Category: Business

Choose 2: complete the questions below associated with either slides 40-41 or 42-43; then complete the questions below associated with either slide 62 or 80.

Introduction, write an introduction/overview of a company listed on the stock exchange (check to be sure they have annual reports available online). Describe the company and their product(s)/service(s), a brief history, their vision and mission (if they do not have formal statements describe what you feel they might be) the industry they are in, their size (sales, income, number of employees), and your perception of their competitive advantage(s). State what the company’s goal may be ($xx sale for the coming year, for instance, or a certain percentage of profit).
Under the next heading, Problem Statement: After doing background reading on the company, write a Problem Statement consisting of a single sentence describing a problem at the organization (it can be related to customers, communication, marketing, operations, finances, and/or personnel). State the problem in a sentence: The problem at xxx is xxxx. Provide a short background about the problem.
Your assignment should include a title page, abstract, headings, cites and references, and font (Times New Roman 12) are to be in APA format

Scenario
You work as a director of leadership and learning for an organization that makes prosthetics. This year’s employee engagement survey results for the organization show that some leadership practices are rated lower, while some practices were rated higher. The new chief human resources officer (CHRO) met with the team to discuss the general results. Everyone agrees that the company’s focus should be on both specific leadership development areas perceived as strengths and on those rated as areas for improvement, primarily regarding social intelligence, emotional intelligence, and the interpersonal skills of effective leaders.
To help this initiative, your manager, the vice president of leadership and learning, asked you to create an adaptive leadership toolkit that can be used throughout the organization. To begin this work, you conducted a personal leadership self-assessment and turned this into a personal development plan. Then you shared this artifact with your manager. Your manager was impressed with the thoroughness of the personal development plan and saw value in incorporating it as an exemplar within the adaptive leadership toolkit for use by all people leaders in the organization. After receiving such positive feedback from your manager, you are now ready to move forward on developing the adaptive leadership toolkit that will be shared with your manager and chief human resources officer (CHRO) of the organization.
Prompt
Summarize the business problems the organization is currently facing and describe how the adaptive leadership toolkit will address these problems.
Based on the employee satisfaction survey, identify the skills and behaviors that are current strengths exhibited by leadership and explain how these strengths are critical to the success of the organization.
Based on the employee satisfaction survey, identify the skills and behaviors that are current areas of weakness for leadership and explain how these areas may be improved by applying the self-assessment you used to create your own personal development plan.
Describe the importance of including a personal development plan as an exemplar in the adaptive leadership toolkit and explain how SMART goal setting can help to improve the areas of weakness for leaders within the organization.
Explain how the personal development plan and SMART goal setting could help develop the leadership styles of the leaders within the organization.
What to Submit
Submit a 3- to 4-page Word document using 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. Sources should be cited according to APA style. Consult the Shapiro Library APA Style Guide for more information on citations.

Overview
Great work! After successfully completing analyses of your company’s internal and external business environments, you have now reached the final project milestone.
In this assignment, you will conduct a buy-build-ally analysis of the company and recommend a strategy that the company can implement over the next five years to achieve the targeted growth.
Prompt
Perform a buy-build-ally analysis for your company and recommend actions the company can take to realize the identified opportunity within five years. Use resources such as the company website, which will have pertinent information including its most recent sustainability report, and other relevant sources to help complete this presentation. You can also use the resources in the MBA Library Research Guide to conduct further research about your company.
Create a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation to show the results of your analysis and present your recommendations. Use both on-slide text and narration or speaker notes in your PowerPoint slides to convey your information effectively. If narration is not possible, precise and extensive speaker notes should be used, while addressing all of the rubric elements in the presentation. For example, you can use brief, bulleted lists summarizing the highlights of your analysis on the slide and include more detailed explanations in your speaker notes.
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
Implementation strategy (slides 1–3): Recommend an implementation strategy for your company.Determine whether the company will need to buy, build, or ally with another company. Consider the skills, facilities, products, and services the company will need to capitalize on the identified opportunity.
Use the speaker notes of your presentation to explain the strategy behind your buy, build, and ally recommendations.
Timeline (slides 4–5): Construct a timeline showing what your company should achieve by the end of each year for the next five years.
What to Submit
Create a PowerPoint presentation with on-slide text and narration or detailed speaker notes. Your presentation should be 5 to 7 slides in length. Sources should be cited according to APA style. Consult the Shapiro Library APA Style Guide for more information on citations.

In this assignment you will choose a public company OR a non-profit organization (501c3) that publishes some version of an annual report – either a “10-K wrap,” a “glossy annual report,” a “glossy” annual report on a website or an ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) report. You will ALSO look at that company’s/organization’s social media.
Using memo format, write a memo addressed to me (Prof. Raichek). Your memo should use .8 or 1″ margins, single spaced except where double spacing is required by the format. Please use full and complete sentences. Remember to include the “statement of purpose” for the memo, subtitles for each topic you discuss and a summary/conclusion. Your memo should be (min) 2 – (max) 3 pages long. No need to submit more than 3 pages!
Part I – Annual Report
Respond to the questions below. You MUST choose something OTHER THAN a plain 10-K. Support points with specifics. Identify the company/organization whose report you have chosen AND the kind of report you reviewed (“10-K Wrap,” “glossy annual report,” ESG Report, etc.)
How does this report use visuals to keep attention?
How effective is the letter from the CEO (if present)? If no CEO letter, how does the company communicate key highlights from the past year?
How does the report present number-heavy information? Does it rely mainly on tables and graphs? Does it provide prose (text) summaries?
Is the writing easy to understand? How would you describe the writing style? (formal, informal)
Do you see places where negative information is given a positive spin?
Overall, how well-presented is the information in this report?
Part 2 – Social Media Analysis
Most successful companies and organizations actively utilize social media today. Using the same company or non-profit (501c3) organization you used for Part I, analyze how this organization uses social media. Examine two of the company’s social media platforms (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok) and respond to the following questions:
What are this company’s/organization’s objectives and rhetorical purposes for using social media?
(How does the company or organization use social media for marketing and brand building, advertising and promotions, customer relations and engagement, and/or other purposes?) What values does the company or organization strive to project? Does the company/organization post different content to different platforms? If yes, describe the differences. Overall, how effectively is social media used?
NOTE: “Effectiveness” should be determined by an actual measurement:
Please provide some specific numerical measures to quantify the effectiveness of the social media produced by the company you analyzed. These two articles (attached below) will guide you, by giving you an idea of some of the goals of social media use and how companies measure effectiveness.
https://www.entrepreneur.com/science-technology/97…
https://blog.hootsuite.com/smart-social-media-goal.

When your lecturer/professor asks you to work in group and discuss on what business should you open, this file helps you a lot on defining your own business and to study about market analysis.

I provide the full instruction with files attached. I would like you to read the instruction slides carefully and reference the examples. Use UK English.

INTRODUCTION
Organizations often try to develop an entrepreneurial culture through a strong orientation toward entrepreneurship.
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.
A. Prepare a brief summary, listing and defining at least four reasons why entrepreneurial organizations seek opportunities for innovation.
B. Acknowledge sources, using APA-formatted in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
C. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.

“”””””Important note””””””” please please don’t use AI, don’t use hard or un-understandable English as I’m an international student so make sure that the grammar is for international students. Every specific detail will be given below please work based on it and don’t use things that aren’t mentioned in the details, I’ll also link the rubric below to help you with what to focus on. Also the city that you’ll have to talk about is UAE make sure the company is local and doesn’t have international presence
The Location-Based Assignment (LBA) serves as your final assignment for IBS212.
Choose an organization you have interacted with in your city and use the concepts you’ve learned in IBS212 to:
analyze their marketing strategy (how does the local environment influence them), or
create a hypothetical go-to-market strategy for expanding that organization’s offerings into a new country.
This assignment is intentionally open-ended; the point is to connect what you have learned in the classroom with your real-world, location-based experiences. Therefore, it would be best to choose an organization and a topic you are excited to write about (and your Professor would be interested in reading about). Be sure to highlight 3 of the course’s LOs precisely and incorporate at least one research paper (with appropriate citations).
Notes:
All LOs could serve as focused outcomes; you can select the subset most relevant to your topic.
The topic is open-ended, so please feel free to reach out to your Professor if you’d like to run your idea by them.
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As business majors, your communication skills are crucial — we want you to write well and expect that your work is clear, concise, and not only proofread but iterated with multiple drafts. To that end, review the IBS: Business Communication Writing Tips (Upper-Level) Guide for additional support when writing a solid paper.
In upper-level classes, please focus on the LOs because they are the core components of the course. Building your paper around the LOs is much better than writing a paper and then shoving in LO footnotes. You may tag LOs with a footnote to make it clear to you and the Professor where you are trying to highlight specific concepts, but do not explain your application in a footnote. Everything you need to prove this is a good use of the LO should be in the main text.
Assignment Information
Length:750-1000
Weight:
15%
LEARNING OUTCOMES ADDED
flatWorld: Evaluate the “flat-world” debate and apply it to business strategy issues.
whyGlobal: Explain and evaluate the motivations for why a business exists in the global marketplace.
howGlobal: Analyze the utility, costs, and implementation of global value chains.
poliStrat: Analyze how political and legal environments influence business strategy.
econStrat: Analyze how economic and financial environments influence business strategy.
socioCulturalStrat: Analyze how social and cultural environments influence business strategy.
globalSegmentation: Utilize segmentation strategies to identify new global markets.
intCompetitiveness: Analyze the factors influencing a firm’s international competitiveness.
localGlobalMix: Analyze the interaction between global and local considerations when developing the marketing mix.

This is a 2-part assignment from the same Powerpoints. Watch the attached 2 PowerPoints (must listen to the audio) and do the following discussion board and essay: Lecture Response 1 (Discussion Board)
Lecture Response Discussion Boards:
Lecture responses are short, reflective assignments. After finishing the weekly 2 Powerpoints and consider the following question: What was the main point(s) of each lecture? Your assignment is to: 1. Summarize each lecture in a way that concisely explains its main point(s). Your goal is to demonstrate that you have thoroughly engaged with the class material. Be sure to consider the scope of the lecture itself. A statement of approximately 500 words (1 page – single spaced) for the discussion post. 2. Answer the following question: what stood out to you most in the lectures from the attached powerpoints and why? Lecture Response 1 (Essay)
See the attached 2 PowerPoints (must listen to the audio) and write an essay as follows: General remarks: You can choose two types of essays in this class: Comparison Essays or Thematic Essays. Comparison Essays require you to analyze two images and to develop a logical discussion of their similarities and differences from a visual and cultural standpoint. Thematic essays require you choose at least three images and to discuss the ways in which they engage with one of the issues we explore in our lectures. Neither type of writing exercise calls for outside research – do not consult any websites, articles, or books without my expressed approval. WRITE THE ESSAY IN YOUR OWN WORDS, no sources needed. The essay should demonstrate what you learned from the 2 attached powerpoints written in either compassion or thematic essay style. Each essay must be longer than two full pages of text, double spaced with 1 inch margins. Write is APA format. Include a title page, an introduction, and a conclusion.
NOTE:
I am paying for 5 pages, but I only need 4:
1 page, single spaced for the discussion board.
3-page double spaced for the essay