BTEC National Subsidiary Certificate/Extended Diploma in Business UNIT 1: The Business Environment Assignment Date issued: week beginning 16th September 2013 Date for final submission: end of week beginning 20th January 2014 Introduction You will already be familiar with organisations through having dealt with them as customers or employees. One of the aims of this unit is to help you to build on these experiences and learn to ‘walk in the shoes’ of owners
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The Integration of Business and IS Systems Amazon.com – a case study Blaithin McLoughlin DL243 27th October 2007 Amazon’s Mission “Our vision is to be earth ’s most customer centric company; to build a place where people can come to find and discover anything they might want to buy online.” Amazon.com’s quest to become earth’s most customer centric company is largely driven by its use of technology. In fact‚ its continuous innovations are all driven by huge investments
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Stateside Sports Limited The following information relates to the fictional company ‘Stateside Sports Limited’. Any similarities to actual situations or companies is purely coincidental. Information: Stateside Sports Limited is a business which buys in clothing and merchandise for major sports teams in North America and sells them to consumers through their own chain of shops in the UK and also to other sports shops for them to sell on. They have about 25 shops throughout the UK which sell
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These are the key resons why the Google Business Model won: 1.- Google had - and still has - a simple‚ clean‚ clear‚ minimalistic user interface. no frills‚ just the logo and the search box - easy and fast to load. And this was a key feature with the slow internet connections of the early years 1999 -2001 - while Yahoo and most of the other search engines were more like generalistic portals‚ full of confusion‚ full of useless features and useless links‚ full of annoying banner ads‚ heavy and slow
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The Value Chain All of the functions of a company—such as production‚ marketing‚ product development‚ service‚ information systems‚ materials management‚ and human resources—have a role in lowering the cost structure and increasing the perceived value of products through differentiation. As the first step in examining this concept‚ consider the value chain‚ which is illustrated in Figure 3.5.11 The term value chain refers to the idea that a company is a chain of activities that transforms inputs
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After review‚ write a 2 to 3 page response to the following question: 1.What is the most important problem facing the Wallace Group? 2.What recommendation(s) would you make to Mr. Wallace‚ and in what order of priorities? 3.How do you educate a manager to manage an organization as it evolves over time from an enterpreneurial structure to a more sophisticated and complex organizational structure? 1. What is the most important problem facing the Wallace Group? There a several problems that the Wallace
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competitor company. Business Model Spectrics founded in 1915 is a leading organization which is providing a superior and specific instrumentation and control which enables their customers to enhance their product quality and performances from the beginning of the manufacturing process. It reduce the down time and wastage and reduce the time to market. Spectrics comprises four strategic segments which reflect the end user industries and application. They serve material analysis‚ test and measurement
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Autosystems: The Business Value of a Successful IT System for a Small Manufacturer. Foundations of Information Systems in Business Walden University Abstract This paper explores the real intern state of Autosystems‚ a manufacturing company‚ who included the design process into the company over time‚ which went through a transformation and is now looking for a future state of improvements and the usage of new software. The paper is based on the article which describes the company´s changes
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of information systems in Supply Chain Management Introduction The purpose of this essay is to explore and evaluate the various approaches that can be taken to facilitate the management of supply chains. Supply Chain Management - A terminological background The Institute for Supply Chain Management has defined supply management as "the identification‚ acquisition‚ access‚ positioning and management of resources an organisation needs or potentially needs in the attainment of its strategic objectives
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MKT 108 Advertising Worksheet #2 (chapter 7) 1. Focus groups are one of the advertising researcher’s most versatile tools. Describe the basic features of focus group research that could lead to inappropriate generalizations about the preferences of the target audience. It is inappropriate for gathering quantitative data because the six to twelve chosen respondents in the focus group may or may not represent the population from which they are
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