What online resources would you draw on to conduct secondary research regarding the industry/target market feasibility of your business idea?

Feasibility Analysis

Entrepreneurship: Successfully Launching New Ventures, 6th Edition. Barringer and Ireland. Published by Pearson/Prentice-Hall.
1. Read Chapter Three Notes
2. Chapter Reflection/Summary :
A summary of the main chapter points using your own words and a brief personal reflection of what was personally most interesting or useful to you from the chapter.
3. Answer the Application Question below :
If you were interested in opening a musical instruments store near the University you attend in order to sell guitars, drums, and other types of musical instruments, what online resources would you draw on to conduct secondary research regarding the industry/target market feasibility of your business idea?

How would you go about setting up the focus groups? What are the primary issues on which you would concentrate with the focus groups?

Recognizing Opportunities and Generating Ideas
Textbook: Entrepreneurship: Successfully Launching New Ventures, 6th Edition. Barringer and Ireland. Published by Pearson/Prentice-Hall.
1. Read Chapter Two Notes
2. Chapter Reflection/Summary :
A summary of the main chapter points using your own words and a brief personal reflection of what was personally most interesting or useful to you from the chapter.
3. Answer the Application Question below :
Imagine that you’ve been hired by Fitbit, the wearable activity tracker, to conduct focus groups on your campus to get a better sense of how Fitbit can be as relevant and useful to college students as possible . How would you go about setting up the focus groups? What are the primary issues on which you would concentrate with the focus groups?

Critically evaluate Toggl’s responses to the changes in workplace location. Subsequently, appraise how a leader can align their organization and employees to adapt to these new changes when working remotely.

Use the assessment rubric in page 3/5 in the attached file and follow the assessment format in page 4/5 in the attached file .
Based on the case study “Toggl’s Fully Remote Operating Model ” and appropriate Organizational Behavior theories and concepts, students are required to complete the following task requirements.
1. Critically analyse the influence of Toggl’s philosophy on the employee’s behaviour, culture, and values of the company. Subsequently, evaluate the implementation of this philosophy in enhancing organizational success.
2. Critically evaluate Toggl’s responses to the changes in workplace location. Subsequently, appraise how a leader can align their organization and employees to adapt to these new changes when working remotely.
3. Propose recommendations to enhance Toggl’s employee satisfaction while maintaining an effective employee motivation strategy through the current scenario of COVID-19. In addition, compare the same with your organization .

What was the Berlin Wall and how did it fall?Explain your answer.

Friedman’s first three flatteners coincide with technological advances. However, the fall of the Berlin Wall was a political and legal force as it took place within Germany. It can also be argued as a demographic force, as the pressure came from civil unrest . Windows, Netscape, and workflow all contributed to wiring the world and bringing sociocultural forces together.

The following six forms of collaboration deal with all forces. Outsourcing, offshoring, and supply chaining engage in economic, technological, and sociocultural forces. Political and legal forces may constrain the operations of organizations .

Uploading and informing involve technological forces and are subject to people from various demographic backgrounds.

Insourcing is made possible through technological forces, as UPS makes it possible for companies never to touch their products. The last flattener, steroids, also represent technological forces.

References

IWM. What was the Berlin Wall and how did it fall? https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/what-was-the-berlin-wall-and-how-did-it-fall

Jones, G. R., & George, J. M.  Essentials of contemporary management. McGraw Hill.

UChannel. The world is flat [Video]. YouTube.

Write a conclusion of approximately 250 words wrapping up the main take-a-ways from your proposal.

Would This Company Benefit From Expansion

Use the attached file to finalize the proposal project that we have been working on for the last 7 weeks.

Write a conclusion of approximately 250 words wrapping up the main take-a-ways from your proposal. You want to leave a lasting impression as to why this is a great idea and how it will contribute to the company’s “bottom line” and shareholder wealth!

Prepare a slide deck containing your analysis and recommendations that could be presented to the organization’s Board.

Select an organization you are familiar with or have worked for . You are tasked with analyzing the organization both internally and externally using some of the tools and frameworks you have learned in this course. You are also tasked with recommending changes to the organization’s strategy and structure, in addition to considering associated ethical implications.

This assignment requires you to apply SWOT analysis, PESTEL analysis, Porter’s Five Forces of Industry Analysis, Porter’s Generic Strategies, and organization design concepts related to strategy-structure fit.

Prepare a slide deck containing your analysis and recommendations that could be presented to the organization’s Board.

Compare and contrast the life cycle impacts of your two products/services. What are the environmental ‘hotspots’?

Contemporary Challenges

Note. this is a reassessment for me, in my first assessment selected coca-cola and Pepsi, kindly choose different products/services. thanks

Questions

1. Select two similar products/services. Justify your choice on sustainability grounds. For this re-assessment, you cannot choose the same products/services you examined in your first attempt.
2. Compare and contrast the life cycle impacts of your two products/services. What are the environmental ‘hotspots’?
3. Focus on one of the two products/services. Analyse how innovation can improve sustainability performance of the product/service, and discuss which actor(s) can best drive innovation?