...MAP Study Skills Finding & Reading Information Assignment Booklet Student Name: FADUMO AWIL Route: MAP Humanities | | |Unit Title |Finding and Reading Information | |Level |2 |Credit Value | 3 |Unit Code |HC7/2/LN/559 | |Learning Outcomes |Assessment Criteria | |The learner will: |The learner can: | | | | |1. Recognise the variety of resources available in a library |1.1 Locate and use resources from both reference and loans sections of | | |library and electronic resources e.g. internet, DVD, CD rom, and video.| | | | | ...
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...(see the table below). • Group can earn up to 5 points for a presentation • Groups are fixed and preassigned (see the list) • Do not prepare any PowerPoint presentation, however, you may want to write up your answers in a form of short paper (1-2 pages) Take-home exam (10 points) Session Date Topics Readings 1 17.03.2016 Thursday Introduction • Globalisation • Competitive advantage of nations Additional readings: Davies, H. & Ellis, P., 2000. Porter’s competitive advantage of nations: time for the final judgement? Journal of management studies, 37(8), pp.1189–1214. Dunning, J.H., 1993. Internationalizing Porter’s diamond. MIR: Management International Review, pp.7–15. Porter, M., 1990. The competitive advantage of nations. Harvard Business Review, 68(2), pp.73–93. 2 31.03.2016 Thursday Global value chain • Outsourcing vs offshoring • Global value chain • offshoring • outsourcing • Resource-based view • Transaction costs • Intellectual property infringement Case: Ecco – Global value chain management 1. Describe the competitive environment of ECCO and determine how well ECCO is positioned (vis-a-vis the competitors) to take advantage of changes in the industry. 2. Analyze ECCO's global value chain. How well does this configuration match the drivers in the industry? 3. ECCO has a fully integrated vertical value chain? What are the pros and cons of this strategy? That economic and strategic factors should be analyzed to answer this question...
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...Syllabus College of Information Systems & Technology NTC/362 Version 1 Fundamentals of Networking Copyright © 2013 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course provides a foundation in the basic telecommunications and networking technologies fundamental to the industry and to the broad field of telecommunications. Analog, digital, and radio frequency technologies are covered. Also covered in this course is an introduction to the OSI protocol model, network-switching systems, basics of wireless communications, and network security. 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 Goleniewski, L. (2007). Telecommunications essentials. (2nd ed.) Boston, MA: Pearson. Panko, R. R., & Panko, J. L. (2011). Business data networks and telecommunication (8th ed.) Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall All electronic materials...
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...is being offered. The course combines a number of sub-disciplines from the fields of social sciences and business administration. It is broad in sweep; its depth is pitched at the PGP level. The overall course is divided into four modules, as follows: Module I--International Business Context-- provides an historical perspective on globalization and presents a viewpoint on its future direction. It also covers some of the globalization drivers including international trade and investment and how they spawn multinational activity. The phenomenon of domestic and cross-border corruption and bribery, often an inherent part of such activities, is discussed. Finally, it postulates how countries and companies can develop competitive advantage and defines the implications for multinationals as well as host countries. Module II--Business Strategies--begins with the theoretical framework of mode and extent of entering foreign markets. It also provides a conceptual framework for formulation of business strategy within the overall context of global business. For established companies, the revamping of business strategy as external conditions change is...
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...introducing international business strategy and providing a review of the micro-economics concepts that will be employed during the course. The course then introduces the concept of the ‘Global Value Connection.” This concept is used to develop global competitive strategies that depend on doing business between countries. Weeks 2 and 3 present strategies for providing global added value. The course highlights the economic aspects of gains and costs of trade that are relevant to the international business manager. Weeks 4, 5, and 6 develop the different sets of country features around the “Global Strategy Star Analysis.” This provides a framework for understanding and building an international business, and achieving competitive advantage in the global marketplace. Strategic features of the international business are grouped into (i) home country features,...
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...relationship between organizations and their environments. Successful strategy matches an organization’s resources and capabilities with the opportunities that arise in its external environment and, in so doing, creates value for customers, shareholders and other stakeholders, as well as an advantage over the competition. This Strategic Management course offers a set of perspectives, concepts and tools for analyzing and understanding the general management task of formulating and implementing competitive strategies. Frameworks – derived primarily from industrial organization economics and the behavioral sciences – that relate to strategy formulation, the design of management systems, and motivating performance will provide the bases for analyzing and responding to organizational, industry, national and international contexts. The primary focus of the course will be on the real world imperative of how managers should think, make decisions and act in a systemic and systematic fashion to help the organization outperform its competition. In this course we will begin by exploring the classic concept of strategy and then focus on understanding value creation and competitive advantage. The implications of adopting a...
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...292-5438 Reading packet There is a required reading packet available at Uniprint-Tuttle Park that includes course readings, cases and lecture notes for classroom discussion. This is copyrighted material and each student must purchase an individual copy of the reading packet. Additional highly recommended readings will be selected from Management Skills: A Jossey-Bass Reader (ISBN # 0-7879-7341-6). It is available from both BarnesandNoble.com and Amazon.com. Course Overview This course is about the creation and maintenance of long term value for the organization. It is concerned with both the determination of the strategic direction of the firm and the management of the strategic process. The course builds on prior studies of functional areas while recognizing that most real business problems are inherently multi-functional in nature. Thus, this course employs an explicitly integrative approach in which we adopt the role of the general manager who has the responsibility for the long-term health of the entire organization. The course would be taught primarily through the case method of instruction. Course Objectives 1. Understand the nature of strategic competitiveness and develop the ability to analyze the competitive environment facing a firm, assess the attractiveness of the industry and isolate potential sources of competitive advantage and disadvantage. 2. Develop business level strategies by defining the type of advantage sought, scope...
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...292-5438 Reading packet There is a required reading packet available at Uniprint-Tuttle Park that includes course readings, cases and lecture notes for classroom discussion. This is copyrighted material and each student must purchase an individual copy of the reading packet. Additional highly recommended readings will be selected from Management Skills: A Jossey-Bass Reader (ISBN # 0-7879-7341-6). It is available from both BarnesandNoble.com and Amazon.com. Course Overview This course is about the creation and maintenance of long term value for the organization. It is concerned with both the determination of the strategic direction of the firm and the management of the strategic process. The course builds on prior studies of functional areas while recognizing that most real business problems are inherently multi-functional in nature. Thus, this course employs an explicitly integrative approach in which we adopt the role of the general manager who has the responsibility for the long-term health of the entire organization. The course would be taught primarily through the case method of instruction. Course Objectives 1. Understand the nature of strategic competitiveness and develop the ability to analyze the competitive environment facing a firm, assess the attractiveness of the industry and isolate potential sources of competitive advantage and disadvantage. 2. Develop business level strategies by defining the type of advantage sought, scope...
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...The monolinguistic view in the United States is often used in schools to promote the English language to all students. However, research shows that bilingualism has numerous advantages. Bilingualism, the ability to speak two languages fluently, has significant academic, social, professional and psychological advantages over monolingualism. I enjoyed reading about the benefits of bilingualism. This reading triggered a personal connection from high school. I went to school with many bilingual students who were highly sought after when non-English speaking parents came up to the school. This reiterates the idea from the reading that being bilingual has advantages in people's professional lives. From the reading, I did gain new insight about the...
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...OUTLINE AND AIMS This course provides the student with an understanding of how international business strategy fits into the organisation and running of a company or multi-company corporation. The course consists of 8x three-hour sessions of lectures and case studies. The aim of the module is to introduce the student to the way in which a firm can achieve sustainable competitive advantage through strategy. LEARNIING OUTCOMES By the end of the course students should be able to (1) understand the concepts of strategic management, (2) evaluate the factors that need to be considered in analysing a firm’s external environment, (3) evaluate the internal core competences of a firm, (4) formulate strategy for the firm, (5) understand the nature of corporate strategy, and (6) understand the nature of international strategy. Additional learning outcomes are specified for each session. COURSE CONTENT The course consists of nine sessions: (1) What is strategy? (2) The Market Positioning Approach (3) The Resource Based View of Strategy (4) The Institution Based View of Strategy (5) Diversifications and Acquisitions (6) Strategic Alliances and Networks (7) International Strategy (8) Globalisation and MNC organisation structures (9) Conclusion The course will be taught over nine sessions of 3hrs, namely a lecture of 2hrs and a seminar of 1hr. The lectures are used to illustrate the key points under each topic as well as real business examples. Seminars will be used...
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...|[pic] |Course Syllabus | | |College of Information Systems & Technology | | |NTC/362 Version 1 | | |Fundamentals of Networking | Copyright © 2013 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course provides a foundation in the basic telecommunications and networking technologies fundamental to the industry and to the broad field of telecommunications. Analog, digital, and radio frequency technologies are covered. Also covered in this course is an introduction to the OSI protocol model, network-switching systems, basics of wireless communications, and network security. 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...
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...edu Class Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:00 to 1:30pm Office Hours: By appointment (PP) Course Overview This course focuses on strategic management and strategic decision making and examines issues central to the long-term and short-term competitive position of the company or division / business unit. Students are placed in the role of key decision-makers or their advisors and asked to solve problems related to the development or maintenance of the competitive advantage of the firm. We start the course by looking at strategy at the level of the business unit, which is the fundamental level for competitive analysis. The perspective taken is of a manager in a given unit with particular assets, capabilities and competitive challenges. We look at industry analysis, examine the sources of competitive advantage, and explore generic strategies: How can we analyze the competitive environment, and what are the basic options for business-unit level strategy? What are the bases of competitive advantage? What is the nature of the value chain? Following that, we look at how business units (but also entire corporations) build strengths, by analyzing the nature and value of business and corporate resources and capabilities. The next module of the course examines strategic management at the corporate level. We first look at the vertical scope of the firm, i.e. the degree of its vertical integration. We also look at how the supply chain is...
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...Team C Weekly Reflection Mgt/498 October 14, 2013 B. Scott Finnell PHD MBA Team C Weekly Reflection This week Team C will discuss comforts and difficulties in the different topics in the chapter reading for this week. We will cover how these topic are relate to application in our fields. After some discussion we have decided that objectives 2.1 measure an organizations internal and external environments using environmental scanning and objective 2.2, Determine relevant business competitive strategies are the easiest parts of the reading this week to understand. The team has decided that most difficult objective to understand is objective 2.4, choose measurement guidelines to verify strategy effectiveness. The team believes that objective 2.1 is easy to understand because it encompasses environmental scanning, this just takes a good look at the organization to help determine the strengths, weakness, and resources available internally. In the reading we began to understand that environmental scanning involves studying an organizations industry or business field along with opportunities and threats from an external perspective. Our team came to the conclusion that 2.1 is basically like the SWOT analysis. Companies should use this objective to scan its market for opportunities and make the essential adjustments or change to remain competitive. When the team analyzed objective 2.1, we had some question regarding how can an organization prepare for a new product,...
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...|[pic] |Course Syllaubus | | |School of Business | | |STR/581 Strategic Planning & Implementation | Copyright © 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This capstone course integrates concepts from all prior courses in the program. Students apply the concepts of strategic planning and implementation to create sustainable, competitive advantage for an organization. Other topics include environmental scanning, strategic analysis, corporate social responsibility, implementation and evaluation, and risk management. 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,...
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...topic that is reading- an emerging trend or a dying interest. I would like to begin my speech with a quote from a book, Shadow of the Wind which goes like; “...that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day..." And I am inclined to agree. Reading has been seriously endangered by the new emerging world of multimedia. Most people rely on everything that they can find on their computers online. Many forms of recreation and leisure are now available to us that we are straying from the old hobbies such as reading. It truly saddens me. Reading, in my opinion is a habit that evolves during childhood. In this age of television, reading books is not as important as it once was. With the advent of so many channels on tv, children do not give much importance to reading. . Well, reading is like a hobby that one has to cultivate from an early age in life. Nowadays nobody wants to learn any language thoroughly. You can learn the language that you use for speaking directly from listening to radio or watching TV. But in order to learn the correct grammar of a language, one must sit back and read magazines and books with a good amount of concentration. Let’s start by weighing the advantages of possessing good reading habits. For starters, it improves our speed of reading which is vital...
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