Author: chris

I need a few pages written for a paper centered around developing a strategic plan for IBM. Required portions are as follows:

 

 alternative strategy generation and potential outcomes

strategy and prioritization selection.

 

Require apporx. 3-4 pages that analize these two topics related to the IBM company.  

 

Instructions are as follows:

 

• Identify strategies
• Discuss strategies used at the corporate, business and function levels using the concepts learned in the course.
• Demonstrate critical thinking in the assessment.
• double spaced, 12 pt. font. include references. (APA format)

There are many ways to get a feel for the events of the 20th Century.  One way is through the analysis of primary source documents.  Few documents set the stage for the second half than Winston Churchill’s 1946 speech in Fulton, Missouri.  Officially entitled “The Sinews of Peace”, it came to be known as “The Iron Curtain Speech”, in which Churchill laid out the challenges for the West in general, and the US and Britain in particular, regarding what would soon be known as the Cold War.  Your assignment this week is to not just read Churchill’s speech, but read between the lines to answer the following questions in a well written 2-3 page document:

1. Churchill believes the Soviet Union “desires the fruits of war and the indefinite expansion of their power and doctrines.”  How might those expansionist desires challenge the Western principle of national political self determination, a cause it championed during World War 2?
2. Churchill’s speech acknowledges “Russia’s need to be secure on her western borders,” but at the same time it raises concerns about Soviet actions in Eastern Europe.  Is Churchill being inconsistent? Or does he provide concrete justifications for those concerns?
3. In his speech, Churchill asserts “There is nothing they (the Russians) admire so much as strength, and nothing for which they have less respect for than military weakness.” If he isn’t advocating a direct military confrontation with the Soviet Union, then what is he saying?
4. Churchill delivered this speech to an American audience, but after reading it one might conclude it could have been given in any western country.  Why did he pick the US?

This assignment contains two (2) deliverables: a summary document to be delivered in a word processor document format and a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) to be delivered in a project file.

Overview:

Imagine that you work as the project manager for an IT department. Your organization has recently approved the development of a mobile application. As the project manager, you will manage the development of the project. The project will include user experience (UX) design by a consultant, graphic design by a team of two contracted designers, and in-house application development by a team of three (3) programmers and a database developer.

Deliverable 1: Summary (MS Word or open source equivalent)

1. Write a one to two (1-2) page summary document in which you:
   1. Summarize the project requirements and other assumptions (i.e., budget, human resources, workload, environmental dependencies, etc.).
   2. Define a work breakdown structure and describe the methodology behind constructing one.

Deliverable 2: WBS (MS Project or open source equivalent)

1. Use Microsoft Project or an open source equivalent to create a WBS which addresses the following:
   1. Contain at least five (5) main tasks, one (1) for each of the PMBOK® process areas.
   2. Contain at least thirty (30) line items distributed in five (5) or more work packages.
   3. Contain Work Breakdown Structure Code for each task.
   4. Present duration estimates for each task that results in a duration estimate for the project not to exceed the requirements described in the overview.

Deliverable one (1) of your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• 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 assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Explain and apply the phases of the project management life cycle.
• Develop processes that initiate technology projects, including project selection and defining project scope.
• Analyze and develop project schedules with appropriate techniques and software tools.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in information systems and technology.
• Write clearly and concisely about Information Technology Project Management topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

Select a publicly traded corporation for which you would like to work or are currently working.

Research the corporation on its own Website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR database (http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml), in the University’s online databases, and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions.

Write an eight to ten (9-10) page paper in which you:

1. Determine the impact of the company’s mission, vision, and primary stakeholders on its overall success.
2. Analyze the five (5) forces of competition to determine how they impact the company.
3. Create a SWOT analysis for the company to determine its major strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
4. Based on the SWOT analysis, outline a strategy for the company to capitalize on its strengths and opportunities, and minimize its weaknesses and threats.
5. Discuss the various levels and types of strategies the firm may use to maximize its competitiveness and profitability.
6. Outline a communications plan the company could use to make the strategies you recommend above known to all stakeholders.
7. Select two (2) corporate governance mechanisms used by this corporation and evaluate how effective they are at controlling managerial actions.
8. Evaluate the effectiveness of leadership within this corporation and make at least one (1) recommendation for improvement.
9. Assess efforts by this corporation to be a responsible (ethical) corporate citizen and determine the impact these efforts (or lack thereof) have on the company’s bottom line. Provide specific examples to support your response.

Use at least five (5) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.

 

answer all parts of the prompt below. Engage critically with the prompt, clearly articulating your experiences and plans. Back them up with concrete examples.

Tools to use: Reflection paper: Draw on in-class activities, direct service experience, pre-Drexel experiences and your personal values to inform your paper. You are welcome to use academic sources. You must use concrete examples for demonstrate your argument.

Foundation and past experience

• Identify the individuals and past experience that have most informed your values.
• How have these people and experiences influenced how you participate in your community?

 

Time at campus

• Through this course, you were exposed to many different examples of what civic engagement can look like. Keeping these examples in mind, what will civic engagement look like for you during your time here at Drexel?
• During your time at campus, how will you contribute to university’s goal “to become to the most civically engaged university in the United States”?

 

Professional and personal goals, mapping out your future

• What social issue/s do you want to be involved in after your time at Drexel? What sort of impact do you hope to have? Will your impact be local, regional, national or international?
• What is the public purpose of your future profession? How might someone in your future profession be engaged in public problem-solving to improve the community s/he is a part of?

Resources: Electronic Reserve Readings, the Internet, or other resources

Locate a current article on a contemporary government program or issue.

Prepare a 700- to 1,050-word analysis of your article.

Identify a major public administration theory and relate it to the topic discussed in your article as part of your analysis.

Cite your references within your analysis and be prepared to discuss your analysis in class.

Format your analysis consistent with APA guidelines.

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.

Due Monday 11/30/15 12:00 midday central time 

 

 

Scenarios

1. A cancer preventing apple is invented

Supply goes > up

Demand goes > up

2. Apple pickers become unionized (wage increase)

Supply goes < down

Demand goes < down

 

From the two above scenarios writea 1,100 word paper that:

• Identify if the scenarios above are microeconomics or macroeconomics principles or concepts.
• Explain why you have categorized these scenarios as principles or concepts of microeconomics or macroeconomics.
• Identify at least one shift of the supply curve and one shift of the demand curve in the above scenarios.
• Explain what causes the shifts, and how each shift affects the price, quantity, and decision making within the above scenarios.
• Include responses to the following:
  • How should we apply what we have learned about the above scenarios about supply and demand to our workplace or understanding of a real-world product with which we may be familiar?
  • How do the concepts of microeconomics help us understand the factors that affect shifts in supply and demand on equilibrium price and quantity?
  • How do the concepts of macroeconomics help us understand the factors that affect shifts in supply and demand on the equilibrium price and quantity?
  • How does the price elasticity of demand affect a consumer’s purchase and the firm’s pricing strategy as it relates to the above scenarios?

Cite 3 peer reviewed sources that support market equilibrium in the above scenarios or responses

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Outcome E2: To be ability to identify, classify and describe the performance of manufacturing<br>
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E3: To be competent in the use of commercial software packages to design, analyse<br>
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Outcome D3: Identify and manage cost drivers that influence the choice of manufacturing<br>
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Prepare and present a video that is a maximum of five to seven (5-7) minutes OR write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:
Diagnose the reasons for resistance to change.
Interpret the potential causes of resistance in the organization. Identify and describe three (3) potential causes of resistance to your change plan. Identify and describe three (3) potential sources of resistance to your change plan.
Create a plan for minimizing possible resistance to your change management plan.
Elaborate on the relationship between resistance to change and communication.
Evaluate three (3) communication strategies.
Recommend one (1) communication strategy that would be applicable to your organization. Diagnose why this communication strategy is best for your organization.
Create a solid communication plan for your change initiative.
Use at least four (4) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other similar Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

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Before you attempt to answer the assignments question you have to read the details of the case first<br>
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<a href=”https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-LDoRf2x1xSUkJfUGZIZVVfZDA/view?pli=1″ target=”_blank”>https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-LDoRf2x1xSUkJfUGZIZVVfZDA/view?pli=1</a><br>
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1) Read the “sourcing potato’s for elevation burger Kuwait”<br>
2) Prepare two page report “Use easy vocabulary “<br>
3) Make sure to itemize your response to identify the question you are answering (no need to rewrite the question only add the letter of the questin)<br>
4) List of the question<br>
A. What are the challenges facing TABCo in sourcing potatoes?<br>
B. Is there an ethical dilemma facing Ali Ashkanani in sourcing potatoes for elevation burger? If so, then explain. What do you recommend ali to do?<br>
C. How do you view the approach ali Ashkanani took in solving the potato-sourcing problem? What would you do differently?<br>
D. What do you recommend TABCo to do moving forward? Support your response with figures from the case. You may need to take into account TABCo’s cost of capital and growth rate. Clearly state and justify your assumptions. Use Microsoft excels to conduct a net-a-present-value for the different alternatives.<br>
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Please be sure that all the paper is taking to the main company no need for any concept . Thank you