Considering the present extent of globalization and its impacts, using the case study as your starting point and upon doing further research, write an overview on what drivers cause an organization to undergo change management What are the factors that enable successful change management and can also cause its failures?

You just landed a Project Manager volunteer position for a non-profit organization. As they don’t know much about project management, they want your advice with a couple of things. Some of their sponsors are giving them money for buying materials and software. They trust you because you seem to know a lot about this, help them with the following recommendations:

1. Is it worth it to buy a PM software or to get a Free/Open source/Online version? Provide two reasons to justify your answer.
2. Find two suitable paid PM software and provide the cost of their licenses.
3. List three free PM software and mention their top three features.
4. What are those three functions/features, a software must have for you to like it?
5. There is money for one manual/book, what is your recommendation? And why?

Essay Topic: Impact of Coronavirus

Please discuss the recent pandemic COVID-19, aka the coronavirus. First give intel on the whole pandemic, explaining the root of the virus and how it got its way into the US, based on the updated news. Then talk about the various factors of the pandemic including the effects of it nationwide, especially the United States. Then organize the concerns into categories of food, economy, politics, race, and inequality. Explain each topic under the current pandemic.

• Use citations and references for the essay. Use APA 6th format

What quality control and improvement tool allows you to view a list of frequency of problems, sorted in descending order?

a)The fishbone diagram.

b)The control sheet.

c) The ABC classification.

d)The process flow diagram

1. What is BPM and is it relevant to health care?

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What role will Business Process Management play in the future to facilitate effective health care management?

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At what stage of the industry lifecycle is the new car industry in the United States? Defend your answer with data. What business strategies are appropriate strategies to use at this point in this industry lifecycle? Would your answers differ if you were analyzing the global new car industry (versus the U.S. industry)?

Subject is actually capstone strategic management but yet with operations management too, Thanks in advance to all

What can companies do to make women's career experiences better? What specific policies could be developed?

Hi, my name is Peter Metcalf. I'm the CEO and lead founder of Black Diamond. Very early on in the beginning of the company, the sports of climbing, mountaineering [inaudible] skiing were relatively small at that time. They've grown dramatically. However, if you aggregated the global demand for that product, then you could have a fairly meaningful business. I recognize that to be competitive, to do what we really wanted to do, we had to think globally. It was going to be about finding these global markets through finding other people who shared our passion, who were young, embryonic businesspeople in many cases who wanted to get into the business because they shared that passion, they knew the markets, they knew the space, and could develop a business as a distributer for us. And as time went on, we did begin to recognize that nobody really cares about Black Diamond as much as Black Diamond people do. And for that reason, we would have to take charge ultimately of the businesses that we were, the business we were conducting overseas through independent distributers. And there was also a recognition that, to be the same brand in Europe or in Asia as we were in North America, we would have to be something slightly different because of cultural values, cultural interpretations.

>> My name is Thomas Hodel. I'm from Switzerland. Born in Lausen. Doing outdoor sports were, was always a big part of my life, so a big passion of me, and that's why I'm here working at Black Diamond sharing that passion. And I have two roles at the moment. On a global view, I'm responsible for all the ski categories, so together with team here, we define strategies and directions for all the categories which belong to the ski side. And then, in Europe, I'm the European category director, so the role there is to make sure whatever we do here works also in Europe and the European needs are covered. It takes a long time to really figure out the differences in Europe, and it's, every country has a different culture, mentality. Having that European perspective, I think that that's definitely asset I can bring into this company and help this company to become more global, to address those needs better.

>> My name is Wim de Jager. Actually pronounced as Wim de Jager, but that's difficult. So Wim de Jager. I go with Wim de Jager. I'm the VP of manufacturing here at Black Diamond. Our business is really global. Our customers are global. And our manufacturing is definitely global as well. So, yeah, we own our own factory in Zhuhai. Products that we assemble and produce in the factory in Zhuhai are also part of this protective products that we use that are being used in climbing and in mountaineering, so the quality needs to be good. But also, we want to ensure that's being done in a good way. So we control it from start to finish, which means how we treat the people, how we manufacture, and how we run the organization, that we ensure that everything is done in the right way.

>> But more importantly, we have a certification and compliance process. We have auditors that go into these factories. We have a very strict guideline of ethical sourcing requirements. So we check these factories. We're not at some sweatshop. Factories that we're in, like, I think an apparel factory we're in in Bangladesh, the people get three meals a day. There's health care. There's English language. There's money for additional education. It's well ventilated, well lit. It's clean. It's safe. Because that's very important to us and 
what our values are.

1. When CEO says their manufacturing operations aren’t sweatshops, Black Diamond is exhibiting

A. Uncertainty avoidance

B. Global perspective

C. Social responsibility

D. Globalization

2. Peter Metcalf founded Black Diamond which creates, produces, and sells outdoor equipment. This is an example of

A. Manufacturing Organization

B. Service Organization

C. A tiered workforce

D. Outsourcing

3. Assume you are the CEO of Black Diamond, a global organization. You realize that some of the people in your organization are more comfortable working in a strong hierarchy while others prefer to work more like colleagues with their managers than as leaders. You have a project that requires highly structured reporting relationships with a clear hierarchy because it is a joint venture project. You believe people from some cultures may not feel comfortable with such a strong hierarchical relationship. In this case, you might seek to put people on the project who are from a (BLANK) country.

A. High Assertiveness

B. High Collectivism

C. High Power Distance

D. High uncertainty avoidance

Were there likely competing commitments with the company Zappos? Please explain and give a couple of examples. The article below will help answer the question but feel free to use any information you know about the company Zappos or any outside resources.

Zappos (www.zappos.com) is a Las Vegas-based online retailer that has been cited in fortune's list of the Best Companies to Work for and Fast Company's list of the world's most innovative company.

The company's first core value is "deliver through service," which is obvious if you've ever ordered from Zappos. It provides free shipping in both directions on all purchases. It often gives customers surprise upgrades for faster shipping. And it has a 365-day return policy.

Zappos uses a sophisticated computer system known as Genghis to manage its operations. This includes an order entry, purchasing, warehouse, management, inventory, shipping, and e-commerce system. For employees, it automatically sends daily e-mail reminders to call a customer back, coordinates the warehouse robot system, and produces reports that can specifically assess the impact on margins of putting a particular item on sale.

Free shipping has become a customer expectation. Other online retailers have copied the free-shipping policies of Zappos.

1. A local hardware store owner is preparing an annual advertising budget for his firm. While doing so, he considers his competitors' budgets as benchmarks and uses them to make specific allocations to the promotion mix in his budget. He believes that other established hardware firms in the industry know what they are doing and have goals similar to his. Based on these factors, which of the following methods for establishing an advertising budget is he most likely to use?

   		The all-you-can-afford approach
   		The task approach
   		The competitive parity approach
   		The research approach

What are the differences between social contextual learning and guided competency development? Are both types of learning (and associated training methods) necessary? Explain.

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