Category: Business

Identify a well-known public figure and discuss his or her brand. How has this individual enhanced this brand? How has he or she damaged it? Based on your understanding of the chapter readings, how would you explain the impact of having a negative or positive brand image?

Marketing Mix and Plan

Branding is an important component of marketing a product and/or service.

Identify a well-known public figure and discuss his or her brand. How has this individual enhanced this brand? How has he or she damaged it? Based on your understanding of the chapter readings, how would you explain the impact of having a negative or positive brand image?

You must demonstrate not only that you understand the subject matter but also that you can apply what you have learned, analyze it, integrate it with knowledge you already have, and evaluate it critically.

Your postings should be appropriate and timely contributions that add value to the discussion.

If you post after the due dates, the post will not be countedOriginal posts should be a minimum of 200 words/sentences/paragraphs.

What is meant by “A Competitive Profile Matrix (CPM)”? Why is it important to a company? How does it relate to a company’s strategy?refer to the link provided of Coca Colas CPM example

Competition and Industry Analysis

1.What are an organization’s external opportunities and threats? What impact do these have on the organization’s strategy?

Give at least one (1) example of each for the organization you discussed

2. What is meant by “A Competitive Profile Matrix (CPM)”? Why is it important to a company? How does it relate to a company’s strategy?  refer to the link provided of Coca Colas CPM example

3. What is the purpose of an “External Factor Evaluation (EFE) Matrix”? How does it relate to a company’s strategy? Using the company in Discussion 1, identify the organization’s external one (1) opportunity and one (1) threat.

Describe the types of metrics found on the dashboards.Select a particular industry (e.g. healthcare, banking, airline) related to your career choice(you can pick anyone) and briefly describe the industry.

Business Analytics/ DashBoard provider

Go to a well-known information dashboard provider web site (Examples: , , ). These sites provide a number of examples of executive dashboards in the “Examples” tab.

Select a particular industry (e.g. healthcare, banking, airline) related to your career choice(you can pick anyone) and briefly describe the industry.

Locate 3 specific dashboards for that industry (provide the links and screenshots).

Address the following:

Describe the types of metrics found on the dashboards.

What types of displays are used to provide the information?

Why is this information important to the industry?

Comment on at least one other post in the discussion thread.Include course-related knowledge and jargon! Posts must include course concepts, definitions, and research (where applicable). Your own experience and opinions are not sufficient.

Describe your collaborators or stakeholders of the organization that can potentially support the implementation.Identify potential barriers or resistance that you may encounter in the process of implementation. Write a plan to overcome them.

Action Plan

Create an Action Plan Chart for using Coaching for staff retention. This can be for any business you choose.

Action Steps – Different steps that you will need to follow in order to implement the strategy.

Timeline – You need a clear plan to what you want to achieve in this potential implementation. Create a timeline for each action step.

Roles and Responsibilities – Create the roles of people within a business (makeup any roles). In this section, you will explain the role and responsibilities of each person in this action plan.

Resources – Write about the resources and support that you will need to make the changes that your organization will need during your potential implementation. You need to include both, what is needed and what is available.

Organizational Support – Describe your collaborators or stakeholders of the organization that can potentially support the implementation.

Barriers or resistance – Identify potential barriers or resistance that you may encounter in the process of implementation. Write a plan to overcome them.

Evaluation – Explain how you would evaluate your progress while in route to your goals.

Using the following biblical passages, write a 500-word paper on how this particular course should be understood differently at Belhaven than at a secular institution. The passages to be considered:

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Using the following biblical passages, write a 500-word paper on how this particular course should be understood differently at Belhaven than at a secular institution. The passages to be considered:

Exodus 20:1-17

Numbers 30:2

Nehemiah 9:38

Zechariah 7: 8-14

Hosea 10:1-4

What else is offered similar to the proposed IoT product in the market?How is your proposed IoT idea better or different? Identify the qualities that make the IoT product better or different than other products.

The Internet of Things (IoT) Product Proposal Assignment

The Internet of Things (IoT) Product Proposal Assignment

Topic: Medical and Healthcare Systems

Includes the following elements:

Introduction

Proposal of an Internet of Things product:

What is the IoT proposed product?

Provide the statement of need for the IoT product.

What else is offered similar to the proposed IoT product in the market?

How is your proposed IoT idea better or different? Identify the qualities that make the IoT product better or different than other products.

Description of your chosen market that could benefit from an IoT product:

Does the IoT product

solve a problem for the market,

enhance exiting processes,

improve existing products, or

provide a new product offering?

Identify how the IoT product supports electronic commerce, business-to-business electronic commerce, or business-to-consumer electronic commerce in the market?

Identification of both pros and cons for the proposed IoT product (see the “Pros and Cons of IoT” diagram above).

What are the pros of the proposed IoT product?

What are the cons of the proposed IoT product?

Conclusion

Reference List

Must be five to seven double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style

Must include a separate title page with the following:

Title of paper

Student’s name

Course name and number

Instructor’s name

Date submitted

Must document all sources in APA style

Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style

Discuss bribery. Would actions, such as politicians adding earmarks in legislation or pharmaceutical salespersons giving away drugs to physicians, constitute bribery? Identify three business activities that would constitute bribery and three actions that would not.

BUS VII

1. How can firms ensure that their code of business ethics is read, understood, believed, remembered, and acted on rather than ignored?

Your response must be at least 75 words in length.

2. Discuss bribery. Would actions, such as politicians adding earmarks in legislation or pharmaceutical salespersons giving away drugs to physicians, constitute bribery? Identify three business activities that would constitute bribery and three actions that would not.

Your response must be at least 75 words in length.

3. If you owned a small business, would you develop a code of business conduct? If yes, what variables would you include? If not, how would you ensure that your employees were following ethical business standards?

Your response must be at least 75 words in length.

4. Why is it important not to view the concept of “whistleblowing” as “tattling” or “ratting” on another employee?

Your response must be at least 75 words in length.

5. What do you feel is the relationship between personal ethics and business ethics? Are they or should they be the same?

Your response must be at least 200 words in length.

Prepare a reflection essay (1,500 words) based on a digital operations project you managed, participated, or observed in your workplace. If you have not had this type of experience or made this observation, you may select a recent project reported in the media.

DIGITAL OPERATIONS AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Prepare a reflection essay (1,500 words) based on a digital operations project you managed, participated, or observed in your workplace. If you have not had this type of experience or made this observation, you may select a recent project

reported in the media.