Category: Business

A plan for business concept and its associated website. A business proposal with some managerial and technical aspects that detail how a website can benefit a specific business and how the website will look, feel and run. Trying to sell someone on the idea of having a website created for their business where you are the website creator and administrator. Think of the plan as a ‘pitch’ to a potential client, showing off your knowledge of their core business and the business’s specific goals, describing how websites can potentially increase market share and most importantly, providing evidence of your process in website design, administration, and successfully utilizing internet marketing techniques. It is a pitch that promotes the purchase of a website.

“holiday house rental Gold Coast”

Headings:

1. Introduction;

2. business background;

3. business goals;

4. website goals;

5. competitor website analysis ( +table of strengths and weaknesses);

6. target audience;

7. forecasted use environments;

8. user tasks (bullet points);

9. website content;

10. development tools;

11. website content storyboard (additional) (an image or box based description of howthe pages will link together and how the menu system will provide users access to every page);

12. website template designs (how will they look and be constructed) (describe and display);

13. process analysis ;

14. marketing techniques;

15. conclusion ;

16. reference list.

 

 

According to the textbook, ongoing challenges in the global business environment are mostly attributed to unethical business practices, failure to embrace technology advancements, and stiff competition among businesses. Use the Internet to research the code of ethical conduct of one (1) of the following organizations:

•AT&T

•Hershey Company

•Coca-Cola

•Chevron

Next, use the Internet to research the code of ethical conduct of two (2) similar companies in the same industry as the company you have chosen.

Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:

1.Specify, in brief, the nature, structure, types of products or service of the business you selected. Examine the information within the company’s code of ethical conduct, and choose three (3) key issues from within the document that you believe are critical for success. Provide a rationale for the response.

2.Using the three (3) key issues you selected as a benchmark, compare and contrast the codes of conduct of two (2) similar companies within the same industry as your chosen company.

3.Examine the extent to which the two (2) similar companies you researched have addressed the key issues you selected. Hypothesize two (2) potential positive outcomes for each company if each addresses the key issues in question and two (2) potential adverse effects if each company fails to address these issues.

4.Propose two (2) techniques that the original company you selected could use in order to ensure that its code of conduct will remain relevant through years of changing economic, political, social, cultural, and technological forces on business and society. Next, evaluate the effectiveness of two (2) methods that the company currently adopts in order to manage environment issues.

5.Examine two (2) approaches that the original company you selected has taken in order to embrace technological advancements for innovation and thus improve business offerings. Anticipate three (3) potential technological challenges the company could face, and recommend one (1) strategy that the company could use in order to eliminate or minimize each of these anticipated challenges.

6.Specify at least one (1) one lobbying strategy that the original company you selected has used in an effort to influence national or local government decisions in its favor. Summarize the issue in question, and ascertain whether or not the lobbying effort was appropriate. Justify the response.

7.Analyze two (2) global corporate citizenship efforts of the original company you selected, and assess the extent to which these efforts are effective in accomplishing the company’s goals. Examine the manner in which the two (2) global citizenship efforts could contribute significantly to the company’s sustainable development goals.

8.Use at least four (4) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

•Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

•Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

 

GENERATING DECISION ALTERNATIVES

Background article is included in this description.

Assignment

Many business failures can be attributed to faulty decision making on the part of leaders of major stakeholders. By analyzing these failures, we can learn something about what caused them and, perhaps, avoid similar fiascos in the future. In the following article from the Wall Street Journal, business analyst Paul Ingrassia takes a look at the roles of the leaders in the UAW and GM in the demise of Saturn.

Read the following article, and in a 2-page paper, answer the following questions:

How did the UAW and GM contribute to the failure of Saturn?

What implicit assumptions (heuristics) were their leaders relying on that influenced their actions?

Propose a plan by which the leaders of the UAW and GM could be coaxed into better decision making by defusing the power of these heuristics.

BACKGROUND MATERIAL

Ingrassia, P. (2009). Saturn couldn’t escape GM’s dysfunctional orbit: Union leaders hated the flexible work rules and eventually got rid of them. The Wall Street Journal, Oct. 9, 2009. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704471504574447122719252350.html#top

The following reading is optional, but it provides additional information on heuristics to supplement that found in the background readings, and may be useful in supporting your answer.

Anissimov, M. (2004) A Concise Introduction to Heuristics and Biases. Retrieved from http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/works/heuristicsandbiases.htm

Assignment Expectations

Draw on the background materials in discussing heuristics and techniques that can be used to overcome them.

If a heuristic would not be addressed by any of the techniques, suggest another way decisions can be managed to reduce the chances of that heuristic impairing the decision-making process.

 

 

Acting as the CEO of a small company, you will apply the principles of capital budgeting to invest in growth and cash flow improvement opportunities in three phases over 10 simulated years. Each opportunity has a unique financial profile and you must analyze the effects on working capital. Examples of opportunities include taking on new customers, capitalizing on supplier discounts, and reducing inventory.

You must understand how the income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows are interconnected and be able to analyze forecasted financial information to consider possible effects of each opportunity on the firm’s financial position. The company operates on thin margins with a constrained cash position and limited available credit. You must optimize use of internal and external credit as you balance the desire for growth with the need for maintaining liquidity.

Sign-in to the simulation and review each of the following:

Write a paper of no more than 1,400 words that analyzes your decisions during each phase (1-3) and how they influenced each of the following final outcomes (metrics) of SNC:

•Sales

•EBIT

•Net Income

•Free Cash Flow

•Total Firm Value

Address the following in your paper:

•A summary of your decisions and why you made them

•How they affected SNC’s working capital

•What general effects are associated with limited access to financing

Include scholarly references (in addition to your course textbook and simulation materials) to support your positions.

 

•A summary of your decisions and why you made them

•How they affected SNC’s working capital

•What general effects are associated with limited access to financing

 

Deliverable Length: 500–750 words plus a chart/time line (1 document)

The forecasting department, traditionally reporting to the sale manager, has historically seen a forecast accuracy of about 60%, and this in turn causes problems for the following departments:

•Purchasing: What should we buy and how much?

•Production: What should we really build?

•Inventory management: We keep building the wrong thing.

The sales manager asked you to write her a memo, specifically addressing the following:

•How could you suggest that your new system would achieve any better levels of forecast accuracy?

•Why is forecast accuracy itself not as important under traditional methods?

•Create a chart or timeline that includes all of the following: ◦Which purchase orders have to be placed, and when?

◦When manufacturing needs to begin, to have products delivered to a customer

◦Approximate dates for all of the following:-

◾When the product must be shipped to meet the customer’s due date

◾When the application of the cover and packaging must take place to meet the customer’s due date

◾When the manufacturing of the widget must begin and end

◾When the raw material for the widget must be ordered

◾When the plastic cover must be ordered

◾When the cardboard box must be ordered

◦Includes notes explain your timing calculation

◦Assumes all of the following conditions:-

◾The factory has two departments: manufacturing and packaging

◾Product X consists of 3 components

◾a widget manufactured in the factory with a total manufacturing lead time of 1 week

◾a plastic cover purchased from vendor A with a procurement lead time of 3 weeks

◾a cardboard shipping box purchased from vendor B with a procurement lead time of 4 weeks

◾The widget itself is made from steel (whose lead time from vendor C is 4 weeks).

◾It takes 1 day for the cover to be applied to the product and for the product to be inserted in the box in the packaging department.

◾The shipping time to this customer is in 3 weeks, and you do not want it to be late or early.

◾Assume you received the customer order on 1/1/20XX.

◾Ignore any holidays

◾Assume a 5-day work week

◾The customer requires the product to arrive at his location on 12/31/2014

 

 

 

 

 

Search and identify an organization which has faced or is facing some major operational challenges. Once you have identified one organization, perform a review of its operational challenges and the strategy they adopted to solve the issues. Next, give your critical analysis of the situation and make some recommendations.

A good report will identify the issue or issues and will present the solution. Follow the following structure (however, please don’t limit yourself to this structure only )

• Introduction

• Brief organization’s profile

• Statement of the problem

• Your analysis of the situation

• Conclusion and Recommendations

• References

The report, excluding appendices, should be not more than 2000 words in length.

1. Knowledge – Your work should show knowledge of the module content.

2. Understanding – Your report should demonstrate an understanding of the problem.

3. Insight – Your report should show an ability to analyze the operations inside the organisation and problems faced.

4. Clarity – Your report should be well structured and clearly presented.

You should include a short list of references to support your observations and assertions.

Assignment Guidance Notes:

Business Report Structure – 2000 words +/- 10%

Size 12 font, spacing 1.5, include word count

Times New Roman, Justified

The assignment should be 100% free plagiarism and 100% from scratch as it will be assessed by Turnitin

 

This SLP will focus on Enterprise Systems that support a Finance Department in an organization. All organizations have finance departments. If you are in the military or other Government agency, the functions may be split. Your local organization may deal with financing the organization with everything except payroll. The payroll might be accomplished at a national level. In a normal company, the Finance generally handles both organizational and personnel costs.

Before reading about Financial Enterprise Systems, go to each of these websites and look at the responsibilities (i.e. the business processes) of a Financial Department.

https://www.ehow.com/about_6614015_role-finance-department-business.html

https://www.ehow.com/facts_5683333_role-finance-department-play-business_.html

https://www.svtuition.org/2010/05/function-of-finance-department.html

Once you have an idea of what business processes finance departments accomplish, take a look at Enterprise Solutions for finance provided by one software company.

Go to : “Drive success across your lines of business” at SAP ERP website https://www.sap.com/lines-of-business/index.epx. You will find a number of videos and white papers.

For this SLP paper, select the Finance functional area from the list above and review the site.

The direct link to the Financial Functional Area is:

https://www54.sap.com/lob/financial-management.html

Read the Potential Benefits section (there are four potential benefits) then go on to look at specific solutions to problems (there is a button called EXPLORE SPECIFIC Solutions). Take a look at some of the solutions.

Now that you have general ideas about what a finance department does and what an Enterprise System that supports Finance can do, please discuss the following questions specifically:

What are the potential benefits of one or more of the solutions identified by SAP? Specifically identify which solution or solutions you selected.

Do you agree with them? Discuss and analyze. Explain why you agree or disagree. Try and explain the benefit that the SAP solutions you selected bring to an organization.

Using the knowledge you gained on Finance departments and Enterprise Systems that support them, discuss how this enterprise module might be useful to your organization? In discussing this state whether your organization has or does not have, one or more Enterprise Systems for Finance and whether the people that run them could use the tools you identified.

 

Include proper introduction discussing the purpose of the paper and what would be answered/addressed and section headings

Required

Kirit.com (2007, February 21), What is an Enterprise System anyway? Retrieved from https://www.kirit.com/Enterprise%20systems%20for%20geniuses/What%20is%20an%20Enterprise%20System%20anyway%3F

Deborah Nightingale (2009, June 15), Principles of Enterprise Systems, Second International Symposium on Engineering Systems, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Retrieved from https://esd.mit.edu/symp09/submitted-papers/nightingale-paper.pdf

Walton College (2012, September 23), Enterprise Systems, Retrieved from https://enterprise.waltoncollege.uark.edu/

Optional material

YouTube (2009, April 13), Enterprise Systems, Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DoVRDYSJEg&noredirect=1

Shari Shang & Peter B Seddon (2002), Assessing and managing the benefits of enterprise systems: the business manager’s perspective, Info Systems J, 12, 271–299 Retrieved from https://cba.uah.edu/guptaj/m680/erpbenefits.pdf

Oracle (2012, September 23), Challenges To Enterprise Systems Manufacturers:, Retrieved from https://www.oracle.com/jp/industries/high-tech/022563.pdf

By now you should have developed some understanding about enterprise systems and their impact on the organization. write a case paper on the following topic.

Review information from the background readings and research other sources on your own and please prepare a 3-5 page paper on the topic:Do you agree that an Enterprise System is critical to business success? Why or Why not?

Approach the question by 1) discussing what an enterprise system is, 2) how it has evolved from piecemeal applications to an integrated system, 3) how it brings integration of business processes and 4) how it helps to provide a tool for decision making for the management team.

Augment the above with a description of an Enterprise System you are familiar with from your current job, past job, or from personal experience such as a system used by a company or government federal or local) agency you worked in.

Assignment Expectations:

Your paper should be between three and five pages. Take a definite stand on the issues, and develop your supporting argument carefully. Using material from the background information and any other sources you can find to support specific points in your argument is highly recommended; try to avoid making assertions for which you can find no support other than your own opinion.

 

 

 

1. Introduction (up to 300 words)

Introduce your topic area (an organizational / business related issue or problem – past or present).

2. Analysis of the organizational / business related issue or problem (up to 1,400 words).

 Provide a critical analysis of the issue/problem – by reviewing and discussing a range of industry/ practitioner and media sources: (e.g. media reports, statistics, news articles, policy documents, public opinion as expressed online/in print, online blogs, quotes, industry / practitioner reports, trade magazines, newspapers etc.).

 You should not include academic journal or textbook references in this section of your Initial Proposal.

 Explore the conventional wisdom on your topic, without using academic research evidence. In relation to your business/organisational problem or issue – analyse the different views, perspectives, explanations and opinions that exist in the world.

Avoid description. You will need to be critical of the sources you review (e.g. how reliable, biased, or valid are they?). Consider: What the sources tell us, and what don‟t they tell us. Identify and discuss the main issues and debates relating to your question.

Make connections, compare, evaluate, assess and express your own voice – using the evidence, your analysis of the sources, and the arguments you make within your work. Think critically about what the sources mean and what can and cannot be inferred – e.g. are there contradictions or confusions when comparing reports, quotes, accounts, media reports, statistics etc? Consider what questions your analysis of the sources raise about the problem/issue.

Clearly state your research question and your  (closely related) sub-questions. Your questions should logically and clearly flow from your analysis of the organizational / business related issue or problem. You should make it clear how your analysis led to these questions.

3. Practical rationale (up to 900 words)

Offer a practical rationale (i.e. from the perspective of industry, business, employees, policy makers) indicating why your questions are worth exploring further. You should aim to address the question: Why would industry (e.g. you may refer to businesses/managers/employees/policy makers) be interested in your questions?

Think about the usefulness, importance and interest of your questions to industry, organisations and/or employees (you could also include policy makers). To what extent is your chosen area topical? Why is this worth exploring in more detail?

4. Exploring the topic further using academic research literature (up to 400 words)

Provide a summary of how  you will explore your topic further using academic research literature. Within your summary, aim to mention at least 7 academic journal papers you feel are relevant to your chosen topic – that will help you explore the topic further in the Final Report.

Identify whether there is „enough‟ literature on the subject to review in the Final Report – in the Final Report you will review the academic literature in more detail.

* Please make sure the sub questions are not broad and relates to strategy….

*Do not use books or journals just websites for reference.