What interpretations can be made? Has the aim of the thesis been achieved? Has the problem been analyzed and answered?

Empirics/data. All empirics used in the thesis should be clearly stated, but it is not necessary to account for everything collected and found in the data collection process. Here it is important to find an appropriate form and structure for the presentation of the empirics and the results analysis and Conclusions. The analysis should be systematic, clear and connected to the study’s problem formulation and aims.

In the analysis part, the theory/previous research is applied in relation to the results and the empirical material. What interpretations can be made? Has the aim of the thesis been achieved? Has the problem been analyzed and answered? What conclusions can be drawn? What alternative methods/data could have been used? Suggestions for further research? Form–What Must the Contain? The following forms must be followed in all thesis projects: Summary All thesis should contain a summary.

Explore news/current events to locate a business that has a complex problem which needs to be addressed. The problem may be related to any business topic.

Amazon’s Current Challenges with E-Commerce: A Major Case Study

For this assignment, you are required to address an issue or problem faced by your company of choice and will analyze it using the techniques taught in this course.

SELECTING AN ORGANIZATION
Explore news/current events to locate a business that has a complex problem which needs to be addressed. The problem may be related to any business topic.

It is suggested that you select a recent problem of a public company, which will ensure that you will have access to the information necessary to complete your project.

As you select an organizational problem for your class project, it is important that you select an organization that is interesting, possibly useful to you in your career, industry, or interests. An organization or industry you are interested in should give you better access to information.

Evaluate critically current knowledge, research and advanced scholarship in the areas of professional and business practice studied, including research and professional methodologies where appropriate

Your assessment must achieve an appropriate range of the following learning outcomes. As a reminder, a learning outcome is something which you will be able to do, and to demonstrate that you can do at the end of a particular piece of work; in this case once you have completed the assessment.
Knowledge and understanding:
• Demonstrate a high level of specialist knowledge and of conceptual understanding at the forefront of the areas of professional and business practice studied
• Demonstrate a high level of conceptual understanding of principles of business and management so as to understand, anticipate and respond to the needs of business clients
Intellectual:
• Evaluate critically current knowledge, research and advanced scholarship in the areas of professional and business practice studied, including research and professional methodologies where appropriate;
• Analyse complex legal, business and management issues affecting client matters both systematically and creatively, making sound judgments in the absence of complete data in complex and unpredictable situations

Are you personally liable for this bill, or is it only the corporation that is liable since you are a CEO and the incident happened during a business trip for the corporation?

Business Organization and Business Torts

Go through the scenarios below. For each scenario, answer the questions and support each answer with at least one reference to one of the readings in the background materials. Be clear about how your reading supports your answer. Your paper should be a minimum of 3 pages  and include 3 scholarly sources:

1.You are the CEO of a corporation. After attending a business conference in Hawaii, you and some other CEOs you met at the conference decide to relax and unwind with a few drinks at the hotel bar. The hotel bar closes, so you and the other CEOs decide to go back to your room and continue the party. You proceed to raid the large whiskey collection in your minibar. Your memory becomes hazy at this point, but you wake up the next morning and find the hotel room is completely trashed. The hotel sends you a $50,000 bill for the damages.

Are you personally liable for this bill, or is it only the corporation that is liable since you are a CEO and the incident happened during a business trip for the corporation?

Produce a high-level plan, supported by a Gantt chart for a six-month project to implement the improvement you have recommended in Task 4 above. Develop a risk register to show how you would control the risks during implementation of the project.

Operations and Project Management

You are required to write a 1,500-word report assessing and providing recommendations for the improvement of the Operations Management of a specific chosen outlet. Your chosen outlet can be any retail store, supermarket, bank, pharmacy,or any other outlet you decide upon. You are required solely to make your own observations and draw on secondary data and your own opinions and conclusions.

BRIEF
1. Provide an overview of your chosen establishment’s operations, supported by an illustration of the end-to-end supply
chain of the chosen outlet in a diagram
2. Create a process map of the existing service operation from a customer’s perspective, including actions, timings, waits, delays, and decision points. Suggest changes that improve the customer experience and illustrate these with a new process map – ie before and after process maps
3. Making reference to quality attributes, benchmark and assess the current performance of the operation with respect to delivered service quality compared to a specific direct competitor outlet.
4. Using an importance-performance matrix, identify and justify an improvement priority you would recommend to the operation’s service quality provision, explicitly stating scope, target audience and planned outcome of your recommended improvement.
5. Produce a high-level plan, supported by a Gantt chart for a six-month project to implement the improvement you have recommended in Task 4 above. Develop a risk register to show how you would control the risks during implementation of the project.

What is the current industry state? Provide specific details on market size, growth rates, industry drivers , and industry trends. An infographic is required for this portion.

Industry Gaps in Practice

Industry Context. Include research you conducted on the industry presented in your chosen scenario. What is the current industry state? Provide specific details on market size, growth rates, industry drivers , and industry trends. An infographic is required for this portion.

Part 3: Industry Gaps in Practice Analysis. As you construct Part 2, identify industry challenges and gaps in practice. Some gaps in practice have already been provided in the scenarios to provide a starting point. For Part 3, address three gaps in industry practices, prepare an infographic, and include the table provided in the Executive Brief Template, Current State of Practice. From the scenario and your independent research, what is the current state of practice? How does it work today? Identify the library databases you used to support your independent research. Why are these databases appropriate?
Desired State of Practice. Based upon your independent research, what is the targeted or desired state of practice?
Industry Gap in Practice. Specifically define the gap in practice with supporting evidence. What do industry participants need to address? What is causing the gap? What is the disruption?
Strategic Decision to Be Made. Using the categories of strategic decisions, identify and describe the types of decisions that must be made by industry leaders to address the gap, then select one strategic decision based upon two or more alternatives under consideration.

From a practitioner perspective, how do you see the utility, value, and application of strategic decisions relating to gaps in practices? What did you learn from this assignment?

Determine if there were any issues related to research ethics in the study. If so, how were these ethical issues dealt with, or were they ignored?

A successful product should respond to the questions listed below, effectively criticize the paper, and outline the research methods and data analysis employed in the selected paper.

Write a point paper that includes the following:

Determine the aim or main objective of the study.
Was a thorough literature review conducted by the authors?
What method of inference was used to make a conclusion?
State the researcher’s hypothesesor the research questions.
Is this basic or applied research?
Determine if there were any issues related to research ethics in the study. If so, how were these ethical issues dealt with, or were they ignored?
What form of research design was used in the study?
How had the study been conducted?
What were the variables in the study?
What type(s) of data was/were collected?
How was each variable measured or observed?
How was the data analyzed?
Does there appear to be any checks for internal or external validity?
Does the Discussion point out any shortcomings of the study?
Is the Conclusion stated clearly?
Does the Conclusion support or refute a stated hypothesis?

Why were the decisions taken – what factors were taken into consideration before the decisions were taken? For example, were decisions informed by market forces, competitor performance, internal considerations or as a result of lessons learnt from previous rounds? Give examples.

Business Strategy Game

Mission
A mission statement is designed to inform and inspire the company’s stakeholders, primarily employees, the media and general public, about the company’s CURRENT purpose – why the company exists.

For example:
Achieve by Year 13 a market share of  not less than 15%

Evaluate the major strategic decisions made during the six-round BSG simulation. Reflect on one round that stood out, why and key lessons learnt.

What key decisions were made as an organization – how did they relate to corporate strategic objectives? Give examples.
Why were the decisions taken – what factors were taken into consideration before the decisions were taken? For example, were decisions informed by market forces, competitor performance, internal considerations or as a result of lessons learnt from previous rounds? Give examples.
What was the outcome of the decisions – were the organisation’s strategic objectives helped or hindered by the decisions taken? Evidence of outcomes must be included here – e.g. screenshots of results.

Critically evaluate the impact of ONE specific emerging technology on the future of your business and make useful recommendations to future managers.

Discuss the differences between ‘Public’, ‘Private’ and ‘Third Sector’ organisations. How could these ‘differences’ affect the management task?

Intermediate Microeconomics

In weeks 1-4 we explore how the similarities and differences of public and private sectors impact on the role and task of management and finance. Using varied contemporary theories of public management and finance within lectures, discussions, and seminars we will apply these ideas and practices and relate them to both policy and practice within contemporary macro and microenvironments.
Choose ONE of the following four questions:
1. Discuss the differences between ‘Public’, ‘Private’ and ‘Third Sector’ organisations. How
could these ‘differences’ affect the management task?
2. Do you consider that Public and Private sectors have converged since 1979? Justify your position with practical examples.
3. To what extent has creation of markets and competition within the Public Sector provided ‘Value for Money’. Illustrate your answer with practical examples.
4. Identify and discuss the role of performance management within a public sector organisation of your choice in response to the recent COVID-19 pandemic.