Evaluate the role of competitive benchmarking in improving the strategic performance of hotel companies. Critically assess ways in which technology can assist in the benchmarking process.

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Choose one of the following essay questions, and ensure that their arguments are informed by theory, evidence, academic research, and market analyses.

1.Through analysing a select few definitions (at least 4), create a new definition of strategy suitable for international hotel companies. Critically reflect on the relevance of strategic thinking for global hotel businesses in the current climate. Support your discussions with examples from the hotel sector.
2. Evaluate the role of competitive benchmarking in improving the strategic performance of hotel companies. Critically assess ways in which technology can assist in the benchmarking process. Use examples to support your arguments.
3. Prepare a Balanced Scorecard Framework for a hotel organisation that you are familiar with, suggesting indicators within each perspective. Please provide reasons for your selections of the indicators. Based on your Balanced Scorecard Framework, highlight and evaluate the important indicators that this hotel organisation should focus on to ensure that their development goals of the next 5-10 years are met.
4. Using two different hotel organisations that you are familiar with, assess two types of strategy in the Price/Quality matrix that the two organisations use, and analyse the challenges involved in each type of strategy. Critically discuss the Price/Quality matrix in the current environment and evaluate how the two organisations should adapt with the change.
5. Using ACCOR or Marriott as a hotel organisation, critically evaluate the different business entry modes (market penetration) this organisation has chosen and why. When doing so further analyse why global hotel companies have shifted their business model towards an ‘asset light strategy’. Discuss the reasons for this trend using specific examples of hotel companies and underpin your answer with relevant theory.
6. Critically analyse the significance of organisational leadership and strategic positioning for a hotel organisation of your choice. Carefully consider the impact of the extraordinary challenges of the external environment in managing hotel organisations successfully. Support your arguments with evidence from relevant industry and theoretical concepts

Why the process of preparing Olympic Games ought to be improved?

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Why the process of preparing Olympic Games ought to be improved?

Calculate the mean, mode, median, minimum, maximum, range, variance and standard deviation and present them in a single table.

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  1. Answer ALL parts of this question.

You have been given the following data on innovation in the mobile phone industry. The data show the proportion of each company’s sales arising from innovation, where innovation is defined as the introduction of a new product at any time during the past 2 years.

Table 1 Innovation in the Mobile Phone Industry

Company Proportion of Sales Revenue from New Products %
1 27.4
2 15.7
3 85.34
4 94.2
5 60.0
6 57.5
7 13.4
8 8.0
9 0.0
10 33.6
11 15.7
12 100.0

 

  1. Calculate the mean, mode, median, minimum, maximum, range, variance and standard deviation and present them in a single table.
  2. Based on this sample of 12 companies and using the measures derived in (a) write a short report for the government on innovation in the mobile phone market commenting on the average and median proportion of sales from new products, the most and least innovative companies, variance in the share of sales from new products and the impact of any outliers. Discuss the strengths and weakness of the different measures.

Discuss in your team your “trips to Abilene.” Examples could be from incidents that happened among friends, family, or at work.

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Each member of a team is to watch the following video on the Abilene Paradox: https://www.coursera.org/lecture/social-psychology/assigned-video-4-1-the-abilene-paradox-iYTZw Note, that there are other videos on the topic that you may find on the internet.

After watching the video, each team should come up with at least one example, ideally, 2 or 3, of “Taking a Trip to Abilene. Note that this phenomenon of the Abilene Paradox is very similar to group think discussed in chapter 9, but not exactly the same.

Discuss in your team your “trips to Abilene.” Examples could be from incidents that happened among friends, family, or at work.

After discussing individual experiences in your team, each team is to write a short paper on one or more examples of Taking a Trip to Abilene. The assignment is to be turned in on Thursday, 3/11.

In your team’s report, discuss your examples of a “Trip to Abilene” and specifically address:

(1) Why you think it happened?

(2) What were the consequences?

(3) What could have been done to preclude “Taking a Trip to Abilene”?

Describe your organization as a closed or open system. Discuss how thinking differs between the two.

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Describe your organization as a closed or open system. Discuss how thinking differs between the two. Is there a difference in systems thinking in traditional healthcare versus complex adaptive systems?

Part 2: With Your Group

Systems thinking allows a more holistic perspective on decision making. Share examples of the types of decisions that occur at the unit, department, and organizational levels of the organization. Describe the impact of those decisions vertically, horizontally, and system-wide. Describe the effect of the decisions at the individual system level as well as the impact throughout the organization.

Critically evaluate whether subnational institutional arrangements replacing English regional planning, are up to job of meeting contemporary sustainable development challenges in one former English region.

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The ‘region’ has come to be rejected as the appropriate scale for English planning. Critically evaluate whether subnational institutional arrangements replacing English regional planning, are up to job of meeting contemporary sustainable development challenges in one former English region.

one former English region can be North East 

Your paper must include: an introduction, a review of relevant literature, an analysis and discussion of your empirical findings, a conclusion, and a list of references to include all sources cited in your paper and no others.

You should consider the changing functional relations of cities and regions in a dynamic global context that need to be addressed in English planning.
— You should consider the range of institutions and administrative bodies which are, and/or should be, involved in responding to contemporary

Why are lessons learned an important part of a project?

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Why are lessons learned an important part of a project?

Evaluate the role of standard financial and management account practices in different types of organisations.

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1. Identify the theories and techniques relating to human capital development in particular those relating to motivation
2. Evaluate change management theories and assess the potential challenges and opportunities associated with implementing change and the characteristics of a ‘learning organisation’.
3. Examine the role of financial management techniques for the monitoring and control of the financial resource alongside the significance of cost information and its contribution to short, interim and long term planning.
4. Evaluate the role of standard financial and management account practices in different types of organisations.

Create a contingency plan which can include but not limited to columns discussing risk, severity or probability, what problems may occur, preparation, responses, scope, cost, schedule, labor, performance and low to extreme impact.

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Prepare a proposal for the Smiths that includes project action plan, resources assigned , cost estimates if the project starts 3/20/21.

Did resource limitations affect the final schedule? If so, how? What financial risks does this project face? What can the Smiths do to protect themselves against those risks?

Create a contingency plan which can include but not limited to columns discussing risk, severity/probability, what problems may occur, preparation, responses, scope, cost, schedule, labor, performance and low to extreme impact.

Critically analyze the problem under investigation and propose arguments

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Title: The Netflix Effect
The essay will be about recommender systems
The structure of the essay:
1.Abstract
2.Introduction:
What motivates this essay? (academic discourse and practical examples)
What is (are) the specific research question(s)?
3.Literature review:
Identify and discuss the related literature (theories, arguments, concepts)
Spot research gaps, tensions, and inadequacies, if any, in prior studies
4.A critical analysis of the problem (or theoretical framework) :
Contextualize the theory and theorizing in the research setting
Critically analyze the problem under investigation and propose arguments
5.Empirical facts :
Use examples or cases to illustrate, further expand or provide evidence for the claims
6.Conclusion:
Justify contributions and implications
Acknowledge limitations and identify potential future research
“The study of the use of the recommender system in Netflix is a very good one, but you need to better justify the study and explain what you’re looking at, not based on your analysis of the case of Netflix, but mostly based on what the literature has said on this specific topic, and this is what you need to frame in the literature review.