Provide an Indicative Cost Plan (Elemental Cost Plan) for the two design options (Scheme A and Scheme B). Compare the two options to make a recommendation base on cost merits.

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Building Cost Studies

Overview

This assessment requires the student to prepare a preliminary estimate for the owner of a proposed residential building to be constructed in Sydney’s CBD. There are two schemes being considered (Scheme A and Scheme B, drawings can be found from our Assessment 2 Folder). You have been given the responsibility to make sure that the design team and the client are aware of the cost of the two alternatives. Upon completion of this assignment, students are expected to be able to:

1. Provide an Indicative Cost Plan (Elemental Cost Plan) for the two design options (Scheme A and Scheme B); As only conceptual design information is available, certain assumptions will need to be made within the cost plan in regards to structure, finishes and fittings, services, etc.. The indicative cost plan should include the following:

– Construction costs (at stated base date, May 2022)
– Estimated inflation to probable tender date of October 2022
– Estimated increased costs payable to contractors during the construction period (2022-2024)
– Contingencies
– Professional fees
– Any omissions or exclusions from the estimate.

2. Compare the two options to make a recommendation base on cost merits. Reasons and rationale for the best scheme need to be detailed.

Develop a global marketing plan for your Company (GETIR) to evaluate and enter an international market.

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Global Marketting

The task: Develop a global marketing plan for your Company (GETIR) to evaluate and enter an international market.

A first screening of international markets led to a short list of potential target country markets. The board of the company is asking you to develop; a global marketing plan for one of those countries. Your plan will help the board to make a final decision about expending the company.

See assignment 2 brief to choose a country to expand to.

  • Australia
  • China
  • Canada
  • Japan

The company should not already be operating in the country you will expand to.

No presence at all in the country that you choose to expand to.

  • Assess the market attractiveness of the country that you chose for your company.
  • Offer strategic and tactical suggestion for how to best enter the markets.
    • Follow the 5-step global marketing plan framework
    • Marketing mix for the country you will expand to
    • Provide an invest/not invest recommendation
    • Do not consider cost and budgets (But show that company can expand internationally)
  • Does Getir has mergers with any company that you will expand to? (Don’t choose that country if yes0

How should Cafe2Go enter the food and beverage – café industry in Indonesia? Discuss the resource-based, industry-based and institution-based considerations/advantages/disadvantages of your recommendation.

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Global Strategy & International Management

1. Key elements of the institutional environment in Indonesia (850 words)

2. Strategic recommendation (1700 words)

a. How should Cafe2Go enter the food and beverage – café industry in Indonesia?

b. In your recommendation, be specific with your recommendation (e.g. what mode of entry). For example, if you recommend that Cafe2Go should form a strategic alliance, specify how, what form of alliance, with which company/organisation, etc. This section is where research is vital.

Be able to discuss the resource-based, industry-based and institution-based considerations/advantages/disadvantages of your recommendation.

3. Conclusion (200 words)

4. Reflection (400 words)

5. References

Explain how the tools for analyzing the internal environment of an organization found in Chapter 4 of your textbook can help your chosen organization to develop a competitive edge over rivals (page 87 in your textbook). Use theories, principles, and concepts from various additional research resources to substantiate your thoughts, opinions, and ideas.

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Using Analytic Tools for Strategic Decision-Making

 The text book we use for reference is below

Thompson, A. A., Peteraf, M. A., Gamble, J., & Strickland, A. J. (2020). Crafting and Executing Strategy: The Quest for Competitive Advantage: Concepts and Cases (22nd ed.). McGraw-Hill Education.

 MT460-2: Use a variety of analytical tools to monitor and improve business strategy.

You will find the following resource to be a helpful guide in your analysis of your chosen case study: Guide to Case Analysis. This assignment will require intensive interpretation skills. Be sure to read this Case Analysis Guide to prepare. Be sure to use the grading rubric as a checklist. Use the following criteria to evaluate the external (Part 1) and internal (Part 2) environment of your chosen company:

Scenario:

Choose an award-winning company from the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program website to study. You will evaluate the “Award Application Summary” as a business case. You are the director of strategy and business Intelligence for your chosen company. You are conducting an evaluation of your chosen company for an upcoming annual report. Your goal is to demonstrate skill and expertise in strategic analysis of the strategic position of your company. You will be submitting this report to the other C-level executives for consideration. Use the following criteria to make strategic decisions for your chosen award-winning organization.

*****Utilize the business below*****

https://www.nist.gov/system/files/documents/2017/10/11/LANB_Application_Summary.pdf

****** Los Alamos National Bank  ******

Assignment Part 1 Requirements:

  • Provide background information about your chosen company, including the company name, industry sector in which the company operates, products, and target market. Elaborate and use research.
  • Introduce the concept of strategic analysis based on Figure 3.1 (read pages 49–50 in your textbook).
  • Explain how the strategic analysis tools found in Chapter 3 of your textbook can help your chosen organization build a future-oriented strategy.
  • Explain the macro-environment, how to analyze the macro-environment, and its importance to strategy development. Use theories, principles, and concepts from various research resources to substantiate your thoughts, opinions, and ideas (read pages 50–53 in your textbook).
  • Conduct a PESTEL analysis and identify three strategically relevant factors per PESTEL component that may impact the long-term direction of your chosen company, including its strategic vision and mission, objectives, and business model (pages 50–53 in your textbook).
  • After the PESTEL analysis table, explain what strategically relevant factors are most likely to have a higher impact and which are likely to have a lower impact on your chosen company’s situation and business strategy (page 50 in your textbook).
  • Explain the five forces framework and its value in diagnosing the competitive conditions in a company’s industry (pages 53 and 68–69 in your textbook).
  • Conduct an analysis using the five forces framework to diagnose the competitive conditions in your chosen company’s industry.
    • Analyze the rivalry among competing sellers of your chosen company (pages 53–56 in your textbook).
    • Analyze the competitive pressures associated with the threat of new entrants (pages 57–62 in your textbook).
    • Analyze the factors affecting competition from substitute products (pages 62–64 in your textbook).
    • Analyze the factors affecting the bargaining power of suppliers (pages 64–66 in your textbook).
    • Analyze the factors affecting the power of buyers (pages 66–68 in your textbook).
  • Explain the significance of the SOAR framework for competitor analysis as a strategic analysis tool in your chosen company’s industry (pages 77–79 in your textbook).

Assignment Part 2 Requirements:

  • Explain how the tools for analyzing the internal environment of an organization found in Chapter 4 of your textbook can help your chosen organization to develop a competitive edge over rivals (page 87 in your textbook). Use theories, principles, and concepts from various additional research resources to substantiate your thoughts, opinions, and ideas.
  • Explain the components of a single-business company’s strategy (pages 88–89 in your textbook).
  • Identify three key financial ratios. Explain why they are strategically important and how your chosen company can use them to analyze its current situation for strategic planning purposes (pages 89–91 in your textbook).
  • Explain the value of conducting a SWOT analysis to a company (pages 91–92 in your textbook).
  • Conduct a SWOT analysis on your chosen company. Determine the company’s strengths and weaknesses in relation to the market opportunities and threats (pages 91–95 in your textbook).
  • Explain how the results of a SWOT analysis can be turned into strategic actions (page 95 in your textbook).
  • Explain how value chain activities impact a company’s cost structure and customer value proposition (pages 102–112 in your textbook).
  • Explain how your chosen company’s resources and capabilities give it a competitive edge over rivals (pages 96–112 in your textbook).
  • Explain what strategic issues and problems merit front-burner managerial attention for your chosen company (page 115 in your textbook).
  • Analyze the results of your strategic analyses and explain your chosen company’s competitive situation and how this information can assist managers in making critical decisions about their next strategic moves.
  • Use a minimum of three peer-reviewed, academic research resources (including your textbook) to substantiate your critical thinking and to provide viable reasoning for your perspectives.
  • Write and speak in third person and apply proper APA style citation and reference format.
  • You will combine Part 1 and Part 2 together in Unit 4 to submit for grading.

 

What sampling strategy should the retailer adopt and how can the data be analysed? How do we define ‘research’ and how has research been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic?

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Qualitative research

QUESTION ONE
A retailer of children’s toys wants to learn what customers think of the range of products they offer in its online store. The retailer has decided to carry out a survey of its adult customers on its mailing list, but they are unsure whether the survey should be conducted by post or online.

With reference to the example, do you think the survey is the most appropriate data collection method and should it be administered by post or online? Your answer should include the benefits and limitations of using this method.

What sampling strategy should the retailer adopt and how can the data be analysed? (50 Marks)

How do we define ‘research’ and how has research been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic?

In your answer you should consider the practical and ethical aspects related to designing a research project during the pandemic and highlight any challenges and benefits this may pose for the researcher. (50 Marks)

Write an essay on the effect of quality of work-Life and job satisfaction on employee job performance in germany.

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A Study of Information Technology Professionals

Write an essay on the effect of quality of work-Life and job satisfaction on employee job performance in germany.

Write an Executive Summary to accompany your case study. Review and revise your compiled case study in preparation for your final case study submission.

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Case Study

Write an Executive Summary to accompany your case study (best practice states an executive summary should be approximately 10% of your total constructed document and further written clearly and concisely capturing the highlights or key points of your paper).

NOTE: The executive summary is the first section of the document appearing after the table of contents and before the introduction.

Review and revise your compiled case study in preparation for your final case study submission.

Construct a Word document (times new roman 12-point font, double-spaced, 1-inch margins, APA 7th edition in-text citations and end references). Add additional sources to your References page. When complete, upload your document (it must include all sections – so you will have a total of eight for this submission) to Canvas using the appropriate link (you can upload it as many times as you want up to the deadline noting that the last submission will be graded. All uploads will be checked against SimCheck (a plagiarism tool). The below SimCheck criteria will be used as one of the grading criteria for your waypoint.

If your SimCheck score is 15% or less, you will start with the maximum possible points available.

If your SimCheck score is 15.01% – 25%, you will start with 80% of the maximum possible point available.

If your SimCheck score is 25.01% – 40%, you will start with 60% of the maximum possible points available.

If your SimCheck score is 40.01% – 60%, you will start with 20% of the maximum possible points available.

If your SimCheck score is 60.01% or greater, you will receive a zero

Are there any skills you developed as a result of the experience? If so, how would you apply them in future experiences or situations? Are there areas of knowledge or particular skills you now need to develop? Is there anything you would do differently in the future?

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Applying the Gibbs’ Reflective Model

‘It is not sufficient simply to have an experience in order to learn. Without reflecting upon this experience it may quickly be forgotten, or its learning potential lost. It is from the feelings and thoughts emerging from this reflection that generalisations or concepts can be generated and it is generalisations that allow new situations to be tackled effectively.’
Using this 6 step model should help to identify your strengths, areas for development and actions you can take to enhance your professional skills. Steps 1 – 3 relate to what happened during the experience and steps 4 – 6 focus on how you could improve on the experience and outcome in the future.

Step 1 – Description
This should be a brief description of the experience or event to set the scene and give context.

Step 2 – Feelings
Consider what you were thinking and how you felt before the experience.
How did you feel during the experience?
How did you feel after the experience?

This is another short descriptive step, rather than being analytical.
Description
Feeling
EvaluationAnalysis
Conclusion
Action Plan

Step 3 – Evaluation
Evaluation looks objectively at both positive and negative aspects of the experience.
Describe key elements that went particularly well.
Was there anything that did not go well or did not work?
If appropriate, you can include what others did or did not do well.

Step 4 – Analysis
Analysis attempts to explain why the experience was positive or negative and should form the largest section of your reflection. Take into account points made in the previous steps and identify any factors which helped you e.g. previous experiences, carrying out research or consulting with others. Consider your role in the experience and how you contributed to the success of this experience?
If things did not go to plan, why do you think this was e.g. lack of preparation or external factors beyond your control?
It can be useful to consider other people who were involved in the experience. Did they have similar views or reactions to you? If not, why do you think that was the case?

Step 5 – Conclusion
Focus on what you have learned.
Are there any skills you developed as a result of the experience? If so, how would you apply them in future experiences or situations?
Are there areas of knowledge or particular skills you now need to develop?
Is there anything you would do differently in the future? Try to give specific examples.

Step 6 – Action Plan
What specific actions can you now take to build on your knowledge or skills?
You could include any training that would benefit you (formal or otherwise), as well as identifying sources of information or support (people or resources).

Critically evaluate and recommend a term project for implementation. Place yourself in an organizational context. Understand the environment in which this organization functions. Describe the real or fictitious strategic context for your project topic

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Project Management

This activity will provide you with an opportunity to engage in a discussion with this class on a project topic that you have selected to implement as the term project. The class interaction will foster a learning environment in which you will learn from each other’s experiences and opinions.

In addition, you will practice using project management jargon and expressing your opinions in a professional manner. The options available in this discussion have ethical considerations that are important to consider as a project manager.

Specifically, for this M1D1 discussion, you are required to:

  • Critically evaluate and recommend a term project for implementation. Place yourself in an organizational context. Understand the environment in which this organization functions.
    • Describe the real or fictitious strategic context for your project topic. You may:
      • Explain about the industry, the organization and other environmental factors. For example,IBM is a corporation that develops hardware, software and provider information technology services.
      • Write about its history, the way the company has changed, the evolution of the industry, current industry trends,
    • Present aSWOT analysis on the selected industry/organization.
    • Choose a business area for your project topic. Focus on, and explain a specific area within the organization such as marketing, information technology, finance, etc.
    • Analyze your options and recommend your project topic. This will be a project in the chosen business area.
    • Calculate and share theROI and payback period for the recommended project. You can click to download the ROI & Payback Period template  Download ROI & Payback Period template[XLS, file size 23.5 KB] for this calculation.
    • Finally, in a reflection of at least 30 words, describe the most interesting and challenging parts of preparing the project proposal, as well as any recommendations to your classmates for preparing the proposal.
  • Responses: Read the initial posts from your classmates. From the perspective of a project approver, critically analyze the project details provided by your classmates and share your opinions. The feedback must detail, clearly and specifically, what has been presented well and what can be improved upon. Your review can cover topics ranging from the mechanics of writing to the rational strength of the content. Other examples of your critical responses may include:
    • Queries to gain better understanding of the strategic context as well as the business area of focus.
    • Modifications to the SWOT analysis, based on the business scenario provided.
    • Opinions and justifications of alternative considerations.

Source:  see powerpoints uploaded

  • Schwalbe, K. (2017).An Introduction to Project Management (6th ed.). Minneapolis, MN: Schwalbe Publishing.

 

Provide a six-minute video brief (max 7 mins) to the Group Director Strategy on your proposed restructure, and the structure you would have liked to implement in the absence of organisational politics

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The Politics of Organisational structure

Millennium Airlines is facing a world of challenges. Climate change, pandemics, and an unruly collection of internal political squabbles are all threatening to bring the airline to its knees. You are required to restructure the organisation to enable it to more effectively compete in its industry, but first you’ll have to overcome the politics and turf wars inside the organisation.

You are required to provide:
A six-minute video brief (max 7 mins) to the Group Director Strategy on your proposed restructure, and the structure you would have liked to implement in the absence of organisational politics

(1) an ideal structure; and (2) a recommended structure for the organisation