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Consumer Behavior on How People Make Buying Decisions

This is a part one of a paper assignment that discusses consumer Behavior on How People Make Buying Decisions. The factors that contribute to these decisions are also considered in the paper.

Consumer Behavior on How People Make Buying Decisions

Learning Outcomes
Model of Consumer Behavior:  Environmental factors.  Student can use the model of consumer behavior to identify those environmental factors most likely to affect the consumer decision making for a specific product or service.
Model of Consumer Behavior:  Consumer factors.  Student can reference the model of consumer behavior to identify the consumer factors most likely to affect the decision making for a specific product or service.
Role of Involvement in purchase decisions.  Student can identify the role of consumer involvement applicable to a specific product or service offering and how that level of involvement affects the type of decision making.
Consumer decision-making process.  Student can identify how marketing strategy can influence each of the steps in the consumer decision-making process.

Directions

Firstly, refer to the product or service you selected at the beginning of the semester. Then, look at what consumer factors may be relevant for customers who are considering buying your product or service offering.  This will require some critical thinking on your part based on your own behavior if you are a customer yourself, or you may want to talk to others who have purchased the product.  However, you can find clues when looking at the marketing messages that may be addressing some of these factors.

Secondly, prepare your assignment beginning with a title page with your name and the name of your product or service.  Then, answer each of the following eight questions (four in part 1 and four in part 2) in order and number the beginning of your response to each question.  Although, you do not need to repeat the question, there should be a heading to separate the sections.  Lastly, the paper should contain approximately 5+ pages of analysis for the responses to the eight questions.

Business Analysis System Recommendation report

This is an assignment that focuses on the Business Analysis & System Recommendation report. The paper also identifies the system performance requirements for the hiring system.

Business Analysis & System Recommendation report

Assignment – BA&SR Section III. Requirements
For this assignment, you will add Section III of the Business Analysis and System Recommendation (BA&SR) Report to your Sections I and II below.  In this section you will identify requirements for the new hiring system. This analysis leads into Section IV. System Recommendation of the BA&SR (Stage 4 assignment) that will analyze a proposed IT solution to ensure it meets MTC’s organizational strategy and fulfills its operational needs.

Using the case study below, assignment instructions, Content readings, and external research, develop your Section III. Requirements.   The case study tells you that the executives and employees at Maryland Technology Consultants (MTC) have identified a need for an effective and efficient applicant tracking or hiring system.  As you review the case study, use the assignment instructions to take notes to assist in your analysis. In particular, look for information in the interviews to provide stakeholder interests and needs.

Requirements

Stakeholder Interests – Review the interest or objectives for the new hiring system for each stakeholder listed below based on his or her organizational role and case study information.  Consider how the technology will improve how his/her job is done; that is, identify what each of the stakeholders needs the hiring system to do. Then to complete the table below, use information from the stakeholder interviews and identify one significant challenge or problem for each stakeholder related to the current hiring process (not their future expectations).  Then explain how a system could address their problems. However, do not define what that position does in the organization

Defining Requirements – The next step is to identify the essential requirements for the information system. In addition to the stakeholder interests identified above, review the Case Study, especially the interviews, highlighting any statements that tell what the person expects or needs the system to do.  User requirements express specifically what the user needs the system to do.  This can be in terms of tasks the users need to perform, data they need to input, what the system might do with that data input, and output required.

System performance requirements express how the system will perform in several performance areas and security.  As a member of the CIO’s organization, you will use your professional knowledge to Identify 5 User Requirements (including one specifically related to reporting) and 5 System Performance Requirements (including 2 security-related requirements).  Refer content on requirements; security requirements below. Additional research can expand your knowledge of these areas.

Once you have identified the 10 requirements, evaluate each one using the criteria below. Also, create 10 well-written requirements statements for the new hiring system.

San Francisco Federal Reserve economic research

This is an assignment that discusses the San Francisco Federal Reserve economic research. The paper is essentially for economists and also analysts.

San Francisco Federal Reserve economic research

You are an analyst at the San Francisco Federal Reserve. The regional branches of the Fed all publish bulletins that contain summaries of interesting economic research. The people who read these bulletins are typically economists or other trained analysts who work at the Fed or other government offices; these are individuals who are generally too busy to read academic journal articles but who want to stay on top of the latest research. Your boss has asked you to write a summary (750-800 words = roughly 3-4 pages, 12-point and double-spaced) for the next bulletin of one of the articles from the following list:
One Hundred Years of the Economic Review: The Top Twenty Articles:
http://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/aer.101.1.1
Your summary should have about a paragraph to answer each of the following questions:
What is the key hypothesis tested and what are the empirical findings?
How is the study connected to previous research?
Then, what economic theory/model of behavior do the authors use to form their hypothesis?
Identify, what data do the authors use and what is their empirical strategy (statistical methods/case studies)?
Lastly, what other factors do the authors mention that should be considered in evaluating their results?

Include a word count at the end of your article. Also,  note that if your article is too long, it means you will need to think hard about what can be cut but if your article is too short, you will need to think just as hard about what you might be missing.

Evaluation criteria

I will focus on the following specific areas when grading:
1.     Article content. Most importantly, have you summarized the paper accurately and completely? Have you accurately identified the key question(s) in the paper, and the authors’ answer(s)? Also, have you included all the relevant information so that an uninformed reader would have a clear idea what the article is about?
2.     Voice. Is the tone and style appropriate for this audience?
3.     Overall clarity. I will be evaluating the readability, clarity and style of the paper overall

Business feasibility analysis on industry and market business idea

This is an assignment that focuses on a feasibility analysis on industry and market. The paper also discusses if the business has profit potential.

Feasibility analysis on industry and market

Assignment 2: Feasibility Analysis

“A feasibility analysis is a chance to open your eyes, ask yourself some very tough questions, then check to see whether your idea, as originally conceive, needs to be modified, refocused, or changed dramatically. (Or perhaps even scrapped altogether.)” (Abrams, as cited in Scarborough & Cornwall, 2015, p. 237). With this assignment, you will be addressing the fundamental question: Does this business have profit potential?

Referring to the same business you either started or purchased in the first assignment. Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you: Conduct a feasibility analysis in which you research: Industry and Market Feasibility Product or Service Feasibility Financial Feasibility Entrepreneurial Readiness Based on your assessment, does the business idea need to be modified, changed significantly, or abandoned? (Note: If you abandon the business idea, then you will need to select and analyze a new business that has profit potential.) Include at least two (2) references outside the textbook.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements: This course requires use of Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The format may be different than other Strayer University courses. Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details. (more information and an example is included in the Strayer Writing Standards left menu link). Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date.

The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required page length. The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are: Describe and analyze the necessary activities and key decisions to start a small business. Use technology and information resources to research issues in small business management. Write clearly and concisely about small business management using proper writing mechanics.

Equity of a company and market economy’s behavior

You now know how to evaluate the equity of a company and analyze the market economy’s behavior. Using this knowledge, you will predict your company’s future behavior through forecasting, identify and describe business opportunities that the company should pursue, and explain the benefits and costs of these decisions.

Equity of a company and analyze the market economy’s behavior

You now know how to evaluate the equity of a company and analyze the market economy’s behavior. Using this knowledge, you will predict your company’s future behavior through forecasting, identify and describe business opportunities that the company should pursue, and explain the benefits and costs of these decisions.

Prompt:

In this milestone, you have two tasks.

Firstly, predict your company’s future behavior through forecasting, projecting its likely performance based on the most recent year of financial information.

Secondly, explain the incremental impact of a hypothetical but reasonable and simple new investment project, such as a new product or facility or a cost-cutting investment, as an initial step in thinking about the future.

Thirdly, to justify your findings and projections, you need to include accurate and relevant data tables that explain how the numbers were informed by existing information and model different scenarios.

Also, Be sure to address the following critical elements:

 Projections:

Firstly, Using what you know about the company’s financial health and performance, forecast its future performance. In particular, you should:

A. Project the company’s likely consolidated financial performance for each of the next three years. Support disaggregation’s to help inform decisions.

B. Modify your projections for the coming year to show a best- and worst-case scenario based on the potential success factors and risks you identified. As with your initial projections, support your analysis with an appendix spreadsheet, specifying your assumptions and including relevant calculations and disaggregation beyond those in the existing financial reports.

C. Further, Discuss how your assumptions, forecasting methodology, and information gaps affect your projections.

Additionally, Why are your projections appropriate?

For example, are they consistent with the company’s mission and priorities? Aggressive but achievable? How would changing your assumptions change your projections?