What competitive advantages does Amazon. com bring to each businesses?What completive advantages does Amazon.com bring to each of these businesses?
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I have attached my resume with this email. I was hoping if you could compose me an admission essay. One of the requirements for the essay is to describe your career objectives and how the MSBA program will help you meet those objectives.Basically one of the main reason I want to get in this field is because the market has an increasing need for professionals with data management knowledge, analytical capability and problem solving skills. Also, working at prudential with large sets of data on day to day basis played a huge part in choosing this as my career path. (You can BS on some of it, it doesn’t have to be 100% accurate 😉
“There will be a shortage of talent necessary for organizations to take advantage of big data. By 2018, the United States alone could face a shortage of 140,000 to 190,000 people with deep analytical skills as well as 1.5 million managers and analysts with the know-how to use the analysis of big data to make effective decisions.
– McKinsey Global Institute” I have also attached my resume for the references.
EDUCATION: New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, NJ Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering May 2013 Minor: Applied Statistics GPA: 3.603/4.0 WORK EXPERIENCE: Prudential Financial – Annuities Newark, NJ Technical Systems Analyst July 2013 – Present Gathered and analyzed business requirements from users and business community. Generated various List Reports, Grouped Reports, Cross tab Reports, Chart Reports, Drill-Down and Drill-Through Reports in Report Studio using Cognos 10.2.1 Utilized some advanced features like Conditional Formatting, Parameters and Prompt Pages in Report Studio in generating multipage Reports. Provided training to various business partners to develop reports in Query Studio and Workspace advanced. Performed reports testing using Life Cycle Manager towards migration from Cognos 8.4 to Cognos 10.2.1 Involved in the Design discussions of the Mappings for data loading using Informatica. Managed day to day operations of offshore team in regards to query requests from business partners. Implemented SSIS with SQL Server stored procedures for data manipulations. Designed and developed SSIS packages, store procedures, configuration files, tables, views, and functions; implemented best practices to maintain optimal performance. Created dashboard to demonstrate accomplishments achieved throughout a year in a single view. Performed role of technical design lead for various projects which involved assisting developers to design Framework Model and create advanced reporting. Prudential Financial –Annuities Newark, NJ Annuities Information Technology Intern June 2012 – June 2013 Analyzed a large sampling of requests in order to determine what data is being requested by the annuities business groups. Generated UNIX scripts to read the Progress query files and attain input/output data points. Manually analyzed the files to determine input/output data points. Designed table…
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31) Compared to mail surveys, e-mail surveys offer time and cost advantages, especially in large surveys.
32) Promised incentives are incentives that are included with the survey or questionnaire.
33) A prepaid incentive is sent to only those respondents who complete the survey.
34) The recording of behavioral patterns of people, objects, and events in a systematic manner to obtain information about the phenomenon of interest is called observation.
35) Personal observation is an observational research strategy in which human observers record the phenomenon being observed as it occurs.
36) An observational research strategy in which mechanical devices, rather than human observers, record the phenomenon being observed is called mechanical observation.
37) Many social media sites today present an excellent platform for allowing researchers the widespread ability to disseminate questionnaires.
38) The collection of survey data through social media sites can be automated, but does not allow the researcher to customize reach to various segments of consumers.
39) A limitation is that online surveys conducted through social media platforms do not encourage committed and credible feedback.
40) Analysis of the comments, photos, videos, audio, and other stimuli posted voluntarily by consumers on their social media sites are traces of their behaviors. An analysis of these constitutes a form of observation known as trace analysis.
41) Participant blogs and online research communities may be considered to be examples of e-ethnography or netnography.
42) Sugging is fund-raising under the guise of research.
In Assessment 2, you designed the LANs and IP addressing schemes for the network. In this
assessment, you will accomplish the other tasks which will make this complete network work.
In this assessment, your primary tasks are:
1) Designing/Selecting a WAN connection to provide fast, reliable but inexpensive Internet
access.
2) Setting up routing such that all LANs can communicate with each other and have Internet
access.
3) Select and design the model for the application(s) required to fulfill the requirements
explicitly stated in the case study.
4) Rectify any issues that your new design causes with your design in Assessment 2. The
complete network should work in cohesion.
5) Draw the logical topology of the complete network with IP addresses and interfaces labeled.
Of course, all these designs should follow the requirements and principles laid out in the case
study. Let us look at each task in a little more detail:
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Undertake a literature review on a theoretical concept/construct of dining consumption in a restaurant context
that has real world management implications (e.g., customer satisfaction, behavioural intention, customer
perception of authenticity, motivation, dining experience etc.). Research the field to find four academic articles
(the first article to propose the theory) relating to the concept (published any time); and three other more recent
articles (2013 onwards) one of which must apply a quantitative research design, the second, a qualitative design
and the third, a mixed method (qualitative and quantitative) design.
Please note that all articles must be full papers (e.g., not research notes, book reviews) sourced from refereed
academic journals. Please review them and write an 1,000 word structured abstract, which draws upon all the
articles you have reviewed, using the following headings:
• Brief summary of the theory and progression in the field (i.e., how has the theory developed since
first proposed?)
• Common themes/findings across the four articles.
• Different themes/findings across the four articles.
• Study limitations and how these differ across the various study designs (quantitative, qualitative).
• Future research directions proposed in the articles.
Assessment Details Assessment 1: Individual Assessment Articles Collection & Structured Abstract 30% Due: Friday Week 6, 11.30 pm Undertake a literature review on a theoretical concept/construct of dining consumption in a restaurant context that has real world management implications (e.g., customer satisfaction, behavioural intention, customer perception of authenticity, motivation, dining experience etc.). Research the field to find four academic articles (the first article to propose the theory) relating to the concept (published any time); and three other more recent articles (2013 onwards) one of which must apply a quantitative research design, the second, a qualitative design and the third, a mixed method (qualitative and quantitative) design. Please note that all articles must be full papers (e.g., not research notes, book reviews) sourced from refereed academic journals. Please review them and write an 1,000 word structured abstract, which draws upon all the articles you have reviewed, using the following headings: • Brief summary of the theory and progression in the field (i.e., how has the theory developed since first proposed?) • Common themes/findings across the four articles. • Different themes/findings across the four articles. • Study limitations and how these differ across the various study designs (quantitative, qualitative). • Future research directions proposed in the articles. The assessment criteria can be found on page 9 (and on VU Collaborate). Submit the following documents (in separate files) onto the Assessment Dropbox through VU Collaborate by Friday Week 6, 11.30 pm: – Assignment cover sheet; – List of reviewed articles (see page 8); – Reviewed articles; and – Structured abstract. All hard copies are to be submitted to your lecturer. Name of unit study guide Page | 7Assessment 1 – Article Collection & Structured Abstract (30%) Name:…
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BYP7-1 Current Designs faces a number of important decisions that require incremental analysis. Consider each of the following situations independently.
Recently, Mike Cichanowski, owner and CEO of Current Designs, received a phone call from the president of a brewing company. He was calling to inquire about the possibility of Current Designs producing “floating coolers” for a promotion his company was planning. These coolers resemble a kayak but are about one-third the size. They are used to float food and beverages while paddling down the river on a weekend leisure trip. The company would be interested in purchasing 100 coolers for the upcoming summer. It is willing to pay $250 per cooler. The brewing company would pick up the coolers upon completion of the order.
Mike met with Diane Buswell, controller, to identify how much it would cost Current Designs to produce the coolers. After careful analysis, the following costs were identified.
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Direct materials |
$80/unit |
Variable overhead |
$20/unit |
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Direct labor |
$60/unit |
Fixed overhead |
$1,000 |
Current Designs would be able to modify an existing mold to produce the coolers. The cost of these modifications would be approximately $2,000.
Instructions
(a) Prepare an incremental analysis to determine whether Current Designs should accept this special order to produce the coolers.
(b) Discuss additional factors that Mike and Diane should consider if Current Designs is currently operating at full capacity.
Current Designs is always working to identify ways to increase efficiency while becoming more environmentally conscious. During a recent brainstorming session, one employee suggested to Diane Buswell, controller, that the company should consider replacing the current rotomold oven as a way to realize savings from reduced energy consumption. The oven operates on natural gas, using 17,000 therms of natural gas for an entire year. A new, energy-efficient rotomold oven would operate on 15,000 therms of natural gas for an entire year. After seeking out price quotes from a few suppliers, Diane determined that it would cost approximately $250,000 to purchase a new,
energy-efficient rotomold oven. She determines that the expected useful life of the new oven would be 10 years, and it would have no salvage value at the end of its useful life. Current Designs would be able to sell the current oven for $10,000.
Instructions
(a) Prepare an incremental analysis to determine if Current Designs should purchase the new roto- mold oven, assuming that the average price for natural gas over the next 10 years will be $0.65 per therm.
(b) Diane is concerned that natural gas prices might increase at a faster rate over the next 10 years. If the company projects that the average natural gas price of the next 10 years could be as high as $0.85 per therm, discuss how that might change your conclusion in (a).
Situation 3
One of Current Designs’ competitive advantages is found in the ingenuity of its owner and CEO, Mike Cichanowski. His involvement in the design of kayak molds and production techniques has led to Current Designs being recognized as an industry leader in the design and production of kay- aks. This ingenuity was evident in an improved design of one of the most important components of a kayak, the seat. The “Revolution Seating System” is a one-of-a-kind, rotating axis seat that gives unmatched, full-contact, under-leg support. It is quickly adjustable with a lever-lock system that allows for a customizable seat position that maximizes comfort for the rider.
Having just designed the “Revolution Seating System,” Current Designs must now decide whether to produce the seats internally or buy them from an outside supplier. The costs for Current Designs to produce the seats are as follows.
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Direct materials |
$20/unit |
Direct labor |
$15/unit |
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Variable overhead |
$12/unit |
Fixed overhead |
$20,000 |
Current Designs will need to produce 3,000 seats this year; 25% of the fixed overhead will be avoided if the seats are purchased from an outside vendor. After soliciting prices from outside suppliers, the company determined that it will cost $50 to purchase a seat from an outside vendor.
Instructions
(a) Prepare an incremental analysis showing whether Current Designs should make or buy the “Revolution Seating System.”
(b) Would your answer in (a) change if the productive capacity released by not making the seats could be used to produce income of $20,000?
Worker’s Compensation Law
1 Summarize the worker’s compensation laws in the state of
Illinois (include key points)
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