Category: Business and Management

For this discussion, refer to the adaptive leadership toolkit. Effective leaders collaborate with others, as multiple inputs result in better outcomes. In this discussion, you will share the leadership skills and behaviors you have identified and provide some brief rationale for the selection. You will also receive feedback and possibly questions from your peers, which you can evaluate and use to modify the leadership skills and behaviors you have chosen, if desired.   Consider the following during the ongoing discussion:
Do the leadership skills and behaviors identified for improvement align with a specific question in the engagement survey? 
How will improvement in the leadership skills and behaviors you have identified positively impact the results in the next employee engagement survey? 

Instructions
Please write a one (1) page paper on the following topic:
Some presentation topics are interesting.  What techniques could you use to arouse your audiences interest if your topic was not as profound (interesting) to your audience?  How could you get your audience excited about your presentation?
On a separate document, please answer the following. It should be answered in 5-6 sentences: please list three (3) ways how you could build your credibility with your audience?: 

Part 1: Comparison of Excel and Tableau software (900 words)
 Analyse the difference between EXCEL and TABLEAU
 Support your understanding with graphs for EXCEL and data
visualizations for TABLEAU (you can attach the graphs and
visualizations you created in the workshops or your group
presentations)
 Discuss the impact of analytics, and analytics software (like EXCEL
and Tableau) on working life and your future aspirations
Part 2: Qualitative analytics in strategic decision-making processes of
companies (900 words)
 Identify how your company (the one you chose for the group
presentation) collects data from its stakeholders. This can be found in
the company’s annual report.
 Describe how the collected data on stakeholders, informs the
materiality analysis of the company (can be found in the annual or
sustainability report of the company)
 Describe how the materiality analysis is used to inform decisions on
sustainability, and the sustainable strategies of the company.

Instructions is attached
SLO’S
-Understanding customer service management
-The importance of first impressions
-Achieving customer loyalty
-Direct customer contact
-Indirect customer contact
-Internal and external customer
-Improving customer service
-Sustaining a positive customer service environment

Instructions
Unlike the Reflections, for your Security Manager’s
Paper choose a topic that relates to the materials covered during your studies
of the Security Management world. (Please choose any topic of your desire)
Feel free to explore the world of Homeland Security and
write about something that interests you. Be brave and write about something
that others are not going to write about, not just a typical paper on a common
Security Management theme. Explore and enjoy. 
Components of the Security Manager’s Paper
Cover Page
(does not count towards your minimum or maximum page count).
Abstract and
Keywords (does not count towards your minimum or maximum page count).
Introduction,
Body, and Conclusion.
Reference
Page (does not count towards your minimum or maximum page count). 
Technical Requirements:
Your paper
must be at a minimum of 8 pages and a maximum of 10 pages (the Title,
Abstract, and Reference pages do not count towards the minimum limit).
No direct
quotations, paraphrases are acceptable.
Do not
include a methodology section or a literature review.
Scholarly
and credible references should be used. A good rule of thumb is at least 2
scholarly sources per page of content.
Type in
Times New Roman, 12 point and double space. One-inch margins left, right,
top, and bottom.
All
paraphrases require a reference. All references require a paraphrase.
Follow the
current APA Style as the sole citation and reference style used in written
work submitted as part of coursework. 
Points will
be deducted for the use of Wikipedia or encyclopedic-type sources. It is
highly advised to utilize books, peer-reviewed journals, articles,
archived documents, etc.

Please answer PART 3 ONLY the below question. Assignment background will follow. Data set will also be included:
Part 3 – Assignment:
An important part of planning manufacturing capacity is having a good forecast of sales. Elizabeth Burke is interested in forecasting sales of mowers and tractors in each marketing region as well as industry sales to assess future changes in market share.
She also wants to forecast future increases in production costs. Develop forecasting models for these data and prepare a report of your results with appropriate charts and output from Excel.
Assignment Background:
Case Analysis Background
33 The case scenario was based on Gateway Estate Lawn Equipment Co. Case Study, used for the 1997 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Examiner Training course. This material is in the public domain. The database, however, was developed by the author.
PLE, headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, is a privately owned designer and producer of traditional lawn mowers used by homeowners. In the past 10 years, PLE has added another key product, a medium-size diesel power lawn tractor with front and rear power takeoffs, Class I three-point hitches, four-wheel drive, power steering, and full hydraulics. This equipment is built primarily for a niche market consisting of large estates, including golf and country clubs, resorts, private estates, city parks, large commercial complexes, lawn care service providers, private homeowners with five or more acres, and government (federal, state, and local) parks, building complexes, and military bases. PLE provides most of the products to dealerships, which, in turn, sell directly to end users. PLE employs 1,660 people worldwide. About half the workforce is based in St. Louis; the remainder is split among their manufacturing plants.
In the United States, the focus of sales is on the eastern seaboard, California, the Southeast, and the south central states, which have the greatest concentration of customers. Outside the United States, PLE’s sales include a European market, a growing South American market, and developing markets in the Pacific Rim and China. The market is cyclical, but the different products and regions balance some of this, with just less than 30% of total sales in the spring and summer (in the United States), about 25% in the fall, and about 20% in the winter. Annual sales are approximately $180 million.
Both end users and dealers have been established as important customers for PLE. Collection and analysis of end-user data showed that satisfaction with the products depends on high quality, easy attachment/dismount of implements, low maintenance, price value, and service. For dealers, key requirements are high quality, parts and feature availability, rapid restock, discounts, and timeliness of support.
PLE has several key suppliers: Mitsitsiu, Inc., the sole source of all diesel engines; LANTO Axles, Inc., which provides tractor axles; Schorst Fabrication, which provides subassemblies; Cuberillo, Inc, supplier of transmissions; and Specialty Machining, Inc., a supplier of precision machine parts.
To help manage the company, PLE managers have developed a “balanced scorecard” of measures. These data, which are summarized shortly, are stored in the form of a Microsoft Excel workbook (Performance Lawn Equipment) accompanying this book. The database contains various measures captured on a monthly or quarterly basis and used by various managers to evaluate business performance. Data for each of the key measures are stored in a separate worksheet. A summary of these worksheets is given next:
Dealer Satisfaction, measured on a scale of 1–5 (1 = poor, 2 = less than average, 3 = average, 4 = above average, and 5 = excellent). Each year, dealers in each region are surveyed about their overall satisfaction with PLE. The worksheet contains summary data from surveys for the past 5 years.
End-User Satisfaction, measured on the same scale as dealers. Each year, 100 users from each region are surveyed. The worksheet contains summary data for the past 5 years.
2014 Customer Survey, results from a survey for customer ratings of specific attributes of PLE tractors: quality, ease of use, price, and service on the same 1–5 scale. This sheet contains 200 observations of customer ratings.
Complaints, which shows the number of complaints registered by all customers each month in each of PLE’s five regions (North America, South America, Europe, the Pacific, and China).
Mower Unit Sales and Tractor Unit Sales, which provide sales by product by region on a monthly basis. Unit sales for each region are aggregated to obtain world sales figures.
Industry Mower Total Sales and Industry Tractor Total Sales, which list the number of units sold by all producers by region.
Unit Production Costs, which provides monthly accounting estimates of the variable cost per unit for manufacturing tractors and mowers over the past 5 years.
Operating and Interest Expenses, which provides monthly administrative, depreciation, and interest expenses at the corporate level.
On-Time Delivery, which provides the number of deliveries made each month from each of PLE’s major suppliers, number on time, and the percent on time.
Defects After Delivery, which shows the number of defects in supplier-provided material found in all shipments received from suppliers.
Time to Pay Suppliers, which provides measurements in days from the time the invoice is received until payment is sent.
Response Time, which gives samples of the times taken by PLE customer-service personnel to respond to service calls by quarter over the past 2 years.
Employee Satisfaction, which provides data for the past 4 years of internal surveys of employees to determine their overall satisfaction with their jobs, using the same scale used for customers. Employees are surveyed quarterly, and results are stratified by employee category: design and production, managerial, and sales/administrative support.
In addition to these business measures, the PLE database contains worksheets with data from special studies:
Engines, which lists 50 samples of the time required to produce a lawn-mower blade using a new technology.
Transmission Costs, which provides the results of 30 samples each for the current process used to produce tractor transmissions and two proposed new processes.
Blade Weight, which provides samples of mower-blade weights to evaluate the consistency of the production process.
Mower Test, which lists test results of mower functional performance after assembly for 30 samples of 100 units each.
Employee Retention, data from a study of employee duration (length of hire) with PLE. The 40 subjects were identified by reviewing hires from 10 years prior and identifying those who were involved in managerial positions (either hired into management or promoted into management) at some time in this 10-year period.
Shipping Cost, which gives the unit shipping cost for mowers and tractors from existing and proposed plants for a supply-chain-design study.
Fixed Cost, which lists the fixed cost to expand existing plants or build new facilities, also as part of the supply-chain-design study.
Purchasing Survey, which provides data obtained from a third-party survey of purchasing managers of customers of Performance Lawn Care.

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This is a workshop for PARENTS (not for their children) who want to learn about the developmental milestones and the needs of infants and toddlers. It has several specific requirements. Be sure to read the instructions thoroughly. This is a long term assignment and requires research. Please be sure to start early.
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AYour Personal Market is an e-commerce company that wants to celebrate its 10th anniversary since it was launched on the 10th of October. Management is very happy about the evolution of the company and considers this event a chance to reward everyone for their contribution. Due to the fact that it had tremendous growth in the past 5 years, and its employees are distributed around the globe, organizing an online event was considered to be the best solution. That way, everyone would be able to participate, and no costs for accommodation and transportation would be incurred. Submit in assignment in PowerPoint format only (see attached PP File).
View: the following videos prior to starting assignment 
Project Organization Chart Video 1min 46sec
How to Create Org Chart via PowerPoint 3min 11sec  
Required: Identify the roles needed for the project described above. Using the PowerPoint file attached below, develop a project organization chart, including the roles you have defined. You have limited available information regarding this project; therefore, you might consider several assumptions to include. Make sure your assumptions are documented.  

For the project, you are basically to write a marketing plan by finding a BRAND NEW product/service which has never been introduced/sold in the US market.
You can come up with an idea of creating a new product or business if you can’t find anything you like.

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Quality management is essential for companies looking to stay competitive and satisfy their customers by creating a quality-driven culture. By doing so, customers will keep returning, and the company will continue growing. However, everyone must adopt the same mindset toward quality management and work together to achieve the organizational goals.
The concept of quality management is new to your company, and it is looking for someone to help employees learn about this new concept. Based on the knowledge you have gained about quality management, you volunteered to share your knowledge of what you know about quality management.
Read this week’s assigned readings and the article below to help with completing your assignment:
A Study on Implementation of Total Quality Management in Business https://www.ijesit.com/Volume%202/Issue%203/IJESIT201303_61.pdf
Download the Unit 1 Individual Project Template to help complete your assignment.
In a 3–5-page paper, address the following to help with your company concerns:
What is quality management? Include a brief overview of the evolution of quality management.
What are the 2 views of quality? Be sure to discuss the major differences between the two views. Recommend to your company which of the two views it should adopt and why.
Who are the leading contributors to the quality management concept, and what was their contribution?
How can your company implement quality management to remain competitive and satisfy its customers?
Include a minimum of 3 references and corresponding citations in your Individual Project each week.