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nswer the following questions in the space provided below:

Explain the importance of variation to health-care organizations and answer the following questions.

1. What might be the key processes for health-care organizations?
2. What are the potential common causes of variation that would have an impact on the key processes of health-care organizations?
3. What special causes might be more important than the others?
4. How might health-care organizations’ business environment be dynamic and change over time?

. (TCO 2)One search strategy used to discover innovation opportunities is termed Deep Dive. Define Deep Dive as a search strategy and briefly describe a limitation associated with it. Illustrate one way in which adovcates of the Deep Dive approach to innovation can mitigate the significant limitation associated with this methodolgy.

3. (TCO 3) Compare and contrast assembly customization with design customization. Why are efforts to maintain barriers to existing or new competitors using assembly customization of limited effectiveness? (Points : 25)

Question 4. 4. (TCO 4) Analyze the statement, “The poor have no purchasing power and do not represent a viable market.” In addition, “The poor are hard to reach.” Why do you agree or disagree with each statement? (Points : 25)

Question 5. 5. (TCO 5) Explain the differences between a blue ocean strategy and a red ocean strategy. Why would a management team choose a blue ocean strategy over a red ocean strategy? (Points : 25)

Question 6. 6. (TCO 6) Understanding our market and estimating future demand is required when formulating recommendations for a product launch. You are charged with selecting a method to solve some specific problems with a new product. These problems must be resolved before sales forecasts can be made and development activities planned. What method would you select (market surveys, brainstorming, expert opinion, or developing scenarios)? Why is your selected method most appropriate for the situation described? (Points : 25)

Question 7. 7. (TCO 7) There are at least nine components to a formal business plan for a new product. Consider four of those components: (a) product or service details, (b) market opportunity details, (c) identification of target market, and (d) competitor analysis and identification of entry barriers. Which component of the plan do you feel is the most important? Explain why the component you selected is more important than the other three components. Offer three reasons to justify your selection. (Points : 25)

Question 8. 8. (TCO 8) When developing a marketing plan, we should consider market differentiation. What does market differentiation mean? Explain why relative quality in conjunction with market differentiation is important to our marketing effort. (Points : 25)

Question 9. 9. (TCO 9) You are presenting a plan to your senior management team about market tests and risks. Risk testing is important and a suggestion has been made for you to consider the following risk categories: market-based risks, technological risks, manufacturing risks, and design risks. Would you include any or all of these additional categories as risk-testing categories? Defend your decision. (Points : 25)

New Product Development, final exam

1.     (TCO 1) What characteristics describe innovative organizations? If you were attempting to transform an average organization into an innovative organization, what is the most significant obstacle you might encounter? (Points : 25)

2.     (TCO 2) Compare and contrast the exploit and explore innovation strategies. Describe a situation in which a specific type of organization might effectively use the explore strategy. (Points : 25)

3.     (TCO 3) Analyze the importance of overall business advertising and government regulation (local, state, and federal) as tools for generating new concepts. Provide an example of how advertising or government regulation generated an innovative product or service. (Points : 25)

4. (TCO 4) What is product liability? How might it impact a firm? (Points : 25)

5. (TCO 5) Innovation activities influence strategic planning and sales forecasting. Is there a single best generalized innovation strategy that will optimize strategic planning and sales forecasting? If yes, explain the strategy. If no, explain why not.(Points : 25)

6. (TCO 6) When developing products, what does the term relative advantage mean? Explain why management teams should be concerned about a new product’s relative advantage. (Points : 25)

7. (TCO 7) There are at least nine components to a formal business plan for a new product. Consider four of those components: (a) product or service details, (b) market opportunity details, (c) identification of target market, and (d) competitor analysis and identification of entry barriers. Which component of the plan do you feel is the most important? Explain why the component you selected is more important than the other three components. Offer three reasons to justify your selection. (Points : 25)

8. (TCO 8) Large firms and small firms have advantages and disadvantages that aid the design of a new product marketing plan. Which size firm is more likely to focus on niche markets? Describe the characteristics present that make this focus likely. (Points : 25

9. (TCO 9) You are presenting a plan to your senior management team about market tests and risks. Risk testing is important and a suggestion has been made for you to consider the following risk categories: market-based risks, technological risks, manufacturing risks, and design risks. Would you include any or all of these additional categories as risk-testing categories? Defend your decision. (Points : 25)

nswer the following questions in the space provided below:

Explain the importance of variation to health-care organizations and answer the following questions.

1. What might be the key processes for health-care organizations?
2. What are the potential common causes of variation that would have an impact on the key processes of health-care organizations?
3. What special causes might be more important than the others?
4. How might health-care organizations’ business environment be dynamic and change over time?

Law enforcement agencies have difficulty combating many types of online crime. Describe 2 online crimes prevalent in e-Commerce and what you would do to prevent these crimes.

Your assignment must:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Identify the basic elements of the technology infrastructure used to conduct electronic business.

• Explain the basic communications and network concepts used in electronic commerce and the basic functioning of the Internet and the World Wide Web.

• Describe the critical legal and ethical issues related to electronic commerce.

• Use technology and information resources to research issues in fundamentals of e-business.

Write clearly and concisely about fundamentals of e-business using proper writing mechanics.

Imagine that you own a small, local clothing store along the Jersey Shore boardwalk and decide that you want to engage in e-Commerce.

Write a 4-5 page paper on the following:

1. Identify the advantages and disadvantages of taking your small business online by performing a SWOT analysis. Include 2-4 items in each category.

2. Because the Internet connects computers all over the world, any business that engages in e-Commerce instantly becomes an international business. The key issues that any company faces when it conducts international commerce include trust, culture, language, government, and infrastructure. Explain how you would address each of these issues.

3. Businesses that operate on the Web must comply with the same laws and regulations that govern the operations of all businesses, but they face 2 additional complicating factors as they try to comply with the law. First, the Web extends a company’s reach beyond traditional boundaries. Second, the Web increases the speed and efficiency of business communications. Explain how you would overcome these complicating factors that come with e-Commerce in order to comply with the law.

ssignment 2: Discussion – Global Management

This assignment is designed to integrate the reflection of personal experience and the information covered in the textbook. Assuming you are Ludmilla responding to a recent email from Juanita, answer the following questions:

Besides cultural differences, what other factors might affect human resource management with this international office?

What abilities will help Juanita succeed and potentially fail in this assignment as an expatriate?

What has been the reason for the high failure rate of expatirate managers in Uzbekistan? What can Ludmilla do to increase the success of expats?

Since Uzbekistan has been significantly influenced by Russia for over 70 years, from Hofstede’s perspective, what impact has culture had on appraisal systems, self- managing teams, and systems for gathering suggestions from workers?

Readings:

Juanita’s World Part 8:

It has been a year since Juanita finished her degree and about two years since she has been promoted to HR Director status. As part of her training her boss has offered to send her to their HQ in Uzbekistan for one year. The office is staffed with several Americans and English speaking Uzbeks. She has spent some time studying the people and culture and thinks this will be an “adventure of a lifetime”. Of course, she knows that it will be a very different world for her. She intends to be a student of the culture and apply all that she has learned in the last few years.

Juanita has asked for a week to do research on the culture and how it has impacted the way their organization fulfills their mission. This is a former Soviet country that is populated with mostly Ukrainians, Kazakhs, Uzbeks and Tajiks. She has learned that they think of themselves as European but are primarily Muslim in their religious beliefs but motivated by pursuing material wealth.

As she contemplates how little she knows about this country and its people, some anxiety begins to creep in along with the excitement of the challenge of the unknown. To ensure she is reasonably well prepared before she goes, she decides to communicate with the Uzbek Director, Ludmilla Kovalenko.

Ludmilla, is Ukranian and has offered to provide her insights into the areas Juanita is interested in. In her first email she told Ludmilla that she will be sending some emails with questions related to the cultural context and other issues that may impact how work gets done and the mission accomplished.

Business Statistics

Explain the importance of variation to health-care organizations and answer the following questions.
What might be the key processes for health-care organizations?
What are the potential common causes of variation that would have an impact on the key processes of health-care organizations?
What special causes might be more important than the others?
How might health-care organizations’ business environment be dynamic and change over time?

swer the following questions in the space provided below:

Explain the importance of variation to health-care organizations and answer the following questions.

1. What might be the key processes for health-care organizations?
2. What are the potential common causes of variation that would have an impact on the key processes of health-care organizations?
3. What special causes might be more important than the others?
4. How might health-care organizations’ business environment be dynamic and change over time?