Create a SWOT analysis for the business you are pitching. Thoroughly outline the factors in each of the 4 categories. How will your capitalize or negate each of the potentials advantages and disadvantages you have identified?
Category: Business
If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete
Chapter 4–Jack Welch made the comment that “If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete.” If we judge this statement to be true, what should an organization wanting to enter a market where they do not yet have a competitive advantage a way to create success without an initial competitive advantage? Should they abide by Welch’s comment?
2. Chapter 5–Assume you are hired as a consultant for Cinnabon. You are asked to consider a SWOT model to determine their strengths and weaknesses. Using Capsule 4.1 decide and objectively recommend next steps for Cinnabon
Errors To Avoid In A Business Letter
You need to write dozens of business letters, to your colleagues, clients, consultants, or vendors. Think what would happen if you were to make a critical error in your communication that will eventually affect your firm financially.
Using read articles that describe the business costs resulting from unclear instructions. Based on your research and readings, respond to the following questions:
What are the kinds of errors that are commonly committed in a business letter?
What could be the results of such errors? Provide at least three examples.
How would you avoid such errors in the future? Explain in detail.
What would you include in a best practices document for writing a business letter? Explain the dos and don’ts.
Withholding judgment in the workplace
What can you learn from withholding judgment in the workplace. What can you learn from facial expression and body language in the workplace.
COVID-19 in the United States: The Transmission of Health Data
The goal of this paper is to learn how the coordination of health information between agencies is an important role in health informatics.
You will first identify three global lessons learned (in the U.S. and in the New York tri-state area) from the COVID-19 pandemic, and how the global outcomes affected local anticipation, such as risk assessment, plan, and treatment.
Helpful Resources
You may refer to any websites, videos, podcasts, and articles from any reputable source. As a reminder, Wikipedia is not considered a credible source in scholarly writing.
Examples of helpful resources include:
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html
https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/home
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/symptoms-causes/syc-20479963
https://www.nyp.org/jointeamcovid
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data
https://newsroom.clevelandclinic.org/2020/04/21/cleveland-clinic-and-sas-share-covid-19-predictive-models-to-help
Trade Manual for the United Arab Emirates
Use the attached checklist to know what you need to write about.
A written summary (conclusion) should be included at the end of the paper.
Make Sure to do everything on the list also you can use more sources
if you need
Agriculture
Area (land) – include any special regions, location, topography, land use
Barriers to trade – customs, duties, formal or informal barriers, non-tariff barriers
Black market/ hidden market
Corruption
Canada – your country relations or special trade agreements
Canadian/Ontario Government trade assistance programs
Cities – the capital plus four other major cities and their populations
Climate type (in general for all seasons), plus a 7 day weather forecast
Communications
Currency – exchange rate to Canadian dollar
Cultural Do’s and Don’ts (greetings, gift giving, business etiquette, business meetings
and dress)
Economic Policy
Economy – history, traditional, emerging, GDP, GDP per capita, GDP composition by
sector, service/industry, labour force, unemployment rate, national budget revenues,
expenses, per cent of population below the poverty line, house income or consumption
by percentage, lowest, highest, etc.
Education – literacy rate, schools, age
Electric Power and Energy
Environmental Issues
Financial Issues (no repatriation of profits, tied currency, foreign exchange policy,
banking system, banks, etc.)
Flag
Foreign Trade – methods, trade zones, trade balance, regulations, etc.
Government – leader, formation
Glossary of terms – some common sayings or expressions translated to English
Industry
Import/Export Controls
Key Products
Language
Legal System
Managerial and Labour Climate
Maps
Marketing and Distribution Systems
Measurements
Natural Resources
Organization’s country – to which country does it belong
Population
Public Holidays
Religion
Time: Which zone, (when it is 12 o’clock in Ottawa, what time is it in the foreign
country?)
Transportation Systems – Internal and between Canada and the foreign country
Jargon in your own line of work
Identify jargon in your own line of work or interview a worker in a field of interest and identify the jargon that is used.
Then answer the three questions:
How does each term make communication more efficient?
What sorts of confusion might arise from the use of each term with certain listeners?
In cases where confusion or misunderstandings might arise, suggest alternative words or phrases that could convey the meaning more clearly.
Forecasting at Cruise International, Inc.
Forecasting at Cruise International, Inc. Use the provided North American Cruise Data spreadsheet for the next two questions.
• Develop a forecast of the demand for cruises the year beyond the last data time period both in aggregate demand for the entire industry and also by different regions. If Cruise International Inc. (CII) captures 5.5% of industry capacity, develop forecasts for CII from spreadsheet. Write up and justify the range of historical data used for forecasting and any consolidation of regions. (Learning Objective 3.1).
• Present your results in a memo that explains the forecasting technique used and the basis for its selection, and also illustrates the reliability of your forecast using linear regression chart and derived formula. (Learning Objective 3.1
Layout Analysis at Cruise International, Inc
Layout Analysis at Cruise International, Inc. Go to Chapter 10 https://wileyassets.s3.amazonaws.com/Reid_Operations_Management_6e_EPROF12657/media/cruise_html/reid5e_virtual_comp_ch10_index.htm for the information.
• Analyze the current process and make recommendations as to how some of the waiting time might be eliminated. (Learning Objective 3.3)
• Analyze the process as if it were an assembly line. Calculate the efficiency of the line. Calculate the balance delay. (Learning Objective 3.3)
Capacity Analysis at Cruise International, Inc.
Go to Chapter HYPERLINK “https://wileyassets.s3.amazonaws.com/Reid_Operations_Management_6e_EPROF12657/media/cruise_html/reid5e_virtual_comp_ch09_index.htm”9 for the information.
• Meghan believes that she needs a 15% capacity cushion because of the variability in guests’ arrivals. Given that cushion, how many servers should Meghan plan to have for registering regular guests? How many servers for registering VIP guests? (Learning Objective 3.2)
• What other ideas do you have for smoothing out the guests’ arrivals so that the amount of capacity needed can be minimized? (Learning Objective 3.2)