...Week 3: Assignment 1 BUS 508: The Business Enterprise Professor N. Nayak Discuss what you think will happen to the supply, demand, and price of the product in the short-term. The supply of the pies is based on the demand—the idea that if the price of doing something goes up, then people will want to consume less of it, and vice versa. The ‘something’ has to be good and not bad. Weeds will constantly go up in supply and continue to grow, but nobody wants them, and therefore the supply means nothing. The quantity demanded equals the quantity supplied. In the case of Mrs. Acres Homemade Pies, the supply of pies will increase because the number of consumers has increased, therefore increasing demand. The price of the product will stay the same, because the expansion to provide more staff and use of the facility will bring in more revenue. Discuss what you think will happen to the supply, demand, and price of the product in the long-term. In the long-term, based on the success rate of Mrs. Acres Homemade Pies, I think the supply will continue to rise if the demand continues to rise as well. Given the information, the pies continued to sell and the profit went up for Mrs. Acres—even though the cost of expansion to produce more pies increased. Should the number of consumers continue to increase, the demand for the pies will go up. The makers of the pies will need...
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...previous proposal. This proposal is valid for thirty (30) days from the proposal date above. SMB Group, Inc. ( www.smb-gr.com ) | 17 Lancaster Rd. Northborough, MA 01532 | (508)410-3562 (P) October 24, 2012 Vishrut Parikh Director, Product Marketing NetSuite 2955 Campus Drive, Suite 100 San Mateo, CA 94403-2511 Dear Vishrut, Thank you for the opportunity to submit a proposal for a whitepaper about the TCO of Cloud/SaaS Delivered Integrated Business Application Suite vs. On-premise Solutions for SMB and Mid-Market Enterprises. This paper will highlight the total cost of ownership of NetSuite’s integrated cloud business application suite vs. comparable on-premise based ERP applications. We realize that you have many choices when selecting a research and consulting partner. The SMB Group is committed to providing real value and unsurpassed satisfaction in both our working relationship and in the services we provide to you. We hope this proposal meets your expectations. We will be happy to modify it as necessary to best meet your requirements. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or comments. We look forward to working with you. Sincerely, Sanjeev Aggarwal, Founder and Partner SMB Group 17 Lancaster Rd., Northborough, MA 01532 Sanjeev Aggarwal, sanjeev.aggarwal@smb-gr.com , (508) 410-3562 mobile, (661) 451-7514 fax Laurie...
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...Separate groups: Section 1 Q: What are the major features of a business that are important for understanding the role of information systems? • Define a business and describe the major business functions. • Define business processes and describe the role they play in organizations. • Identify and describe the different levels in a business firm and their information needs. • Explain why environments are important for understanding a business. Q: How do information systems support the major business functions: sales and marketing, manufacturing and production, finance and accounting, and human resources? • List and describe the information systems serving each of the major functional areas of a business. Q: How do systems serve the various levels of management in a business and how are these systems related? • Describe the characteristics of transaction processing systems (TPS) and role they play in a business. • Describe the characteristics of MIS and explain how MIS differ from TPS and from DSS. • Describe the characteristics of DSS and explain how DSS differ from ESS. • Describe the relationship between TPS, MIS, DSS, and ESS. Q: How do enterprise applications, collaboration and communication systems, and intranets improve organizational performance? • Explain how enterprise applications improve organizational performance. • Define enterprise systems and describe how they change the way an organization works. ...
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...International Business Master of Business Administration ( IB / IBF / GLSCM) (2012-2014) TIME TABLE From 25.11.2013 to 07.12.2013 WEEK-VII SCHEDULE IB - SECTION 'A' DAY & DATE Class Room - III 1.30 2.30 2.35 3.35 4.00 5.00 9.00 10.00 10.05 11.05 IB - SECTION 'B' 11.30 12.30 Class Room - IV 1.30 2.30 2.35 3.35 4.00 5.00 9.00 10.00 10.05 11.05 IBF 11.30 12.30 Class Room - V 1.30 2.30 2.35 3.35 4.00 5.00 9.00 10.00 10.05 11.05 G LSCM 11.30 12.30 Class Room - VI 9.00 10.00 10.05 11.05 11.30 12.30 1.30 2.30 2.35 3.35 502 KSG (2 to 7) (3, 4, 5, 6, 7) 4.00 5.00 25.11.13 MON 26.11.13 TUE 27.11.13 508 (2) GS (19, 20) 501 PRS (10) 501 PRS (11) 507 TV (13, 14) 508 (2) GS (19, 20) 507 TV (13) 502 KSG 11.10 to 1.10 (1, 2) 507 TV (14) 501 PRS (10, 11) 502 KSG (2 to 7) (3, 4, 5, 6, 7) 508 (2) GS (19, 20) 503 PES (mid exam) 502 KSG 11.10 to 1.10 (1, 2) 507 TV (15) 502 KSG (2 to 7) (3, 4, 5, 6, 7) 504 PES 503 PES (18) (18) 502 KSG 11.10 to 1.10 (1, 2) 507 TV (15) 501 PRS (12) 501 PRS (13) 501 PRS (12, 13) 504 TV (16, 17) 508 (2) GS (21, 22) WED 502 KSG 11.10 to 1.10 (1, 2) L U N C H 502 KSG (2 to 7) (3, 4, 5, 6, 7) 508 (2) GS (21, 22) REPEAT EXAMS SALES & DISTRIBUTION AND MARKETING OF LOGISTICS SERVICES 2 TO 5 L U N C H 508 (2) GS (21, 22) 507 TV (16) 503 PES (19, 20) 507 TV (16) 504 TV (18, 19) 28.11.13 508 (5) SB (16, 17) 507 TV (15) 507 TV (16) 508 (5) SB (16...
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...Students, please view the "Submit a Clickable Rubric Assignment" in the Student Center. Instructors, training on how to grade is within the Instructor Center. Assignment 1: Corporate Responsibility and Marketing Strategies Due Week 3 and worth 240 points Use the Internet to research the Apple Corporation, its current position and reputation regarding ethical and social responsibility, and the strategies that it currently employs to market its products. Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you: 1. Examine Apple’s current position on the company’s ethical and social responsibilities, and determine whether or not the company has met these responsibilities. Provide two (2) examples that support your position. 2. Determine the impact that the publication of ethics and social responsibilities violations made by Apple’s suppliers has had on Apple’s reputation. Support your response with examples of the impact in question. 3. Suggest two (2) methods that Apple can utilize to ensure that its suppliers adhere to wage and benefits standards going forward. Justify your response. 4. Determine whether or not you believe that Apple’s customers would be willing to pay more for its products if Apple had to increase selling prices in order to provide better wages and benefits for suppliers’ workers. Provide a rationale for your position. 5. Analyze Apple’s current overall marketing strategy. Recommend two (2) actions that Apple can take in order to improve its...
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...(USGIS) department (“EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program,” n.d.). This program was to benefit the U.S. economy by attracting foreign investors (Persaud, 2012, pg. 256). These foreign investors would need to invest $1,000,000 or more on a new commercial enterprise or an established company, newer than 1990, and needs to be restructured or reorganized so that it results into a new commercial enterprise. However, if the investors choose to establish this venture in a targeted employment area, they would only need to invest $500,000, but the same rules apply. A targeted employment area is where there is high-unemployment area or is a rural area (“About the EB-5 Visa Classification,” n.d.). Most investors choose to work in big cities where they would have the best chance of success. They would also need to create enough capital to obtain 10 or more qualified employees that work full-time and permanent and or have a 40% increase in net...
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...9-508-047 REV: MARCH 25, 2008 JOHN DEIGHTON Dove: Evolution of a Brand In 2007, Unilever’s Dove was the world’s number-one “cleansing” brand in the health and beauty sector, with sales of over $2.5 billion a year in more than 80 countries. It competed in categories that included cleansing bars, body washes, hand washes, face care, hair care, deodorants, anti-perspirants, and body lotions. It competed with brands like Procter and Gamble’s Ivory, Kao’s Jergens, and Beiersdorf’s Nivea. Dove had recently launched what it termed a Masterbrand campaign under the title of The Dove Campaign for Real Beauty. For some marketing observers the campaign was an unqualified success, giving a single identity to the wide range of health and beauty products. But the vivid identity owed much to the campaign’s use of the unruly, unmapped world of Internet media.1 Were there risks to putting the “Real Beauty” story out on media like YouTube, where consumers were free to weigh in with opinion and dissent? On blogs and in newsletters, marketing commentators argued that Dove’s management was abdicating its responsibility to manage what was said about the brand, and was putting its multibillion-dollar asset at risk.2 Unilever A leading global manufacturer of packaged consumer goods, Unilever operated in the food, home, and personal care sectors of the economy. Eleven of its brands had annual revenues globally of over $1 billion: Knorr, Surf, Lipton, Omo, Sunsilk, Dove, Blue Band, Lux, Hellmann’s...
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...Assignment# 1 – Economics and Ethical Issues BUS 508: The Business Enterprise July 20, 2012 1. Discuss what you think will happen to the supply, demand, and price of the product in the short-term. Since the demand for the pie is high, the price of the pie will go up. Also, since more people are willing to pay for it. The demand and supply for the pie will go up also, simply because the people want them and the price is what they can afford to pay for it. Consequently, the rise in price prompt more pies to be supplied as supply relationship shows that the higher price, the higher the quantity supplied (Ferrell, O.C., Hirt, G., & Ferrell, L. (2009). Producers supply more at a higher price and selling a higher quantity at higher price increases revenue (McConnell, C., & Bruce, S. (2008). 2. Discuss what you think will happen to supply, demand and price of the product in the long- term. In the long term, if the demand for the pie goes down, the price as well will go down. That is to say all else equal, as price falls, the quantity demanded rises, and as price rises, the quantity demanded falls which affect the amount purchased. For instance, If new style of pie comes out and everyone wants the new one, the demand for the old pie will drop, thereby forcing the supply to drop too (McConnell, C., & Bruce, S. (2008). Mrs. Acres will have to do something in order to meet the long term levels of demand such as. (a) Tastes: A favorable change in consumer...
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...A Hundred Factories Too Many Scotch Makers Roll Out a New Barrel Which Airlines Will Disappear in 2009? Julian V. James Dr. Linda Harris The Business Enterprise-BUS 508 Date: 2/16/09 Summary With all the sales of cars around the country sinking from China to the US, automakers find themselves in an embarassing position. It is true that Chrysler may well vanish or be folded into GM or another major player (Welch, 2009). Many automakers are trying to find ways to cut production and cost to stay afloat, but may be force to downsize and lay off thousands of workers around the country. This would allow the automakers to maintain production levels but lower costs. Some of the big car makers are thinking about merging with other car compaines to stay in business. Toyota is actually the only car company to be expanding their operations in China, and announced its sixth plant in October (Welch, 2009). Forecastors are saying that car buying should rebound starting in 2011.What they’re relying on, says Michael Robinet of resercher CSM, is population growth and a sales bonanza in 2013 as people start to replace aging vehicles (Welch, 2009). Another industry that seem to be having a tough time staying afloat is the airline industry. The Airline industry should be turning around in 2009 because in 2008 fuel cost was at an all time high(Welch, 2009). This caused many airlines to file chapter 11, which will let them emerge from bankruptcy even stronger(Foust,2009). ...
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...PepsiCo and Coca-Cola Enterprises Meredith Morrison Strayer University BUS 508 [ December 15, 2010 ] Dr. Ronald Steffel Investors, always looking for the next company they can trust, are hoping to put their money into the hopes that they are achieving growth for the company and their bank accounts. In order to make proper and informed decisions they must understand the financial information reported by companies. This report will be looking at two companies, PepsiCo and Coca-Cola and addressing their current ratios. We will discuss the best company to invest in based on the ratios described. Other non-financial elements that may help investors make a decision will also be discussed. Current ratios describe the relationship between the current assets and their liquidity and the current liabilities a company holds (Loth, R., 2010). This ratio is used as a way to evaluate a company’s ability to pay their current debt (their liabilities). In calculating the current ratio, the current assets are divided by the total current liabilities. Another name for the current ratio is Cash ratio. The Cash ratio states the purpose of the ratio; and many investors and lenders look at the current ratio in order to make financial decisions. PepsiCo’s current assets are $12,571, their current liabilities are $8,756, leaving them with a ratio of 1.436 (PepsiCo.,(2009). Coca-Cola’s current assets are $5,170 and their current liabilities are $4,588, leaving them...
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...Assignment #2 Amazon.com’s E-Business Model By: Shamaila Akram Professor: Lisa W. Witzig The Business Enterprise – BUS 508 04/30/2011 Discuss the pros and cons of Amazon’s growth and diversification of business and specialization, and make recommendations about what Amazon could have done differently. Amazon is a largest online book retailer made by largest customer base. Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, had great confidence in the World Wide Web even before the dot.com boom. He used the internet as the core of Amazon's business model. Amazon customers are able to search inside the book before buying it, read customer ratings on products of interest, and purchase products at low prices. Amazon initial target market is an online book consumers, proved to be very lucrative. In addition, the expansion into more diverse product offerings beyond books, such as music, DVD & video, toys, electronics, home improvement and auctions only served to increase the company’s product list. Branching into other areas such as automotive, apparel, jewelry, office equipment, and recreational merchandise, to name a few, is necessary to achieve Amazon’s goal of providing every type of product. Amazon has identified an aggressive marketing strategy to broaden the companies target market, expand the product positioning to all consumer goods, focus distribution outlets through the top ten web sites and price items at a low but profitable margin. Determine the impact if Amazon...
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...iPad’s Security Breach Zul-Jalaal Abdullah Strayer University Shelby Oaks campus Business Enterprise-508 April 21, 2011 Dr. Carolyn Tippett Discuss Goatse Security firm possible objective when they hacked into AT&T’s Website. Here’s what happened: Goatse Security discovered a rather stupid vulnerability on the AT&T site that returned a customer email if a valid serial number for the iPAD sim card was entered. (Arrington, 2010, para. 2). An invalid number returned nothing, a valid number returned a customer email address. Goatse created a script and quickly downloaded 114,000 customer emails. It was then turned over to Gawker, after, they say, AT&T was notified and the vulnerability was closed (Arrington, 2010, para. 2). Gawker published some of the data with the emails removed. Stated Goatse: “All data was gathered from a public web server with no password, accessible by anyone on the Internet. There was no breach, intrusion, or penetration, by any means of the word. ”(Arrington, 2010, para. 2). AT&T is characterizing the incident as “unauthorized computer “hackers” maliciously exploited a function designed to make your iPad log-in process faster by pre-populating an AT&T authentication page with the email address you used to register your iPad for 3G service (Arrington, 2010, para. 3). ”We don’t see much hacking here, and we don’t see anything really malicious (Arrington, 2010, para. 3). AT&T was effectively publishing the information on the open...
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...One Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Part One Project Organizations, Management, and the Networked Enterprise 1 Information Systems in Global Business Today 2 Global E-Business: How Businesses Use Information Systems 38 Information Systems, Organizations, and Strategy 80 Ethical and Social Issues in Information Systems 124 Analyzing Business Processes for an Enterprise System 165 Part Two Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Part Two Project Information Technology Infrastructure 167 IT Infrastructure and Emerging Technologies 168 Foundations of Business Intelligence: Databases and Information Management 222 Telecommunications, the Internet, and Wireless Technology 260 Securing Information Systems 312 Creating a New Internet Business 351 Part Three Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Part Three Project Key System Applications for the Digital Age 353 Achieving Operational Excellence and Customer Intimacy: Enterprise Applications 354 E-Commerce: Digital Markets, Digital Goods 388 Managing Knowledge 428 Enhancing Decision Making 470 Designing an Enterprise Information Portal 508 Part Four Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Part Four Project Building and Managing Systems 509 Building Systems 510 Project Management: Establishing the Business Value of Systems and Managing Change 552 Managing Global Systems 592 Redesigning Business Processes for Healthlite Yogurt Company 629 International Case Study 631 Your Digital Portfolio 645 References...
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...Coca-Cola New Vending Technology and Marketing Paper Dennecia M. Carter BUS 508: The Business Enterprise Strayer University Paying more for a Coke dependent on the weather temperature is probably something that most people would not agree with. Coca-Cola tested a technology that would make such a thing possible. Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer M. Douglas Ivester stated, “Coca-Cola is a product whose utility varies from moment to moment. In a final summer championship, when people meet in a stadium to have fun, the utility of a cold Coca-Cola is very high. So it is fair that it should be more expensive. The machine will simply make this process automatic.” (McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2008) Now that is how you make your product benefit you at the expense of things that consumers can not control. The idea that the changing of prices based on the ambient temperature was thought of as just the law of supply and demand in action. Would it be easy for consumers that normally purchase a Coke for $1.25 now see prices of $1.50 thanks to a twenty degree increase in temperature? It had been reported in October 1999 that Coca-Cola was testing vending machines that could raise prices in hot weather. After this report it led to major national and international controversy for the company. The ability for the machine to make price changes based on temperature would be processed simply through a temperature sensor and computer chip. Besides price changes based...
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