Evaluate how well the company has addressed these two forces in the recent past.

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Choose the two segments of the general environment that would rank highest in their influence on the corporation you chose.
Assess how these segments affect the corporation you chose and the industry in which it operates.
Considering the five forces of competition, choose the two that you estimate are the most significant for the corporation you chose.
Evaluate how well the company has addressed these two forces in the recent past.
With the same two forces in mind, predict what the company might do to improve its ability to address these forces in the near future.
Assess the external threats affecting this corporation and the opportunities available to the corporation.
Give your opinions on how the corporation should deal with the most serious threat and the greatest opportunity. Justify your answer.
Give your opinion on the corporation’s greatest strengths and most significant weaknesses.
Choose the strategy or tactic the corporation should select to take maximum advantage of its strengths, and the strategy or tactic the corporation should select to fix its most significant weakness. Justify your choices.
Determine the company’s resources, capabilities, and core competencies.

Create a semiannual production plan for the Amazon Eyewear product using notional demand and inventory data.

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This paper is focused on my new product idea: Amazon Eyewear. , Inc will manufacture prescription glasses sold exclusively online that are fashionable, customizable, and affordable. ***Reference attached file “Amazon Eyewear Overview_module 6 short paper” for information pertaining to the Amazon Eyewear Product, research, and initial demand forecast.*** The initial demand forecast within this document is needed for the paper.

Paper specifics per the rubric:
Create a semiannual production plan for the Amazon Eyewear product using notional demand and inventory data. This initial production plan is based on the market estimates of what you intend to sell and produce (prescription eyewear). Reference attached file “MBA 690: Module Six Short Paper Guidelines and Rubric” for all critical elements that must be addressed. Each critical element must have its own heading per the rubric. Please also include the excel spreadsheet with pertinent calculations for the semiannual production plan.

***Chapters 11 and 16 from Operations Management textbook provide the information required for this assignment. Both chapters are attached in word documents. See attached file “Instructor overview for short paper assignment” which provides additional information for the assignment from the instructor.***

The focus of this paper should be to incorporate applicable content/techniques from the text book “Stevenson, W.J. (2018). Operations Management. 13th Edition, McGraw-Hill Education, New York.” (chapters 11, 16) and discuss how it applies to the product. Amazon eyewear is a theoretical product therefore information relating to the product such as the semiannual prodcution plan is theoretical too.

What was the goal behind the ERP implementation (what were they trying to achieve);

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Assessment – Individual

To be uploaded onto Blackboard Dropbox

Assignment: Report of 1,000 words

Submission: Blackboard Midterm [assignment] Dropbox

The objective of implementing an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is smoothly integrating data and processes across an organization – yet many companies fail during the implementation and there is a negative impact on their revenues, market share, and share price.

The assignment will be to individually write a 1,000 word report on an ERP implementation failure for one of the following companies (choose only one)

  • Hershey’s (1999)
  • Nike (2000-01)

The report needs to cover:

  • What was the goal behind the ERP implementation (what were they trying to achieve);
  • What ERP system were they using and what was the cost (of the system);
  • What was the failure;
  • What was the impact of the ERP failure in terms of revenues, market share (sales), share price, etc;
  • How was the problem resolved?

*The report must be properly formatted, well written (grammar and punctuation), and properly cited using at least 3 peer reviewed (i.e. scholarly) publications, in addition you may also use industry/trade publications (i.e. not Wikipedia) or properly researched media (e.g. Financial Post, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, … or other similarly respectable media).

Hint:

  • You can search for scholarly articles on: https://scholar.google.ca/ … is easy to use but will not let you download the articles without paying, so……
  • You can download journal and scholarly articles (free) from the Humber Library at: https://library.humber.ca/ (use your Humber credentials to Login).

Note: Your submission will be checked for plagiarism when you upload it onto Blackboard, so ensure that the work is your own – and do not share your work with others in the class. If you are quoting ensure that you cite the source.

 

GOOD LUCK

 

 

Identify and evaluate the political, economic, competitive and operational risks in the chosen country, which could potentially affect your company’s expansion.

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Assignment guidelines

• Relevant and up-to-date sources of information originating from newspapers, business magazines, reliable web sources and databases, specialist journals, and government and NGO reports.

• Outstanding work entirely focused on the assignment question and objectives.

• The work must show up-to-date, comprehensive and detailed knowledge of the subject area and where appropriate relevant literature that integrates theory with practice.

• The work must show the student has developed his/her own ideas based on a wide range of evidence that has been thoroughly analysed, applied and discussed.

• The work must show the student can effectively and critically review evidence, draw conclusions and suggest ideas to enhance organizational processes whilst recognizing contextual limitations.

• The assignment must be presented professionally, communicate key messages and arguments with convincing substantiation from a wide range of reliable sources and contain accurate referencing in the appropriate format.

It should cover the following sections: around 1500 WORDS

Use Harvard referencing for bibliography

Only do main body and references

ABOUT THE COMPANY (approx. 150 words PLUS SUPPORTING APPENDICES)

Provide a brief overview of the company – e.g. who we are, what we do, our scale of operations, what our strengths (or unique competencies) are in relation to international expansion.

State the aim of this portfolio and briefly outline its structure.

2. MARKET OPPORTUNITIES (approx. 650 words plus supporting appendices)

• Describe market characteristics of the chosen country – e.g. size, economic growth, domestic and international demand, types of customers and spending levels)

• Identify any relevant investment incentives offered in the country – e.g. financial, fiscal and/or operational incentives.

• Describe the competitive set in the country – e.g. key competitors and their scale.

• Identify and justify a specific prominent location for your company’s (further) expansion.

3. MARKET RISKS (approx. 700 words plus supporting appendices)

• Identify and evaluate the political, economic, competitive and operational risks in the chosen country, which could potentially affect your company’s expansion.

Assignment Criteria
About the company
– Clearly and accurately identifies the company, including its key products/services – clearly identifies and justifies company strengths in international expansion

Market Opportunities
• Clearly and accurately identifies characteristics of the named market –
• Clearly and accurately identifies investment incentives
• Clearly and accurately identifies the competitive set – clearly identifies and justifies the prominent area for (further) development

Market Risks

– Clearly identifies and evaluates political risks
– Clearly identifies and evaluates economic risks
– Clearly identifies and evaluates competitive risks
– Clearly identifies and evaluates operational risks

Quality of communication
• The report is of the correct length (3000 words, not including the front page, table of contents, list of references and appendices) and conforms to the presentation standards
• The report is well written (free of major spelling and grammatical errors)
. Referencing –
• All sources used are accurately cited both intext and listed in reference list, in accordance with the School’s Harvard System conventions – the evidence demonstrate breadth and depth in academic and practitioner research – the evidence is from reliable sources

Write a 500 word summary on social responsibility in management in your own words and what it means to you

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Case Study 1 focuses on applying international business, social responsibility and management ideas.
• Write a 500 word summary on social responsibility in management in your own words and what it means to you
• If you quote anything or use any resources you must cite it
• Your Case Study needs to be in APA format and a include a reference page

Explain the content of the article in your own words and discuss one key idea in the article/reading that you found to be interesting and include a brief explanation of why that idea is interesting to you.

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ARTICLE/READING WRITE-UP:
Each student is required to submit a one-page (double spaced) write-up on five articles/readings at the beginning of the class in which the article/reading is scheduled. The article write-ups are to be submitted on Canvas. The one-page write-up should explain the content of the article in your own words and discuss one key idea in the article/reading that you found to be interesting and include a brief explanation of why that idea is interesting to you. You are expected to paraphrase the language in the article and use your own words but if you do use exact phrases/sentences from the article please use quotation marks. In addition, the write-up should include one potential limitation of the article/reading. The five articles/readings are highlighted in bold in the course
schedule section.
You can keep the following points in mind as a general guidance for each article/reading:
• What topic does the reading cover?
• Why is the topic important?
• Consider the strengths of the reading.
• What are its limitations?
• What are the examples used by authors in the article/reading (if any)?
• What are the key points that the author(s) make?
• Is there anything interesting that you learned?
• Does the content relate to other things that you have learned in the course/program?
• Think of any additional real-world examples where this topic would apply.
• All submissions must be in double space using Times New Roman font 12 with one-inch margins.

What technology is used to capture quantitative performance data in SCM?

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Assignment Overview
SCM Globe offers a library of case studies that cover Commercial, Humanitarian, and Military supply chains. Select one case study from each category and provide an overview of each. It is not necessary to download the software that is included in the cases. Creating an account is not required to view case studies.

Case Assignment
Case Overviews

Overview of commercial SC case (1/2 page)
Overview of humanitarian SC case (1/2 page)
Overview of military SC case (1/2 page)
Your overviews should focus on SCM themes and applications. This provides practice presenting information to professionals in the field.

Research Applications

Research supply chain performance criteria and technology using articles in Trident’s library and SC journals available online.

What criterion are used to assess performance? (1 page)
What technology is used to capture quantitative performance data in SCM? (1 page)
How do these apply to the three cases studied? (1/2 page)
Since you are engaging in research, be sure to cite and reference the sources in APA format. NOTE: failure to use research with accompanying citations to support content will result in reduced scoring “Level 2-Developing” for Meets Assignment Requirements, Critical Thinking, Use of Sources and Mechanics on the grading rubric.

The paper should be written in third person; this means words like “I”, “we”, and “you” are not appropriate. Refer to yourself in third-person as “manager” or you can write about what the “project team” will do, rather than saying “I” and “we.”

Explain how employees in developing/emerging economies might be impacted by globalisation, and provide some possible solutions.

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How has globalisation affected the development of human resource management practices? Explain how employees in developing/emerging economies might be impacted by globalisation, and provide some possible solutions.

Analyse ONLY THE FIRST 3 potential problems, pertaining to the operations of Snowham Airport, from a management consultancy business.

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You need to write a 2500 word integrated management report.
The aim of the present integrated management report is to analyse ONLY THE FIRST 3 potential problems, pertaining to the operations of Snowham Airport, from a management consultancy business, in order to make possible recommendations on how clients could improve their operations performance and create a an increased profitability for the :
SverigeTech – new Air Traffic Control system – project planning
• The Airport Transit System project – resource optimisation
• Terminal Four refurbishment project – progress analysis

Explain the competitive forces driving your selected industry.

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Begin by selecting one of the following industries:

Airline

Retail

Automotive

Professional Services (CPA/Law firm)

Conduct research to find U.S. articles or academic sources from the last year that explain the competitive forces driving your selected industry. List and explain at least 3 competitive forces, including global forces if applicable.

Additionally, select a specific corporation within your chosen industry and explain whether the competitive forces you identified for the industry apply specifically to your chosen corporation.

Be sure to post at least 2 references plus your textbook in support of your explanations and conclusions.

text book: Vitalsource.com (corporate finance)

Username sarah@lennondesign.com

Password Mazziotti1006!

Book: Strategic Management and Business Policy found under the “my bookshelf” tab.

Textbook this week chapter 4