Category: Business and Management

I would like the project to be updating paint in two of the older elementary schools and one freshmen center in a school district. Using ProjectLibre.
For this assignment, consider that you are a project manager and are responsible for creating a work breakdown structure (WBS) for the project, based on your experience with similar projects. You may use a personal or work project or even make up one. The purpose of this assignment is to demonstrate that you understand how to lay out the tasks and subtasks and associate timing with each task in the form of a Gantt chart. You want to create a project scenario, including the purpose of the project and the required deliverable(s). Consider an effort that you might have already experienced or is currently in the planning stage. 
An example of a set of top-level tasks for a WBS for a project (The University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing, 2016) where someone plans to move from one apartment to another might look like this:
Plan move
Pre-packing
Packing
Moving
Unpacking
Project Closeout
Each of these is a milestone and has a set of sub-tasks for each. The goal is to move everything from one residence to the new one within a specific period of time. As you continue your readings, consider what your milestones, risks, and deliverables might be. The deliverable for this project would be to have everything moved from one place to another by a specific date. Think of potential risks for which you might need contingency plans. What if the apartment complex has made a mistake and the scheduled two-bedroom apartment is no longer available. Might you need to include this as a risk in your risk management document where you have considered storage facilities for the extra furniture that might not fit? What if the moving company gets held up and doesn’t deliver the furniture on the expected date? What is the alternative to sleeping in the new apartment the first night? What if the movers broke something or lost something? What is the plan to recover or get reimbursed for those items? 
The WBS you create should include a multi-level, hierarchical numbered organization of the top-level, verb-oriented tasks and subtasks with a planned start date and end date. You should have approximately three levels, including the main summary task, subtask, and sub-sub tasks, considering that some charts may have more subtasks levels. You should have all tasks necessary to complete the project. Take into account an estimated duration of time to complete the work considering whatever constraints may influence the completion of the tasks. The chart should show bars for task timing and should indicate how dependencies connect the tasks. This WBS should support an organized way to monitor the work and provide status reporting, communications, and other such project activities. 
Deliverables:
Introduction and explanation of the Project you chose.
Detailed WBS with at least 3 sub-levels and 3 sub-sub levels. Turn in the entire .pod file.
Risk Management Plan.
Use project management software, Project Libre (Links to an external site.) to set up the WBS. Gantt chart generation is automatic (although you can apply various controls for its format). The key is to ensure that you include the type of information and elements that should be included to help make the project a success.
Review of WBS
The project plan is the plan for the project and is focused on the different process groups identified by PMI. If you look back to 3.2 Project plan basic components, you’ll see where all of the pieces and parts of a project are included in a comprehensive plan. For example, the WBS is just a piece of the project plan, usually associated with the milestones and timelines. 
The WBS contains the tasks to be done on the project and is usually prepared in a hierarchical format such as an outline or a table with sections indented. A high-level WBS is usually included as an outline format section in the project plan, and the full WBS is a separate document. As discussed in 4.3 Project Tools, the WBS is usually broken down into packages where a single work package contains between eight to eighty hours of work to complete. Someplace the high-level outline in PMI phases (initiation, planning, execution, control, and closeout). Others place the high-level WBS in a graphical tree structure. Items commonly contained in the high-level WBS can include plans, milestones, and deliverables. The following sample was taken from a WBS template offered by Project Management Docs (2020). This example of a set of hierarchical tasks.
Project Name
1.1.   Initiation
1.1.1. Evaluate and create recommendation(s)
1.1.2. Develop Project Charter
1.1.3. Deliverable: Submit Project Charter
1.1.4. Project Sponsor reviews project charter
1.1.5. Project Charter signed/approved
1.2.   Planning
1.2.1. Create a preliminary scope statement
1.2.2. Determine project team
1.2.3. Conduct project kickoff meeting
1.2.4. Develop project plan
1.2.5. Deliverable: Submit Project Plan
1.2.6. Milestone: Project plan approved
1.3.   Execution
1.3.1. Verify and validate user requirements
1.3.2. Design system
1.3.3. Procure hardware and software
1.3.4. Install development system
1.3.5. Testing phase
1.3.6. Install live system
1.3.7. User training
1.3.8. Go Live
1.4.   Control
1.4.1. Project management
1.4.2. Project status meetings
1.4.3. Risk management
1.4.4. Update project management plan
1.5.   Closeout
1.5.1. Audit procurement
1.5.2. Document lessons learned
1.5.3. Update files and records
1.5.4. Gain formal acceptance
1.5.5. Archive files and documents
Since a WBS is a hierarchical list of the work to be completed on a project, you’ll commonly see the tasks broken up into sections aligning with the five PMI phases: initiation, planning, execution, controlling, and closing. Visual Paradigm (2020) has provided samples of several different kinds of WBS: phase-based, deliverable-based, responsibility-based, and other such organization of tasks to be completed. This is the same way as the example in LO 4 provided the outline view of a phase-based WBS. So, for example, if there are several deliverables, the deliverables would be laid out just as the phases were.
Deliverable WBS
1.1.   Deliverable 1
1.1.1. Part 1 of deliverable
1.1.2 .Part 2 of deliverable
1.1.3. Part 3 of deliverable
1.2.   Deliverable 2
1.2.1. Part 1 of deliverable
1.2.2 .Part 2 of deliverable
1.2.3. Part 3 of deliverable
1.3.   Deliverable 3
1.3.1. Part 1 of deliverable
1.3.2. Part 2 of deliverable
1.3.3. Part 3 of deliverable
A responsibility-based WBS would be separated by project teams and then list the deliverables each team creates.
Project name WBS
1.1.   Project Management Team
1.1.1. Develop project plan
1.1.2. Communicate with stakeholders
1.1.3. Document lessons learned
1.2.   Developer Team
1.2.1. Create a design plan
1.2.2. Create database dictionary
1.2.3. Write code
1.2.4. Move code into the testing environment
1.2.5. Move code into production
1.3.   Testing team
1.3.1. Test code
1.3.2. Get user acceptance
1.3.3. Complete testing report
A resource WBS might be shown as facility, equipment, software, and staffing. You’re probably familiar with an organizational breakdown structure where the top starts with the CEO and moves through the organizational structure by reporting order.
Reference
Visual Paradigm. (2020). What is a work breakdown structure? https://www.visual-paradigm.com/guide/project-management/what-is-work-breakdown-structure/#:~:text=A%20Work%20Breakdown%20Structure%20(WBS,controlling%2C%20monitoring%2C%20and%20reporting.

An empirical study of the Impact of Inbound Marketing on Online Customer Engagement in Retail Stores: A Study in Peshawar, Pakistan  

Research the process of producing an expensive product (assume that it is something that must cost at least $1,000). After learning the steps that must be accomplished to produce such a product, address the following:
What would you expect the layout of a producing facility to look like (in other words, what is the process layout for such an operation)?
What would determine when someone had finished working on one of these products (in other words, how would someone know that it was time to work on producing the next unit)?
How would the efficiency of the production operation that you have envisioned be calculated (your answer should be specific to the type of product you selected, not just a general discussion of efficiency)?
From your research, are there any ways in which the production of the product could be made more efficient than the way that it is normally produced? If so, what recommendations could you make? If not, describe another way in which the product could be made, even if it was inefficient.
Justify your answers using examples and reasoning. Comment on the postings of at least two peers and state whether you agree or disagree with their views.

Assignment Instructions
As a student, it is important to understand the relationship between critical thinking and writing. In this assignment, you will write a 750-1,000-word paper about this relationship, specifically argumentative essays. Include the following in your paper:
A title page
A description of at least two differences between argumentative and informative 
essays
A description of at least two aspects/points that are needed for an essay to be 
considered argumentative (reasoning by analogy should be included in some way 
here)
At least 2 references on a reference page (one being the book and an outside 
scholarly source) and accompanying in-text citations when the references are used
The paper should be formatted in APA style. 
Must be submitted as a Word file.

Assignment
Task : Project Report (please use the Harvard referencing method)
Submit a report (max 5000 words – a sample report on Bitcoin is attached – please consider the word count) with the aim to discuss the linkages between business
operations and the environmental and societal challenges with regards to
sustainability. For this task, you can choose an organisation/industry you
currently work in, or an organisation/industry you are familiar with as a frame
of reference, to answer all questions given below. 
I have
chosen the asset management industry which manages funds, mandates and money
for private and institutional investors like pension schemes. The benefit is of
course that by investing people and pension schemes can secure retirement and
less social security benefits are need (beneficial to governmental budgets and
social schemes).
In addition, asset
managers can invest sustainably and consider ESG factors in their investments (if
this is requested by clients) which ultimately lead in a more sustainable
capital allocation with double materially focused on financial and sustainable
returns. As part of their fiduciary duty, asset manager can furthermore engage
with issuers to influence the respective issuer (listed corporate) to change
their business model and make it more sustainably along the UN SDGs.
Besides
other benefits the finance and in particular the asset management industry has,
as described in the UN SDGs
1.    
The
report should have an Executive Summary (A summary of the entire report in no
more than one page of A4 paper). [10
Marks].
2.    
You
should provide a brief Introduction of the chosen organisation by critically
evaluating the key sustainability issues prevalent in the chosen industry and
demonstrate a critical awareness of the challenges faced in implementing
sustainable initiatives. [15 Marks].
3.    
Critically
analyse the UN Sustainable development goals of ‘Reduced Inequality’,
‘Responsible Consumption and Production’ in relation to the chosen
industry.  Demonstrate a critical and
detailed understanding of the effects of global warming, resource scarcity,
population growth and loss of bio-diversity on your chosen
organisation/industry. [20 Marks].
4.    
Critically
analyse the strategic alignment of the chosen organisation’s business functions
to sustainability and discuss the
implementation of innovative business strategies that will help in addressing
the sustainability challenges in your chosen organisation.  [10
Marks].
5.    
Critically
review the impact of regulations & international codes on sustainability in
the chosen industry.  How can you
influence the management to adopt the regulations and codes in your
organisation? (Discuss your role as the change initiator and agent) [15 Marks].
6.    
Critically
analyse an organisation’s global sustainability with the help of a
sustainability report (last financial year) of your chosen organisation or any
other organisation in your industry, clearly interpreting and evaluating the
numerical and graphical data and discuss your contribution to the impact on
global sustainability. [15 Marks].
7.    
Conclude
the report with your final findings and adequate recommendations to develop
sustainability strategies for your organisations. [10 Marks].
8.    
Kindly
note that you should present the whole report written well in a good format,
and  make good use of the Harvard
Referencing System (HRS).[5 Marks].
(Total-100 Marks)                    

In topic No. 3, it should be calculated through excel and through Solver, where a screenshot with the solution to the problem will also be needed.

Original Post:
You will create an original post in response to one of the available topics for each discussion. 
Instructions: 
Title your post according to your selected topic: 
Product strategy
Distribution
Defending the practice of social media marketing
In at least 600 words, discuss your topic by addressing the following items: 
Explain the concept of the marketing management topic selected for your paper (Your textbook is a good source for this section). 
Examine at least 1 practical application/example for your topic. This must involve the mention of a specific industry or organization, explained in sufficient detail. 
Formulate a question for classmates about your topic that your classmates will respond to. Pose just one question of classmates. This must go at the very end of the document. 
Have a separate heading for each of these 3 sections. Use the headings as highlighted above in bold. 
Use at least two outside sources in addition to the course textbook. These can be scholarly marketing journals (Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, etc.), or practitioner publications (Wall Street Journal, Ad Age, etc.),
Use current APA format. 

This assignment will focus on the Costs of Production. Every firm faces costs of production.  Firms undertake the costs of production in order to produce goods and services.  The hope is that these costs will be less than the revenue they have coming in which will result in profit.  
Compare and contrast the costs associated with the costs of production. Provide examples for each type of cost you identify.  
What does the term marginal cost mean in economics?  Why is it important to understand the term of marginal costs?  Provide examples to support your work.  
Should a company ever produce a good or service if the managers know it will lose money? Why or why not. Provide examples to support your response. Explain as much as necessary to get the point across.
Be sure to submit your assignment as a word document through the online course site.  Be sure to include your research references cited in APA format at the end of your paper. Your write up should be no more than 2 double-spaced pages. (fonts should be 12 points). You must make a well thought out, concise, paper.  Be sure to support your work with specific examples and additional research. 
Your assignment should be approximately 500 words in length (typically, two double-spaced pages), not counting cover page, reference list page, appendices, figures, or tables.
Your assignment should include a title page and a reference list page, and be completed in Times New Roman 12-point font, double-spaced, with appropriate header, page numbers, one-inch margins, and meet all other requirements of APA Stylebook. 
Please cite your additional resources used/referenced in the most current APA format. 
An abstract is not required. 
Please refer to the rubric associated with this assignment for detailed guidance about expectations and grading.  

Learning Outcomes:
LO 1 Explain and deal with the current trends, theories, and
practices of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
LO 2 Develop a sound understanding, describe, and apply the
fundamentals of Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
LO 3 Formulate and organize the capabilities and knowledge
needed to scale entrepreneurial and innovative ventures.
Criteria: 2000 words
Task: Select a case study of an international company
(Amazon) and write a report on the trends, theories, and practices of
innovation and entrepreneurship of the company.
Report structure:
• Company Introduction (Amazon)
• Trends & Practices in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• Identify key capabilities, resources, and knowledge
required to make the process effective.
•Conclusions & Recommendations
By following these guidelines, you’ll be able to provide a
thorough and insightful analysis of the chosen international company (Amazon)
regarding innovation and entrepreneurship topics.

1. how can you open Johari’s (YOUR) window? 
Describe (with details), either in your work life or personal life how you can “TELL” and “ASK” to open the window.
2. Be OK, Good, or Better … 
Finally, read the article below and the reflect on the work and assessments completed the past 7 weeks.  Can you connect this article to the assessments we completed this class?
Reflect on 2-3 of the 9 “good” items that caught your attention.
(Article Attached)
7 assessments completed:
1. 4 tendencies (Gretchin Rubin)
2. Big 5 personality test
3. Conflict Resolution
4. Active Listening
5. Decision Making
6. Emotional Intelligence
7. Open the Window “Johari”