...Business Analysis - Part 1 In this paper I am taking on the role as a mutual fund manager making a decision on if to invest funds into Bank of America (BoA). Over the next three weeks I will conduct an extensive business analysis on BoA and this paper is part one of three of the complete analysis. Part one of the business analysis of BoA consists of a SWOT analysis and my point of view in regard to which part of this analysis is the deciding factor for me to invest in this company or not. In addition all internal and external stakeholders will be identified and their want and needs described. An explanation of how BoA is fulfilling the different needs of the different stakeholders will be the last section of part one in this business analysis. SWOT analysis of Bank of America “Bank of America is one of the world’s largest financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small- and middle-market businesses and large corporations. It is the largest bank holding company in the United States, by assets, and the second largest bank by market capitalization. The company serves clients in more than 150 countries and has a relationship with 99% of the U.S. Fortune 500 companies and 83% of the Fortune Global 500.” (MBA lectures, 2010) A SWOT analysis is defined as: “SWOT is an acronym for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. By definition, Strengths (S) and Weaknesses (W) are considered to be internal factors over which you have some measure of control. Also...
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...Business Analysis part 1 MGT/521 July 9, 2012 Yvonne Richmond Today I will choose Wal-Mart for my company business analysis SWOT. Wal-Mart is one of the biggest retail stores in the United States. Wal-Mart operates under 69 different banners in the 27 countries. Wal-Mart mean goal is to saving people money to help them live better, that was Sam Walton. Today one will be talking about the strength, weakness, opportunity, and threats of the company I have chosen. Strengths • Wal-Mart is a powerful retail brand. It has a reputation for value for money, convenience and a wide range of products all in one store. • Wal-Mart has grown substantially over recent years, and has experienced global expansion (for example its purchase of the United Kingdom based retailer ASDA). • The company has a core competence involving its use of information technology to support its international logistics system. For example, it can see how individual products are performing country-wide, store-by-store at a glance. IT also supports Wal-Mart's efficient procurement. • A focused strategy is in place for human resource management and development. People are key to Wal-Mart's business and it invests time and money in training people, and retaining a developing them. Weakness • Wal-Mart is the World's largest grocery retailer and control of its empire, despite its IT advantages, could leave it weak in some areas due to the huge span of control. • Since Wal-Mart sell products across many...
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...Business Analysis Part 1: Apple, Inc. Apple is a highly innovated business that entered the business world making computers back in the 1980s. They ventured out in the 2000s making non-PC devices and by the spring of 2010 had a market capitalization of $220 billion dollars. As a mutual fund manager, I have performed a SWOT analysis to determine whether or not to invest in this company. I will identify internal and external stakeholders, evaluate their needs and see how the organization measures up when it comes to satisfying those needs. Strengths Apple Inc. has been ranked number one on Fortune Magazine’s Most Admired list for the fourth year in a row according to CNNMoney (DuBois, 2011). The "The American Customer Satisfaction Index" (2012) website shows Apple with a score of 87 out of 100 points on a scale of 0-100 at the national level, this was a 13% increase from the first year in 1995. Personal Computers and HP both came in second with a score of 78 out of 100. Apple has intensive employee training in order to provide exemplementry customer service. They focus on understanding what the customer needs and provide a solution, which may be their key to innovating new products. They have an extensive beautifully designed product line that shares functionality. The Apple trademark, apple with a piece missing illuminates when the computer is on which makes it stand out as an apple product. There is a light under the keyboard making it easy to type in the...
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...SCHOOL OF URBAN & REGIONAL PLANNING SURP 841: Real Estate Decision Making Fall 2011 COURSE OUTLINE Instructor: Office: E-mail: Telephone: John S. Andrew, Ph.D., M CIP, RPP Robert Sutherland Hall, Room 525 john.andrew@queensu.ca 613-533-6000 ext. 75756 Session Time: Mondays, 11:30 am - 2:20 pm Session Room: Robert Sutherland Hall, Room 554 Overview of the Course The course is an introduction to the concepts, principles and analytical methods involved in making the broad variety of key investment decisions regarding commercial real estate. It is designed to supplement, rather than replace SURP 844: Real Estate Project Planning. Therefore, the emphasis of this course is on commercial real estate investment rather than development. However, some elements of the latter will inevitably be addressed. The focus will be on fullyoperational income-generating properties, primarily large in scale. The main asset types of office, industrial, retail and multi-unit residential will be discussed (and possibly a few more specialized types). Another emphasis of the course will be on the micro level – the evaluation of the investment merits of individual properties (or at least individual transactions). Less attention will be paid to the macro level i.e. portfolio management. To the extent possible, the course content (including readings, cases and assignments) will be Canadian (although it is recognized that real estate investment is increasingly a global endeavor). This is primarily...
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...Rusty Rims IT Strategic Plan, Part 2 Before you begin this assignment, be sure you have read the “Rusty Rims Case Study” and the feedback you received on your IT Strategic Plan Part 1 assignment. Also, be sure you have read the chapters in the textbook that have been assigned to this point. Purpose of this Assignment This assignment gives you the opportunity to apply the course concepts to complete the development of an Information Technology Strategic Plan (ITSP) to support the strategic direction of Rusty Rims Distribution Company (RR). This assignment specifically addresses the following course outcomes to enable you to: identify, define, and explain the concepts of information technology governance and management apply best practices in information technology management and governance to make, defend, and justify an IT decision IT Strategic Plan for Rusty Rims Distribution Company For the previous assignment, you developed Part 1 of an IT Strategic Plan for RR. For this assignment, you will incorporate any needed changes resulting from the feedback you received on your Part 1 assignment and you will add Part 2. Part 2 will include an IT project that you are proposing that RR undertake. This new project will be included in the IT Portfolio section of Part 2, and will be further described in a future assignment, the “IT Decision Paper.” The entire ITSP will be submitted as a single document for this assignment. Assignment First, you should make...
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... | May 5 – 9 | * Watch video: “Business Model Canvas Explained,” available @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoAOzMTLP5s * Download and skim pages 14 – 41 of: Business Model Generation, “72-Page Preview,” Alexander Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur, 2010. Available @ http://www.businessmodelgeneration.com/downloads/businessmodelgeneration_preview.pdf | Operating and Investing Decisions: Business Model Canvas Building Blocks | May 8th Lecture AL 116 [6:00 – 6:50PM]Topic: Why AFM 211? Why Week 3 exam? | May 12 – 16 | * Read: Strategy and Your Stronger Hand,” Geoffrey A. Moore, Harvard Business Review, December 2005. Available for free through UW library’s Business Source Complete electronic database. See LEARN for instructions. * Read: “Assessing a Company’s Future Financial Health,” Thomas Piper, Harvard Business School, May 2012. Available in AFM 211 Courseware Package; AND, * Complete ratio analysis for SciTronics in “Assessing a Company’s Future Financial Health” on pages 6-10 and use that analysis to answer questions 1 and 3 framed as “broad questions” at the top of page 6. * Try the “Case of the Unidentified Industries” in “Assessing a Company’s Future Financial Health” on page 11 and Exhibit 3. | Operating and Investing Decisions: Value Chain, Profit Model, and Profit Driver Analysis | May 15th Lecture AL 116 [6:00 – 6:50PM]Topic: Relevant – It Depends. On what? | May 19 – 23 | * Complete Online Module # 1 – Learning with Cases | No face-to-face...
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...Guidelines for SWOT Analysis Pick any company –team The purpose of this project is to provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate and apply your knowledge and skills in analyzing an organization’s external and internal environments as well as its mission, goals and strategy. The following guidelines specify some critical issues you need to address in identifying the organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) and relating the SWOT of the organization to its mission, goals and strategy. Please read the guidelines carefully before starting your work. Part I: Identification of Organizational Mission & Goals 1) What is the business scope of the organization? Be sure to provide both consumer and product definitions of the organization’s business. 2) What is the vision of the organization? 3) What are the unique values and philosophies of the organization? 4) What are the strategic goals pursued by the organization? Part II: Analysis of External Environment 1) What opportunities and threats do you see or foresee from the general external environment of the organization? 2) What influence does each of Porter’s five forces have on the industry environment of the organization? If the organization operates in more than one industry or market, choose and focus on one in your analysis. 3) Which of the five forces represent opportunities for the organization? Which of them present threats to the organization...
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...------------------------------------------------- HOME * ------------------------------------------------- MBA RESOURCES * ------------------------------------------------- GWSB * ------------------------------------------------- MBA PREPARATION * ------------------------------------------------- * ------------------------------------------------- * ------------------------------------------------- PART-TIME MBA IN DC * ------------------------------------------------- SIDE NOTES * ------------------------------------------------- * ------------------------------------------------- * ------------------------------------------------- * ------------------------------------------------- BUSINESS SCHOOL CASES * ------------------------------------------------- BEST MBA TEXTBOOKS * ------------------------------------------------- SUBSCRIBE Part-time MBA Degree in DC Blog on in and out of class experience of part-time MBA student at GWU School of Business Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group Case Analysis APRIL 12, 2011 The presented case of Deloitte and Touche Consulting Group engagement with SKS Manufacturing is offering invaluable lessons in team and project management. It briefly touches upon all major facets of the consulting company involvement with client projects, such as: • Engagement planning • Team selection • Roles and responsibilities of team members • Background and qualifications of key people ...
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...Written Assignment: 1. Chapter 1 – Introduction to System Analysis and Design Answer questions 1, 2, 3, found on page 34 of the reading, and answer minicase 1 Learning Outcomes: LO1, LO2, LO3) a. What are the six general skills all project team members should have? Six general skills all project team members should have are technical, business, analytical, interpersonal, management, and ethical. b. What are the major roles on a project team? There are five major roles on a project team that have to work together to succeed. The five roles that are needed is a business analyst, systems analyst, infrastructure analyst, change management analyst, and a project manager. c. Compare and contrast the role of a systems analyst, business analyst, and infrastructure analyst. The roles of systems analyst is to identify how technology can improve business processes, design new business processes, design the information system, and ensuring that the system conforms to information systems standards. The roles of a business analyst is to analyze the key business aspects of the system, identify how the system will provide business value, and design the new business process and policy. The roles of an infrastructure analyst is to ensure that the system conforms to infrastructure standards and identify infrastructure changes needed to support the system. d. Minicase 1 i. LO1 Follow the original plan given to you by the IS experts. ...
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...we shall cover: 1. Module Aims 2. Module Outcomes 3. Module Units 4. Module Assessment Submission 5. Module Assessment: Formative activities 6. Module assessment: Final Summative assessment 7. Your Faculty Team 8. Reading sources . Module Aims * An understanding of the current state of knowledge around entrepreneurship and start-up models and research as a platform for the market research of a potential business opportunity. * Recognition of progress from idea to an opportunity through a creative but also measured feasibility study * Learning through a practical market research process sourcing relevant current data with judgement and confidence towards justifying a perceived opportunity and its implementation. * Understanding the relevance of group and network resources in business opportunity preparation and the student’s own self efficacy in terms of ability, adaptability and behaviours in these social contexts. Module Outcomes On completion of this module you will be able to: 1) Analyse and understand the key concepts around opportunity, entrepreneurial behaviour and the factors in the process of start-up and survival 2) Identify ideas to create opportunities, national or international, through a feasibility analysis and evaluation using relevant disciplines and frameworks 3) Recognise the tension between the creative (innovative) and measured elements (data analysis and evaluation) of a business opportunity and the disjunctive...
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...Seminar/Constructive Action: Intra & Entrepreneurship/Business Planning Course Code: FLD 521 PCA Course Description Students create an intra or entrepreneurial plan for the development and growth of a beneficial and profitable venture incorporating the necessary marketing, financial, legal, organizational and administrative components. Course Objectives After completing the course, the student will be able to: 1. Apply acquired business skills (finance, accounting, marketing, management, negotiation, human relations, legal, and administrative) to create an intra or entrepreneurial business plan for the development and growth of a beneficial and profitable venture. 2. Improve on key business skills including writing, oral communications, goal-setting, and organizational leadership and planning. 3. Produce a business planning document that will enable you to successfully implement your Purpose III Constructive Action project. Course Relevance to CA The course introduces the students to business management: planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling that are applicable to managing entrepreneurial or intrapreneurial ventures. This course prepares the students for real life business operations and teaches them practical application of theoretical learning. Course Prerequisite Purpose I Constructive Action Required Textbook: Stutely, R. (2007). The definitive business plan: the fast-track to intelligent business planning for executives and entrepreneurs...
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...SWOT Analysis The purpose of this team project is to provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate and apply your knowledge and skills in analyzing an organization’s external and internal environments as well as its mission, goals and strategy. The organization you analyze must be a real company, not the one you manage in the simulation game. The following guidelines specify some critical issues you need to address in your analysis. Please read them carefully before starting your work. Part I: Organizational Mission, Vision, Values & Strategic Goals 1) What is the business scope of the organization? Be sure to identify the business scope of the organization from both consumer and product perspectives. 2) What is the vision of the organization? 3) What are the key values and philosophies of the organization? 4) What are the strategic goals adopted by the organization? Part II: External Environment 1) What opportunities and threats do you see or foresee from the general external environment of the organization? Identify at least five opportunities and five threats from the general external environment. 2) What influence does each of Porter’s five forces have on the industry environment of the organization? If the organization operates in more than one industry or market, choose and focus on one in your analysis. Be sure to justify your conclusions about the influence of the five forces by showing your analysis of the...
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...good enough will result in re-work and re-submissions. The best practice is to strive for excellence. Read for understanding Read the course of study, task instructions, and task rubrics. Seek clarification on any points that might be subject to multiple interpretations. Do not assume; know. The best practice is to be prepared by reading for understanding. Capsim Simulation The designation of MBA indicates the ability to lead and manage both vertically and horizontally across an organization. It is the ability to maximize organizational success by understanding the organization as a system of integrated and interdependent parts. Successful completion of assessments in your MBA courses signals that you know the theories and competencies; the simulation is an opportunity to demonstrate and apply your skills. The best practices are listed below. 1. Read the Team Member Guide; understand your role and the roles of other team members. 2. Complete the Capsim pre-work. 3. Understand the simulation is challenging, time intensive, and dependent upon effective teamwork for success. 4. Ensure there is sufficient time in the team’s schedule to review results and take corrective action, if needed. 5. Use the simulation as a means to assess your MBA skills in a safe environment. Task One Task one is essentially an assessment of your emotional intelligence and your ability to work effectively with others to achieve...
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...2014 Case Study #1 Bowden Brake Service Problem/Issue Statement Should local finance institutions lend the money to Jim to expand his business? The owner, Jim Bowden, has been denied by the local finance institutions for loan in order to expand his business. Executive Summary *Assumptions were made and are presented in Appendix A* The owner, Jim Bowden owns a brake service shop. His business specialized in fixing car brakes and possible other repairs. Jim is seeking to expand his business, the owner had fill out financial form in the local finance institutions. Jim appeared to be very furious at the local finance institutions. As it turns out, all the finance institutions turned down his request for loan. Since his requests were turned down, Jim is unable to expand his business. The local finance institutions had recommended for the owner to look into ratio analysis. The problem is, both the bookkeeper and accountant are on vacation during the time of need. Jim is clueless about ratio analysis and is frustrated. There is a Human Resource Manager who was hired several months ago. This HR Manager had some training in managerial finance. The HR Manager offered to help the owner figure out the finance. At first, the owner felt skeptical because he did not think HR would know anything about finance. When the HR Manger discovered Jim needed a ratio analysis, both the owner and HR discussed agreements. An agreement was made for the HR Manager to be part of management team...
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...Write a marketing plan |Version no and date | | Business details |Name of business owner | | |Name of business | | |Business address | | |Post code | |Telephone | | |Home address | | |Post code | |Home telephone | | |Date business commenced | | |Legal status | ...
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