In step one we discussed why strategic planning is essential to define the scope of the plan.  What did you find most useful in step 2, Scanning the Business Environment? For example, what did you learn about the process of identifying current and future business drivers? Can you determine where, when, and why this application would be applied? What is the purpose of conducting a […]

Pakco Corp. is a manufacturer of travel bags.  It is evaluating entering into the manufacture of a new line of backpacks.  This will require the investment in a new manufacturing machine and hiring additional employees.  You are a financial analyst in the Financial Planning & Analysis Department.  The product development team has supplied you with the below growth rates and margins and it expects year […]

Watch Generation Wealth documentary. Instructions: Please address each question provided in the form. Your answers will be graded on a 10 point scale.  For full credit, you need to provide reasonably detailed, thoughtful, and insightful answers to each of the items, (roughly 100 words. 1. Briefly summarize the basic plot or issue that the film or case study addresses. 2.  What do you think is […]

Your team’s PowerPoint presentation will provide the results that your team discovered based on the Survey Questionnaire that your team handed-out on campus. It should be visually based – graphs, charts, illustration, pictures, etc. Your team wants to give your presentation audience a clear picture of your team’s (1) chosen topic, (2) how your team chose to focus the survey questionnaire to get the information […]

 Write up what the country ITALY has done and is planning to do about the current COVID-19 pandemic, particularly how those actions have impacted businesses. Has that country shut down businesses (which ones?) or asked businesses to police themselves? All of that information should be factual, and you need to cite your sources immediately after you use information from them. You also need to include […]

If you were unable to attend any of the Town Halls during weeks 1-4, you may earn up to 25 bonus points by completing this assignment.  View any one of the Town Halls. Then complete the following:  1. In which week was the town hall held and who was the presenting instructor? 5 pt  2. Identify one economic thinker and explain what that thinker said […]

 Using an Internet search engine, search for “strategic alliance” and identify three recently formed alliances. Be sure not to share the same alliances shared by your classmates. For each alliance, identify whether the companies’ other products are generally competitors or complementary. What are the goals of each alliance? What brought them together? Discuss how you think a strategic alliance is or is not an effective […]

Case 13.3 “Dear Mr. President—Please Cancel our Project!”: The Honolulu Elevated Rail ProjectThis case is a great current example of a very expensive project that was kicked off because of an assumed need—to relieve congestion in downtown Honolulu through an elevated urban rail system.  Critics argue that in addition to having a ballooning cost, the actual planning was poorly conceived, leaving Honolulu with an intrusive […]

You are the Quality Director of a local health system. Your organization has decided to seek accreditation through the Joint Commission. Your first task has been penned by the CEO to prepare for the accreditation process by conducting a literature review on the impact of accreditation on quality of care. The review of literature should include the historical underpinnings of quality initiatives since the publishing […]

PPP, which is purchasing power parity, is a theory economically that takes different countries’ currencies and compares them using an approach called “basket of goods.” The currencies are in balance, which is known as being at par; the exchange rate is considered what the basket of goods at the same price in each country (Hall,2019).  There are several calculations throughout Chapter 10, even one related […]