It has been said that the importance of the sales force varies at different stages in the communication hierarchies. Discuss this idea, providing examples to support your position. in 250 -350 words please

Discuss the importance of SCM for Travelfast. Evaluate few SCM solutions available, and suggest which solution would be appropriate for Travelfast. What are some of the possible challenges Travelfast will face in implementing for adoption of SCM in Travelfast.travel fast is an imaginary based on transport company this is for essay so provide a long answer

I have to write 2500 words so could you plz provide like around 1500 words answer it would be great

We can use the generic strategies to combat four of Porter's Five Competitive Forces. The four are rivalry, threat, of substitutes, buyer power, and entry barriers. Can you explain the connection between business level strategies and these forces?

The signature of each function is provided below, do not make any changes to them otherwise the tester will not work properly. The following are the functions you must implement:

mashup(lst) [20pts]

Description: Creates a new string that is based on the provided list. Each number in the list specifies how many characters from the string that follows belong in the resulting string. Parameters: lst is a list of variable size, that contains alternating ints and strings Assumptions: When a pair of values doesn’t make sense, throw out that pair. When you have an empty string in the list, move on to the next pair. When you have a number that is larger than the length of the string, move on to the next pair, etc. Return value: the new string that is generated from the replacements Examples: mashup([2, 'abc', 1, 'def']) → 'abd' mashup([3, 'rate', 2, 'inside', 1, 'goat']) → 'rating'

expand(numbers, amount) [20pts]

Description: Given a list of numbers it returns that same list that has been expanded with a certain amount of zeroes around all of the numbers, including at the beginning and end of the list. Parameters: numbers is a list of mixed int and float Assumptions: You will always have at least one element in numbers. amount will be >= 0 Return value: Nothing is returned. The swapping occurs in-place, i.e. you modify numbers itself Examples: ls = [1,2,3] expand(ls, 1) # nothing is returned! print(ls) # prints [0,1,0,2,0,3,0] ls = [1.5, -6, 4, 0] expand(ls, 2) # nothing is returned! print(ls) # prints [0, 0, 1.5, 0, 0, -6, 0, 0, 4, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]

Assumptions for the following two problems: There will be at least one row and one column in the matrix. All rows will have the same number of elements.

squarify(matrix) [25pts]

Description: Determine the size of the largest square that can be made with the given matrix. Construct a new square matrix of this size using the elements from the original matrix in their original order. Parameters: matrix (list of lists of int) Return value: A new matrix (list of lists of int) Examples: ls = [[1,2,3,4],[5,6,7,8],[9,10,11,12]] new_ls = squarify(ls) print(new_ls) # prints [[1, 2, 3], [5, 6, 7], [9, 10, 11]]

apply(mask, matrix) [25pts]

Description: Given a matrix, apply the mask. The matrix is some MxN list of list of ints, and the mask is exactly a 2x2 list of lists of ints. Imagine you overlay the mask on top of the matrix, starting from the top left corner. There will be 4 places that overlap. Add each pair of numbers that are overlapped, and update the original matrix with this new value. Shift the mask down the row of the matrix to the next 2x2 that hasn't been updated already, and continue this process. Keep doing this down the columns as well. If you are on an edge and only a piece of the mask overlaps, you can ignore the other numbers and only update the overlapping portion. Parameters: matrix (MxN list of list of ints) and mask (2x2 list of list of ints) Return value: Nothing is returned. The updating occurs in-place, i.e. you modify matrix itself Examples: ls = [[1,2],[3,4]] apply([[1,1],[1,1]], ls) # nothing is returned! print(ls) # prints [[2, 3], [4, 5]] ls = [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9]] apply([[1,1],[1,1]], ls) # nothing is returned! print(ls) # prints [[2, 3, 4], [5, 6, 7], [8, 9, 10]] ls = [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9], [10, 11, 12]] apply([[1,0],[0,1]], ls) # nothing is returned! print(ls) # prints [[2, 2, 4], [4, 6, 6], [8, 8, 10], [10, 12, 12]]

Polaski Company manufactures and sells a single product called a Ret. Operating at capacity, the company can produce and sell 48,000 Rets per year. Costs associated with this level of production and sales are given below:

The Rets normally sell for $48 each. Fixed manufacturing overhead is $336,000 per year within the range of 38,000 through 48,000 Rets per year.

Required:

1. Assume that due to a recession, Polaski Company expects to sell only 38,000 Rets through regular channels next year. A large retail chain has offered to purchase 10,000 Rets if Polaski is willing to accept a 16% discount off the regular price. There would be no sales commissions on this order; thus, variable selling expenses would be slashed by 75%. However, Polaski Company would have to purchase a special machine to engrave the retail chain’s name on the 10,000 units. This machine would cost $20,000. Polaski Company has no assurance that the retail chain will purchase additional units in the future. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of accepting the special order? (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places.)

2. Refer to the original data. Assume again that Polaski Company expects to sell only 38,000 Rets through regular channels next year. The U.S. Army would like to make a one-time-only purchase of 10,000 Rets. The Army would pay a fixed fee of $1.80 per Ret, and it would reimburse Polaski Company for all costs of production (variable and fixed) associated with the units. Because the army would pick up the Rets with its own trucks, there would be no variable selling expenses associated with this order. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of accepting the U.S. Army's special order?

3. Assume the same situation as described in (2) above, except that the company expects to sell 48,000 Rets through regular channels next year. Thus, accepting the U.S. Army’s order would require giving up regular sales of 10,000 Rets. Given this new information, what is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of accepting the U.S. Army's special order?

Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to keep leap tall buildings in a single bound. The infant of Krypton is now the Man of Steel: Superman!

a) Given what you know about Superman from this description, estimate the maximum speed with which he can jump. State explicitly your assumptions and any limitations of your model, and comment on the result. If you decide to use the acceleration due to gravity, you may estimate a value of g=10 m/s^2. Note, the empire state building is approx. 450 m to the tip of the spire.

The current price of a stock is $65.88. If dividends are expected to be $1 per share for the next five years, and the required return is 10%, then what should the price of the stock be in 5 years when you plan to sell it? If the dividend and required returns remained the same; and the stock price is expected to increase by $1 five years from now, does the current stock price also increase by $1? Why or why not?

I only need d) to be solved, thanks

(a) Derive the answer to price of the stock in 5 years (i.e. Find: Ps.) The question does not specify expected dividends or the required rate of return for beyond five years. Assume that following the fifth year (i.e. in the 6th year) that dividends grow at a constant rate forever and that the required rate of return remains at 10%

b) Find the growth rate of dividends that is consistent with your answer in part (a) to Ps. (Hint: use the Gordon growth model.) Now suppose instead that Ps-101.

c) What is the price of the stock today? Finally, suppose that dividends stay at S1 forever.

d）Unlike question b) above, consider a “two-stage Gordon growth model” where the growth rate of dividends is greater than required rate of return over the first five years. As before, suppose D1 =1 and ke =.1. However, now dividends grow from year 1 until year 5 at 20%, and after year 5 they stop growing. What is the price of the stock today?

1. Write down an algorithm in pseudo-code whose running time where input is an array whose length defines the problem size. Take the cost of execution of each line of the algorithm as 1.

2. Make comment about the following paragraph:

“You are given two independent algorithms and whose running time complexities are and , respectively. If we add a new line to our algorithm in which it calls the algorithm then the running time complexity of the modified algorithm becomes ”.

1. What will print?
int[][] numbers = { { 1, 2, 3, 4 },{ 5, 6, 7, 8 },{ 9, 10, 11, 12 } };
System.out.println(numbers[1][3]);

a) 13

b) 4

c) 8

d) 12

2. With what value does currYear = yearsArr[2] assign currYear?
int[ ] yearsArr = new int[4];
yearsArr[0] = 1999;
yearsArr[1] = 2012;
yearsArr[2] = 2025;         

a) 4

b) 1999

c) 2012

d) 2025

3. What will print?
String [][] names = { { "Elliot", "Darlene", "Angela", "Tyrell" },
{ "Joanna", "Phillip", "Tomero", "Trenton" },
{ "Mobley", "Whiterose", "Cisco", "Leon", "Mr. Robot" } };
System.out.println(names[2][4]);

a) Elliot

b) Angela

c) Joanna

d) Mr. Robot

4. What will print?
int[][] myNumbers = { {1, 2, 3, 4}, {5, 6, 7, 8}, {1, 2, 3, 4} };
int x = myNumbers[2][2];
System.out.println(x);

a) 5

b) 3

c) 7

d) 8

5. What will print?
int[][] myNumbers = { {1, 2, 3, 4}, {5, 6, 7, 8} };
int x = myNumbers[1][2];
System.out.println(x);

a) 5

b) 3

c) 7

d) 8

Consider two sets of integers represented in arrays, X = [x1, x2, . . . , xn] and Y =
[y1, y2, . . . , yn]. Write two versions of a FindSetUnion(X, Y ) algorithm to find the union of X
and Y as an array. An element is in the union of X and Y if it appears in at least one of X and Y .
You may make use any algorithm introduced in the lectures to help you develop your solution. That
is, you do not have to write the ‘standard’ algorithms – just use them. Therefore, you should be able
to write each algorithm in about 10 lines of code. You must include appropriate comments
in your pseudocode.

question:

(a) [2 Marks] Write a pre-sorting based algorithm of FindSetUnion(X, Y ). Your algorithm
should strictly run in O(n log n).
(b) [2 Marks] Write a Hashing based algorithm of FindSetUnion(X, Y ). Your algorithm should
run in O(n).

Devos Inc. is building a hotel. It will have 4 kinds of rooms: suites where customers can smoke, suites that are non-smoking, budget rooms where the customers can smoke, and budget rooms that are non-smoking. When we build the hotel, we need to plan for how many rooms of each type we should have. The following are requirements for the hotel:

1. We want to figure out how many rooms of each type to build based on maximizing revenue if we fill up the hotel. We expect to charge $190 for a suite that is non-smoking and $140 for a budget room that is non-smoking. Smoking room customers for both suites and budget rooms will have to pay an additional $20 per night.
2. We can spend up to $7,500,000 on construction of our hotel. The cost to build a non-smoking budget room is $12,000. The cost to build a non-smoking suite is $15,000. It is $3,000 additional for a smoking room of either type for smoke detectors and sprinklers.
3. We require that the number of budget rooms be at least 1.5 times the number of suites, but no more than 3 the number of suites.
4. There needs to be at least 80 suites, but no more than 200.
5. Industry trends recommend that smoking rooms should be less than 50% of the non-smoking room and in addition, we require our builder gives us at least 4 smoking rooms.

Discuss the meaning of 'COMPLETE INFORMATION' in the context of the 'Prisoner's Dilemma'.

• Discuss the decision making steps that management must take when deciding to sell or process further.

Lisa bodell;

What holds us back from better embracing change might not be what you think.and I think its two things: the first thing is mindset. And what we always find with leaders is we can’ tell them that they’re the ones that are holding us back from change, we have to show them. And the reason why I think mindset is what holds us back is we don’t realize how much we resist change on a regular basis.in fact one of things I talk about a lot with people is that I don’t think we’re grooming leaders right now; I think that we are grooming professional skeptics. A lot of people are becoming risk averse because so much is on the line. They are skeptical because the unknown is obviously more frightening than the known. And you can ask people, wen you give them new ideas, what they think about that idea. And most times, nine times out of ten, people’s reaction will be able to tell you what they don’t like about the idea first before they can tell you what they like. So shifting the mindset to seeing possibilities, what could happen versus whats wrong with something, keeps an idea alive. And thats very important in terms of getting people in the mindset for change. Don’t shut something down before you give it a fair chance. The second thing that I think holds us back is our assumptions. And I talk a lot about this in my book kill the company is that we have a lot of assumptions. Around how things should work, have always worked, need to work, we’ve already tried things that way and I think one of the problem is our assumptions hold us back from actually attacking problems. And what I mean by this is often we look at problem as very big, very large, and thats because we have a lot of assumptions about the problem. And we teach people how to break down a problem into truths or many assumptions and attacks those individual assumption and turn them on their head.if you can actually take our assumptions and change then you can start to see again more possibilities for change. We Did a case study with several companies but one primarily down in Wall Street. And what was interesting about it is we worked together to come up with a new ways to instill change in an organization. Most companies when they her about a change program now they just want to hear to turn off. Everyone has change fatigue. And the reason for that is most change initiatives simply don’t work. And we wanted to go about in a new way.so we tested all kinds of things from tools that were amazing to techniques that were horrible and failed, but what came out of the research that we did with several companies over any years, but one intently over eight weeks was this: change cannot be put on people. The best way to instill change is to do it with them.create it with them. The second thing is that change of course has to be supported from the top down. It must be supported from the top down. But where change happens is from the middle out.so the people that are sitting in what you do every day, which is meetings and emails, the people that are doing those things every day, more than they’d like, those are the ones that are going to be creating the change; they’re the ones that have to be in power to do it. The third thing is that I don’t think it should be a 12-step program. People are beyond tired of 12-step programs. They need a toolkit; an on-demand toolkit of tools that they can use when they’re stressed out, when something happens suddenly, when they just don’t know what else to do.the final thing is change can’t be complex. We have to work on simplifying, so from my perspective

And at my company if theres a tool that we have that take us more than an hour to teach you, we should be fired. We should only give you simple tools that every layer of the organization can use and get on the same page with change.

Question: In the article above, Lisa Bodell addresses resisting change. What insights have you gained from her presentation?

write a 3 pages paper about corona virus and its impact on the world economy.