How might viewing the organization at three levels of quality, including the strategic (senior leadership), tactical (middle management), and the operational levels help improve their business plan?

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MGT 424 Quality

  1. What advice might you give Rob and Diane about the management practices they are proposing within each element of the TQ infrastructure? What additional practices might you suggest?
  1. How might viewing the organization at three levels of quality, including the strategic (senior leadership), tactical (middle management), and the operational levels help improve their business plan?

Examine Nelson Mandela’s leadership in the movie to the leadership concepts discussed in the textbook, class lectures, and online assignments. What results did Mr. Mandela achieve? Describe how he influenced and motivated others to support his vision.

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Watch the movie Invictus (2009)

Using class lectures, textbook readings, and online assignments apply examples from the film Invictus to answer the two (2) questions presented below:
(1) Examine Nelson Mandela’s leadership in the movie to the leadership concepts discussed in the textbook, class lectures, and online assignments.
(2) What results did Mr. Mandela achieve? Describe how he influenced and motivated others to support his vision.

Do an internet web search using the keywords: making conversation. Locate at least 2 websites and embed the links to your webpages you used in the search into this assignment. What did you learn from these webpages that is useful to you?

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Marketing management- 0684

What do you plan on doing in the next six months to become a better conversationalist?

Do an internet web search using the keywords: making conversation. Locate at least 2 websites and embed the links to your webpages you used in the search into this assignment. What did you learn from these webpages that is useful to you?

Finally, give two of your best tips or advice about making conversation. Minimum 200 words. Due not

Discuss the business costs or risks of poor data quality in your current organization or a KSA company with which you are familiar. Discuss a company that has developed an effective data governance program and why it is important to organizational success.

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Discussion – Data Management, Analytics, and Business Intelligence

  1. Discuss the business costs or risks of poor data quality in your current organization or a KSA company with which you are familiar.
  2. Discuss a company that has developed an effective data governance program and why it is important to organizational success.
  3. Discuss the concepts, principles, and theories from your textbook. Cite your textbooks and cite any other sources if appropriate.

 

Choose a Saudi Arabian organization that produces either a good or service and describe its capacity and demand concerns. Develop an equation to calculate its capacity. Define lead strategy, lag strategy, and match strategy, and recommend which your selected organization should pursue and why.

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Product and Service Design – Operation Management

Capacity Planning

When the capacity of an organization to produce goods or services and the demands of its customers to purchase goods or services is not matched, then the result is inefficiency, either in under-utilized resources or dissatisfied customers.

Critical Thinking- Address the following requirements:

  • Choose a Saudi Arabian organization that produces either a good or service and describe its capacity and demand concerns.
  • Develop an equation to calculate its capacity.
  • Define lead strategy, lag strategy, and match strategy, and recommend which your selected organization should pursue and why.

When does a corporation need a board of directors? Who should and should not serve on a board of directors? What about environmentalists or union leaders?

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DISCUSSION QUESTION

Question 1

When does a corporation need a board of directors?

Question 2

Who should and should not serve on a board of directors? What about environmentalists or union leaders?

Question 3

Discuss how a development in a corporation’s natural and societal environments can affect the corporation through its task environment.

Question 4

Compare and contrast trend extrapolation with the writing of scenarios as forecasting techniques.

Describe your Industry: Is it a growth industry? What long-term or short-term changes do you foresee in the industry? How will your company take advantage of it?

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An entrepreneur Start-up

Business Plan

A business plan is any simple plan, not only limited to the business start-up plan that helps the management to understand the current situation of the enterprises (strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats) and look forward into the future. A start-up plan is a business plan which consists of the mission, vision, objectives and action plans for the future of the new enterprises while the business plan drawn during the operation of the firm is vital for running the firm effectively, acquire new customers, partners, loans and so on. According to Fiore (2005), a business plan involves two dimensions; an organizing tool to simplify and clarify your business goals and strategy, the second one is a selling document that sells the business idea and shows that a product or a service can make a profit and attract funding and company resources.

Imagine you started a new business as an entrepreneur in Saudi Arabia. Briefly mention the specific steps which you consider necessary to a successful business plan.

Think and share information on the following items:

  1. Owners, capital structure and company profile (3 Marks)
  2. Your Business Name, Address, E‐Mail
  3.  Form of ownership: What is the legal structure? Sole proprietor, Partnership, Corporation….
  4. Investment capital
  5. Company Business Description (300 – 400 words)
  6. Scope and type of business (5 Marks)

What business will you be in? What will you do? What market segment will you choose?

  • Business idea: what is your big idea? Is it a product or a service? What makes your idea different?
  • Mission Statement
  • Company’s short-term and long-term goals and objectives.
  • Target market and demographics: Who will your customers be? Where do they live? What is your target market passionate about?

 

  1. Business Philosophy (4 Marks)

What is important to you in your business?

  • Describe your Industry: Is it a growth industry? What long-term or short-term changes do you foresee in the industry? How will your company take advantage of it?
  • Describe your most important company strengths and core competencies: What factors will make the company succeed? What do you think your major competitive strengths will be? What background experience, skills, and strengths do you personally bring to this new venture?
  • Risk Assessment: Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of your business using SWOT.
  • Who is your competition and how do you beat them?
  1. Products and Services (3 Marks)
  2. Briefly discuss your products or services (Technical specification).
  3. Size of business: how many employees? How many offices and retail facilities?
  4. What factors will give you competitive advantages or disadvantages? Examples, include level of quality or unique or proprietary features.

Note: Use APA style of referencing

Identify the most useful smart technology from a government perspective (from the case study only) and explain whether it provides any direct benefit to the taxpayer. Does the city government’s interest justify expending funds on this technology considering the benefit to the taxpayer?

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Case Study – Smart City Technologies

Instructions:

Read the Case Study information and Watch the 2 videos below.  As you watch the videos, consider the cost of smart city technologies for residents vs. the benefits gained. How long is the time period estimated to receive a positive Return on Investment (if ever)? Are the benefits directly attributable to the citizens who foot the bill or are the benefits at a more macro level such as a state, country, or the world? Using what you’ve learned, do the following:

  1. Craft and support an argument either for or against community (a city) investments in smart city technologies.
  2. Additionally, identify the most useful smart technology from a citizen’s perspective (from the case study only) and explain why it provides the best benefit to the taxpayer.
  3. Identify the most useful smart technology from a government perspective (from the case study only) and explain whether it provides any direct benefit to the taxpayer. Does the city government’s interest justify expending funds on this technology considering the benefit to the taxpayer?

 

Be sure to fully support your positions (in both parts A, B, & C) with at least 3 external sources (total) – these sources can be used to support any of your three arguments, but the textbook is not considered an external source.

Be sure to properly cite all sources and provide a bibliography.

Videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vPH0cSI2doLinks to an external site.

Case:

A “smart city” is a city where the day-to-day processes and the infrastructure of the city are able to provide real-time data to the city and its citizens, allowing them to better allocate resources and plan for the future.

Smart cities can be identified using six dimensions: a smart economy, smart mobility, a smart environment, smart people, smart living, and smart governance. Cities are “smart” when investments in social capital and infrastructure coupled with wise management of natural resources fuel sustainable economic development and a high quality of life.

Smart cities focus on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). Wireless sensor networks are one type of ICT. The goal of wireless sensor networks is to create a distributed network of sensors which measure a host of parameters that allow city management to run their city more efficiently. Ideally, ICTs will help increase local prosperity and competitiveness.

For example, citizens of smart cities can monitor pollution concentration on their specific street, and trash cans can send signals when they are close to full. Vehicle traffic and street light usage can be monitored to optimize city lights dynamically.

In smart cities, people have the tools to quickly and easily get the data they need to make smarter choices about their energy consumption. All the data in the world is useless without information systems than effectively communicate that data to users. Using IBM technologies, Dubuque was able to determine how much water was saved by decreased consumption and leak detection, as well as precise information about how much electricity individual appliances are consuming.

Users don’t see the back end infrastructure underlying these ICT technologies, which are increasingly depending on the cloud. Using the cloud has made these technologies integrated and, more importantly, cheap enough for cities like Dubuque to use to their fullest extent. They also don’t see the sheer amount of data that they are generating, because IBM’s systems distill that data into smaller chunks of relevant information that allows Dubuque’s citizens to live smarter.

In Portland, IBM created a model that allows city leaders to simulate the impacts of changes to various utilities. They collected ten years of data and built a model that supports the development of new metrics and identifies drivers of change for the city’s strategic plan. Using this data, Portland city officials hope to achieve a 40 percent reduction in carbon emissions by 2030 and an 80 percent reduction by 2050.

 

Is the statement easy to read? Mention the scope of the mission statement. Does the statement define a business domain and explain why it is attractive? Does the statement describe the company’s responsibility to its stakeholders?

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Management Question

Assignment-1

PART I

Read the given case information and answer the questions that follow.

[Source: business.timesonline.co.uk (adapted)]

 

Bangalore Enterprise Blossoms

Rama Karaturi had the idea for his rose-growing business. When he searched the city of Bangalore, in India, without success, for a bouquet of roses for his wife’s birthday. The city was a rose-free zone, so he decided to start growing them himself. He had wanted to take decisions for himself for some time and he also wanted to earn much more than his current salary. In 1996, he opened two greenhouses growing just roses. He used his own savings so took a considerable risk, but his confidence in the growth of ‘flower giving’ at times of major festivals encouraged other investors too. He sold the flowers in India, but his business also became one of the first in India to start exporting flowers on a large scale. Rama worked long hours to make his business a success. The business, called Katuri Networks, has grown at a tremendous rate, helped by Rama’s all-round business skills. He recently bought out a large rose grower in Kenya and his business is now the world’s largest cultivator of roses – and Rama achieved this in a little over ten years.

Questions

  1. Rama is an example of a ‘Business Entrepreneur’. Explain what is meant by this term. [3]
  2. Explain any two problems Rama’s business might have experienced during the set-up stage. [4]

 

                                 

Part II

A mission statement is a brief description of why a company or organization exists. It tells the purpose of being. It explains what the company does, who it serves, and what differentiates it from competitors. It’s used to provide focus, direction, and inspiration to employees while it tells customers or clients what to expect from the business.

Mission statements vary widely from one company to another. One mission statement could be better than the other.

Questions

Q 3. Using the Internet, find and write the mission statements of three different organizations, (it can be Profit or Non-Profit Organizations).

Evaluate any one mission statement which you find best using the following questions. [5]

  • Is the statement easy to read? Mention the scope of the mission statement.
  • Does the statement define a business domain and explain why it is attractive?
  • Does the statement describe the company’s responsibility to its stakeholders?
  • Does the statement give a portrait of the company, capturing the culture of the organization?

Q 4. Which mission statement you find the best among the three? Why?  [3]

 

(Try finding the mission statement of an organization via the link on a company’s Web page)

NOTE: Answer should not be limited to Yes/No. There must be proper explanation and reason/s for your answer.

 

As a Business Analyst, discuss the goals of digital business transformation. Being a role of Data Analyst, discuss the concept ‘Data is an Asset’.

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As a Business Analyst, discuss the goals of digital business transformation .

Questions

1. As a Business Analyst, discuss the goals of digital business transformation. (3 marks)

2. Being a role of Data Analyst, discuss the concept ‘Data is an Asset’. (3 marks)

3. As a Project Manager, how do you deal with the Talent shortages in your team. (3 Marks)

4. As a Web developer how do you optimize the product and discuss the importance of the concept ‘Brand is the Experience’. (3 marks)