...address] Conor Kerr [Email address] Abstract [Draw your reader in with an engaging abstract. It is typically a short summary of the document. When you’re ready to add your content, just click here and start typing.] Abstract [Draw your reader in with an engaging abstract. It is typically a short summary of the document. When you’re ready to add your content, just click here and start typing.] Unit 6: Business decision Making Unit 6: Business decision Making Contents LO1 2 Introduction 2 Scenario 2 Primary and Secondary Data 2 Primary Data 2 Secondary Data 3 Collection Method 3 Questionnaire 3 Conclusion 4 LO2 4 Task 1 4 2.1&2.2 5 2.3 6 2.4 6 LO3 8 Task 1 8 3.1&4.1 9 3.2 11 3.3 11 3.4 17 LO4 24 Task 2 24 4.2 24 Task 3 27 4.3 27 Sources of Data 29 LO1 Introduction The following assignment will look at different methods and sources in the collection of data. The research will include both primary and secondary forms of data and a plan will be formed to successfully help address a chosen business problem. An appropriate methodology will be used in the collection of data including the outline of sampling framework. A questionnaire will be designed and used as the main method of gathering primary data. Scenario 3 mobile is a large mobile phone provider within Ireland. The mobile phone industry is fiercely competitive and 3 Ireland faces big competition from the likes of Vodafone and Eircom...
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...Diploma in Business (Marketing) Unit Title and Number: Advertising and Promotion in Business (Unit 18) QFC Level: 4 Unit Code: J/601/1000 Credit value: 15 credits Module Tutor: Mehedi Khan Email: m.khan@mrcollege.ac.uk Date Set: 23rd September 2014 Name: …………………………………………. Registration Number: …………………………………………… Date: …………………………………………… Is this a First Submission or Second Submission ? Word Count (max.5000) Turnitin Score Complete and copy this page and add it as the front sheet to your online submission [pic] Part 2 Assignment Brief Programme: BTEC Higher National Diploma (HND) in Business Marketing Unit Title and Number: Advertising and Promotion in Business (Unit 18) QFC Level: 4 Unit Code: J/601/1000 Credit value: 15 credits Module Tutor: Mehedi Khan Email: m.khan@mrcollege.ac.uk Date Set: Starts: 23 September 2014, Ends: 5 December 2014 Distribution Date : 30.09.2014. LO1 Submission Date : 21.10.2014 (for formative feedback) LO2 & LO3 Submission Date : 10.11.2014 (for formative feedback) LO4 Submission Date : 18.11.2014 (for formative feedback) Final Submission Date (Full Assignment): 5th December 2014 The effective use of advertising and promotion is a fundamental requirement for any business seeking to succeed in the modern business world. As they progress through the unit, learners...
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...Assignment Name : HND IN MARKETING PRINCIPLES Student Name : IGOR Student ID : XXXXX Semester : XXXXX CONTENTS PAGE Introduction 02 A Brief Overview of Nike, Inc. 02 A Brief History 02 Section LO1 - Process of marketing 03 Elements of marketing process 03 Costs and benefits of marketing 04 Section LO2 - Segmenting, Targeting and Positioning 05 Macro and Micro environments factors that influence marketing 05 Segmenting strategies 05 Targeting strategy 06 Buyers’ behaviour activities that affect marketing 07 Positioning strategy 07 Section LO3 - Marketing Mix 08 Extended marketing mix 08 Product development and sustainable competitive advantage 09 Distribution strategy 09 Pricing strategy 09 Promotional strategy 10 Section LO4 - Marketing Mix in different context (activity) 11 Planning marketing mix for two different segments in consumer markets 11 Marketing products and services for B2B markets 11 International marketing strategy 11 Credits and references 12 A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF NIKE, INC. Nike, Inc. is a major publicly traded sportswear and equipment supplier based in the United States. The company is headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon. It is the world's leading supplier of athletic shoes and apparel and a major manufacturer of sports equipment with revenue in excess of US$18.6 billion in its fiscal year 2008 (ending May 31, 2008). As of 2008, it employed more than 30,000 people worldwide...
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...68 3 LEARNING OBJECTIVES After reading this chapter you should be able to: LO1 Scanning the Marketing Environment WEB 2.0 IS ALL ABOUT YOU! The Web is changing at an extraordinary pace and each new change provides more customization and convenience for you. If you use Myspace. com, Del.icio.us, Secondlife, or any one of hundreds of new products on the Web you are already part of the new world of the Web! Not long ago the Web simply provided a modern channel for traditional businesses. Music led the way with file-sharing services such as Napster and eventually online stores such as iTunes. The entire entertainment industry followed by offering books, movies, television, radio, and photography on the Web. The digital revolution allowed all of these businesses to benefit from the technical aspects of the Web. Now the term Web 2.0 is used to describe the changes in the World Wide Web that reflect the growing interest in collaboration, open sharing of information, and customer control. Many products and services such as podcasts, weblogs, videologs, social networking, bookmarking, wikis, folksonomy, and RSS feeds are already available, and many more are in development. As the focus moves from providing a new channel for existing businesses to empowering individual consumers with customized products, suddenly the Web is all about you! You can create your own video and post it on YouTube, sell your photos on iStockphoto, build a social networking site on Ning, and publish...
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...planner and as strategist. It discusses various elements of the planning process, different kinds of plans, strategy formulation, and the challenge of strategy implementation. This chapter also contains a detailed explanation of SWOT analysis and Michael Porter’s business level strategies. Learning Objectives 1. Identify the three main steps of the planning process and the relationship between planning and strategy. (LO1) 2. Describe the different levels and types of planning and how they lead to competitive advantage. (LO2) 3. Differentiate between the main types of business-level strategy and explain how they lead to competitive advantage. (LO3) 4. Differentiate between the main types of corporate-level strategies and explain how they are used to strengthen a company’s business-level strategy and competitive advantage. (LO4) MANAGERMENT SNAPSHOT: Different Ways to Compete in the Soft Drink Business To compete in the soft drink industry, both Pepsi and Coke decided to build global brands by manufacturing soft-drink concentrate and selling it in a syrup form to bottlers throughout the world. Pepsi and Coke charge a premium price for the syrup and invest part of the proceeds into advertising to build and maintain brand awareness. The bottlers, who are responsible for producing and distributing the cola, must sign an exclusive agreement that prohibits them from distributing competing brands. Gerald Pencer, CEO of Cott Corporation, used a different...
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...ASSIGNMENT |EXERCISES | |EXERCISES | |LEARNING OBJECTIVE |MATERIAL | | | | | | | |PROBLEMS | | |LO1: Discriminate between | |23,30,37,38 |49,50,51,54,57 |66 | |relevant and irrelevant | | | | | |information for making decisions.| | | | | |LO2: Apply the decision process | |28,29,39 | | | |to make business decisions. | | | | | |LO3: Construct absorption and |A1,B1 |24,31,32,33, 34,35 |48 | | |contribution-margin income | | | | ...
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...STANDARD EDITION Ross Westerfield Jordan FUNDAMENTALS OF CORPORATE FINANCE tenth edition StuDEntS... Want to get better grades? (Who doesn’t?) Prefer to do your homework online? (After all, you are online anyway…) Need a better way to study before the big test? (A little peace of mind is a good thing…) With McGraw-Hill's Connect Plus Finance, ® StudentS get: • Easy online access to homework, tests, and quizzes assigned by your instructor. • Immediate feedback on how you’re doing. (No more wishing you could call your instructor at 1 a.m.) • Quick access to lectures, practice materials, eBook, and more. (All the material you need to be successful is right at your fingertips.) • A Self-Quiz and Study tool that assesses your knowledge and recommends specific readings, supplemental study materials, and additional practice work.* *Available with select McGraw-Hill titles. Less managing. More teaching. Greater learning. InStRuctoRS... Would you like your students to show up for class more prepared? (Let’s face it, class is much more fun if everyone is engaged and prepared…) Want an easy way to assign homework online and track student progress? (Less time grading means more time teaching…) Want an instant view of student or class performance? (No more wondering if students understand…) Need to collect data and generate reports required for administration or accreditation? (Say goodbye to manually tracking student learning outcomes…) Want to record...
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...CONNECT FEATURES Interactive Applications Interactive Applications offer a variety of automatically graded exercises that require students to apply key concepts. Whether the assignment includes a click and drag, video case, or decision generator, these applications provide instant feedback and progress tracking for students and detailed results for the instructor. Case Exercises The Connect platform also includes author-developed case exercises for all 12 cases in this edition that require students to work through answers to assignment questions for each case. These exercises have multiple components and can include: calculating assorted financial ratios to assess a company’s financial performance and balance sheet strength, identifying a company’s strategy, doing five-forces and driving-forces analysis, doing a SWOT analysis, and recommending actions to improve company performance. The content of these case exercises is tailored to match the circumstances presented in each case, calling upon students to do whatever strategic thinking and strategic analysis is called for to arrive at a pragmatic, analysis-based action recommendation for improving company performance. eBook Connect Plus includes a media-rich eBook that allows you to share your notes with your students. Your students can insert and review their own notes, highlight the text, search for specific information, and interact with media resources. Using an eBook with Connect Plus gives your...
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...School of Business Course: HND Business Level 5 Unit Name: Marketing Principles Student Name: Date Issued: 10/07/2014 Fail P1 P12 P2 P13 P3 P14 P4 P15 Pass P5 P6 M1 P7 M2 Lecturer’s Name: Completion Date: 07/08/2014 Merit P8 M3 P9 D1 P10 D2 Distinction P11 D3 Year: 2013/14 Learning Outcomes: 1 Understand the concept and process of marketing, 2 Be able to use the concepts of segmentation, targeting and positioning, 3 Understand the individual elements of the extended marketing mix, 4 Be able to use the marketing mix in different contexts. Comments: Assessor’s Signature: Date:______________ Referred Late: Yes No Internal Verification: Yes No I declare that the work I am submitting for assessment contains no sections in copied in whole or part from any other source, unless it is explicitly identified by means of quotation mark or by means of wholly indented paragraphs. I declare that I have also acknowledged such quotations by providing detailed references in an approved format. I understand that unidentified and un-referenced copying both constitutes plagiarism which is an offence. I give my consent for my work being scanned by Turnitin formatively and summatively for the purposes of assessment. Student Signature: Received: Date: Date: T +44 (0)20 8795 5509 ǀ info@csbm.co.uk ǀ www.csbm.co.uk Capital House ǀ 388 High Road ǀ Wembley ǀ Middlesex ǀ HA9 6AR ǀ Registered in Cardiff. 7027500 EDEXCEL HND Business Level 5 Unit 13: Personal and Professional Development ...
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...Managing Human Resources What Do I Need to Know? Introduction After reading this chapter, you should be able to: Imagine trying to run a business where you have to replace every employee two or three times a year. If that sounds chaotic, you can sympathize with the challenge facing Rob Cecere when he took the job of regional manager for a group of eight Domino’s Pizza stores in New Jersey. In Cecere’s region, store managers were quitting after a few months on the job. The lack of consistent leadership at the store level contributed to employee turnover rates of up to 300 percent a year (one position being filled three times in a year). In other words, new managers constantly had to find, hire, and train new workers—and rely on inexperienced people to keep customers happy. Not surprisingly, the stores in Cecere’s new territory were failing to meet sales goals. Cecere made it his top goal to build a stable team of store managers who in turn could retain employees at their stores. He held a meeting with the managers and talked about improving sales, explaining, “It’s got to start with people”: hiring good people and keeping them on board. He continues to coach his managers, helping them build sales and motivate their workers through training and patience. In doing so, he has the backing of Domino’s headquarters. When the company’s current chief executive, David Brandon, took charge, he was shocked by the high employee turnover (then 158 percent...
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...Managing Business Activities to Achieve Results Yuvraj Minawala Rims International School Of Business And Technology BBA Second Year: Higher National Diploma (HND) HND - ASSIGNMENT BRIEF LEARNER NAME ASSESSOR NAME QUALIFICATION Yuvraj Minawala Shweta Singh 5 Managing Business Activities to Achieve results UNIT NUMBER AND TITLE J/601/0946 08.04.2013 10.05.2013 HAND OUT DATE HAND IN DATE RULES & REGULATION Plagiarism is presenting somebody else’s work as your own. It includes copying information directly from the Web or books without referencing the material, submitting joint coursework as an individual effort, copying another student’s coursework, stealing coursework from another student and submitting it as your own work. Suspected plagiarism will be investigated and if found to have occurred will be dealt with according to the procedures set down by the College. ASSIGNMENT TITLE The aim of this unit is to provide learners with the understanding and skills to manage their activities in the business workplace to improve their effectiveness and efficiency. . MBAAR Yuvraj Minawala 2 Outcomes and assessment requirements Outcomes Assessment requirements To achieve each outcome a learner must demonstrate the ability to: Evidence On successful...
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...MAssignment front sheet |Qualification |Unit number, title and level | |BTEC Level5 HND Diploma in Business |Unit 14: Working With and Leading People | | |Level 5 | |Student name and ID number |Assessor name | | |Urmila Chooramun | | | | |Date issued |Completion date |Submitted on | |22nd September 2014 |12th December 2014 before 12.00 midday | | | | | ...
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...lead teams is valuable to your employer and important to your career. Fortunately coursework focusing on team training can enhance students’ teamwork knowledge and skills. ■ 3 2 teamwork A national s Cisco Systems has grown, the computer networking giant has stayed nimble by delegat- LEARNING OBJECTIVES After studying Chapter 12, you should be able to LO1 Discuss how teams can contribute to an organization’s effectiveness. LO2 Distinguish the new team environment from that of traditional work groups. LO3 Summarize how groups become teams. LO4 Explain why groups sometimes fail. LO5 Describe how to build an effective team. LO6 List methods for managing a team’s relationships with other teams. LO7 Give examples of ways to manage conflict. ing work to teams whose membership crosses functional, departmental, and lines.1 Sometimes—as in Cisco’s case—teams “work,” but sometimes they don’t. The goal of this chapter is to help make sure that your management and work teams succeed rather than fail. Almost all companies now use teams to produce goods and services, CHAPTER 12 | Teamwork 279 LO1 Discuss how teams can contribute to an organization’s effectiveness THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF TEAMS Team-based approaches to work have generated excitement. Used appropriately, teams can be powerfully effective as a building block for organization structure. Organizations like Semco, Whole Foods, and Kollmorgen (a manufacturer of printed circuits and electro-optic devices)...
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...LO1 Understand the sources of finance available to a Business Finance is the most vital thing to run the business. Companies operating as commercial entities must have sufficient cash balances to facilitate their smooth operations. Cash requirement can be raised from different sources, ranging from equity, various forms of debt, to internally generated funds through retained earnings which would otherwise be distributed to shareholders (Myers and Myers, 1991; J. Gitman, 1991). The sources of finance can be classified as Internal and External, Short-term and Long-term or Equity and Debt (Bromwich & Bhimani, 2009, pp.45). The two main sources of finance for business include internal and external sources. The business managers decide which form of financing to be used in the business (Klammer, 2003, pp.35). Internal Sources of Finance Personal funds - utilized by sole traders and partnerships. Owner takes on risk of losing their money. Family and friends - utilized by sole traders and partnerships. Friends can not only lose money but also harm relationships Selling assets - Dormant (unused) assets are typically sold. Selling of fixed assets that are currently in use may solve liquidity problems but create future production problems. Retained profit - Profits reinvested back into the business External Sources of Finance Share capital - limited companies selling shares. #1 way for limited companies to raise money and can provide up to billions. Venture capital - invest...
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...STRATFORD COLLEGE LONDON SMALL BUSINESS ENTERPRISE UNIT 3 BTEC HIGHER NATIONAL DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS LEVEL 5 STUDENT NAME : Mubashir Mustehsan ASSESSOR NAME: PRIYA THAPA DATE:28/08/2015 S M A L L B U S I N E S S E N T E R P R I S E LO1: INVESTIGATE THE PERFORMANCE OF A SELECTED SMALL BUSINESS ENTERPRISE 1.1: Produce a Profile of a Selected Small Business GO GO PIZZA Food has always been a centre of attraction for Londoners and tourist whose number during the year 2013 reached to 16.8 million with many attractive ancient palaces of the kings and eye opening amusement parks London has always been a tourist spot. The densely populated metropolitan has a mixed culture and almost festivals are observed every second mouth. Traditionally Londoners prefer fast and healthy food but it is the diversity of people which has changed the behaviour of the people especially aged between 18 to 30. Pizza is the other feast enjoyed by the people. Indeed this delicious baked bread along with pepperoni, mushroom, obverse and unions with pizza sauce and cheese topping sometimes with chicken or meat toppings is much preferred choice of the inhabitants of London. It was founded as a restaurant with the name as “Go Go pizza” in 1984 on the basic of quality along with customer care. They have been rewarded for pioneering free delivering to homes and offices through free home delivery services. Another specialty of this company is the use quorn instead of meat (Meat Free). Go Go...
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