...BUSS5000/CRITICAL THINKING IN BUSINESS Semester 1 2016 Assessment 4: Major Case Analysis and Evaluation Due date: Weight: Length: Monday, 23 May 10:00am on Blackboard via Turnitin 20% 1700 words (including references) Questions Read the ‘Emerging Nokia’ case that is accessible on the link that is on the BUSS5000 Blackboard site and then respond to the following questions. In responding to Question i and Question 11 below, your analysis you should only use the information that is provided in the case. Extra research can be done to substantiate your analysis and frameworks. 证实 i. Using the most relevant frameworks and concepts from those that we have covered in BUSS5000, critically evaluate and analyse the competition that Nokia faced between 1995 and 2010. ii. Identify and critically analyse any five (5) factors that you consider to have contributed to Nokia sustaining its competitive position during the 1995 and 2010 period. iii. Identify four (4) challenges you think Nokia might face in one of the emerging markets mentioned in the case and recommend ways that Nokia could address each of these challenges so as to enhance its performance post 2010. Justify your answer. Assessment Criteria Demonstrate knowledge of frameworks and business concepts covered in lectures, tutorials and unit readings. (35%) Show evidence of critical thinking in analysing the assigned case. (30%) Demonstrate responsible application of ethical and...
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...rubric found in Doc Sharing for specific information on how to fill in the form below. Type your answers on this form. Click Save As and save the file with the assignment name and your last name (e.g., NR360PL_KSA_Improvement_Plan_Form_Smith). When you are finished, submit the completed form to the KSA Improvement Plan Form Dropbox by the end of Week 2. KSA Competency(Write each competency you selected in a separate row.) | SMART Goal(Write a SMART goal for the competency.) | Evaluation Plan(Develop a brief plan on how you will achieve your SMART goal. Include how you will evaluate your success.) | Resources for improvement(Find and cite two resources that will help you achieve each goal.) | EXAMPLE:KSA competency: In Word—Inserting headers/footers | I will locate an MS Word 2007 tutorial and practice how to use the header function this week. | I will complete the tutorial. I will know I have achieved this goal when I can successfully insert a header and a footer into my Word document. | Resource #1:MS Office website: Word TutorialResource #2:APA template that is provided in Doc Sharing | KSA competency #1:Request an item from the Chamberlain library catalog. | I will log onto the chamberlain database and log into the library catalog and familiarize myself with its use through practice each week. | I will request an item from the library catalog. I will know this goal is achieved when I successfully obtain the items requested from the e-library. | Resource #1:http://library...
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...Flame School of Business Written Analysis and Communication II To : PGDM Students From : Danesh Gojer WAC II ASSIGNMENT 1 Case : Terracog Global Positioning Systems Class : Wednesday, 7 March, 2012 Assignment : You are Emma Richardson, Executive Vice President. Using the WAC format prepare a full report on your decision concerning Project Aerial. The report is to be sent to your direct boss – Richard Fiero, President. Deadline : 12 AM on Monday, March 12, 2012 in a soft copy format to the following address fsbwac@flame.edu.in. Please send the copy in both a doc or docx format as well as a PDF format. Guidelines for submission 1) Word limit Word limit for your report: 1200 (Exclude from the count the cover page, executive summary, the contents page, and any exhibits). Penalty for exceeding the word limit: one sub-grade if the total number of words is between 1201 and 1300; one full grade if the number of words is more than 1300. Please write down at the end of the assignment the number of words you have used in the body of the assignment. Please block the body (that is, the report excluding the executive summary, contents page, references, exhibits, and cover page) and use the word count in MS Word to arrive at the number of words. Any verbal tables (as opposed to predominantly quantitative tables) and footnotes (other than references) that you use in the body of the report should be counted. If you use any text boxes in the body of the...
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...Week 2 Homework Help 1. State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interests you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? If so, how? Submit a copy of the proposed regulation along with your responses to these five questions. The proposed regulation can be submitted as either a separate Word document (.doc) or Adobe file (.pdf). This means you will submit two attachments to the Week 2 Dropbox: (1) a Word doc with the questions and your answers and (2) a copy of the proposed regulation you used for this assignment. (10 points) Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) regulated interstate surface transportation between 1887 and 1995. This interests me because of the changes of transportation. Yes, it does affect me because they are doing price controls and entry controls on the collective vendor’s price setting in the United States transportation. 2. Describe the proposal/change. (10 points) It is regulated through varies transportation modes starting with the railroad industry and later the trucking and airline industry. 3. Write the public comment which you would submit to this proposal. If the proposed regulation deadline has already passed, write the comment you would have submitted. Explain briefly what you wish to accomplish with your comment. (10 points) Deregulation—freeing up the trucking market to permit much more flexible pricing and service...
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...Analysis Research Report: Product Selection and List of Sources Due Date: Jan 18, 2014 Max Points: 50.0 Description This is a Collaborative Learning Community assignment - 1. Identify a product that will be the focus of your research. The product might be one of personal interest (e.g., computers/electronics, cell phones, cars, food services, home health care) or concern (e.g., blood diamonds, tobacco). 2. In a Word document, briefly describe the consumer appeal and environmental factors that you think might influence the market for this product. 3. Also, propose how this product could have implications for ethical, social responsibility, or global issues in the market. Refer to “Research Report Outline” for a list of possible ethical and social responsibility issues in marketing. With instructor approval, you may also choose an issue that is not on the list. Do some preliminary research (on the Internet and/or in the GCU Library) to ascertain if source information on the product (and/or industry) is available. Avoid choosing a product for which data is difficult to find. Find a minimum of three sources that you think will provide sufficient information for your analysis and make a list for instructor approval. Submit the assignment for instructor approval by the end of Topic 1. Instructor must approve product selection and sources and will advise the student by the third day of Topic 2. You are not required to submit this assignment to Turnitin, unless...
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...within the last 6 months. Please be sure to choose a credible article from a reliable news resource. Your article may be on any type of microbe and may be a story about the positive effects or negative effects of a particular microbe. However, You may not discuss an organism that you have already discussed in your week 1 or week 2 discussion. You will read the article and submit a 200 to 300 word student original summary of the article in Microsoft Word format (.doc or .docx) only. You may discuss the findings of the article as well as your personal thoughts about the story. You must convey the information in your article by paraphrasing, as direct quotation in science is not acceptable. Your document should follow APA Format with regard to font, font size, margins and referencing. You should prepare a one page document with the title at the top and full reference in APA format, including the full URL of the news article, at the bottom of the page, following your short essay/summary. (Separate title page, abstract, & separate reference page are not required for this assignment.) Please attach your completed assignment word doc to the Microbe in the News Dropbox. This is due by 11:59 PM EST on Sunday. Grading Rubric: 10 points grammar/spelling, 10 points APA formating including appropriate reference with URL, 10 points assignment met...
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...1. Where and how would you borrow for a car or home mortgage? Complete a credit application from a bank, credit union or other lending institution. For "walking around" money? Open up a checking account at a bank and use the debit card to get cash from an ATM or apply for a credit card and use it to get a cash advance or borrow from my Mom. 2. Where and how would a farmer borrow to finance a new crop? Buy more land? Buy machinery? To finance all three a farmer can complete an application at a bank or can apply for a loan from the Farm Service Agency (FSA). FSA is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). 3. Where and how would a Large Company borrow to finance inventory? To build a new factory? To buy another company. Companies can borrow from banks or sell stock and issue bonds to raise money. 4. Where and how would a city borrow to build a new baseball stadium? New schools? Replace a sewer system? Cities can issue municipal bonds where to raise money for such new projects. 5. Where an how would the Federal Government borrow to finance the Federal Debt of over $17 trillion? The Federal government issues debt by selling treasury securites suchas bonds notes, savings bonds. Compose a document and attach the file in Microsoft Word (.doc, .docx) or Rich Text (.rtf) format. If I can't open your attachment you will receive a zero. If you have any questions about how to format your work contact ANGEL...
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...discussed as factors in your decision. Formatting using the CLI, while works fine for simple forms, is too limiting for complex documents. We have not gotten far enough to input things like pictures/graphs/diagrams ect, but when using a GUI I know from personal use that it is relatively simple. I will say, however, that when dealing with formatting from version to version of a program (lets say from a .doc to a .docx) can be frustrating. I have had times that there was no way that the file could be fixed, and that I had to make a whole new document, because the newer program would just not accept the old file in its original format. This is an advantage when using the CLI. .txt is .txt no mater what program it was created on, or platform that you were using. This is a HUGE advantage that using the CLI has over the GUI. If I am using Open Office on a Linux system to create a document, and then you want to open that same document using Microsoft Word on a Windows system there are huge problems in the “conversion” process. Even if you save said file using Open Office as a .doc file, when opening with Word, Its just not right. I think we have all ran into this issue, and it can be vexing. So I think that using the CLI to create and manipulate files is, overall, more efficient; we will always be visual beings and want to have our pretty buttons to...
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...Facts: Oklahoma State University provided Professor Eric Angevine with a computer linked to the university network, and through it to the Internet. Angevine used this computer to download over 3,000 pornographic images of young boys. After viewing the images and printing some of them, he deleted the files. Tipped off by Professor Angevine’s wife, police officers seized the computer and turned it over to a police computer expert who retrieved the pornographic files that the professor had deleted. The Oklahoma State University computer policy states that: The contents of all storage media owned or stored on University computing facilities are the property of the University. Employees cannot use University computers to access obscene material. The University reserves the right to view or scan any file or software stored on a computer or passing through the network, and will do so periodically to audit the use of University resources. The University cannot guarantee confidentiality of stored data. System administrators keep logs of file names, which may indicate why a particular data file is being erased, when it was erased, and what user identification has erased it. The trial court held that federal agents did not need a warrant to search Professor Angevine’s office computer because he had no expectation of privacy. The judge sentenced him to fifty-one months in prison for “knowing possession of child pornography.” The professor appealed. Issue: Did Professor...
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...MGMT520 Legal, Political, and Ethical Dimensions Professor Deardurff Assignment I By Rodney L. Joash | | 1. State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interests you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? If so, how? Submit a copy of the proposed regulation along with your responses to these five questions. The proposed regulation can be submitted as either a separate Word document (.doc) or Adobe file (.pdf). This means you will submit two attachments to the Week 2 Dropbox: (2) a Word doc with the questions and your answers and (2) a copy of the proposed regulation you used for this assignment. (10 points) DEPARTMENT OF HOMELANDSECURITY Office of the Secretary-Nondiscrimination in Matters Pertaining to Faith-Based Organizations-I am interested in the proposed regulation because I am involved in a religion or faith base organization. This will affect the organization to received funds with other non-profit organizations. 2. Describe the proposal/change. Consistent with the President’sinitiative, this proposed rule would amend DHS’ regulations to make clear that faith-based organizations are eligible to participate in any social or community service programs established, administered or funded by DHS (including any component of DHS) (collectively, ‘‘DHS service programs’’), and are eligible to seek and receive Federal financial...
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...To : OCAD Students From : Danesh Gojer ASSIGNMENT 3 Case : Sands Corporation Class : Friday November 20, 2015 Assignment : You are the Vice President of Manufacturing, Sands Corporation reporting directly to the President of the company. You are to write a full report on the present predicament facing the company. The report will be read and used by the President of the company. Deadline : 5 PM on Sunday, November 22, 2015 in a soft copy format to the following address danesh1@rediffmail.com. Please send the copy in both a doc or docx format as well as a PDF format. Groups : This assigment is to be done in groups. However no group is to have more than four members. Please include all the names of the group members in the submission. Guidelines for submission 1) Word limit Word limit for your report: 1,200 (Exclude from the count any exhibits). Penalty for exceeding the word limit: one sub-grade if the total number of words is between 1,201 and 1,300; one full grade if the number of words is more than 1,300. Please write down at the end of the assignment the number of words you have used in the body of the assignment. Any verbal tables (as opposed to predominantly quantitative tables) and footnotes (other than references) that you use in the body of the report should be counted. If you use any text boxes in the body of the report, please count the words in them separately and add it to the total number of words quoted. Any attempt to cheat...
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...term of this course. Then put in routine activities in your life. This must include work, family, and church activities. Schedule in everything that you know is happening in your life during this course. Is there a wedding, family reunion, weekend trip, church supper, team sporting event, concert, movie, charity work, etc. that you will be engaged in? If so, add it to the calendar. The calendar cells will expand to accommodate your entries. Once you have added all those activities, write in the course assignments, based on the deadline for each. Use red font (ink) to show your course assignments. Now that you have completed your calendar, review it carefully, and consider the following questions in an honest assessment of your time. 1. Are your days/weekends full? 2. Are you surprised at how little time is left once all your commitments are included? 3. How can you plan time for school activities, given what you know of the commitments you have in the months of this course? 4. Is school just “one more thing” in your schedule, or have you given thought to minimizing or eliminating other commitments while you are working towards your degree? 5. Is there any “me time” in your schedule as it appears now? 6. Are there any non-negotiable events in your calendar, or are you free to rearrange it to accommodate your educational pursuits? Your responses to the above 6 questions must be included in a single paragraph of at least 100...
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...11:59 p.m. (ET) on the due date. Once you have completed the calendar as a preview/planner for work that is to come, take a few moments to review how you are doing with time management so far. Look back at the previous modules/weeks and consider your work this module/week to evaluate your use of time. Below the calendar, write a reflective paragraph (at least 100 words in 4–6 sentences) that describes (1) how you used time well to complete your course work, (2) what did not go very well, and (3) how you plan to change so that the problems are not repeated. Also reflect on the following questions: Are you seeing any changes in the way you think about managing your time? Have you now minimized/eliminated any activities or changed any routines you followed before beginning this course in order to finish your course reading and assignments? How have you handled unexpected intrusions into your scheduled time plan? Once you have completed both the calendar and the written review of your time, copy and paste your calendar and reflection from Time Management Preview and Reflection 1 at the bottom of this document. Save the document (containing all the work...
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...Directions for BI 101 Week 1 Assignments Remember, in order for you to succeed in this course, you must be extremely self-motivated and able to learn complex information through directed studies and activities. Because of the amount of information we cover, it is IMPERATIVE that you do not fall behind. Falling behind in this course will almost certainly guarantee a failing grade. Since this course is completely online, it is up to you to make sure that all assignments, quizzes, tests, and labs are completed as scheduled. It is also your responsibility to make sure that you learn the material well each week. If you have any questions or problems as you work through the course, please don’t hesitate to let me know. Assignments For Lecture This Week 1. Take the orientation quiz in the “Welcome! Start here first” folder which is under the “Lessons” tab. This should be done AFTER you have read the syllabus and completed all orientations for this course. You must get a 90% on this to continue in the course. You may retake it as many times as you need to get a 90%. 2. Read chapters 1 & 2 in your text. 3. Download and watch the Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 PowerPoint lecture outlines. These are found in the “Week 1 Assignments” folder under the “Lessons” tab. *Make sure you take notes as you read your text and watch the PowerPoints. Studies show that students retain much less when they only read information as opposed to reading it, writing it down, drawing...
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...Ways to Stop Child Poverty “Child Poverty” Each country has its own definition of the poverty line, or the minimum annual income necessary for an adequate standard of living. In developed countries such as the United States, this is relatively high. However, for billions of other people around the world, living in poverty means living on an income of approximately one dollar a day. This condition affects not only adults, but the children in their care as well. More than half of the children living in developing countries have a severe deprivation of one basic human need and over one third of the children in these countries are living in conditions of absolute poverty in which basic human needs are not being met, including the need for adequate food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education, information, and access to social services. The Millennium Development Goals articulated in 2000 by the United Nations address these issues with the hope of severely reducing poverty by the year 2015 (United Nations, 2006). However, although progress is being made toward meeting these goals in many areas, other areas still show little or no progress. Much more work is still needed. Poverty cannot be completely eradicated, as it largely caused by human factors. Over the past years there has been a lot of Poverty Alleviation Programs designed to break the cycle of poverty in many households and communities in the world. The result is remarkable, but there...
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