"Operations Strategy" Please respond to the following:

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Week 2 Discussion 2 Collapse

 

  PART 1 PLEASE RESPOND IN 275 WORDS

 

  ORIGINAL WORK, NO PLAGIARISM, 1 REFERENCE 

 

“Operations Strategy” Please respond to the following:

 

                                               

 

•Choose two service companies that you are familiar with such as Facebook, eBay, and UPS, and apply them to Hill’s Strategy Development Framework. Note: Refer to Chapter 4 of the text for information on Hill’s Strategy Development Framework.

 

•For each company you chose in Part 1 of this discussion, compare and contrast each sector of the framework and determine which key area(s) provides a competitive advantage. Provide at least two examples to support your position.

 

PART 2 PLEASE RESPOND AND COMENT TO THIS DISCUSSION NO LESS THE 175 WORDS BASE ON 1 CREDIBLE RESORCE

Choose two service companies that you are familiar with such as Facebook, eBay, and UPS, and apply them to Hill’s Strategy Development Framework. Note: Refer to Chapter 4 of the text for information on Hill’s Strategy Development Framework.

 

Amazon and True Green Lawn care. I do not believe Hills strategy would benefit Amazon due to Jeff Bezos willingness to lose money in the short term in order to maximize profits down the road. With True Green, Hills development Framework, utilizing a superior product, valuing your customers and testing those techniques on a small sampling could allow for both a positive and a negative. While the lawn care business is only a 6-8 month a year revenue in most places due to winter, this frees up the company to further research and develop processes and control their overhead on a more linear path.

For each company you chose in Part 1 of this discussion, compare and contrast each sector of the framework and determine which key area(s) provides a competitive advantage. Provide at least two examples to support your position.

 

 

Amazon has a competitive advantage in both price point and customer service. I have not found any other company that has the “no arguments” policy that Amazon has. I have had a few issues with either late shipments or shipments not showing up and both times I received an apology, a full refund, and the product sent again at no cost to me. With True Green, in the event of crabgrass or excess dead spots, the company will come back out at no cost and take time to explain why the issues are occurring and how they will resolve the issue.

 

APA FORMAT, ORIGINAL WORK, NO PLAGIARISM, 1 REFERENCE PARTS, PART 1 PLEASE RESPOND IN 275 WORDS, PART 2 COMMENT TO THIS DISCUSSION NO LESS THE 175 (PLEASE AGREE WITH ONE OF THE STATEMENTS AND FIND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION)

 

 

 

WEEK 4 ASSIGNMENT

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Week 4 – Assignment       

       Annual Report Formats [WLO: 3] [CLOs: 1, 3, 5]

Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read Chapter 10, Chapter 11, and Chapter 13 from your textbook; review the website AnnualReports.com (Links to an external site.); and review the Week 4 Weekly Lecture.

Go to AnnualReports.com (Links to an external site.) and review the annual reports recently released by two corporations in the same industry. Review each report and discuss the issues listed below.

It is strongly encouraged that you receive feedback on your paper using the Ashford Writing Center Paper Review at least two days before it is due. Then implement the feedback into your paper before submitting it to Waypoint. For instructions on how to use this feature, please review the Ashford Writing Center Paper Review (Links to an external site.). Make sure you appropriately cite your sources from AnnualReports.com and include a minimum of two scholarly and/or credible sources from the library in addition to the course text.

In your paper, Describe organizational differences that you see in how each corporation discusses its annual performance. Explain how clearly the data is or is not presented for enabling shareholders to draw conclusions about how well the company performed. Explain what goals, challenges, and plans top managers emphasize in their discussion of results. Describe ways the format and organization of each report enhances or detracts from the information being presented.

The Annual Report Formats paper Must two to three double-spaced in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s APA Style (Links to an external site.)  Must include a separate title with the following:  Title of paper Student’s name Course name and number Instructor’s name Date submitted

For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to APA Formatting for Word 2013 (Links to an external site.). Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice (Links to an external site.) resource for additional guidance. Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.  For assistance on writing Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.) as well as Writing a Thesis Statement (Links to an external site.), refer to the Ashford Writing Center resources. Must use at least two scholarly or credible sources in addition to the course text.  The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment. To assist you in completing the research required for this assignment, view this Ashford University Library Quick ‘n’ Dirty (Links to an external site.) tutorial, which introduces the Ashford University Library and the research process, and provides some library search tips. Must document any information used from sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.)  Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. See the Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.) resource in the Ashford Writing Center for specifications.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.)  (Links to an external site.)for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

Week 8 Assignment 4

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Due Week 8 and worth 240 points

Read the case titled: “Risk Management on a Satellite Development Project” found in Chapter 10.

Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:Suggest the issues that could have developed had the team not had a risk plan. Determine the major impacts of risk that the team needs to understand for the project to be successful.Justify the value of risk plan considering the time, effort, cost, and resources it took to develop such a plan. If you were the project manager, recommend the approach that you would take to ensure the project met the critical path identified.Assess how to determine the level of risk management appropriate for a project.Imagine the team working on the satellite development project was a virtual team in which team members were unable to meet in person. Explain the expected impact on the project, and suggest two (2) ways the team could maintain its current goal in both planning and execution.Use at least four (4) quality academic (peer-reviewed) resources in this assignment. 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.

Chapter 10 start on page 268 and you have to scroll to the end of chapter for the case study.