1. What is business sustainability?

2. Five ways to sustain in competitive market .Explain and give examples for each way in paragraph

2.How competitive markets affect business sustainability .(essay and give example.

In developing countries some of the working conditions are poor in comparison to the United States. Companies such as Nike go overseas to find affordable labor and supply costs. What would you do as a CEO of a company, such as Nike, to aid in improving the welfare of these countries?

Please don't copy and paste answers from several sources. Write in your own words!

1. Do you feel teams help or hurt creativity? Give specific examples.
2. How should you handle a freeloader (someone not willing to do their share of the work) on a team where you are a member? Be specific.
3. For an organization where you have worked, list three ways the organization helped you do your job. (This can be any type of organization if you have never worked.)
4. For an organization where you have worked, list three ways the organization kept you from doing as good a job as you would have liked.
5. Choose a public figure, past or present, and explain what you admired about their leadership style.

How has big data impacted entrepreneurship?

How should an entrepreneur develop their marketing plan?

What can an entrepreneur do to prepare for “newness”?

Why did companies like Dunkin Donuts with India and Taco Bell with Saudi Arabia fail in their international expansion efforts? How can companies ensure a successful expansion into new countries/cities?

Why is it so difficult to attain a patent?

GLOBAL BUSINESS AND STRATEGY

Impact of Culture on Business – Deloitte Insights The importance of culture is readily apparent when things go wrong. When two large companies merged last year, for example, it became clear that one company had a culture of “low cost” while the other had a culture of “quality service.” Employees received mixed signals for months until the new management team took the time to carefully diagnose and redefine many business processes throughout the company. Given the importance of culture and the consequences of cultural issues, many companies are proactively defining culture and issuing culture “manifestos.” The Netflix culture presentation, often used as an example, has been downloaded more than 12 million times since 2009. The presentation clearly describes a culture that combines high expectations with an engaging employee experience: Generous corporate perks such as unlimited vacation, flexible work schedules, and limited supervision balance a strong focus on results with freedom and appreciation for the expected achievement. The financial services industry, still restoring its brand after the 2008 financial crisis, is sharply focused on culture. One organization is using a variety of initiatives to help employees understand “how the bank does business,” including offering speaker series on topics such as compensation packages, customer satisfaction, and maintaining regulatory standards. Citigroup has an entire committee focused on ethics and culture and has implemented a series of web-based videos detailing real workplace ethical dilemmas. Bank of MODULE

America is focusing its corporate culture transformation on encouraging employees to report and escalate issues or concerns, as well as incorporating a risk “boot camp” into their current training. Wells Fargo is increasing its efforts to gather employee survey feedback to understand current trends and potential areas of weakness in its culture. A new industry of culture assessment tools has emerged, enabling companies to diagnose their culture using a variety of well-established models. Yet despite the prevalence of these tools, fewer than 12 percent of companies believe they truly understand their culture. That’s where HR can help. As businesses try to understand and improve their culture, HR’s role is to improve the ability to curate and shape culture actively. An organization’s capabilities to understand and pull the levers of culture change can be refined and strengthened. HR has a natural role to play in both efforts. As operations become more distributed and move to a structure of “networks of teams,” culture serves to bind people together and helps people communicate and collaborate. When managed well, culture can drive execution and ensure business consistency around the world. HR has an opportunity to assume the role of champion, monitor, and communicator of culture across, and even outside, the organization. Once culture is clearly described, it defines who the company hires, who gets promoted, and what behaviours will be rewarded with compensation or promotion. Nordstrom has formed a People Lab Science Team in an effort to define and curate a culture that will attract top talent and enable the retailer to compete with tech companies such as Tableau and Microsoft. The team takes a multidisciplinary approach to designing programs to define and reinforce Nordstrom’s culture. Starbucks analyzed thousands of social media entries to gain an objective view of its culture through the eyes of its employees and take specific actions to reinforce its cultural strengths and address cultural weaknesses. Securitas Belgium has defined the behaviors associated with its vision for culture, performed an analysis of its current state, and developed a detailed, measurable change plan for 150 of its managers. Software giant SAS was recently rated the best place to work by the Great Place to Work Institute. It is also highly successful, with 37 consecutive years of record earnings (it earned $2.8 billion in 2012). SAS has identified trust as a critical cultural attribute and regularly surveys its employees on elements of trust: communication, respect, transparency, and being treated as a human being. Once an organization develops a clear understanding of its culture and decides on a direction for cultural change, it is critical to move rapidly from analysis to action. Moving from talking to doing is the only way to build
momentum.

Question 1) How do you see the cultural transformation for companies in South Africa? Comment.

Question 2) Discuss the role of Religion and Education in modern business transformation with appropriate examples.

Explain the following external factors that need to take into consideration due the arrival of 4IR:

a) International job and labor market

b) Internet and digital bandwidth

c) Social network and literacy

d) Gender and interest levels

e) Other factors such as natural calamities, political unrest and hot spots

1. How can an imitation strategy be effectively implemented? Give an example.

2. What are the pros and cons of running a franchise?

3. Describe the skills and personality traits of a successful entrepreneur.

What Are the Four Elements of Supply Chain Management?

QDM Question 2 There are 6 cities in Kilroy County.  The county must determine where to build central fire stations.  The county wants to build the minimum number of central fire stations needed to ensure that at least two fire stations are within 20 minutes (driving time) of each city.  The times (in minutes) required to drive between the cities in Kilroy County are given in the table. Formulate a model that will tell Kilroy how many fire stations should be built and where they should be located.

Decision variables (1 mark):

Objective function (1 mark):

Constraints :

Additional constraint : Either City 1 or City 2 (or both) must be selected to build a fire station in if both City 3 and City 4 are selected to build fire stations in.

1) What is the importance of positive messaging? How can you convey positive messages about yourself in your professional communications? In your Final Portfolio? Share a tactic you can use to improve your positive messaging or tone?

Given the data set below, calculate the standard deviation

standard deviation using the defining formula

standard deviation using the computing formula

8,41,24,19,15,12,47,12,33

Think of all the examples of forecasting that is experience on a regular basis; such as the weatherman on TV each night. Now, considering the technology we have at our disposal today, why can't we get a "Perfect" forecast?

*NOTE: I don't really know what subject this would be considered. It's from my business law class.

Outsourcing specialized operational tasks has become a common practice. When outsourcing involves the transfer of personal information, issues of security and privacy are raised. Customers may consent to the collection of personal data without realizing that their information could be shared with another company located halfway around the world and subject to different disclosure and protection rules. In recognition of international privacy concerns, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) created guidelines to enhance privacy protection during trans-border data exchanges. Guideline 10 suggests that personal data should not be used or disclosed without the consent of the owner or authority of law.

Canadian outsourcing to the United States has become even more controversial since the enactment of the USA PATRIOT Act.15 This legislation allows US law-enforcement officials to obtain personal records or information from any source in the country without the data owner knowing. As a result, there have been several Canadian challenges of personal data outsourcing to the United States. In B.C.G.E.U. v. British Columbia (Minister of Health), union members argued that the Ministry of Health was violating patients’ rights to privacy under section 7 of the Charter by outsourcing physician billing data that contained personal patient information to a private U.S. company.16 The BC Supreme Court disagreed, holding that as long as the contractual arrangement authorized under the Canada Health Act ensured that a reasonable expectation of privacy was protected, the practice was acceptable. Since then BC., Nova Scotia, and Alberta passed legislation that restricts public (not private) sector trans-border outsourcing.17

The Privacy Commissioner rejected a similar complaint against the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. The bank outsourced the processing of credit card transactions to an American company. The specific confidentiality and security contained in the outsourcing agreement were approved by the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, and this satisfied the Commissioner. Both decisions turned on the specific terms of the outsourcing agreement and prior regulatory approval of the terms.

When considering sending sensitive information across the border and outsourcing to American firms, businesses should:

• Undertake a security analysis of the American company prior to contracting;

• Inform the affected customer data owner;

• Include specific confidentiality, security, and reporting provisions in the outsourcing agreement;

• Seek regulatory approval of the agreement, if available; and

• Regularly audit the privacy practices of the outsourcing company.

Increased privacy concerns can be anticipated as the transnational public cloud computing industry replaces user owned software, desks, and laptops as the primary custodians of personal information. “By 2017, enterprise spending on cloud computing will amount to a projected $235.1 billion, triple the $78.2 billion spent in 2011. ….(in 2014) global business spending for infrastructure and services related to

the cloud will reach an estimated $174.2 billion, up 20 percent from the amount spent in 2013.”

Question (1): Are there certain types of information that should remain within Canadian borders? If Canadian data is at greater risk of disclosure when transferred to the United States, why not ban all public and private outsourcing to the United States? Discuss.

Question (2): How can personal information be protected when stored on a transnational cloud server?