Enhancing your creativity:

While most companies value creative people, many people do not feel creative or have not used their creative talents in a long time. This project will help you focus on creativity and bring it into your everyday life. There are two parts to the project. 1) Discuss why creativity is an important part of decision-making. 2) Research two sources that describe how to become more creative. After reading these sources, describe five things you could do to enhance your creativity. Cite the two sources.

speech

What are some ways that you can establish credibility with your audience? Why is that important in your speech?

Your response should be more than 700 words. Thanks!

Question: According to your knowledge and opinion, identify and discuss TWO actors in the digital environment (e.g. technological forces, economic forces, social forces, legal forces, consumers) that may contribute to the current business success of Facebook.

Climate Change will have a disproportionate impact on developing countries.

a) Discuss what the particular impacts will be. (Hint: there are multiple

impacts.) Which region(s) will be impacted most and why?

b) What adaptation strategies do you recommend?

How do you see the cultural transformation for companies in South Africa?

Find an ad that you feel might mislead consumers through a claim-belief discrepancy. What inference processes are you assuming?

Please write down more than 300 words!

Using a personal example, explain how brand loyalty has relaxed your standards when it comes to claim-belief discrepancy. Explain the example, and the ultimate outcome - did you purchase the new product from your favorite brand? Why or why not?

Please write down more than 300 words

The text states, “Scientific management presented a system designed to control organizations and make them less wasteful and, as is often forgotten, more equitable in terms of work and reward. Scientific management appeared to offer a simple system of control, a one best way of managing, which is probably why so many managers adopted it gratefully”.

Discuss your thoughts if you feel ultimately scientific management has made organizations less wasteful or not.

Two of the key actors in the microenvironment

All organisations have competitors! or do they? Can you think of an organisation that does not have any competitors? (Hint: remember indirect competition!)

Explain

Your response should be more than 400 words. Thanks!

Question: Imagine you are Facebook’s marketing director, suggest ONE marketing strategy/action for the company to grasp growth potential in the next 12 months. Support your answer with examples.

how retail and consumer industry is prone to change in the next twenty years due to technological implementation. Technological innovation can posses a threat and and an opportunity for future business

Name 5 Ethical dilemmas facing smaller businesses? Why do you see these areas as a problem?

QUESTION FOUR [30]

Project supply chain management is a set of proactive responses to many challenges created by people from different organisations working together on projects. The project organisation may start with assessing the need to outsource part of the project work. Contracting is commonly used to specify and manage supplier-buyer relationships.

With reference to this:

4.1 Discuss the enablers of the purchasing and supply chain functions related to a project. (16)

4.2 Discuss the supplier evaluation and selection process. (14)

Marketing Plan

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.

Strengths: List the strengths of the business approach;

Weaknesses: Describe the areas of weakness in the company's operations;

Opportunities: Examine factors that may improve the business's chances of success;

Threats: List the external threats to the business' success.

5. Marketing Mix (4 P’s ) Analysis

Describe each of the 4Ps of your chosen company.

Product or Service

Identify the product or service by what it is, who will buy it, how much they will pay for it and how much it will cost for the company to produce it, why a consumer demand exists for your product, and where the product sits in comparison to similar products/services now available.

Place

Identify the location of the business, why it is located there (strategic, competitive, economic objectives), the expected methods of distribution, and timing objectives.

Promotion

Describe the type of promotional methods that will be used. Identify techniques such as word of mouth, personal selling, direct marketing, sales promotion etc. television, radio, social media and newspaper ads.

Price

The prices of the products or services that reflects the overall company strategy. Should be competitive as well as a reflection of the quality, costs and profit margin.