How would your business work in term of operations (production, inventory control, distribution, customer service, research and development, etc.)

Discuss the implications of technology in your company’s operations.

Consider the areas below as you address these questions. Condense the key information in two solid paragraphs focusing on the specific information pertaining to your NAB Company.

 Operations:

Describe the day-to-day functions of your company. How will you run your business? Consider the following areas:

1.      Facilities

2.     Production process: how will you produce the product

3.     Inventory control- how much inventory you will have

4.     Distribution- how will you distribute the product

5.      Customer service- how will you handle customers and returns

6.     Research and Development- how will you improve the product and how will you continue to search for new combinations/ flavors

Check out Chapter 11- operations for information, worksheets, and a sample plan for ideas

Technology

1.      What do you use technology for and how? (database management, inventory system, phones,     cloud)

2.     Discuss technology in the production process, or operations overall

3.     Discuss technology in other areas of business (administration, R&D)

4.     Hardware, software, telecommunications

Change Management Proposal

1. Select an organization where change is currently taking placing (or scheduled to take place). Describe the specific organization including size, mission, and location. Describe the change that is taking place or scheduled to take place in the organization.

2. Analyze what is driving the change to take place

3. Given the parameters of the change to take place, summarize the resistance or conflict you might expect and why.

4. Evaluate change management theories and models and select one to apply to the change occurring in the organization. Support why you selected this theory or model.

5. Apply systems thinking to address the impact of the change throughout the organization.

6. Recommend strategies and innovations that could be implemented to effect the organizatonal change and provide rationale for the recommendations.

7. Explain the role that communication will play in the plan . Analyze how communication could be used to handle concerns and doubts of stakeholders.

8. Recommend strategies you will use to motivate stakeholders and prepare them to accept, embrace, sustain the change. Categorize key groups that you anticipate will require targeted motivation strategiesend

9. Recommend training and support required for the successful implementation of the organizational change.

10. Recommend strategies for sustaining an organizational change.

11. Explain how stakeholders are involved in and held accountable for the organizational  change.

12. Recommend ways to measure the success of the orgnizational change and when transformational change has occurred. 

Assessment 6 Promotion Analysis

Analyze the fourth “P,” promotion, for a product or service. You can use the same product you used for the previous assessments, or you can choose another organization, product, or service.Your analysis should cover all the aspects of promoting the product or service, including promoting to the customer and other promotional audiences. Address the following in your analysis:Communication StrategyAnalyze the company’s communication strategy.What are its communication channels and media tools?

How does the company use social media in its promotion of the product or service?

Who represents the product or service?

Explain how the integrated communication aspects of the company’s integrated marketing program contribute to the company’s economic success.

Assessment 7 Marketing Plan Analysis

Analyze the marketing and sales portions of the Aircraft Equipment Maker Business Plan (linked in the Resources). Provide suggestions for improvement based on your analysis.Note: This sample business plan from the Bplans Web site features a fictitious organization called Stretch ‘r Wings. The Stretch ‘r Wings sales approach is described in Sections 5 and 6 of the plan.Address the following in your analysis:Describe the components of the organization’s sales approach.

Assess the effectiveness of the sales plan for a business in this market, with this marketing mix.

Describe whether or not you think there is enough detail in the business plan to effectively communicate the organization’s sales approach.

Assess the management implications of using this sales plan. Explain how this sales plan would affect the implementation of sales strategies in the company.

Rhetoric analysis help

As you read, consider author’s rhetorical situation:

who specifically is she addressing and to what end? 

What in the article helped you draw your conclusions?

In what ways does the author show that she understands (or doesn’t understand) the principle of kairos?

Is the issue timely and compelling?

Note: The feedback for Response Papers is not intended to be comprehensive; that is, you may discuss examples and aspects of the text not mentioned in the feedback.  

 Read “Are We Facebook Friends Yet?” by Micah McArthur in Perspectives on New Media (171–73). As you read, consider McArthur’s rhetorical situation: who specifically is he addressing and to what end? What in the article helped you draw your conclusions? In what ways does the author show that he understands (or doesn’t understand) the principle of kairos? Is the issue timely and compelling?  Write a paragraph (6–8 sentences) in which you respond to these questions, citing specific examples from the text. You will receive the full 10 points for this assignment after you have submitted your response. When you complete the assignment, feedback will be provided with which you can compare your response.

In describing confidence intervals on a mean, z and t intervals are frequently mentioned. How are z and t confidence intervals different? Choose one interval and give an example of how it could be applied within an operations or production environment that is different from those mentioned in the overview. Discuss and share this information with your classmates. In responding to your peers, select responses that use a confidence interval in a scenario that is different from your own. Do you agree with the use of a z or t confidence interval in those examples? Explain your reasoning and consider how confidence intervals could be applied to the final project. Support your initial posts and response posts with scholarly sources cited in APA style.

For this unit’s Assignment, you are to complete a case study. A case study is an examination of a topic, idea, concept, etc. that analyzes, compares, and contrasts the various issues, concerns, etc. associated with the topic. The case study pertains to this unit’s topic of privacy rights in domestic relations. The topics include communications, right to an abortion, right to rear children, etc. Below are the applicable instructions to this Assignment.You are to choose any case that pertains to privacy in domestic relations, analyze the case, and answer the following questions noted below.

What is the significance of this case relative to the U.S. Constitution and family law?

How is privacy relevant, if at all, to this case?

If you were the judge, how would you rule and why?

Testing Personality

Take the following Personality Test (https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/IPIP-BFFM/) (there are 120 questions and it should take you about 15-20 minutes to complete). When you are finished, you will immediately receive your scores, broken down by the different facts in extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openess to experience (The Big Five). 

AND, use the following brief Cognitive Style Inventory (http://www.personalitypathways.com/type_inventory.html) to get a sense of what your Myers Briggs Personality Type might be. Then, visit the Myers & Briggs Foundation (https://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/the-16-mbti-types.htm?bhcp=1) to read about your MBTI Type. 

Part 1:

1). Describe your results from both tests. Do you agree with your results? Explain.

2). Show your results to someone who knows you well. How well does that person feel your results reflect your personality?

Part 2: Personality Theories

Now that you have a better sense of your personality, imagine that you are going to attend therapy sessions with a psychologist. How would the following psychologists describe your personality, based on their theories of personality? 

1). Psychodynamic psychologist (think about unconscious motivations, id/ego/superego, defense mechanisms, psychosexual stages)

2). Neo-Freudian psychologist (think about inferiority complex, archetypes, Jung, Horney, and Fromm)

3).Humanistic psychologist (think about self-concept, self-esteem, self-actualization, Maslow, and Rogers)

Student will need to submit a Research Report aiming to identify the current supply chain /logistics

problems in the case company, and to propose solutions, and then to define it as a supply chain

improvement project. You need to design a project plan for your defined supply chain improvement

project, and to design the correspondent project management process.

This assessment will be a shared case study between the strategy Module, the reasoning being to

provide students the opportunity for a more holistic perspective across the programme learning

objectives.

Adapted Physical & Sport Activity

A 6 week Physical Activity Plan for one person encountered on placement

A rationale explaining and justifying your choice of physical activities specific to the needs and wants of your chosen individual (3000 words)