3. How is Google using its market power to benefit its Google Shopping platform?

Kelson Sporting Equipment, Inc., makes two different types of baseball gloves: a regular model and a catcher’s model. The firm has 900 hours of production time available in its cutting and sewing department, 300 hours available in its finishing department, and 100 hours available in its packaging and shipping department. The production time requirements and the profit contribution per glove are given in the following table:

Assume that the company is interested in maximizing the total profit contribution.

Let R = number of units of regular model.
      C = number of units of catcher’s model.

It should have: (or least how to do it)

User Interface.

VBA Code to link Model and Interface

VBA Code for Formatting

VBA Code for Error Trapping

Thank you!

What would you have done if you were the CEO of Target in 2013, the Director of the Federal Government’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM) in 2015, or the CEO of Equifax in 2017 at the time that their respective data security breaches were discovered (note what all these breaches have in common)? Is it OK for a victimized organization or government agency to “hack back”? What are the dangers?

Answer discussion style.

Colgate toothpaste from Colgate-Palmolive Company,Fitbit wearables 

Explain for the following products:.How companies that offer them make market segmentation (ie what criteria they use to divide the market into segments)
.Identify the market segments that are created and which these companies serve
.How each company differentiates its products in that market segment
.How each company chooses to be placed in the market

discuss the factors that have driven China to engage heavily in Africa and the Middle east. Support your analysis with data and reliable citations

1. Use the Simplex method to solve the following problem:
     Max  Z = x1 + 2x2 + 3x3
     s. to2x1 + x2 + x3 <= 20
   x1 + 2x2 - x3 <= 20
           3x2 + x3 <= 10
          x1, x2, x3 >= 0
   Clearly specify the optimal values of all variables ya used in your procedure as well as the optimal value of the objective function.

2. In part a), say what corner point was analyzed in each iteration and give the corresponding value of the objective function. Include iteration 0, that is, the one that gives the starting corner point.

Identify and explain three environmental drivers of change and how they have impacted change restructuring a coorporation.

SCENARIO QUESTION

Imagine that you are an occupational health and safety consultant. You have been hired to improve worker productivity and safety at ISON foundation Zambia Limited, a telecom company. The people who work there have been suffering painful strain and repetitive stress injuries from working long hours at their cubicles/ workstations. Specifically, employees have been experiencing wrist pain, eye and shoulder strain. Some employees have quit their jobs and therefore resulting in a high employee turnover rate. TASK You are to design a visual presentation which incorporates tips for correcting common workstation problems and preventing repetitive strain injuries. Your write-up must include the following: • A concise definition of computer ergonomics and work ergonomics • At least four repetitive stress injuries that can be caused by using a computer incorrectly, your search should encompass answers to a. What is the disorder or the injury? b. How is it caused? • Ergonomic computer hardware items as well as workstation ergonomic items. With prices and descriptions to the parts of the body the item is supporting. Make sure the items that you display are rephrased and not cut and pasted from any website. You must include pictures of the hardware and ergonomic equipment and arrange the pictures attractively with tittles/labels for each picture, keep in mind your target group when selecting these items (could be in table format). • A picture of a properly designed ergonomic work station (What each employee work station should look like), with a description of proper positioning of a user at the workstation. Note: Descriptions should be easy for even a primary school pupil to understand. You should be creative in your writeup, imagine that you are making a proposal to the target company, and your presentation should follow a systematic flow. Please include proper work that is cited with proper references. Be sure to add a tittle on the cover page in line with the task in hand, REMEMBER, be creative. Your write up should not be more than 5 pages, as most of it will include the pictures.

You are a manager in a large manufacturing company. The board of directors has asked
you to find out why there has been a considerable drop in the number of items produced
in the last financial quarter.
Explain what you will do to find out the cause of the problem and recommend a solution
to the problem.

at least two ways of gathering
information and one valid approach to
problem solving

You wish to apply for a job which requires the applicant to have experience of working
in a team.
Explain how will you adapt your CV to make it relevant for the job you are applying for?

Explain how you will of adapt your CV to
match the criteria of the job you are applying
for highlight experience of working
in team/s

1. Perhaps at some point in your life you have taken each of the actions a-e that follow. In doing so, you exhibited “options thinking,”. For each, explain how the option value arises. Additional questions you might consider: What constitutes the option cost, the exercise window, the trigger strategy? How could you estimate the value it gives you?

1. Double- booking: you make a partially refundable airplane reservation and a refundable train reservation for the same trip because you are concerned about an impending major storm that would ground airplanes.
2. Lease versus buy: When moving to a new place, you rent an abode on a month -to-month basis rather than buying a house before moving.
3. Contingency: You are going to spend three months in Southeast Asia, working and traveling. You plan to visit a number of countries, in some parts of which malaria is prevalent. You may decide to go to these areas when you are in the country. You obtain a prescription for malaria pills from your physician and plan to fill the prescription and take the pills with you, even though you don’t know if you will use them.
4. Capacity planning: There is a big concert coming up and you are online to buy tickets. You must decide in real time how many to buy because they will be sold out in a few moments. You believe your partner would like to go and possibly a couple of friends and maybe a couple of family members. You think that maybe you should buy four tickets and worry about what to do with them later?
5. Sequencing: You have two tasks to do. One is a group project with a classmate that can’t be done until that classmate provides some information. The other one is to edit video for the student newspapers wed site, a project that requires three video components may not have prepared all that he promised. And the video components may not arrive by the deadline. The group project and video project will each take two hours. You decide to schedule in the same window of time (1) a four-hour project meeting with your classmate and (2) a four-hour reservation for the video equipment you will need for your editing. You’ll decide later the sequence in which you will do the two projects.

Question

As a marketing planner, you need to practice creating your own marketing plan. You are required to design a marketing plan for your organization focusing on the following sections:

• Executive summary - Business Description
• Market summary which includes:
  • Quantitative analysis: target markets, geography, demographics, consumer behavior, competition analysis,
  • Qualitative analysis: market trends, perceptions towards brands, companies, images, packaging.
  • SWOT analysis
  • Competition
  • Value Proposition
• Marketing strategy which includes:
  • Mission, mission, values
  • Objectives based on marketing plan
  • Sales forecast
• Financial objectives
  • Brand positioning
  • Marketing MIX (4 P´s and also P as People)
  • Marketing communications methods (Detail at least 6 steps implementation plan)
• Financial aspects
  • Break even, monthly sales, marketing budget
• Controls (Success Measurements to evaluate the objectives of the plan)

You must provide adequate Harvard references in every section you present. For information about your organization, you are also required to reference. Some companies may not have published information online however; you can still try to project your ideas with valid peer-reviewed articles

Respond in your journal entry in 700- to 1050- words to the following prompts:

Determine how AFI strategy framework acts as an integrative facilitator for strategic management planning. Identify the guiding principles used for preparing effective statements that describe the mission, vision, and the core values of an organization. Review the mission statement in Chapter 1 of Strategic Management: Concepts (p. 13), and determine whether the Caterpillar Inc. mission statement conforms to the description in the text. State the reasons the mission statement conforms or does not conform. Research public information, such as news releases, financial reports, and marketing analyses. Based on your research evaluate the alignment between what Caterpillar is currently doing and their mission, vision, or values statement.?

Owen Mills Limited began its operations on Trumpet Land, a beautiful island in
the Caribbean with a very diverse population in terms of age, gender, ethnicity,
religion, disability, sexual orientation, education, and origin. In 1970, at the age of
twenty-eight (28), Owen Mills a progressive thinking young man decided to start
his own business. His father had worked as a Manager at a large department store
in the city of Trumpet Land for as long as Owen can remember, and his father
would share his daily experiences. The idea of operating his own business was
always at the forefront of Owen’s mind. After gaining four (4) Advanced Level
subjects (Mathematics, Geography, English Literature and Spanish), Owen got a
job at a large Credit Union where he moved up the ranks from a Customer Service
Clerk to Supervisory level within four (4) years and then onto being a Credit
Officer.
During his time at the Credit Union, Owen attended a number of short
management courses. This built his confidence that someday soon he will achieve
his dream of being a big business man. At age twenty-eight (28) Owen thought
that he had saved sufficient money along with his wife who worked at another
Credit Union, so that they could purchase a small one-story building in the heart of
the city. The building was at the corner of French Street and John Street, the main
street in the city. The building was refurbished and painted in bright red, and blue
to suit the liking of Mr. Mills. He thought to himself “No one could miss this
building” and he also thought of a tag line. Business started in February 1970.
2
From the inception of the business to date, the tagline emblazoned at the front of
the store “We have all that you want!’ has remained.
The Early Years
Owen Mills Limited operated as a sole proprietorship for many years selling
almost every item that a household could want, staying true to his tagline. The
business began with five (5) employees: his wife serving as the cashier, two store
clerks, one driver and a cleaner. The store was well sectioned with a variety of
items as shown in Table #1 below.

As a forward-thinking entrepreneur, Mr. Owen Mills is pondering going into
manufacturing something, but he has to think carefully about the product to
be manufactured. Therefore, he needs to understand what the Value Chain
is about as well as the types of strategies that he could utilize to gain a
competitive advantage.

1.What information would you provide to Mr. Mills and his family regarding
the Value Chain as they think seriously about going into the manufacturing
sector?

PS.52 The Station, a boutique cookie company, needs to create a production process for its new cinnamon malt ball cookies. To help accomplish this, the company has put together some numbers for production costs (per dozen cookies for the variable costs).

The Station estimates demand for the semester will be 975 dozen cinnamon malt ball cookies. Due to the cookies' expected popularity the selling price will be $5.75 per dozen.

Based on the projected demand (volume) for the semester, which process type should they select?

Under this process type—the one selected in the previous question—what would be their profits for the semester? (Display your answer to the nearest whole number).