As a new graduate, you have been hired to help a medium-sized company come into the 21st century.  Products need revamping, people aren’t sharing information, and customers are gradually leaving. The firm has a traditional top-down managed, vertical hierarchy. It is believed that the firm has very good potential to sell its products, but new markets may be needed. Outline an agenda you would work on to research and make suggestions with regard to this chapter’s focus and content.    Thank you!

Select TWO different organizations of your own choice (MUST be a Reputable, Renowned, & Legitimate Organizations). While considering the five basic parts of an organization (Strategic Apex, Techno Structure, Support Staff, Middle Management, & Operating Core) being discussed during lectures, describe the five basic parts of BOTH the organizations. Also, COMPARE and CONTRAST the two organizations in context of the five parts you described and discussed. Try to select the organizations in a same industry so that you can effectively compare the two organizations. To answer effectively, collect concrete information about the organizations and their parts.

UCTIONS: Create a fictitious organization related to the tourism and hospitality industries such as travel agency,This organization should have a NAME and a set of VISION, MISSION, and VALUES. Assume that each 6 members of your group takes a top management position in your organization. As the organization's top management, the group is tasked to come up with strategic goals and objectives. Make sure to align the goals and objectives to your VISION, MISSION, and VALUES. Use the SMART Goals Framework in coming up with your goals and objectives. SPECIFIC, MEASURABLE, ATTAINABLE, RELIABLE AND TIME BOUND. DEFINED EACH SMART OBJECTIVES TO THE GOALS OF THE TRAVEL AGENCY.

a) Uncertainty about the future. (b) Financial management. (c) Monitoring performance. (d) Regulation and compliance. (e) Competencies and recruiting the right talent   explain this 5 challenges with supporting evidence from real life examples/ existing companies/ literatures to support each evidence.   Ps.when explaining this homework, please use the 3rd person tone. thanks for your help

Place yourself in the position of a CEO who is contemplating a reorganization of your company and has received conflicting opinions from two of your trusted reports. Presently you are a wholesaler with 45 regional warehouses who acquires products from manufacturers and distributes them to retailers and service establishments. You have over 100,000 SKUs (stock-keeping units) ranging from ACE bandages to Ziploc bags. You have 825 field-based sales representatives who represent all the products within a geographic area. One of the ideas that have been brought up by the vice president of marketing is to specialize the salesforce into three groups, fashion retail, general retail, and services. Basically, individual sales representatives would be able to specialize with greater expertise and product knowledge to better serve customers. The vice president of sales fears that many of her salespeople will leave due to the expanded geography that this change would require. What process would you…

Our focus on distributed work didn't happen accidentally. It was a conscious choice from the very beginning. Notice I don't use the word "remote," because it sets up the expectation, that some people are essential and some aren't. I use the word "distributed" to describe what we do, where everyone is on an equal playing field. I think a distributed workforce is the most effective way to build a company. The key is you have to approach it consciously. When we started WordPress, many of the first 20 hires were people I'd never met in person. But we'd collaborated online, sometimes for years. I wanted to continue that for one simple reason. I believe that talent and intelligence are equally distributed throughout the world. But opportunity is not. In Silicon Valley, the big tech companies fish from essentially the same small pond or bay. A distributed company can fish from the entire ocean. Instead of hiring someone who grew up in Japan but lives in California, you can gain someone who…

Reaction to discussion below.  Do you agree or disagree? Any additional thoughts? It is important to understand that for a business to succeed, being motivated and hardworking does not guarantee a good positive outcome for the company.  There are other key factors that have to be in place in order to put the company on a path for success.  These factors include effective planning and decision-making with a systematic approach that considers the available information, the goals and objectives of the organization, and the potential outcomes of different decisions.    One of the companies I admire the most today is Apple. I because of how it started and all the changes they had to go through to become the company they are today. Apple is well-known for its innovations in hardware, software, and services. Thanks to them, it grew from some 8,000 employees and $7 billion in revenue in 1997, the year Steve Jobs returned, to 137,000 employees and $260 billion in revenue in 2019. Much less well…

This week's discussion, we were told to select one of the three areas listed below, and discuss how companies can use information systems and the data within them to address that aspect. Conduct some research and provide specific examples including what companies have focused on in these areas and examples of types of information systems used to gather, analyze and distribute data.  Simply typing "use of data to support organizational collaboration" (or whatever aspect you select) into your web browser will produce results but make sure to use relevant and credible sources for this discussion. discuss these various aspects, and how companies use information systems to improve in these areas. Select your topic and insert it in the subject line of your response. If possible, select an original topic that has not yet been discussed, in order to provide a variety of examples. Communication Collaboration Workflow  Student answer: Data collaboration is a powerful tool in analyzing process…

Place yourself in the position of a CEO who is contemplating a reorganization of your company and has received conflicting opinions from two of your trusted reports. Presently you are a wholesaler with 45 regional warehouses who acquires products from manufacturers and distributes them to retailers and service establishments. You have over 100,000 SKUs (stock keeping unit) ranging from ACE bandages to Ziploc bags. You have 825 field-based sales representatives who represent all the products within a geographic area. One of the ideas that has been brought up by thevice president of marketing is to specialize the salesforce into three groups, fashion retail, general retail, and services. Basically, individual sales representatives would be able to specialize with greater expertise and product knowledge to better serve customers. The vice president of sales fears that many of her salespeople will leave due to the expanded geography that this change would require. What process would you…

Listen to CIO Leadership Live with Christine Burns, chief information officer, University of New South Wales by By Byron Connolly , Australia Editor, a. Provide the name of the podcast and a brief summary. (If it is a multi-episode series, you are only required to listen to one episode of the series). b. Why did you choose this specific podcast? c. If you were a Chief Information Officer (CIO), what would be your main takeaways from this episode? 2. Why are clinical, business, and operational acumen more important for healthcare CIOs today than in past years? Provide one outside reference (other than the textbook) to support your answer. 3. With the increase in the use of external service providers (e.g., cloud-based data centers, externally provided applications), what are some of the challenges that CIOs and HIT departments must address in order to successfully leverage these options? What are some of the risks associated with these options?…