FRANCE - INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING:

Please outline a small summary of each heading in bullet point in regards to the country, FRANCE

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1. Background/History:

2. Cultue/Society:

3. Business/Monetisation:

4. Content/Regulations:

5. Delivery platforms and systems:

1. Why is the term terrorism difficult to define? Are the various definitions based on the evolution of terrorism?
2. What is the FBI’s definition of terrorism?
3. What is the U.S. Department of State’s definition of terrorism?
4. Discuss the differences between random terror and mass terror.

Create an e-marketing plan to support American Eagle Outfitters in their choice. This plan must include aspects of the RACE Digital Marketing Planning Framework.

Tactics – This cover the RACE tactics

a. Which digital marketing activities for American Eagles Outfitters will be optimised and why

b. Identify Key performance Indicators (KPIs) for each tactic

Write an analytical response to the paragraph below:

If I were the CEO of an MNC who decides to enter into Nigeria I would choose to have a joint venture. Because JV is more appealing due to some more stable highlights, compared to strategic alliance mode. According to an article, the differences are a strategic alliance that can “seal the deal” with no more than a handshake. And a joint venture is formed by a binding contract. A strategic alliance is not considered a separate legal entity; a joint venture is. And last, a strategic alliance is often forged to maximize the benefits and opportunities that both companies bring to the table. In a joint venture, the emphasis is often on limiting risk. (Wroblewski, M. T. ). Due to all these factors, this is why I think coming up with a JV is more secure and official to propose contracts in Nigeria or any other across the border countries. Also according to our textbook on page 281, it states that "companies acknowledge that the IJV has resulted in faster development and increased production capacity and that costs are shared without either company renouncing its independence." (Deresky, H). Since investing across borders can get messy and unofficial sometimes, doing a JV would be a better option, because of its benefits and legally binding contracts.  

National polls are often conducted by asking the opinions of a few thousand adults nationwide and using them to infer the opinions of all adults in the nation. Explain who is in the sample and who is in the population for such polls. Please use a poll from a newspaper, TV, a magazine, or from the Internet (Chapter 8).

You may use the information in the textbook or cite a source.

Then answer your classmates' posts and comment on their description.

Please remember to use APA formatting if you use help from the textbook or a website. Try to use your own words!

Explain the importance of understanding intercultural communication. Identify the role that context plays in communication, and include references to high-context and low-context cultures. Must be at least 250 words.

As you read about the actions and reactions of young people cited from intergenerational research, with which strategies and responses do you identify? Which do you believe are uncharacteristic of you?

Evaluate various approaches organisations use to monetise digital data.

• Discuss what is meant by data value.
• Argue how companies should formalise data valuation practices.
• Investigate how a company could embed data valuation into company-wide strategies.

APC industries has been experiencing significant growth and has been having difficulty meeting customer demands recently. They are considering three options to address this issue. They can move to a larger facility, add a second shift or use a subcontractor to assist in production. The annual payoff of each option depends on if the current market continues to expand, hold steady or declines. The expected payoff for each combination is show in the table below

Option Expand Steady Decline

Move to larger facility 250,000 125,000 -90,000

Add a second shift 175,000 80000 -45,000

Subcontract 90,000 15,000 -10,000

a) Which alternative should APC choose under the maximax criterion? (1 mark)

b) Which option should APC choose under the maximin criterion? (1 mark)

c) Which option should APC choose under the LaPlace criterion?

d) Which option should APC choose with the Hurwicz criterion with α = 0.5?

e) Using a minimax regret approach, what alternative should she choose?

f) After reading about economic predictions, APC has assigned the probability that the market will be expand , or be steady or be weak at 20%, 50% and 30 %. Using expected monetary values, what option should be chosen and what is that optimal expected value?

g) What is the most that the APC should be willing to pay for additional information? Use Expected Regret

h) Use the alternative method to verify EVPI (3 marks

The year is 1997, California Pizza Kitchen is thinking to launch a new brand of frozen pizza. You are the Brand Manager for CPK.

Your task: develop a one-page executive summary to G.J. Hart, CEO persuading him that the company should launch this product

What is CPK's key POD?

What is your recommended S-T-P?

Include a proper positioning statement (using Kotler's model) What are the company's calculated risks?

WHY should the company pursue this endeavor?

Include an introduction, and summary conclusion

What is one thing that came to mind when you read the film study or the synopsis of Iron Jawed Angels?

Name one women in History that stood out for women's rights.

Why did this woman come to mind when asked that question?

Process Control at Polaroid (A)

1. Create and interpret SPC charts – Xbar and R charts for each work shift for finger height and pod weight. (provide step by step instructions on how you came up with the XBar, R, R bar, X double bar, UCL, and LCL)

Please read the case and answer the three questions below in specific

A group of bright and entrepreneurial graduates of the American University of Dubai Engineering, Arts and Sciences, and Business colleges has formed an idea generation company called ThinkTank4U. The company is built on an innovative idea itself. In a knowledge economy, new, novel and practical ideas become keenly sought-after ‘goods’. ThinkTank4U offers to its clients ‘ideas’ on a wide range of issues and themes including: how to bring new products to market, how to compete, how to grow, how to improve performance, how to deal successfully with competitors, complementors, customers, suppliers, and own employees. The mission of ThinkTank4U is to help clients with new working ideas that translate into greater performance. The company guarantees its clients the success of its ideas. It shares the revenue generated by its ideas with the client based on a formula agreed in advance by both of them. If no revenue is generated by the company’s ideas, it charges no fees for the assignment completed for the client.

The company is composed of a core group of four self-managed teams of ‘Ideators’ (the term used to describe team members indicating their task as idea generators) and helped by supporting contractual professional staff. Each team has on average seven members and is coordinated rotationally by the Ideator having the most valuable expertise in the basic issue of the assignment at hand. For example, if the client is asking for new advertising campaign ideas for promoting an electronic device, the team will be coordinated by the Ideator who has the most experience in the field of advertising. The company has no ranks in its structure, which is mainly based on teams and committees. The company also has a sophisticated information system that can be accessed by everybody in the core group.

After each assignment is completed, the team members set together for reflection. They make sure that the experience gained from the assignment is extracted, shared, and documented. The team learns how to better structure thinking, manage debate, activate participation, expose hidden assumptions, gain new knowledge, be acquainted with new industries, and so on. They revise their processes and outputs and try to discover weaknesses, gaps, and flaws in their working style, team structure, or relationship with clients. The company has a regular internal electronic publication it calls ‘The Pool’, where team members can present their thought, learned experiences, and ideas to share with the rest of the company.

The company’s strategic decisions are taken in general meetings coordinated by the company’s eldest member. The operational decisions are overseen by the committee of the current team coordinators. There are clear but simple policies and decision rules about how to make operational decisions to maintain consistency and to preserve the precious time of team coordinators. Strategic decisions are made by consensus whenever that is possible. When consensus is difficult to obtain in one session, another session is scheduled where arguments have to be presented, debated and then their merit is evaluated (by all members) using a scoring system from 1 (= weak) to 5 (= strong). The argument with the highest evaluation score will be wholeheartedly adopted by all.

The supporting contractual professional staff has a traditional pay policy unconditional upon the company’s performance. The core group pay, however, is based on performance of each member as evaluated by all members of the team. Each assignment’s revenue is divided into three parts: one third goes to the company’s account, one third is shared equally among the team members, and one third is allocated according to the contribution of each member as evaluated by the whole team.

Performance evaluation of Ideators is done by their teammates. Evaluation components are based on active and positive participation in clients’ assignments and in the running of the company’s affairs. These include skills such as initiative, creativity, debate, refutation, cooperation, knowledge sharing, the impartiality of judgment, and professionalism; and personal traits such as integrity, openness, responsiveness, sympathy, and willpower. There is a very strict exit policy. A team member who ranks last in evaluation in five consecutive times has to leave the company. Ranking last in performance in two consecutive times triggers an immediate inquiry into the reasons behind this ‘fatigue’. It also necessitates conducting what the company calls a ‘climbing’ session by all team members who offer help by sharing their experience and knowledge and by encouraging their teammate to climb back to high performance.

The company’s work culture and evaluation and support system succeed only on the basis of honesty, trust, and sheer candor (straightforwardness), traits that are at the heart of the hiring process of the company in addition to other competencies related to creative thinking and other soft skills. Members also have to possess strong characters to be able to withstand pressures, biases, and negative tendencies. These qualities are not easily found in many of the applicants who dream to join this company. Hiring is done by each team according to its own judgment but with non-binding consultation and coordination with other team coordinators. There is a well-established rule governing team size. When the size of a team exceeds 10 members it splits itself into two teams with each hiring new members if necessary. This is how new teams are formed out of current teams.

One of the company’s teams is currently working on a client’s assignment that requires the generation of ideas about how to increase sales of children’s games after the Eid season. A recently hired member of the team, known for his experience, knowledge, and creativity, has come with the following strategy:

• Make a strong advertisement campaign on TV channels watched widely by children to promote new games (reason: children will solicit promises from their parents to buy them these games in the Eid season).
• Supply limited numbers of these games to children’s toys stores and make available less attractive games (reason: children have to have games in the Eid season and when they cannot find their most desired ones they will ask their parents to buy them alternative games of equal value).
• Run the same strong advertisement campaign again after Eid season (reason: children will desire to have these games more than ever).
• Flood the children’s toy stores with these games (reason: children will remember their parents’ promises and pressure them to buy these games. Parents cannot refuse otherwise they look bad in the eyes of their children for not fulfilling their promises).

Please Answer the three questions below (be specific):

1. Assess the virtuousness of ThinkTank4U Company. (Virtue ethics, the focus on integrity the character not the act).
2. How ethical is the strategy suggested by one of the Ideators on how to increase sales of children’s games after Eid seasons? Base your evaluation on a specific ethical theory. (Choose one of theories: Utilitarian, deontological and justify)
3. How does the recently hired member of the team, who suggested the strategy, fit the culture of ThinkTank4U Company? Explain

What is the impact of PERT and CPM on global manufacturing and service based organizations?

• Increasing Global Competition