...Best Game Production: Company Background and Business Scenario Carolyn Williams January 14, 2013 Com/537 Organizational Communications Marian Karcher/Instructor Best Game Productions A large video game company. Created within (2) years Anticipating high among customers Game bug discovered (major dilemma) Customer disappointment and loss of sales Maintain customers faith and loyalty for future sales Dilemma Development has been for (2) years Release date had been delayed due to the recent discovery of the game’s bug Do they ignore the bug and release the video game on the anticipated date, or do they delay the game’s release to fix the bug? Customer Anticipation Unless the bug is fixed, the game will not release until January Causing customer disappointment and loss of holiday sales. However, releasing the game on the expected date could also cause customer disappointment Due to the decreased quality of the game, affecting company loyalty, and future game sales. Internal and External Stakeholders Owners CEO Creditors/Investors Customers The company’s developers, quality control, marketing, public relations, and finance employees Stakeholder Needs Maintain customer anticipating and excitement for the video game and released on time for the holidays Correct any gaming bugs that exist Stakeholder Motivations The game must meet the company’s standards of quality Time should be allowed to correct the problem Customers to receive...
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...Syllabus School of Business COM/537 Version 1 Organizational Communication Copyright © 2011 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course prepares graduate students to apply written and oral communication principles to the roles they play as managers. Students will learn how to persuade a variety of stakeholders to commit to a proposal. Other topics include the role of perception in communication techniques, aligning communication to an audience, business justifications, presenting data, and ethics in organizational communications. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read the policies governing your current class modality. Course Materials Spatt, Brenda. (2011). Writing from sources (8th ed.). Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin’s. Stuart, B. E., Sarow, M. S., & Stuart, L. (2007). Integrated business communication in a global marketplace. West Sussex, England: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. All electronic materials...
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...in the first few years. After the second war of the world. In 1947, Ferrari built its own automobile factory to produce the first car for general road driving--Ferrari 125s. And a lot of cars are produced in the next few years. Ferrari got many champions in car contests by these cars. It made Ferrari to be a great auto company. Most of the Ferrari car are handmade, so the production is very low. Unfortunately, the low production and sale are difficult to support the huge overhead of racing team, Ferrari often get in economic problems. However, due to the high reputation of Ferrari, many times to win honors for Italian, Ferrari has become a representative image of the Italian automotive industry. So Ferrari got the help from FIAT. Ford Motor Company was interested in buying Ferrari. But Enzo Ferrari refused. In 1969 Ferrari agreed to be bought by FIAT, and the condition is FIAT shall not influence its racing activities in the future. As a comparison Rolls-Royce and Lamborghini both be sold to Germany. Ferrari insisted on and become the pride of Italy. The philosophy of Ferrari Enzo Ferrari said the best car of Ferrari always be the next one. Constant pursuit of success is Ferrari’s philosophy. Scuderia Ferrari is the only fleet which attend all the F1 races from 1950. In 2001, Michael Schumacher, the great driver, win the F1 champion of 2011. It is my first time to heard Ferrari. The excellent grades in F1 make Ferrari become the representative of racing car. It is also a...
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...|[pic] |Syllabus | | |School of Business | | |COM/537 Version 1 | | |Organizational Communication | Copyright © 2011 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course prepares graduate students to apply written and oral communication principles to the roles they play as managers. Students will learn how to persuade a variety of stakeholders to commit to a proposal. Other topics include the role of perception in communication techniques, aligning communication to an audience, business justifications, presenting data, and ethics in organizational communications. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure...
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...Base/mode of production HM Economic base/infrastructure: forces of production: raw material, social creations necessary for the society to engage in economic production, technology, natural resources related skills and knowledge. Relations of production: owndership of the forces of prod, some owned communally, others were private ownership and compel others groups to work for it superstructure HM all aspects of society not included in the base, religion, philosphy, politics, the fam, law, art CHANGE IN ECON BASE CHANGE IN SUPERSTRUCTURE Simple Societies Not dependent on any other society; little political organization, division by gender Compound Societies Greater division of labor, stratification, composite groups formed Doubly compound All doubly compound societies are settled, non-nomadic, political organization more elaborate, caste system, towns and roads Trebly compound societies Extensive territorial scope of society; Great civilizations, productive, distributive capcity, regular exchange with other societies Historical Materialsm was also a reaction to important contemporary societal and intellectual developments: Lenski: Technology used to adapt to environment; Outcomes: Surplus production, Population growth, Stratification, occupational specialization Harris: Cultural Materialsm (best for preindustrial) Theory Mechanism: Population growth & technological processing deplete the environment, cause decline in living standards...
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...Introduction: This is a report to assess whether the sports entertainment company WWE is meeting its aims and objectives. It will show what WWE are currently doing to meet the Initiatives they have set. Evidence for this report is from the company’s current business issues site http://corporate.wwe.com/ this includes company statistics and slideshows for people to view. I have also viewed a conference which is called WWE business partner summit. Ownership for this company is publicly traded company and has Shareholders. They are an international business as they do their programming in 145 countries and 30 languages and reaches more than 500 million homes around the world. Aims and Objectives Recently the company had rebranded themselves from World Wrestling Entertainment to just the WWE knocking out the words wrestling will help in order to open more things and enter into all audiences homes on their TV other than just wrestling such as making offices out of USA to make relationships with all types of viewers, this is an example of their aims. In addition they aim to also make a profit and to improve financial results every year. They wanted to expand from the wrestling product by making new products. Also wanted to be more international and building relationships in those countries this can go under having more viewers. After revising their first quarter results WWE have fallen in many areas such as Live Events/Venue Merchandise and Pay‐per‐view “Free Cash Flow declined...
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...OBJECTIVE To assess the underlying rationale of the training module INTRODUCTION Properly designed and implemented, effective training improves one company's success. Without a basic sales process and methodology, sale people are left to their own devices. That leaves management without a standard way to review trouble areas and predict success. Improved sales benefit every part of one company. Sales training can address multiple areas involving personal and interpersonal skills, business knowledge, and sales process and methodology. Each area has specific value and delivers different benefits to help individuals to be better. THE JOURNEY WE TOOK IN DEVELOPMENT OF OUR TRAINING MODULE. METHOD STEP 1 Our facilitator briefed us about training modules and the activity started in class. The idea was proposed by the facilitator and we were all supposed to come up with whom to impart training for and on what product as a class. As a class we came up with the idea of developing a training module for 4 northern regions Area Sales Manager working for a high-end detergent powder company with the aim of imparting them skills which will help them increase the sale of the product. STEP 2 The facilitator then divided the class in groups of four and asked the groups to develop a training module. The module is as follows – (attached in the end) This module had its own criticisms, other groups training modules were also discussed and the facilitator then asked...
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...------------------------------------------------- BIG Data February 8, 2015 Srinivas gogineni SAI SRAVAN KOLUKULA February 8, 2015 Srinivas gogineni SAI SRAVAN KOLUKULA Introduction Big data burst upon the scene in the first decade of the 21st century. The first organizations to embrace it were online and startup firms. Firms like Google, eBay, LinkedIn, and Facebook were built around big data from the beginning. Like many new information technologies, big data can bring about dramatic cost reductions, substantial improvements in the time required to perform a computing task, or new product and service offerings. Davenport.T (2013). Big Data is emerging from the realms of science projects at Web companies to help companies like telecommunication giants understand exactly which customers are unhappy with service and what processes caused the dissatisfaction, and predict which customers are going to change carriers. To obtain this information, billions of loosely-structured bytes of data in different locations needs to be processed until the needle in the haystack is found. The analysis enables executive management to fix faulty processes or people and maybe be able to reach out to retain the at-risk customers. The real business impact is that big data technologies can do this in weeks or months, four-or-more-times faster than traditional data warehousing approaches. Floyer.D (2015). Literature Review The IT techniques and tools to execute big data processing...
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...ABHILASH GOYAL, ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING COCA COLA Supply Chain Operations Excellence Trainee OTHER COMPANIES INTERVIEWED WITH: ITC and Schlumberger Program- BTECH HIGHLIGHTS OF MY CAMPUS STAY CPI: 8.8 Volunteer in Ritambhara, participated in 2-3 robotics events etc. PRE-PLACEMENT PREPARATION - When it came to resume building, I mentioned my internship (which was in Samsung), projects I did and the co-curricular activities - I was confident about my aptitude and was focussing mainly core and analytics. - I didn’t prepare for GD but finally had to give GD in Coca Cola, ITC and Schlumberger. So you can never be too sure of what comes your way during the placements. PLACEMENT EXPERIENCE - I started my placement journey by getting shortlisted in Capital One on Day 1. They shortlisted 125 candidates on the basis of resume. Then they took a case study interview and reduced the number to 30. Then again took an aptitude test but finally didn’t give offer to anyone. - Then came Coca Cola on Day 2. They organised GD in the groups of ten each and then there was a single interview of about half an hour which mainly consisted of HR based questions. The topic of the GD was “Are Engineering students wasting time in studies ?”. The interview mainly focussed on the commitment to work with them and asked whether I did any activity depicting leadership skills. - Coca Cola shortlisted candidates with medium profile like moderate CPI with few extracurrecs. I had a target of gettng...
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...Foreign Direct Investment Learning objectives • Be familiar with current trends regarding FDI in the world economy. • Understand the different theories of foreign direct investment. • Appreciate how political ideology shapes a government’s attitudes towards FDI. • Understand the benefits and costs of FDI to home and host countries. • Be able to discuss the range of policy instruments that governments use to influence FDI. • Articulate the implications for management practice of theory and government policies associated with FDI. The focus of this chapter is foreign direct investment (FDI). The growth of foreign direct investment in the last 25 years has been phenomenal. FDI can take the form of a foreign firm buying a firm in a different country, or deciding to invest in a different country by building operations there. With FDI, a firm has a significant ownership in a foreign operation and the potential to affect managerial decisions of the operation. The goal of our coverage of FDI is to understand the pattern of FDI that occurs between countries, and why firms undertake FDI and become multinational in their operations as well as why firms undertake FDI rather than simply exporting products or licensing their know-how. The opening case describes the international growth of Starbucks. The closing case explores Cemex’s foreign investments. OUTLINE OF CHAPTER 7: FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT Opening Case: Starbucks’...
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...The Strategy of International Business Learning objectives • Explain the concept of strategy. • Understand how firms can profit from expanding globally. • Understand how pressures for cost reductions and pressures for local responsiveness influence strategic choice. • Be familiar with different strategies for competing globally and their pros and cons. In this chapter the focus shifts from the environment to the firm itself and, in particular, to the actions managers can take to compete more effectively as an international business. This chapter looks at how firms can increase their profitability by expanding their operations in foreign markets, the different strategies that firms pursue when competing internationally, and the various factors that affect a firm’s choice of strategy. Subsequent chapters build on the framework established here to discuss a variety of topics including the design of organization structures and control systems for international businesses, strategies for entering foreign markets, the use and misuse of strategic alliances, strategies for exporting, and the various manufacturing, marketing, R&D, human resource, accounting, and financial strategies that international businesses pursue. OUTLINE OF CHAPTER 12: THE STRATEGY OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS Opening Case: MTV Networks Introduction Strategy and the Firm Value Creation Strategic Positioning Operations: The Firm as a Value Chain Global...
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...Introduction to Business (2) – Sept. 7th 2015 – Jan van der Ende Innovative Management * Innovation = The generation, development and commercialization of products, new services or new business models by a firm. * Business model = The way a company creates, delivers and captures value. Innovation – Mostly fails (40%) * Radical innovation * Non-radical innovation No innovation = die (Kodak) Innovation: * Teamwork (Multiple perspectives) * No communication No product * Concept development Prod./Serv. Development Commercialization (process) * Innovation process in the book on page 347 Design-driven innovation * Propose the customer, without recognizing a problem. * Social process Innovation funnel (product screening) * Think 5 years ahead Product life cycle Disruptive innovation – Business model * New product with a different set of performance attributes * Underperforming on the attributes that mainstreams customers value * High improvement potential on these attributes Newspaper Website Model Christensen – The Innovator’s dilemma Problem for traditional brands. Customers think the service of the budget service is good enough. Problem for traditional brands. Customers think the service of the budget service is good enough. Solution: Brands like Air France-KLM makes a budget brand (EasyJet). Sustaining innovation * Bigger airplanes * Add service to a product (3) – Sept. 9th 2015...
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...content is divided into two components. In the first part, Business Process Analysis and Improvement, we study tools and cases that allow us to analyze, improve and design internal firm activities. In the second part, Supply Chain Management, we turn our attention to entities external to the firm and examine the activities of sourcing raw materials and delivering goods to consumers. The components are detailed below: Part I: Business Process Analysis and Improvement. We begin our study of business processes by first playing the “Lego” game. Through this exercise, we will have an overview of a simple assembly line as well as the fundamental concepts in process management, such as capacity, bottleneck, etc. Then, we study how to analyze the operational process using the case “Kristen´s Cookie Company” and further evaluate the financial value of operational improvement. In the following sessions, we will introduce Toyota production system as well as it implication in service context. We will also study the tools of quality management. We finally study the operations strategy and the product-process matrix using “Shouldice” case. Part II: Supply Chain Management: In this part, we turn our attention to the interfaces between an organization and its external environment, more specifically, to the management of relationships with partners and customers. We begin with the newsvendor model, a key tool which helps capture the trade-offs in matching supply with demand. Then...
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...Ihere.tv Project report Ihere.tv consulting team Tanakom Muangsakul Chayut Bhamornsuwan Chattanon Saekow Thesis Denchartphan Jinnawat Pinchai 5122790124 Strategy Analysis 5122790645 Project Manager 5122792864 Marketing Analysis 5122790306 IT Management 5422800433 Collector & Complier yonitiam@gmail.com Stroke.boat@gmail.com Chattanon1@hotmail.com tumpkkk@hotmail.com Nut_narook@hotmail.com Submit to Dr. Saprangsit Mruetusatorn 13/09/11 Ihere.tv Project Report 2 Table of Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ....................................................................................................................... 4 Background of the business ............................................................................................................. 5 The structure of ihere.tv ........................................................................................ 5 Business process & Marketing Activities ................................................................. 6 Applied Information Technology ............................................................................ 6 Analysis of Source of Revenue ............................................................................... 7 Outstanding Point of the business Model ............................................................... 7 Major Key Success Factor ....................................................................................... 8 Business analysis and planning ..............
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...Boon Xiong SPRING 2015: MGT 4340 – EXAM 1 Executive Leadership – Dr. A.T. Hinrichs INSTRUCTIONS: You must type out your answers IN YOUR OWN WORDS using complete asentences. Reading the text, doing further on-line research and outlining your answers before you write them out are all good ideas. Further, edit the document for grammatical errors and put your name on it & staple it before you turn it in. The due date for this Exam is April 2nd. 1. IN YOUR OWN WORDS ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS - What is a trait? Describe the trait theory of leadership? How are traits related to the leadership process? Pick 2 leaders we have read about in our text and describe their personal traits. What sort of traits are inspiring and motivating to you? Traits are characteristics or quality in person. Every one of us has a different combination of traits that make each and every one of us unique in his or her way. There are two different kind of traits; physical and behavior traits. Physical traits make up one physical look such as hair color, eye, color, height, weight, and etc. While behaviors traits are characteristics in which a person acts. An example of this is a mother’s instinct to protect her children and keep them safe. The trait theory of leadership suggests that there are no set combinations or specific traits that make a good leader. Instead leadership traits are those traits that do not change from situation from situation, such as intelligence, assertiveness, or physical...
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