation is particularly vulnerable to a possible threat to their sustainability and responsibility due to their weaknesses and propose a defensive strategy that addresses weaknesses and/or avoids a threat.

Provide an overview of your chosen establishment’s operations, supported by an illustration of the end-to-end supply chain of the chosen outlet in a diagram. Create a process map of the existing service operation from a customer’s perspective, including actions, timings, waits, delays, and decision points.

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Operations and Project Management

You are required to write a 1,500-word report assessing and providing recommendations for the improvement of the Operations Management of a specific chosen outlet. Your chosen outlet can be any retail store, supermarket, bank, pharmacy,or any other outlet you decide upon. You are required solely to make your own observations and draw on secondary data and your own opinions and conclusions. You are not expected and indeed should not (for ethical reasons) seek views or data from anyone else, such as customers or business staff/owners. Whilst visiting the outlet, you are expected to collect some evidence relevant to the tasks below.

BRIEF
1. Provide an overview of your chosen establishment’s operations, supported by an illustration of the end-to-end supply chain of the chosen outlet in a diagram

2. Create a process map of the existing service operation from a customer’s perspective, including actions, timings, waits, delays, and decision points. Suggest changes that improve the customer experience and illustrate these with a new process map – ie before and after process maps

3. Making reference to quality attributes, benchmark and assess the current performance of the operation with respect to delivered service quality compared to a specific direct competitor outlet.

4. Using an importance-performance matrix, identify and justify an improvement priority you would recommend to the operation’s service quality provision, explicitly stating scope, target audience and planned outcome of your recommended improvement.

5. Produce a high-level plan, supported by a Gantt chart for a six-month project to implement the improvement you have recommended in Task 4 above. Develop a risk register to show how you would control the risks during implementation of the project.

Discuss the differences between ‘Public’, ‘Private’ and ‘Third Sector’ organisations. How could these ‘differences’ affect the management task? Do you consider that Public and Private sectors have converged since 1979? Identify and discuss the role of performance management within a public sector organisation of your choice in response to the recent COVID-19 pandemic.

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Intermediate Microeconomics

Assessment Questions:
Read the following section carefully in conjunction with associated grade descriptors for level H5.
For each piece of assessment, you must submit one copy through the module site on the module Assessment 1 – (30%) weighting – Electronic hand-in 05.11.21

In weeks 1-4 we explore how the similarities and differences of public and private sectors impact on the role and task of management and finance. Using varied contemporary theories of public management and finance within lectures, discussions, and seminars we will apply these ideas and practices and relate them to both policy and practice within contemporary macro and microenvironments.

Choose ONE of the following four questions:
1. Discuss the differences between ‘Public’, ‘Private’ and ‘Third Sector’ organisations. How could these ‘differences’ affect the management task?

2. Do you consider that Public and Private sectors have converged since 1979? Justify your position with practical examples.

3. To what extent has creation of markets and competition within the Public Sector provided ‘Value for Money’. Illustrate your answer with practical examples.

4. Identify and discuss the role of performance management within a public sector organisation of your choice in response to the recent COVID-19 pandemic.

Choose an area of current interest that is worthy of study, i.e. a real-life issue that a company might face involving the use of technology. Provide a synopsis to the chosen area providing background and academic underpinning outlining why findings from this research would be potentially useful. Choose and clarify an appropriate method of measuring the chosen phenomena.

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Digital Business: Cyber Security

Coursework Title/ Brief

• Choose an area of current interest that is worthy of study, i.e. a real-life issue that a company might face involving the use of technology.
• Provide a synopsis to the chosen area providing background and academic underpinning outlining why findings from this research would be potentially useful.
• Choose and clarify an appropriate method of measuring the chosen phenomena.

This will be presented in the form of a poster (digital) with a word count of 1000–1500, including text and graphics as appropriate. This is presented in the form of a research proposal outlining a workable piece of research and how this would be achieved. An approach to the primary research is to be outlined but not undertaken. All references can be on a second separate page, giving you a total of 2 pages – the word count only includes what is on the first page. Please save on either PowerPoint or as a Pdf before uploading to Moodle.

Coursework Aim
The aim of this coursework is to allow students to look in depth at a chosen area of study and analyse the issues in terms of the impact of digital business

On completion of this module, students are expected to be able to:

3. Critically appraise appropriate business or organisational situations where digital business can be applied.

4. Critically assess the benefits of digital business research in business or organisational contexts.

 

Produce a report that compares, contrasts and evaluates approaches to recruiting and selecting graduates in two organisations.

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Summative Assessment

The summative assessment for this module consists of two components, submitted as one document.

Part 1: Produce a report that compares, contrasts and evaluates approaches to recruiting and selecting graduates in two organisations (Amazon and Aldi) – 1500 words.

Part 2: Reflective account that addresses the question ‘How Business Ready Are You Currently?’ – 1000 words.

What tools/techniques were used in your design, such as quality function deployment, value stream mapping, and JIT? What technologies were used to support your design, such as concurrent engineering, computer-aided design, or value analysis? Describe how you incorporated the concepts of lean operations and lean services in your design.

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Target Corporation’s Delivery Service

Prompt: Building on the discussion in this module, consider the following:

 What tools/techniques were used in your design, such as quality function deployment, value stream mapping, and JIT? What technologies were used to support your design, such as concurrent engineering, computer-aided design, or value analysis?

 Describe how you incorporated the concepts of lean operations and lean services in your design.

 Identify the considerations needed for the sustainability of your production line and what specific efforts can minimize waste; consider end-of-life programs and the three R’s (reduce, reuse, recycle). Consider the phases of product design in your paper.

 As it applies to your business opportunity, consider the legal, cultural, global, and human involvement needed in your design as outlined in Chapter 4.

Note: It is not intended that you include the actual design of the product/service, but this paper needs to describe how you intend to create this design considering the topics in Chapter 4 and incorporate lean operations into your design.

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

 Identify the tools, techniques, and technologies used in the design of your production plan.
 Explain how you will integrate lean operations and lean services in your production plan.
 Discuss your considerations for sustainability to eliminate waste in each phase of your production plan.
 Discuss the legal, cultural, global, and human involvement needed to implement your production plan.

How will the various elements of the marketing environment impact on your plans? Where do you see your key markets and who would be your main customers? Who (and what) are your competitors, and which ones will be the most important?

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Business management report

Read this part carefully and, if you don’t understand, ask your tutorial tutor to clarify what you need to do

There are two different briefs below.  Each brief has the same task.  You only need to answer one brief, not both.  You can decide which one you would prefer to answer.  Read the context for the case study, then answer the questions in that context.  If you submit answers to both briefs, we will only mark the first one and we will completely ignore the second one.

Brief one: The fountain of Youth (Answer this brief OR brief two, not both)

Note If you are concerned that the product in this assignment is unrealistic, so were the students in a previous version where the product was a device which translates speech between 26 languages in real time.  Such a device is now available on Amazon for around £60 ….

One of the difficulties facing universities is that we are trying to prepare you for jobs that don’t exist selling products that aren’t yet available, so the subject of this assignment fits right in with that requirement. 

The context for your assignment (For the purpose of this assignment, assume that what follows is factually real)

For centuries mankind has been trying to find the secret to eternal youth, the elixir of life, the key to turning off the aging process.  Con-merchants have sold all manner of potions claiming to do just this and in the seventeenth century arsenic was used as make-up and led was dropped into the eyes to make them appear brighter!

You are the marketing team for a cosmetics company which, while working on a new face cream formula in 1999, made a very fortunate mistake and achieved what con-men and scientists have been dreaming of: they accidentally developed a substance which will actually stop the aging process in its tracks.

This breakthrough has been kept quiet for the last fifteen years while the Chief Geneticist used herself as a guinea pig.  She has bathed twice daily in a bath into which the substance is added, much as you would with bubble bath.  Not only does she not look a day older, but at a genetic level she is exactly the same age now as she was fifteen years earlier.  Other than this, the cream has had no ill effects.

The Board is ready to go public with the product, subject only to achieving clearance from various health and safety agencies, which they are certain will happen.

Brief two:   (Answer this brief OR brief two, not both)

You are the worldwide marketing director for Apple.

You are launching a new mobile phone.  It isn’t much different from the previous few versions of the iPhone, but you can reasonably expect people to buy it anyway, simply because it’s the newest version.

Your task for whichever brief you decide to follow  (Only answer brief one OR brief two: not both)

These tasks apply to whichever brief you decide to answer.   

1. How will the various elements of the marketing environment impact on your plans? About 700 words
2. Where do you see your key markets and who would be your main customers? About 700 words
3. Who (and what) are your competitors, and which ones will be the most important? About 700 words
4. What pricing strategy should be adopted? About 700 words
5. What promotional techniques would you recommend? About 300 words

Identify data requirements and the appropriate data collection instruments required for effective business decision making. Conduct appropriate analysis and clearly communicate findings to a stated audience.

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Assignment 2 – WBES data analysis

Using excel sheet attached with data (main data set), it needs to be analysed (charts, filters, pivot tables, median, mean average). In the sheet we have a tab called key with questions. From there we need to choose a minimum of 6 questions that we will analyze (in excel, through filters, tables and charts.) so that we can see from the data provided which country is better to open a business in. And we need to analyse the data and give recommendations.

Your research department has asked you to study the data set and advice the company on the preferred (either South Africa and Kenya) country to set this branch. They are interested in assessing the impact of corruption, poor infrastructure etc on business activities.

1. Identify data requirements and the appropriate data collection instruments required for effective business decision making

2. Conduct appropriate analysis and clearly communicate findings to a stated audience

You have been provided with an edited subset of survey data collected by the World Bank Enterprise survey (WBES). The data set provides some of the obstacles facing businesses in different countries. Your organisation is considering opening a branch in Africa (South Africa or Kenya).

Your research department has asked you to study the data set and advice the company on the preferred (either South Africa and Kenya) country to set this branch. They are interested in assessing the impact of corruption, poor infrastructure etc on business activities.

Your tasks:

1. Analyse data . (check in excel sheet key tab with questions and you can choose the questions) minimum 6 questions/keys questions examples glean 31.03
a. Explore the data provided in order to gain an understanding of the information required by your organisation.
b. Select the questions you wish to analyse to provide the information required (it must not be less than six factors).
c. Analyse the data for your selected questions using appropriate summary statistic.
d. Highlight interesting findings.
e. Make recommendations to the your organisation about the possible impact of these factors on the operations/success of the organization.

2. Present your work in the form of a report in Word.
Suggested steps:

• Familiarise yourself with the data by using Excel’s facilities like sorting, filtering, pivot table, etc.
• Extract the required data from the Excel file provided.
• Pick particular aspects that you want to conduct further, more detailed analysis on.
• Conduct a visual examination of the data by plotting appropriate charts.
• Calculate some standard statistics (e.g., mean, median, mode, etc.).
• Conduct additional analysis that you feel is appropriate to address the tasks
• Show mean median mode, standard obievation.