Category: Management homework help

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words: 
Why is it important for health care managers to have strong conflict management skills? Provide an example from your professional experience when conflict management skills were used effectively. 

 
Complete the following tasks:
Define liability of foreignness and regionalism. Discuss how it relates to and how it impacts international strategies.
Describe corporate strategic alliance and discuss why a company would want to develop one. Are strategic alliances necessary for a company to expand internationally?
Describe the primary reasons for failure of an international strategic alliance. Identify at least four fundamental issues that affect trust between partners, and explain when an acquisition is more favorable than a strategic alliance.

 
NSTRUCTIONS
The student must then post 2 replies of at least
250 words.
THREADS
For each thread, students must support their assertions with at least 2 scholarly authored citations
in current APA format, with at least one new reference from a Marketing Journal to support the
topic researched. Any sources cited must have been published within the last five years, except
for the Bible.
The exceptions are as follows:
 Discussion: Product Thread must cite, in current APA format, at least four articles,
including the three articles listed in the prompt and a new Journal article on PRODUCT;
 Discussion: Disruptive Marketing Thread must include and cite two of your references
used for the Disruptive Marketing Plan Project.
REPLIES
For all Discussions, each reply must incorporate at least 1 scholarly citation in the current APA
format and 1 Biblical principle/verse (Note: for each reply for the Discussion: Disruptive
Marketing, at least 1 Biblical verse needs to cited, in current APA format, under the Biblical
Integration subject header). Any sources cited must have been published within the last five
years, except for the Bible.
*Note: Scholarly Marketing authored references are an authored source in which a human’s
name is associated with the work.
Additional Expectations
Post-First Feature: This course utilizes the Post-First feature in all Discussions. The Post-First
feature means you will only be able to read and interact with your classmates’ threads after
submitting your thread in response to the provided prompt. For additional information on Post-
First, click here for a tutorial.
If you make a mistake on your discussion posting – repost the entire posting again – do not just
add a reference in another posting – you will not get credit. Do not email your instructor with
corrections to your posting – repost everything again.
 

 
Co-founded by Li and his friend Eric Xu in 2000, Baidu was China’s first home-grown search engine and was created with the mission of providing the best way for people to find information. The company offered a broad range of products and services including search services, Online-to-Offline (O2O) services, and an online video platform. Baidu’s investments in technology along with its focus on local content helped it maintain a dominant position in the rapidly growing search engine market in China. In order to establish a global footprint, Baidu forayed into emerging markets such as Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, Egypt, India, and Thailand where Internet usage continued to climb. As of July 2016, Baidu commanded over 80% of the Chinese search market, and was among the world’s top five search engines in terms of market share.
In May 2016, Baidu planned to overhaul its business model from a search-oriented model to one based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) due to a slowing revenue growth in its core search business. The company planned to focus on developing products in areas such as automatic translation, voice search, and driverless vehicles. Li also planned to emphasize user experience over income and set up a department to root out any behavior that might hurt user experience. 
Li had a tough task on his hands and analysts were waiting to see how he would navigate the challenges faced by Baidu.
The following points are to guide a review and discussion of some important concepts.
 
•    Review Baidu’s general environment segments and elements and describe in detail all the elements associated with this segment.  Include three to four perspectives of the general environment.
•    What are the segments in the general environment that relate to Baidu’s situation?  Be specific.  Provide examples and details.
•    Analyze Baidu’s intended international corporate-level strategy.  How was it strategized and what led to these countries of interest?
•    Identify Baidu’s current challenges. Based on your analysis, what additional recommendations would you make to help Baidu achieve its goals?
•    Discuss the uncertainties and risks of doing business in different regions throughout the world.

 
Introduction
Building on the Strategic Planning and Development assignment from Week 3, prepare a 10-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, with narration, of your plan to present to the executive committee.
In this assignment, use the health care organization you selected in your Week 3 assignment. Determine why you are embarking on this strategic planning process (securing funding, establishing and focusing on organizational priorities, et cetera). In this presentation:
Establish a clear vision for the strategic planning process.
Paint a picture of where your organization will be going and of your desired outcomes.
Ensure the picture is reality;  not just what you or your executive committee may want to have.
Make certain the strategic plan allows employees to know why the organization is changing.
Assignment Format
Your 10-slide PowerPoint presentation should follow this format:
Slide 1: Cover Slide
Include the title of your presentation, your name, the course number and course title, your professor’s name, the university’s name, and the date.
Slide 2: Background/Executive Summary
The title of this slide should be Executive Summary.
Describe the details of the situation.
Use bullets with short phrases.
Slide 3: Thesis Statement
The title of this slide should be Thesis Statement.
Identify the focus of your research.
Slides 4-9: Support
Support your thesis statement following the SESC formula: state, explain, support, and conclude. (Use Sublevel 1 and 2 Headings to provide coherence and organization.)
Provide in-text citations using the format in the Strayer Writing Standards.
Slides should be concise – basically no more than seven bullets per slide and no more than seven words per bullet.
Most information in a PowerPoint presentation should be contained within the notes section.
Slide 10: References
Locate at least three peer-reviewed journal articles to support your work. For example, to identify the clinical quality that does not compare to other hospitals, see the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Hospital CompareLinks to an external site. site.
Use the Strayer Writing Standards format for your references.
Note: Refer to the instructions and PowerPoint resources in the Week 5 Assignment Preparation for support in completing this assignment.
This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The library is your home for SWS assistance, including citations and formatting. Please refer to the Library site for all support. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Assignment Instructions
Your presentation must include all of the elements listed below, so be sure to address each point. You may also want to review the performance-level descriptions for each criterion in the scoring guide to see how your work will be assessed:
Determine why you are embarking on this strategic planning process.
Analyze the differences between strategic management, strategic thinking, strategic planning, and managing strategic momentum.
Justify the analytical tool that will be the most effective in helping the organization achieve its strategic plan; support the proposal with an example of how it will be used.
Examine the three internal and three external factors that you discovered during your research that could be barriers to the success of your proposed strategic plan; discuss solutions to each of the barriers.
Examine the most effective manner of reaching the specific segments of the market that your organization’s strategic plan will target.
Evaluate how well the strategic plan you have developed aligns with the organization’s mission and vision. Recommend at least one solution to track the effectiveness of your strategic plan.
Use at least three quality academic resources.

answer the Ethical Question and include the following:
Include an ethical theory to support your answer
Include vocabulary from the chapter in your answer
Must respond to one student’s discussion post answer to this question
Ethical Question:
How does cultural ethics impact a fortune 500 company’s decision making? (250+ words)

 
This activity is important because, as a strategic leader, you must be able to guide your company toward effective strategic positions of cost leadership, differentiation or a blue ocean strategy.
The goal of this exercise is to illustrate the risks of attempting a blue ocean strategy.
Read the following case on JCPenney and then answer the questions that follow.
JCPenney was once one of the top department stores in the United States, with more than 2,000 locations at its peak. Indeed, the retailer was so common in the suburbs that one could not imagine a shopping mall without a JCPenney. Generations of America’s children were mesmerized by its annual holiday catalog. As recent as 2007, JCPenney had enjoyed a market valuation of $18 billion. In a bit over a decade, JCPenney’s market cap had fallen to a mere $269 million. Thus, the retailer lost 98.5 percent of its valuation or $17.7 billion in a bit over decade. Many observers expect JCPenney to follow Sears—once the leading American retailer—to also file for bankruptcy, which Sears did in 2018. What went wrong?
Of course, all retailers are exposed to the same threat, Amazon, which has become synonymous with online shopping. Although Walmart, Target, and Best Buy all have become more competitive in recent years, JCPenney sped up its own demise with a bad business strategy. In particular, under former CEO Ron Johnson, JCPenney learned the hard way how difficult it is to change a strategic position. When hired as JCPenney’s CEO in 2011, Johnson was hailed as a star executive. Johnson was poached from Apple, where he had created and led Apple’s retail stores since 2000. Apple’s stores are the most successful retail outlets globally in terms of sales per square foot. No other retail outlet, not even luxury jewelers, achieves more. This poaching didn’t come cheap: JCPenney paid Ron Johnson close to $53 million in total compensation in 2011, even though he didn’t start until November of that year.
Once on board with JCPenney, Johnson immediately began to change the company’s strategic position from a cost-leadership to a blue ocean strategy, attempting to combine its traditional cost-leadership position with a differentiation position. In particular, he tried to reposition the department store more toward the high end by providing an improved customer experience and more exclusive merchandise through in-store boutiques. Johnson ordered all clearance racks with steeply discounted merchandise, common in JCPenney stores, to be removed. He also did away with JCPenney’s long-standing practice of mailing discount coupons to its customers. Rather than following industry best practice by testing the more drastic strategic moves in a small number of selected stores, Johnson implemented them in all of the then 1,800 stores at once. When one executive raised the issue of pretesting, Johnson bristled and responded: “We didn’t test at Apple.”1 Under his leadership, JCPenney also got embroiled in a legal battle with Macy’s because of Johnson’s attempt to lure away homemaking maven Martha Stewart and her exclusive merchandise collection.
The envisioned blue ocean strategy failed badly, and JCPenney ended up being stuck in the middle. Within 12 months with Johnson at the helm, JCPenney’s sales dropped by 25 percent. In a hypercompetitive industry such as retailing where every single percent of market share counts, this was a landslide. Things went from bad to worse. In 2013, JCPenney’s stock performed so poorly it was dropped from the S&P 500 index. Less than 18 months into his new job, Johnson was fired. JCPenney had lost over two-thirds of its market valuation (or $6 billion) under Johnson’s leadership. The attempted overhaul of JCPenney under Johnson also left the company burdened with more than $4 billion in debt. Myron Ullman, his predecessor, was brought out of retirement as a temporary replacement.
Under Johnson’s leadership, JCPenney failed at its attempted blue ocean strategy and instead sailed deeper into the red ocean of bloody competition. This highlights the perils of attempting a blue ocean strategy because of the inherent trade-offs in the underlying generic business strategies of cost leadership and differentiation. As a result, JCPenney continues to experience a sustained competitive disadvantage and may go out of business.
To turn around the 120-year-old icon, the board appointed Marvin Ellison as CEO in 2015. With a strong background in operations management and leadership skills honed at The Home Depot, he focused on lowering JCPenney’s cost structure while increasing perceived value offered to its customers. In an attempt to stem losses, in 2017 JCPenney closed some 140 retail stores across the United States out of a total of 1,000 remaining outlets. Marvin Ellison was lured back into the home improvement industry when he was appointed CEO of Lowe’s in 2018.
In October 2018, Jill Soltau was appointed CEO of JCPenney. She was previously the CEO of Jo-Ann Stores, a fabric-and-craft retailer. Her new business strategy is not yet clear, and several top executive positions were still vacant as of spring 2019. Soltau retained McKinsey, a strategy consulting firm, to help with the turnaround. One question she faces is whether to continue selling appliances, which her predecessor brought back in 2016 to take away sales from failing Sears. JCPenney had discontinued sales of appliances in 1983 to focus on apparel, and the majority of JCPenney’s sales still come from apparel, an area the retailer has neglected in recent years, even though JCPenney was once the go-to apparel retailer for American middle-class families. Whether Soltau will successfully sharpen JCPenney’s strategic position and thus make the American icon competitive again remains to be seen.
**JCPenney filed for bankruptcy in May 2020, after the publication of this case.
AFTER READING THE CASE ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:
While all brick-and-mortar retailers face the threat of Amazon and online shopping in general, why did JCPenney perform so poorly while other retailers such as Walmart, Best Buy, or Target fare better?
Ron Johnson was hailed as a star executive at Apple, where he led the company’s highly successful retail arm. As CEO of JCPenney, he applied the “Apple playbook,” for example, moving JCPenney toward the higher end of the market or going with hunches (“we didn’t test at Apple”), rather than applying more traditional decision making. Why did his attempt to change JCPenney’s strategic position from cost-leadership to a blue ocean strategy fail so spectacularly? What are some of the lessons?
You are part of the McKinsey strategy consulting team that the new CEO, Jill Soltau, retained to help turn around JCPenney. What recommendations would you give her? In particular, what type of business strategy would you want JCPenney to pursue, and how would you make the changes necessary? Be specific.

Weeks 3 & 4 – Assignment
One of the tools and techniques used in executing is the acquistion of “Virtual Teams”. We will utilize this tool in the simulation next week.  But as a pre-cursor to next week’s simulation activity, write a 1-page document explaining the importance, value, and positive impact the acquisition of “Virtual Teams” can have on a project team’s resource pool.
Use of proper APA formatting and citations. If supporting evidence from outside resources is used those must be properly cited. A minimum of 7 sources  from scholarly articles or business periodicals is required.
Include your best critical thinking and analysis to arrive at your justification.
Approach the assignment from the perspective of a project management of a company.

Problem Set #3
Attached Files:
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See attached document for instructions

Provide your brief analysis of the ERP systems. Include the following for the next 3 systems:features, scalability, pricing, support services, and specific capabilities related to logistics and supply chain management.
Systems: 
ERP systems: SAP S/4HANA (or SAP Business One) 
Oracle NetSuite
Microsoft Dynamics 365.