Business and Management

Your company who is a clothing manufacturer is moving their operations to one of the emerging BRIC nation. Choose one of the nation and critically analysis on the
– RISKS and CHALLENGES of doing business in emerging markets and that particular country.
– Provide recommendations on the broad strategies
– Factors that needs to be taken into consideration when doing business in emerging markets.

* A min of 15 references  (Harvard Style)

Report Format

1. Executive Summary

2. Issues (What are the issues and problems/Benefits and Cost)

• Commercial Risks & Challenges
• Currency (Financial) Risks & Challenges
• Country Risks & Challenges
• Cross-Cultural Risks   & Challenges      

3. Justification of the chosen country (Why are we choosing this country?)

• Rational and Reasons

4. Recommendations (what we are going to do)

• Appropriateness of strategy
• Is it a practical strategy
• Advantages and disadvantages of each recommendations identified.
• Rational/reasons of recommendation (why are doing this)

5. Factors to be taken into consideration

• Rational and Reasons

6. Conclusion (2 or 3 sentences)

7. References (Min 15 in Harvard Referencing)

11 Pages

Harvard – 15 References

BP5:1-2

Please be sure to read and answer each numbered question with 3 – 4 sentences.

Research on the Internet one company that has implemented one integration strategy and another company that has implemented one intensive strategy.

1. Explicate how the first company you researched was either helped or harmed by the integration strategy it chose. Recommend at least one way this strategy could have been improved.
2. Justify how the first company you researched could benefit from the vertical integration strategies it has not implemented. Include at least one advantage and one disadvantage of each strategy.
3. Explicate how the company you researched was either helped or harmed by the intensive strategy it chose. Identify at least one way this strategy could have been improved.
4. Describe in detail how the second company you researched could benefit from the intensive strategies it has not implemented. Include at least one advantage and one disadvantages of each strategy.

PM5:1

Please use the following instructions from #1 & 2 to complete the 2 bulleted questions.

1. Go to Penn State’s College of Earth and Mineral Sciences’ Website, located at https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog584/l5_p3.html. Read “The Work Breakdown Structure.” Be prepared to discuss.

2. Next, using the Work Breakdown Structure provided in the Sample Project and MS Project or Excel software, populate the seven (7) major areas and sub tasks, and then develop a WBS.

• From the Penn State’s College of Earth and Mineral Sciences’ Website, examine the process of subdivision of activities and events that compose the tree diagram known as the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) or Gozinto chart. Next, explain the reason(s) why at levels 4-6 of the WBS, as discussed in the Kerzner text, templates may not be appropriate. Provide a rationale for your response.
• Prepare an argument for or against the functional manager’s role in establishing the first three (3) levels of the WBS. Support your position with a real-world example.

2 Pages

 

Assignment 2: Project Motorcycles
Write a paper in which you:

You are a project manager for a medium-sized manufacturer of motorcycle cruisers. The engines in motorcycle cruisers, like the ones you manufacture, are usually categorized by size rather than the number of cylinders. In the past, your company has successfully manufactured and marketed the best-selling of these fuel-efficient cruisers that occupy the middleweight class. The rather nebulous middleweight class comprises motorcycles broadly ranging in engine size from 500 cubic centimeters, or cc, to 1000 cc.
Executives at your company are now interested in motorcycles with larger motors and would eventually like to produce motorcycles in the touring class, specifically designed to excel at covering long distances with motors larger than 1100 cc. The proposed target market for these larger motorcycles consists of males between the ages of 35 and 60 in global markets. Price points for the larger motorcycles cover income ranges from $55,000 to $100,000. Management has decided that your company will meet the objectives stated herein within the next five (5) years. During the proposed changeover, the company will continue to manufacture the middleweight cruisers to serve its existing clientele.

Please follow the following instructions:

1. Select one (1) of the types of project organization that would suit the development of the larger touring class motorcycles. Outline the process steps that your company would take in order to develop the motorcycle. Provide a rationale for the response.
2. Recommend one (1) strategy to the senior executives that the organization might use to balance short- and long-term needs. Specify the crucial resources that you would need as a project manager to run the existing business interests at the same time that the business changes to the production of touring class motorcycles.
3. Suggest the project management leadership style that is most conducive to overseeing the operation of the business growth plan.
4. Recommend at least three (3) risk mitigation strategies to address project plan details that might be forgotten or overlooked. Justify the selection.
5. Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.
6. Design an organizational structure, staff a project office, and establish a communications system to effectively manage projects.
7. Analyze the role of executive management in the life of a project.
8. Apply the project manager’s critical skills, in terms of project leadership, team building, time management, conflict management, and effective communication with executive sponsors, peers, team members, and project clients.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format.
• Cover and reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

7 Pages

APA – 6 References