MGT 201 Assignment

1. Analyze marketing opportunities using environmental scanning market data, measurement, and analysis.

2. Explain issues pertaining to marketing environment both internally and externally

3. Demonstrate an understanding of the global competitive environment and the changing marketing practices

4. Ability to formulate marketing strategies that incorporate psychological and sociological factors which influence consumers

5. Ability to carry out objective and scientific analysis of consumers’ needs and wants

Case Study

From a small kiosk in a shopping mall established in 1997, Dr Cafe has become one of the leading coffee-shop chain in the Middle East with over 600 branches in the world. Dr Café’s success has built upon its popularity among young and trendy people and its unique approach of selecting the “best beans” in the world. Between 2008 and 2010, it has continued its aggressive expansion to Malaysia and Singapore with more branches in sight. In fact, in its plan for 2030, Dr Cafe has set its vision to expand globally and increase its network to over 30,000 branches! 

The marketing department has been assigned by Dr Cafe’s CEO to investigate and propose possible options for expansion into a completely new area that is Europe. You are assigned by your marketing manager to help in this regard. 

Questions: 

1. What variables need to be considered while developing a list of potential countries? 

2. Which market entry strategy you would suggest most suitable to enter into the global market? 

3. Discuss at least three challenges that Dr Cafe may face in the early period of expansion. 

Probability Concepts and Applications

Answer the following questions:

1.  Describe the rationale for utilizing probability concepts. Is there more than one type of probability? If so, describe the different types of probability.

2.  Briefly discuss probability distributions. What is a normal distribution? Please provide a written example of how ‘understanding distribution’ can be an asset for any business project.

Your paper should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. Please include citations to support your ideas.

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Most people attribute the creation of law enforcement and intelligence fusion centers with the events of September 11, 2001. However, from 1999–2002, a series of major events primed policy makers within the U.S. intelligence and law enforcement communities to formalize cross-community information sharing activities and ultimately to create an effective law enforcement and intelligence information-sharing environment. 

As the new millennium was set to begin, Ahmed Ressam (the Millennium Bomber) was stopped as he exited a ferry crossing from Canada to a remote U.S. entry point. The contents found in his trunk would have allowed Ressam to achieve his goal of setting off an explosive device at the Los Angeles airport. This event, which occurred just two years before 9/11, led to meetings regarding the creation of some type of fusion and/or sharing process. Further discussions would advance this idea in the fall of 2002. In October of 2002, unprovoked shootings in the Washington DC metropolitan area resulted in 10 people dead and three critically injured. At the outset of these shootings, a massive police investigation across local and federal levels developed to apprehend the so-named Beltway Sniper. Local and federal law enforcement officials in the East attempted to fit the pieces together and analyze messages left by the killer or killers. This sniper case, combined with previous lessons learned, culminated in the realization for the need to formalize a multijurisdictional information-sharing activity. Members from across the law enforcement community—combining with elements of the homeland security, defense, and intelligence communities—set about institutionalizing this effort as quickly as possible.

Assignment Guidelines

· For this assignment, you are a member of the law enforcement community tasked with institutionalizing this effort.

· Address the following in 2-3 pages:

· What are the challenges for federal, state, and local law enforcement in collecting intelligence information as it pertained to these two events? Explain.

· What lessons were learned from these events with regards to intelligence collection and information-sharing? Explain.

· What recommendations can you offer on how to create an information-sharing environment? Explain.

· How would your recommendation effectively formalize multijurisdictional information sharing to counter some of existing challenges? Explain.

· Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.

Crosstabulations

Provide a brief introduction to your study to remind your classmates what we are reading about here.  You will also title your thread accordingly (do not include the week # or your name).  This week we talk about the uses of a crosstabulation (crosstab) and the benefits of creating this “snapshot” of your data.  Create a crosstab for your data and include in the post.  Be sure to explain your findings.

You will also identify the following times about your study:  

 1. Your overall research question;

     2. The research hypothesis and null hypothesis

Special note: 

When a variable is continuous (interval/ratio level of measurement), for example, age of respondent, we do not run crosstab directly b/c it will result in a really spread-out table with lot of 0s and low frequency cells. Such crosstab does not help us understand the data.

The correct way is to reduce the level of measurement to either ordinal level or nominal level and then run the cross table. The way to fix is to reduce I/R level of measurement to a lower level by lumping columns in into just a few categories. For example, you can group age 19 to 22 as one category, 23 to 30 as one category, and so on.  In this way, your crosstab will help us better understand data. Here is an example of recoding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzQ_522F2SM

Interpreting crosstab output

When you interpret the result, please include the discussion of epsilons and the 10% rule. The epsilons in short is the differences between the highest and lowest column % in any given row.  As long as one epsilon makes the 10% threshold, we’ll deem two variables have “enough” going on to with each other to warrant further statistical analysis. 

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Buisness Stucture

While all business structures are different, they share similar basic  designs. All have their own missions and vision, provide certain  services or products, have a strategic plan and some sort of governing  body and managers, and have a specific population they intend to serve.  Health care is no different.

Prepare for this assignment by gleaning some additional  insight from real health care managers. You may find short interviews  with health care managers by searching Web sites such as Executives in Action, and by reading the following chapters from your course text, Introduction to U.S. Health Care:

Chapter 1, “The U.S. Health Care System”

Chapter 2, “Boards and Governance”

Locate a health care service or organization. (It may be  your place of employment). Identify at least five of the following  aspects of its business structure that the governing bodies are  responsible for:

Type of system or organization

Mission, vision, and values

Services provided

Organization’s strategic plan

Members of the governing board members

Structure of the governing board and standing committees

Credentialing body/regulators

Financial structure

Population served

Suppliers

As you have discovered this week, not all businesses are  the same, depending on their mission and who they serve, and not all  countries have the same business structure for health care. A country  with socialized medicine will differ from the U.S., for instance, in  terms of these aspects.

550 assignment 07 CT

Research the access to essential health commodities. Medical innovations are failing many patients globally.

· Describe the issues, barriers, and challenges for the neglected populations.

· Discuss how access can be expanded for these populations, what policy changes are needed, and who needs to be participating in solving this problem.

Please use the following headings in your paper:

· Introduction

· Essential Health Commodities

· The Failure of Medical Innovations

· Issues, Barriers, and Challenges

· Recommended Policy Changes

· Conclusions

· References

Your paper should meet the following structural requirements:

· Be 3-4 pages in length, not including the cover or reference pages.

· Be formatted according to APA writing guidelines.

· Provide support for your statements with in-text citations from a minimum of six scholarly articles. Two of these sources may be from the class readings, textbook, or lectures, but four must be external. Not less than 5 years

· Utilize headings to organize the content in your work.

Course: C39MT1 Management. Accounting Techniques & Decisions

This piece of coursework is designed to facilitate knowledge building, development of key employability skills and the opportunity to add to your CV.

The Learning Outcomes of the Task Include:

· Organising yourself into a group

· To organise and attend group meetings

· To develop team working and co-operation skills

· Work load distribution skills

· Conflict resolution

· To brainstorm with group members

· To develop research skills

· Report writing skills

· To develop your ability to think critically and creatively

· To further develop your understanding of the topic area

· To develop communication and discussion skills

Please note that plagiarism is an offence. All coursework where plagiarism is detected will be referred to the disciplinary committee for consideration. Please refer to your student handbook for information regarding the rules on this matter. It is the student’s responsibility to make themselves aware of and to adhere to the rules.

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