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You have recently been appointed as an executive of a company (Apple Inc) with extensive global manufacturing and distribution operations. Your board has asked you to prepare a strategic transportation plan that demonstrates increased customer service with lower total transportation costs. You have decided that the structure of your project will be as follow:
1) Background to the company (Apple Inc)
2) Detailed description of current transportation activities, showing global inbound and outbound transportation networks across different modes of transport.
3) Current costs of transportation and investment in transportation assets
4) Current transportation systems
5) Opportunities for cost reductions / service improvements in inbound / outbound transportation activities. Consider systems upgrades, outsourcing activities, changes in modes, consolidation, route improvements, etc. Use the full range of approaches learnt on this course for achieving your stated transport specific cost reduction / service improvement goals.
6) Table the risks for each of your recommendations and the risk mitigation strategy you would use
Company: Apple Inc (www.apple.com)
Prepare a PowerPoint presentation 10 pages
Due Date: 6th December 2022
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Prompt: This is a continued writing assignment of Company Profile project, complete the Company Profile – Section 4 – Summary & Recommendations.
Section 4. Summary & Recommendations (no more than 5 full content pages, excluding graphs/tables) Recommendations must reflect your industry and organizational analysis. Provide a set of recommendations based on your analysis, especially the SWOT analysis. Your recommendations must address the opportunities, threats, strengths and weaknesses of your analysis. Prioritize the opportunities, threats, strengths, and weaknesses that you identified. Address them in descending order in this section, addressing the most important first and in the greatest detail. Recommendations should capitalize on opportunities and strengths and minimize threats and weaknesses. Provide a justification for each recommendation. In some cases, you may choose not to take advantage of an industry opportunity. If this is the case, defend your decision. Be certain your recommendations are reasonable (that the company could implement them) and make fiscal sense. Discuss how your recommendations should be financed. You may want to give a schedule (time frame) for implementation of your recommendations. You need to provide a summary of SWOT analysis before you give detailed list of the recommendations. Based on the above SWOT analysis, produce reasonable and justifiable recommendations in this section. In your recommendations, comment about the organization’s profit for future competitiveness and success. What does the organization have to do right to succeed (organization’s Critical Success Factors)? What are the expected results in terms of short- and long-term profitability and survival?
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The purpose of this assignment is to conduct research on an organizational change that could be implemented to increase the selected company’s competitive advantage.
Answer these two questions using the ADKAR model.
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Professional sport leagues and player unions negotiate collective bargaining agreements that include the terms and working conditions of players in their respective leagues. Use this week’s resources and your own resources to select a common labor relations issue that has confronted the different professional sport leagues, (MLB). Several common issues include various types of player grievances, alleged player cheating, league handling of off-field domestic violence, player strikes, and owner lockouts. You should not feel restricted to these issues; they are simply suggestions for you to consider.
In your initial post, address the following:
Identify the issue and explain how it was resolved in at least two of the sport leagues listed above.
Compare and contrast the role and effectiveness of the player union in addressing the issue.
Share at least one resource you used to compose your initial post.
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Book Name: Mistakes Were Made ( But Not By Me) by Carol Travis
1 Page on an overall summary of the book. Include the main thesis and your view of how well the author achieved his or her goal
1 page highlighting an interesting point in the text and applying a concept from the Strategic Management text to the reading
12 point font. Times New Roman. Double spaced. Submitted as a Microsoft Word File. DO NOT EXCEED 2 PAGES
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Please respond to the following:
Explain why firms experience evolutionary cycles in which there is a fight between strategy and structure, punctuated with periods in which strategy and structure are reshaped. Provide examples of global firms that have experienced this pattern.
Choose a CEO of a prominent firm that you believe exemplifies the positive aspects of strategic leadership.
What actions does this CEO take that demonstrate effective strategic leadership?
What are the effects of those actions on the firm’s performance?
