Amazon_competing_with_google_and_microsoft

Q.1 Present areas where Amazon.com is competing with Google™ and Microsoft®, and whether competition is a wise strategy.

MIS 3101 -W5 A3 -DSS

For the W5A3 Dropbox assignment, you are doing a feasibility report that will ultimately lead to the purchase of a Decision Support System (DSS). The template file is more about the structure and grading of this assignment rather that a template. You will be creating an APA formatted report as your work product for this assignment rather than using a template. The new Template file provides the following:

1.     Provides background from the text on Decision Stages, DSS Architecture, and a DSS Example

2.     Provides the basic requirements that your report must address, which in turn suggests a structure for your report (headings, subheadings, etc.)

Assignment Clarification

 

Remember that the focus of this assignment is to:

1.      Identify the key DSS characteristics that will meet the needs of the decisions making that must be performed by the Procurement VP.

2.      You are NOT trying to solve the 3 power plant and 80 supplier proposals problem. The DSS will do that for you. You are trying to detail how a DSS would behave, be constructed, and be architected for use by the Procurement VP to help solve this multivariable problem.

3.      You should assume the role of the chief information officer for the presented scenario. As the chief information officer, it is your responsibility to provide a decision support system (DSS) to assist the company's procurement officer in finding the best way to supply the company's three power plants with a sufficient quantity of coal to operate for the next twelve months. You realize that a single supplier cannot provide the quantity of coal needed. Hence the DSS will have to review the proposals of eighty suppliers to establish the correct logistics to insure the plants will have an ample supply of coal to operate for this period.

 

Requirements for your DSS Report:

 

1.      To understand how a DSS would help our company, we need to first understand the decision that the company& DSS will first need to make. Discuss this decision process using the Four Stages in Decision Making and show how a DSS can address each stage (5 points)

2.      Regarding the DSS Architecture, discuss each of the architecture components in the context of this specific situation (7 points)

3.      Discuss the DSS Architecture Model that will be used for this system:  Data-Driven DSS or Model-Driven DSS (see the RESOURCES section below) (7 points)

4.      Identify the Inputs and Outputs (Results) in detail for this DDS (6 points)

5.      Discuss how Sensitivity Analysis would be used in this situation. Provide at least 3 scenario examples (5 points)

6.      Select3 Quality Dimensions from Table 10-2 in Laudon. Discuss what you would do (processes, procedures, measurements, benchmarking, governance, etc.) to ensure that your DSS addressed each of these 3 Quality Dimensions. (5 points)

7.      Provide an APA formatted report (5 points)

 

 

MGMT 422 Unit-4 DB

4-6 paragraphs

Discuss a basic marketing plan to bring your new product idea to the attention of the public and help your product be successful. Make sure to include the following in your response:

• Given the information you have researched on the industry and market for the product that your group will introduce, what specific channels would you use to get the word out to potential customers?
• How would you plan to capture the market share you have promised to your CEO? Explain the target market, message, the mediums you would use, their costs, and so forth

Marketing Research Industry Challenges

Describe at least one challenge to the present-day marketing research industry. Support your position in a minimum of 150 words.

ITAR EAR Call center Outsourcing

Assume that you work within a manufacturer of personal digital assistants (PDAs). The PDAs have some potential for use by the United States military. Research & Development (R&D) efforts are underway within the United States Army using the PDAs for controlling logistics on the battlefield. Your government contract addresses export control and ITAR. Your biggest competitor has just outsourced their Customer Care and Warranty Call Center to India, which will give them a significant cost advantage. In order to remain competitive, the Vice President of your division has requested that you determine your organization's best course of action. At this time, your organization has call center facilities located in Chicago, IL. U.S., with back-up facilities near San Francisco, CA, U.S. You have met with several colleagues to determine what could be included in the proposal back to the Vice President. They have recommended that you consider the following:

1) Consider the organization's motivation, short-term and long-term implications

2) Best strategic location:

a) Keeping the call center insourced in North America

b) Insourcing in one of your facilities in another part of the world (possibly Singapore where your electronics assembly is located)

c) Outsourcing the call center in the United States

d) Outsourcing the call center in another part of the world (Potentially India)

3) Determining the impact of the ITAR and export control on the initiative

 

 Prepare a 500- to 600 word paper in which you take your colleagues' recommendations into consideration addressing the following items:

1.State Department International Traffic and Arms Regulations (ITAR).

2.monetary exchange rates

3.political stability

 

 

ISCOM 472 - Recommendations

 you last three papers: Need for a Lean Initiatives Paper, As-Is Process Flowchart and Paper, and To-Be Process Flowchart and Paper
Write a 400- to 600 words paper recommending and evaluating the selected business process improvement plan for your selected organization. Danaher.
•Develop the metrics to quantify the level of improvement in your selected processes.

ISCOM 424 Week-2 Supply Chain Management Strategy

Supply Chain Management Strategy Training Document

Write a 650- to 750-word paper explaining supply chain management strategy to new hires at Riordan's operation in Hangzhou, China. The new hires may or may not deal directly with the supply chain. Your paper must cover the following topics:

•Supply chain management theory

•Competitive strategy

•Customer fulfillment strategy

 •Process thinking