Business
Strategic alliance
1.Briefly introduce your chosen firms, partners of alliance (Industry, nationality, size…).
2.What type of strategic alliance that form your selected firms? Explain its different reasons.
3.Is this alliance successful? Justify.
4.What is the method used by the firms to manage their cultures after alliance? underline the pros and cons of this method.
Core business process
An enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is a set of business applications that are integrated to provide support for core business process activities. Core business process activities may include actions around manufacturing production, logistics, sales, marketing, finance, accounting, human resources, and others. Implementation of an ERP system aids the organizational units in sharing data and knowledge, reducing costs, and improving management of the business processes. Yet, ERP implementations still fail.
Describe why change management is important to ERP implementation.
Benchmarks
Explore the following website: https://www.surpriseaz.gov/DocumentCenter/View/40558/FY2017-Valley-Benchmark-Cities-Trend-Report. Explain if benchmarks are being met, how do you know. Explain why benchmarking is important in evaluation.
Discharging of employees
For the next assignment, please review the “Your Be The Arbitrator” on page 428 and 429. Please respond to the 3 questions.
Remember, you are the arbitrator. You get to decide what to do with this employee. I am looking for what your decision is and justify why you made your decision.
Qualitative Research Studies
Prior to beginning this assignment, you must complete the Qualitative Research Studies: Part 1 (Peer Feedback) discussion forum and receive feedback from your instructor and classmates. Read the articles by Polkinghorne (2005), Language and Meaning: Data Collection in Qualitative Research, Ryan, Coughlin, and Cronin (2007), Step-by-step Guide to Critiquing Research. Part 2: Qualitative Research, and Shenton (2004), Strategies for Ensuring Trustworthiness in Qualitative Research Projects. Refer to the Writing Center resource Writing an Article Critique (Links to an external site.), to help you analyze and review each article.
This paper is the second part of a two-part integration. Review the discussion threads you, your classmates, and your instructor posted in the Qualitative Research Studies: Part 1 (Peer Feedback) discussion forum. Make note of constructive suggestions, integrate feedback and ideas into your analysis of the articles, and/or identify new qualitative research articles if instructed to do so by your instructor. Incorporate this information into your paper.