Brazil as a country

what factors they believe are responsible for the values held by the people

what has caused or allowed them to endure over time.

Are there any changes taking place currently that are affecting these values?

If so, what kind of changes are happening?

How are they impacting established values?

What are these changes being made?

Discuss ways cultural values will impact the organizational, judicial, political, economic, and/or social systems

State some key cultural components/values of the country, Explain how doing business in this country would vary based on these key cultural components/values.

What can you recommend helping prepare employees to work effectively in brazil

Pawan Gupta was worried. He had just been appointed the head of the knowledge management (KM) team at a leading analytics firm, Insights Global Analytics, in May 2019. Before he became head of the KM team, Gupta led the global-level corporate KM initiative at a leading knowledge process outsourcing service provider. Before that, he was a KM technologist at a global management consulting firm, where he developed Web-based knowledge maps, search tools, and custom KM tools. Insights Global Analytics handled many internal analytics processes and projects. Most of its projects required extensive domain and statistical expertise to provide meaningful insights to clients. Employees with prior analytics experience had skill-sets, techniques and heuristics that could be utilized for other projects. Likewise, analysts and consultants working on business research projects had strong domain knowledge about the various technological trends acquired over a long time. They could decipher the story and signals behind the numbers stored in various databases. However, sometimes one team did not know about the rich skills possessed by another team, thus forcing them to rely on a less-than-optimal skill set.
To address this issue, the top leadership team envisaged creating a KM platform that could be used to promote a knowledge-sharing culture within Insights Global Analytics. However, the leadership team was not sure about the technological options that could achieve this objective. Different technological options had different functionalities, benefits and costs of ownership. Gupta’s main challenge was to select technological options that would help to create a cost-effective and successful KM platform.

Accordingly, Gupta began establishing a KM platform for Insights Global Analytics. He gave himself three months to assess the various technological options and then present his assessment to the top leadership team. With the team’s approval, Gupta would establish an integrated KM, information and communication program. The program would be limited to a few teams initially before it was extended to the entire organization. Later, computers and tablets division, printers division, corporate marketing and data center business by analyzing and interpreting organizational data to facilitate data-driven decision making. It was the analytics unit of one of the world’s largest technology companies by revenue, and was among the world’s top 50 valuable brands. Insights Global Analytics had 700 employees, mostly PhDs, MBAs, chartered accountants and statisticians from premier educational institutes in India and overseas for solving problems related to business decisions, planning, business intelligence optimization, supply chain planning, Web analytics and marketing strategy support.
The success of any analytics project was dependent on providing quality insights based on the data analyzed. Depending on the complexity of a business question, teams worked together to integrate statistical and business knowledge and to deliver meaningful insights. The top leadership of Insights Global Analytics, being an internal analytics unit in the knowledge-intensive sector, knew that it had the employees and knowledge base to stay ahead of stiff competition from alternatives such as third-party vendors that might handle the outsourced analytics work; however, the company lacked an effective avenue for sharing knowledge across teams. Without a platform for sharing, employees faced difficulty in identifying which teams or individuals could help them.
Insights Global Analytics also handled many processes using data to provide regular insights into markets, products and business operations. Employees involved in the processes had

developed strong domain-specific knowledge and skills, such as automation to: reduce turnaround time, minimize errors in data analysis and reporting, and improve productivity; however, when they transitioned to new roles, the company often lost the employees’ automation and domain-specific knowledge crucial to interpreting data and to employees working on other teams. Daily operations showed the need for a platform for sharing knowledge.
Insights Global Analytics extensively used statistical tools such as Excel, JMP and SAS, and statistical techniques such as market-basket analysis and time-series analysis. As the use of advanced statistical tools and techniques was rarely taught in schools, many of the analysts who joined Insights Global Analytics were interested in learning these advanced tools. As such, top management felt that a KM program was useful as a platform for employees because it would allow them to post their learning queries to the statistical experts in the unit more efficiently.
Gupta came to Insights Global Analytics with a mandate to initiate a KM program platform that would facilitate the sharing and documentation of organization-wide knowledge. He realized that the market had abundant KM tools to use for documentation but the success of the KM program depended on whether employees perceived the knowledge sharing as useful — and even fun — rather than as an additional burden. Gupta favored using unconventional approaches to KM implementation to include abundant tacit knowledge pertaining to analytics techniques used for different processes and projects. In addition, conventional approaches would encounter difficulty in documenting many of the heuristics involved in analytics procedures. The Insights Global Analytics workforce was highly skilled in terms of educational qualifications and domain knowledge. If the KM program solely focused on documenting the underlying knowledge, it would use a technical jargon familiar to specific domain specialists only.

Employees who worked in other domains or who had other skill-sets would find the program incomprehensible, so its utility would be restricted to team boundaries. Hence, the KM platform would fail to achieve the primary purpose of enabling knowledge sharing across teams.
Gupta’s major challenge was to select cost-effective technologies that would facilitate and promote knowledge sharing. He worked with Arun Sharma, a technical leader who had experience in Microsoft SharePoint, wikis, blogs and content management. Aware that Insights Global Analytics had high expectations from the KM program, Gupta and Sharma pondered their various technological options. With a few members of the leadership team and middle management, they brainstormed and identified three broad options: (1) technologies already used in the organization; (2) open source solutions; and (3) paid KM solutions. But at the same time, both of them somehow feel that we have reduced the KM issue to a mere technical issue. We are only discussing the functionalities of platforms and their cost of ownership. We are confused about how these technological options by themselves will encourage the sharing of knowledge. We must think beyond the platform and consider a mix of options and initiatives that will foster a knowledge-sharing culture.

3. Do you think Insights Global Analytics knows professional usage of statistical and data management tools? Justify. (CLO#6)
4. What did Gupta and Arun Sharma identified regarding KM techniques after brainstorming with members of leadership? (CLO#6)
5. Overall, what did you learn from this case study based on Knowledge Management techniques? (CLO#6)

You’ve joined GoPro’s community engagement team, and your job involves a variety of communication tasks across multiple channels. Use what you’ve learned in the course so far to solve these communication dilemmas.

1. You’ve written a blog post for a competition called “Catch Something Amazing,” in which GoPro users can submit “unplanned and unrehearsed” footage of events, performances, or other bits of action they just happen to stumble across while out and about with the GoPro cameras. Which of the following tweets is the best teaser to encourage people to click through to the blog post to read more about the competition?

a. You’ve just caught something amazing on camera—don’t hoard it; share it!

b. We’re not interested in the same old boring stuff. If you caught something amazing, we want to see it.

c. Did you catch something amazing with your GoPro? Enter to win $500 worth of equipment accessories.

d. Enter to win. Competition limited to GoPro users only (any model).

You have just begun work at XYZ Manufacturing Company. Among its benefits offerings is a generous qualified 401(k) plan with an employer match. In 2015, your annual salary is $45,000 and you are age 55. You’ve decided to contribute 10 percent of your annual salary to your 401(k) plan even though the Internal Revenue Service allows you to contribute up to $24,000 in 2015 ($18,000 plus a $6,000 catch up contribution for employees age 50 or more). The annual addition is $53,000.

Questions: 9-9. How much more money would you need to contribute to meet the allowable maximum contribution?

9-10. In 2015, the company offers a $0.75 match for each dollar that you contribute between 3 percent and 6 percent of your annual salary. How much is the company match based on your 10 percent contribution?

9-11. Based on the sum of your answers to questions 9-9 and 9-10, what is the difference between the IRS maximum annual addition for 2015 and the total contribution to your 401(k) plan?

Background
Amanda is the owner of CatsCafé located in Timmins, Ontario. In addition to the owner, CatsCafé employs 16 individuals (4 full-time (2 are managers) and 12 part-time). The café serves coffee, tea, soups, sandwiches and desserts. It has a small eat-in area for roughly 30 patrons. Amanda has heard about corporate social responsibility and that it is important but she doesn’t know much about it so she has come to you for advice.

Questions
1. Amanda doesn’t know what it means to implement a CSR strategy. What do you tell her?
2. What considerations should CatsCafé use when implementing its CSR strategy?
3. What knowledge and skills do the employees of CatsCafé need to implement CSR initiatives?
4. Amanda doesn’t know how the CSR initiative should be communicated. What do you advise?
5. Amanda doesn’t know what a CSR evaluation is. What do you tell her? Why are CSR evaluations important?

ABC Company a Northwest manufacturer makes woman’s shoes, for which demand is highly seasonal. The company has experienced difficulty in making accurate forecasts. The following table gives the quantity of hose sold by quarters in the last three years.   

Demand Quarter 1998 1999 2000 I 540 590 649 II 70 72 82 III 110 126 130 IV 443 460 510

Decompose the data series into trend and seasonal factors and make forecasts for each quarter in 2001

I need to prepare a budget for a one-day vaccine clinic at the outdoor parking lot with a booth on a basic spreadsheet with these things itemized in each budget.

1)The mission of the vaccine clinic and its target market - the same for both.

2)Budgets $ for staffing this clinic and the hours it will be open - detail needed on types of staff, salaries, wages, hours of the clinic.

3)Budgets for supplies - detail of items needs, cost and volumes needed.

4)Budget for marketing expenses to reach the target population - detail needed for costs and why these expenses are needed

No other information provided, I need to pick my own numbers and create the budget from scratch

Thanks

Brief two cases--

One that predates the ACA, and

One after ACA’s passage, that demonstrates the importance of compliance with these laws:

Stark Law, Anti-Kickback Statute, Fraud, Waste, and Abuse claims for all applicable violations of CMS, False Claims Act.

describe the challenges managers face in today's business environment.

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A department has five employees and five jobs have been received which must be assigned to the employees for completion. The time (in hours) each person will take to complete each job is given in the table below. Assign the jobs so as to minimize the total number of man-hours required to complete the jobs. Identify the optimal assignments and compute the total minimum time required to complete

all jobs.                                                                                                                                  

Under which situations Earnings Per share goes up and stock price goes down ?

Try to find different reports on the same issue; e.g., results of political trends or opinions as reported by different news sources. For example, you might see a news segment on public opinion toward social security reform reported by CNN and by Fox news. If the survey opinions differ, think about why these results were different. For example, were the questions on one of the surveys biased, or was the sample appropriate, etc.

Q.1) Why is writing a business plan a critical step in starting a new business?

Q.2) What are the advantages of buying a business rather than starting one from scratch?

Q.3) What things should you consider when evaluating a franchise agreement?

Social Media: Foursquare is one of the leading providers of location-based social networking services. Millions of people use Foursquare for social engagement and friendly competition, and many business owners are starting to recognize the marketing potential of having people who are on the move in local areas broadcasting their locations and sharing information about stores, restaurants, clubs, and other merchants.

Your task: Review the information on Foursquare’s Merchant Platform. Now write four brief messages, no more than 140 characters long (including spaces). The first should summarize the benefits to stores, restaurants, and other brick-and-mortar businesses of participating in Foursquare, and the next three messages should convey three compelling points that support that overall benefit statement.

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