Strategic Marketing

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Project Selection & Management Skills

This module covers different approaches to project selection (such as  payback analysis or using a weighted scoring model). Analyze at least  five different ways of project selection. Present the advantages and  disadvantages of each method. Explain how you used a selection approach  to choose your term project.

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10-1 Discussion: Reflection Discussion Topic

In the previous few modules, you learned about the different aspects of innovation such as its dimensions, the five major trajectories for managing innovation, the spaghetti model of innovation and many more. In this discussion, you may choose to discuss some of these concepts or other innovation concepts covered in this course and reflect on the following aspects of your course project: In your initial post you should address the following questions: What was your strategy for choosing incremental or discontinuous innovation in Milestone One? What were your reasons for selecting the processe...

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2 - Managing Budget Variances

The business analyst supporting your sales team has prepared a set of budgets for review (attached below). The data includes the original master budget for the year and the sales figures for the completed quarter with variance amounts. The analyst has also provided the sales plan with mix information (i.e. price and quantity sales budgets along with variances for the quarter). The file also includes promotional metrics showing historical sales volume increases resulting from advertising and loyalty rewards.

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DQ2

Read the case study and respond to the following question: How would you, as an organizational leader, apply and use the stakeholder management approach as a means for planning and implementing collaborative relationships to achieve win-win outcomes among stakeholders?

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General Accounting Principles

Should accounting include more than monetary units? Throughout your textbook additional insights into how companies are attempting to meet the challenge of measuring and reporting their contributions to society, as well as their financial results, to stockholders are referenced. Discuss why a company's stockholders might be interested in its environmental and social performance. Next, determine the critical pieces of information companies are providing and why this information is important from the perspective of the different stakeholders.

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BUS 610 WEEK 1 ASSIGNMENT

Symbols of culture are called artifacts. Artifacts are the most visible and accessible level of culture. These include behaviors, stories, rituals (everyday practices that are repeated frequently), and symbols (e.g., company logos, company colors). For example, the president of a company volunteering at Habitat for Humanity is an artifact of culture. An example of symbols as an artifact of culture is Ashford University’s shield that serves as our logo and is printed on transcripts, diplomas and letterhead paper. Submit a two- to three-page paper (excluding the title and reference pages) descri...

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Market Db

Describe the process you plan to use to conduct research, identify findings, and develop the project that is due in Unit 5. Present a brief outline indicating how you intend to organize the project deliverable.  Review the processes and outlines of other students, providing objective feedback that will help strengthen the effectiveness of their efforts and the quality of the finished product.

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Need discussion done for BUS 308 Statistics for Managers details below

Read Lecture 1 and view The Role of Data & Analytics Today (Links to an external site.) video. React to the material in the lecture and video. What is new? Is there anything you found to be unclear? How could you relate these ideas to issues and problems within your degree area?

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Stakeholder Plan

The deliverable for this element of the project is a table that you may create in Word or Excel. The table should include at minimum 10 project stakeholders using the following headings: Stakeholder Communication Needs Method/Medium Timing/Frequency Further, each stakeholder is labeled in the table using the PMBOK® Guide categories: Unaware Resistant Neutral Supportive Leading Table 4.1: Stakeholder Engagement Matrix Note The PMBOK® Guide, 5th Edition lists the stakeholder engagement states/levels as follows: • Unaware: Stakeholder is unaware of project and potential impacts (by pro...