THE BUSINESS WILL BE ASDA..PLEASE WRITE ABOUT ASDA STORES (http://www.asda.com/)
1. Internal business environment: Background to organisation, structure, culture & communication.
2. External business environment: Review of Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal and Environmental factors with a summary of guidance for strategic decision making.
3. Resource Management - Overview of organisational approach to Fincial, Human, Physical and Intangible resource management.
4. Special project: Recruitment & Selection process management: identify vacancy within organisation, develop job description & person specification along with detailed account of what the advertising campaign should include and how this would fit with the culture and communication strategy of the business, thinking 'employer branding'. Review the selection methods available and provide suggestions to which choice(s) would provide the highest validity and the 'best fit' candidate for the role.
5. The above operational aspects should include theoritical and academic underpinning, referenced accordingly.
Appendix: While there is a limit on the word count, maximum use of the appendices should be exercised to include supporting information relevant to endorsing learning outcomes of this assessment task.

Criteria: 1. Background of the chosen organisation. 2. Overview of organisational structure. 3. Overview of organisational culture. 4. . Overview of organisational Communication. 5. External Business environment review(PESTLE ANALYSIS) 6. Resource Management Overview. 7.Recruitment & Selection Process Management.

Assesment:
1. -Backrgound
- Structure =>Theory
-Culture
- Communication
2. -Swot analysis
-Pest analysis =>affecting strategy
3.Resources used to be effected
4. - Job description
- Person specification
- Advertising strategy

The format is as follows:
Title page
Acknowledgements (if any)
Contents page
Executive summary (about 300 words, not included in word count)
Introduction including terms of reference: 'The aim of this report is to critically examine Organisation X in terms of ..........
Main body: 4 sections covering each of the 4 tasks you have been asked to discuss in the assignment
Conclusions
Bibliography
Appendix: including Job Description and Person Specification
Personal reflective critique (300 words)

Develop a business plan for small fine dining restaurant in Melbourne, Australia.

The business plan should covered the plan outline below:

1.Executive Summary
1.1 Business overview
1.2 Mission statement
1.3 Service vision
1.4 Product differentiation
1.5 Target market
1.6 Financial management
1.7 Staff and operations

2. Product Profile
2.1 Product- goods and services
2.2 positioning
2.3 Price

3. Marketing plan
3.1 External business environment
3.2 market segmentation
3.3 Competitor analysis
3.4 position in market
3.5 SWOT analysis
3.6 sales forecast
3.7 Promotional strategy

4. Legal requirements
4.1 Legal structure
4.2 Licensing
4.3 Insurance
4.4 Business relationships and government bodies
4.5 Fair trading
4.6 Taxation
4.7 Industrial relations
4.8 Occupational health and safety
4.9 Record keeping

5. Human Resources Plan
5.1 Job analysis
5.2 Legislation and industrial relations
5.3 Organisation chart
5.4 recruitment and selection
5.5 Induction and training
5.6 Performance management

6. Operational Plan
6.1 Opening hours and trading
6.2 Pricing and cost control
6.3 policies and procedures
6.4 Technology
6.5 Control systems
6.6 Food hygiene

7. Financial Plan
7.1 Start- up cost
7.2 Sales forecasts
7.3 Break- even analysis
7.4 Cash flow analysis
7.5 Balance sheet

8. Future Prospect
8.1 Outlook
8.2 Innovations
8.3 Risk Analysis

Bibliography
Appendices


The business plan needs to cover all core aspects of business planning, including marketing, financial, human resource and operational planning. Legal and insurance issues should be reviewed and corresponding recommendations made for legal compliance, and the business plan should provide a forecast for the long- range direction of the business and its strategic success.

(this is Advanced Diploma of Hospitality Management's subject, australia)


Develop and Implement Operational Plan


Develop an operational plan for a hospitality enterprise for the refurbishment of the restaurant within the hotel.

The report could follow the structure below (although some sections may not be applicable and others, such as operational details, may need to be broken down into further sections).

Company description
Aim of the operational plan
Internal and external business environment (rational for the operational plan)
Operational details (new systems and procedures)
Human resources/labour requirements
Financial requirements
Technological requirements
Monitoring and evaluation (quality management)

When considering the internal and external environmental factors that may support or limit the concept and operational implementation, the following should be taken into account:
Legal and ethical issues
Trends and developments in the marketplace
Comparative market information
Capabilities and resources
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Academic level: Undergraduate Final Year (3rd year United Kingdon)

Ethnic Marketing
Consumer Behaviour

TASK:

The increasing diversity and growing numbers of ethnic minorities is changing the
dynamics of the external business environment for many organisations in the UK. The
growing ethnic population presents itself as a huge opportunity to those companies that wish to conduct business with them. Organisations and marketers have to be sensitive to the needs of the ethnic consumer and have to re-evaluate their marketing plans accordingly. Within the context of this statement:

?You are expected to conduct an in-depth analysis of the fast food organisation McDonaldss ethnic minority marketing strategy.

?Using an appropriate market research tool, analyse the following two
aspects of the target consumer group for the chosen organisation.

Personality and Perceptions
Learning and motivations

In so doing, you are expected to draw from the theories and concepts of consumer behaviour that have been familiarised through the course of this module (I have attached some files were the models and theories should be used appropriately).

?Critically evaluate the McDonalds ethnic minority strategy and make recommendations as you deem.

Your report will also include a critical reflection on how the task was carried out.

You need to undertake independent research in order to complete the paper efficiently.
You will need to conduct a wide range of literature search from various relevant academic sources i.e. international academic journals, text books etc. You are encouraged to conduct primary research through the course of the paper.

Suggestions to be taken into consideration
You may use qualitative and/or quantitative approach to collecting data. If using
Qualitative method of collecting primary data, your sample size may be small (five to ten consumer qualitative interviews are fine), if so you should focus on the quality of the research design and the quality of findings and of your analysis. Your analysis should make explicit use of models and theories covered in the module Consumer Behaviour.







Academic journals:
You are expected to research into a wide range of relevant academic literature from the
following international journals (list is indicative and not exhaustive) and other
academic sources:
Advances in Consumer Research
Journal of Consumer Marketing
Journal of Consumer Research
Journal of Consumer Behaviour
International Journal of Consumer Studies
Journal of Marketing Research

Some Useful Links:
Nwankwo, S. and Lindridge, A. (1998), Marketing to ethnic minorities in Britain,
Journal of Marketing Practice: Applied Marketing Science, Vol. 4 No.7, pp. 200-216
Cui, G. (1997), "Marketing strategies in a multi-ethnic environment", Journal of
Marketing Theory and Practice, Vol. 5 No.1, pp.122-34.
www.recyclenowpartners.org.uk/docs/Marketing_to_ethnic_minorities.pdf
www.ipa.co.uk/forwarding/Advertising&EMC_pdf_forward.cfm

Some cues about criteria are provided:-

Coverage
Were the relevant aspects of the topic covered?
Does the narrative, where appropriate, answer the question?

The Literature
Was there clear evidence of reading/references from appropriate and sufficient sources?
Was there an awareness of assumptions made or limitations in the literature?
Is irrelevant material excluded?

Critical Thinking and Reflection
Was there evidence of a critical approach to the literature?
Was there evidence of critical reflection in the context of the literature?

Analysis and Evaluation
Were the relevant issues explored in the context of analysis and evaluation?
Were logical and supportable conclusions developed?
Are statements made supported with evidence and or logical argument?
Where appropriate is a balanced view of both sides of an argument provided?
Is there evidence of critique of evidence and theory?

Content
Is there evidence of reading around the subject?
Is a critique of evidence and theories attempted?
Was the essay fully referenced according to the Harvard Style?
Style
Does the essay display:
Clarity, Conciseness, Conventional spelling and grammar
Is the content stated in the writers own words (not lifted from texts)?
Are the arguments and evidence employed clearly and accurately described?
Is the language and style of expression appropriate?

Structure
Does the introduction demonstrate understanding of the topic, highlighting the main
issues? Does the introduction indicate the approach that will be adopted and when
necessary define key terms?
Does the main body of the narrative consist of paragraphs (or sections) each of which
centers around a separate issue or key point? Does the structure develop an argument
which has logical progression clearly relating the material presented to the topic?
Does the conclusion summarize the main points made state the present position/provide
an answer to the question/topic/problem and suggest areas where further thought or
investigation might be required?

There are faxes for this order.

External and Internal Environmental Analysis

? Complete the external environmental scan for your organization (Chick-Fil-A)
? Perform an internal, competitive environmental scan for your organization.
? Write a summary of no more than 1,400 words that does the following:

o Identifies and analyzes the most important external environmental factor in the remote, industry, and external operating environments
o Identifies and analyzes the most important internal strengths and weaknesses of your organization: Include an assessment of the organization?s resources.
o Assesses the organization?s competitive position and possibilities

? Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines

External and Internal Environmental Analysis of Kudler Fine Foods

Must include introduction and conclusion.

Must have 4 work cited references.

Complete the external environmental scan for your organization.
Perform an internal, competitive environmental scan for your organization.

Each of the following below must be talked about seperately

-Identifies and analyzes the most important external environmental factor in the remote, industry, and external operating environments

-Identifies and analyzes the most important internal strengths and weaknesses of your organization: Include an assessment of the organizations resources.

-Assesses the organizations competitive position and possibilities


Will be sending Chapter 5 & 6 that cover what needs to be covered in the paper.

Business Case Assessment (Marketing)
I. Executive Summary
A high-level summary of the marketing plan.
II. The Challenge
Brief description of product to be marketed and associated goals, such as sales figures and strategic goals.
III. Situation Analysis
? Company Analysis
o Goals
? What do you want to achieve? The goal statement(s) should be challenging and yet, attainable. Is it important to increase the number of departments served? Which departments? Do you intend to provide more training programs? Sample goal statements might read:
1. Establish relationship with Legal and Regulatory Departments in first quarter.
2. Reduce staff time spent on call-in, ad hoc requests for help with Internet searching.
o Focus
o Culture
o Strengths
o Weaknesses
o Market Share
? Customer Analysis
o Number
o Type
o Value drivers
o Decision process
o Concentration of customer base for particular products
? Competitor Analysis
o Complete RWW Screen (include both chart/diagram and discussion)
o Market position
o Strengths
o Weaknesses
o Market shares
? Collaborators
o Subsidiaries, joint ventures, and distributors, etc.
? Environmental Analysis: Choose 2 of the following (include both chart/diagram and discussion)
o PEST Analysis:
? Political and legal environment
? Economic environment
? Social and cultural environment
? Technological environment
? SWOT Analysis
o A SWOT Analysis of the business environment can be performed by organizing the
environmental factors as follows:
? The firm?s internal attributes can be classed as strengths and weaknesses.
? The external environment presents opportunities and threats.
? Porter?s 5 Forces Model
o The 5 Forces Model provides useful insights into the multifaceted nature of competition.
? Existing competitors
? Potential entrants
? Substitutes
? Suppliers
? Buyers
? STEEP
o The STEEP Model provides a general awareness of the industry or service you operate
in.
? Socio-cultural
? Technological
? Economic
? Environmental
? Political
? ANSOFF MATRIX
o The ANSOFF Matrix allows for exploration of possibilities for business development
using a market risk analysis.
IV. Market Segmentation
Present a description of the market segmentation as follows:
? Segment 1
o Description
o Percent of sales
o What they want
o How they use the product
o Support requirements
o How to reach them
o Price Sensitivity
? Segment 2
o
o
o
V. Alternative Marketing Strategies
List and discuss the alternatives that were considered before arriving at the recommended strategy. Alternatives might include discontinuing a product, rebranding, positioning as a premium or value product, etc.
VI. Selected Marketing Strategy (4 P?s)
Discuss why the strategy was selected, then the marketing mix decisions (4 P?s) of product, price, place (distribution), and promotion.
? Product
o The product decisions should consider the product?s advantages and how they will be leveraged. Product decisions should include:
? Brand name
? Quality
? Scope of product line
? Warranty
? Packaging
? Price
o Discuss pricing strategy, expected volume, and decisions for the following pricing variables:
? List price
? Discounts
? Bundling
? Payment terms and financing options
? Leasing options
? Distribution (Place)
o Decision variables include:
? Distribution channels, such as direct retail, distributors & intermediates
? Motivating the channel ? for example, distributor margins
? Criteria for evaluating distributors
? Locations
? Logistics, including transportation, warehousing, and order fulfillment
? Promotion
o Advertising, including how much and which media
o Public Relations
o Promotional programs
o Budget; determine break-even point for any additional spending
? How much will the activities defined above cost? Can you provide a revenue forecast? Explain the assumptions on which the forecast is based and consider various (best case, worst case) scenarios. Since many Information Centers now operate as cost centers, if not profit centers, this component of the plan is extremely important.
o Projected results of the promotional programs
VII. Short & Long-Term Projections
The selected strategy?s immediate effects, expected long-term results, and any special actions required to achieve them. This section may include forecasts of revenues and expenses as well as the results of a break-even analysis.
VIII. Conclusion/Evaluation of Results
Summarize all of the above.
? What are the success criteria? How will you measure success of the plan? By monitoring progress, you can judge the success of the marketing plan. If some of the strategies are not working out, try to determine why. Is the strategy flawed? Is there a problem with implementation of timing? How can you refocus and move on?

Business analysis paper
Conduct benchmarking analyses.
Explain the basic tenets of managerial accounting and financial accounting.
Identify the effects of technology utilization on business.
Identify the effects of globalization on business.

The Business Environment
Readings:
After the spill (VIDEO) (). The Economist.
Pra?nikar, J., Debeljak, ?., & Ahcan, A. (2005, March). Benchmarking as a tool of strategic management. Total Quality Management & Business Excellence, 16(2), 257-275.
Rogers, D. S., Daugherty, P. J., & Stank, T. P. (1995). Benchmarking programs: Opportunities for enhancing performance Journal of Business Logistics., 16(2), 43.

The assignment scenario: SAINSBURY
The business environment comprises of both tangible and intangible (service) products provided by both public and private sector organisations which are vital for global economic growth. Hence, it is important for an organisation to focus on its survival due to the influence of internal and external environmental forces and its stakeholders as it is vital in decision making and when formulating strategies, policies and business objectives.
You are advised to select an organisation of your choice from either the public, private or third sector within the UK economy and write a strategic planning report taking into account the following:
LO1 - Understand the process of Strategic Planning:
LO1.1: Explain the mission, vision, objectives, goals and core competence of the chosen organisation.
LO1.2: Highlight issues such as internal and external stakeholders' interests in strategic planning.
LO1.3: Select and explain an ideal strategic planning technique(e.g. Ansoffs' and BCG growth matrices) in achieving business growth or portfolio analysis respectively.

LO2 - Be able to formulate a new strategy:
LO2.1: Carry out an organisation audit using SWOT analysis.
LO2.2: Carry out both macro and micro environmental audits using STEEPLE and SWOT analysis respectively.
LO2.3: Explain the significance of stakeholder in your chosen organisation.

LO3 - Understand approaches to strategy evaluation and selection:
LO3.1: Analyse possible alternative strategies relating to substantial growth, limited growth or retrenchment in the business.
LO3.2: Select an appropriate future strategy for your chosen organisation.

LO4 - Understand how to implement a chosen strategy:
LO4.1: Compare the roles and responsibilities for strategies for strategy implementation in an organisation.
LO4.2: Evaluate the organisation's resources and capabilities requirements in implementing a new strategy.
LO4.3: Why is monitoring the targets or business objectives of an organisation within time scales important in achieving a selected strategy.
Everything has to be referred to Sainsbury.

This is a final simulation project. Asses the interaction of all business environments and their effects on the ongoing evolution of business theories.

Write a 3-4 page paper in which you:
1.Describe the role of business in the economy..
2.Compare and contrast the roles of for-profit and nonprofit organizations in the economy..
3.Discuss the impact of current fiscal and monetary policy on the economy..
4.Select a product or service with which you are familiar and outline a strategy for accessing global markets..
5.Select an organization with which you are familiar and discuss the impact of that organization?s level of social responsibility on a stakeholder group of your choice.

?Be typed, double-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format.
?Include a cover page containing the tile of the assignment,
Assignment 1: The Business Environment

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
?Describe the role of business in the economy, including the factors of production and the key dimensions of the business environment..
?Classify the basic types of economic systems, the elements of private enterprise, and the various degrees of competition in a market economy..
?Describe the global economic environment that impacts U.S. business..
?Use technology and information resources to research issues in business..
?Write clearly and concisely about business issues using proper writing mechanics

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic/organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric.

1. Describe the role of business in the economy. Weight: 15%
2. Compare and contrast the roles of for-profit and nonprofit organizations in the economy.
Weight 15%
3. Discuss the impact of current fiscal and monetary policy on the economy. Weight 20%
4. Select a product or service with which you are familiar and outline a strategy for accessing global markets.
Weight 20%

Please help to answer the below four questions.
1. How forces in and outside of business firms are changing the management task, altering business operations, and modifying stakeholder expectations?


2. How influential ideas in the business environment shape the business-government-society relationship?


3. Measure the importance of law and government regulation as a force guiding business behavior.


4. Evaluate the modern trends related to ethical and philosophical basis for making business decisions.

1. My chosen country is Thailand
2. I need you to use proper sources for instant World bank, OECD, WTO, IMF figure to illustrate in my report.
or you could use http://www.esds.ac.uk/international/ website to see the proper data
3.Avoid to use current price, my professor need to see the constant price in term of comparison
4. This assignment aims at measuring your understanding of the implications of globalization on the innovative activities of firms. You have to submit a 3,000-word individual report covering the following areas.
5. Identify and discuss the features of the business environment of the chosen country which are likely to impact on the carrying out of innovation activities. Discuss both those aspects which are likely to promote innovation, as well as any obstacle firms might encounter trying to generate innovation in the chosen country. Identify the industries which are more likely to have an innovative potential in the chosen country. Present your personal and critical view on whether or not investing in the country is likely to promote innovation and introduce some strategies firms should put in place to leverage the peculiarities of the national innovation system. Please note that in this report you should not discuss anything related to the company which will be object of your poster presentation.
The report is expected to provide evidence of the application of relevant theories discussed during the lectures (especially during module 1), as well as your personal opinions. Try to develop your argumentations in a consistent, structured and clearly organized way. Use relevant and updated data to support your ideas. You will be assessed on the quality of the data presented, the depth of your reflections on their interpretation and the managerial implications emerging from your analysis. The application of theories, concepts, frameworks and ideas developed in Module 1 of the course is essential.

Marks allocated to criteria: Criteria

20%

Content

The depth and quality of the data collected

35%

Application

The application of proper frameworks and the correct interpretation of the implications of the data presented

20%

Structure and Style

The clarity, the logic and the presentation of the report

15%

Originality

The presence of personal contributions and ideas

10%

References

The use of an adequate reference list and a proper and consistent referencing style
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This paper is to be about the company Federal Mogul and its business environments (domestic & international) and business theories that can be applied to the environments. Make sure all the environments are included. Include a brief summary of each environment. Then analyze each environment collectively by incorporating business theories. How are your individual environments working together? How are they working with other environments? Does one environment hinder another? What needs to be changed? Is each working together? Is an environment causing limitations on another? If so, which environments are involved and what are the limitations? What could you change to create synergy? You have been working with each environment individually; now it's time to integrate and synthesize. The focus for this week is integration. This should be no fewer than 5 pages, 5 references, and in APA format.

CS782
Assignment No. 1
This week, you are exploring business models and competitive strategies as a prelude to studying the role and functioning of IT. Choose a for-profit business, with at least 10 employees that you know reasonably well or one where you can obtain reasonably detailed information. If need be, you can create a fictitious organization. Choose in such a way that you will be able answer the questions posed below very effectively. Later in the course, we will return to the business example that you choose.
? It?s acceptable if you work with or work for the company; just make sure that you do not disclose proprietary information.
? You may learn more if you pick a company which does not dominate its industry, and where there are a fair number of competitors.
? If you don?t know a candidate company to select, retail is often a good choice; Lowe?s, Home Depot, or Best Buy for example.
? If you need to create a fictitious organization, please speak with your facilitator about this first.
Write the following six sections about the company you chose in at most 10 pages of 12-point type. You may follow this with appendices if you wish. Appendices will be read only as needed by the reader and the evaluation is not based upon them. Respond to the bulleted points where relevant and use your judgment as to their relative importance for the business that you have selected.
1. Business Model: Describe key aspects of its business model.

Keeping the following questions in mind will help your response.
? What's the name of the company, how large is it, what industry segment is it in, and what does the company do?
? Is the company primarily a product or a service business, or some kind of hybrid?
? What are its offerings (i.e. its products and/or services)? What is its market position? What are its value propositions (perhaps offer-specific)?
? How does the business earn revenue (including the pricing of its offerings) and make a profit?
? What other features of its market model, operational model, or financial model are significant, unusual, or distinctive?
? Does the organization follow a cloud computing model? Are there aspects of those models in the organization that you choose?
2. Competitive Forces and Challenges: Consider each of Porter's five Competitive Forces. For each of the five forces, list and describe the relevant actual competitive challenges (if any) that the company faces (or is likely to face soon).
Also list and describe competitive challenges the company faces (or is likely to face soon) as a result of other changes in the business environment (e.g. economic, regulatory, etc.)

3. Competitive Strategies: For the most significant competitive forces/challenges that the company faces, describe the company's competitive strategies for addressing that challenge. If you are unsure, you can discuss how the company has (or similar companies have) addressed that challenge in the past, or how you believe it should address the challenge. What approach will the organization need to take in order to sustain an advantage; or will it need to change approaches? Indicate whether you believe the strategy will work or not and why.

4. Business Model Evolution: Discuss any other ideas you have for how the company's business model could evolve, and what might drive the business to evolve in that way:
? How might the company enhance its products and services, and why?
? How might the organization improve internal processes to become more efficient or effective?
? How might the company expand into new related products and services, new territories, or new market segments, and why?
? How might the company extend into new lines of business or new business models? Why would they do so? (Include mostly non-e-commerce initiatives if possible)
5. Best IT-Supported Proposal: Identify the best proposed idea you have listed in Section 5 above that can also be supported by IT in a substantial way. For that proposal, provide the following:
? Justification: Explain why you believe this is a particularly good proposal -- i.e. how and why will it enable the company to more effectively compete?
? Role of IT: Describe the most essential ways in which IT could be used to support the proposal.
Hints:
You may find it useful to first perform a PEST analysis to guide your overall thinking.
We don?t expect you to be a business genius. What we do expect is that you fully appreciate the challenges of business and how IT has to be supportive of them
Keep the evaluation criteria in mind as described in the syllabus. End with a list of references following the standard reference format, as described in References and Citations document.

For the following..please use Hewlett Packard....

Assignment No. 1
This week, you are exploring business models and competitive strategies as a prelude to studying the role and functioning of IT. Choose a for-profit business, with at least 10 employees that you know reasonably well or one where you can obtain reasonably detailed information. Choose in such a way that you will be able answer the questions posed below very effectively. You will base an assignment later in the course on this business.
Its acceptable if you work with or work for the company; just make sure that you do not disclose proprietary (i.e. secret) information.
You may learn more if you pick a company which does not dominate its industry, and where there are a fair number of competitors.
Choose a company that has a physical presence and offers face-to-face consumer experiences, as opposed to one with an Internet-only presence (e.g. Yahoo or e-Bay) unless you work for such a company.
Avoid Blockbuster and Netflix for this homework
If you cant identify a company, retail is typically a good choice; Lowes, Home Depot, or Best Buy for example.
Check with your facilitator if you have any questions
Assignment
Write the following seven sections about the company you chose in at most 10 pages of 12-point type. You may follow this with appendices if you wish. Appendices will be read only as needed by the reader and the evaluation is not based upon them. Respond to the bulleted points where relevant and use your judgment as to their relative importance for the business that you have selected.
1. Business Model: Describe key aspects of its business model. Keep the following in mind:
What's the name of the company, how large is it, what industry segment is it in, and what does the company do?
Is the company primarily a product or a service business, or some kind of hybrid?
What are its offerings (i.e. its products and/or services)? What is its market position? What are its value propositions (perhaps offer-specific)?
How does the business earn revenue (including the pricing of its offerings) and make a profit?
What other features of its market model, operational model, or financial model are significant, unusual, or distinctive?
2. Relationships: Describe the nature of the company's competitors, suppliers, channels, and other partners to the extent that you know or can easily find this information. Focus only on details which are significant and help a reader understand important aspects of the company.
What is the nature of the competition in the company's business sector? How intense is the competitive rivalry? On what basis do the companies in the sector compete with one another?
What kinds of suppliers does the company depend upon? Indicate anything particularly interesting about the company's relationships with its suppliers.
What are its sales and distribution channels (how does it sell and distribute its offerings to customers)?
Indicate anything interesting about the company's channel partners and how it manages them.
What kinds of partners (other than its channel partners) does the business primarily have and why?
3. Competitive Forces and Challenges: Consider each of Porter's five Competitive Forces. For each of the five forces, list and describe the relevant actual competitive challenges (if any) that the company faces (or is likely to face soon). Also list and describe competitive challenges the company faces (or is likely to face soon) as a result of other changes in the business environment (e.g. economic, regulatory, etc.)

4. Competitive Strategies: For the most significant competitive forces/challenges that the company faces, describe the company's competitive strategies for addressing that challenge. If you are unsure, you can discuss how the company has (or similar companies have) addressed that challenge in the past, or how you believe it should address the challenge. Indicate whether you believe the strategy will work or not and why.

5. Sustainable Competitive Advantages: In what ways, if any, does the company act to sustain a competitive advantage over its rivals? What is the basis of the advantage? What recommendations, if any, do you have for how the business could more effectively build a sustainable competitive advantage?

6. Business Model Evolution: Discuss any other ideas you have for how the company's business model could evolve, and what might drive the business to evolve in that way:
How might the company enhance its products and services, and why?
How might the company expand into new related products and services, new territories, or new market segments, and why?
How might the company extend into new lines of business or new business models? Why would they do so? (Include mostly non-e-commerce initiatives if possible)
7. Best IT-Supported Proposal: Identify the best proposal you have listed in Section 6 above that can also be supported by IT in a substantial way. For that proposal, provide the following:
Justification: Explain why you believe this is a particularly good proposal -- i.e. how and why will it enable the company to more effectively compete?
Role of IT: Describe the most essential ways in which IT could be used to support the proposal.
Keep the evaluation criteria in mind as described in the syllabus. End with a list of references following the standard reference format, as described in References and Citations document.


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Today, you have finally decided to turn that hobby into a business but have realized that you need start-up capital from a lender or investor. Type of business - a gourmet candy shop.

To obtain funding, you need to convince a lender / investor that your business is more than a hobby. You need to demonstrate that you have a firm grasp of your business, the accounting practices that impact your business, the controls needed to safeguard assets, and which accounting system will produce accurate and relevant financial information.

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

1. Describe the type of business you have created including:
a. The product or service, and general staffing plan. Provide a rationale for your plan.
b. The form of your business and the benefits it offers your particular business,
c. A chart of accounts specific to your business, including a rationale as to the selection of each account. (Note: The chart of accounts is a blueprint of your business for the lender/investor. It should report the expected resources that you will consume in your business (assets), the sources of those resources (liabilities and equity), the sources of revenue, and expenditures that you expect to incur to earn those revenues. You may build a detailed chart that includes business units, divisions, product lines, etc.)
2. Based on the form of your business, analyze whether or not you will be required to use Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) or International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) accounting methods and how the IFRS / GAAP convergence will impact your business. Suggest how you will incorporate any changes into your books and records. (Note: You need to demonstrate to the lender/investor that you have recognized possible changes to GAAP that may impact the accounting and reporting of your accounting events.)
3. Prepare a pro forma balance sheet and income statement providing the assumptions made and support the valuations assigned.
4. Considering the value of assets (assigned per your balance sheet) used within your business, recommend two (2) specific internal controls that you will implement to protect your company?s assets and resources, justifying how each will provide assurances to management. (NOTE: Safeguarding assets and protecting personal data are paramount to ensuring the viability of a business. Demonstrate to the lender/investor that your assets will be safeguarded and customer information (if applicable) will be protected.)
5. Based on the internal control recommendations that you made, suggest how you will implement each within your business environment, indicating how challenges or resistances will be overcome.
6. Evaluate the impact of the regulatory environment, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other regulatory requirements, on your business venture, giving considering to how you intend to comply with the requirements and the general impact to decision making within your business.
7. Use at least four (4) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality 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.

ASSIGNMENT BRIEF

Assume that you are a researcher working in a multinational company (it is easier if the company is fictional) based in Country A (a developed country), and that you are asked by your chief executive officer (CEO) to write a report on doing international business in Country B (a developing country).

In the report, you must analyse various aspects of the international business environment (see below) and provide a recommendation on whether your company should engage in trade and/or investment in Country B and how. You may if you wish make Country A a developing country and Country B a developed country.

It is sensible to decide on real countries for Country A and B and a real industry for the firm (e.g. textile manufacturing). Note: these are only examples.

You can select any countries and any industry that you wish. It is sensible to select countries and industries for which it is easy to obtain the data that you will need. For your own benefit, you should define what your firm does narrowly and clearly (e.g. a laptop manufacturer is much better than a computer firm).


Issues to be considered in the report:

a) An analysis of the national business system and cultural conditions in Country B with an assessment of how this will affect your firm within its industry.

You should keep in mind the national business system and cultural conditions in Country A so that you have accounted for the major differences between the systems that the firm operates in from the one it is considering operating in. When considering cultural conditions, you should avoid focusing exclusively on Hofstedes, Trompenaars or Halls frameworks and instead draw on a more diverse set of readings about national culture. Also avoid general analyses of national business systems and cultural conditions and instead provide an analysis that is relevant for your chosen industry and firm.



b) An assessment of the pattern and trends of trade between the two countries, especially in your selected industry, and also consideration of the type and level of protection measures against imports and foreign investment in Country B within your industry.

In this section you should indicate, in the light of the trade patterns and the level of protection, what type of competitive advantages your firm would need to be successful in Country B. Note: you need to keep in mind the industry that you have selected for your company.


EITHER
c1) An outline of the exchange regimes that govern Countries A and B with an assessment of the risks this poses for your firm.

You should highlight measures that may be used to reduce these exchange rate risks.

OR

c2) An assessment of the implications of international institutions such as the WTO, EU, NAFTA for the firms proposed business links with Country B.

In this section you should apply the implications of the work of the international institutions for a firm in Country A doing business in Country B.


d) Advise on whether the firm should export or use foreign direct investment, or a combination of these means, to do effective business in Country B.

In this section you should discuss what type of exporting and/or foreign direct investment should be used.

EITHER
e1) Advise on the type of political risks that the firm may encounter in Country B and on ways to reduce these risks.

OR

e2) Advise on the problems of establishing and operating a corporate social responsibility policy covering business with Country B.

Please note that any discussion of the points above has to be relevant to your chosen firm and industry. At the end of the report you should come up with clear and well-grounded recommendations for your chosen company on whether it should engage in trade and/or investment in country B.


The report should contain a clear introduction and a conclusion, summarising your recommended trade/investment strategy for your company.


GUIDELINES
Your assignment ??" some help and pointers for you.
I thought that it would be helpful if you could all bear in mind the following points when preparing your projects.
1) Avoid using lazy English or imprecise expression. For example, please avoid ending sentences with the word etc.
2) When quoting an authority, the reference, for example (Hill, 2010), should be immediately after the end of the quotation. For further information on referencing please see the Effective Learning Services booklet entitled References and Bibliographies. This is available in hard copy or via this link: http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/management/external/els/pdf/refandbib.pdf from the School of Management website.
3) Diagrams and tables, including the title, should be on a single page.
4) You should briefly explain to your audience what the diagram is illustrating.
5) Avoid using diagrams, tables and theories where they are irrelevant or there is no connection to the rest of your project.
6) The Executive Summary should come before Introduction.
7) The Executive Summary enables the top management (CEO) to have an idea of what you did, why and how you did it, the outcome and your recommendations. This is a summary of the whole project and one to two paragraphs are enough.
8) The Introduction helps the reader to understand why you are doing the research and how carried it out. One paragraph of up to ten lines or so is enough.
9) The Conclusion is a summary of what you did, the findings and the recommendations.
10) There is no need to highlight some points by putting them in bold type.
11) Please observe the word limit. The good news is no more than 3500 words required for this project and this excludes reference, diagrams, tables and appendices (See the ELS booklet entitled Report Writing. This is available in hard copy or via this link: http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/management/external/els/pdf/reportwriting.pdf).
12) Remember to include a list of your references at the end of the report (See the ELS booklet entitled Report Writing. This is available in hard copy or via this link: http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/management/external/els/pdf/reportwriting.pdf).
13) Paragraphs should be more than five lines and not more than twenty lines. In short they should be reasonable.
14) The assessors are interested in how you analyse the national business system and culture conditions in Country B with an assessment of how this will affect your firm within its industry, please note in the Country B (See the ELS booklet entitled Report Writing. This is available in hard copy or via this link: http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/management/external/els/pdf/reportwriting.pdf).
15) An assessment of the pattern and trends of trade between the two countries, especially in your selected industry, is important, as is a consideration of the type and level of protection measures against imports and foreign investment in Country B within your industry. You should also state the type of competitive advantages your firm would need to be successful in Country B (See the ELS booklet entitled Report Writing. This is available in hard copy or via this link: http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/management/external/els/pdf/reportwriting.pdf).
16) Your project should be clear (readable English with correct spellings), numbered and have headings.
Hope this is going to help you to prepare a well researched and written project.


There are faxes for this order.

This essay is focusing on how a firm from Australia doing the business in Philippine. Some risks need to be considered in Philippine; therefore, it need consider about business environment in Philippine not the specific firm. It is not. a marketing assignment format, and it not focus on the specific firm.
Topic: The firm for which you work as a business analyst is strongly interested in expanding its current manufacturing and sales (both domestic and export) activity to new markets. However several directors have raised concerns over the extent to which your firm would be exposed to business risk in certain countries, and requested a broad analysis of risk for those countries. The analysis is to consider key aspects of the international business environment including but not necessarily limited to issues such as culture, ethical practices, legal systems, and economic prospects and stability generally. It is to provide guidance as to the extent to which the firm?s results may be put at risk, where relevant using evidence from the last five years.
I order this project about 2500words, so do not less than 2500words. Writer should research huge amounts of information and data about this essay. Turn it in should be less than 5%.
I will provide a sample essay and the structure like this essay.

Answer the 10 questions listed below. The answer to each question should be one page DOUBLE SPACED (including the question at the top of the page). If you use any external sources for any part of the answer, please indicate the source reference.

1. You are a business consultant at trade show trying to persuade a variety of different businesses to introduce Business Intelligence tools into its business. Identify and describe three arguments you would use to persuade businesses of the general value that Business Intelligence offers to most companies.

2. You are the CIO who has just returned from a trade show on Business Intelligence technologies and are pretty excited about what you saw there. How would you go about assessing how to incorporate Business Intelligence solutions into your specific business environment to achieve a successful result? How would you measure the success of your implementation?

3. Many Business Intelligence solutions are based on the use of a data warehouse. Please describe the components of a data warehouse both logically and physically (you can use a diagram that you create). Include a description of the process involved in moving data from source systems to the data warehouse (e.g. ETL). Describe how the data is presented to the user for querying and reporting.

4. What is the difference between a relational database design (ERD) and a dimensional database design. Provide a detailed example of a dimensional model.

5. Business analytics covers three general categories of data analysis: information and technology support, decision support and intelligent systems, and visualization. Identify and discuss two examples from each category.

6. What are the steps involved in effective decision making and how can business intelligence assist in helping executive and managers make better strategic and operational decisions?

7. The book No Place to Hide discusses several privacy issues related to the collection of data on individuals. Do you think that the environment described in the book reflects a good balance of the government need to know and individual privacy? Why or why not?

8. What is the difference between Business Intelligence and Business Performance Management? Describe the BPM process that links strategy to execution and provide an example of how the process would work in a real world business.

9. Poor data quality can be introduced into a business intelligence system in a number of ways. Identify and describe the paths that bad quality can travel into your system and steps you could take to prevent or correct the bad data.

10. Choose either real-time data analytics or artificial neural networks and explain how they change the focus of traditional business intelligence. Give examples to support your explanation.

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Conduct an internal and external environmental analysis for your proposed business.

Discuss with your Learning Team the forces and trends below that must be taken into consideration while developing a strategic plan. Given today?s business environment and each Learning Team members? selected business idea, provide a list of the lessons learned from your Learning Team?s discussion for each of the items listed below. Use this discussion to complete this assignment.

Create a SWOTT table summarizing your findings. Your environmental analysis should take into account, at a minimum, the following factors. For each factor, identify the one primary strength, weakness, opportunity, threat, and trend, and include it in your table.

? External forces and trends considerations:

o Legal and regulatory
o Global
o Economic
o Technological
o Innovation
o Social
o Environmental
o Competitive analysis

? Internal forces and trends considerations:

o Strategy
o Structures
o Processes and systems
o Resources
o Goals
o Strategic capabilities
o Culture
o Technologies
o Innovations
o Intellectual property
o Leadership

Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word synopsis in which you analyze at least seven of the forces and trends from the list above. Your analysis must include the following:

? Include economic as well as legal and regulatory forces and trends.
? Critique how well the organization adapts to change.
? Analyze the supply chain operations of the organization.
? Identify issues and/or opportunities:

o Identify the major issues and/or opportunities that the company faces based on your analysis above.
o Generate a hypothesis surrounding each issue and research questions to use for conducting analysis.
o Identify the circumstances surrounding each issue; classify the circumstances; attribute the importance of each classification; and test the accuracy of the importance for each classification.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines
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***This paper continues off the work from prior week. My last weeks paper is attached to give you an idea.***

Individual Assignment: External and Internal Environmental Analysis

Complete the external environmental scan for your organization.
Perform an internal, competitive environmental scan for your organization.
Write a summary of no more than 1,400 words that does the following:

? Identifies and analyzes the most important external environmental factor in the remote, industry, and external operating environments

? Identifies and analyzes the most important internal strengths and weaknesses of your organization: Include an assessment of the organization?s resources.

? Assesses the organization?s competitive position and possibilities

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Instructions:

Develop a marketing plan for a new business that sells a product/service and then develop a marketing plan that illustrates how the business will become successful in the future.

Must use this outline
Comply with APA formatting
Paper must have a table of contents
MBA quality!!!!!

Potential References:
http://www.quickmba.com/marketing/plan/

Bangs, Jr., David H. The Marketing Planning Guide: Creating a Plan to Successfully Market Your Business, Products or Service

Duncan, T. (2004). Principles of advertising & IMC. New York: McGraw-Hill.





























Marketing Plan Outline

I. Executive Summary
A high-level summary of the marketing plan.
II. The Challenge
Brief description of product/service to be marketed and associated goals, such as sales figures and strategic goals.
III. Situation Analysis
Company Analysis
Goals
Focus
Culture
Strengths
Weaknesses
Market share = Firms Sales /Total Market Sales (The firms performance relative to its competitors)
Customer Analysis
Number
Type
Value drivers
Decision process
Concentration of customer base for particular products
Competitor Analysis
Market position
Strengths
Weaknesses
Market shares
Collaborators
Subsidiaries, joint ventures, and distributors, etc.


Climate
Macro-environmental PEST analysis: A scan of the external macro-environment in which a firm operates can be expressed as follows (sometimes called STEP):
Political and legal environment
Economic environment
Social and cultural environment
Technological environment
SWOT Analysis
A SWOT analysis of the business environment can be performed by organizing the environmental factors as follows:
The firm's internal attributes can be classed as Strengths and Weaknesses.
The external environment presents Opportunities and Threats.
IV. Market Segmentation
Present a description of the market segmentation (the division of a market into different homogeneous groups of consumers) as follows:
Segment 1
Description
Percent of sales
What they want
How they use product
Support requirements
How to reach them
Price sensitivity

Segment 2
.
.
.

V. Alternative Marketing Strategies
List and discuss the alternatives that were considered before arriving at the recommended strategy. Alternatives might include discontinuing a product, re-branding, positioning as a premium or value product, etc.
VI. Selected Marketing Strategy
Discuss why the strategy was selected, then the marketing mix decisions (4 P's) of product, price, place (distribution), and promotion.
Product
The product decisions should consider the product's advantages and how they will be leveraged. Product decisions should include:
Brand name
Quality
Scope of product line
Warranty
Packaging
Price
Discuss pricing strategy, expected volume, and decisions for the following pricing variables:
List price
Discounts
Bundling
Payment terms and financing options
Leasing options
Distribution (Place)
Decision variables include:
Distribution channels, such as direct, retail, distributors & intermediates
Motivating the channel - for example, distributor margins
Criteria for evaluating distributors
Locations
Logistics, including transportation, warehousing, and order fulfilment
Promotion
Advertising, including how much and which media.
Public relations
Promotional programs
Budget; determine break-even point for any additional spending
Projected results of the promotional programs

VII. Short & Long-Term Projections
The selected strategy's immediate effects, expected long-term results, and any special actions required to achieve them. This section may include forecasts of revenues and expenses as well as the results of a break-even analysis.

VIII. Conclusion
Summarize all of the above.

Appendix

Exhibits
Calculations of market size, commissions, profit margins, break-even analyses, etc.

Hello writer:

Back ground:

My team mates and I were required to write the paper below (in red). We did that. Now we are required to provide feedback to each other on each of our papers, AND write a paper on the feedback part itself.

I received the feedback from the team members. I have written the feedback. What I need from you is to polish and upgrade my writing skills, and at the same time, stay at 350 words, no more, no less.


Here is the paper I completed already (just fyi).

Complete the external environmental scan for your organization.

Perform an internal competitive environmental scan for your organization.


? Identifies and analyzes the most important external environmental factor in the remote, industry, and external operating environments
?
? Identifies and analyzes the most important internal strengths and weaknesses of your organization: include an assessment of the organization's resources
?
? Assesses the organization's competitive position and possibilities
?
? Analyzes the structure of the organization and how this affects organizational performance

Share drafts of the External and Internal Environmental Analysis assignment with all team members.

Provide feedback to be incorporated into each member's paper.

Write a synopsis of 350 words summarizing the team's discussion. (which I have already done)

Use APA format

**I am attaching the feedback paper as a separate document

1) NO PASSIVE VOICE-PERIOD. You HAVE to use ACTIVE VOICE when writing this paper. That means, you CAN?T say ?Sally WalkED to the store?. You HAVE to say ?Sally WalkS to the store? (I get points deducted) and I will request a re-write. So you should not write: Send Out Cards has been in the greeting card business???..and continued to ????but instead re-write it as: Send Out Cards is in the greeting card business and continues?.

2) Use Headers to define/explain EACH bullet above

3) -Use citations within the text/paragraphs WITH Page numbers

4) Your Reference page has to be perfect. Ensure you ?tab? the second line if there is a second line in one reference

5) I have to be able to access all reference material s as my instructor double checks and actually reads them. Use only references that I can access please

6) ?SIMPLE, but polished style and english.

7) Please do not go over the word count; she is strict

8) Times New Roman, 12 pitch please

9) No fluff; she likes hard core data that addresses each point THOROUGHLY

Philosophy of Business Communication
Have you considered your philosophy of successful communication in a professional business environment? What do you believe are the most important elements of the communication process in organizations? Why? What can you do to help yourself and others in your organization become successful business communicators? Considering these questions should help you determine the content and organization of your next assignment, which is to develop a brief philosophy of communication that identifies the basic elements you consider essential to successful business communication.

Your underlying task in this assignment is to demonstrate to me that you understand the concepts of communication taught in this course and can apply them to a system of thought about the value and organization of successful communication in a professional business environment.

To do this, you will need to briefly define and explain what a philosophy is and use appropriate communication terminology in your development and presentation of a short research paper that answers the above questions.

You should start with the text, but do a little additional research--at least three other sources. Cite these sources in your text using APA style. At least 1 source must be a journal or periodical.

Two cautions: First, this is an academic assignment; do not use direct address. Second, it is a topic appropriate for a masters thesis, so dont get carried away and try to do it all at once. Pick two or three items you think are essential and develop them in detail, with examples and explanation. Use formal research paper style.