Category: Business

Discuss in detail whether the organizational structure is an advantage or disadvantage to the company and explain why.

C714 Business Strategy – Task 1

 Discuss aspects of the company from the provided scenario by doing the following:

Describe in detail how the company’s culture could affect the market entry strategy.

Discuss in detail whether the organizational structure is an advantage or disadvantage to the company and explain why.

Describe in detail how each of the following aspects from the scenario affects the company’s decision-making process:
• company culture
• organizational structure
• strategic direction, including mission and vision statements

Discuss the company’s product from the provided scenario by doing the following:

Describe specific characteristics of the emerging market that affect the company’s product.

Discuss how a product design change would meet the emerging market characteristics identified in part B1. Support this discussion with details from the scenario.

Discuss in detail each of the stages of the design thinking process the company would undergo in the design of the product for the emerging market from part B2.

Choose three of the following aspects from the scenario, and provide a detailed discussion of their effect on the design thinking process for the product from part B2:
• company culture
• emerging market culture
• company ethics
• emerging market ethics
• organizational structure
• global legal systems

Discuss in detail how the company’s ethical statement from the scenario influences the market entry strategy.

Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.

Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.

Define ethics and ethical dilemmas, and legal and legislative issues.Describe appropriate methods of ensuring informed consent

• Define ethics and ethical dilemmas, and legal and legislative issues
• Distinguishing between legal and ethical obligations in decision making
• Demonstrate self-awareness relating to the ethical frameworks and ethical principles strongly influence one’s personal decision making
• Correlating the legal authority of nursing practice and the nursing profession
• Select appropriate nursing actions in sensitive clinical situations
• Describe appropriate methods of ensuring informed consent

What do you learn from these metrics? What are they telling you about this data set? Is it symmetrical, flat, or skewed? Does it have outliers?

Using Data Analysis in Excel

Before any data analysis can be performed using Excel, the Data Analysis ToolPak must first be installed on your computer.

Question 1
According to T-100 Domestic Market, the top seven airlines in the United States by domestic boarding in a recent year were Southwest Airlines Co. with 81.1 million, Delta Air Lines Inc. with 79.4 million, American Airlines, Inc. with 72.6 million, United Airlines, Inc. with 56.3 million, Northwest Airlines Corp. with 43.3 million, US Airways with 37.8 million, and Continental Airlines with 31.5 million. Using Excel, construct a pie chart and a bar graph to depict this information.

Question 2
The U.S. Department of the Interior releases figures on mineral production. The following are the 15 leading states in nonfuel mineral production in the United States in 2008.
State Value ($billions)
Arizona 8.95
Nevada 6.48
Florida 4.2
Utah 4.17
California 4
Texas 3.8
Minnesota 3.72
Alaska 2.98
Missouri 2.58
Colorado 2.45
Michigan 2.96
Wyoming 2.37
Georgia 2.05
New Mexico 1.81
Pennsylvania 1.68

a) Using the appropriate tool in the Data Analysis ToolPak in Excel, calculate the descriptive statistics. Include the summary statistics table in

your report.
b) Briefly define the meaning of each of the metrics in the summary report you get.

c) Comment on all of the figures in the report. What do you learn from these metrics? What are they telling you about this data set? Is it symmetrical, flat, or skewed? Does it have outliers?

Question 3
Suppose Procter & Gamble sells 20 million bars of soap per week, but the demand is not constant and production management would like to get a better handle on how sales are distributed over the year. Let the following sales figures given in units of million bars represent the sales of bars per week over 1-year (in no particular order).

a) Construct a histogram chart to represent the data using the appropriate tool from the Data Analysis ToolPak. Make sure to specify your own bin ranges otherwise Excel will automatically pick them for you and you will have very strange bin ranges with confusing decimal points. Make a list of numbers in multiples of 5, starting from 10 up to 40; then, show where the bin numbers are in the histogram dialog box.

b) Creating a chart is not useful in and of itself unless it is properly interpreted. Write a brief analysis of the graph. What do you see in the graph that might be helpful to the production and sales people?
17.1 14.3 17 25.2
14.4 12.2 11.9 26.3
15.4 10.9 12.8 13.5
17.4 21.5 39.8 30.6
15 20.4 20.7 25.2
13.8 20.3 21.3 26.2
20.6 13.8 22.5 26.9
18.4 23.6 21.4 32.8
20 19.1 23.4 26.3
20.9 20.4 23.1 26.6
11.1 15.4 14.8 24.3
12.5 20.3 21.4 26.2
14.7 24.4 24 23.8

Define e-commerce, and how it differs e-commerce differs from e-business, identify the primary technological building blocks underlying e-commerce, and recognize major current themes in e-commerce.

Define e-commerce, and how it differs e-commerce differs from e-business, identify the primary technological building blocks underlying e-commerce, and recognize major current themes in e-commerce.

Identify the primary technological building blocks underlying e-commerce.

Outline major current themes in ecommerce.

Describe the unique features of e-commerce technology and their business significance.

Describe the evolution of e-commerce from its early years to today.

Compare and contrast B2C and B2B eBusiness models.

Discuss key business concepts and strategies applicable to e-commerce.

Describe its business model based on the information you find there.

Identify its customer value proposition, its revenue model, the marketspace it operates in, and who its main competitors are.

Discuss any comparative advantages you believe the company possesses, and what its market strategy appears to be.

Discuss what you do or do not find appealing about this company.

What are you studying, and why?What would you say are your biggest accomplishments in your role in the finance department?

What are you studying, and why?What would you say are your biggest accomplishments in your role in the finance department?

What would you say is your greatest liability?

What aspect of this new position do you believe is the most important?

Identify further opportunities that will help us achieve this goal.

Is there anything you would like to ask me about the job?

What is the likelihood of an annual bonus and/or increase after the first year?

What is the best way to prevent situations like this systematically?What should be done to fix the issues?

Whichever Case Study you pick
Answer the questions associated with the case study
…be sure to focus on the following three things:

How did this situation arise?

What should be done to fix the issues?

What is the best way to prevent situations like this systematically?

How soon did the company let their customers know, and what services did they offer them? Why do you think this happened in the first place?

What were the security and information exploit?

What actions did the company take?

Do you agree with what the company did?

How soon did the company let their customers know, and what services did they offer them?

Why do you think this happened in the first place?

Identify situations when your natural leadership style is effective and when it is less effective or even a barrier.

Leadership Autobiography Guidelines

Identify situations when your natural leadership style is effective and when it is less effective or even a barrier. Develop strategies to enhance your leadership effectiveness, particularly in situations where your natural style may be a stumbling block to effective leadership, drawing on the lessons of the leadership stretch experience.
Incorporate the results of your Myers Briggs Type Analysis and your reflections on it.

What is the name of your company?What have you learned from this analysis?Calculate the acid-test ratio.

Find an annual report for a company of interest (perhaps your employer). Title your essay with the name of your company and share the following in your essay:

What is the name of your company?
What is the web address that leads to your financial reports?
Why are you interested in this company?
Calculate the cash ratio.
What have you learned from this analysis?
Calculate the acid-test ratio.
What have you learned from this analysis?