...Travel Poster Betty Kapasa Nur/408 Professor: Jacqueline Paik June 8, 2011 University of Phoenix This writer’s country of choice is Zambia located in the southern part of Africa. Zambia’s history goes back to the debut of Homo sapiens: evidence of human habitation going back 100,000 years has been found at Kabwe, north of Lusaka. Beginning around 1000 AD, Swahili-Arab slave-traders gradually penetrated the region from their city-states on the eastern coast of Africa. Between the 14th and 16th centuries a Bantu-speaking group known as the Maravi migrated from present-day Congo (Zaïre) and established kingdoms in eastern and southeastern Zambia. In the 18th century, Portuguese explorers following the routes of Swahili-Arab slavers from the coast into the interior became the first known European visitors. After the Zulu nation to the south began scattering its neighbors, victims of the Difaqane (forced migration) began arriving in Zambia in the early 19th century. Squeezed out of Zimbabwe, the Makalolo people moved into southern Zambia, pushing the Tonga out of the way and grabbing Lozi territory on the upper Zambezi River. Zambia is a land locked country with a population 12,935,368. Kenneth Kaunda, a militant former schoolteacher, took over the leadership of the Africans from the more moderate Nkumbula and in 1959 formed a new party, the United National Independence Party (UNIP). Following a massive civil disobedience campaign in 1962, Africans were given...
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...BUS 100 – Student Notes COURSE DESCRIPTION Provides a foundation in business operations through a survey of major business functions (management, production, marketing, finance and accounting, human resource management, and various support functions). Offers an overview of business organizations and the business environment, strategic planning, international business, and quality assurance. INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS Required Resources Kelly, M., McGowen, J., & Williams, C. (2014). BUSN (6th ed.). Mason, OH: South-Western Cengage Learning. (Note: This is a textbook uniquely created for Strayer and can only be purchased via Strayer’s Virtual Bookstore, available through iCampus. The chapters within this custom textbook are the same as those from the national title, only rearranged in a different order.) Note: There are slides, audio chapter summaries, flashcards, workplace videos, and games located in the course shell to be used as additional resources to assist you in understanding the course material. Supplemental Resources Asare, S. K., & Wright, A. M. (2012). Investors’, auditors’, and lenders’ understanding of the message conveyed by the standard audit report on financial statements. Accounting Horizon, 26(2), 193-217. Aytaç, G., & Turan, O. Z. (2012). Issues of business ethics in domestic and international businesses: A critical study. International Journal of Business Administration, 3(5), 82-88. Bulu, I., Radojicic, M., & Nesic, Z. (2012). Some considerations on modern...
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...archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0025-1747.htm Crises, scenarios and the strategic management process David Pollard and Sabine Hotho Dundee Business School, University of Abertay, Dundee, UK Abstract Purpose – The aim of this exploratory paper is to consider the strategic importance of crisis management and integration of crisis planning with the organisation’s strategy processes, in particular the utilisation of scenario planning as a crisis planning activity. Design/methodology/approach – A review of the crisis management literature was undertaken and key issues identified, subsequently strategic aspects of crisis management were developed in the context of scenario planning. Findings – The paper contains a discussion of major factors related to a strategic approach to crisis management and a more proactive approach to building relationships with the media. Particular attention should be given to the roles and responses of the media and agencies acting on behalf of the company, as both should been treated in the same way as other relatively powerful stakeholders. The authors suggest that firms can obtain significant advantages through proactive preparation for major relevant contingencies, and its incorporation into the strategic management process. Originality/value – This paper brings together the debate on the strategic position of crisis management with scenario planning processes to provide a mechanism for designing, evaluating and managing crisis...
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...PROGRAM MANAGEMENT PLAN Strategic Program Management Plan University of Phoenix Strategic Program Management Paper This document will discuss a hospitality service chain, Friar Tucker International (FTI) that provides management to a chain of 35 entertainment and cuisine establishments. The 35 entertainment and cuisine establishments consist of 10 sports entertainment establishments, 15 cuisine establishments, 8 family entertainment establishments, and has entered into an agreement with two hotel chains. Friar Tucker International employs an estimate of 1200 staff members and generates revenue in the amount of $300 million. Friar Tucker International has a vision of joining the top ten hospitality providers of service and to serve families through the business of entertainment; basing the service on superior levels of marketing and innovation. The Friar Tucker International mission is to “attract more visitors and customers through food and entertainment facilities and ensure a great family experience” (Friar Tucker International scenario, 2010). Friar Tucker International, Chief Executive Officer, Ricardo Bellini negotiated and accepted many contracts with hotel chains. The contracts resulted in the management of the establishments and the to implement and carry out projects and manage the implementation of numerous projects. Over the previous years, this company has increased its success rate and has felt the results of growth. Many of the business contracts...
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...9-306-002 REV: JUNE 19, 2006 DAVID A. GARVIN LYNNE C. LEVESQUE Strategic Planning at United Parcel Service We fully recognize that it is not possible to develop a true strategic plan more than a few years out and that business plans should have an even shorter horizon. But we are convinced that it is possible and wise, indeed necessary, to develop a set of very long-range scenarios that can form the foundation for our future strategic plans. — Michael (Mike) J. Eskew, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, United Parcel Service (UPS) As Mike Eskew walked through the long, open atrium of UPS’s corporate headquarters late in March 2005, he thought about his upcoming lunch meeting with Vice President of Corporate Strategy Vern Higberg. Higberg was preparing a presentation for the senior management strategy committee, the Strategy Advisory Group, on improvements to the strategic-planning process. While the company had made major progress in planning for the future over the past 10 years, Eskew had charged Higberg and his colleagues with developing recommendations for moving forward, citing one of his predecessors, who had said, “The future of our company will be no better or worse than the quality of planning we do to prepare for it.” Company Background History In 1907, 19-year-old Jim Casey borrowed $100 from friends to start the small company that eventually became UPS. From its humble origins delivering messages for the city of Seattle, Washington, UPS...
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...POMS Abstract Number: 011-0371 Title: Managing Global Food Supply Chain Risks: A Scenario Planning Perspective A. Deep Business School, Loughborough University Loughborough LE11 3TU, UK Email: a.deep@lboro.ac.uk || Phone: +44.1509 223176 S. Dani Business School, Loughborough University Loughborough LE11 3TU, UK Email: s.dani@lboro.ac.uk || Phone: +44.1509228830 POMS 20th Annual Conference Orlando, Florida U.S.A. May 1 to May 4, 2009 Introduction Food is a fundamental requisite for human existence. An agrarian society shows the simplistic form of existence where agriculture forms the core of the society and is the prime means of support and sustenance. That, however, no longer remains the foundation of most of today’s developed economies where food chains are increasingly becoming complex and multi tiered. The chains start with agriculture and ends ultimately, with household consumption. But the numbers of entities between these ends encompass geographical, economic, political and social extremes. This compounded over uncertainty occurring from natural disasters, climate changes, epidemics and terrorist threats place the food supply chain in a particularly vulnerable position. The recent Chinese milk scare which left thousands of Chinese babies ill after consuming melamine tainted milk powder produced by the Chinese Sanlu Group required urgent action by New Zealand, United States and the European Union to issue product warnings to contain the spread of melamine related...
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...Climate Change Impacts & Risk Management A Guide for Business and Government Published by the Australian Greenhouse Office, in the Department of the Environment and Heritage. ISBN: 1 921120 56 8 © Commonwealth of Australia 2006 This work is copyright. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced by any process without prior written permission from the Commonwealth, available from the Department of the Environment and Heritage. Requests and inquiries concerning reproduction and rights should be addressed to: The Communications Director Australian Greenhouse Office Department of the Environment and Heritage GPO Box 787 CANBERRA ACT 2601 Email: communications@greenhouse.gov.au This publication is available electronically at www.greenhouse.gov.au IMPORTANT NOTICE - PLEASE READ While reasonable efforts have been made to ensure that the contents of this publication are factually correct, the Commonwealth does not accept responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of the contents, and shall not be liable for any loss or damage that may be occasioned directly or indirectly through the use of, or reliance on, the contents of this publication. Climate Change Impacts & Risk Management A Guide for Business and Government Prepared for the Australian Greenhouse Office, Department of Environment and Heritage by: Broadleaf Capital International Marsden Jacob Associates CONTENTS A What This Guide Is About 1 Introduction 1.1 Purpose...
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...COURSE DESCRIPTION Provides a foundation in business operations through a survey of major business functions (management, production, marketing, finance and accounting, human resource management, and various support functions). Offers an overview of business organizations and the business environment, strategic planning, international business, and quality assurance. INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS Required Resources Kelly, M., McGowen, J., & Williams, C. (2014). BUSN (6th ed.). Mason, OH: South-Western Cengage Learning. (Note: This is a textbook uniquely created for Strayer and can only be purchased via Strayer’s Virtual Bookstore, available through iCampus. The chapters within this custom textbook are the same as those from the national title, only rearranged in a different order.) Note: There are slides, audio chapter summaries, flashcards, workplace videos, and games located in the course shell to be used as additional resources to assist you in understanding the course material. Supplemental Resources Asare, S. K., & Wright, A. M. (2012). Investors’, auditors’, and lenders’ understanding of the message conveyed by the standard audit report on financial statements. Accounting Horizon, 26(2), 193-217. Aytaç, G., & Turan, O. Z. (2012). Issues of business ethics in domestic and international businesses: A critical study. International Journal of Business Administration, 3(5), 82-88. Bulu, I., Radojicic, M., & Nesic, Z. (2012). Some considerations...
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...Unit 1 Tommie Brown AIU Online Abstract In this Individual Project I will be making a management decision regarding the legal form of business. There are several issues the investor is facing to begin a business such as little financial skills and no management skills and I will identify a few others. The two examples of the new technology ideas will be mentioned as requested by the spouse. A brief interpretation of the scenario issues will also be given. I will discuss the three business structures Sole Proprietorship, Partnership, and Corporation. The advantages and disadvantages of each business structure and I will provide examples so that these differences will be identified. In this manuscript all structures will be defined and researched and based on the scenario issues I will explain why I choose the Sole Proprietorship as the business structure that would be the most successful. In the final part of this project I will provide citations and aligned resources to support my decision. Individual Project Unit 1 In the scenario there is an inventor who has an idea for a new kind of home appliance that meets consumer needs. It is my interpretation that in this scenario inventor is facing a number of issues just like any other small inventor would be trying to start a business. These issues include having little financial skills and no management skills. The net worth wasn’t very high and that only meant that the inventor may not have...
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...Introduction The Everest simulation provided several situations where multiple management theories, discussed in the lectures, were applicable. Being divided into teams to complete the task helped align this simulation’s findings with a real life business setting. Contrasting roles and goals of each individual team member further enhanced the similarity to an everyday business. To conquer Everest, whether it is in reality or as part of this ‘simulation’, requires significant amounts of planning and well thought out management decisions which allow for continued success for the team as a whole. Upon review of the simulation two management concepts were more prevalent than others; ethical and social responsibility with specific focus on the utilitarianism approach and the concept of strategic planning and goal setting, within that scenario planning and crises management. The concepts applicability to both the individual and group components of the simulation will be the main focus of this report. Clarity gained from scholarly articles will also be discussed in detail. Concept 1 – Strategic Planning/Goal Setting and Scenario Planning and Crises Management Good planning is the foundation of any successful individual, team or company venture, conquering Everest is no different. The planning process is often divided into three levels. The first, strategic, focuses on long range goals and focuses on the goals of the organisation as a whole. (Steiner, 2010) Second is tactical planning...
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...The process of asset management in universities does not utilise good information system. Many processes are still done manually and not integrated automatically using the system. Furthermore, the existing system is not ideally applied and causes it to run improperly, which obstructs its implementation. Therefore, the purpose of this study development is to solve problems faced by universities using business process re-engineering to gain significant improvements. The process of managing assets and repairs mapped and analyzed using the unified modeling language (UML). There are up to 3 alternatives and 2 scenarios in each procedures during the making. The result of this observation is a new design process simulated using iGrafx to examine the...
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...Strategic Program Management Worksheet MMBPL510/Implementing Organizational Objectives January 23, 2012 Clifford Olson Strategic Program Management Worksheet |A: Concept |B: Application of Concept in Scenario |C: Citation of Concept in Reading | |Strategic Management Process: |“Along with the school’s executive director, the |Gray, C.F., & Larson, E.W. (2006) Project | |“Strategic management requires |Board has adopted a new strategy that uses |Management: The Managerial Process (3rd | |strong links among mission, goals, |business development as the model to increase |ed.). McGraw-Hill/Irwin. | |objectives, strategy, and |funding sources and revenues. The three-year | | |implementation” (Gray & Larson, |strategic program plan includes a number of new |Foundation Schools Scenario. (2012). | |2006). The process consists of four|projects to help realize this new vision. The |Retrieved from: UOPX library. | |stages: 1) Review and define the |first year of the plan has just been completed and| | |organizational mission, 2) Set |is slated for Board review. John Thomas, CEO, has | | |long-range goals and objectives, 3)|been choosing new Board members with business, as | ...
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...Distinguished Faculty Fellow, Regents Professor of Marketing, at the School of Business Administration, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana, USA. Sanjit Sengupta is Professor of Marketing at the College of Business, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, USA. Stanley F. Slater, is the Charles and Gwen Lillis Professor of Business Administration in the Department of Marketing, College of Business, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. The authors thank Professor Ron Premuroso for his helpful contributions to this manuscript. PAGE 42 j utsourcing is an arrangement in which one company (the client) hires another company (the service provider) to perform a particular function on its behalf. It involves the transfer of the management and/or day-to-day execution of an entire business function to an external service provider. Based on a contractual agreement that defines the transferred services and fees, the client agrees to procure the services from the supplier for the term of the contract. Outsourcing has become more global and extensive in its scope, involving more business functions and complex contractual arrangements (Tadelis, 2007). As customer needs have evolved, so have service providers’ desire to ‘‘move up the value chain’’ and claim a larger share of the customer’s wallet. From simple information technology (IT) and business process (BP) contracts for cost savings, outsourcing arrangements now encompass...
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...Normality of the future: Trend diagnosis for strategic foresight (Liebl 2010) Table of contents 1. Summary of the article 3 2. Analysis of the strength and weakness of the argument 5 2.1 Strengths 5 2.2 Weakness 6 3. Implications for the top management 7 4. Conclusion 8 Appendix A 10 Appendix B 11 1. Summary of the article “In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things” (Musashi 2009). * This article focuses on trend diagnosis for strategic foresight in its entirety. The author scrutinizes that although trend is an imperative concept in the strategic issue management, the interpretation of trend in strategic foresight is ambiguous. This paper conceptualizes, from a strategic point of view, trend as an innovation (socio-cultural) and elaborate the implications with respect to strategic issue diagnosis. (Liebl 2010) * * * * * The figure above (Liebl 2010) depicts an elaborate framework for conceptualizing trends. The strategic trend diagnosis has to deal with two different aspects of innovation: invention and diffusion. The invention aspect of a trend is identifying “The New” results from a transgression of contextual boundaries whereas the diffusion is a process of normalization (Normality and Abnormality) – i.e., a new socio-cultural practice becomes a social convention and...
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...Running Head: Guillermo’s Furniture Store Scenario [Name] [Professor Name] [Course] [Date] Abstract: This paper attempts to examine the financial concepts found in Guillermo's Furniture Store Scenario. The Financial concepts are used to demonstrate how they can significantly sustain a company’s competitive edge. It further discusses the financial management approaches and how their proper application can add value to a business’ products as well as economic efficiency. Further, the paper attempts to develop a financial plan for Guillermo to enable it to competitive in its respective furniture market. Guillermo’s Furniture Store: Financial Principles Guillermo’s Furniture Store offers a convenient case study essential for analysis of financial principle concepts within a competitive economic setting. Among the financial concepts appreciable within the context of the set-up include financial markets, financial principles as well as business ethics that form the basis from which financial decisions are made. Guillermo’s Furniture Store case study divulges how the entry of a new competitor from abroad has triggered unexpected challenges to the financial situation of the business. Previously, Guillermo furniture store seem to benefitted from a form of monopoly advantage, resulting from its seemingly popular brand name, non-competitive market conditions and cheap labor in Sonora. This was until the entrance of the new entrants into the local market. Competitors...
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