Category: Business and Management

For decades, relational databases remained essentially unchanged; data was segmented into specific chunks for columns, slots, and repositories, also called structured data. However, in this Internet of Things (IoT) era, databases need to be reengineered because the very nature of data has changed. Today’s databases need to be developed with the needs of IoT in mind and have the ability to perform                 real-time processing to manage workloads that are dynamic. For example, relational databases should be able to work with real-time data streaming and big data (an example was presented in the unit    lesson).
Scenario: eHermes wants their personnel to be able to view security video footage in real-time and       provide them with the ability to query video footage for viewing. Choosing a database solution such as MongoDB would allow eHermes to store mobile self-driving video footage in the same database as the metadata.
To do this, eHermes needs a way to manage the demands of real-time data streaming for real-time    analytics. Conduct some research for a NoSQL database application such as MongoDB or Cassandra    that could meet this need. How would switching to a real-time database solution help eHermes remain competitive? Create a PowerPoint presentation that does the following:
Provides a brief introduction to IoT.
Presents an argument to the eHermes CEO that switching to a more dynamic database structure (NoSQL real-time database) will meet the demands of IoT.
Introduces some features of the database you chose, whether it is MongoDB, Cassandra, or another database.
Describes how switching to a more dynamic database will give eHermes a competitive advantage?
Your presentation must be a minimum of six slides, and you must use at least two academic resources. Any information from a resource used must be cited and referenced in APA format.

everything that is needed to be done is attached down below and please go through it please let me know if you need any assistance

write a memo as a way of explaining to your client how the standard will fill will be followed on upcoming audit
Audit company is Target.

In this assignment, you will do some research on companies that have been recognized as good places to work, and you will summarize your findings in an analytical report.
For this assignment, you will do some research on companies that have been recognized as good places to work, and you will summarize your findings in an analytical report. I realize that the Fortune link for this assignment requires you to subscribe so I’m including a link here that you can use instead
https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/bestcompanies/full_list/ Links to an external site.
Just click on the link and then you can review the companies that made the list. You don’t have to include all 100 companies in your report. It should be enough to just review the top 10 companies. Look at the statistics that make these companies attractive for employees. Summarize your findings in a report. As for length, I think that 500 words should be sufficient.

required to “Select a global industry, and for the chosen industry, choose an emerging economy, and conduct a comparative investigation of the major entry modes foreign firms used in the past decade. Clearly evaluate (with examples) the key motivations behind the market entry modes’ choice(s)”. – You are expected to apply relevant definitions, concepts and theories (delivered in the module, and from the existing literature) and collect relevant real-world data for the assignment. – Following APA referencing style is mandatory for this assignment. – Any global industry can be chosen

ASSIGNMENT QUESTION
Based on the outcome of the Group Strategy Simulation, write a 3000-word individual strategic report. Using key strategic concepts, models, and literature, as well as data and evidence from the strategy simulation where appropriate, the report must include the following themes and sections:
1. Evaluation of the strategic management, business model, and performance
Explain your strategy and evaluate the strategic management of your company, reflecting on the lessons learnt.
Explain the company’s business model and evaluate your company’s performance.
2. Analysis of the business environments
Evaluate the main trends and factors as well as principal risks and uncertainties in the external, competitive, and internal environments likely to affect the future position of your company.
Analyse your company’s internal resources and capabilities and the extent to which they provide sustained competitive advantage.
3. Evaluation of strategic priorities
Critically evaluate the impact of innovation on the future of your business.
Outline two areas of focus to drive growth through your commitment to
innovation.
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
Task / Assessed LOs / Assessment Criteria / Points to consider Marks
LO1, 5: You are expected to demonstrate an understanding of key strategic management concepts, models and literature and apply strategic decision-making in ‘real-life’ contexts, as well as to identify and analyse key strategic problems, suggesting realistic and well- supported solutions.
LO2: You are expected to demonstrate an understanding of integrating business capabilities and functions in an analytical manner.
LO3,4: You are expected to demonstrate written presentation abilities and the ability to work as part of a team.
1. Evaluation of strategic management, business model, and performance
Explain how your company’s strategy and evaluate the strategic management of your company.
Reflecting on the lessons learnt, evaluate one major decision in each round from three perspectives:
o 1.Explainwhyyoutookcertaindecisions
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o 2.Explainthecontext
o 3.Evaluatetheoutcome
Explain your choice of generic competitive strategy and how you
achieved competitive advantage.
Explain the company’s business model (value creation,
configuration, and capture) and aspects that differentiate it from
your competitors.
Applying the Balanced Scorecard, assess your company’s overall
performance.
2. Analysis of the business environments
Evaluate the main trends and factors as well as principal risks and uncertainties in the external, competitive, and internal environments likely to affect the future position of your company.
Evaluate the strengths of the five forces and the overall attractiveness of the industry.
Evaluate the extent to which external factors and competitive forces were at play in the simulation.
Analyse your company’s internal resources and capabilities and the extent to which they provide sustained competitive advantage.
Apply at least one model or framework to each environment, for example Pestle, Porter’s Five Forces, and VRIO.
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3. Evaluation of strategic priorities
Explain specific actions taken in the strategy simulation to strengthen the company’s innovation mindset across different business functions.
With examples, evaluate the impact of innovation on the future of your business, outlining two areas of focus to drive growth through your commitment to innovation.
REFERENCES:
Barney, J. (1991) Firm resources and sustained competitive advantage. Journal of Management, 17, 1, 99–120.
Chesbrough, H.W. (2003) The era of open innovation. MIT Sloan management review, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 35.
Harvard Business Review, Porter, M.E., Kim, W.C. and Mauborgne, R.A. (2011) HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Strategy (including featured article “What Is Strategy?” by Michael E. Porter). Boston: Harvard Business Review Press.
Kaplan, R.S. and Norton, D.P. (2007) ‘Using the balanced scorecard as a strategic management system’, Harvard Business Review, 85(7-8), pp. 150.
McKinsey & Co (2022) Choosing to grow: The leader’s blueprint. Available at:
https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/growth-marketing-and-sales/our- insights/choosing-to-grow-the-leaders-blueprint (Accessed 21 June 2023)
Tidd, J. and Bessant, J.R. (2021) Managing innovation: integrating technological, market and organizational change, Wiley, Chichester.
Thompson, A.A., Peteraf, M.A., Gamble, J. E., and Strickland, A.J. (2021) Crafting and executing strategy: the quest for competitive advantage: concepts and cases. 23rd edn., New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
Whittington, R., Regner, P., Angwin, D., Johnson, G., Scholes, K. (2021)., Fundamentals of Strategy 5th edn., Pearson: Harlow.
Whittington, R, Regner, P, Angwin, D, Johnson, G, and Scholes, K. (2023). Exploring Strategy – Text and Cases 13th edn., Pearson; Harlow.

Case no. 1, Question 1.1: Power Point proposal outlining your information technology and information management strategy.
– Case no. 1, Question 1.2: Summary/briefing note explaining the case.
– Case no. 2, Question 2.1: Approach to address the presented situation.
– Case no. 2, Question 2.2: E-mail response to your Director.
– Case no. 2, Question 2.3: Letter for the director’s signature as a response to the promoter.

I would like the rewritten; I have included the draft of the first paper. I have also included the instructions and the Clifton strengths report. The second paper has not yet been written, but it is heavily based on the 1st. The first document is already over 10 pages long; however, I am not opposed to it being reduced. I will need the 2nd assignment done as well. 

An important issue is plagiarism and/or the use of AI. I assume that most of you know what I’m referring to. Plagiarism means presenting someone else’s work as your own. You absolutely cannot do that in this class. Likewise, to generate a paper using AI does not count as doing your own work. This includes having Grammarly (or another AI tool) rewrite your essay. Also, you cannot write your essay in a foreign language and have Google Translate convert it into English. You will submit papers that will be scanned by Turnitin.com, which recognizes unoriginal and/or AI-generated material. Thus, make sure that any material you include in your paper that has not been generated by you is delivered as a quotation and is properly cited. 
LINK OF BOOK:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=013eY4subvs&t=4517s
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Why is it important for employees to think and act like owners? 
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The book discusses that in the business world, some feel that those who are kind and considerate may not always come out on top. Can you provide evidence from the book to support or counter this claim and share your opinion on the matter? 
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The author describes the challenge of producing and delivering 800 tractors within 30 days. What measures were taken to improve productivity and motivate the team?

This final paper is comprehensive reflection of the knowledge you have learned in this course. Thus, prior to beginning work on this assignment, review each of the chapters of the course textbook. Then, review the following case study:
Timmco Case Study
Timmco, Inc. is a publicly traded corporation located in Denton, Texas that makes and sells high pressure industrial spraying equipment used in all sorts of commercial liquid spraying applications. It prides itself on top quality and promotes its products as “100% made in the USA”.
Sales have been declining recently due to competition from lower priced competitors and Timmco is looking for ways to reduce costs. One option under consideration is to find a new source for the high-pressure valves used in its products. These valves are complicated mechanisms that operate under very high internal pressure. If the valve was to burst, it would spray pieces of metal in all directions and pose a significant hazard to anyone standing nearby including the operator of the equipment. Timmco currently has a contract to purchase 1,000 valves a year at $2,500 per valve from Blagg Industries, a small privately owned business located in Boone, North Carolina. The contract has been in place for three years and has two more years to run.
Blagg Industries has a dozen employees. Timmco is its primary customer. If Blagg Industries loses Timmco’s business, it will have to lay off employees and might even go out of business.
Timmco is considering outsourcing the valves from Sanco, an overseas supplier in the country of Slawrovia, instead of buying valves from Blagg Industries. The Sanco valves only cost $1,000 each, but are known to be of lower quality than the Blagg Industries valves and are more likely to burst. Sanco can supply these valves at such low cost because they pay their workers, including children, less than the equivalent of $5 per day and work them long hours in hot, dangerous conditions.
Slawrovia is a poor country, but it has a large government bureaucracy and there is a lot of red tape involved in getting approval to export manufactured goods to other countries. In fact, it might take more than a year for Sanco and Timmco to obtain the necessary approvals for Sanco to export the valves to Timmco. Fortunately, the CEO of Sanco is related to the Slawrovia Minister of Commerce and has told Timmco that the necessary approvals can be obtained in less than a week if Timmco makes a $20,000 “gift” to the Slawrovia Minister of Commerce.
In addition to finding a new, low cost valve supplier, Timmco plans to increase sales by running a new marketing campaign that focuses on their commitment to American made quality. The tagline will be “Made in the USA by Americans, for Americans.”
You are a high-level executive at Timmco. Analyze the legal and ethical issues presented by the Timmco scenario. Your legal and ethical analysis should include breach of contract and remedies, negligent torts, product liability, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and deceptive advertising and should incorporate a discussion and application of one or more of the ethical theories from Chapter 4 of the course textbook Business law: The Ethical, Global, and E-Commerce Environment.
Your legal and ethical analysis should,
Analyze breach of contract and remedies
Analyze negligent torts
Analyze product liability
Analyze the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Analyze deceptive advertising
Incorporate a discussion and application of one or more of the ethical theories from Chapter 4 of the course textbook Business Law: The Ethical, Global, and E-Commerce Environment.
The Timmco Case Study final paper
Must be eight to ten double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA StyleLinks to an external site. as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA Formatting for Microsoft WordLinks to an external site. resource.
Must include a separate title page with the following:
Title of paper in bold font
Space should appear between the title and the rest of the information on the title page.
Student’s name
Name of institution (The University of Arizona Global Campus)
Course name and number
Instructor’s name
Due date
Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic VoiceLinks to an external site. resource for additional guidance.
Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
For assistance on writing Introductions & ConclusionsLinks to an external site. as well as Writing a Thesis StatementLinks to an external site., refer to the UAGC Writing Center resources.
Your legal analysis should follow the IRAC method introduced in Week 1.
Must use at least seven credible sources in addition to the course text.
The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible SourcesLinks to an external site. table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
Must document any information used from sources in APA Style as outlined in the UAGC Writing Center’s APA: Citing Within Your PaperLinks to an external site. guide.
Utilize correct APA formatting for legal sources include case law and legislation. See the Citing Legal SourcesLinks to an external site. resource from the UAGC University Library as well as the Citing Legal Materials in APA StyleLinks to an external site. from California State University, Stanislaus, for assistance.
Should avoid over-dependence on direct quotesLinks to an external site.. Direct quotes are a great way to strengthen our assertions and provide support. However, be sure to avoid using excessive direct quotes in lieu of original thought. Direct quotes will not meet the requirement for analysis, application, and critical thinking. Please ensure to not overuse direct quote so that you can avoid losing points for this.
Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the UAGC Writing Center. See the APA: Formatting Your References ListLinks to an external site. resource in the UAGC Writing Center for specifications.