1. One of the causes of project failure occurs when a project does not meet its scheduled deadline. What are some of the causes for schedule delay? How can project team members help maintain a project's schedule?

2. Why is the critical path important to your project schedule and how can your project team members help in this area?

1. Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness
   Overview
   Choose one public corporation in an industry with which you are familiar. Research the company on its own website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR database, the University's online databases, the Nexis Uni database, and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions.
   Requirements
   Write a four- to six-page paper in which you do the following:
   
   • Assess how globalization and technology ch

Project Part 1: Project Proposal

Assignment Requirements:

There are four parts to the final course project. The first part of the project is the initial proposal, which will be submitted to the instructor for approval. The first part of the project will identify the company of choice that will seek an expansion opportunity to an overseas area of choice. Be sure to identify the country and mode of entry. In addition, provide and introduction and overview of selected company along with an initial analysis of the growth opportunity.

Steps to complete Part 1

Introduction:

Provide an introduction and overview of the selected company along with an initial analysis of the growth opportunity.

Identify the following:

 Country of choice

 Mode of entry

Submission Requirements:

Submit a two- to three-page Word document using 12-pt. font and APA format

Instructions

Answer questions 2, 4, and 6 from chapter three of the Kumar text. A successful response will fully answer each question. Please make sure you document your work and provide sufficient explanations on how you got to each answer.

This assignment is worth 50 points. Question 1 is worth 10 points and questions 2 & 3 is 20 points each.

2.  Distinguish between design capacity and system capacity.

4. A manufacturer of TV watches uses three TRS7 electronic chips in each TV watches produced. Demand estimates for the number of TV watches that could be sold next year are shown

Demand   X

20000

40000

50000

P (X)

0.30

0.50

0.20

(a) Assuming the firm decides to produce on an expected value basis, how many

Part 1 Respond to the following:

(Paragraph for each part)

• Can any firm beat Amazon in the marketplace? If not, why not? If so, how can they best do so? How formidable a competitor is Google for Amazon? Please explain. What are Amazon's major strengths? Does it have any weaknesses? Please explain. Is Jet.com a potential concern for Amazon? Why or why not?
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• Given the importance of understanding the external environment, why do some firms fail to do so? Provide examples of firms that did not understand their external environment. What were the implications of the firm's failure to understand that environment?
   
• Part 2: 
• Many companies use their brand as a competitive advantage. Given your knowledge about the global economy, identify three brands you believe have the strongest likelihood of remaining a source of advantage in the 21st century and explain why. Explain the effect

 Individually, students will read 5 journal/research articles that pertain to marketing a service (as opposed to a product). Students will then write a 3-5 page report (excluding cover page, abstract, and references) synthesizing those 5 articles. APA methodology applies to this assignment. 

Company Z provides telephony services to customers. These services include VoIP. You are hired to create a security assessment for company Z for an upcoming audit by the counties authoritative agents to certify company Z compliant to ISO 17799 Standard for The professional Practices for the Business Continuity Planner and ISO 27001/27002. In this security assessment you are asked to conduct a complete

1. network security threat assessment 
2. network security vulnerability assessment 
3. risk assessment 
4. countermeasures and mitigation 
5. the last part of your work will include your personal experiences and what you have learned in this class reflected towards securing your system's network 

You may use web resources as references, however make sure to include all your resour

You want to launch a business internationally, and you need to choose 3 countries1 in the Middle East, 1 in Asia, and 1 in Latin America.

• What are some of the components of these cultures that you need to understand from a business standpoint?
• How are they different in each country? Specifically, what considerations will be necessary to facilitate collaboration across these cultures? Identify supervisory skills appropriate to respond to your considerations.
• Can you have a U.S. management style in these countries? In support of your answer, show how various issues would influence the success of multicultural teamwork.
• How are their economic systems classified? Explain why they are classified as such.
• After studying these countries, explain whether you should or should not move forward with your business plan.