...Trust in my abilities and trust in my team that they have my back to push through the tough times. - Don't let the hard times bring you down, don't be middle third/ "mediocre": If I have a bad day at pitching, not a good batting day, not fielding right, my throws are wild, or whatever it may be I need to clear my head and remember I've got this. I've worked for this, that I have put in my effort and that I know how to play. I need to remember that I've got the skills to pull me out of those slumps. - "Positive or poison": I need to stay positive and stay determined through and through, not just for me but for my team as well. If we're down in the score or having a bad day I need to be there with encouragement, tips, cheers, or whatever it takes to pull us out. I need to stay positive and determined....
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... | | Memo To: InterClean Management From: Students 1 CC: HR Manager Date: April 22, 2010 Re: New Sales Team – Job Analysis and Selection To help with our company’s new direction of selling full -service cleaning solutions, I have been asked to select a new sales team from the combined employees of Interclean and EnviroTech. To accomplish this task, I needed to develop a new job analysis for the sales team, consider a workforce planning system, identify a selection method, and select the team members by using the job analysis and the selection method. This memo explains this process. Nice intro Job Analysis You may think that I should just select the appropriate employees without doing a job analysis. I contend that job analysis not only helps define a job, it gives our company a competitive advantage because we will understand the type of employees our company needs to accomplish our new sales initiative (Siddique, 2004, p. 219). Good I think we can all agree that giving our company a competitive advantage is worthwhile. A job analysis consists of a job description that lists the task requirements and a job specification that lists the worker requirements (Cascio, 2005, p. 158). Task requirements are the tasks or functions that will need to be done on the job. Worker...
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...Marketing Plan: Final Paper Marketing_MKT421 February 28, 2011 Mr. Guisinger Phase One of Team D Sporting Goods marketing strategy was an overview of Team D Sporting Goods store as well as a description of our products and services. Along with the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, and trends (SWOTT) the importance of marketing to the success of Team D Sporting Goods store will be stated. Furthermore the marketing research approach we have chosen to develop our marketing strategy and tactics for Team D Sporting Goods will be addressed in detail. Phase Two discussed the strategy in target marketing the segmentation criteria, the description of organizational buyers and consumers of the product or service and it’s factors, and analyzing the competitors and definition of competitive landscape for the company’s product and services. In the third phase of Team D Sporting Goods marketing strategy will expand our marketing strategy by describing the attributes of our service and products, as well as the pace at which our product will move through the product life cycle. Team D Sporting Goods identified the positioning and differentiation strategies for our services and products along with the appropriate price strategy that should be used for our products. Finally, Team D Sporting Goods has completed the marketing plan. This paper is to compile all elements of the marketing strategy with finalizing key concepts. The appropriate place and promotional strategy...
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...group assignment (Marketing Plan) major assignment the marketing plan During this semester students will be working in teams (4-5 people) to develop a marketing plan for a product or service of one of the icon Australian brands. It will be a specific product or service rather than a company, as the company may have several products each requiring individual plans. It is product or service that is easy to research, one that has been written about regularly in marketing magazines or one that students have access to the information via a personal contact. No direct contact is allowed with organisations unless students have a prior personal or professional relationship. All research should otherwise be desk research, observation and educated guesses. Students will be developing the marketing plan in three separate stages: in the stage one students will conduct a research, make an analysis, and prepare a detailed presentation of their findings. In the stage two students will develop a specific marketing strategy and marketing mix and present them in the class. In the stage three, students will write a report. If any of the group members leave the group, the remaining group members must complete the work without any concession and compensation. - Stage 1 Market research and analysis – tutorial presentation and discussion - Stage 2 Marketing strategies and marketing mix – tutorial presentation and discussion - Stage 3 Summary report of...
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...have also been provided on the Unit website on VU Collaborate which can be reached via the Student Portal at vu.edu.au/student-tools/myvu-student-por tal. It is important that you access your Unit website regularly. Acknowledgement of Country We respectfully acknowledge and recognise the traditional owners, their Elders past and present, their descendants and kin as the custodians of this land. Introduction to the unit Unit Title: Applied Business Challenge Unit Code: BPD3100 Other details: Key staff Unit co-ordinator Name: Andrew Stein Location: CF1024 Contact number: 061-99194332 Contact email: Andrew.stein@vu.edu.au Name: Maria De Sensi Location: G425 Contact number: 061-99195484 Contact email: Maria.De Sensi@vu.edu.au Teaching team Campus: Days and times: Year: 2015 Semester/Dates: 1 Credit Points: 12 alagarania@sunway.edu.my Sunway KL Campus Hector.Elias@vu.edu.au VU Sydney Campus Petert@sunway.edu.my Sunway JB Campus Unit Guide Version Number: V17-5 Last Validation Date:February 5th 1/12/14 @ 2 PM Unit description This unit is the third unit in the Business Challenge stream covering three broad areas of specialised business knowledge, interna tionalisation, personal attributes and professional skills....
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...MSIS604/OMIS378 Information Systems Policy & Strategy Spring Quarter, 2013—2 April/13 June Instructor: Dr. Darrel A. (Del) Mank dmank@scu.edu Cell Phone: 408-605-3983 Office Hours: By appointment Office: Room 321W Lucas Hall Class Days: TTh Class Period: 5:45pm—7:00pm Class Room: 310 Lucas Hall Text: Schilling, Melissa A.; STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT of TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION, McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 4th Edition, 2013 ISBN 978-0-07-802923-3 Cases* Hewlett-Packard Merced Division SAP America VMware Inc., 2008 IBM and Eclipse (A) Oracle vs. salesforce.com Enterprise IT at Cisco (2004) Google Inc. *All Cases are from the Harvard Business Review and are available at the SCU Bookstore Course Objectives: • To develop an awareness of the range, scope, and complexity of the issues and problems related to the strategic management of ISTs. • To develop an understanding of the “state of the art” of the strategic management of IST and IST innovation. • To develop a conceptual framework for assessing IST capabilities. • To develop insight concerning the skills necessary to be effective as an IST manager. • To offer some practice in defining and working out strategic management problems related IST innovation and implementation. Course Description/Perspective: The course focuses on the strategic management and deployment of information systems and technologies (ISTs) to improve business competitiveness. The...
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...marketing principles Assessment Task 2 Major group assignment (Marketing Plan) major assignment the marketing plan During this semester students will be working in teams (3 - 4 people) to develop a marketing plan for a product or service of one of the following icon Australian brands: Meadow Lea - Polyunsaturated margarine spreads Nestle – Milo (chocolate and malt powder) Sanitarium – Weetbix Holden – UTE (coupe utility vehicle) Jetstar Airways – Domestic flights RMIT- Associate Degree in Business or Diploma of Commerce Carlton & United Breweries – Crown Lager Fairfax Media – The AGE As you can see it is a specific product or service rather than a company, as the company may have several products each requiring individual plans. It is product or service that is easy to research, one that has been written about regularly in marketing magazines or one that students have access to the information via a personal contact. No direct contact is allowed with organisations unless students have a prior personal or professional relationship. All research should otherwise be desk research, observation and educated guesses. You will be developing the plan in two separate stages - Assignment 1 and Assignment 2. Assignment 1 will be marked promptly and returned with feedback so that you can revise and resubmit it as part of Assignment 2- the completed marketing plan. assignment 1 Assignment 1 concentrates...
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...Henry Tam and the MGI team Henry Tam and the MGI team Introduction When working with a team there is a number of issues that a leader of a group should address so as to ensure that the group works effectively. In group dynamics a leader should seek to understand the behavior of the team members and how the team works in attempting to make a decision or to solve a problem. A leader with expertise in team processes can help the team in achieving its objectives and aims by analyzing how the team is functioning in terms of decision making and problem solving, the leader should also be able to intervene and change the team’s operating behavior. A team is usually gathered for the purpose of accomplishing a given task, In the case of Henry Tam and the MGI team they are required to come up with a business plan within the contest deadline. There are a number of issues that challenge the team like team communication, analysis of issues and achieving group outcomes. In addressing this issues there needs to be a leader with expertise in group processes who will be helpful in playing the role of a facilitator. The team leader usually has a very strong influence on the team as he/she is tasked with the role of shaping the outcomes of the group. The influence that such a team leader has on the team will be determined by numerous factors namely; the leader’s personality, relative age, sex appearance, income, race and also the organizational structure in the given organization...
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...Why Mattel’s Reverse Logistics Team Gets All the Resources They Need by Paul Rupnow Editor, Reverse Logistics Professional Report While the Reverse Logistics teams at most companies are resource strapped and operating on shoestring budgets, Nancy Maclean’s team at Mattel gets all the resources she needs. Maclean and her team have developed a very effective program to monitor, manage and prevent Returned Goods. Their work has resulted in a reduction in Mattel’s cost of defective returns by over 50% over the last 5 years. For a large company like Mattel, with brands like Barbie, American Girl, Hot Wheels and Fisher Price, any reduction in product return costs can add up to a significant impact in profitability. Maclean, the Director of Warranty Returns and Analysis, has kindly outlined some of her key elements to successful Reverse Logistics at Mattel. The company and her team have to be very creative about their solutions to handle product returns, since there is a wide range of products; some very low tech inexpensive items such as a Hot Wheels car, some higher tech electronics items such as the Uno Attack electronic card shooter and some very expensive products such as hand painted collectors edition Barbie dolls. Her key elements are outlined below and there are some great lessons, tactics and best practices for all reverse logistics teams. Reliable Data Collection – When a customer wishes to return a Mattel product, they often take the products back to the retailer where they...
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...BUSN460 Senior Project Final Report and Presentation Guide Overview: The object of this course and this project is to provide you with a realistic situation that you are likely to face in the real world business environment. You'll be working with limited information, limited support from your client, within a limited time frame - and yet, you have to get up to speed in a new area quickly, and make informed professional recommendations based on your research and analysis. You and your team have been hired by CanGo as consultants to help them improve their fast-growing business. The management team at CanGo is busy, not entirely organized and somewhat overwhelmed by their success. They are looking to you as an objective, intelligent, experienced business person - and to your combined experience as a team to help them figure out what they should do in several areas of their business. CanGo can provide very little guidance to you - if they knew what they were doing they wouldn't have asked you for help! CanGo is your customer, and they are paying you a great deal of money, so the tone of your work on the project should be that of information addressed to the Board of Directors of this company, and it should be the best professional work of your (academic) career. You should approach this project as if your job depended on it - as if it were paying your mortgage and grocery bill. This project is your new job. In previous courses you have been given specific guidelines, templates...
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...must also be applied and cited within the paper. If you use verbatim quotes, put them within quotation marks, cite the reference and include a page number. This assignment is an opportunity for you to relate what you learned about the value chain in Unit 1 to your own life. For example, one element of a value chain is the focus on competitive advantage, so you might wish to elaborate on this aspect. Submit your completed paper into the Unit 1 Dropbox. Value Chain Analysis - Problem-Solving Training from MindTools.com You are here: > Home > Strategy Tools > Value Chain Analysis ... Value Chain Analysis is a useful tool for working out how you can create the greatest ..... Personal Goal Setting: Planning to live your life your way · How Good Is Your Time ...www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTMC_10.htm Value Chain Analysis Achieving Excellence in the Things That Really Matter Value should be added at each link. © iStockphoto/melhi Value Chain Analysis is a useful tool for working out how you can create the greatest possible value for your customers. In business, we're paid to take raw inputs, and to "add value" to them by turning them into something of worth to other people. This is easy to see in manufacturing, where the manufacturer "adds value" by taking a raw material of little use to the end-user (for example, wood pulp) and converting it into...
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...telecommunications company in Africa, and also in the Middle East. I am responsible for leading, monitoring, coaching and motivating a team of 20 to 40 call centre representatives to achieve team Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). In addition to these responsibilities, I have to actively participate in any project management opportunities with the department and was also assigned a number of key accounts to manage. I am expected to plan and organise the management of these key accounts within my team. As the manager of a team, my challenge was to provide effective leadership that will help in motivating the team members to align their behaviour with the company’s core values. Despite the fact that I was not given formal training on managing, leading and motivating a team, my team performance was always above average. I look forward to handling more challenging management role that is why I am in IBAM to pursue a Master in Business Administration (MBA) As a result of the lapses noticed in my skills of managing people and myself, I hope to focus my Personal Development Plan (PDP) on the skills identified in this piece of work, known as the ‘big 5s’. This piece of work will deal with two main areas of, skills audit to identify the skills to develop, and a SMART action plan to help me achieve perfection. However, I will also leverage on SWOT analysis and the Kolb learning cycle in identifying the ‘big 5s’. 2.0 Skills Audit 2.1 Definition The skills audit is ‘a convenient way of...
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...* Team to arrange meeting with assigned teaching team member to discuss progress on developing their venture plan. * Discuss planned pitch. ------------------------------------------------- Week 10 – Teamventure Pitch Tutorial * Teams to pitch their venture idea to a panel and the classroom. * The best teams will be selected to pitch again to a panel of experts in week 11. ------------------------------------------------- Week 11 – Pitch tba * The best teams to pitch in an exclusive final judged by industry experts. Assessment details 10% IndividualComplete by 6 Feb | TeamMatch questionnaireAt the beginning of the semester you will be matched into a team using TeamMatch software. Instructions and a groupID for TeamMatch will be emailed to you in the week beginning 30 January. | 10% IndividualReady for your tutorial wb 13 Feb | Prepare a short presentation on a Business Model PatternFollowing on from Lecture 2 & 3, you will be asked to prepare a short presentation on a business model pattern for a company of your choice. Detailed brief will be posted on Studynet in the week beginning 6 Feb. | 10% IndividualReady for your tutorial wb 20 Feb | Prepare for Ideation workshopWork through the online lecture and prepare the tasks outlined. | 10% Individual5% TeamReady for your tutorial wb 12 Mar | My First MillionThe overall assessment will be based on a combination of the following criteria: * Completion of the multiple-choice exam after...
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...1. Why are data analysis skills and thinking so important to spend analysis? Can’t software applications be used to generate the information needed automatically? In today’s world, advanced technology has provided us with a lot of tools to help sift through and process huge amount of data. However, in spite of all this, the fact remains that data is useless without the skills to analyze it. Critical thinking is still a skill inherent only to humans. Software applications are much capable of generating data automatically, however, only one equipped with data analysis skills can translate that data into information that can support corporate decision-making. Equipped with the right data analysis skills, one would be able to select the significant data from the wide array available and turn it into actionable information. These skills are important in spend analysis as the most critical stage is making sense of the output and deriving strategic solutions based on the information available. The employment of data analysis skills and critical thinking in spend analysis is necessary to reach the goal of enjoying the benefits of spend data management which include reduced material and services costs, better supplier and product management, and lower inventory costs. 2. How might a structured process such as Six Sigma methodology be useful here? The Six Sigma Improvement Model known as DMAIC can be used in implementing spend management in the enterprise with the aim of continuous...
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...business management. In my personal development plan, I hoped I can achieve certain academic goals and find the path to becoming a great business consultant in my future career. To be a good consultant, besides systematic and diverse knowledge, you also need to possess the ability to adjust yourself in high-pressure society, stay creative and keep learning from each other. Thus, to achieve my design, I always regard time management, critical thinking, and good teamwork as the most important skills and competencies. A Process of Improvement Straight off, it’s time for me to state why I cherish these three skills and share my experience about how they were improved during this year of study and some regrets I had. Time management is important because it has always been a proper way for me to face stress and overwhelming tasks. In fact, for college students, time management can be used as an effective way to reduce academic stress (Misra, Ranjita; McKean, Michelle, 2000). Similarly, when we enter the workplace, the skill of good time management can also enable us to function under strict deadlines and carry out business plans successfully. To be honest, before taking this module, I was used to procrastinate and tend to set forth the work while the deadline is approaching. This is unquestionably not a good idea, because the stress which is meant to be spread into 10 to 15 days, concentrating to 2 to 3 days now. The consequences are sometimes poor organised essays and even more worse...
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