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What would be the advantages of a corporate lattice type organization? Are there disadvantages? How is it similar or different from the "grapevine" notion?
Distinguish between strategic control and operating control. Give an example of each.
Select a business whose strategy is familiar to you. Identify what you think are the key premises of the strategy. Then select the key indicators that you would use to monitor each of these premises.
Explain the differences between implementation controls, strategic surveillance, and special alert controls. Give an example of each.
Why are budgets, schedules, and key success factors essential to operations control and evaluation?
What are key considerations in monitoring deviations from performance standards?
How is the balanced scorecard related to strategic and operational control?
What is the difference between incremental and breakthrough innovation? What risks are associated with each approach?
Why is continuous improvement, and programs such as CCC21 and Six Sigma, a good way to develop incremental innovation?
Why do most breakthrough innovations occur in smaller firms?
What are the three key elements in the entrepreneurship process in new ventures?
What is intrapreneurship, and how is it best enabled?
Explain how Apple achieved business success through the use of information, information technology, and people.
Describe the types of information employees at an Apple store require and compare it to the types of information the executives at Apple's corporate headquarters require. Are there any links between
What are the potential impacts of a flat world for a student performing a job search?
Identify a current flattener not mentioned on Friedman's list.
How can Apple use environmental scanning to gain business intelligence?
Using Porter's Five Force Model, analyze Apple's buyer power and supplier power.
Which of Porter's Five Forces did Apple address through the introduction of the iPhone and customer developed iPhone applications?
In today's global business environment, does the physical location of a business matter?
Why is collaboration among universities important?
Is there a competitiveness problem in the United States?
What are the big differences in the way communities approach development today compared to 1990, when Porter wrote The Competitive Advantage of Nations?
Evaluate how Apple can gain business intelligence through the implementation of a customer relationship management system.
Create an argument against the following statement: "Apple should not invest any resources to build a supply chain management system."
Why would a company like Apple invest in BPR?
What are the pros and cons for Starbucks outsourcing the growing of its coffee beans to Chinese farmers?
Formulate a strategy describing how Apple can use efficiency IT metrics to improve its business.
Formulate a strategy describing how Apple can use effectiveness IT metrics to improve its business.
List three CRM metrics Apple should track, along with the reasons these metrics will add value to Apple's business strategy.
List three SCM metrics Apple should track, along with the reasons these metrics will add value to Apple's business strategy.
How can Apply use the balanced scorecard to make its business more efficient?
How do they turn the data into information?
What issues do they encounter when attempting to measure the economy?
As a manager, what do you need to understand when reading or listening to economic and business reports?
Predict what might have happened to Apple if its top executives had not supported investments in IT.
Explain why it would be unethical for Apple to allow its customers to download free music from iTunes.
Explain why Apple should have a CIO, CTO, CPO, CSO, and CKO.
Explain why understanding technology, especially in the areas of security and ethics, is important for a CEO. How do CEO's actions affect the organizational culture?
Identify why executives in non technological industries need to worry about technology and its potential business ramifications.
Describe why continuously learning about technology allows an executive to better analyze threats and opportunities.
Identify three things that a CTO, CPO, or CSO could do to prevent the above issues.
How do you feel about having your fingerprints, facial features, and perhaps more of your biometric features encoded in documents like your passport? Explain your answer.
Would you feel the same way about having biometric information on your driver's license as on your passport? Why or why not?
The checkpoints U.S. citizens pass through upon returning to the country vary greatly in the depth of the checks and the time spent. The simplest involves simply walking past the border guards who
You are asked to monitor one of your employee's email to discover if he is sexually harassing another employee.
You are asked to install a video surveillance system in your office to watch if employees are taking office supplies home with them.
You have been accidentally copied on an email from the CEO, which details that will be the targets of the next round of layoffs. What would you do?
How do companies prioritize the demands of various business units as they relate to IT?
What are some of the greatest IT challenges for the coming year?
What drives IT decisions?
Who or what is the moving force behind IT decisions?
What types of efficiency metrics and effectiveness metrics might these companies use to measure the impact of IT?
How are financial metrics used to monitor and measure IT investments? What are some of the issues with using financial metrics to evaluate IT?
What are some of the issues with using financial metrics to evaluate IT?
Using Porter's Five Forces Model, analyze MLBAM's buyer power and supplier power. What could MLBAM do to increase customer loyalty?
How can MLBAM use efficiency IT metrics and effectiveness IT metrics to improve its business?
How could MLBAM use a customer relationship management system to improve revenue growth?
Table 2.1 compares companies according to different profitability measures. a) Which two of the six performance measures do you think are the most useful indicators of how well a company is being
How well is Kering performing relative to LVMH?
Which parts of the industry offer the best profit prospects?
Is Walmart's Competitive Advantage Sustainable?
How is Harley-Davidson Responding to These Threats and What More Can It Do?
Did BP's Management System Cause the Texas City and Deepwater Horizon Disasters?
What are the sources of AirAsia's cost advantage?
Should Chipotle Diversify into Other Types of Cuisine?
Why did Kodak's Digital Strategy Fail?
What is the strategy of Tesla Motors? How does its business model differ from that of the leading auto makers?
What Are the Key Success Factors in the Video Games Hardware Industry?
India's Tata Group is a diversified group. Some of its largest companies are: Tata Steel, Tata Motors, Tata Consultancy Services (IT), Tata Power (electricity generation), Tata Chemicals, Tata Tea,
What is American Apparel's strategy? What role does vertical integration play in this strategy?
Do overseas markets offer attractive growth opportunities for Chipotle??
How successful has Haier's international strategy been and why?
What is Google's Strategy?
Will Immelt's Strategy Succeed? Are there Alternative Strategies GE should Consider?
What are the distinctive features of W.L Gore's organization and management? To what extent do they represent a consistent management based upon identifiable principles?
With regard to Strategy Capsule 2.2, what additional data would you seek and what additional analysis would you undertake to investigate further the reasons for UPS's superior profitability to FedEx?
The CEO of a chain of pizza restaurants wishes to initiate a program of CSR to be funded by a 5% levy on the company's operating profit. The board of directors, fearing a negative shareholder
Nike, a supplier of sports footwear and apparel, is interested in the idea that it could increase its stock market value by creating options for itself. What actions might Nike take that might
What is Tough Mudder's strategy?
Does Starbucks operate in the interests of its shareholders or its stakeholders?
What threats does Starbucks face; how should it counter these threats?
What is Starbucks' strategy?
Individually identify what you consider to be the greatest achievements accomplished by mankind in the last five decades. Now share your list with three to five other students in the class, and come
Individually identify projects assigned in previous terms. Were both sociocultural and technical elements factors in the success or difficulties in the projects?
Check out the Project Management Institute's home page at www.pmi.org. a. Review general information about PMI as well as membership information. b. See if there is a PMI chapter in your state. If
Why is it difficult to estimate mega project (i.e., costs and benefits (i.e. airports, stadiums, etc.) costs and benefits?
Define what a "white elephant" is in project management? Provide a real life example.
Calculate the direct cost of labor for a project team member using the following data: Hourly rate: $40/hr Hours needed: 80 Overhead rate: 40%
K. Nelson project manager of Print Software, Inc., wants you to prepare a project network; compute the early, late, and slack activity times; determine the planned project duration; and identify the
You are creating a customer database for the Lehigh Valley IronPigs minor league baseball team. Draw a project network given the information below. Complete the forward and backward pass, compute
You are managing a product upgrade project for Bangkokagogo. Given the project network that follows, complete the forward and backward pass, compute activity slack, and identify the critical path.
You are creating a database for the Oklahoma City Thunder NBA Basketball team.Given the project network that follows, complete the forward and backward pass, compute activity slack, and identify the
The planning department of an electronics firm has set up the activities for developing and production of a new phone. Given the information below, develop a project network using Microsoft Project.
From the following information, compute the early, late, and slack times for each activity. Identify the critical path.
Given the following information, compute the early, late, and slack times for the project network. Which activities on the critical path have only the start or finish of the activity on the critical
Given the information in the following lag exercises, compute the early, late, and slack times for the project network. Which activities on the critical path have only the start or finish of the
Given the network below, compute the early, late, and slack time for each activity. Clearly identify the critical path.
Draw a project network from the following information. What activity(s) is a burst activity? What activity(s) is a merge activity?
You have signed a contract to build a garage for the Simpsons. You will receive a $500 bonus for completing the project within 7 working days. The contract also contains a penalty clause in which you
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