Explain why you want to conduct the survey and what you hope to gain from the survey responses. Identify the type(s) of data you hope to collect.

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Survey Proposal

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, review Chapters 8 and 9 of your textbook.

In this week’s discussion, you identified parameters for your sample population. Now, you will need to create a survey proposal. Your survey must be thorough and persuasive enough to convince your leadership to sponsor your survey.

In your paper,

  • Explain why you want to conduct the survey and what you hope to gain from the survey responses.
  • Identify the type(s) of data you hope to collect.
  • Outline the parameters for your proposed survey, taking into consideration what you believe management wants to know.
  • Create 10 sample questions that will be used in your survey, considering common issues in survey design.
  • Explain your reasoning for choosing your sample questions.

The Survey Proposal assignment

What are the current trends related to ERP adoption? How has the capability of ERP software emerged over the years? Who are the key software vendors and what are their priorities?

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Enterprise Resource Planning systems

Enterprise Resource Planning systems have been around since 1990s; hence all organizations should have some sort of ERP package. Against this background write a report that analyses the market for ERP software.

The report should attempt to answer the following questions:

• What are the current trends related to ERP adoption?

o Who are adopting and why are they adopting;

• How has the capability of ERP software emerged over the years?

• Who are the key software vendors and what are their priorities?

• What is the future outlook for ERP software market?

Some Pointers and Assessment Criteria

• Research on market trends for ERP software from multiple perspectives

• Identify key ERP providers and evaluate their growth strategy

• Examine global market for ERP and express them in terms of regions like EMEA, APAC, America etc

• Classify customers in terms of size like SMEs, Mid Market, Large ; verticals like finance, manufacturing etc

Explain what the metrics mean in terms of the overall health of the project. Project where the project will end in terms of budget and schedule. What potential risks and trade-offs do you see? Explain any recommendations you have for improving the project schedule, budget, or both.

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Unit VI PowerPoint Presentation

Course Project Progress Monitoring:Return to MobileGo

The MobileGo project is making progress implementing the new systems. However, the software upgrades and the new
software installation are not complete. The project sponsor has requested an update on the project. Using the MobileGo
Earned Value scenario spreadsheet, complete the following tasks.

1. Complete earned value metrics for each line item of the project.

2. Use the metrics to create indexes for cost and schedule.

3. Explain what the metrics mean in terms of the overall health of the project.

4. Project where the project will end in terms of budget and schedule. What potential risks and trade-offs do you see?

5. Explain any recommendations you have for improving the project schedule, budget, or both.

Prepare a 10-slide PowerPoint presentation that you can give to the project sponsor that explains your calculations,
predictions, and recommendations. Remember that you are giving this information to the project sponsor, so consider what he or she would need to know as you draft your presentation.

Use at least one outside source to support your recommendations for improvement. Adhere to APA Style when creating
citations and references for this assignment. You must either use speaker notes or audio to fully explain your slides. Be sure to elaborate in your speaker notes or audio; do not simply repeat the text from your slides.

Submit your calculation and presentation for grading.

Briefly describe what happened and the nature of the risk that was not identified. What could have been done differently, and had the risk been identified, what trade-offs could have been initiated?

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Management Strategy and Tactics

Consider a situation in your place of work or daily life where a serious incident occurred that was related to a risk that escaped notice. Briefly describe what happened and the nature of the risk that was not identified. What could have been done differently, and had the risk been identified, what trade-offs could have been initiated?

Your journal entry must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.

Create visual representations (graphs, charts, etc) to communicate why this is a problem. Display relevant metrics for quality, cost, lead time, and safety.

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4.2 Capstone milestone

You will be asked to prepare an A3 report for the analysis of a problem this organization is currently encountering. For this module’s capstone milestone, you need to begin creating the A3 report. Use the information you have collected from the organziation’s website, the field trip, course resources, and any additional research to to create the first couple parts of your A3 report (Problem Definition, Background and Goals, and Current State).

Formulate a problem statement

Create visual representations (graphs, charts, etc) to communicate why this is a problem. Display relevant metrics for quality, cost, lead time, and safety.

Create a value stream map (or other appropriate graphic to display current state) for the process that will be improved. Include cycle time, lead time, takt time, and throughput time.

Your A3 report can be completed with paper and pencil or using Microsoft Excel or Word. Typically, in the real world paper/pencil preferred as it is a working document. Materials such as colored pencils, tape, A3 paper, and scissors will be provided in class.

Refer to this powerpoint file, A3 Report Format.pptx Download A3 Report Format.pptx, that was introduced in class previously for the purpose, format, and preparation instructions for an A3 report.

What is the brand name for the product? What role does the new product play in the brand portfolio? Who is the target market? What will be the new product position? How will it complement the objectives?

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Branding presentation

Develop a brand presentation of 8 12 slides for a new pet food product (or new product or line extension at your employer or future employer), using the speaker’s notes sections of each slide to expand your talking points.

Introduction
Branding is a means of differentiating a product from its competitors. Branding is an important aspect of marketing because it provides a distinctive identity to a product or family of products that sets it apart from competitors. This assessment introduces the concept of brands and discusses the various ways marketers position their products within the brand structure. By the end of the assessment, you may look at branding and products a bit differently than you do right now!

Introduction
Completion of this portfolio work project will help you understand the key components of a brand presentation.

Scenario
The Vice President of Marketing at MSH Brands (or at your employer or future employer company) was impressed with your marketing plan submitted in Assessment 1. They have now asked you to develop a brand presentation based on this work.

Your Role
You are a Brand Manager at MSH Brands (or at your employer or future employer company). You are being asked to develop a brand presentation for a new pet food product (or new product or line extension at your employer or future employer.)

Requirements
You are to develop a brand presentation including the following elements based on your research, building on your work submitted in Assessment 1. Develop a PowerPoint presentation of 8–12 slides that synthesize the work, using the speaker’s notes sections of each slide to expand your talking points. Be sure your presentation includes:

What is the brand name for the product? What role does the new product play in the brand portfolio?
Who is the target market?
What will be the new product’s objectives (create greater customer loyalty, increase trials, expand usage among current users, support trade relations)?
What will be the new product position? How will it complement the objectives?
What will be the new product competitive pricing strategy? How will it complement the objectives?
How will this be reflected in the packaging? How will it complement the objectives?
How will this be reflected in the promotion? How will it complement the objectives?
How will this be reflected in the placement? How will it complement the objectives?

Identify and discuss Publix competitors and their competitive strength. Identify and discuss the driving forces in the grocery industry. Using a recent SEC Form 10K, discuss the company’s financial performance and earnings.

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Publix Case Study Individual Assignment 9.1

As Publix Super Markets, Inc. moved into the decade of the 2020s, Kevin Murphy reflected back over his two years as president. Sales and profits had maintained their positive trend, established long before Murphy’s presidency, and comparable store sales continued to increase, despite the chain’s expansion of the number of stores. Publix continued to enjoy excellent publicity and a great corporate image, both internally and externally: it had been on Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For, and Publix’s voluntary turnover rate was 5 percent, versus the industry average of 65 percent. The company was the largest employee-owned company in the United States and had never laid off an employee in its 89-year history. Although fiscal 2019 had shown net sales of a record $38.1 billion (an increase of 5.6 percent over fiscal 2018), and net earnings of over $3 billion, or 7.9 percent of sales, Mr. Murphy was concerned about the future. The grocery industry appeared to be moving rapidly from the traditional in-person shopping experience in which the shopper visited a favorite grocery and personally chose the week’s grocery items, to e-commerce with home delivery, or phone app-ordered pickup based shopping. Technology had provided the means for shoppers to select their grocery items from an app on their phones, and delivery and logistics improvements enabled quick delivery of the grocery basket to the shoppers’ door. Mr. Murphy believed that Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods was a likely catalyst to cause faster than normal industry change in e-commerce grocery sales and delivery. Evolving lifestyles had resulted in a decreasing amount of food cooked at home, and an increased focus on sustainability, health, and natural organic foods. A new and powerful force that Murphy thought capable of causing significant and lasting industry effects was the COVID-19 pandemic sweeping the country. Cost control remained a major key to success, and private brands had emerged as a practical means of keeping costs low. Murphy was concerned that the rapid change in the supermarket industry was of sufficient magnitude to cause a major disruption in Publix’s positive trajectory if the company did not accurately identify the driving forces in the industry, and forecast and stay ahead of the industry’s path.

Using your critical thinking skills, and a recent SEC Form 10K, analyze the case study and prepare a paper discussing the following topical areas:
-Identify and discuss Publix competitors and their competitive strength.
-Identify and discuss the driving forces in the grocery industry.
-Using a recent SEC Form 10K, discuss the company’s financial performance and earnings.
-Identify and discuss Publix’s strategy for growth and expansion going into 2022.

Identify a strategy, personal or professional, that you were involved in executing. Discuss the execution phase of the strategy; what was successful and why; what was not successful and why; and what could have made the execution of the strategy more successful.

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Individual Assignment 9.1

Identify a strategy, personal or professional, that you were involved in executing. Discuss the execution phase of the strategy; what was successful and why; what was not successful and why; and what could have made the execution of the strategy more successful.

How is the Central Limit Theorem related the Normal Distribution? What does the Central Limit Theorem tell us about non-normal distributions? Why is the Central Limit Theorem important to Discrete Event Simulations?

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The Relevance of the Central Limit Theorem in Simulation

This is a research assignment. You must write a minimum of 500 words (i.e. 2 pages double spaced) APA Format (Title Page, Abstract, Content Double Space, Bibliography at end). You must have a minimum of 3 outside sources and cited in APA format.

In your essay address these questions and restate the question in bold:

How is the Central Limit Theorem related the Normal Distribution?

What does the Central Limit Theorem tell us about non-normal distributions?

Why is the Central Limit Theorem important to Discrete Event Simulations?

Create a procedure to follow for reviewing article abstracts. This can be similar to a standard operating procedure or in a format you prefer. A flow chart or similar model can also be used.

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Reviewing article abstracts

Create a procedure to follow for reviewing article abstracts. This can be similar to a standard operating procedure or in a format you prefer. A flow chart or similar model can also be used.

Begin your procedure with the following:

Include at least three steps for determining if the abstract has the main points related to your topic.

Outline how or what you will look for in the abstract. This information will be what prompts you to open the full-text article.
In the next step of the procedure:

Develop a plan or visual tool to take notes about each search engine, main theme, URL, and a section of the chapter this would be used.

For example, chapter 2 of dissertation begins with an introduction for the reader about your topic, next to a paragraph of how and where you found the literature, then the theoretical or conceptual framework, and then finally the main content of the chapter. The main content is categorized by you and how your literature develops.