how systems dynamic modelling can be used to improve our understanding of the ways in which an organization's performance is related to its internal structure and operations policies?

how systems dynamic modelling can be used to improve our understanding of the ways in which an organization's performance is related to its internal structure and operations policies, including those of customers, competitors, and suppliers and then to use that understanding to design high leverage policies for success?

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INSTRUCTIONS

Read the following case study about Amazon, and then submit a posting with answers to the 5 questions below. Your answers will be graded primarily on content, but grammar, spelling, syntax, etc will also count. Please make sure that your answers are labeled to match the Question numbers so that I can easily read (and grade) your submissions

CASE STUDY: THE AMAZON OF INNOVATION

On December 2, 2013, Amazon.com customers ordered 36.8 million items worldwide, an average of 426 items per second, with more than half of the orders from mobile devices. At the peak of sales for the Xbox One and the Playstation 4, Amazon customers purchased more than 1,000 of those units per minute. The last local express delivery was ordered by a customer in Everett, Washington at 12:26pm and was delivered at 3:56pm that same day.

You may think of Amazon as simply an online retailer, and that is indeed where the company achieved most of its success. To do this, Amazon had to build enormous supporting infrastructure – just imagine the information systems and fulfillment facilities needed to ship 36.8 million items on a single day. That infrastructure, however, is needed only during the busy holiday season. Most of the year, Amazon is left with excess infrastructure capacity. Starting in 2000, Amazon began to lease some of that capacity to other companies. In the process, it played a key role in the creation of what are termed “cloud services,” which you will learn about shortly. For now, just think of cloud services as computer resources somewhere out in the Internet that are leased on flexible terms.

Today, Amazon’s business lines can be grouped into three major categories:

• Online Retailing
• Order fulfillment
• Cloud services

Consider Each.

ONLINE RETAILING

Amazon created the business model for online retailing. It began as an online bookstore, but every year since 1998 it has added new product categories. The company is involved in all aspects of online retailing. It sells its own inventory. It incentivizes you, via the Associates program, to sell its inventory as well. Or it will help you sell your inventory within its product pages or via one of its consignment venues. Online auctions are the major aspect of online sales in which Amazon does not participate. It tried auctions in 1999, but it could never make inroads against eBay.

Today it’s hard to remember how much of what we take for granted was pioneered by Amazon. “Customers who bought this, also bought that;” online customer reviews; customer ranking of customer reviews; books lists; Look Inside the Book; automatic free shipping for certain orders or frequent customers; and Kindle books and devices were all novel concepts when Amazon introduced them.

Amazon’s retailing business operates on very thin margins, meaning it makes very little money off of any one item. Products are usually sold at a discount from the stated retail price, and 2-day shipping is free for Amazon members (who pay an annual fee of $99) How does it do it? For one, Amazon drives its employees incredibly hard. Former employees claim the hours are long, the pressure is severe, and the workload is heavy. But what else? It comes down to Moore’s Law and the innovative use of nearly free data processing, storage, and communication.

ORDER FULFILLMENT

In addition to online retailing, Amazon also sells order fulfillment services. You can ship your inventory to an Amazon warehouse and access Amazon’s information systems just as if they were yours. Using technology known as Web services your order processing information systems can directly integrate, over the Web, with Amazon’s inventory, fulfillment, and shipping applications. Your customers need not know that Amazon played any role at all. You Can also sell that same inventory using Amazon’s retail sales applications.

CLOUD SERVICES

Amazon Web Services (AWS) allow organizations to lease time on computer equipment in very flexible ways. Amazon’s Elastic Cloud 2 (EC2) enables organizations to expand and contract the computer resources they need within minutes. Amazon has a variety of payment plans, and it is possible to buy computer time for less than a penny an hour. Key to this capability is the ability for the leasing organization’s computer programs to interface with Amazon’s to automatically scale up and scale down the resources leased. For example, if a news site publishes a story that causes a rapid ramp-up of traffic, that news site can, programmatically, request, configure, and use more computing resources for an hour, a day, a month, or whatever it needs.

With its Kindle devices, Amazon has become both a vendor of tablets and, even more importantly in the long term, a vendor of online music and video. And to induce customers to buy Kindle apps, in 2013 Amazon introduced its own currency, Amazon Coins. And, recently Amazon opened a 3D printing store from which customers can customize their own toys, jewelry, dog bones, and dozens of other products. Amazon is also beginning its foray into drone delivery.

QUESTIONS

1. Based on the facts presented, what do you think is Amazon.com’s competitive strategy?
2. Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com has stated that the best customer support is none. What does that mean?
3. Suppose you work for Amazon. What do you suppose is the likely reaction to an employee who says to his or her boss, “But, I don’t know how to do that”?
4. Using your own words and your own experience, what skills and abilities do you think you need to have to thrive at an organization like Amazon?
5. What should UPS and FedEx be doing in response to Amazon’s interest in drone delivery?

explain industry analysis fundamentals including boundaries and competition?

Munoz, Inc., produces a special line of plastic toy racing cars.​ Munoz, Inc., produces the cars in batches. To manufacture a batch of the​ cars, Munoz,​ Inc., must set up the machines and molds. Setup costs are​ batch-level costs because they are associated with batches rather than individual units of products. A separate Setup Department is responsible for setting up machines and molds for different styles of car.

Setup overhead costs consist of some costs that are variable and some costs that are fixed with respect to the number of​ setup-hours. The following information pertains to June​ 2015:

Calculate the efficiency variance for variable overhead setup costs.

A.

$ 623$623

favorable

B.

$ 4 comma 377$4,377

favorable

C.

$ 4 comma 377$4,377

unfavorable

D.

$ 623$623

unfavorable

Click to select your answer.

One of the more difficult issues in the discussion between the entrepreneur and Venture Capital firm is the topic of Control. How are you going to advise your friend on a potential demand coming from the Venture Capital Fund on investing in the firm only upon gaining control in the company?

The following page-reference string:

1, 2, 4, 3, 2, 5, 4, 2, 4, 2, 1, 3, 2, 3, 1, 3, 6, 1, 6, 4.

Main memory with 3 frames of 1 kilobyte available and they are all initially empty. Complete a figure, similar to Figure 8.14(in the slides or textbook), showing the frame allocation for each of the following page replacement policies:

a. Optimal

b. Least recently used

c. First-in-first-out

Then, find the relative performance of each policy with respect to page faults.

1. Over history, the institution of marriage in the U.S. has undergone many changes. In detail, describe the landmark styles of marriage and how they differ from each other (hint: institutional, companionate, and individualized marriage).

2. For each style of marriage, describe the cultural context that influenced marriage in that era. Based on current trends, how do you think marriage styles will change in the future?

this is for my Family And Consumer Studies FCS 2400 course

Why would a company try to keep their employees working during the Coronavirus pandemic? then replay to these two people did you agree with them or not.

1- Necessity to Business Survival

For some businesses, even the non-essential ones, keeping employees working is still necessary on some level in order to keep the business running. For example, I work at Dillard's and even though all of our stores are shut down, and employees were told we were not going to be working, online ordering is still available. No one thought about the fact that since nearly every retail store is shut down there was going to be a major flux of online orders that managers alone were not prepared to fill and ship. The company ended up having to call several employee associates in order to come in to cover the amount of orders we had so we could still keep our promise to our customers and remain operational even online. COVID - 19 has changed the way companies have to do business in the interim and keeping employees working is sometimes the only way to make that feasible and keep the business alive. Without this, it is possible that many companies would have to shut down for good during this time without any revenue streams.

2. Avoidance of Future Labor Costs

Companies that have had to furlough workers or temporarily lay them off run the risk that those employees may not come back. Grocery stores, pharmacies, and other essential businesses have increased their hiring in this time in order to keep up with demand. Employees that have lost their jobs, permanently or temporarily, may start looking into those jobs and may find a position/company they prefer, or may even use this time to look for other positions within their field for when this pandemic is over. Companies don't want to loose skilled, valuable, and trained employees during this time, so many companies are doing whatever they can to keep their employees working so that they don't loose these employees and have to spend time and money on interviewing, training, and on boarding later after this crisis is over. Additionally, many companies will have massive orders to fill after this is over in order to finish orders that couldn't be sent out due to the virus, and this will require already trained employees. Having to find and train new employees during that time would be an even greater hassle that companies are looking to avoid.

#use MPLAB X IDE
# Question 1 for HW 3
# Your solution should implement the following conditional statement:
#   if (A < 10)
#       D = C + 10
#   else if (A == 20)
#       D = C - B
#   else
#       D = C + B
        
    .global    main
    .data

### THESE VARIABLES ARE SIMPLY GIVEN VALUES TO START
###   WITH--CHANGE THEIR VALUES AND VERIFY YOUR PROGRAM
###   WORKS APPROPRIATELY IN ALL CASES
A:  .int    3
B:  .int    1
C:  .int    7
D:  .int    0
        
    .text
    .set       noreorder
    .ent       main

main:
    # Load variables into registers
    lw  $t0, A
    lw  $t1, B
    lw  $t2, C
    
    # Implement conditional statement described above
    # Make sure final result is in memory in variable "D"
        
# This code simply loops infinitely
spin:   
    j          spin
    nop

    .end        main    

1. Tar in cigarettes: Listed below are amounts of tar (mg per cigarette) in sing size cigarettes. 100-mm menthol cigarettes, and 100-mm non menthol cigarettes. The king size cigarettes are nonfiltered, nonmenthol, and nonlight. The 100-mm menthol cigarettes are filtered and nonlight. The 100-mm nonmenthol cigarettes are filtered and nonlight. Use a .05 significance level to test the claim that the three categories of cigarettes yield the same mean amount of tar. Given that only the king-size cigarettes are not filtered, do the filters appear to make a difference?

King 20,27,27,20,20,24,20,23,20,22,20,20,20

       20, 20,10, 24,20,21,25,23,20,22,20,20

Kool 16,13,16,9,14,13,12,14,14,13,13,16,13,

        13, 18, 9, 19, 2, 13, 14, 14, 15,16 6, 8,

Long 5, 16, 17, 13, 13, 14, 15, 15, 15, 9, 13, 13,13,

       15, 2, 15, 15, 13, 14, 15, 16, 15, 7, 17, 15,

Help solve without using computer step by step

A one Megabytes block of memory is allocated using the buddy system. Show the results of the following sequence of requests and returns in a figure that is similar to Figure 7.6: Request A: 200 Kilobytes;

Request B: 80 Kilobytes;

Request C: 380 Kilobytes;

Return A;

Request D: 120 Kilobytes;

Return B;

Return D;

Return C.

Also, find the internal fragmentation at each stage of allocation/de-allocation.

The Watkins Chemical Company produces a chemical compound that is used as a lawn fertilizer. The compound can be produced at a rate of 10,533 pounds per day. Demand for the compound is 0.9 million pounds per year. The fixed cost of setting up for a production run of the chemical is $2,773, and the variable cost of production is $3.23 per pound. The annual holding cost per pound of the chemical amounts to 5% of the value. Assume that there are 250 working days in a year.

What is the total annual holding cost if Qp* is produced?

A. 10,038.122

B. 14,196.048

C. 11,517.336

D. 8,143.986

Briefly discuss the business of wholesale banking, including the main products and services, as well as the customer base. What are the key challenges in the wholesale banking market?