Discuss the following: 1. What are blockchain’s potential applications in organizational functions such as human resource management, accounting, and supply chain management?
Category: Business
Setting goals: Long-Term Orientation in the Benedictine Monastery of Admont
Prompt: Management functions include setting and measuring goals for a company, determining which elements are key to a particular situation, and
leading/motivating the company to meet those goals. This paper will focus on setting goals for your chosen company and measuring those goals. Review
the resources in this module for additional help on elements of this assignment. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
Based on the TOWS analysis performed on your chosen company, set two goals for your chosen organization to pursue.
Suggest at least one metric per goal that managers could use to measure how well the company is meeting each goal. Metrics need to be objective and
meet the SMART criteria: Specific, Measurable, Actionable, Relevant, and Timely. See Start SMART Goal Setting for more information on setting SMART
goals.
Business Ethics And Leadership
Within the Discussion Board area, write 200–250 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
You are a manager at a baby formula manufacturing facility. There are global supply chain issues which are impacting the availability of raw materials and a rapid increase in demand is preventing your company from fulfilling customer orders. There is not enough inventory in stock to provide the product to all of your customers, which include some major supermarkets and smaller stores in your region. Utilizing current production standards, it would be at least 45 days before you can ramp up production to meet the demand. Your production team comes to you with the suggestion that the company decrease the quality of the baby formula to meet demand. Given the limited inventory and the high demand, there are decisions that you have to make as a manager regarding the quality and supply distribution of the product.
Using ethical-decision making models, answer the following questions:
As a manager how would you decide how to divide the available supply of product among the various customers?
Would you alter the production method to get the product on the market sooner although it will diminish its quality?
Responses to Other Students: Respond to at least 2 of your fellow classmates with at least a 50–100-word reply about their Primary Response regarding items you found to be compelling and enlightening. To help you with your discussion, please consider the following question:
What differences or similarities do you see between your posting and other classmates’ postings?
Challenges that businesses encounter in the digital environment on a regular basis.
Write about the many challenges that businesses encounter in the digital environment on a regular basis. Discuss a few methods these businesses can use to minimize or even completely bypass these types of issues.
Understanding business intelligence (BI)
The oncology facility has been tasked with the implementation of several new clients, but has encountered issues while transferring from the use of one system to another. Understanding business intelligence (BI) is an important tool to transition from working in Excel to using a data warehouse.
Write an action plan proposal that indicates a business problem and outlines the following:
A project strategy for correcting the problem
The probable outcome expected
Hofstede’s Model of National Culture
As an international manager, your effectiveness can be greatly influenced by your understanding of cultural differences and their impact on staff. Hofstede’s Model of National Culture and Project GLOBE. Chapter 16 in your textbook details dimensions that help managers identify cultural differences within countries.
Write a one-page reflection paper about how this research has increased your understanding of different cultures and how you would use this understanding if managing staff who would be taking on expatriate assignments.
Consequences of not adhering to the new policy
1- You are the Information Security Director for a medium sized company. You recently experienced a ransom-ware attack that cost the company $500,000.00. After the attack your CEO held a meeting and informed you and the other IT professionals that it “WILL” not happen again. Write a Directive to the employees of the company summarizing the requirement for all personnel to adopt the new 2-factor authentication for IT equipment access. Include a 30-day timeline to adopt, and the consequences of not adhering to the new policy.
Instructions:
• Write a 400-500 word policy using APA format.
• Your essay should include an introductory paragraph and a conclusion.
• Follow APA format for structure. An APA template is attached here. Conduct research associated with 2-factor authentication and at a minimum cite 3 credible references beyond the course materials. Please note Wikipedia, Investopedia and similar websites are not credible academic references.
Carnival Cruise Line
The company I chose is Carnival Cruise Line. https://www.carnivalcorp.com/
Create a 2-3 page project summary describing your chosen organization, a business problem or opportunity, the data you will need, and how your topic allows you to demonstrate the program outcomes.
• Describe the background of your chosen organization.
• Provide a brief background of your selected organization. For instance, discuss its product lines, number of years in business, organization structure, location, et cetera.
• If you choose an organization for which you work, your introduction must include a statement that you received permission to use the company from a supervisor.
• Describe a business topic, problem, or opportunity that you intend to research.
• Describe the problem or opportunity you see that makes this company a good choice.
• Explain the scope of your project by clearly identifying the topics or areas you intend to research.
• Explain the level of accessibility to data necessary to examine the chosen business topic, problem, or opportunity.
• Address how you will go about obtaining the data.
• Identify any special requirements that you might need to meet to access the data you will need.
• Explain risks you think will be encountered and the mitigation plan to manage those risks.
• Explain how your topic will allow you to showcase your leadership ability by demonstrating each program outcome.
• List out each program outcome clearly, and then explain in 3–4 sentences how your topic will allow you to demonstrate each.
• Identify specific items of your project summary that you believe demonstrate the outcome.
• Wrap up your paper with a clear, concise conclusion that summarizes your plan. Just a couple of sentences is fine.
Quirky ultimately failed
Assignment #2 – Case Medley
Term Sheets in MuMate / Dupage Ventures & Walnut Ventures
Based on your analysis of the term sheet in the Walnut Ventures (D) case, your experience in negotiating the Mu Mate /Dupont Ventures term sheets, and class discussion:
Term sheet terms – Identify and discuss what you consider to be the five most important elements in term sheets from the perspective of the entrepreneur and from the perspective of a risk capital investor (two different lists).
Negotiations – what are your three biggest learnings as they relate to term sheet negotiating strategies that you employed? From a negotiation perspective, devise a priority list of these items that you would attempt to negotiate from each vantage point (entrepreneur and risk capital investor). Use examples from all of the cases and your negotiating experience to illustrate your points. Be sure to explain and justify your answers.
Quirky
Quirky ultimately failed. Identify what you consider to be the five most likely causes of failure. Be sure to explain your reasoning. Describe how you would attempt to mitigate each of these challenges?
The company Home Depot
Research the company Home Depot
Write a 4-6 page formal research essay describing:
1. A brief overview of your selected company.
2. Why your company’s customer relations philosophy is successful or not successful. Does the philosophy tie into the company’s mission statement?
3. Does the company meet the needs of their customers? Why or why not?
4. Is there an opportunity for the company to increase their customer relations skills? Explain.
Your essay should be in APA format, contain at minimum 3 outside academic sources, a title page, and a reference page.