Write an assessment of the logistical, financial, and any other considerations of implementing eMobile/eHealth information technology in your organization. If mobile technology is in use in your organization, give a brief description of the technology in use, and assess the impact this has had on operations.

) A firm wants a buyer adjust their purchasing amount and frequency by changing the price it charges so that they purchase the target times per year. For example, if the firm purchases 10 times a year a firm might want it to purchase 5 times yearly instead. The firm recognizes that an incentive will have to be offered to do this and has set the incentive as the amount the purchaser would save in total (based on total material cost as used in inventory analysis) from the current cost to the purchaser. Data on the customer is given below as well as the target savings identified the firm thinks is required to get the purchaser to change their buying pattern.

NOTE: The customer may not be applying EOQ to its current ordering quantity and frequency.

a. What is the total annual cost to the customer of the current ordering policy?

b. What is the highest price the seller can offer the customer so the customer orders 4 times yearly and meets the targeted savings?

Discuss in detail the evolution of commercial air travel on society.

Laura Moore has recently left her job as a Graphic Designer to open her own Company; a Graphic Design Agency dedicated to the creation and design of apps for mobile devices. Laura has decided to be self-employed. To do so, she will have her business premises, which belongs to her father, in downtown Barcelona and she will have to hire: A visual designer A developer An administrative assistant 1. To hire the administrative assistant, Marta has decided to offer an indefinite contract. She is her first employee that Marta will hire and she has a recognized degree of disability of 37%. Explain to Marta what bonuses and reductions could be applied in the hiring of the administrative and what type of contract should she carry out, exposing its main characteristics. You must prepare the work contract of the Administrative Assistant according to the appropriate official model. Once the contract has been drafted and completed according to Spanish regulations, you must specify in detail the differences it would have had it been made according to the regulations of the United Kingdom. 2. Knowing the

salaries agreed upon with each of the two workers, prepare the payroll for each of them. Make sure you detail the steps you have taken and the financial nature of each of the items involved: a. Administrative Assistant. Three months seniority. She has an indefinite work contract, base salary: € 1,500. Collective bargaining: € 50. She has two extraordinary six-month accrual pays and receives them on 06/30 and 12/31 of each year for an amount equal to the base salary. She has a disability of 37% and is single without children. She has made two overtime hours that month at a rate of € 15/h. b. Visual designer. 2 months seniority. He has a temporary contract. Base salary: € 1,950. Collective bargaining: € 100. Productivity: € 6 / day. He has two extraordinary six-month accrual payments and receives them apportioned each month. He is married and has a 9-year-old son (his spouse receives an income of over € 1,500/year). Once you have developed all the steps to follow in each case and the amount of the items, design and present the official payroll of the administrative assistant.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of providing post-assignment guarantees of employment?

9.41. Message Strategies: Making Routine Negative Announcements [LO-5]

Marketing specialists usually celebrate when target audiences forward their messages to friends and family—essentially acting as unpaid advertising and sales representatives. In fact, the practice of viral marketing is based on this hope. For one Starbucks regional office, however, viral marketing started to make the company just a bit sick. The office sent employees in the Southeast an email coupon for a free iced drink and invited them to share the coupon with family and friends. To the surprise of virtually no one who understands the nature of online life, the email coupon multiplied rapidly, to the point that Starbucks stores all around the country were quickly overwhelmed with requests for free drinks. The company decided to immediately terminate the free offer, a month ahead of the expiration date on the coupon.

Your task: Write a one-paragraph message that can be posted on the Starbucks website and at individual stores, apologizing for the mix-up and explaining that the offer is no longer valid.

Managing the Global Supply Chain

To enhance a firm's global capabilities, logistics management must consider five major differences between domestic and international operations. These include performance cycle structure, transportation, operational considerations, informational systems (IS) integration, and alliances.

Performance cycle structure. The length of the performance cycle is a major difference between domestic and international operations. Performance cycles are longer for international operations. While the domestic is measured in days, international is measured in weeks or months (e.g., fashion merchandise takes 30 to 60 days). The reasons for longer order cycle to delivery cycle times are:

Communication delays Financing requirements

Special packaging requirements

Ocean freight scheduling

Slow transit times

Customs clearance

Discuss the above topic and post your comments , views , opinions and recommendations.

8.48. Message Strategies: Good News Messages [LO-4]

Amateur and professional golfers in search of lower scores want to find clubs that are optimized for their individual swings. This process of club fitting has gone decidedly high tech in recent years, with fitters using Doppler radar, motion-capture video, and other tools to evaluate golfers’ swing and ball flight characteristics. Hot Stix Golf is a leader in this industry, having fitted more than 200 professionals and thousands of amateurs.

Your task: Imagine that you are the communications director at the Indian Wells Golf Resort in Indian Wells, California. Your operation has just signed a deal with Hot Stix to open a fitting center on site. Write a three-paragraph article that could be posted on the resort website. The first paragraph should announce the news that the Hot Stix center will open in six months, the second should summarize the benefits of club fitting, and the third should offer a brief overview of the services that will be available at the Indian Wells Hot Stix Center.

I am about to start my graduation thesis, I need some interesting topics related to business Administration. Preferably something with Marketing, human resource management or international management. And how will be my method of research to accomplish?

Principles of Marketing
Sales Promotion Matching

CONSUMER

A) Coupons
B) Rebates
C) Premium
D) Loyalty Marketing Programs

E) Sweepstakes

F) Contests
G) Sampling
H) Point of Purchase (P-O-P) TRADE

____ Quaker Chewy Granola Bars special package: 8 bars for the price of 6
____ Starbucks’s card where you buy 10 coffee drinks and you get your 11th free

____ McCormick’s puts up a cardboard aisle display with all their grilling rubs and seasonings for 2 weeks ____ Print this XX and get $1 off your next purchase

____ You receive a free shampoo packet via the mail.

____ Battle of the brides – compete in games. Winner gets a free wedding dress
____ HGTV’s Annual “Dream Home Giveaway”

____ Buy a new Droid and get a $50 visa card

TRADE:

A)Trade Allowances
B) Push Money
C) Training

D) Free Merchandise
E) Store Demonstrations

F) Business Mtgs/Conventions/Trade Shows

____ You go by the Bakery Dept. and someone asks if you would like to taste their new Kale Chips
____ If a buyer orders at least 10 cases of Gatorade Prime, they get a case of G2 in the flavor of their choice.

____ You attend the National Sporting Goods Show for your company and are offered a special deal to write an order at the show.

____ For every 100 Dell computers ($700 or more) sold by your retail location, Dell will give you 5 notebook computers for your retail Sales Associates.

____ If you order at least 100 cases between 11/1/19 and 12/1/19, you will receive 5% off on your next order after 12/1/19.

____ Samsung will come to your National Sales meeting and provide 3- 45 minute seminars on their newest SMART TV’s.

3. Suppose EMU Software is promoting its new tax preparation software. Its main competing

product is Turbotax’s software worth $50. EMU claims that for 30% of the time, its software

identifies additional savings of $110 for their customers compared to its closest competitor.

Also, EMU’s software is easier to use and it takes only 3 hours for its customer to use to

complete all its tax preparations. Turbotax’s software on the other hand takes 4 hours to do

the same. However, EMU Software is a new product and 5% of their customers may

experience a bug in the software. The delay in sorting that bug out will lead to an extra day

required for tax preparation using EMU Software for those customers. Assume that a typical

company accountant who would be hired to use the software earns $40 per hour. Calculate

the total economic value of EMU’s software. Note that one day is 8 working hours. (10

points)

What is a glass ceiling in your own words? What are two explanations of yours for the existence of a glass ceiling?

Marketing

List three ways in which non-profit organization marketing differs from that of a for-profit organization.

- Difference #1

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- Difference #2

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- Difference #3

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