Management

Pick one of the following 3 companies: Knockaround, Glenfiddich, Prana Identify the B/L & C/L strategy of the that selected company. Justify your answer with supporting evidence. How do you know that company is using that strategy? No recommendation needed, only analysis. Use proper APA formatting in terms of references. Do not include a cover page, an abstract, a running head, or your contact info on the submission. You may only include 1 quote. Other evidence must take the form of paraphrase or summary. The class lecture book: Strategic Management: Concepts and Cases: Competitiveness and Globalization By: Michael A. Hitt; R. Duane Ireland; Robert E. Hoskisson The 13th Edition We have covered chapters 1-6

Identify and explain the relationship between training and strategic planning. (2) Explain how training and strategic planning relate to the agency’s budgeting process. Requirements: 250 words minimum

Case Study -Harley-Davidson What is Harley-Davidson’s strategy? How successful has this strategy been? What resources and capabilities are needed to compete within the motorcycle industry? In relation to these resources and capabilities, how does Harley-Davidson compare with other leading motorcycle companies? How effectively does Harley’s strategy exploit its key strengths while protecting itself from its key weaknesses? What threats to continuing success does Harley-Davidson face?

Think of a time when you were faced with an unethical communication situation. Describe the situation. How did you respond? What was the outcome? If you could face that situation again, what would you do differently and why? Write a 2-3page paper in APA format. Use one or more articles or credible sources from the CSU-Global library to support your ideas, assertions, and claims. Adhere to the CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA.

Prompt: For the first milestone of your final project, you will submit a managing operations case study analysis that uses the tools and techniques that operations managers use. This case study analysis will be incorporated into the final summative analysis. This milestone is due in Module Two. Refer to the case study (located in the Reading and Resources area of Module One), your own independent research, and the course materials to complete this milestone. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed: I. Generating Value A. Evaluate how the company in the case study uses operations management functions to provide products and generate value for its customers. Support your claims with examples from the case study or outside sources. B. Assess how this company achieves a competitive advantage using operations management. Provide examples found in the case study or outside sources to support your reasoning. C. Compare and contrast service operations and manufacturing operations at the company in the case study. How are they the same? How do they differ? How does each of these operations provide value for their customers? II. Theories and Techniques A. Compare and contrast the critical path method (CPM) and the program evaluation and review technique (PERT). What types of projects at this company would favor PERT over CPM? Why? What types of projects at this company would favor CPM over PERT? Why? B. Explain the steps used to develop a forecasting system. How would these steps be specifically utilized by this company? What do you predict would be the result of implementing a forecasting system for the top-selling product line at this company? C. List the major categories of supply chain risk and associated risk reduction tactics. How could the company mitigate exposure to supply chain disruptions caused by natural disasters? Guidelines for Submission: The format for this assignment will be a Word document using a business writing format of your choice. There is no minimum page length requirement, but the submission should be double spaced, and no more than four pages in total. Copy and paste any data analysis from Excel into your Word document for submission. You may include your original Excel documents as supplementary material if you believe this will strengthen your contribution.

Ethical Dilemma Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become an important part of business for many of today’s companies. Many times, however, its CSR efforts are overshadowed by publicized ethical dilemmas. Wal-Mart is a great example of this. They have a webpage devoted to their CSR efforts: https://corporate.walmart.com/global-responsibility. Wal-Mart also has a page devoted to Ethics & Integrity. (https://corporate.walmart.com/our-story/global-ethics-compliance.) The other side of the Wal-Mart coin, however, contains a slew of ethical issues including claims about labor law, discrimination, etc. Visit and evaluate both Wal-Mart webpages provided and summarize its efforts for CSR and ethics. Do you feel the CSR/ethics strategies Wal-Mart employs benefit the community, or do you feel it is more of a ploy to make itself look better? Explain and support your conclusion. How does Wal-Mart ensure equitably of CSR globally? Does Wal-Mart’s CSR violate foreign companies’ laws or ethics? Justify and support your response. Write an essay of at least 500 words, double-spaced, with proper reference citation per current APA guidelines. Ensure you have a cover page, introduction, body, and conclusion for your essay.

This week you are required to submit a case study analysis on “H&M in fast fashion”. Include a clear and concise introduction. Format your case study assignment paper so that the three questions asked below are clearly defined. Double space your work, cite your work, limit quotes, and edit your work well for spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors. If you use any quotes, you must increase the length of your paper to compensate. Make sure you have two additional references other than the text and use citations. No abstract is required. Read the case study and answer the following questions in your paper. 1. Assess the effectiveness of your company’s leadership. 2. Discuss the basis of your company’s competitive advantage and the potential challenges to its strategy. 3. What growth strategies might your company pursue?

Use APA formatting to cite and list your eText and at least one additional scholarly source for a total of at least 2 references. 1. Identify several of the important skills that help managers succeed. Give an example of each. How might the importance of different skills vary by level and area within an organization? 2. What characteristics make an industry attractive to entrepreneurs? Based on these characteristics, which industries are most attractive to entrepreneurs? 3. What is the relationship between the law and ethical behavior? Can a behavior be ethical but illegal at the same time? Give an example to support your response. 4. What are the arguments for and against social responsibility on the part of businesses? In your opinion, which set of arguments is more compelling?

the company that this assignment should be done on is Colgate: I. Closed World Select one of your company’s products or services and one process associated with it. 1. For the product/service- list the internal and external components (submit at least 6 internal and 4 external – as preparation for using the Subtraction tool) 2. For the process – list the stages in chronological order (as preparation for using the Division tool) II. Ideation Apply Subtraction on the product/service, and Division on the process. Submit one idea for Subtraction and one idea for Division. Your idea must be something totally new to the world (meaning, something that does not currently exist in the market). Show your work by following the FFF process for these tools. We recommend trying a few iterations, and submit the ideas you like best.

The paper should be 500 to 1000 words and follow generally, these guidelines about the meaning, form and approach to the paper Additional citations are not needed or expected. Write in a business-like form — this isn’t an English paper. Please note if you don’t make any references to the content of the podcast your grade will suffer; in fact, it may be invisible. The idea behind this exercise is for you to think and reflect about important issues in management that come out of the podcast, not your general experience. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stay-tuned-with-preet/id1265845136?i=1000478444174 Anne, a former attorney general of New Jersey, assistant district attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, and federal prosecutor, is a lawyer with Lowenstein Sandler and divides her time between the firm’s Tech Group and White Collar Criminal Defense practice. She is also a professor of practice and a Distinguished Scholar at New York University School of Law. Anne applies long-standing prosecutorial experience involving highly sensitive matters to effectively counsel clients on a wide range of matters. Her experience includes co-leading a 2018 independent investigation on behalf of the Dallas Mavericks to look into allegations of sexual harassment and other types of workplace misconduct within the team’s business operations. After a seven-month process involving 215 interviews and review of more than 1.6 million documents, Anne and her colleagues released the Sept. 19, 2018, Report of the Independent Investigation of Dallas Basketball Limited, which sets out detailed findings and recommendations for change to the Mavericks’ management practices.