Category: Business and Management

The 2019 EY and University of St Gallen Global Family Business Index provide significant insights into the world’s largest family-owned businesses, ranked by revenues. 
Select a Family Business from your country (and if there is no featured FB from your country, select another from a country you are most familiar with culturally). Select it carefully, as we will continue doing work with it during the course for the next weeks. 
Read about the Family Business selected to learn about the history of the family, the beginnings, etc…
To do:
As if you were one of the family members and part of the company, prepare and submit 1-2 summary slides with the following information:
Name and logo of the company and its founding year.
Name of the family and number of generations. 
Country, industry, Revenue, number of employees.
Shareholders, % retained in the family, family members in the board (and total number of directors)
Relevant situation that has happened in the Family Business 
The Family Business Index:-
https://familybusinessindex.com/

Touchstone 3: Informative Speech
ASSIGNMENT: For this Touchstone, you will deliver a 5–7 minute informative speech on a topic of your choice. The speech can be for any context, but it must be informative. Below is a list of example informative speech topics for your reference.
Type of Informative Speech Purpose Examples
Object To inform an audience about something visible or tangible
The human body
An episode of The Family Guy
A car engine
Equipment for riding a horse
Process To explain a series of actions or steps with a defined ending point
How the modern electoral college works
How an ice cream sandwich is made
How to drive a car
How to study for a test
Event To discuss or describe an occurrence of importance
The Battles of Lexington and Concord
A person’s first week at college
The invention of the telephone
The Norman invasion of England
Concept To discuss or explain an abstract idea or notion
The origins of the universe
Love at first sight
Optical illusions
Patriotism vs. nationalism
In order to foster learning and growth, all work you submit must be newly written specifically for this course. Any plagiarized or recycled work will result in a Plagiarism Detected alert. Review Touchstones: Academic Integrity Guidelines for more about plagiarism and the Plagiarism Detected alert. For guidance on the use of generative AI technology, review Ethical Standards and Appropriate Use of AI.
Touchstone Support Videos
Evaluating Your Sources
Maintaining Relevance and Balance
A. Directions
Step 1: Select Informative Topic/Issue
Your speech should be consistently informative in nature. Identify your audience, purpose, and thesis. Imagine your audience and how you would want to convey your message to this audience.
Refer back to the following lessons for support:
Informative and Persuasive Speeches
Choosing and Developing a Good Topic
Informative Speeches: Definition and Types
Step 2: Consider Purpose, Thesis, and Audience
Identify your purpose, thesis, and audience. Imagine your audience and how you would want to convey your message to this audience. As you start to plan your speech, ask yourself the following questions:
What are you hoping to achieve with this speech?
Who will be in your audience? What do you know about them?
What is the key message of your speech?
Refer back to the following lessons for support:
Informative Speeches: Subjects, Goals, and Scope
Sample Informative Speech
Step 3: Find Credible Sources
Utilize your program resources, the internet, or a local library to find three credible sources that are relevant to your speech. As you look for sources, consider the following questions in your search to help ensure credibility:
How recent is the data or information presented in your source?
When was the source published? If the source is a website, when was the website last updated?
What does the source cover?
How well-researched and detailed is the source? How much depth is the topic covered in?
How is this content and level of detail relevant to your purpose, audience, and message?
How is the author qualified to speak on the topic?
What is the author’s purpose?
What biases might they have?
Is the information the author’s opinion alone or is it supported by cited facts?
Who funds the website or publication?
Are there items endorsed or for sale? If so, what items?
What is the reputation of the website or publication?
Refer back to the following lessons for support:
Gathering Information
Sources of Information: The Library
Sources of Information: The Internet
Evaluating Sources
Step 4: Identify Pieces of Evidence
Read through your sources to identify five pieces of evidence that support and reinforce your thesis. Be sure to use at least three different types of pieces of evidence from the following list:
Statistic
Analogy
Definition
Visual
Story
Testimony
Refer back to the following lessons for support:
Supporting Your Ideas
Using Examples
Using Statistics, Analogies, and Definitions to Support Your Ideas
Using Visuals, Testimony, and Storytelling to Support Your Ideas
Step 5: Create Notes
Create notes or bullet points that you can refer to while presenting your speech. You should not read your speech word for word from your notes. Make sure to cite at least three sources or pieces of evidence as you deliver your speech.
Step 6: Use Clear Language
Ensure that the language you use is consistently clear and appropriate to the audience, which helps the audience connect with you and your topic. Explain any technical jargon you use where necessary.
Refer back to the following lessons for support:

This Assignment will develop a new business idea.  You will use your past knowledge, skills, and abilities generated in the Bachelors of Applied Science degree program.  
You have the choice of creating a new or using an existing company for a (1) new product or service development, (2) market a new business initiative, or (3) strategies to solve a problem with a current organization.  NOTE:  Your instructor will confirm the project, therefore, look for feedback.  **You will be using the “business idea” on your weekly Assignment.   
*Consider Accounting and Financial implications during this course for your business idea. NOTE:  You will need to apply quantitative information.  
Write a proposal of the new business idea.  The proposal should be written in the following order: 
A. Title Page (include your name, your company’s name, class name, professor, and date) 
B. Executive Summary.  Briefly tell your reader what your new business idea is and why it will be successful.  Include your mission statement, your new product or service, and its detailed description.  Provide some basic information about your company’s leadership team, employees, and main location.  You should include brief financial information and high-level growth plans -if you plan to ask for financing.  (500 to 750 words in one (1) paragraph) 
NOTE:  Your Executive Summary should be creative and original (do not use any ideas or company information from your past BAS courses).  Write the entire Executive Summary in one paragraph and only include information from the instructions. 
Assignment requirements 
The assignment should be written on a Bachelors level.  It must be error and grammar free.  The executive summary should be original and the same business idea used in the weekly assignments.

You are a business analyst working at a small domestic organization that produces high-quality cell phone cases. Your organization has begun to see its sales flatten in the domestic market. While the organization is not losing money, leadership would like to explore options to continue to grow. One option that leadership has noticed competitors attempting is entering international markets.
You have been asked to examine the benefits, drawbacks, and key considerations for your organization to enter one of the global markets below, and to summarize your findings in a business brief for leadership.
Select one of the following international markets to use for your course project:
Japan
Prompt
In this milestone, you will complete Section One of the Business Brief Template (located in the Guidelines for Submission section of this document).
Drivers for Global Entry: Develop the first section of the Business Brief Template that explains the purpose of global expansion, business impacts of global business, societal impacts of global business, and cultural considerations using evidence from course and outside resources to support your explanations. Make sure to use evidence from course resources to support your responses.
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
Country Selection: Japan
Purpose of Global Expansion: Explain key benefits of successful global expansion for domestic organizations.
Business Impacts of Global Business: Explain how global expansion of a domestic organization can impact business operations such as strategic planning, marketing, supply-chain management, human resources, and so on.
Societal Impacts of Global Business: Explain how the global expansion of organizations has impacted society, citing specific examples regarding culture, transportation, employment, infrastructure, and environmental climate.
Cultural Considerations for Global Business: Explain the importance of researching the culture of a potential global market prior to market entry, as well as key cultural considerations to explore to inform expansion decisions.

Good industry examples used were cars – Henry Ford did little innovation on
the product but revolutionised the production process. A really good example
extended this to the JIT system as Toyota. Another well used example was
Apple which uses existing technology and concepts already developed by
others, but improves them and outsources the production to innovative
suppliers like Foxconn and so the i-things are dominated by process
innovations rather than new to the world product innovations.
There are examples where the process innovation leads to new products –
surface mount technology, Pilkington float glass, etc. And so the final answer
should be that the statement is often true, but always so, and in most
industries and firms it is the process innovation which is most prevalent and
important.
Surprisingly a good many talked of the process of managing innovation which
is wrong and failed to say that the relationship is not always linear as process
innovations can release previously blocked or costly product innovations  

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Topic: Teaching Effective Presentation Skills
Instructions: This project requires you to develop a PowerPoint slide presentation for use as a training tool with managers and supervisors on preparing an effective presentation. As you move up through the workforce, you will, at some point, be required to give a briefing or presentation to others. Hopefully, one day you will also be able to develop one of your worker’s speaking and presentation skills. There is great satisfaction in taking a nervous employee, helping them to develop their presentation, coaching them on delivery, and then watching them knock it out of the park! With this in mind, your presentation should briefly outline (i.e., no more than 2-3 slides) how to start a presentation (attention-getting steps) and provide an overview for the audience. You should focus most of your presentation (i.e., 8-10 slides) on what makes an effective presentation. Factors to consider in all forms of communication–Who is your audience? What is your message? Are you trying to persuade? Inform? Week 5, Lesson 1 has a lot of great information to get you started, as well as the Forum in Week 4 (the Guy Kawasaki TED Talk). 
I’ve also attached an excellent file slideshow demonstrating the keys to a successful presentation. 
Here are some guidelines to get you started: You will brief a small group of newly graduated APUS Business Students on how to present an effective presentation. Your audience ages are anywhere from 20-60 years of age, with various business backgrounds, military experience, and even some small business owners.
There should be an introduction slide, a topic overview slide, 8-10 slides on presentation techniques, a conclusion slide, and a reference slide. Use PowerPoint’s “notes” feature to list your talking points on each slide for me to read what you would be saying.
Submission Instructions: IMPORTANT! Save and submit your work as a PowerPoint Presentation with speaker notes.
Link here on how to do this in PPT
Your grade will be based upon your ability to follow assignment instructions, research conducted, the effectiveness of the training proposed, critical thinking and analysis, and APA 7th edition format.
Please support your ideas, arguments, and opinions with independent research, include at least three (3) supporting references or sources (do NOT use your textbook as one of the three required references, or encyclopedias, Wikipedia, unknown, undated, or anonymous sources, such as brief articles from websites), include a reference section (i.e., 1-2 slides), and cite all sources properly in the text of each slide, per the 7th edition of the APA manual.
Helpful Tips
I encourage you to go online to Purdue OWL, or Excelsior OWL, which have writing labs for students. Look up PowerPoint presentations in APA format in the search box. These websites will have helpful tips on best practices. TED talks are also another excellent source of good information.
References:
Excelsior OWL
Purdue OWL
Reminder:
Please review the grading rubric for this assignment carefully to ensure you receive the highest possible grade for your work

The plan is for me to make a budget within the framework of my work and I only want the part of Literature review from you.
I want different bids for the literature review only and a 2nd bid for the empirical research. 

REQUIREMENTS
Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. An originality report is provided when you submit your task that can be used as a guide.
You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.
Critical Analysis for Each Topic
Write a critical analysis for each  of the three books you have selected related to the corresponding topics.
Summarize each  trend and its impact on society as supported by each publication.
Summarize risks described in each  publication that are associated with each trend’s implementation, including the likelihood, severity, and mitigation strategies for each of the risks identified.
Describe how each  trend applies to the experiences you have had in your academic or professional life.
Justify how aspects of each  trend can be implemented in an organization, using research to support your claims.
Identify the indicators of successful application of each  trend, including any organizational strategies, goals, or key performance indicators (KPIs) that would be positively affected if the trend were successfully implemented in an organization.
Evaluate the short-term benefit or long-term application, the level of market applicability, and organizational relevance for each  trend, providing details from each publication to support your claims.
Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.

Sources that I want you to use: Source: 1:Sam J :, & George Galdorisi. (2021). AI at War : How Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning Are Changing Naval Warfare. Naval Institute Press. 
2: Source: Chen, N., Li, Z., & Tang, B. (2022). Can digital skill protect against job displacement risk caused by artificial intelligence? Empirical evidence from 701 detailed occupations. PloS ONE, 17(11), 1–13
3:Source: Vorobeva, D., El Fassi, Y., Costa Pinto, D., Hildebrand, D., Herter, M. M., & Mattila, A. S. (2022). Thinking Skills Don’t Protect Service Workers from Replacement by Artificial Intelligence. Journal of Service Research
4: Source: NEARY, B., HORÁK, J., KOVACOVA, M., & VALASKOVA, K. (2018). The Future of Work: Disruptive Business Practices, Technology-Driven Economic Growth, and Computer-Induced Job Displacement. Journal of Self-Governance & Management Economics, 6(4), 19–24.
5:Source: Subramaniam, V. (2023, March 27). How AI is changing the jobs of call centre workers.
6:.Source: Pucchio, A., Rathagirishnan, R., Caton, N., Gariscsak, P. J., Del Papa, J., Nabhen, J. J., Vo, V., Lee, W., & Moraes, F. Y. (2022). Exploration of exposure to artificial intelligence in undergraduate medical education: a Canadian cross-sectional mixed-methods study. BMC Medical Education, 22(1), 815.
7:Source: Pucchio, A., Rathagirishnan, R., Caton, N., Gariscsak, P. J., Del Papa, J., Nabhen, J. J., Vo, V., Lee, W., & Moraes, F. Y. (2022). Exploration of exposure to artificial intelligence in undergraduate medical education: a Canadian cross-sectional mixed-methods study. BMC Medical Education, 22(1), 815.
8:Source: Hodgson, D., Goldingay, S., Boddy, J., Nipperess, S., & Watts, L. (2022). Problematising Artificial Intelligence in Social Work Education: Challenges, Issues and Possibilities. British Journal of Social Work, 52(4), 1878–1895
9: Source: Deng, Y., Jiang, W., & Wang, Z. (2023). Economic resilience assessment and policy interaction of coal resource oriented cities for the low carbon economy based on AI. Resources Policy, 82.
10: Source: Furman, J., & Seamans, R. (2019). AI and the Economy. Innovation Policy and the Economy, 19, 161–191.
10: Source: Danish, M. S. S., & Senjyu, T. (2023). Shaping the future of sustainable energy through AI-enabled circular economy policies. Circular Economy, 2(2).
11:Source: Bruun, E. P. G., & Duka, A. (2018). Artificial Intelligence, Jobs and the Future of Work: Racing with the Machines. Basic Income Studies, 13(2).
12:Source: Chung, J., & Lee, Y. S. (2023). The Evolving Impact of Robots on Jobs. ILR Review, 76(2), 290–319.
13: Source: Creation of 450 jobs and a new AI lab: Unity technologies expands its operations in montréal. (2019, Jun 10). 
14: Agrawal, A., Gans, J. & Goldfarb, A. (2022). ChatGPT, AI can boost the economy by removing language barriers for immigrants seeking employment: ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence chatbot that has got the world abuzz, could help boost Canada’s economy.
15: Source: Dunckelman, A., & Greenwood, J. (2018, Apr 27). AI may take your job – but it could save your career: A new tool uses the same technology that brought about change in the world of work to help job seekers navigate it. 
16: Net increase in direct jobs in customer relationship management (CRM) due to artificial intelligence adoption in Canada, from 2017 to 2021
IDC. (June 1, 2017). Net increase in direct jobs in customer relationship management (CRM) due to artificial intelligence adoption in Canada, from 2017 to 2021 [Graph]. In Statista. 

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Write a paper on non-verbal communication and what we can learn from it. You are to write a 3-page paper (not including title and reference pages, so a total of 5 pages) in proper APA 7th Edition format. For your paper, please look at the videos and article linked below. Pay particular attention to the video and article; as you watch/read, note some topics that interest you. This is a short paper; consider it a warm-up for your longer paper due in Week 7. 
Video 1
Video 2 
Article: The Puzzle of Non-Verbal Communication
Requirements for this assignment:
Your paper should utilize the appropriate course material that we have covered regarding non-verbal communication. 
Ensure you address the following topics in your paper:
Pick three areas of interest from the article or video and discuss why you find it interesting, if you have seen any personal examples (i.e., someone who covers their mouth while talking, specific gender non-verbals, cultural differences).
This paper should be fun; I would suggest that you read/watch the materials as soon as possible and then start observing others around you for some non-verbal clues.
Remember your paper must include (all in proper APA 7th edition format):
Page 1 = Cover Page
Pages = 2-4 = Body (3 pages a minimum discussion of non-verbal areas of interest)
Page 5 = Reference Page
Make sure to use two additional resources from APUS online library or the internet (Google Scholar is a great source)
Wikipedia or similar sites are NOT acceptable sources for this paper.
Attached to these instructions, you will find a sample APA paper to give you some visual clues for proper formatting. 
Due on Apr 21, 2024 11:59 PM
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