How does the validation of the scope impact the final
deliverables?
How does a PM ensure that scope is agreed to by all stakeholders?
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1. Experts will tell you that it is important to "prepare" for an interview. What type of preparation should you do?
Summarize the information and add your thoughts to what the experts say. Be sure to also include your interviewing preparation experiences.
2. What types of retail sales are included in your channel strategy for your Course Project? How will culture in the host market influence international personal selling?
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Is it practical to assume that people age 55 years and
older constitute one large consumer market?
a) Why?
b) How can marketers segment this age subculture?
c) What are some important variables to keep
in mind when tailoring market
strategies to mature consumers?
d) In your opinion, from a marketing perspective, what is the most
attractive group in this age subculture and, why?
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Assignment 1:
Company 1: Google
a. Name a major product/service offered:
b. List & explain several methods used to create customer loyalty and retain customers for the product/service selected:
Company 2: Apple
c. Name a major product/service offered:
d. List & explain several methods used to create customer loyalty and retain customers for the product/service selected:
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It's obvious that women comprise a very small portion of today's CEOs and leaders. It has been mentioned that if women take a transformational leadership approach to managing and leading, that women may be able to bridge the gender-equality gap that exists in today's top, senior, and executive ranks. How can being a transformational leader help women bridge this gap?
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In the book of Daniel, understanding God's people are in exile/captivity, you can only imagine what it must have been like to be separated from everything they had ever connected with their faith. Their holy city, their sacred places and the icons of their Jewish history had all been left behind.
How difficult do you believe it would be to find yourself in a similar situation and not forsake your beliefs? What are some ways you could maintain your faith while in spiritual "exile?"
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After reviewing the optimization models in the text, select one model that you can use to improve a specific business process. Explain your reasoning. You can work with a business process at your current job, previous jobs, think of a hypothetical situation (i.e. how FedEx may be routing their shipments or how a call center may be scheduling their employees), or use the scenario from the discussion in Week 1.
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5. What three (3) action steps can you take within the next two months to find out more about this occupation, the education and experience it requires and what is currently happening within this occupation in your city, province or country?
please consider the occupation:- medical laboratory technologist
country :- Canada vancouver
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1. A company’s philosophy regarding CSR (corporate social responsibility) is initiated at what level of strategy? |
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) Corporate level |
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b |
) Business level |
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c |
) Functional level |
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d |
) Operational level |
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e |
) CSR is not an issue within strategy |
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2. Activities an organization undertakes to move from where it currently is to where it wants to be in the future are: |
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) An organization’s vision |
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b |
) Is the framework which analyzes the levels of competition |
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c |
) Analytical tools used to support decision making |
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d |
) The purpose for strategies |
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e |
) A process of defining the status of the situational analysis methodology |
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3. The following level of strategy promotes internal customer values: |
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a |
) Corporate |
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b |
) Operational |
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c |
) Functional |
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d |
) Business |
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e |
) All of the above |
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4. The implementation stage of strategy is the point of: |
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) Developing corporate culture |
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b |
) Providing definition to VISION, PURPOSE and MISSION |
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c |
) The GAP analysis |
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d |
) Establishing ethical boundaries |
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e |
) Success or failure |
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Lichenstein versus University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
What are the practical implications of this case? What should the medical center have done differently? Would the FMLA permit extension of her probationary period?
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In Which step the following is included? (1) Should American Airlines offer ultra high-speed Wi-Fi service? (2) If so, should it offer it to first-class only or include business class and possibly economy class?
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Here is the context in which you should write. Bronner’s Christmas Store is one of the largest in America. Bronner’s currently has one store located in Frankenmuth, Michigan. Bronner’s has decided to open up a second store in Heidelberg, Germany. Reflecting on each chapter in our textbook, respond to each of the following questions as though you were hired to be a consultant to Bronner’s.
Describe the method of entry (mode) you think would be the best.
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Case two: organizational design and communication
The Corona crisis the world faces nowadays has highlighted the
necessity of “crisis communication”. The management literature
usually underscores the central role of organizational factors in
the effectiveness of communication. Thus, the organizational
structure might facilitate or impede effective communication during
crisis. So, using different resources talk about the following
points:
1) Compare the mechanistic bureaucratic structure to organic
structure and conclude which one of them is more appropriate to
deal with crisis and explain why.
2) Talk about some of the tools that can be used to improve
organizational structure to enhance communications during crisis?
You should focus on the following strategies:
A) Structural empowerment B) lateral relationship C) organizational
learning
D) (streamlining the structure) flat structure
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Conflict among managers emerged soon after a French company acquired a Swedish firm. The Swedes perceived the French management as hierarchical and arrogant, whereas the French thought the Swedes were naive, cautious, and lacking an achievement orientation. Identify the source(s) of conflict that best explains this conflict, and describe ways to reduce dysfunctional conflict in this situation
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