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What does 1Life Healthcare offer to Amazon that it doesn't already have? ▪
1Life Healthcare will allow amazon to gain access to a practice that operates “
more than 180 medical offices 25 U.S. markets and works with more than 8,000 companies to provide health benefits to employees, including with in-person and virtual care. That adds significantly to a smaller service Amazon launched in 2019 and for which it had signed up a limited number of employers in the last year.
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For what reasons is Amazon pursuing growth in the healthcare industry? ▪
Amazon is pursuing growth in the healthcare industry due to its quarterly losses. Amazon is seeking expansion in industries that are less susceptible
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What characteristics of the healthcare industry make it challenging for growth and innovation? ▪
Amazon declined to respond to why they have failed growing in the healthcare industry in the past, what makes it challenging for growth and innovation is being a “new player in the healthcare space with many established relationships.”
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Do you think Amazon will be successful in healthcare? Why or why not? ▪
I believe with the right marketing and intentions, Amazon can be successful in the healthcare industry. I do believe a key to success would
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Q.1) Identify other key resources or capabilities possessed by Next discussed in the
article.
Capabilities:
One of Next’s main capability which Wolfson implemented on Next was to change the existing methodology that was used by Bronek Masojada, with respect to his ideology which he executed was the use of the catalogue, and replace it with modern day technology by introducing ecommerce, which paved way for consumers to purchase goods online, this then gave Next a leverage over other stores as well as avoid the disturbances caused by Covid-19.
With ecommerce next has been capable of generating 500m in sales in overseas
Online store label which started off as an experiment selling sports wear has been making good money around 500m just last year
With the innovation of total platform next has become online host for other well known brands
to help launch their products on ecommerce. Which can bring customers to next website. With covid-19 around the corner next online sales have been all…
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How many of these accounts have a normal debit balance?
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Subject: Strategic Information Systems for Business and Enterprise
Q) HARDA Limited employs 650 workers in ten different departments. These workers work in various capacities, including the manufacturing workers, technician, and janitorial workers. Each department has a supervisor who is responsible for supervising departmental activities. In addition to supervising operations, the supervisors of the departments are responsible for recruiting, hiring, and firing workers within their areas of responsibility. The organization attracts casual labour and experiences a 20 to 30 per cent turnover rate in employees per year.
Employees clock on and off the job each day to record their attendance on time cards. Each department has its clock machine located in an unattended room away from the main production area. Each week, the supervisors gather the time cards, review them for accuracy, and sign and submit them to the payroll department for processing. Besides, the supervisors submit personnel…
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Subject: Procurement & sourcing
Q): How procurement & sourcing planning done in K&Ns?
Q): What is the strategic sourcing in K&Ns?
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Q3- Suppose there is a company that does all the work manually and has a particular system in each department. After spending a period of time, they wanted to automate all the company's functions and operations, and they decided to apply the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system to their organization. Why did they determine to use the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system instead of manually working?
Answer:
Enterprise resource planning is a business suite that enables various organizations to manage the daily activities by integrating the finance, human resource, logistics, marketing, and operations functions as a single system.
Enterprise resource planning systems allows various functions to communicate and exchange the information through compiling into a central database thus allowing all the employees a cross departmental visibility.
The various advantages associated with the usage of ERP include,
Generation of major time and financial savings through providing the…
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Managers of Best Buy had just implemented an e-commerce platform to expand their business in terms of customer base.Best Buy is a clothing retail store that offers value for money on clothing items for the family. Based on this, complete the tasks that follow.
Question 2Discuss ANY FIVE (5) popular payment methods for Best Buy to include in the e-commerce platform.
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Q#3.
A. Please mention what specialization will you choose if you are offered with these three choices as Finance, HRM and Marketing in your final semester/year. If you have to select for a research project in your final semester/year of B.Com, M.Com or MS program, what will you prefer; Primary Research or Secondary Research? Do you have any other option?
B. Keeping in view your reply to Part A of Q#3, explain why you will prefer Primary or Secondary Research (or any other option).
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PLEASE ANSWER ASAP. Q5
SUBJECT: PRODUCTION AND OPERATION MANAGEMENT
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7. A specialty store is
A. A store that carries a narrow products line with a deep assortment
B. Any store that carries standardized merchandise and sold at lower prices with
lower margins and higher volumes
C. A store that sells merchandise bought at less than regular wholesale prices and
sold at less than retail
D. A store that carries several product lines
8. Segmented pricing is
A. Promotional money paid by manufacturers to retailers, in return to agreement to
feature the manufacturer's products in some way
B. Prices that buyers carry in their minds and refers to when they look at given
product
C. Selling a product or service at two or more prices, where the difference in prices
is not based on differences in costs
D. None of the above
9. Which of the following is not one of the steps in the new product development process?
A. Idea generation
B.…
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Subject: Logistic Management
Q#6) What is Porters Power Model explain with example?
Q#7) What is risk management & mitigation explain with example?
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question_answerBusiness·Operations ManagementQ... If you were faced with the proposition that a procurement strategy is irrelevant because market forces will always dictate where the balance of power is at any time, how would you explain that while market ... forces are at work a procurement strategy is essential?
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4.3
Briefly describe the term circular flow
(2)
4.4
Explain the role of the factor market in the circular flow?
Discuss the interaction between household and firms in the
economy (2x2)
4.5
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QUESTION 5:
Study the graph below and answer the questions that follow.
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5.1
Identify the market above
5.2
List any type of notes used by South Africa Reserve Bank
5.3
Briefly describe the term market.
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The determination of lot sizes in an MRP system is a complicated and difficult problem. Lot
sizes are the part quantities issued in the scheduled receipt and planned-order release
sections of an MRP schedule. For parts produced in-house, lot sizes are the production
quantities of batch sizes. For purchased parts, these are the quantities ordered from the
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This question is related to the STP process: Segmentation, targeting and positioning.Q.1 Explain the terms Segmentation, targeting and positioning.
Q 2 Briefly describe the following in relation to Mr Price clothing:• Describe two demographic variables used by Mr Price clothing.• Describe the targeting strategy approach by Mr Price clothing• Describe the positioning method adopted by Mr Price clothing.
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Q2. You are a Middle level manager in a Large Beverage manufacturing firm, which has a nation-
wide network of distribution. Demand has kept increasing for energy drinks but your firm
continues to function in the conventional soft drink arena. Decisions are not made timely about
packaging, price and other promotional matters nor towards addressing the environmental needs.
Therefore financial results are sluggish and market share is decreasing. You have been asked hv
your CEO to deliver your analysis report of the firm's situation and why it's taking place?
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Q.2.3 Explain how distribution requirements planning (DRP) is used.
Q.2.4 An organization produces customized wooden furniture. In your opinion, can the organization utilize the triple bottom line (3BL) to improve its production of wooden furniture? Justify your answer by discussing at least 3 key points.
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Cash Flow Statement for the first Years
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QUESTION 1
How would you describe the relationship between NYSE and NASDAQ?
O A. so different that they are really not in competition with each other
B. trading partners
OC. heated competitors
D. symbiotic
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Dream Team Bed and Breakfast & Concierge Service is a new business that is starting in Jamaica by six individuals. the currency to be used at this business is US dollars.
1. Based on the business above provide the following information for the six founders of the business.
a. A Competitor Analysis - stating Competitor’s market shares, Competitor’s services, and Competitor’s strategies within the same location.
b. Loan and Implementation Plan - Amount requested, Purpose and uses of funds, Repayment schedule, and Timetable for implementing plan and launching the business.
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Title: How Activity Based Costing system helps the industry to improve
performance
1.3
Advantages and disadvantage of activity based costing (300 words)
1.4
Implementation of Activity based costing (300 words)
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QUESTION 3Andrew and Simon are prospective entrepreneurs and are soliciting your advice to start their entrepreneurial venture in a profitable industry. Your task is to choose for them an industry you know very well and do an industry and competitive analysis to determine its profitability and advise them accordingly.
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QUESTION 1The SWOT analysis is a strategic planning tool which allows an entity to analyse its current strategic position and serves as the basis for the formulation of the strategy required to move forward. Consider the SWOT analysis of Boeing as presented in the article above. Using this overview recommend effective strategies for Boeing going forward.
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Part 4 Independent Challenge 2
1. Get ready
Help Sage Realty Services find a solution to a problem. Complete the following
steps.
Figure 4-17 (duplicated below) shows the ideas for how to try the solution of improving customer
service and increasing referrals for six months.
FIGURE 4-17
Survey customers
Sponsor event for home buyers
Send links or DVDs of virtual tours
Update contact management
software
Do in three stages: March 1-15,
May 1-15, and September 1-15
Organize follow-up social events
with recent customers
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In the following space, identify the objectives and tasks for putting the solution into practice, based
on the details shown in Figure 4-17.
In the following table, organize the tasks into an action plan based on the following table:
Sage Realty needs to improve
customer service
Better customer service will
increase referrals (and sales),
xxx
Overall budget is $800
Survey customers ($75 for
online survey, plus $125 for
phone calls) Barbara Norman
can do…
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You have been retained by a start-up that produces software that it sells to businesses across the world, and it does not have a mission as yet. You read somewhere that a mission statement answers some basic questions which are:
• Who are our customers?
• What are our customers’ needs?
• How can we as an organisation help to satisfy these needs?
• What environmental factors need to be taken in account?
• Who are our stakeholders?
Q.4.1 With these questions in mind craft a mission statement for the start-up.
Q.4.2 Describe the evaluation criteria for B2B market segmentation
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