Business Policy and Strategy

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1. The influence of social media is huge. In your own experience, how have you seen social media represent a major threat or opportunity for a company? What advice could you offer a company to overcome these threats or to take advantage of the opportunities presented by social media? 2. we discussed the concept of market segmentation, which is defined as product positioning that subdivides the market to target specific customers. Identify a product that you have seen with either effective or ineffective market segmentation. Explain what makes the market segmentation effective or ineffective. 3. Describe a conflict situation that requires you to use 1) avoidance, 2) defusion, and 3) confrontation in order to solve the problem. 4. Define and give an example of business analytics. Why is this technique becoming so widely used in organizations today? Responses should be at least 200 words in length per question.

The purpose of this assignment is to analyze asset ratios to make recommendations for generating revenue and increasing company profitability through asset utilization.

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Description Assume that the chief financial officer (CFO) has asked you to analyze the use of company assets and make recommendations for revenue generation and increasing profitability.

The CFO has requested you summarize your findings in a 250-500 word memo addressed to the CFO, but one that could be shared with other stakeholders. In the Form 10-K for the company you selected in the Topic 1 assignment, review and study the assets as reported for the past 3 years.

Using the correct formulas and a separate tab for each analysis, calculate the following ratios using Excel. Receivables turnover Average collection period Inventory turnover Average days in inventory Asset turnover Using the results of your ratio calculations, provide recommendations about how to improve one of these assets: receivables, inventory, or property, plant, and equipment for the company, as a means of generating revenue and increasing profitability. Include discussion and explanation of the following within the memo. Summarize how well the company is collecting on its receivables based upon the type(s) of products the company sells and the industry in which it competes.

Justify your speculation by using supporting facts from the income statement, balance sheet, or other resources. Summarize how effective the company is in managing inventory based upon the type(s) of products the company sells and the industry in which it competes. Include discussion about whether the inventory turnover ratio is increasing or decreasing, what is causing the ratio increase/decrease, and whether the total value of inventory is increasing or decreasing on the balance sheet. Summarize how well the company is utilizing its assets to generate net income.

Justify your assessment with examples of other ratios and values on the income statement and balance sheet. Make a recommendation to improve one of these assets: receivables, inventory, or property, plant, and equipment. Use information from the ratio calculations, income statement, balance sheet, or other resources to justify your recommendation and explain how accepting the recommendation will generate revenue and increase company profitability. Submit the Excel file that contains your ratios and the Word file memo to your instructor.

Business Risk Analysis of ABC Corporation

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Business Risk Analysis of ABC Corporation

Paper details:

Conduct a VERY DETAILED (yet fictitious) business risk analysis/audit of ABC Corporation (a Tier I automotive parts manufacturer for Toyota and Nissan) using the texts that I uploaded, plus your own reference material. • At a minimum, the topics that should be covered in the fictitious analysis/audit are contracts and agreements, business insurance, human resources/employment, corporate finance, cyber-security, and operations. • Present what policies and procedures are currently in place to reduce such risks as well as others policies/procedures that are missing and need to be put in place. • Provide detailed and specific recommendations on how to mitigate the current and future risks in each category. Please be very creative and use sound business examples of what is currently going well and what is not. • Highlight the fictitious risks of each category as well as when and how they should be reported to governing bodies (Board of Directors), executive leadership, stockholders, customers, employees, and government agencies. • At appropriate places in the paper, clearly explain the tension between risk, innovation, and investing in the organization. • The paper should have brief Introduction and Summary sections. Note: This assignment is NOT a generic academic paper on the textbook theory or explanation of business risk. It should be a VERY DETAILED (FICTITIOUS) ANALYSIS/AUDIT of ABC Corporation’s current business risks and should both read and flow accordingly. This paper must be written APA style and be at least 10 FULL pages in length, excluding cover page and reference list.

Customer journey analysis

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Customer journey analysis

1. Please read paper requirement and all files before you start. 2. Please only use academic and official sources. 3. No direct quotation. Similarity should under 10%including reference list 4. Please follow the paper structure/word limit, you final version should includes all parts as mentioned in the paper structure. 5. I have upload PPT, Draws on relevant theory to underpin analysis;. Lecture slides are not acceptable as a source. 6. Please check your paper with the Rubric before you delivery it 7. Please use academic vocabulary, no grammar errors 8. Please give me a draft of whatever you have at least 3 days before the deadline.

Information flow

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What events trigger the flow of information in and out of your system? What tracking mechanisms are in place? What technologies are being used for tracking the underlying events? What is the information infrastructure for handling the information flow? Diagrammatically represent the flow of information between your organization and adjacent entities (for example, these could be suppliers, customers, support organizations, government agencies, or partnering organizations). What security mechanisms are in place for obtaining information on events pertaining to your case study? What security mechanisms are in place in the organization? Who handles violations of organizational policies? What is the range of their responsibilities? Who do these officers respond to? Which office oversees the operations of the business for your organization? What are brokers? What types of precautions are taken in order to establish minimum trust with brokers? Which standard organizations or governmental agencies oversee the operation of your organization?

Enterprise Architecture

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Enterprise Architecture

 

Paper details:

Research an enterprise that has implemented an Enterprise Architecture practice. This can be a publicly documented case or a company with which you have a direct relationship.

The paper must include information about a selection of no less than four of the following topic areas. Provide the information with sufficient detail so as to put it in context to the company and Enterprise Architecture in general. The significant content of this paper is a critical analysis of each of the decisions made by the company.

The critical analysis must be based on your cited research into the selected topic areas. An example of this: Present the stated reason the company created an EA practice then present industry research as to how their reason compares to those of other companies or the choice of EA framework as related to the reason for creation of the EA practice. Topic areas: a. Why did they create an EA practice b. What tools, frameworks, did they use c. How did they organize their EA organization d. What did they accomplish e. Have they assessed their maturity, and if so, how do they describe their maturity level f. What are the lessons learned g. What are the future plans

Adidas’s Investment Valuation

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Produce an investment recommendation report about Adidas. Report should be supported by the Valuation analysis, recommendation can be to buy if Valuation higher than market price, or to sell if Valuation lower. Please add and send me the Excel file holding the Valuation. Apply Financial modelling skills and valuation techniques, as well as use two suitable financial multiples. https://www.adidas-group.com/en/investors/overview/ Please make sure to use, Datastream, Bloomberg, Companies Website.

Business Strategy

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1.What are the four major external threats facing Chipotle and the four major opportunities? Realizing the importance of quantification in stating key factors, how could your factors be quantified? Identify specific estimates (numbers) for your factors. 2. Imagine you are working for a company that has $1 million to spend on a new strategy and is considering market development versus product development. In this case, what determining factors would be most important to consider? What recommendations would you make to the CEO?

PNC Financial Services Group – too big to fail

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PNC Financial Services Group – “too big to fail”

 

See attached file for instructions. Should be about 12-15 pages and about 3500 words for analysis. Please use PNC Financial Services Group for topic.

Apple Chain

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Read the case study “Apple: The Best Supply Chains in the World” on pages 628-630 in your textbook. Answer questions 3 and 4. Explain your answer in a clear and concise manner. Many supply chain professionals consider Apple’s supply chain to be the best in the world. I don’t. The reasoning appears to be that since Apple is one of the fastest growing and most profitable companies in the world, it must surely have one of the best supply chains too. This is a “halo effect” fallacy. Apple is the best in the world at innovative product development. Because the company develops hardware, software, and associated digital services—rather than just focusing on one dimension—it can provide an unmatched user experience. This allows Apple to capture high margins from its products and services. But by my definition, product development is not supply chain management; procurement, manufacturing, and logistics are. That said, Apple has a fascinating supply chain that is very different from traditional supply chains. This supply chain comes with pre-built advantages and disadvantages. On the advantage side, demand management is easier. Apple doesn’t have to get the demand forecast for a new product right. As long as it underestimates demand for a hot new product, Apple will have loyal customers clamoring for the new devices and willing to wait. In fact, the projected backlog leads customers to line up for hours before stores open to buy a new product. This helps to create marketing buzz. Because Apple has become so large, it has procurement advantages smaller rivals can’t match. Financial analysts are beginning to focus on Apple’s supply chain. Samsung lost $10 billion in market value when Apple placed a huge order for flash memory with Elpida, securing more than half of that company’s supply. Apple reportedly has price advantages in securing key components, manufacturing capacity, capital equipment, and airfreight capacity. Like other companies that have huge procurement clout, when Apple asks a supplier for a price quote, it demands a detailed accounting of how the manufacturer arrived at the quote, including estimates for labor and material costs and projected profit. Manufacturers can get hit with penalties for quality issues and warranty claims. Apple is becoming so big that even though it has a number of customized components that it has to pay extra for, the company’s cost structure is starting to resemble that of some of its rivals that only source common components. But other parts of the supply chain become more difficult for a company that differentiates itself based on product excellence. Apple works to lock up the supply of key components, particularly custom components, with exclusivity agreements. This serves to protect the uniqueness of its products. In some cases, Apple invests in capital equipment to make these special components (the company lends the production equipment to its manufacturing partner). At times this production machinery becomes Apple exclusive either because of exclusivity agreements or because Apple is so large that a backlog for the equipment becomes horrifically long. Managing new product launches is also more important for a “fashion” manufacturer. The process from design to production launch typically takes 10 months. This includes sourcing, testing, government approvals (like FCC approval for an iPhone), and factory dry runs. For weeks prior to the launch, factories work overtime to build hundreds of thousands of devices. Then they work more overtime to clear the backlogs.