Compare and contrast the direct and indirect costs associated with the drone navigation system.

Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:
Predict the main costs (e.g. labor cost, material cost) associated with the production of VectorCal’s drone navigation system. Provide a rationale for your response.

Compare and contrast the direct and indirect costs associated with the drone navigation system that both your company and VectorCal would assume. Predict whether or not your company could easily control these costs and thus reduce production expenses. Justify your response.
Compare your company with VectorCal relative to the price of acquisition, semi-variable costs, and allocated direct and indirect costs of the drone navigation system. Justify your response.
Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Critically evaluate information from core business functions and the value chain to enhance organizational knowledge of strategic position and direction.

This week’s discussions help you to develop the skills to master the following course competencies:
•Critically evaluate information from core business functions and the value chain to enhance organizational knowledge of strategic position and direction.

Activity Instructions
In this discussion, you will further your knowledge of strategic development by:
•Identifying strategic issues that affect the sustainability of a firm’s competitive advantage.
•Conducting a competitive analysis of the firm, using resource-based theory or value chain model.
In Foundations of Strategy, review Case Insight 4.5: Singapore Airlines: Reconciling Differentiation With Low Costs, on page 196. Porter argues that a competitive advantage strategy of both cost leadership and differentiation is impossible to sustain.
Describe your project firm’s competitive strategy and mount an argument in favor of or against Porter’s assertion as it relates to your project firm. Does your critical thinking about the firm’s competitive advantage bring to mind concerns, or opportunities for how the firm could exploit its competitive advantage? Do you have actionable insights about exploiting strengths of the firm or insights about how the firm should defend against its weaknesses?

Discuss communication competence, discuss an interpersonal communication situation about self-esteem.Discuss how you will change your communication to improve it in the future.

Discuss communication competence, discuss an interpersonal communication situation about self-esteem that could have been improved had you focused on improving that area. Discuss how you will change your communication to improve it in the future. Discuss Self-concept and what that mean. INLUDE 3 CITED SOURCES on a separate sheet, A COVER SHEET on a separate sheet.

The Lego Group: Building Strategy, prepare a one page case brief describing the organization’s current state, their strengths (distinctive competencies) and weakness, the threats and opportunities presented by the environment.

The Lego Group: Building Strategy, prepare a one page case brief describing the organization’s current state, their strengths (distinctive competencies) and weakness, the threats and opportunities presented by the environment (at the time of the case), their strategic options, and a recommendation concerning how they should expand their product line. Your recommendation should flow logically from your analysis and you should justify your recommendation briefly. (e.g., “On the basis of my analysis I recommend ____ , because ____.”) Avoid re-hashing facts from the case. Focus on the analysis and recommendation.