Why was this approach effective or ineffective? How might another approach have positively or negatively impacted the outcome? Your example may be personal, that of a friend or family member, from fiction, or from media.

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My HR Experience

Discuss an example where a manager succeeded or failed in supporting an employee. Identify:
• What is/was the issue?
• How it was addressed?
• Which theory from (Classical Theory of Motivation, Herzberg’s Two–Factor Theory, McGregor’s Theory X and Theory Y, or Equity Theory) would best describe the approach in this situation and why?
• Why was this approach effective or ineffective?
• How might another approach have positively or negatively impacted the outcome? Your example may be personal, that of a friend or family member, from fiction, or from media. If the example isn’t personal , provide the source or some context for the source, as applicable.

Indicate what information should be collected to track and evaluate the effectiveness of your recommendations. How can this data be collected?

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Statistical Report

Pastas R Us, Inc. is a fast-casual restaurant chain specializing in noodle-based dishes, soups, and salads. Since its inception, the business development team has favored opening new restaurants in areas (within a 3-mile radius) that satisfy the following demographic conditions:

Median age between 25 – 45 years old
Household median income above national average
At least 15% college educated adult population

Last year, the marketing department rolled out a Loyalty Card strategy to increase sales. Under this program, customers present their Loyalty Card when paying for their orders and receive some free food after making 10 purchases.

The company has collected data from its 74 restaurants to track important variables such as average sales per customer, year-on-year sales growth, sales per sq. ft., Loyalty Card usage as a percentage of sales, and others. A key metric of financial performance in the restaurant industry is annual sales per sq. ft. For example, if a 1200 sq. ft. restaurant recorded $2 million in sales last year, then it sold $1,667 per sq. ft.

Executive management wants to know whether the current expansion criteria can be improved. They want to evaluate the effectiveness of the Loyalty Card marketing strategy and identify feasible, actionable opportunities for improvement. As a member of the analytics department, you’ve been assigned the responsibility of conducting a thorough statistical analysis of the company’s available database to answer executive management’s questions.

Report:

Write a 750-word statistical report that includes the following sections:

Section 1: Scope and descriptive statistics
Section 2: Analysis
Section 3: Recommendations and Implementation

Section 1 – Scope and descriptive statistics

State the report’s objective.
Discuss the nature of the current database. What variables were analyzed?
Summarize your descriptive statistics findings from Excel. Use a table and insert appropriate graphs.

Section 2 – Analysis

Using Excel, create scatter plots and display the regression equations for the following pairs of variables:
“BachDeg%” versus “Sales/SqFt”
“MedIncome” versus “Sales/SqFt”
“MedAge” versus “Sales/SqFt”
“LoyaltyCard(%)” versus “SalesGrowth(%)”
In your report, include the scatter plots. For each scatter plot, designate the type of relationship observed (increasing/positive, decreasing/negative, or no relationship) and determine what you can conclude from these relationships.

 

Section 3: Recommendations and implementation

Based on your findings above, assess which expansion criteria seem to be more effective. Could any expansion criterion be changed or eliminated? If so, which one and why?
Based on your findings above, does it appear as if the Loyalty Card is positively correlated with sales growth? Would you recommend changing this marketing strategy?
Based on your previous findings, recommend marketing positioning that targets a specific demographic. (Hint: Are younger people patronizing the restaurants more than older people?)
Indicate what information should be collected to track and evaluate the effectiveness of your recommendations. How can this data be collected? (Hint: Would you use survey/samples or census?)

 

How has Pepe’s Pizzeria helped its loyal customers retain their sense of belonging with the brand, even after diversifying to different locations?

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Marketing concepts

Using information from the case and the video, answer the following questions:

1. What are the disadvantages local establishments like Pepe’s Pizzeria face when expanding into different areas?

2. How has Pepe’s Pizzeria helped its loyal customers retain their sense of belonging with the brand, even after diversifying to different locations?

3. Briefly explain the public relations, advertising, and marketing techniques used by Pepe’s Pizzeria while expanding to new locations.

4. Briefly describe consumer market segmentation (demographic, geographic, psychographic, and behavioral). How is the consumer market different than business markets?

Will investing in carbon capture usage and storage, will help to achieve UK green industrial Revolution aim?

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Carbon capture usage and storage

Will investing in carbon capture usage and storage, will help to achieve UK green industrial Revolution aim?

Clearly defined business research problem. Identify a dataset sourced from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) website that will enable you to address your chosen business research problem.

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Research Methods in Business Practice

1. Clearly defined business research problem.
2. Brief Literature Review covering relevant concepts, models and/or theories.
3. Identification of a dataset sourced from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) website that will enable
you to address your chosen business research problem.
4. Quantitative analysis of the dataset using tools and techniques from the unit with the submission of the spreadsheet along with your individual written Report.
5. Visualisations of data drawn from your quantitative analysis (e.g. tables, charts, graphs).
6. Findings and conclusions drawn from the quantitative analysis of the dataset that addresses the business research problem.

Analytics tools fall into 3 categories: descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive. What are the main differences among these categories?

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Discussion Topic

This week’s required readings explain the role that analytics plays in the modern business environment. Consider the following questions and respond in a ***( minimum of 175 words use one Resource):

1. How is data analytics different from statistics?

2. Analytics tools fall into 3 categories: descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive. What are the main differences among these categories?

3. Explain how businesses use analytics to convert raw operational data into actionable information. Provide at least 1 example.

4. Consider the organization you work for (or another organization you’re familiar with). Does this organization use data analytics? If so, how is it used? If not, how could the organization use data analytics to improve its performance?

*Explain Predictive ***(use 50 words No resource use your own words)

*Explain prescriptive ***(use 50 words No resource use your own words)

What is the Vision and Mission? What is the status of the company now? What type of challenges did the entrepreneur face? What made the company successful? How is the entrepreneur sustaining the business?

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Term paper

The paper is a summary of 5 to 10 pages

Identify an entrepreneur that you find interesting.
Write a short paper about the entrepreneur and the idea for a product or service.
What is the Vision and Mission?
What is the status of the company now?
What type of challenges did the entrepreneur face?
What made the company successful?
How is the entrepreneur sustaining the business?
What differentiates this business?
Were you able to see the business plan?
The paper is a summary from 5 to 10 pages

Assess how sustainable is the industry in which your company operates: its impacts, challenges, trends, and perspectives. Identify top sustainability performers in your industry, country, globally.

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Project 2 – Sustainable Business Management Strategy Development

Prepare a report writing about the company Nestle for 6 pages, APA format including a comprehensive analysis, plan, and recommendations for the development of a sustainable business management framework. The resulting report should cover all issues and problems that management needs to address for the successful completion of a company’s establishment or transition to a sustainable business management model. Thus, in your report you should:

 assess how sustainable is the industry in which your company operates: its impacts, challenges, trends, and perspectives;

 identify top sustainability performers in your industry, country, globally;

 assess your company’s sustainability position in the industry, country;

No needs to write for the company review, the introduction or conclusition. This is a group project so please just focus on the 3 bullets as I mentioned above. Link for Nestle’s issue summary is below, please do research for 4 more cites for the paper. Let me know if you have any questions and thank you!

Evaluate how you think your group functioned in carrying out the above tasks.

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Self-reflective report

For part of your personal development, you are expected to produce a self-reflective report of around 300 words.
Evaluate how you think your group functioned in carrying out the above tasks. Assess the contribution made by yourself and the other members of your group. This is a self-reflective evaluation.

What global or local technologies are emerging that could be used to solve the problem? What are the costs associated with implementing the technology solution?

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Impact of Emerging Technology on the Economy of the Country

Write a paper (1,000-1,250 words) that discusses the following questions through your research and analysis on the effect of emerging technology on the economy of the selected country. Note that this assignment will be used as the basis for your Benchmark – Executive Summary assignment in Topic 8.

Define a current problem in the selected country (China). Who is affected? Where are the individuals located? What are the resulting socioeconomic costs of the problem to the affected individuals?
What global or local technologies are emerging that could be used to solve the problem? What are the costs associated with implementing the technology solution?
Apply the Hype Cycle and the 6 Ds of disruption model (also known as 6 Ds of exponential change) to the emerging technology.
To what extent will this emerging technology foster sustainability practices on the economy in the selected country?
Explanation of how an existing MNC in the selected country could solve the problem by implementation of the emerging technology while supporting sustainability practices.
You are required to include a minimum of three sources with in-text citations and references.