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MBA 6011 South University Week 5 Apple Communication Strategy Presentation
MBA6011 Creating the Communication StrategyThis course has a major project assignment due in Week 5. It will take more tha ...
MBA 6011 South University Week 5 Apple Communication Strategy Presentation
MBA6011 Creating the Communication StrategyThis course has a major project assignment due in Week 5. It will take more than a week's effort to adequately complete it. Plan time to start the research and work on the assignment earlier than the week in which it is due.Using the same organization Apple, you selected in Week 1, imagine that you will be making a Microsoft Power Point presentation to the organization's board of directors or other decision-making leaders (depending upon the type of organization you are using). Your work this week will consist of two parts for the presentation.First, you will synthesize the key insights you have learned during the past five weeks.Second, you will present an Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) strategy, a pricing objective, and a pricing strategy to the board of directors. Because this second part involves new material in the project, it will probably require the most research and analysis to complete this week's presentation.The following sections provide greater detail about the two pieces of your presentation.Note: The expectation for this project is a scholarly presentation. A scholarly presentation has two main distinctions:The notes sections of slides contain research citations, evaluation, and conclusions—just like in a good scholarly paper. In other words, a reader should be able to read your notes section as if he or she is reading an academic paper. The grading rubric suggests a level of critical thinking for the presentation (in the notes section particularly) that is on the level of a good academic paper.Key points and information on the slides are highlighted. A good slide contains no more than six lines of text. The slide should just contain the "big ideas" to help guide your reader through the main points.In addition, for this project in particular, the first several sections of your presentation will use material you composed in the previous weeks of the project. However, use the slides and notes sections to show that you can do more than just copy from the previous weeks' papers. Show that you can summarize the material and present the most important points to your audience.PART 1: SUMMARY OF KEY INSIGHTS FROM THE COURSE PROJECT TO DATEUsing course work (and feedback!) you have completed so far in the course project, summarize key points regarding the organizational mission and how the new product/service and your proposed service delivery enhancements contribute to the organization's ability to complete the mission.New Mission; New Product/Service (2 slides)Provide a brief overview of the new/improved mission statement and the new/improved product or service you are proposing.Provide the board of directors with supported rationale for how the new product/service contributes to achieving the new/improved organizational mission.Service Delivery Enhancements (2 slides)Provide a brief overview of service delivery enhancements to improve efficiency and effectiveness.Provide the board of directors with supported rationale for how the service delivery enhancements contribute to achieving organizational mission.PART 2: COMMUNICATION STRATEGYAs new material for this week, you need to communicate to your "organization's" market segment the key benefits that make the organization distinct from the competitors. In addition, you need to announce the improvements in the delivery of the services by the company. Justify an Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) strategy that includes the following:Advertisement (5–7 slides)Propose an advertisement featuring the new (improved) services and containing the following elements:A headlineA subhead lineA brand–positioning statementAn artworkA layoutJustify traditional and nontraditional channels to carry the advertisement.In the notes section, justify your channel selection. Use research to support your work.Pricing (2–3 slides)Justify both a pricing objective and a pricing strategy for the company on the basis of the information gathered from the case study, an understanding of the competition, and the likely attitude of current customers.In the notes section, justify why the organization should adopt the pricing objective and follow your pricing strategy, using appropriate examples, research, and reasoning.Conclusion (1 slide)Conclude with a statement positioning the brand around the new service delivery.In the notes section, defend the statement. Support your work with research.SUBMISSIONS DETAILS:The presentation should be 12 to 15 slides in length.Place any references on the last slide, using APA style.By the due date assigned, submit your work to the Submissions Area. Due June 1 at 11:59 PM Only what you need to cover the information.
ADM 640 GCU Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health Research Paper
Assemble your complete program evaluation. Your completed evaluation should include revisions based on feedback from your ...
ADM 640 GCU Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health Research Paper
Assemble your complete program evaluation. Your completed evaluation should include revisions based on feedback from your instructor. Your evaluation should include:A table of contentsThe Purpose and ScopeThe Research MethodThe Communication PlanPolicy MemoIn addition to your components completed during the course, you will have a policy brief as a part of the appendix. The policy brief should be concise and recommend a course of action for shareholders. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.Benchmark Information:This assignment assesses the following programmatic competency: Masters in Public AdministrationCompetency 4.4: Create a policy memo that objectively analyzes a policy and clearly and succinctly recommends a course of action.
Argosy University Finance for Business Managing Business Finance Presentation
Week 3 - Assignment: Create a Quarterly Financial Plan and Budget for a Retail Warehouse Operation
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Argosy University Finance for Business Managing Business Finance Presentation
Week 3 - Assignment: Create a Quarterly Financial Plan and Budget for a Retail Warehouse Operation
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Budgeting is a critical operational component of a manager’s duties. The implication of proper budgeting is that it allows companies to effectively plan for the management of resources within the context of product and goods delivery, while not losing sight of the need for cash flow. This concept will be reviewed again later in this course; in the meantime, cash flow is critically important to the health of a business. Being able to budget within the constraints of estimated and actual cash flow allows companies to spend no more than needed in operational functions for purchasing, producing, and delivering goods and services.
In this assignment, you will act as the warehouse manager for Tandy Leather Factory. You have been asked to present a quarterly budget and financial plan to the president of the company. To do this, you will need to examine last year’s financial statements, last quarter’s earnings, and this quarter’s estimated sales. You will use market analysis from Yahoo! Finance and the annual earnings report from last year. You will create a presentation of the budget using Microsoft PowerPoint. Your presentation should cover the cost of managing the inventory, shipping, warehouse machine maintenance (forklifts, pallet jacks, pallet wrapping machines, computers, handheld inventory devices, etc.), personnel costs for 75 employees, two office clerks, and two managers. Your budget will be based on an 8-hour work day, 5 days a week. You must include the cost for a 1-day shutdown of the warehouse for a quarterly inventory count.
Management at Work Strategic plans Food Industry Discussion
THE INGREDIENTS OF A SUSTAINABILITY PLAN“We can have real impact on the ground.”—Roland Weening, president of coffee ...
Management at Work Strategic plans Food Industry Discussion
THE INGREDIENTS OF A SUSTAINABILITY PLAN“We can have real impact on the ground.”—Roland Weening, president of coffee, Mondelēz InternationalAs one of the world’s largest snack food companies, Mondelēz International operates in more than 80 countries, sourcing ingredients for coffee products from such countries as Vietnam, Indonesia, and Brazil and cocoa for chocolate from Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, India, and the Dominican Republic. Mondelēz, which is headquartered in the Chicago suburb of Deerfield, Illinois, is committed to promoting sustainability throughout its supply chain and such initiatives as its Cocoa Life and Coffee Made Happy programs are designed to ensure that agricultural supplies are sustainably sourced.In its “2013 Call for Well-Being Progress Report,” for instance, Mondelēz announced that with 10 percent of its cocoa supply sustainably sourced, the company is on target to reach its longer-term goals. In order to reach those goals, Mondelēz plans to spend $400 million over 10 years to train cocoa farmers in better agricultural and business practices and to provide them with access to planting materials. “We’re investing in much more than farming,” explains Bharat Puri, president of global chocolate and candy. “It’s about empowering cocoa communities as a whole so cocoa-farming villages become places where people want to live.”President of coffee division Roland Weening agrees: “Together with our partners,” he says, “we can help farmers solve challenges and secure a more sustainable coffee supply.” For Mondelēz, then, working closely with communities of growers is not simply a matter of improving supply-chain efficiency: It also reflects the principle that the power of a big company to contribute to global sustainability can be harnessed most effectively when it’s extended to the activities of the smaller organizations with which it does business. “We can have real impact on the ground,” says Weening.As of 2013, Weening’s division was sustainably sourcing 56 percent of its coffee and was well on its way to its goal of 70 percent by 2015. As a matter of fact, Mondelēz is big on goal settingin all of its sustainability initiatives. In wheat, for example, which is a core ingredient in the company’s line of biscuits, Mondelēz established the Harmony Charter, a partnership with members of its wheat supply chain designed to encourage “more respectful agricultural practices, which include wheat variety selection, soil management, limiting fertilizers and pesticides, and smart water use.” The company has set a goal of using Harmony wheat in 75 percent of its total biscuit volume by 2015. According to its 2013 report, it has reached a volume of 44 percent and is on target to meet that goal.Mondelēz is also a member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), which was established in 2004 to promote the production of sustainable oil palm products through the certification of industry practices. The company set a goal of having 100 percent of its palm oil supply RSPO certified by 2015, and in 2013, Mondelēz announced that the goal had been reached two years ahead of schedule. Now that the goal has been attained, says Dave Brown, VP of global commodities and strategic sourcing, we recognize the need to go further, so we also challenged our palm oil suppliers to provide transparency on the levels of traceability in their palm oil supply chains. Knowing the sources of palm oil supplies is an essential first step to enable scrutiny and promote improvements in practice on the ground.Not surprisingly, Mondelēz set a goal for ensuring acceptable levels of supply-chain traceability—the ability to trace an ingredient through every stage of production and distribution. The company plans to review suppliers’ traceability practices and then publish an action plan for giving priority to suppliers whose practices are consistent with companywide sustainability principles. The goal is to eliminate all supplies that don’t meet standards by 2020.To understand how Mondelēz wants to coordinate the entire range of its sustainability efforts, we might take a look at one of its most recent initiatives. In 2014, Mondelēz Ireland announced a partnership with Bord Bia Origin Green, a nationwide Irish food-related sustainability program, to promote sustainability throughout the country’s food sector. “We have already achieved significant positive change in Ireland,” explains Patrick Miskelly, manufacturing director of Mondelēz Ireland, “but we have a lot more goals to achieve,” and the company sees the Origin Green partnership as the means of taking its sustainability plans to the next level.These plans revolve around the three manufacturing plants that Mondelēz operates in Ireland, and the immediate focus will be on the supply chain—in particular, the sourcing of raw materials. The company is already committed to local sourcing. At one plant, for example, 37 percent of all raw materials originate locally; another plant uses 21 million gallons of milk from local cooperatives that have adopted sustainable farming practices. Origin Green will add independent verification of farmers’ and food suppliers’ success in setting and achieving measurable sustainability goals.Sustainable sourcing, however, is only one aspect of Mondelēz Ireland’s sustainability strategy. In terms of organizational planning, sustainable-sourcing programs reflect a set of carefully developed tactical plansdesigned to further a larger strategic plan. Sustainability goals, for example, also include the protection of Ireland’s rich natural resources and a reduction of the company’s overall environmental impact. Between 2005 and 2010, the company reduced waste at all three Irish plants by 42 percent, and the largest of the three has already met its goal of diverting all of its waste from Irish landfills by 2014.Mondelēz Ireland also plans to reduce carbon emissions from natural gas consumption by 15 percent by 2016, and like most sustainability-conscious organizations, Mondelēz International regards its various sustainability plans as part of an overarching strategy to reduce its carbon footprint—the total of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for which it’s responsible. Between 2005 and 2010, the company reduced GHG emissions by 18 percent and then set a goal of another 15 percent reduction by 2015. As of 2013, it had attained a 9 percent reduction and considered itself on target. As for reducing energy use, Mondelēz admits that “more improvement is needed” if it’s to meet its goal of a 15 percent reduction by 2015; as of 2013, it had cut energy use by only 6 percent. On the upside, the company has exceeded its 2015 goal of reducing manufacturing waste by 15 percent, having achieved a 46 percent reduction by 2013.CASE QUESTIONSHere are a series of Mondelēz’s publicly announced objectives for enhancing sustainability:Reducing production waste to landfill sites by 60 percentReducing our energy and GHG in manufacturingEducating employees to reuse water and improve processesReducing the impact of our operationsAddressing child labor in the cocoa supply chainReducing packaging materialEliminating 50 million pounds of packaging materialBuying certified commoditiesWhich of these are best considered strategic plans? Tactical plans? Operational plans? Which ones might qualify as programs? Projects? Policies? Be sure to explain your reasoning for each item.“Our business success,” says Mondelēz chairman and CEO Irene Rosenfeld, “is directly linked to enhancing the well-being of the people who make and enjoy our products and to supporting the communities where we grow our ingredients.”Assume that you’re a Mondelēz representative who’s been asked to give a presentation to students in an introductory management class. Explain Rosenfeld’s reasoning or her “philosophy” of “business success.” Be sure to give some examples of how and why this approach works at Mondelēz (which, remember, is a global snack food company).Explain—hypothetically—how the following might emerge as barriers to sustainability planningat Mondelēz:Inappropriate goalsAn improper reward systemA dynamic and complex environmentResistance to changeConstraintsAccording to a 2014 McKinsey & Co. survey of executives, 36 percent included reputation management—building, maintaining, or improving corporate reputation—among the top three reasons for addressing sustainability. Explain how the following management strategies can help to enhance both sustainability and reputation:Setting aggressive internal goals for sustainability initiativesAdopting a unified sustainability strategy with clearly articulated prioritiesBuilding a broad leadership coalition in shaping sustainability strategyEnsuring that everyone in the organization understands the financial benefits of sustainability
TESC Consulting Skills Discussion
Hello, I need assistance with the below assignment. Please read the questions carefully and I will also have to respond to ...
TESC Consulting Skills Discussion
Hello, I need assistance with the below assignment. Please read the questions carefully and I will also have to respond to "two" classmates original post. I will submit my classmates post for you to respond to once you have agreed to assist me.Assignment: For this discussion board, please answer the following two questions:1) When should a consultant exit an intervention? What do you think might make this stage especially challenging?2) Of the skills listed below, are there any that you think should carry greater weight than others for a consultant? Which ones? Why?Self-awareness and self-managementObjectivity/neutralityImaginationFlexibility, dealing with ambiguityHonesty/integrityConsistencyBuilding trust and rapportOpen-mindednessListeningSense of humorRisk-takingPolitical awarenessPersuasivenessCollaborationTact and diplomacyRole modelingRational-emotional balanceNegotiationManaging stressTo receive credit for the discussion board, you must meet the following criteria:Provide a robust (equivalent to at least one double spaced page) answer in essay format. .https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/working-wi... https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/it-consultant/de...
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MBA 6011 South University Week 5 Apple Communication Strategy Presentation
MBA6011 Creating the Communication StrategyThis course has a major project assignment due in Week 5. It will take more tha ...
MBA 6011 South University Week 5 Apple Communication Strategy Presentation
MBA6011 Creating the Communication StrategyThis course has a major project assignment due in Week 5. It will take more than a week's effort to adequately complete it. Plan time to start the research and work on the assignment earlier than the week in which it is due.Using the same organization Apple, you selected in Week 1, imagine that you will be making a Microsoft Power Point presentation to the organization's board of directors or other decision-making leaders (depending upon the type of organization you are using). Your work this week will consist of two parts for the presentation.First, you will synthesize the key insights you have learned during the past five weeks.Second, you will present an Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) strategy, a pricing objective, and a pricing strategy to the board of directors. Because this second part involves new material in the project, it will probably require the most research and analysis to complete this week's presentation.The following sections provide greater detail about the two pieces of your presentation.Note: The expectation for this project is a scholarly presentation. A scholarly presentation has two main distinctions:The notes sections of slides contain research citations, evaluation, and conclusions—just like in a good scholarly paper. In other words, a reader should be able to read your notes section as if he or she is reading an academic paper. The grading rubric suggests a level of critical thinking for the presentation (in the notes section particularly) that is on the level of a good academic paper.Key points and information on the slides are highlighted. A good slide contains no more than six lines of text. The slide should just contain the "big ideas" to help guide your reader through the main points.In addition, for this project in particular, the first several sections of your presentation will use material you composed in the previous weeks of the project. However, use the slides and notes sections to show that you can do more than just copy from the previous weeks' papers. Show that you can summarize the material and present the most important points to your audience.PART 1: SUMMARY OF KEY INSIGHTS FROM THE COURSE PROJECT TO DATEUsing course work (and feedback!) you have completed so far in the course project, summarize key points regarding the organizational mission and how the new product/service and your proposed service delivery enhancements contribute to the organization's ability to complete the mission.New Mission; New Product/Service (2 slides)Provide a brief overview of the new/improved mission statement and the new/improved product or service you are proposing.Provide the board of directors with supported rationale for how the new product/service contributes to achieving the new/improved organizational mission.Service Delivery Enhancements (2 slides)Provide a brief overview of service delivery enhancements to improve efficiency and effectiveness.Provide the board of directors with supported rationale for how the service delivery enhancements contribute to achieving organizational mission.PART 2: COMMUNICATION STRATEGYAs new material for this week, you need to communicate to your "organization's" market segment the key benefits that make the organization distinct from the competitors. In addition, you need to announce the improvements in the delivery of the services by the company. Justify an Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) strategy that includes the following:Advertisement (5–7 slides)Propose an advertisement featuring the new (improved) services and containing the following elements:A headlineA subhead lineA brand–positioning statementAn artworkA layoutJustify traditional and nontraditional channels to carry the advertisement.In the notes section, justify your channel selection. Use research to support your work.Pricing (2–3 slides)Justify both a pricing objective and a pricing strategy for the company on the basis of the information gathered from the case study, an understanding of the competition, and the likely attitude of current customers.In the notes section, justify why the organization should adopt the pricing objective and follow your pricing strategy, using appropriate examples, research, and reasoning.Conclusion (1 slide)Conclude with a statement positioning the brand around the new service delivery.In the notes section, defend the statement. Support your work with research.SUBMISSIONS DETAILS:The presentation should be 12 to 15 slides in length.Place any references on the last slide, using APA style.By the due date assigned, submit your work to the Submissions Area. Due June 1 at 11:59 PM Only what you need to cover the information.
ADM 640 GCU Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health Research Paper
Assemble your complete program evaluation. Your completed evaluation should include revisions based on feedback from your ...
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Assemble your complete program evaluation. Your completed evaluation should include revisions based on feedback from your instructor. Your evaluation should include:A table of contentsThe Purpose and ScopeThe Research MethodThe Communication PlanPolicy MemoIn addition to your components completed during the course, you will have a policy brief as a part of the appendix. The policy brief should be concise and recommend a course of action for shareholders. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.Benchmark Information:This assignment assesses the following programmatic competency: Masters in Public AdministrationCompetency 4.4: Create a policy memo that objectively analyzes a policy and clearly and succinctly recommends a course of action.
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Week 3 - Assignment: Create a Quarterly Financial Plan and Budget for a Retail Warehouse Operation
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Instructions
Budgeting is a critical operational component of a manager’s duties. The implication of proper budgeting is that it allows companies to effectively plan for the management of resources within the context of product and goods delivery, while not losing sight of the need for cash flow. This concept will be reviewed again later in this course; in the meantime, cash flow is critically important to the health of a business. Being able to budget within the constraints of estimated and actual cash flow allows companies to spend no more than needed in operational functions for purchasing, producing, and delivering goods and services.
In this assignment, you will act as the warehouse manager for Tandy Leather Factory. You have been asked to present a quarterly budget and financial plan to the president of the company. To do this, you will need to examine last year’s financial statements, last quarter’s earnings, and this quarter’s estimated sales. You will use market analysis from Yahoo! Finance and the annual earnings report from last year. You will create a presentation of the budget using Microsoft PowerPoint. Your presentation should cover the cost of managing the inventory, shipping, warehouse machine maintenance (forklifts, pallet jacks, pallet wrapping machines, computers, handheld inventory devices, etc.), personnel costs for 75 employees, two office clerks, and two managers. Your budget will be based on an 8-hour work day, 5 days a week. You must include the cost for a 1-day shutdown of the warehouse for a quarterly inventory count.
Management at Work Strategic plans Food Industry Discussion
THE INGREDIENTS OF A SUSTAINABILITY PLAN“We can have real impact on the ground.”—Roland Weening, president of coffee ...
Management at Work Strategic plans Food Industry Discussion
THE INGREDIENTS OF A SUSTAINABILITY PLAN“We can have real impact on the ground.”—Roland Weening, president of coffee, Mondelēz InternationalAs one of the world’s largest snack food companies, Mondelēz International operates in more than 80 countries, sourcing ingredients for coffee products from such countries as Vietnam, Indonesia, and Brazil and cocoa for chocolate from Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, India, and the Dominican Republic. Mondelēz, which is headquartered in the Chicago suburb of Deerfield, Illinois, is committed to promoting sustainability throughout its supply chain and such initiatives as its Cocoa Life and Coffee Made Happy programs are designed to ensure that agricultural supplies are sustainably sourced.In its “2013 Call for Well-Being Progress Report,” for instance, Mondelēz announced that with 10 percent of its cocoa supply sustainably sourced, the company is on target to reach its longer-term goals. In order to reach those goals, Mondelēz plans to spend $400 million over 10 years to train cocoa farmers in better agricultural and business practices and to provide them with access to planting materials. “We’re investing in much more than farming,” explains Bharat Puri, president of global chocolate and candy. “It’s about empowering cocoa communities as a whole so cocoa-farming villages become places where people want to live.”President of coffee division Roland Weening agrees: “Together with our partners,” he says, “we can help farmers solve challenges and secure a more sustainable coffee supply.” For Mondelēz, then, working closely with communities of growers is not simply a matter of improving supply-chain efficiency: It also reflects the principle that the power of a big company to contribute to global sustainability can be harnessed most effectively when it’s extended to the activities of the smaller organizations with which it does business. “We can have real impact on the ground,” says Weening.As of 2013, Weening’s division was sustainably sourcing 56 percent of its coffee and was well on its way to its goal of 70 percent by 2015. As a matter of fact, Mondelēz is big on goal settingin all of its sustainability initiatives. In wheat, for example, which is a core ingredient in the company’s line of biscuits, Mondelēz established the Harmony Charter, a partnership with members of its wheat supply chain designed to encourage “more respectful agricultural practices, which include wheat variety selection, soil management, limiting fertilizers and pesticides, and smart water use.” The company has set a goal of using Harmony wheat in 75 percent of its total biscuit volume by 2015. According to its 2013 report, it has reached a volume of 44 percent and is on target to meet that goal.Mondelēz is also a member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), which was established in 2004 to promote the production of sustainable oil palm products through the certification of industry practices. The company set a goal of having 100 percent of its palm oil supply RSPO certified by 2015, and in 2013, Mondelēz announced that the goal had been reached two years ahead of schedule. Now that the goal has been attained, says Dave Brown, VP of global commodities and strategic sourcing, we recognize the need to go further, so we also challenged our palm oil suppliers to provide transparency on the levels of traceability in their palm oil supply chains. Knowing the sources of palm oil supplies is an essential first step to enable scrutiny and promote improvements in practice on the ground.Not surprisingly, Mondelēz set a goal for ensuring acceptable levels of supply-chain traceability—the ability to trace an ingredient through every stage of production and distribution. The company plans to review suppliers’ traceability practices and then publish an action plan for giving priority to suppliers whose practices are consistent with companywide sustainability principles. The goal is to eliminate all supplies that don’t meet standards by 2020.To understand how Mondelēz wants to coordinate the entire range of its sustainability efforts, we might take a look at one of its most recent initiatives. In 2014, Mondelēz Ireland announced a partnership with Bord Bia Origin Green, a nationwide Irish food-related sustainability program, to promote sustainability throughout the country’s food sector. “We have already achieved significant positive change in Ireland,” explains Patrick Miskelly, manufacturing director of Mondelēz Ireland, “but we have a lot more goals to achieve,” and the company sees the Origin Green partnership as the means of taking its sustainability plans to the next level.These plans revolve around the three manufacturing plants that Mondelēz operates in Ireland, and the immediate focus will be on the supply chain—in particular, the sourcing of raw materials. The company is already committed to local sourcing. At one plant, for example, 37 percent of all raw materials originate locally; another plant uses 21 million gallons of milk from local cooperatives that have adopted sustainable farming practices. Origin Green will add independent verification of farmers’ and food suppliers’ success in setting and achieving measurable sustainability goals.Sustainable sourcing, however, is only one aspect of Mondelēz Ireland’s sustainability strategy. In terms of organizational planning, sustainable-sourcing programs reflect a set of carefully developed tactical plansdesigned to further a larger strategic plan. Sustainability goals, for example, also include the protection of Ireland’s rich natural resources and a reduction of the company’s overall environmental impact. Between 2005 and 2010, the company reduced waste at all three Irish plants by 42 percent, and the largest of the three has already met its goal of diverting all of its waste from Irish landfills by 2014.Mondelēz Ireland also plans to reduce carbon emissions from natural gas consumption by 15 percent by 2016, and like most sustainability-conscious organizations, Mondelēz International regards its various sustainability plans as part of an overarching strategy to reduce its carbon footprint—the total of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for which it’s responsible. Between 2005 and 2010, the company reduced GHG emissions by 18 percent and then set a goal of another 15 percent reduction by 2015. As of 2013, it had attained a 9 percent reduction and considered itself on target. As for reducing energy use, Mondelēz admits that “more improvement is needed” if it’s to meet its goal of a 15 percent reduction by 2015; as of 2013, it had cut energy use by only 6 percent. On the upside, the company has exceeded its 2015 goal of reducing manufacturing waste by 15 percent, having achieved a 46 percent reduction by 2013.CASE QUESTIONSHere are a series of Mondelēz’s publicly announced objectives for enhancing sustainability:Reducing production waste to landfill sites by 60 percentReducing our energy and GHG in manufacturingEducating employees to reuse water and improve processesReducing the impact of our operationsAddressing child labor in the cocoa supply chainReducing packaging materialEliminating 50 million pounds of packaging materialBuying certified commoditiesWhich of these are best considered strategic plans? Tactical plans? Operational plans? Which ones might qualify as programs? Projects? Policies? Be sure to explain your reasoning for each item.“Our business success,” says Mondelēz chairman and CEO Irene Rosenfeld, “is directly linked to enhancing the well-being of the people who make and enjoy our products and to supporting the communities where we grow our ingredients.”Assume that you’re a Mondelēz representative who’s been asked to give a presentation to students in an introductory management class. Explain Rosenfeld’s reasoning or her “philosophy” of “business success.” Be sure to give some examples of how and why this approach works at Mondelēz (which, remember, is a global snack food company).Explain—hypothetically—how the following might emerge as barriers to sustainability planningat Mondelēz:Inappropriate goalsAn improper reward systemA dynamic and complex environmentResistance to changeConstraintsAccording to a 2014 McKinsey & Co. survey of executives, 36 percent included reputation management—building, maintaining, or improving corporate reputation—among the top three reasons for addressing sustainability. Explain how the following management strategies can help to enhance both sustainability and reputation:Setting aggressive internal goals for sustainability initiativesAdopting a unified sustainability strategy with clearly articulated prioritiesBuilding a broad leadership coalition in shaping sustainability strategyEnsuring that everyone in the organization understands the financial benefits of sustainability
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Hello, I need assistance with the below assignment. Please read the questions carefully and I will also have to respond to ...
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Hello, I need assistance with the below assignment. Please read the questions carefully and I will also have to respond to "two" classmates original post. I will submit my classmates post for you to respond to once you have agreed to assist me.Assignment: For this discussion board, please answer the following two questions:1) When should a consultant exit an intervention? What do you think might make this stage especially challenging?2) Of the skills listed below, are there any that you think should carry greater weight than others for a consultant? Which ones? Why?Self-awareness and self-managementObjectivity/neutralityImaginationFlexibility, dealing with ambiguityHonesty/integrityConsistencyBuilding trust and rapportOpen-mindednessListeningSense of humorRisk-takingPolitical awarenessPersuasivenessCollaborationTact and diplomacyRole modelingRational-emotional balanceNegotiationManaging stressTo receive credit for the discussion board, you must meet the following criteria:Provide a robust (equivalent to at least one double spaced page) answer in essay format. .https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/working-wi... https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/it-consultant/de...
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