...CanGo needs to go beyond bench testing and go through the beta test phases Beta Stage 1- Private Contacts should be ready the first day the beta launches. The product you are asking people to test should be relevant to their interest or job. We recommend contacting people you knew who run web hosting companies or have servers that could actually directly benefit from the product. Beta Stage 2 – Private You now need to approach people who you don’t know. Run this for several weeks getting detailed feedback from users who were involved. This is the best time to build a good relationship with a small number of users who are already linked into your product development. The best possible outcome is users who start promoting for you. It is important to invite only a small number of people at a time – the trickle effect. If you have too many users you won’t be able to co-ordinate the feedback Beta Stage 3 – Public And then go public It is important to remember that people who sign up to an open beta probably won’t provide feedback. This is because they’re more likely to be testing it out to see if it’s any good and don’t actually care about helping you out. Revision of ASRS and Process Flow Chart So we see here to the left, The Second line for vendor and supplied books room should remain the same, but a switch of the host room and returns should be made, that way if a customer decides they do not want the book after all; it could be closer to receiving area and closer to...
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...CanGo Business Analysis Team B DeVry University BUSN 460 Table of Contents Page EXECUTIVE SUMMARY............................................................................................................2 INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................5 SWOT ANALYSIS.........................................................................................................................6 FINANCIAL ANALYSIS...............................................................................................................7 Financial Strategic Recommendations...............................................................................8 MARKET ANALYSIS...................................................................................................................9 Market Strategic Recommendations................................................................................10 STRATEGIC PLANNING...........................................................................................................10 Planning Strategic Recommendations.............................................................................11 COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS.......................................................................................................12 Competitive Strategic Recommendations.......................................................................13 HUMAN RESOURCES...
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...CanGo’s Week 2 Analysis As CanGo keeps growing as a leading business in the online entertainment industry, it requires some changes to face the challenges growing businesses have. Team A Consulting, one of the best consulting groups in the nation, will create a plan of action for CanGo to continue their success as an online internet entertainment business. During the last two weeks we have recognized the following challenges that CanGo faces in achieving their goals of being a dominant player in the online entertainment market. Additionally, we have added recommendations on how the company can overcome those problems. 1. Issue One CanGo does not have a formal mission and value statement. Liz, the CEO became the Business Leader of the year and was asked to give a presentation on how and why CanGo became successful. Additionally, the company does not have an outlined business strategy. Recommendation One CEO together with the help of the management team should create a vision and mission statement that highlights the values and goals of the company towards their clients and future in the online entertainment market. This will enable them to be more successful and attract more capital from investors in their online gaming plans. According to Dess “Managers often search continually for the one elusive solution that will solve their firm’s problems—that is, the next holy grail of management. Furthermore, presentation on the company’s mission and operation strategy will depict...
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...Overview of CanGo CanGo is an online gaming company. The company has some major strengths and weaknesses. Some major strengths being the popularity of the company's product, employees seem motivated, and the CEO of the company seems to be a very good leader, even receiving a reward for this. Some major weaknesses include: Not having a Mission/Vision Statement, No real Strategic Planning for the company, Organization skills are lacking, and goals are not prioritized. The CEO of the company realizes the much of CanGo success has had little to do with planning and more to do with “luck” and being at the right place at the right time. II. Areas of concern: 1. Strategic Management Strategic management can be used to determine mission, vision, values, goals, objectives, roles and responsibilities, timeliness, etc ("Management faqs," 2012). This company needs to determine a mission and vision statement, prioritize goals and objectives, and it seems that some employees need to learn how to utilize tools available to them, including software, filing systems, and even other co-workers. 1.1 Developing a Mission Statement CanGo needs a mission statement that defines who its customers are, what products and services it supplies, and how these products and services are provided. Alpha Consulting suggestion for mission statement: To provide quality, affordable online gaming to our customers, ensure customer satisfaction, and in turn, increase company growth. 1.2 Developing a Vision Statement ...
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...Senior Project BUSN 460-Professor T. Wischer DeVry University November 21, 2013 6 Issues facing CanGo from week 3and week4 Maurine Edwards Market Research Flow Charts/Data Brent Tucker Leadership Financial Caromill Almanzar Website/User Friendly ASRS 3 Issues facing CanGo from week 3 Jack’s justification for the new system (ASRS) - Caromill Almanzar Jack feels that the company should go under a new system to increase efficiency for their warehouse and inventor. Liz is concerned that the investment for the (ASRS) may not yield the necessary return to justify the investment. Jack’s argument is, the (ASRS) will help tremendously with the pickup station operators, to an extent that the station will be gone. Currently operators pick about 45 books per hour, the new system has the capacity to pick 360 books per hour. Liz isn’t convinced with Jack, She’s has doubt with the expense. She is also concerned about the integration of the system, the website, and their discount system. The only benefit that she sees with the new system is the reduction of labor. Recommendation: The ASRS is generally applied in applications where high volumes of inventory are moved into and out of manufacturing or distribution operation. The ASRS system typically is considered an alternative to fork lifting, and manual material handling. The system also saves space and building cost. The issue with this system will be with the process stability, capital effectiveness, and...
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...Ongoing Operations. There is a problem right now with ongoing operations and all these new ventures that Cango wants to take on. There has to be some kind of trade off with quality because at the moment Cango does not have enough staff to handle everything that they are putting on their plate. There is not enough capital to handle ongoing operations and develop all these new operations. Cango cannot lose focus of their ongoing operations and they cannot take people away from these operations to develop their new ventures. This will cause core business operations to fail. There are very little resources to spread around the company and to take resources away for core business functions will become a bigger problem then a benefit. They have to free up some capital in other ways then to take away from current operations. Even manpower needs to be kept on a guideline to make sure that the focus is not being taken away from the ongoing operations. Recommendation: My recommendation is to focus on one venture at a time. This will allow Cango to handle their ongoing operations and have time to start development on one new project. But they should not start to develop more then one new project at a time unless they want to outsource a majority of the work. They also can launch an IPO to build capital so that they could bring on more people to develop the system in house. This will give them the flexibility to go from project to project while not letting ongoing operations...
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...Competitive analysis CanGo is a company that operates in the Internet industry (E-tail) through three major segments: books (e-books), CDs, and videos. They are planning on diversifying themselves by adding a new segment to their company, the online gaming segment. Other companies already operate successfully within the Internet industry (e-tail) or in the book industry. Those companies are CanGo’s competitors. EBAY: eBay Inc. is an American Internet company that manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide. In short, the company is a giant marketplace used by more than 100 million people to buy and sell all manner of things to each other. * Revenue 2009: $7.67 billion (second position in the e-tail) * Strength : Strong customer relationships founded on a Consumer-to-Consumer business model, where strong interrelationships occurs, for example where buyers and sellers leave feedback for each other, and whereby awards are given to the most genuine of eBayers. * Weakness: the eBay model does leave itself open to a number of fraudulent activities. AMAZON.COM: Amazon.com, Inc. is an American-based multinational electronic commerce company. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, it is America's largest online retailer. * Revenue 2009: $24.51 billion ( 1st position in the e-tail) * Strength: Its competitive advantage is enhanced by their strategies...
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...receivables turnover was at 1.51, there is room for improvement and a closer look needs to be performed to pinpointed where the problem lies. We next looked at CanGo’s Inventory Turnover as a measure of CanGo’s inventory management efficiency. In general, a higher value indicates better performance and lower value means inefficiency in controlling inventory levels; CanGo’s was 1.56. This lower inventory turnover ratio may be an indication of overstocking which may pose risk of obsolescence and increased inventory holding costs (Accounting Explained, 2012). 2. Financial Leverage Taking a look at CanGo’s equity ratio for how much they relied on their debt, we were surprise to see a low debt to equity ratio of 7.57, thereby enabling CanGo to utilize more of their revenue for their future plans (Financial Dictionary, 2012). 3. Liquidity Ratio Our Review of CanGo’s Liquidity included the current ratio, the quick ratio and the operating...
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...Cango Week 1 And 2 Video Analysis Report Week 1 & 2 Analysis Report “Poor strategic planning is worse than no strategic planning. It can be a big waste of time and money” (“Strategic Thinking”, 2011, p.1). Strategic planning plays a very crucial role in helping organizations achieve their goals. The strategic planning process requires both managers and their subordinates to work together as a team to design, plan and implement those goals. We have noticed that there have been some deficiencies in the leadership of CanGo Inc. We have also provided some recommendations for the management team to improve their weaknesses so that the company can continue to stay successful in achieving its goals and launching itself to the online gaming industry. (1) There is a lack of mission, vision and value in CanGo Inc. Liz, the founder and CEO started her company with an emergent strategy process. This strategy would not allow the company to stay successful in the long run. Liz thinks that the success of the company has nothing to do with strategic planning. As a result, she fails to recognize the importance of strategic management planning. This issue is the top priority to be addressed because it is the core foundation of the success of the company (BUSN 460, Week 1 Video, 2003). (2) However, the management fails to analyze the company’s position in the market to set reasonable long-term and short-term goals. The goals and expectations seem to be unrealistic or unachievable...
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...Week’s Team Objectives (defined in previous week): | Our team is to analyze week 1 and 2 videos and find key issues that CanGo is facing. We have to find 6 issues and recommendations for the videos. So we assigned 3 issues to find to each member and the remaining members were to do the SWOT and conclusion. | Work for Week’s Team Objectives Accomplished (defined in previous week): Each member is to review the video and find key issues to be resolved. We have split the tasks fairly so each member can be involved and gain some time. Review/Highlights of Team Video Analysis Report: As of today, we have finished the report because we had everybody get involved and like one say “Teamwork is the power”. Since it is a video analysis we had a lot of similarities to the issues found so I had to cut it short and take the important points. Diana and Carissa were assigned week 1 video. Celia, Amber and I work on week 2 video. Other ‘Consulting’ Work (other than Team Video Analysis Reports): We are working on a Powerpoint slides for the weeks to come to gain some time Progress toward Final Presentation (Qualitative and Quantitative): We have already started the research and task assignment . Working ahead of time is always good and that’s what we are doing. Comments (including each team member contributions/support): My team members are very loyal and reliable when it comes to accomplishing the work. We had a few timing issue with a member who is 8 hours ahead of us but...
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...things that they have to ensure are balanced and running properly. For CanGo they have the vision of where they want to be in the future and the start of a good internal structure to carry out those goals and vision. Where things seem to become off balanced for CanGo is in the areas of communication between departments, ensuring that full financial analysis have been completed before starting on a project, internal organization within the company, lack of professionalism between employees, and lack of concern for legality when it comes to company action. All of these issues if left uncorrected can pose a huge threat to the viability of CanGo’s business in the future. However, on the other hand if the following recommendations are put into play and the current issues are resolved it will only further and grow CanGo in their current state and in the future. Issues: 1. There seems to be a serious lack of communication between departments at CanGo. At any given time it is pretty apparent that employees do not seem to know what others are working on. 2. It does not seem that CanGo has done a proper full financial analysis regarding the new system; once again no project should be jumped into without proper analysis. 3. CanGo lacks of a strategic plan to train the personnel for new responsibilities. CanGo management is seriously considering entry into the online gaming market, a business of which CanGo management has limited understanding, while simultaneously attempting...
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...CanGo’s Operations Assessment & Recommendation Final Report Top Notch Consulting, Inc. Revision 1.1 Date –10/21/2012 Team B Linda Beckwith, Cecil Greene, David Hines, Rebecca Rodriquez, Deborah Thompson DeVry University Business 460, Senior Project September 29, 2012 Contents Executive Summary 3 SWOT Analysis 4 Market Analysis 5 Competitive Analysis 6 Financial Analysis 7 Strategic Recommendations 10 Conclusion 11 References 12 ------------------------------------------------- Executive Summary This report was commissioned to examine the ------------------------------------------------- SWOT Analysis David - ------------------------------------------------- Market Analysis Linda - ------------------------------------------------- Competitive Analysis David - ------------------------------------------------- Financial Analysis ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Strategic Recommendations Deborah - ------------------------------------------------- Conclusion Cecil - ------------------------------------------------- References Investopedia US, A Division of ValueClick, Inc. (2012). Investopedia.com. Retrieved October 5, 2012, from http://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/receivableturnoverratio.asp Investopedia US, A Division of ValueClick, Inc. (2012). Investopedia.com. Retrieved October 5, 2012, from http://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/inventoryturnover...
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...Shannon Gosha PSY 223 Early Childhood In the article “Factors that affect television viewing time in preschool and primary schoolchildren” was researched by a host of authors such as Siddika Songül Yalçin, Belma Turul, Nazire Naçar, Murat Tuncer, and Kadriye Yurdakök. Researchers conducted a study to explore excessive viewing of television (TV) that has been linked to aggressive behavior, violence and childhood obesity. Therefore, TV programs should be decided carefully for preschool age children, along with school age children. A cross-sectional study was conducted among preschool children and primary schoolchildren in Ankara during March and April 1999. Children were chosen from two day-care centers to detect the factors that affect TV viewing time and to evaluate their parents’ knowledge, attitudes and practices with regard to TV. The parents were asked to fill out a questionnaire about TV habits of their family, the number and location of TVs in the household and the effect of TV on children. Of 400 questionnaires, 350 answered the questions appropriately for this study. Children were divided into two groups, according to their age’s preschool children (3-6) and primary schoolchildren (7-11). Television viewing time was given daily, as a mean of weekday. 62% of children watch an average of 2 hours of television each day, and 8.3% of children watch 4 hours of TV a day. The overall viewing of too much TV can distract children from their homework, make the children a passive...
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...Dear Mr.Mohamed Trust you’re Ok & Wishing this e-mail finds very well I’m very pleased to have been given the opportunity to put forward Gras Savoye Egypt Insurance services and I believe that we can bring a real fresh and innovating approach to your insurance program and placement that will result to better administrate your current covers with following :- Truly Independent Advice & Technical advice Competitive Pricing with established Higher Education Insurers Enhanced Insurance Coverage & Focus on Pro-active Risk Management During our meeting we have discussed a lot of matters related to your current insurance program and also I presents that our services will include the claim advice and handling and any insurance consultant advisory of the current situation. Please find herewith attached file of Gras Savoye Presentation and the appointment letter looking forward to find it informative and satisfactory. Accordingly our scope of work will be mutually determined during our further meeting that we will be very pleased to arrange with company executives ,meanwhile find a summary of our scenarios of remuneration and our scope of work :- If were appointed as “Consultants”; our remunerations would be on fee bases that would be determined on the type/scope of work that we shall conduct. If were appointed as “Brokers”; our remuneration would be commission based that would be embedded in your insurance premium(s) and would be collected from...
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...SEC420 Fortification Exercise Homework Submission Form Student Name: Course Section: Instructor Name: Instructions: 1. Once you have completed each of the Security layouts for the simulation, you will need to capture the screen image and paste it into this document for each of the three (3) building scenarios. To perform a screen capture, perform the following steps: a) Return to the Fortification Exercise window for the diagram that you would like to capture. b) Maximize the screen using the Maximize window icon in the upper right corner c) Press the “Print Scrn” button in the upper right section of your keyboard. d) Switch to this Microsoft Word document, click beneath the appropriate section, and select Edit\Paste (or CTRL V hotkeys) to paste your diagram. 2. Explain your reasoning/rationale for the individual security components you used and why you placed each where you did. 3. Save this with the file name SEC420_FE_Your Name.doc and upload this document to your Drop Box. | 1. Government Facility (paste capture below) Reasoning/Rationale: Guard: Having a roving patrol will protect and secure vital important assets. Also having a periodic roving patrol outside will prevent break in and have constant surveillance. Alarms: Having alarms on doors and windows will ensure that if an individual does attempt to break in will alert proper authorities and other person to check it out. Locks: Placing locks on all doors, windows and loading...
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