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).
   

Assuming you were a public figure trying to engage the citizens to become more participatory what audience would you target and why? What would be some innovative ways to get the attention for your targeted audience to listen to what you have to say?

Why do you think it is more important to differentiate yourself as a company when dealing with business to business transactions and customers than business to consumer customers?

Please answer the following questions in complete sentences.

1. Why do employees resist change?

2. How can managers facilitate change in an organization?

Another manager wants to evaluate an internal process that would be used to produce the new product. The fixed and variable costs and capacities for each process are listed below. Utilize this information to answer questions 3-4.

3. What are the low-cost output ranges for each alternative given the cost info and capacity info above? (showALL pertinent math and relevant ranges below (on both the 0-∞ continuum and in table). (5 pts)

   0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------∞ Math Area:

Answer: _______________ Explanation: ______________________________________________

4) If demand was expected to range between 5,000 and 13,000 for the next 10 years, which process would you select? Explain in one sentence. (1 pt)

BUSINESS LAW

Assume the following facts based on the Jennings case study: Agristar, the successor company to Agriprocessor Inc., has decided to sell the meat packing plant. Your client, Agriprofit, has asked your consulting firm to evaluate the wisdom of acquiring the company. Specifically, as the case study indicates, the plant requires a large employee base of unskilled workers and the previous owners had not been able to hire enough employees without resorting to hiring alien workers. Agriprocessor got into trouble after the workers requested jobs for their minor children to increase household income. Agriprofit has no intention of hiring minors to work in the plant or undocumented aliens but papers can be forged and sometimes, the company must look the other way to meet its production quotas. Given the federal government's inability to resolve the problem of illegal immigration and the Supreme Court's decision in Arizona vs. U.S., which limits a state's ability to pass legislation to resolve the issues inside of its own state borders due to the Supremacy Clause, companies that require unskilled workers have little legal guidance and a lot of criminal and civil exposure if the company's workforce violates immigration and employment laws and regulations. Illegal workers have a different perspective. Many are grateful for employment but pay the price of abusive working conditions. These workers cannot behave as organized labor, in the traditional sense, because they do not wish to be deported.

What would you advise the client to acquire the company or not and the reasons for your recommendations?

define all these

Corporate culture -

Strong culture companies -

Weak culture companies -

High performance cultures -

Adaptive cultures -

Unhealthy cultures -

Change-resistant cultures -

Politicized cultures -

Insular, Inwardly focused cultures -

Unethical and Greed driven cultures -

Incompatible, Clashing subcultures -

Substantive culture changing actions -

Symbolic culture changing actions-

Management by walking around -

Leading the strategy execution process

Staying on top of process -

Mobilizing efforts -

Making adjustments -

Why corporate culture matters

Focuses effort and attention

Encourages doing the right things

Deepens employee commitment

define all these

Organizational structure -

Simple organizational structure -

Functional organizational structure -

Multidivisional organizational structure -

Matrix organizational structure -

International organizational structure -

Network structure -

Boundaryless organizational designs -

Barrier free organizations -

Modular organizations -

Virtual organizations -

Centralized decision making -

Decentralized decision making -

Informal organizational structure -

Building an organization for execution

Staffing the organization -

Managing resources and capabilities-

Structuring the organization -

Three approaches to building resources and capabilities

Developing capabilities internally -

Mergers and Acquisitions -

Collective partnerships -

Staffing the organization

Strong management team -

Recruit, train, retain -

Two signs of good strategy execution-