I have a project and I will talk about selling bedspreads on website only .
I want you to write for me about two things

Who and where is the target audience ? Explain the demographics , lifestyle ,consumption ,patterns ,etc

Chrwcterize the market place size,growth, demographics, structure

Complete a business leader profile using PowerPoint.

First, select a business leader that you know. Explain why you decided to focus on this person as a leader and make a post on this discussion board. The post should be at least one paragraph. This step is due by the end of week 4.

Second, Gather enough information that you are able to learn the traits that help them be a good leader and traits that undermine their leadership abilities, which leader power they use most frequently, which leadership theory most closely resembles their leadership style, how they drive change, and how they motivate their followers.

Third, compile your information and develop a PowerPoint presentation about your leader. Ensure that you cite references for the material you use in your presentation. You will receive 2 bonus points if you narrate your PowerPoint presentation.

Fourth, post your presentation as a post in the Module 7 discussion board. This step is due May 3rd in the module 7 discussion board.  

I already have my leader chosen. I do not understand how to evaluate the second part. I just need to know what the different traits, leader powers and leadership theories there are and what it means to drive change and motivate followers.

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Pough Publishing Company produces books for the retail market. Demand for a current book is expected to occur at a constant annual rate of 7200 copies. The cost of one copy of the book is $14. 50. The holding cost is based on an 18% annual rate, and production set up costs are $150 per set up. The equipment on which the book is produced has an annual production volume of 25,000 copies. Pough has 250 working days per year, and the lead time for a production run is 15 days. Use the production lot size model to compute the following values:

1. Minimum cost production lot size
2. Number of production runs per year
3. Cycle time
4. Length of a production run
5. Maximum inventory
6. Total annual cost
7. Reorder point

Martin, the director of HR at Austin Designs, is meeting with the career development team. The firm's CEO has decided that the company needs to invest the time and effort into improving the direction and development phases of the current career development program; however, development funds are limited. The CEO and most of the executive management team are self-made professionals who believe strongly in individual responsibility. The organizational structure of Austin Designs is very flat. The company has a wide variety of jobs but few levels of high responsibility. Feedback from employees suggests that they don't know when promotional opportunities are available. 1. Answer the following questions: A. What would be best directional tool for addressing the employees' complaint? Justify your answer.

How has NAFTA affected trade among the U.S., Canada and Mexico? Is NAFTA good for domestic U.S. and Mexican producers?

What would be the best organizational structure of AirAsia to support their strategic choices in the world market? Briefly explain. (Under 100 words)

Use this textbook to supplement the below scenario and answer the below questions: Hitt/Ireland/Hoskisson's Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalization 13th Edition

Scenario

•Sally has spent the last six months working as part of a team that has developed a piece of software to control a widget grinding machine. The software is due to be completed within one week but Sally knows that it will take at least one month to fully test the software. Sally accompanies her boss, Liz, at a meeting with the client who commissioned the software. The client has just landed an important order, and is anxious that the software is delivered and installed on time. At the meeting, Liz says to the client, "Sally and the rest of the team have done an excellent job on this software. It has all of the functionality you asked for and it can be delivered and installed next week. Isn't that right Sally?“ Sally knows that the software may still contain bugs that could cause machine to malfunction and be dangerous to its operators. If Sally contradicts her boss in front of the client she knows it will be the end of her career with that company - a well paid job that she enjoys. What should she do?

Questions

•What are Sally's legal responsibilities?

•Does Sally have any legal protection?

•Would your analysis of the ethics of this case change if Sally had been present during her boss's conversation with the client, but had not been asked to agree with his assurances?

•What if the client had asked Sally a question, the honest answer to which would contradict her boss?

•Would your analysis of the ethics of this case change if the software was for stock management rather than the control of machinery – with no potential threat to human safety?

JL.54 Altec Lansing makes a variety of speakers for computer systems and they are looking to adopt Lean Production principles into their main production facility. This production facility operates 320 days per year one of their bestselling speaker systems has annual demand of 32,000 units. They can produce up to 950 of these systems each day. It costs $14.52 to set up a work cell to produce this system. The cost of each system is $44 and annual holding costs are $11.80 per unit. Setup labor cost is $11 per hour.

What is the optimal size of the production run for this system? (Display your answer to the nearest whole number).
   

Given your answer to the previous question, how many production runs will be required each year in order to meet the annual demand? (Round your answer UP to the next whole number.)
   

How much time (in minutes) does it take to set up a work cell? (Display your answer to the nearest whole number.)
  

The large retailers who are wholesale customers of Altec Lansing are pressing the company to sell this and other speaker systems in much smaller quantities to support their JIT distribution models. For example, for this particular speaker system wholesale customers want to purchase in lots of 170. In order to meet this requirement, what would be the required setup time (in minutes) to make this order quantity an optimal production run quantity? (Display your answer to the nearest whole number.)
  

From the real international market, select a company of your choice wishing to start its activities in Saudi Arabia. The Company hired you as Marketing Manager of Saudi Arabian Region.

You have to establish a marketing department starting from the Analysis of the market, formulate overall marketing goals, objectives, strategies, and tactics within the context of an organization's business, mission, and goals designing and planning the entire function.

Write a Marketing Plan considering the following points

1. Introduction, Goals and Objectives

To introduce this section you should include the "mission statement" of the business; an idea of what its goals are for customers, clients, employees and the consumer.

1. Introduction about the business.
2. Business vision and mission
3. Business objective.
4. Products and services offered

2. Environmental Analysis

Conduct an environmental analysis that looks at and comments on your local area and your network of business contacts, competitors and customers.

3. Target Market Analysis

Identify the target market, describing how the company will meet the needs of the consumer better than the competition does.

4. SWOT Analysis

Conduct a SWOT analysis for your chosen company based on your research.

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Critical Thinking

The global marketplace has witnessed an increased pressure from customers and competitors in manufacturing as well as service sector (Basu, 2001; George, 2002). Due to the rapidly changing global marketplace only those companies will be able to survive that will deliver products of good quality at cheaper rate and to achieve their goal companies try to improve performance by focusing on cost cutting, increasing productivity levels, quality and guaranteeing deliveries in order to satisfy customers (Raouf, 1994).

Increased global competition leads the industry to increasing efficiency by means of economies of scale and internal specialization so as to meet market conditions in terms of flexibility, delivery performance and quality (Yamashina, 1995). The changes in the present competitive business environment are characterized by profound competition on the supply side and keen indecisive in customer requirements on the demand side. These changes have left their distinctive marks on the different aspect of the manufacturing organizations (Gomes et al., 2006). With this increasing global economy, cost effective manufacturing has become a requirement to remain competitive.

To meet all the challenges organizations try to introduce different manufacturing and supply techniques. Management of organizations devotes its efforts to reduce the manufacturing costs and to improve the quality of product. To achieve this goal, different manufacturing and supply techniques have been employed. The last quarter of the 20th century witnessed the adoption of world-class, lean and integrated manufacturing strategies that have drastically changed the way manufacturing firm’s leads to improvement of manufacturing performance (Fullerton and McWatters, 2002).

Consult chapter 7 of your text book or secondary available data on internet and answer the following questions.

Question:

1. Why Companies adopted Lean Thinking and JIT model?
2. Discuss major types of Waste, companies has to keep in mind during production.
3. Assess the reasons for using lean thinking (suitable examples), what are the benefits from Suppliers to end users?
4. Due to COVID 19 emergency do you think agile supply chain is the right concept in this kind of situation? Give reason with example.

The Answer should be within 4- 5 pages.

The Answer must follow the outline points below:

• Lean Thinking and JIT Concept
• Agile Supply chain
• Their Main functions
• Reasons with suitable Examples
• Reference

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Lean Thinking is a methodological aspect of business which aims to provide innovative ways to organisations about how to organise human activities to serve the society and help indivuduals add perspective to their lives and reduce wasted. The companies adopt lean thinking to reduce the wastage of human resource and increase the productive capacity of the employees working.

JIT Model or Just-in-time Model is an inventory management model wherein the different aspects of production like labour, raw material, etc., are refiiled at the exact time when it is ultimately required. This model is used by almost all the organisations as through this model thr production is kept uninterupted and there is no wastage of time while any factor of production is exhausted.

The major types of waste that a company has to keep in mind includes mainly the wastage of raw materials, wastage of labour resource, power supply. etc.

Lean Thinking plays an intregal part in every organisation. Every organisation intends to reduce the wastage throughout the production process. Every organisation wants to keep their potential employees and a very important way is to keep the employee satisfied with the job , working conditions, pay scale, etc. Employees play the most important role as most of the production process depends on them therefore, lean thinking helps the suppliers to the end users.

Agile supply chain is a process of product distribution that is concerned with quick delivery of products, early responses to the market, cost saving, high productivity with flexibility. At this point of the emergency of COVID-19 agile supply chain is very useful as the World is under lockdown and the market is facing serious issues of scarcity of the necessity items that are demanded. As under lockdown major companies are completely shut which has resulted in the reduction in production in alot of the sectors and the Economy around the World is facing massive drop and in some countries the Economy is running negetive. This is the time to adopt agile supply chain Worldwide to save the market from reaching recession.

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Virtual Team Successes and Stresses

A Case Study

8/8/2016

As widespread as diverse and dispersed teaming is these days, leading a virtual team can be a challenge. This case study offers ideas on making the best of diverse and dispersed team structures.

Virtual teaming, that is, working on teams whose members are not present in the same location, is a fact of our modern, globalized business world. Virtual (or diverse and dispersed) teams are prevalent not only in multinational companies with offices in different countries, but also in academic and non-governmental institutions with bases across the world. In such team structures, members often have to communicate and collaborate with others who could be thousands of miles and many time zones apart.

As widespread as diverse and dispersed teaming is these days, leading a virtual team can be a challenge. Team leaders need to not only account for practical matters such as scheduling across time zones, but also technical issues such as varying rates of connectivity and access to communication platforms. However, one of the biggest factors in creating successful collaboration among diverse and dispersed teams is culture – specifically, tailoring the team’s mission, plans and procedures to the preferences of the different cultures represented on the team.

The following is a case study provided by a Cultural Navigator subject matter expert in diverse and dispersed teaming:

“A virtual team leader named Rebecca, originally from the United States, recently led a virtual project team with members from Japan, Mexico, Germany, Korea and the US. Rebecca was focused on setting the team up for success, and although she deliberately used strategies and tools made available by her company, she learned some valuable lessons along the way.

“Before initiating the project with a kick-off meeting, Rebecca made sure that everyone filled out their Cultural Orientations Indicator (COI) assessment to get to know their own work-style preferences. She then invited all members into a team message board on the Cultural Navigator, and encouraged them to share their profiles to better understand each other’s work-style preferences.

“The team was not able to have a face-to-face kick-off meeting, so during their first virtual meeting, every team member took time to introduce him or herself. The members talked about the different preferences in their team using the non-judgmental vocabulary of the Cultural Orientations Approach. At the end of the call, the team agreed on some ground rules for their upcoming teleconference and then closed the call.

“As the project continued, the team leader noticed that key team members were regularly not sharing their sales pipelines during their calls as agreed upon. Rebecca used humor during their sessions to lighten the mood, thinking some of the team members were nervous. However, she noticed the same people began to skip the calls, and were reluctant to speak when they were in attendance.”

In the above case study, the team leader Rebecca had done her due diligence in preparing the team to accommodate different cultural preferences among its members. But then she hit a snag. What had she done wrong?

The subject matter expert offered this reading of the situation: “In retrospect, Rebecca realized that even though she had set ground rules, she could have had an individual talk with each member before finalizing the team structure and processes. Perhaps in those discussions she would have understood that Woo-jin, her Korean colleague, worked in a strict hierarchical office environment and had to clear most decisions with his direct supervisor before sending anything to her. Woo-jin had hoped his team leader realized he did not have this approval, however Rebecca was not aware of this.

Similarly, the Japanese team member named Kamiko was concerned about the strict data protection laws in Japan, so she did not feel comfortable sharing her sales pipeline information. Kamiko had tried to indirectly convey this limitation to Rebecca, who wasn’t able to understand this message.

As for Rebecca’s use of humor during teleconferences, she did not realize how many cultural references she was using in her jokes, which her colleagues from outside her own culture had little understanding of.”

In essence, while Rebecca began the team’s collaboration with most of the components necessary for success, throughout the project duration, she learned the hard way that cultural mishaps often stall even the best plan.

While cultural due diligence and careful preparation are necessary components of working with a virtual team, the team leader and members need to exercise cultural awareness and cultural competence all along the way.

Though there can be challenges to working in diverse and dispersed teams, they are a fact of modern work life. The good news is that, when managed well, virtual teams can be as effective and productive as their traditional equivalents.

Questions:

1. What did the team leader notice during the team meeting (calls) and what did she tried to do to enhance the situation?
2. What should Rebeca had to do for each virtual worker and why?
3. What were the special situations with the Korean and the Japanese workers?
4. What the virtual leaders and the virtual members need to exercise?
5. How can the virtual teams be as effective and productive as their traditional equivalents?

One of the major problems facing private security administrators in retail stores is the issue of internal theft, or theft by employees. Imagine that you own a retail business. Then, think about the reasons employees become involved in theft.

Respond to the following questions: How does the motivation for internal theft differ from that of external theft? Based on your thoughts, what types of procedures would you put into place to curb internal theft? Please explain your recommendations.

You just landed a Project Manager volunteer position for a non-profit organization. As they don’t know much about project management, they want your advice with a couple of things. Some of their sponsors are giving them money for buying materials and software. They trust you because you seem to know a lot about this, help them with the following recommendations:
1. Is it worth it to buy a PM software or to get a Free/Open source/Online version? Provide two reasons to justify your answer.
2. Find two suitable paid PM software and provide the cost of their licenses.
3. List three free PM software and mention their top three features.
4. What are those three functions/features, software must-have for you to like it?
5. There is money for one manual/book, what is your recommendation? And why?