Critically analyse the strategic issues facing a organisation and assess the potential impact of trends upon its strategy

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This assignment assesses your ability to critically analyse the strategic issues facing a organisation and assess the potential impact of trends upon its strategy. This task also assesses your ability to critically evaluate the usefulness and relevance of a firm’s internal resources and capabilities in the light of industry developments. Being able to use appropriate analysis to understand the key issues and make decisions relating to strategy is one of the key skills of strategic thinking.

Advance Financial Management

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https://www.capitaliq.com/CIQDotNet/Search/Search.aspx Individual Assignment – 20% Assignment Objectives Assume you have recently been recruited to manage an equity fund. Your line manager has allocated you a fund that has a nominal sum of Singapore dollars 100,000,000 and your task is to construct an equity portfolio consisting of no more than 10 stocks using a fundamental approach to stock selection. The stocks must be selected from the FTSE ST ALL Share Index. You are required to prepare a report to your manager for approval which provides the philosophy behind your selection process and explains why customers should invest in your fund. The report is aimed at household investors. General tips: • Although you are free to choose your fundamental-based approach to stock selection, given we have spent some time discussing value strategy, it might be wise to choose a value approach. • Remember the Buffett quote: “No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things take time. You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.” Don’t worry that you will not know how they perform over the holding period. Remember, the holding period for value strategies tend to be quite long – longer than the time you have to hand in this assignment. • Another useful Buffett quote: “It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.” In other words, don’t allow yourself to feel swamped by this assignment. The basics of value investing are straightforward. The structure of your report should be as follows: 1) The pitch to the customer (20 marks) This should be a fairly brief and concise account of the philosophy behind the selection process. It should be non-technical (no graphs or tables) and written in such a way that non-specialists can understand. Tips for pitch to the customer: • Remember who your audience is. You should assume they have not received an education in finance. • You should communicate the philosophy underpinning the management of the fund in a way that is accessible to an intelligent non-specialist. For example, is it an active or passive fund? Have the stocks been chosen because of a risk-return profile or because you have a system for identifying mispriced stocks? • Your clients are going to want to know whether this is a high or low risk fund. 2) The intellectual foundations of the selection process (40 marks) In this section, you should provide a more robust justification for your approach. In doing so, you are expected to refer to the theoretical and empirical literature which underpins your approach taking care to reference relevant research in the area. Tips: • It is crucial that you are clear whether your approach is premised on a belief in the EMH or in exploiting deviations from the EMH. • Explain why you adopt your chosen approach citing literature as appropriate. 3) A description of the stock selection process (40 marks) In this section you should provide a clear written description with appropriate equations (use equation editor in Word) to describe your method. Use historical and live market data from 20 May 2019 (Monday) to 8 August 2019 (Thursday). You should progressively do parts of the report as you trade . In addition, you should provide appropriate tables with descriptive statistics, including the risk of the portfolio. Tips: • Provide summary stats for any metrics that you use to guide your stock selection. • Be careful to present information in a clear manner which is easy on the eye. This especially applies to tables and any equations you use. • In preparing tables, think about what information is useful to justify your stock selection. • Try to avoid providing pages and pages of tables and graphs. If you’re wise about how you construct tables, you can present a lot of information in each table. • You are not allowed to use derivatives, such as options or any short selling. • As the fundamental approach is used, you are not allowed to trade in and out of any given stock more than once. Word Limit: 2,000 Your report should: • Be written in a plain style, using subheadings and lists where appropriate. • Be properly referenced acknowledging all the sources you have used, and only the sources you have used, in the body of the text and at the end in a section headed ‘References’. • Include evidence of locating and reading sources beyond the suggested initial reading. Sources of Data The main sources of data are Capital IQ, Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, and others. References The main references are listed below, but you can easily find other sources in the library. Ackert and Deaves (2010), Behavioural Finance: psychology, decision making and markets, especially pp. 63-65, 219-221 and chapter 19. Bird and Casavecchia (2007) ‘Sentiment and financial health indicators for value and growth stocks: The European experience’, European Journal of Finance, 769-793 Fama & French (1998) ‘Value versus growth: the international evidence’, Journal of Finance, 1975-1999. La Porta, Lakonishok, Shleifer, Vishny (1997) ‘Good news for value stocks: further evidence on market efficiency’, Journal of Finance, 859-874. Lakonishok, Shleifer, Vishny (1994) ‘Contrarian investment, extrapolation and risk’, Journal of Finance, 1541-1578. Piotroski and So (2012) Identifying Expectation Errors in Value/Glamour strategies: A fundamental analysis, Review of Financial Studies Piotroski, J.D. (2000) Value investing: The use of historical financial statement information to separate winners from losers, Journal of Accounting Research, 38, 141 Siegel, J.J (2014) Stocks for the long run, McGrawHill, chapter 12 Submission Requirements • Your final report should be submitted to Turnitin. There is no hardcopy submission to the Assessment centre. • The appendix with a spreadsheet of your trades should not be submitted to Turnitin. • An Online Moodle Assignment submission is required. The filename must be in this format ‘FT12 AFM_UP student number’ for FT students, and PT12 AFM_UP student number’ for PT students. • An assignment dropbox will be setup on the unit Moodle site for this. • Your online submission must be in a single WORD document, and to contain the cover page with your UoP student number, declaration, similarity index page, the report and appendices.

HR Challenge: Hire From Within or Outside

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HR Challenge: Hire From Within or Outside?

 

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Scenario You are a newly hired HR professional in a small private sector company that provides a broad spectrum of products for the cruise ship industry. The company repackages standard personal grooming products, perfumes, and lotions into smaller gift packages appropriate for customer appreciation gifts.

There are 300 employees in the firm and the organization has a history of a stable workforce with very limited turnover. Recently, the company gain

ed over 200 employees and there are a number of supervisory and managerial positions that need to be filled. The CEO has asked you to work with him to fill positions based on an organizational structure he has just created. He has indicated his preference for external candidates and feels no need to take any actions to notify or communicate the plans to the company’s existing employees. New supervisors and managers are needed in sales (one), marketing (one), operations (two), and security (one). Each of these areas has seasoned employees eager to compete for jobs though some may not be as qualified as external candidates. Currently, the company’s workforce is not representative of the demographic makeup of the surrounding community and there is a concern that because of this disparate impact the company may be at legal risk. Your Challenge You are now in a situation with a tough call to make. As the responsible HR professional, you must consider and decide which course of action will provide the greatest benefit for the company and its employees, and how to make a persuasive argument for your recommendation. Your options are to hire all of the needed new supervisors and managers from outside the organization, promote all from within the organization, or fill the positions from both within and outside the company. Assignment Instructions Prepare a 2–3-page plan that states your recommended course of action. Along with your recommendation, include the following: An analysis of how your proposed solution contributes to organizational goals and strategies. A description of the legal factors you considered in making your decision. A brief explanation of the role you will take to influence the eventual outcome. Consider aspects of leadership, negotiation, and consultation. A discussion of the two SHRM behavioral competencies you think are most directly applicable to a successful resolution of this challenge, and why.

Explaining how an organization can develop its own cloud

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Write a paper explaining how an organization can develop its own cloud. Include how tools such as OpenStack, VMware, HyperV, etc. can be used in the implementation. The requirements for your paper are: • Detailed explanation of how to develop an organization’s cloud including the use of related tools. • APA formatted including title page, reference page, and in-text citations. • Length of 2-3 pages, excuding the title and reference pages. • Minimum of 2 scholarly resources.

Technologies Disrupting the Electricity Markets and Utility Business Model

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Find a newspaper or internet article about how new technologies are disrupting electricity markets or the utility business model. Good sources would include major newspapers (New York Times, Wall Street Journal) as well as some industry web sites like Greentech Media, Utility Dive, RTO Insider, Power Magazine, Public Utilities Fortnightly, and IEEE Spectrum or IEEE Power and Energy Magazine. Once you choose your article, write up a couple of paragraphs and submit it to the drop box. One paragraph should describe what you learned from the article. A second paragraph should be some original thoughts. For example, if the article is describing a technology or demonstration project you could discuss how it might be disruptive to markets or business models. If your article is describing the impact that wind and solar are having on the power grid, you might discuss whether you agree or disagree with the article’s conclusions, and why.

Burlarley v. Wal-Mart Stores

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1. Review Case 25.2 on page 448 entitled Burlarley v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Using IRAC, how should this case be decided? 2. Review the Critical Legal Thinking Cases, Case 26.1 on page 475 entitled Vernon v. Schuster, d/b/a Diversity Heating and Plumbing. Using IRAC, how should this case have been decided? 3. Read the Ethics Case on page 546 of the textbook (Case 30.7) regarding Fuzzy Toys LLC. Using IRAC, who is liable to Catherine and for how much. How much will Catherine recover? Was it ethical for Angela, Yoko, and Serena to set up their toy business as an LLC? 4. Explain how buying and operating a franchise differs from starting up a regular business. What are the advantages of a franchise? What are the disadvantages of a franchise? Here is the text book:https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Xtmgm_XDk19Hs4u9D-9l-bh55_6sBgP7

Branding and Marketing Communications of Knorr

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A 1500 words essay on Branding and Marketing Communications of Knorr, Background: Knorr is the world’s 9th biggest food brand which has been used and trusted by millions of cooks across 87 markets. The Knorr cooking products range from stock cubes, soups, sauces to cooking chocolate. It is a trusted brand with a heritage stretching back 187 years. Globally, there has been a surge in interest in food so it could be argued that there never was a better time to be a food brand. The traditional category approach to marketing communications, of ‘mum cooking food for the kids’, might have appealed in the past but a different approach is needed for consumers today. *****Task: 1. Conduct some research into this brand – company, markets, products, sales etc. 2. Write an introduction to the essay where you provide the context for this global brand – the markets, the products, its sales etc. 3. Identify the key consumers of the brand. What are their characteristics? What part does this brand play in the lives of consumers who purchase this brand? 4. Discuss the approach to the positioning of the brand. What alternatives could they have taken? 5. Discuss how this brand advertises – on-line or offline or combinations. 6. Critically evaluate the marketing communication used by this brand. To what extent is it using integrated marketing communication using a range of digital and traditional tools? 7. Identify any circumstances which might have an impact on the effectiveness of the messages. 8. Briefly, evaluate the effectiveness of the marketing communications in achieving brand objectives. (It would be good to identify those brand objectives here first!). You may find it helpful to refer to particular campaigns such as the ‘Knorr: Love at first taste’ campaign as evidence. 9. REMEMBER THIS IS AN ESSAY Notes: 1. The essay should be 1500 words +/- 10% – excluding tables, charts, pictures, contents page, appendices and references. 2. The essay should follow the traditional pattern of introduction, main body of the essay and conclusion or summary. 3. DO NOT NUMBER or LABEL SECTIONS – as this would make it a report!!! 4. Please use paragraphs throughout – and do space between each paragraph. 5. Harvard referencing is to be used. 6. The numbering of each section in the brief above is there as a guide for you – do not number your paragraphs. 7. You can access some useful facts and figures on the ‘Knorr: Love at first taste’ campaign on the WARC site which you can access through the Sussex University library – electronic sources. 8. Why not have a look in a supermarket for the products of the brand.

WHAT TYPE OF BUSINESS

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Pick a small business or nonprofit organization, preferably one you care about. (Perhaps owned or run by a family member or friend [or yourself]). Pick a SMALL business or nonprofit—preferably one that you know well or care about. Please DON’T PICK A FRANCHISE OR MAJOR CHAIN! These are not allowed! Why a small business? You have more of an ability to learn about it, see its strengths and shortcomings, and develop a better marketing program for it. Please do NOT submit a project on a bar, a restaurant of any type, or a coffee shop. Experience has shown me that these projects do not work well. Then, clearly connecting what you are saying to the concepts or examples from the book or guidesheets, describe their marketing shortcomings—what are they doing wrong, and what might be improved? ***** If you simply say what the guidesheets or book say, without providing recommendations, you are not doing this correctly! For instance, if you give the 4Ps of the business as a description, but don’t discuss how to improve them in some detail, you are doing this wrong! ***** The course has several sections. Each one corresponds to a guidesheet. For instance, the first section covers the first few chapters! YOU MUST GIVE AT LEAST ONE RECOMMENDATION FROM 3 DIFFERENT SECTIONS OF THE COURSE! You can give more than one recommendation from a section, but you MUST use 3 different sections! You are trying to improve or innovate their marketing. Don’t use these exact words, but you might say something like: Chapter 5 (or any other Chapter) describes (and clearly explain a point from the chapter) and Acme Fabricators is not thinking about this. They could market better if they worked on this by (and discuss a solution). You only have 4 minutes! So don’t spend more than 45 seconds describing the business! Think about whether you are using time well. Include visual aids like charts to get your points across to save time. You only have 4 minutes! ***** Remember, only describe what they are doing to the degree that it helps you explain how you would make changes! Guidesheet 0: https://prezi.com/view/llKExiPQhXgONizlODJY/ Guidesheet 1: https://prezi.com/view/UB6kofVa4HPIhIOx8AC6/ Guidesheet 2: https://prezi.com/view/yrB4cWIAazuRyXlAya3a/ Guidesheet 3: https://prezi.com/view/u4eLjSz3unEFAFxYsgrF/

KPI / SWOT ANALYSIS HOW INTERNET OF THINGS IOT PLAYS PART IN THE ORGANIZATION

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KPI / SWOT ANALYSIS, HOW INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) PLAYS PART IN THE ORGANIZATION

 

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the company i need the research on is 3m ( www.3m.com) i need to reserach their KPI (key performance indicator) / SWOT analysis and how the internet of things (iot) plays part in the organization.

Goals & Objectives for a Sport Marketing Plan

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Tampa Bay Buccaneers Sport Marketing Plan Goals and Objectives Feedback from the Professor Be more specific with your marketing plan goals Re-write the first goal and you may want to even split it into two goals. One focused on sportswear and the other services How would you measure these goals and what are your baseline measures? For example, if I wanted to increase attendance by 10 % by the end of the year from last year I can simply look at the data on attendance and measure.

Instructions to the Writer: a) Read the feedback from the professor b) Re-write the first goal and you may want to even split it into two goals, one focused on sportswear and the other services c) How would you measure goals and what are your baseline measures? For example, if I wanted to increase attendance by 10% by the end of the year from last year, I can simply look at the data on attendance and measure. d) Refer to the uploaded document for the Atlanta Braves to get some ideas for specific or objective goals and how these goals can be measured. (No plagiarism please) e) Integrate your written assignment with the existing assignment that is attached. In fact, you may highlight any written text, sentences, that should be deleted from the original document that was written by a Paper Help Writer. f) Write one page, double spaced, Times Roman, Font 12 g) Provide at least 6 references h) Proofread your work before submitting it for approval.