Analyze how TV, radio, yellow pages, newspaper, magazines, and the Internet can complement each other in promoting, in the state of North Carolina, the market-leading company of any industry that you are most interested to study.

Please (a) in any industry of your own selection, please identify a dilemma involving the use of overseas suppliers in a US company’s supply chain. The dilemma has to involve a difficult decision where it is hard to please both investors and customers; (b) discuss your alternatives to solve the dilemma; (c) recommend the best alternative; (d) explain why the recommendation provides a comprise that manages to make, to a reasonable degree even though not perfectly, both investors and customers happy.

Select what you think is the proper blending of promotion methods in the state of North Carolina for the market-leading company in any industry of your own choice.

Rank the four customer service factors (time, dependability, communication, and convenience) from most important to least important from customers’ point of view in any industry of your own selection.

Why is it important to remember that even the bad management that you experience can teach you things, even if it's what not to do.

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Managers use the planning process to set objectives and identify how to achieve them. What are good objectives in the first three years after graduation? How do you plan to achieve them?

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In any industry of your own selection, please describe the breadth of the market-leading company’s product line (broad versus narrow) and the amount of value added (low versus high

Transport plays an essential role in the supply chain and when managed properly can allow supply chains to work more efficiently and effectively. Determine the modal split for freight in South Africa. Provide reasons for the choice of the mode with the highest split.

1. Define the decision variables.
2. Define the objective function.
3. Define the constraints.
4. Determine an optimal solution.

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Hard data is a verifiable fact that is acquired from reliable sources. It implies data that is directly measurable, factual and indisputable. Some of the benefits of hard data are reliability, value add, prediction, and accuracy. Hard research is the gathering of numerical and demographic data which helps determine who the customers are and what they want, when they want it and how they want the product or service. Hard data describes the types of data that are generated from devices and applications such as phones, computers, smart meters, traffic monitoring systems and bank transactions. These things and this information can be measured, traced and validated. Hard data is for companies that only depend on analytics and they are used by technical savy companies. An example of hard data would be a medical study on the results of testing. Soft data is based on qualitative information such as a rating, survey or poll. It implies that the data has been collected from qualitative observations and quantified. Sometimes one might think that soft data is not reliable, but it really is. In many cases, the best data available is soft data such as customer satisfaction and product reviews. Some of the benefits of using soft data are, direct response, saves cost and time, genuine feed backs are possible, and data can not be manipulated and is reliable. Soft data is usually preferred for small business cases and projects while hard data's are required for huge businesses. An example of soft data would be to get the patients to rate their symptoms.

What are the 4P's of creativity techniques?

Explain the origin of the 4P's. Give some examples how we can apply it into our work.

What is SCAMPER creativity technique?

How can we apply it to our work?

Give some origin and examples of SCAMPER