Business

*Have already completed 1.5 pages, which include the Introduction and firm history. Requires a few graphs to be included (see attached paper walkthrough).* I. Introduction  a) Outline the purpose of this paper and how it will inform your conclusion. b) Summarize the history of the firm, and provide an overview for what the firm does and what goods/services it sells.  II. Explore the supply and demand conditions for your firm’s product. a) Evaluate trends in demand over time, and explain their impact on the industry and the firm. You should consider including annual sales figures for the product your firm sells. b) Analyze information and data related to the demand and supply for your firm’s product(s) to support your recommendation for the firm’s actions. Remember to include a graphical representation of the data and information used in your analysis. III. Examine the price elasticity of demand for the product(s) your firm sells. a) Analyze the available data and information, such as pricing and the availability of substitutes, and justify how you determine the price elasticity of demand for your firm’s product. b) Explain the factors that affect consumer responsiveness to price changes for this product, using the concept of price elasticity of demand as your guide. c) Assess how the price elasticity of demand impacts the firm’s pricing decisions and revenue growth. IV. Examine the costs of production for your firm. a) Analyze the various costs a firm faces, their trends over time, and how they have impacted your firm’s profitability. b) Apply the concepts of variable and fixed costs to your firm for informing its output decisions. For instance, analyze how different kinds of costs (labor, research and development, raw materials) affect the firm’s level of output. V. Explore the overall market for your firm. a) Discuss the market share of the firm and its top competitors by providing details on current percentages for each firm and describing the trend over time. You might consider presenting the data graphically. b) Analyze the barriers to entry in this market to illustrate the potential for new competition and its impact on your firm’s future in the market. c) Describe the market structure for this firm, and analyze how this affects the firm’s ability to influence the market. VI. Recommendation a) Develop a recommendation for how the firm can manage its future production by synthesizing the data presented. b) Suggest how the firm’s position within the market and among its competitors will allow it to take your recommended action. c) Describe how the firm can sustain its success going forward by evaluating the findings from demand trends and price elasticity.

Briefly discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each of these planning strategies: A. Maintain a level rate of output and let inventories absorb fluctuations in demand. B. Vary the size of the workforce to correspond to predicted changes in demand requirements. C. Maintain a constant workforce size, but vary hours worked to correspond to predicted demand requirements. Be sure to support your comments with references from the literature and cite your sources using APA 6th edition formatting guidelines.

Read the attached article and answer the following questions. 1. What makes operating in emerging markets different from developed markets? 2. After reading the attached article, what role can “first, win from within” play in seeing the voids others might miss? 3. What distinguishes hard and soft infrastructure voids? Are all voids bad? if not, why? 4. Why might developed market firms struggle in emerging markets? What opportunity does this present to consultants?

Some new-product experts maintain that getting close to customers through intensive research is the only way to develop successful new products. Other experts disagree and say customers can’t possibly provide useful feedback on what they don’t know and can’t provide insights that will lead to break through products.. Either defend the proposition that consumer research is critical to new-product development, or the position that consumer research may not be all that helpful in new-product development.

For this assignment, begin by reviewing the Brief Case #1 in the Weekly Resources and Assignments.   Jackson Enterprises does business in the United States and Venezuela. The Venezuela facility is located in Mariara, and the Mayor of the city is Diego Ledezma. Review the summary table, and assume this is the result of your data analytics examination related to the A/P vendor disbursements. The annual disbursements are greater than $400,000. After evaluating the data provided, be sure to address the following: What is the TI Corruption Index for Venezuela? Why is the TI Corruption Index useful in this case? Given this fact pattern, identify any anomalies that might be consistent with a red flag associated with FCPA, if any, and describe your rationale. If the company’s owners were considering transferring parts of the operation to the UK, what concerns if any, would you discuss? Length: 6-7 pages References: Include a minimum of 5 scholarly resources

Background Information: Our group has written a proposal based on a WSJ ( which has been attached ) on Zara and now we have to submit a project. The main question of the project is: “How Zara can differentiate itself from other “fast-fashion” stores? Within this you can focus on Zara’s move towards online/hybrid stores.”  File #1 is guideline and detailed steps on what is expected to be covered. File #2 is format and style guideline.

Using all of the demographic that you learned about in the text and in class (age, gender, nationality, income, religion, stage of life, and lifestyle), Write a 400-600 word essay to respond to this question: What is the consumer behavior profile of a customer of Chick-fil-A?

Hello 🙂 Please read the attached document first and then take a look at my notes below for more info  For Q1:  Basically need to apply all the different business management classes and knowledge that I have gotten from them so far. It’s broad thinking and nothing needs to be solved for this question. Identify key issues of going from 3 locations to 1. Organize and discuss the issue and explain why is it important to go from 3 locations to 1. Most of the work and writing has to be for this question.  For Q2:  Identify to which city and state in the USA their distribution center should move to when moving from 3 locations to 1 (Not Hawaii and Alaska).  Some more instructions:  The paper should not go over 4 pages or my professor will mark it off. You don’t have to use references because my professor created this imaginary situation and there will be no info about it on Google. He did say if we did do any research we should cite it but again, as this scenario is created by him, there won’t be much info on the internet.  More info on the case: Wholesaler of America, Inc. (WOA) sells non-perishable and non-bulky items. They currently have distribution centers in CA, Il, and NJ. They are all the same size and run the same. All 400,00 sq ft. Each location has its own sales and administration offices and each office is 5,000 sq ft. Each location carries the same items, quantities, and SKU’s. They all carry 20,000 SKU’s. Each location has a warehouse manager, supervisor, 3 receiving warehouse people, and 6 other fillers with a total of 33 people working for the entire company. The entire company is non-union. The company is B2B and sells to the distributor and they have 1500 industrial distributor customers around the country. Important note: their customers are all split evenly around the country, none in Hawaii and Alaska.  10% of their business in every location is on will-call basis = customer picks up the order at the distribution center themselves because they are in a rush and they don’t want to pay freight (delivery).  This is going to be an autocratic decision.

Now that you have completed  most of your development plan and the semester is drawing to a close, share the following with your colleagues: What insight have you gained from the process of embarking on this written plan?   How have you changed (or not) in terms of your thinking about your job, career and future?  What do you think you will do differently based on things you became aware of going through this process?   How will you become a better leader? Be sure to answer the above questions with very specifically demonstrating your mastery of the course materials I will place Development plans which will give you some input.

I need you to write an interactive narrative of 2250 words to 2500 using power point  Use Zara as the umbrella brand to feature in the bond movie   EON productions was impressed with your TikTok and you have an opportunity to keep pitching for your umbrella brand to be featured in the next Bond film. The producers have asked for some ideas about how your brand portfolio could feature in the film. In order to demonstrate the potential fit of your brand with the Bond brand you now need to create an interactive narrative using PowerPoint.    Your mission is to create an interactive narrative which features several different possibilities to showcase your various sub-brands in the film. Your interactive narrative has to have a minimum of 3 decision points and eight different potential scenes in order to provide the producers with sufficient alternatives.    There should be some consideration of how you want your brands presented in the film (e.g. visual/aural placement? How long will the brand be on screen? Who will use it? Is it integral to the plot?). A brief explanation of the scenes you are imagining will help you flesh this out. You should also provide some options in terms of the brand placement strategy that you plan to adopt if you are featured in the film (e.g. cross-advertising, product packaging, use of social media, competitions, experiential events, etc.).    In mapping out your interactive narrative it may be useful to use https://twinery.org/ There is a workshop on how to use Twine here: http://selfloud.net/twineWorkshop/TwineWorkshop.html   You are encouraged to use images and/or sounds as part of your PPT.  The final PPT slide(s) will be your bibliography.    Tips for your assignments:  • A thorough analysis of the background of your brand (e.g. what is the USP? Who is the brand targeting? How does it position itself relative to competitors? etc.) is needed in order to achieve high marks. The better you know your brand, the easier it will be for you to build a case for it to appear in Bond.  • You should also consider why your brand wants to be part of the Bond brandscape – what will you gain? This brand placement is an expensive strategy so you should have a clear aim (e.g. change brand positioning, increase brand awareness, target a new market). Generally, the more specific you are, the better.   • Finally, you need to consider – and demonstrate – the fit between your brand and the Bond brand. What will the Bond brand gain from this placement, they can have any brand in the world in the film so why should they choose yours? i.e. what can you provide them that your competitors can’t? The most compelling proposals will clearly demonstrate a win-win partnership where both brands gain something they need.