Business

Give examples where capital values change and where overall return changes in the last year.

Tom’s T-Shirts One of the main goals of this course is to demonstrate how Internet, web features, and services support e-commerce and e-commerce presence. Using the provided proposal guidelines, review the following case study and develop a written proposal presenting solutions that would be appropriate to present to the company’s business owner. Tom’s T-shirts is brick and mortar retail shop that specializes in the sale and design of T-shirts. Tom’s T-shirts primarily buys its T-shirt inventory from wholesalers, but they also do some custom printing. One of Tom’s T-shirt services is to custom design and print T-shirts for corporations, non-profit organizations, and youth sports. Tom’s T-Shirts has had great success, and was named Small Business of the Year two out of the last five years in its local community. Knowing that there is a market for custom t-shirts, the owner Tom Smith has decided that he would like to expand his T-shirt shop business nationwide. Tom has decided that, rather than opening other physical retail stores, he wants to explore an e-commerce operation. You have known Tom for many years, and he has asked you to put together a business proposal to bring his e-commerce operation to life. Tom loves innovation and has deep pockets, so you will not be constrained with a budget….sky’s the limit! Project Proposal Guidelines: Make sure that the following features are present in your paper: A.     Explain to the owner the unique features of e-commerce that will allow Tom’s T-shirts to expand to a nationwide market. B.     Identify the market, the value proposition, and type of e-commerce channels that Tom’s T-shirts will utilize to get its e-commerce operation up and running. C.    Outline the steps that the owner will need to take to develop an E-commerce presence. Define and explain what Internet, Web features, and services you will suggest incorporating into this e-commerce proposal. D.    Describe to the owner the different types of social networks and on-line communities and their business models (how they make their money). E.     Propose a traditional online marketing strategy and compare it to social-mobile-local marketing platforms. F.     Describe basic concepts related to online security, privacy, and intellectual property as it relates to Tom’s T-Shirt’s website and e-commerce operation. The requirements below must be met for your paper to be accepted and graded: ·        Write between 750-1000 words (approximately 3-4 pages) using Microsoft Word. ·        Attempt APA style.  Use the APA Resources in your course for guidance. ·        Use font size 12 and 1″ margins. ·        Include a cover page and reference page. ·        At least 80% of your paper must be original content/writing. ·        No more than 20% of your content/information may come from references. ·        Use at least two references from outside the course material, preferably from EBSCOhost.  The textbook, lectures, and other materials in the course may be used, but are not counted toward the two reference requirement. Reference material (data, dates, graphs, quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) must be identified in the paper and listed on a reference page.  Reference material must come from sources such as scholarly journals found in EBSCOhost, online newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal, government websites, etc.  Sources such as Wikis, Yahoo Answers, eHow, etc. are not acceptable.

Should it be legal for employers to monitor the email and other communications their employees send?

Week 7 In your experience, how has HR changed due to technology?  Research and share at least three current technology trends in Human Capital and Talent Management.  How does the generational differences in today’s workforce impact these trends?  What impact do these trends have on mindfulness, dialogue, and collaboration in the workplace?  How does technology affect culture in a multigenerational workplace? Justify your post with peer-reviewed references.

Keeping track of project performance and taking corrective action when necessary has become a serious issue for project managers at your company.   If you are hired in the middle of a software project (the previous project manager was fired), what would you do to ensure that the project conforms to agreed-upon quality and is delivered on schedule? What are some of the causes of schedule creep and poor quality? When is it appropriate to distribute the project milestone report to stakeholders?

Organizations use different types of teams. Diversity in teams can mean everything from skill sets to ethnicity. Matching the right team structure to the needs of the organization takes understanding of the function of that team structure. Primary Task Response: Write 400–500 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation of future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas. Respond to the following: Explain at least 3 different types of work teams. What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of each one? Of the work teams you have chosen, is one type better than the others? Explain why.

PLEASE READ Situation  You work at Strategic Communications, a three-year-old global public-relations start-up based in Atlanta, Georgia. In order to support local entrepreneurs and start-ups, Strategic Communication will soon be hosting COM-CON, a conference developed to assist local businesses with their communications and public relations needs. As someone who is passionate about the value of good communication, you have volunteered to host a session. Your supervisor, Margaret Aoyama, has provided you with a variety of topics and session types. COM-CON will take place during three days, with different audience profiles for each day. Your task is to select one of the topics, one session type, and one audience profile and create an oral communication presentation that addresses the topic, has appropriate media for your session type, and meets the needs of your selected audience profile. After you have crafted your oral communication presentation, Margaret has asked you to compose a post-mortem email that details and justifies the decisions you made in the construction of your presentation. This email should also include suggested modifications that you would make to your presentation, were you to give it again to a different audience using a different presentation type at COM-CON. Directions Your supervisor has asked you to create an oral communication presentation and a presentational aid for a presentation at an upcoming conference. As you create this presentation, address the following elements: Oral Communication Presentation: As you will be submitting your presentation to internal stakeholders before presenting at a conference, your supervisor has asked that you include detailed speakers notes in your presentation. The speaker notes should represent an outline of what you would say when giving the presentation. After choosing your presentation topic, audience, and presentation type, make sure to do the following: Select and develop main ideas for inclusion in targeted communication. After you have identified your topic, audience, and presentation type, select and provide support for main ideas that are consistent with your choices. In developing these main ideas, consider the following: Is the information you included within the presentation based on the needs of your specific audience? How does the information you have chosen address the needs of your specific audience? Use language appropriate to the identified topic, target audience, occasion, and purpose. In your language use, consider the following: How does the language used in your presentation enhance your credibility as a presenter? Is your vocabulary consistent with the needs of your topic, audience, occasion, and purpose? Does it use complex/simple language based on the needs and characteristics of the audience? Use organizational patterns appropriate to topic, audience, occasion, and purpose in creating oral communication presentations. Construct your presentation in a way that the main ideas and design elements are logically organized so the audience can understand them. When selecting and using a particular organizational pattern, consider the following: How does your organizational pattern affect the flow of your presentation? Are you highlighting important information and avoiding spending time on irrelevant or unnecessary information? In what way were the key ideas you chose to emphasize targeted to the purpose and audience? Utilize appropriate design elements to create a presentational aid appropriate for the topic, target audience, occasion, and purpose. Select multimedia elements that both support your presentation and effectively communicate the goals of your presentation to the audience. In using these design elements, consider the following: Do your multimedia elements flow with the accompanying presentation in a logical manner? How are specific design elements targeted at your selected audience? How does the nature of your presentation type affect the design elements used in your presentation? Presentation Post-Mortem: Following your presentation submission, your supervisor has asked you to write a post-mortem email to be distributed with your presentation. This post-mortem email should describe how your presentation is targeted at your selected audience and include recommendations for modifications that could be made to target an additional audience. In your post-mortem, address the following: Describe how the information in the presentation meets the needs of your targeted audience. Please include answers to the following questions: What audience were you targeting with your presentation? How did you select information specific to this audience? Justify the use of design elements, language, and organizational patterns for the specific audience, purpose, and topic. In justifying these design elements, language, and organizational patterns, address the following: What design elements did you include in your presentation specific to your audience? Describe modifications that could be made to a adjust presentation to target a different audience and presentation type. Strategic Communications is always interested in leveraging content created by its employees for additional audiences. Your supervisor has asked you to consider another audience and presentation type from the list of COM-CON audiences and presentation types. Your post-mortem should include specific recommendations describing how you would modify your presentation to target this new audience. What to Submit Every project has a deliverable or deliverables, which are the files that must be submitted before your project can be assessed. For this project, you must submit the following: Targeted Presentation A presentation containing 10–20 slides, designed with speaker notes. The notes should reflect what you would say in an in-person presentation. This presentation should address your chosen topic and targeted audience. Presentation Post-Mortem Compose a 250- to 500-word email, justifying your design/organizational decisions and describing how you would modify the presentation to one other target audience and presentation type. The Targeted Presentation must include the following:  Selects and develops main ideas for inclusion in targeted communication Uses language appropriate to the topic, target audience, occasion, and purpose Applies organizational patterns appropriate to the topic, target audience, occasion, and purpose Applies appropriate design elements to create a presentational aid appropriate to the topic, target audience, occasion, and purpose The Presentation Post-Mortem must include the following: Describes the needs of an audience for targeted communication Justifies the use of design elements, language, and organizational patterns for a specific topic, audience, and purpose Describes modifications that could be made to adjust presentations to target different audiences and presentation types

Compare and contrast at least three of the following divergent cultural characteristics and describe which one from each pair would describe the culture that you hail from: individualist vs collectivist, explicit rule vs implicit rule, uncertainty- accepting vs uncertainty- rejecting, time orientation (monochronic vs polychronic, short term vs long term) masculine vs feminine orientation, direct vs indirect, materialism vs relationships, low-power vs high power distance. Your post should also comment on how your particular cultural characteristics compare with your fellow peers. Your post should be no less than 250 words. At the end of your post, please indicate the word count. If you are using references, please use proper citation rules.

Below are the instructions for the assignment. All the steps must be followed.  Read the evaluation criteria at the bottom of the page before you start. THEME:“CREATING A DISRUPTIVE BUSINESS MODEL FOR A DEVELOPING COUNTRY” 1. Choose a developing country with a huge population (e.g. China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, India, Brazil, etc). Provide reason for choosing this country. 2.    Find a mass market or industry within that country to disrupt (e.g. in many countries around the world, Uber  disrupted  the  taxi  industry, AirBnB disrupted the hotel/motel industry and Netflix disrupted the video watching industry).   3.    Create a disruptive business model based on cutting-edge technologies (e.g. AI,  blockchain,  IOT,  3D  printing,  quantum  computing,  edge computing, etc.). The technology may originate from the U.S. or another country. Write a BUSINESS PROPOSAL to target potential investors from the US or the chosen country (minimum of 5 pages of text, excluding figures & tables). References are critical (both in-text and end of text); papers without references will not be given any consideration. Your proposal should include the following sections: 1. Executive summary 2. The Market (in the selected country) –   Country population and economic characteristics (e.g. per capita income) -What industry/market do you propose to disrupt? What is the market size, and growth rate/potential of this industry? Who’s your end consumer and target market (e.g. residential or commercial)? – What are the problems consumers have with the existing (traditional) industry and how can your disruptive model solve these problems? [Note: at the heart of every disruptive model is the creation of a more satisfied consumer or removal of customer discontent with the existing system, e.g. people see Uber as cheaper, safer and more convenient than taking taxis]. 3. The Product/Service -What product/service are you proposing to offer to this market? -Are there existing competitors in this market? If so, identify them and  describe their product offerings. [Note: even though there may be existing competitors (traditional ones), you should be the first to bring in the disruptive model to this industry. Otherwise, your model is not considered disruptive. 4. The Technology (as applied to your product/service) -Describe the technology behind your product/service and explain what it does? (e.g. my company’s robotic dog integrates multiple technologies including AI, robotics, 5G and emotional  sensors  for  human-robot  bonding) -Who’s the original creator/developer/owner of this technology? -What are the potential applications of the technology? Give examples of industries and companies that are currently using this technology, how they are using it and the results that they have achieved so far. Has the technology already been applied to the market in your chosen country? If so, in what way(s)? 5. The disruptive business model -What is your customer value proposition (benefits)? In what way(s) does your proposed business model disrupt the industry or the existing model? Describe in detail! -(a)      Operating Model ·       Draw a flow diagram of your business model and explain how it works. ·       Explain how your model is different from the traditional (existing) model and why your model is better (hint: show how it makes customers  happier!). For comparison, you should draw the traditional model diagram too and highlight where the disruption occurs. (b)      Revenue Model ·       How does your business make money? Where do the revenues come from? Show the revenue flow in your flow diagram. ·       What retail price do you propose to sell to the end customer in the chosen market? Does this price match the market that you are targeting? How does your price compare to that of existing competitor products? Key evaluation criteria –        Is your idea original? –        Is your proposed business model really disruptive? –        Size of chosen market, potential scalability and timing –        Match between product, price and target market –        Quality and quantity of outside research sources, documentation and referencing (country, industry, competitors) –        Likelihood of proposal being funded by an investor

On completion of risk planning, project teams will identify and analyze events that can represent threats or opportunities to the project. During risk identification, project teams will use various risk identification techniques, and then these events will be ranked based on effect and probability of a risk event occurring. Discuss risk identification techniques and the main risk categories that are commonly recognized in the majority of projects, regardless of their scope.