What financial information can you discover regarding the industry?

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THE CASE
A home decor brand and store chain is available for purchase. To keep its identity anonymous, we’ll disguise the name… let’s call it Thai Pot Trading… that should do it.
The question for you to answer is, DO YOU BUY IT?
Here’s what you know:
Selling seasonal home decor – somewhat similar to Hobby Lobby, but with a unique display/retailing method
Most customers are middle class women from ages from 35-65 yrs old
Pricing is middle class too… not Walmart low but not too high to drive away bargain shoppers
Approximately 60-70%+ annual sales occur between mid October and mid January
Ecommerce presence, but it accounts for almost no sales
Locations in Logan and a major city in Utah County, with favorable leases
Previously also located in 6 other markets in the western US
Merchandising requires awareness of trends and stocking several thousand SKUs per year
Employees are wonderful and dedicated
You may not personally have the money needed to buy it, but you have friends willing to put up the necessary funds. You’re essentially leading an investment group.
You may not have experience in retail, but you conveniently have wonderful friends who are pros and will happily give advice in your journey
Based on recent history, after all costs of doing business (inventory, wages, leases, etc), the two existing stores could result in a net income of $150,000 combined in your first year
You can purchase the company and existing inventory for about $360,000.
Use data that can help understand the customers and market involved. Demographic information can be very enlightening. What financial information can you discover regarding the industry? How powerful are local competitors? Data is the key. Without data, all you can offer is an opinion. You need to identify and support to some preliminary degree your recommendation.

Analyze your positioning within the company’s or your department’s organization.

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  1. Analyze your positioning within the company’s or your department’s organization. Consider the following: e.g. organization regarding ownership, business strategy, organizational structure, corporate culture and communication channels, relationships with main customers and prospects, competitors, suppliers, and other external stakeholders. (720-800 words)
  2. Identify 3 problems or areas for improvement (weaknesses) within the company and relate EACH of them to 2 courses / theories / concepts you studied at your university, by explaining their causes and/or consequences. (900-1000 words)
  3. Discuss the support and feedback provided to you at the strategic level (e.g. by CEO, top executives), the administrative level (e.g. middle managers) and/or the operational level (e.g. other staff / peers) during your integration into the company and during ongoing activities within your department. Explain the pros and cons, the causes and effects of this support and your reaction to it. In addition, discuss what and how the company/department could improve. (450-500 words)

Draw and describe the input- and the output side of the value-chain, so that you have an in-depth understanding of what the different solutions looks like and results in.

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• Complete all associated models (risk assessment, tactical procurement plan), the spreadsheets (excel), and draw and describe the input- and the output side of the value-chain, so that you have an in-depth understanding of what the different solutions looks like and results in.

• Present realistic recommendations on what the operations manager (you) should do to manage the overall situation and its challenges (including at least one key topic from each of the following chapters: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,11, 12,and 14 (see list below).

• Remember to support your recommendations with quality sources (e.g. from academic journals, industry reports, business news sources, corporate- and watch-dog websites, ranking institutes, corporate websites etc.). Remember to include your calculus tools (excel sheets) excel outcomes in your report and rationale.

• Suggested space allocation: introduction and background (100 words); body/literature review (500 words); recommendations (500 words); justification (900 words); outcomes and results of recommendations (500 words). Additional report space applicable according to above instructions.

In 500-800 words, write a paper that identifies one company that has been using big data.

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In 500-800 words, write a paper that identifies one company that has been using big data. Explain how big data is helping this company improve the efficiency of their operations. How could big data privacy risks be eliminated or minimized?

In which economy, command or commercial (market) is there a higher possibility for natural resource conservation and why

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In your short essay you can apply the concepts to specific situations relevant to the issues of resource exploitation and management.

Below are the suggested topics that you may choose from:

• Comment on the two opposing views on natural resource management: a nature-centered and a human-centered
• In which economy, command or commercial (market) is there a higher possibility for natural resource conservation and why
• What is the environmental controversy in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR)? Where does it stand today?

This is a research essay, so you should provide scientific explanations and use as much valid data and facts as possible. Formatting: double-spaced, 1-inch margins all around. No cover page. The essay must be 1.5-2 pages long (excluding references). Remember to write your essay topic at the top.
All information sources that you used should be cited within the essay as well as listed in an alphabetical bibliography (a reference list), according to a standard citation style.

Brainstorm and list some rude comments that customers can make.

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Brainstorm and list some rude comments that customers can make. While the possibilities can be endless, come up with ten and then rank them from the most offensive to the least offensive. Keep in mind you should respond as a manager who is trying to diffuse a problematic situation.

Critically appraise the above statement in relation to changing ideas of strategic thinking and explain how it exists within YOUR company’s(ACCENTURE Technology Ltd) approach to strategic management.

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Task: “Systems thinking essentially seeks to understand phenomena as a whole formed by the interaction of parts.” (Stacey, 2011)
Critically appraise the above statement in relation to changing ideas of strategic thinking and explain how it exists within YOUR company’s(ACCENTURE Technology Ltd) approach to strategic management.

1. Critical essay mus include:
2. Approaches to Strategic Thinking
3. Systems Thinking
4. Complexity Perspective: New Ways of Thinking About Strategy?
5. Complex Adaptive Systems: Modelling Complexity
6. The Practice Perspective: Organisational examples can be used to illustrate the themes covered in the essay

Access the Forte Village Website at www.fortevillageresort.com (Links to an external site.) and discuss how the website does or does not reduce the anxiety that you have based on the three primary Implications of Intangibility.

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You are in charge of making accommodation arrangements for a 75-person family reunion trip in Sardinia. Based on excellent third party online reviews, you decided to book at ForteVillage Resort. However, as you complete the reservation, you begin to have anxiety due to Implications of Intangibility discussed in the chapter.
Assignment Instructions
Access the Forte Village Website at www.fortevillageresort.com (Links to an external site.) and discuss how the website does or does not reduce the anxiety that you have based on the three primary Implications of Intangibility.
Suggested response length is eight to twelve sentences for this assignment. Submit your response in the submission text box provided with the assignment. In addition, before submitting the assignment, proof read your response, check for spelling mistakes and errors before submitting the assignment.

Is the banking industry being too rigorously regulated by new banking laws to the point that it may increase costs to consumers?

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The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is a historic piece of legislation impacting a wide variety of financial institutions. While many of the substantive changes included in the legislation mandates studies over the next several months and beyond by various regulatory agencies, these mandates will affect financial institutions’ financing and business decisions.

Is the banking industry being too rigorously regulated by new banking laws to the point that it may increase costs to consumers? Will this rigorous regulation of banks prevent another financial crisis in the future?

Discuss why this theory would be helpful in your particular leadership situation.

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In this paper, you will draw from different approaches as discussed in Northouse and Keohane to develop your own theory of leadership and applies it to your workplace or other leadership situation. As you develop a theory of leadership, you should clearly identify the leadership theories that inform it, and then discuss why this theory would be helpful in your particular leadership situation.