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    Emergence of enormous global markets

    Within 20 years, we will have seen the emergence of enormous global markets for standardized consumer products. Do you agree with this statement? Justify your answer.

    R&D Effectiveness

    Please review the Web Sites http://xmlfund.com/roadmap/ , and http://www.eeel.nist.gov/812/files/2005IPRM.pdf regarding Technology Road Maps. Then, complete a detailed Topic Summary by doing the following: a. Create and defend a technology roadmap for the Ford Motor Company based on the web site reading above. b. Describe

    Compute the Five-year average return

    Select six securities and determine the five-year average return for each one of your selected securities. Those can be based on the following organizations: Wal-Mart, Citigroup, Microsoft, DELL Inc., and General Electric.

    Analyzing the Presentation Environment

    You are the workgroup leader in the finance department at New Products Creation, Inc. The company is seeking financing for a new robotics component manufacturing plant. You and your workgroup will be preparing a major presentation which you will be delivering to several types of audiences who need to be persuaded to financially

    Operations Management for Wally's Widget Warehouse

    Wally's Widget Warehouse takes orders from 7 A.M. to 7 P.M. The manager wants to analyze the process and has provided the process flow diagram shown below. There are three steps required to ship a customer order. The first step is to take the order from a customer. The second step is to pick the order for the customer and then

    Case Study: Alternatives and Proposed Solutions

    A case study about Marian Dupree, manager of the Supplier Quality Engineering (SQE) group for Drake Semi-Conductors, is evaluated in terms of alternatives, proposed solutions, recommendations, etc.

    Case Study - Executive Summary

    Please provide the following for the attachment: 1. Purpose and scope of document 2. Summary of the situation 3. Key points relating to the situation 4. Conclusions 5. Recommendations and actions to be taken, and why

    Buying Process

    Which steps in the buying process should a marketer focus on? Why? Does the level of involvement with a product or service impact the buying process? If so, how? If not, why not?

    You are the manager of Product Development at High-Tech toys, Inc.

    You are the manager of Product Development at High-Tech toys, Inc. You need to send a memo to the Vice President of Information Services, explaining the following: a. The laser printer in your department is often out of order b. The laser printer is seldom repaired satisfactorily. c. Either the machine is faulty or the rep

    Case Study Imaginative Staffing, Inc.

    1. Should Imaginative Staffing, Inc., adopt a team-selling system for selling to important accounts? 2. If so, who should be on the team? 3. What training would be needed by the team? To what extent should the team's presentation be planned 4. Analyze the key elements and processes of selecting and recruiting a sales fo

    Advantages of using short-term financing

    1. Describe, in general, the steps involved in using the percent of sales forecasting method to generate pro forma financial statements. 2. Explain why return on invested capital may be a better performance ratio than return on assets when comparing two companies. 3. List the advantages of using short-term financing and t

    Managing Cash and Company Holdings

    A company is currently holding $800,000 in cash. It projects that over the next year its cash outflows will exceed its cash inflows by $345,500 per month. Each time securities are bought or sold through a broker, the company pays a fee of $500. The annual interest rate on money-market securities is 7 percent. a. How much ca

    Team work

    You are the supervisor for a large technology-based corporation. One of your subordinate managers, Carly, is heading up a project for a new system that is scheduled to market on the 1st of the year. It is August and things are not progressing at the pace you had hoped. When you meet with Carly, all she does is complain abou

    Design

    Any ideas on how you design a forecasting process? What considerations would you employ when forecasting demand in a city that depends on tourism?

    Individual Research Case Analysis of the Vioxx Drug Case

    This assignment requires that we submit an 8-15 page PowerPoint Presentation on the Viox Drug Case, and the use or misuse of this drug. The comprehensive analysis should be framed against all the steps suggested in the Sekaran (2003) research process and founded on the skills developed in previous assignments of this course.

    Environmental Analysis for Pfizer, Inc.

    An organization's external environment has three components: the remote environment, the industry environment, and the operating environment. Using the Pfizer, Inc. organization chosen for my Strategic Plan, conduct an Environmental Analysis. Describe several major changes that you expect to have a major impact on the remote,

    Delivery of Service in Health Care

    Use Home Health Care not a Hospital. 1. Create and define a capacity utilization plan, linking action plans to information systems, service delivery, and balancing capacity and demand. In particular, identify the types of information services necessary for excellence in service. Remember that you will also be creating a marke

    Data Collection and Data Analysis tools

    Examine 2 data collection and analysis tools that can be used in consulting projects. Compare and contrast these tools, identifying advantages and disadvantages of each method. Also, Recommend processes to overcome any disadvantages.

    Network flow models

    The members of the Vistas Club are planning a month long hike trip through the Blue Ridge Mountains from Virginia to North Georgia. There are a number of trails through the mountains that connect at various campgrounds, camping and cabins. The following network shows the different connecting trails and the distance of each con

    Forecasting II

    3. What are some methods of matching demand with capacity and capability? 4. Compare and contrast the differences in forecasting demand for a product versus a service.

    Forecasting

    1. Compare and contrast at least three of the methods used to determine demand. 2. How do you design a forecasting process?