Identify and compare the main strategic groups in the beer industry? Identify the resources and capabilities of the Boston Beer Company. Which of these resources create sustainable competitive advantage?

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Boston Beer Company Analysis

1. Apply Porter’s Five Forces on the general Beer Industry.

2. Identify and compare the main strategic groups in the beer industry?

3. Identify the resources and capabilities of the Boston Beer Company. Which of these resources create sustainable competitive advantage?

Answer these 3 questions. the Porter’s Five Forces in the ppt last part. if you have any question just let me know.

Look at the pros and cons of how a leader should act in times of crisis? :Provide your opinion supported by facts of the situation at hand. What type of lessons can a leader teach or learn from this incident?

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Discussion Post

All of you must have heard about the Chinese spy balloon incident and the pros and cons being debated in the press about the decision that Biden made.

Keep in mind that second guessing a leader’s decision is easier to do when you are not that leader making the decision.

  • Look at the pros and cons of how a leader should act in times of crisis? :Provide your opinion supported by facts of the situation at hand.
  • What type of lessons can a leader teach or learn from this incident?

This assignment is meant for you to demonstrate your understanding of leadership challenges and making a timely decision

Include citations of your supporting research, websites , news articles and other sources.

 

250-400 word reply

Define the 3 ‘Take Actions’ in this chapter and provide an example of a ‘Future Focus’ action that will integrate and co-create coalitions that drive healthcare decisions forward.

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Assignment Directions:

Read Chapter 3 – Integrate and Co-create, in Bridging Worlds: The Future of the Healthcare Strategist.

Define the 3 ‘Take Actions’ in this chapter and provide an example of a ‘Future Focus’ action that will integrate and co-create coalitions that drive healthcare decisions forward. For your PDSL, select one of the Take Actions and describe an experience you have had with the action, and how it will influence your role as a healthcare manager.

Take Action:

  • Encourage Diversity of Thought and Experience
  • Manage Change through Collaboration
  • Create a Culture of Transparency

500 words in APA as you need an introductions, body, and conclusion for paper and you should have 3 references for every paper (must show each reference cited in the writing)

Given already adopted and yet to be implemented (under discussion) regulations and taxes (carbon prices) discuss general requirements and options to minimize carbon emissions from LNG plants.

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Decarbonising LNG plants

This is a Master Thesis for the Professional MBA in Energy Management. It needs to look for the Energy (and specificully LNG (gas)) business in the context of the existing climate agenda with regards to minimizing CO2 emissions. Given already adopted and yet to be implemented (under discussion) regulations and taxes (carbon prices) it shall discuss general requirements and options to minimize carbon emissions from LNG plants. It shall assess economic viability of such decarbonizing efforts/projects like implementing carbon capture and storage to determine whether it make sense now (with current CO2 prices) or in future (what CO2 prices make it attractive).

Pick a product you know well. What intermediaries do you think are used in bringing this product to market? What valuable services do you think these intermediaries provide?

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Management question

  1. Identify one or more circumstances when a company might wish to delay introducing its product.
  2. What factors will (or should) influence a firm’s pricing strategy?
  3. Pick a product you know well. What intermediaries do you think are used in bringing this product to market? What valuable services do you think these intermediaries provide?
  4. What marketing strategies are used by the producers of the product you identified for Question 3? What are the advantages and disadvantages of these marketing strategies?

 

What factors do you think enabled Sega to break Nintendo’s near monopoly of the U.S. video game console market in the late 1980s? Why did Nintendo choose not to make its early video game consoles backward compatible? What were the advantages and disadvantages of this strategy?

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Crafting a Deployment Strategy

  1. What factors do you think enabled Sega to break Nintendo’s near monopoly of the U.S. video game console market in the late 1980s?
  2. Why did Nintendo choose not to make its early video game consoles backward compatible? What were the advantages and disadvantages of this strategy?
  3. What strengths and weaknesses did Sony have when it entered the video game market in 1995? What strengths and weaknesses did Microsoft have when it entered the video game market in 2001?
  4. In what ways did Nintendo’s Wii break with the norms of competition in the video game industry? How defensible was its position?
  5. Comparing the deployment strategies used by the firms in each of the generations, can you identify any timing, licensing, pricing, marketing, or distribution strategies that appear to have influenced firms’ success and failure in the video game industry?

 

What are the trade-offs in choosing a team’s size and level of diversity? How can managers ensure that a team reaps the advantages of diversity while not being thwarted by some of the challenges team diversity raises?

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Management question

  1. What are the trade-offs in choosing a team’s size and level of diversity?
  2. How can managers ensure that a team reaps the advantages of diversity while not being thwarted by some of the challenges team diversity raises?
  3. Identify an example of a development project, and what type of team you believe they used. Do you think this was the appropriate type of team given the nature of the project?
  4. What are some advantages and disadvantages of collocation? For what types of projects are virtual teams inappropriate?

 

What are the pros and cons of the teams being so autonomous? Is Disney’s team approach mostly suited to creative projects, or would it work equally well in other kinds of industries?

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Managing New Product Development Teams

  1. Why does Disney keep its development teams small?
  2. What are the pros and cons of the teams being so autonomous?
  3. Is Disney’s team approach mostly suited to creative projects, or would it work equally well in other kinds of industries?

 

What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of the agile development process? How is agile development similar to or different from (a) the stage-gate process and (b) the parallel development process described in the chapter?

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Managing the New Product Development Process

  1. What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of the agile development process?
  2. How is agile development similar to or different from (a) the stage-gate process and (b) the parallel development process described in the chapter?
  3. What are some of the likely changes agile development requires in managing development personnel?
  4. What kinds of projects do you think agile development is appropriate for?
  5. What kinds of projects do you think it might be inappropriate for?

 

What are the advantages and disadvantages of the creative side of Google being run as a flexible and flat “technocracy”? How does Google’s culture influence the kind of employees it can attract and retain?

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Implementing Technological Innovation Strategy

  1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the creative side of Google being run as a flexible and flat “technocracy”?
  2. How does Google’s culture influence the kind of employees it can attract and retain?
  3. What do you believe the challenges are in having very different structure and controls for Google’s creative side versus the other parts of the company?
  4. Some analysts have argued that Google’s free-form structure and the 20 percent time to work on personal projects is possible only because Google’s prior success has created financial slack in the company. Do you agree with this? Would Google be able to continue this management style if it had closer competitors?