Business
The Beer Game-Systems Thinking
As you read over the Beer Game in P. Senge’s book, The Fifth Discipline, think of yourself as one of the four positions: retailer, wholesaler, distributor, and factory. After you are done reading, answer these questions:
What position are you?
Did you feel yourself “at the effect” of forces in the system from time to time? (i.e. relatively helpless in the face of huge incoming orders or excess inventories)
Did you find yourself “blaming” the position next to you for your problems?
What do you think the customers were doing?
Is this an example of external events causing problems or the underlying structure of the system
Organizational strategy
For this homework assignment, you will develop a supporting human resource (HR) plan for an organizational strategy. In a paper of three to four pages (750-1000 words) of text, offer your ideas for a promising HR assignment, development plan, and sustainment plan to support the strategy of an organization expanding to open offices in sub-Sahara Africa. Drawing from appropriate sources, develop a scenario that provides the business of the organization, identify how much expansion is taking place, and identify the countries in which the expansion is taking place.
A useful starting point is estimating the total number of relocating employees that can be supported in the host country.
Will the organization need to establish a commissary (for grocery purchases), banking and currency exchange, and limited urgent-care stations?
Should the organization set assignment lengths of one year or two with families? What does research say is the optimal time period?
Tipping Systems in Restaurants
Style: This is an informative paper. The basic idea is for you to give detailed background information about the topic of your choosing, discussing the facts only. Give historical
E-commerce
Select a country (other than the United States) and write an essay about what the SEO landscape is like.
Each essay must meet the following:
History of search within that country (For example, China and Google have a long standing history, the EU has recent changes with GDPR or recent laws)
The main search engines uses within the country
How it is the same as SEO in the US
How it is SEO is different than the US
One big thing SEO professionals should be aware of when entering that country’s SEO market
Additionally:
Minimum of 500 words
Double spaced, size 12 font
Cite all of your sources
Trade taxes
Formal Report Project Presentation (8 slides MAX): Due last week of class and final exam period; PowerPoint presentation. 100 points You are required to develop a professional PowerPoint slide presentation (of no more than 10 slides) to accompany a formal 5-6-minute oral presentation on your topic. Formal business dress is required for the presentation (dress as you would for an important interview). It is expected to be a highly professional demonstration of the student’s ability to apply key concepts from the course. The audience for the presentation is the same as the intended audience of the report. Presentations details are listed under the separate assignment on Canvas.
CONTENTS OF FORMAL REPORT
Your Formal Report FINAL draft must include the following sections: Front Matter: Prefatory sections (do NOT count towards page limit; number prefatory pages in lowercase roman numerals, but do not place a number on your cover sheet):A cover sheet (no page number)A letter of transmittal (ii)A table of contents (including a list of figures) (iii)An executive summary (iv)Body sections (7-9 pages single-spaced): these DO count towards page limit, except the referencesIntroductionBackground sectionDiscussion sectionConclusions section Recommendations sectionReferences page End Matter: Additionally, each student will prepare at least an appendix that does NOT count towards the final page range. Appendices should be labeled as Appendix A, Appendix B, and so forth [if needed]. You may number the appendix pages as you please. Appendix: Primary research detailso If using first-hand experience or observationDetails on experience: How many months/years experience do you have? Details on observation: Who did you