Week 3 - Discussion  1 undefined Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read Chapter 6: Working Capital and the Financial Decision in your textbook, and review the quarterly “News Release and Financials” financial statement for Deere & Company you downloaded in the Week 1 Analyzing the Statement of Cash Flows discussion from the web page Investor Relations (Links to an external site.). undefined Investigate the short-term and long-term liabilities of Deere & Company, based on the quarterly financial statement. Calculate the working capital for the quarter. undefined Explain whether there are any issues Deere & Company should address in the liability section of the balance sheet. Then, explain how increasing interest rates would impact this company. undefined Discussion 2 undefined Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read Chapter 7: Current Asset Management in your textbook. undefined There are many challenges when it comes to global strategic plans for businesses. One involves international cash management, due to the risk of currency fluctuations and interest rate changes in the global market. Review the quarterly financial statements for Deere & Company from Investor Relations  (Links to an external site.) and locate the discussions about fluctuations and risk in interest rates or foreign exchange rates. Then, address the following: undefined Indicate whether the foreign exchange translation has increased or decreased profitability for this quarter. Explain strategies a company might use to reduce the risk associated with foreign exchange fluctuations. Interpret the impact of foreign currency translation on profitability for Deere & Company. undefined Guided Response: Review the posts from your classmates and respond to at least two. Compare and contrast the points you and your classmates made regarding strategies for reducing risk associated with foreign exchange fluctuations. Each response should have a minimum of 400 words for each discussion.

 You’ll learn about the small business you’ll be working with that is VERB 360. and will conduct a thorough organizational diagnosis using the PESTELE framework and SWOT analysis. The organizational diagnosis will help you to have a deep understanding of the external marketing environment and unique values of your client’s business. Based on the findings of your organizational diagnosis, you’ll develop a project proposal (which will be your next assignment) for your client. You’ll be working on that project throughout the term. You’ll submit the project report and present the project at the end of the term. Therefore, your organizational diagnosis will be an important building-block for the rest of the projects for the term. PESTELE analysis A PESTEL analysis or more recently named PESTELE is a tool or a framework used by marketers to understand, analyze, and monitor the external marketing environment (macroenvironmental factors) that have an impact on the business. The results from the PESTELE analysis could be used to identify threats and weaknesses for a SWOT analysis. PESTELE stands for: P – Political | E – Economic | S – Social | T – Technological | E – Environmental | L – Legal | E – Ethical Identify the significant factors stated above that could impact your client’s business, and then, thoroughly discuss why they are important and what specific impact they might have on your client’s business. Here are some examples. Factors will vary from business to business. You do not need to address all. Discuss the factors that matter for the particular business. Political: Labor law, government policies, taxation, trade restrictions, political stability, etc. Economic: Economic growth, exchange rates, interest rates, inflation, unemployment rates, disposable income, unemployment rates, etc. Social: Population growth, age distribution, education, cultural differences, lifestyle and trends, health and welfare, etc. Technological: Innovation, technological growth, research, skilled resources, tech awareness, automation and AI, etc. Environmental: Weather, natural disasters, environmental policies, climate change, pressure from NGOs, etc. Legal: Employment law, copyright law, trade unions, health and safety, consumer protection, laws addressing discrimination issues, etc. Ethical: Bribery, confidentiality, intellectual property, international trade ethics, reputation, equal opportunities. SWOT analysis Conducting a SWOT analysis is a powerful way to evaluate a business irrespective of the size of the business or the number of employees. The SWOT analysis is a technique that we use to determine and define a company’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. Most commonly, we use SWOT analysis to determine how closely a business is aligned with its growth trajectories and benchmarks for success. We assess and evaluate the internal and external factors through SWOT analysis. Strengths (s) and weaknesses (W) refer to internal factors. These are usually the resources and experiences that are readily available to you. External factors, on the other hand, influence and affect the business and the individuals connected with the business. These factors are usually connected directly or indirectly to an opportunity (O) or threat (T). External factors are typically the things that your business does not control. After you conduct both the PESTELE and SWOT analyses, come up with the following: 1. Propose strategies to overcome the major challenges you identified. 2. Provide recommendations based on the overall results from your analyses. Writing instructions • Your assignment will be graded based on the elements mentioned above in the assignment instructions as well as criteria such as the quality of your analyses, strategies, and recommendations; quality and readability of your paper; grammar and punctuation; etc. • This assignment will be the outcome of thorough research. Cite your sources using the APA guidelines – both in-text citation as well as citation in the references section at the end of the paper. You should also follow the APA guidelines for formatting the paper. • Your sources should be peer-reviewed journal articles, trade journals, news articles, organizational websites, etc., with an emphasis on peer-reviewed journal articles. Feel free to reach out to our UCW librarians if you’d like to learn how to find peer-reviewed journal articles from our library website. • Use headings and sub-heads (if needed) throughout the paper so that it’s easier for me to follow your points. • Use Times New Roman, 12-font, double-spaced. • Do not exceed 15 pages excluding the title page. Write your name, ID, course title, and section in the title page.

Helen is a newly assigned Chief Information Officer for a fast growing online retail store that employees over 1000 employees. The company is geographically spread across several states in the North-Eastern United States. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, the companies leadership consists of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Chief Operations Officer (COO), Vice President of Marketing and Vice President of Production.The CEO has asked Helen to provide a recommended organizational structure that integrates Information Technology across the company. Helen must also create the Management Information System (MIS) department from the ground up. Considering the cost to the company, Helen must articulate the importance of each MIS role/position and adequately demonstrate the operational need of MIS. The CEO has asked Helen to provide a mission statement for her newly formed team.InstructionsYou will provide 2 separate deliverables as follows:Create a 2-3 slide (Power Point) presentation that Helen will use to brief the CEO.Provide a mission statement for the newly formed MIS team that emphasizes the importance of customer service.Create an organizational chart that depicts the key business positions as well as the recommended MIS positions that Helen has been charged with creating.Use the notes section to provide detailed speaker notesProvide a 1-2 page written summary of each MIS position that describes the purpose of the position as well as how the positions benefits the strategic goals of the company.