Student’s Name: Professor Name: Course Name: Department: Date: Management A direct approach is a strategy where a business offers products or services directly to foreign customers with no need for the assistance of a partner in a foreign country. In contrast, an indirect approach involves brokers, distributors, agents, or any other intermediator who facilitate the marketing and sales. In this case, one doesn’t connect to the customer directly, e.g. causing services through a partner, and he gets his cut before giving the owner. Any business to have a strong foundation and a future should have a business plan. The reason for a business plan is to help with finding funds for business growth. It’s mainly to help manage an already rapidly growing business and to convey the mission and prospects of the business customers, suppliers, or interested parties. Business plan help with future prediction. Having a plan that is logically and systematically thought of attempts to show what might happen in the future when a particular scenario occurs. It checks on research, sales forecast, market trends, and competitive analysis to…

STEEPLE Analysis Introduction A STEEPLE analysis is a management procedure utilized to gauge an enterprise’s external factors and how these factors affect a business – its growth and overall performance. STEEPLE is an acronym for Social, Technological, Economic, Environmental, Political, Legal, and Ethical; these are the external factors that affect a business’s growth (Weber, 2009 n.d).  In this writing piece, I intend to center-focus on three key factors of my choosing: Political, Economic, and Technological. I will analyze these factors individually and determine how they impact an organization; determine how an enterprise is shaped and developed in response to these particular factors. My selected organization is the Newcastle University of the UK. Analysis and Discussion Political Under the political subtopic, I would like to narrow down to educational institutions’ public funding, more so institutions that provide tertiary education for universities and Colleges. In the UK, most higher education institutions receive public funding designated for educational resources (Bush, 2020, n.d). The government partially subsidizes education, especially for disadvantaged students who cannot afford to pay. However, the UK government is cutting back…

Use of Graphics https://businessteacher.org/reports/apple-inc-company-report.php Apple Inc. uses data representation graphics to explain its mission and analyze its strengths and weaknesses. The company uses a flow chart to describe its mission by showing hardware, software, services, and application software that it produces. The flow chart shows how the company has achieved its mission by changing the enterprise landscape. The flow also chart shows how Apple has maintained a balance in offering quality products and services. Furthermore, the report consists of pie charts, line graphs, and bar graphs that show Apple’s strengths and weaknesses. The graphics used in Apple’s report makes statistics easier to understand. For example, one can determine how to company meets each segment market’s needs and expectations by ensuring a balance. The flow chart consists of a pie chart that is equally divided into four parts to portray the company’s balance in delivering quality products in each segmented market. The line graph makes statistics easier to understand, as it shows each product’s sales over the past ten years. In this case, the line graph uses different colors to represent…

Another transformational leadership characteristics that could have influenced an optimistic scenario is adaptability. This is because leaders should know it is essential to continually adapt to the changing business working conditions to move forward. Therefore, they should be willing to assimilate new situations and look for creative ideas to react to the dynamic business environment (Ghasabeh, Soosay, and Reaiche, 2015). The same should be echoed to the employees to assist the entire organization in moving forward uniformly. This description can be depicted when the staff member suggests using the date of birth and last name instead of first and last name. Additionally, this was to create a new protocol to protect clients’ information, showing how the staff takes HIPPA very seriously. It also shows that the organization’s adaptability is flexible, ensuring smooth transitions or employment of new entities. With reference to the second post, it is evident that entertaining new ideas is another transformational leadership characteristics. Transformation is hard to achieve if the leader is open to new ideas. They understand that success is dependent on the team effort and…

  CSR as a Competitive Strategy In the present business world, businesses are investing more in maintaining a healthy relationship among all the stakeholders. An example of such efforts is through the increasing embracement of corporate social responsibility (CSR). CSR refers to the efforts and commitment by a company to act ethically and make sure that all the efforts are geared towards economic development and improving the workforce’s quality of life (Hongdiyanto, 2016).  Starbucks company is known as a global coffee company with stores distributed across more than 60 states. A working CSR strategy has allowed the company to navigate through uncertain economic times by offering it a necessary competitive advantage over other industry companies. Since the foundation of Starbucks in 1971, the company has always conducted business ethically and believes in the right means justifying the ends.  A solid process of business ethics and compliance supports Starbucks’ mission by helping protect the core values and the reputation of the company. One strategy tailored to uphold social responsibility is employees’ empowerment to partnership status (Enquist & Haglund, 2011). Starbucks invests…

Businesses are actively involved in the success of today’s world. Corporate social responsibility and sustainability strategies enable businesses to develop a connection with society. Philanthropy among businesses is the standard norm. Philanthropy enables businesses to solve some of the societal burning issues. For instance, philanthropy from businesses has enabled many girls to access sanitary pads. Often, businesses’ philanthropy activities provide educational opportunities to disadvantaged students. Human capital development is the primary source of society’s growth and development. As such, philanthropy as corporate social responsibility enables businesses to be actively involved in human capital growth. Climate change is a primary concern in modern society. Industrialization is threatening humanity’s existence. At the moment, businesses need to be involved in climate conservation. The long-term survival of numerous businesses depends on climate change. As such, businesses are heavily investing in preserving natural resources. Such a sustainability strategy coupled with a continuous effort to reduce environmental pollutions is essential to prevent further climate change. Noteworthy, businesses’ corporate social responsibility towards climate change involves heavily investing in climate research. Electric vehicles are a result of innovation…

  Staged Financing Businesses require funding at various stages. It is significant for a business to be well funded to ensure its sustainability in the ventured industry. Business ideas meant for research purposes are usually funded at the seed financing stage. Funding involved in the transformation of the ideas into operations of a company is funded at startup financing. For the businesses at the stage of revenue generation, the funding is early-stage funding. Replacement funding occurs when the business has expanded and seeks to diversify investment. Finally, vulture financing is a business saving funding in a company facing failure (Senalasari et al., 2019, p.7589-90 ). All these stages involve high risk as the person/people involved in the funding are not sure of the outcome. Investors Investors provide their input with the expectation of returns. However, there is risk in the investment as there is no sure way of predicting what might happen to a business in a given amount of time. The application of both non-contractual and contractual means of mitigation concerning agency risks vary across states (Bellavitis et al.,…

  CAUNTI Outcome Measures  Issues  Opportunities Organizational Functions, Processes, and Behaviours at St. Francis Medical Center Healthcare organizations are constantly under scrutinizing the public, the government, the accrediting bodies, the patients, and patients’ families, among other stakeholders. Advancement in government policies and technology applications in medical settings has empowered patients giving him/her access to vast databases, including customer satisfaction scores, quality scores, and prevalence of harm. Healthcare organizations must demonstrate high-reliability behaviors to ensure they remain competitive in the ever-changing healthcare environment. There are numerous ways that healthcare organizations could demonstrate behaviors associated with high reliability, including continuous assessment and prevention of failure through continuous quality improvement models and remaining sensitive to frontline operational feedback (Veazie et al., 2020). St. Francis Medical Center is accredited by DNV-GL, and through their partnership, the organization has built a highly reliable model and customer confidence. The organization uses this accreditation model to drive organizational excellence and performance improvement. The organization’s high reliability has been developed using ISO 9001: 2015, which includes a need to constantly demonstrate our ability to constantly provide services that…

The anomaly-based intrusion detection system The anomaly-based intrusion detection system is a system whereby their infrastructure will be trained with data that establishes how the system would look like when normal so that if intrusion does happen, then the system automatically detect the attack as abnormal. This method depends on some form of Artificial Intelligence to flag intrusions. The main strength of the anomaly-based intrusion detection system is that after being trained, the system is capable of flagging a variety of attacks new or old. Other strengths that this system offers to the user is that it can look at the features of numerous features, including the information of user’s agents and hosts. The system is also useful in a company setting because it will be able to flag intrusions from rogue users that are employees who have acquired system privileges that they should not have. The system identifies such used by comparing it to the normal behaviours that are pre-set. However, despite the strengths that the system has, there are also weaknesses associated with the system. The system may…

              Mississippi History   Name   Institution   The reconstruction period of 1865 to 1875 saw the number of changes take place in Mississippi in regards to the lives of the African American. Mississippi is one of the states that had the largest number of African American slaves who worked in the large cotton plantation. After Mississippi re-joined the union, there were attempts to make create laws that would ensure that the blacks enjoyed their rights. Such laws include the fifth amendment of 1870 which gave black males the right to vote. Another major law that was enacted was the civil rights Act of 1875 which protected the African American from segregation in public amenities such as transportation and hotels. These developments were important step towards the integration of the former slaves into the mainstream America. Beside the enactment of laws the reconstruction period resulted in the participation of African Americans in Mississippi politics. The union league efforts saw in an increase of African American presence in enviable local and state elected positions and…