Describe the characteristics of transformational change. Explain the organization design intervention for both domestic and worldwide situations.

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Characteristics of transformational change

Describe the characteristics of transformational change. (MLO 18.1)

Explain the organization design intervention for both domestic and worldwide situations. (MLO 18.2)

Learn about the integrated strategic change intervention and understand how it represents the revolutionary and systemic characteristics of transformational change. (MLO 18.3)

Explain the rationale and logic behind organization collaboration. (MLO 20.1)

Describe and apply organization development (OD) interventions that enable mergers and acquisitions. (MLO 20.2)

Demonstrate effective knowledge management skills to utilise knowledge management tools for the benefits of the organization.

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Week 11: Interactive activity 

11.1 Learning Outcomes:

Demonstrate effective knowledge management skills to utilise knowledge management tools for the benefits of the organization.

 11.2 Action Required:

Click on the following link to watch a short video. 

11.3 Test your Knowledge (Question):

How is knowledge management different from organization learning. Is organizational learning same thing as knowledge management.

 

Explain how HR can be both a cost center and a profit center. Use data and examples to prove your theories.

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Traditionally, HR has focused on the costs associated with each specific task section, such as advertising or filling an open position. HR has traditionally been considered the one department solely focused on how to save money. Today, HR has reordered that focus and included the HR best practices that generate profit through increased productivity and revenue.

Explain how HR can be both a cost center and a profit center. Use data and examples to prove your theories.

Explain the business software. Explain the payment and security of the chosen website. What is the marketing and advertising strategy?

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ECOM 101 presentation

  1. Explain the current business e-commerce features.
  2. Explain the business e-commerce process.
  3. Explain the business software.
  4. Explain the payment and security of the chosen website.
  5. What is the marketing and advertising strategy?

 

Explain the decision-making approach discussed in this case study. Why supplier selection is a typical multi-criteria decision-making process involving subjectivity and vagueness?

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A Rough Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Approach for Sustainable Supplier Selection under Vague Environment: A Case Study.

Author: Huiyun Lu , Shaojun Jiang , Wenyan Song, Xinguo Ming

Assignment Questions: (Marks 15)

Read the above case study and answer the following Questions:    

Question 1: Explain the decision-making approach discussed in this case study (250-300 words) (3-Marks).

Question 2: Why supplier selection is a typical multi-criteria decision-making process involving subjectivity and vagueness? (250-300 words) (3-Marks).

Question 3: Discuss the Sustainable supplier selection that is required for manufacturing companies. (250-300 words )  (3Marks).

Question 4: Why Supplier selection decisions are important for most of the manufacturing firms? (250-300 words) (3-Marks).

Question 5: What is your opinion about this study and how it is connected to course and beneficial for you? (250-300 words) (3-Marks).

 

 

What problems should he tackle first? Which were operational and which were organizational? What timeline should he establish? How should he consider the people in the company? What should he ask them? How should he approach them to solicit their ideas for the turnaround?

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Cote Construction Company case

Read the “Turning Around Cote Construction Company” found at the end of Chapter 9 and follow these steps before answering the case study questions. In order to answer the case study questions you will apply the Change Path Model from Chapter 9 to the Cote Construction Company case.

A case study is a puzzle to be solved, so before reading and answering the specific questions, develop your proposed solution by following these five steps:

  1. Read the case study to identify the key issues and underlying issues. These issues are the principles and concepts of the course module, which apply to the situation described in the case study.
  2. Record the facts from the case study which are relevant to the principles and concepts of the module. The case may have extraneous information not relevant to the current module. Your ability to differentiate between relevant and irrelevant information is an important aspect of case analysis, as it will inform the focus of your answers.
  3. Describe in some detail the actions that would address or correct the situation.
  4. Consider how you would support your solution with examples from experience or current real-life examples or cases from textbooks.
  5. Complete this initial analysis and then read the discussion questions. Typically, you will already have the answers to the questions but with a broader consideration. At this point, you can add the details and/or analytical tools required to solve the case.

Case Study Questions:

  1. What problems should he tackle first? Which were operational and which were organizational? What timeline should he establish?
  2. How should he consider the people in the company? What should he ask them? How should he approach them to solicit their ideas for the turnaround?
  3. How should he deal with Felix? Should he allow him to continue as head of Equipment and Operations? Should he sideline Felix and formally reduce his authority at Cote Construction? Would it, in fact, be a relief to employees to know that Felix no longer played a role in the company?

Your well-written paper should meet the following requirements:

  • Be 6-8 pages in length, which does not include the title and reference pages, which are never a part of the content minimum requirements.

 

Suppose a resident of Canada buys some machine tools from a company in Japan. Explain why and in what directions this changes Canada net exports and Canada net capital outflow.

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Macroeconomic

Assignment 3 Questions: Chapter 15, 17 & 18

  • What is the inflation tax, and how might it explain the creation of inflation by a central bank? (2.5 Marks)
  • Suppose a resident of Canada buys some machine tools from a company in Japan. Explain why and in what directions this changes Canada net exports and Canada net capital outflow. (2.5 Marks)

 

What are the Major Challenges in Supply Chain Management today? How Can you Overcome them? Define the role of E-logistics in supply chain operations.

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Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain Management (SCM) refers to the technique of handling a string of operations involved in the transportation of raw materials from the source to an enterprise to develop a desired product or service, which will eventually be delivered to its intended customer.

A properly functioning supply chain is crucial to the development and growth of any country. It gives countries a competitive edge over others in the marketplace. Supply chain management is aimed at cutting down costs, maximizing efficiency, and increasing productivity.

To strike a fruitful balance between supply and demand, supply chain management must join hands with technology to improve supply chain processes and provide solutions to eliminate existing supply chain constraints.

 

To keep in view the above importance of Supply chain answer the following questions.

Q1. What are the Major Challenges in Supply Chain Management today? How Can you Overcome them?      5 Marks (500 words Minimum)

Q2. Define the role of E-logistics in supply chain operations.     4 Marks (400 words Minimum)

Q3. Explain the role of technology in Supply chain Management with special focus on Block chain technology.    3 Marks (300 words Minimum)

Q4. Assume yourself as an advisor of Supply chain discipline, suggest ways and means through which supply chain efficiency can be improved?       3 Marks (300 words Minimum)

 

 

 

 

 

What is changing in your organization/world/business/market? What problem is being created because of this change? What idea do you have to address this problem?

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Paradigms Worksheet

1: Back to Zero

Keeping in mind that Joel Barker states that to be an effective leader you have to be good at two types of change: Paradigm enhancements and paradigm shifts.

When a paradigm shifts, everyone goes back to zero.

Thinking of a business you have been associate with, what event or occurrence could set your organization back to zero?  Read each of the events listed below.  Describe the potential consequences and how they could set your organization back to zero.

  • A new law is passed that:
  • Competition invents a new:
  • Scientists report that:
  • Your suppliers can no longer:

Describe your own hypothetical event.  Explain how it could set your organization back to zero.

 

2: What’s impossible?

What is impossible to do in your organization today, but if it could be done would fundamentally change the organization for the better?

Ask this question often and at every level of the organization – the answers automatically describe a paradigm shift.  Listen to others’ answers – they will help you focus your attention on what could be your future.

What do you think? What is impossible to do in your organization today, but if it could be done would fundamentally change the organization for the better?

 

3: It Takes Courage

It takes great courage to challenge existing paradigms.  If you could challenge the paradigms in your organization, which of the issues below would you raise and why?

Compensation paradigm: “this is the way we pay people here”

  • Marketing paradigm: “this has been our market for years.”
  • Management paradigm: “this is the way we do things here”
  • Customer paradigm: “this is who our customers are and this is what they want”
  • Size paradigm:  “that’s not for us; we are too big/small”

 

4; Start your own Shift

We can choose to change paradigms.  Perhaps the most powerful advantage human beings have is that we are not genetically programmed to look at the world in just one way.

  • What is changing in your organization/world/business/market?
  • What problem is being created because of this change?
  • What idea do you have to address this problem?
  • Is there an upside to this idea?  What is the advantage?
  • What are the consequences if your idea doesn’t work as planned?
  • If your idea is simple, explain why it is.
  • Explain how your idea is compatible (or not) with what is already being used.

Which type of enterprise system would you recommend and why? What are the benefits of implementing such a system? What challenges do you foresee in implementing this system? How would you address these?

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Enterprise System Recommendation

Extra Sweet Sugar, Inc. manufactures candy in Riyadh and distributes its products throughout KSA. The organization has over 350 employees in three locations. Its functional business units currently work in silos, with data pertaining to their various departments held in separate, legacy systems. The company’s revenues are growing, and it has an online retail site.

As the company’s IT manager, you have been tasked with recommending a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) enterprise system to senior management. Address the following:

  • Which type of enterprise system would you recommend and why?
  • What are the benefits of implementing such a system?
  • What challenges do you foresee in implementing this system? How would you address these?
  • What are some of the vendors that offer such systems? Is there one that’s preferable given the organization’s needs? Why? What business factors should be addressed in order to make this determination?