In 175 words or more. What do you feel are the two most important technologies that allow organizations to have, live, and exist in an Information Age? What are the advantages we have today that we did not have 10 and 20 years ago?
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The History of VISA Company
Presentation Title: VISA Company
Topic statement: The history, growth, success, and failures of VISA Company
Sub topics:
A.The History of VISA Company
VISA Company is a global payments technology company started in 1958 as BankAmericard by Dee Hock. The company portfolio lies in financial services and hires over 15,000 employees.
B.Growth of the company
The company has globalized its brand and services and has a net worth of billions of dollars. The company made at least $ 10 billion in net revenue as at 2018 owing to the billions of transactions it manages (SEC Filings, 2019).
C.Successes of the company
The company has enjoyed significant success in the financial services industry and notably in 2008 it was rated as one of the largest IPOs in the global market in 2008 ( VISA, 2019).
Failures of the company
Majority of the company’s challenges stems from system failures given that it offers online global payments. In 2018, the company experienced downtime in their systems which impacted a significant number of its clients worldwide including individuals and businesses (The Guardian, 2018).
References
SEC Filings.(2019). VISA Inc. Retrieved from https://investor.visa.com/SEC-Filings/
The Guardian. (2018). Visa card network failure –what we know so far. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/busienss/2018/jun/01/visa-card-network-failure-what-we-know-so-far
VISA Inc.(2019). History of Visa. Retrieved from https://usa.visa.com/about-visa/our_business/history-of-visa.html
assignment
Go back to the industry you presented to the class during week one; reflect on your selected industry, research and select three public companies within the industry.
After completing the research described above, submit an executive report addressing the following:
Analyze the Information Systems Risk Management Plans
Describe how their Information Systems Risk Management plans do or should look
Describe each one individually
Compare and contrast the three plans
Industry Chosen:
Financial Domain
Unit: Organisational Learning and Change
Unit Code: BUS 510
Type of Assessment: Assessment 3 — Organisational change project
Learning outcomes — (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) and (f)
(a) Critically analyse and critique the major theories of organisational learning
(b) Critically analyse and explain the dynamics of strategic organisational change
(c) Critically review and evaluate the reasons for different approaches to
Unit Learning change, and demonstrate an ability to apply this understanding to volatile
Outcomes or novel organisational contexts
addressed: (d) Critically analyse and critique common perspectives on the role of, and relationship between, individuals, teams and leaders in the change process
(e) Integrate biblical frameworks into a contemporary understanding of organisational learning and change
(f) Integrate the concepts of organisational learning, strategic and innovative change management with leadership theory and practice
Criterion 1 – Description of the organisation — (5/50)
• Criterion 2 – Understanding of organisational change concepts or
Criteria for theories — (10/50)
Assessment: Criterion 3 — Organisational analysis — (10/50)
Criterion 4 – Recommendations and resource requirements — (20/50) Criterion 5 — References and structure — (5/50)
Assessment Task: The purpose of this assessment is to allow students take on a management perspective to analyse organisational change and propose recommendations with the aim of improving the situation. This project seeks to create a case study of an organization that requires a change intervention.
Students will be required to choose an organisation that they are familiar with and analyse it using relevant change management theories or frameworks to identify areas where change is required. Relevant change intervention strategies are to be proposed.
The organisational change project covers the following:
1. An introduction to the organisation.
2. Internal and external analysis of the organisation to identify areas requiring change (at the end of this section, include a summary of the areas where change is required)
3. Literature review — overview of change management theories or frameworks
4. Evaluation of possible change strategies required to improve the situation.
5. Recommendations of the most suitable strategies.
6. Required resources for implementing the identified suitable strategiec•
7. Conclusion
Assessment 1 Information
Subject Code: MAN304
Subject Name: Issues in International Business
Assessment Title: International Market Analysis
Assessment Type: Individual Written Report
Word Count: 1500 Words (+/-10%)
Weighting: 35 %
Total Marks: 100
Submission: Via Turnitin
Due Date: Week 5
Your Task
To undertake an individual International Market Analysis by developing a report to apply a range of international business analytical approaches within a global market context.
Assessment Description
To complete this assessment, you will need to select one firm. The firm can be a private or a public company based anywhere in the world.
A good criterion for the choice of a firm is the availability of public information about its products and services, corporate background and market reputation. Be careful in selecting your firm as further analysis of your chosen firm will be carried out in Assessment 3. You should discuss your choice of firm with your lecturer. Do this early and consult with your lecturer about the firm if in doubt.
You are required to select two (2) countries (Country A and Country B) as potential destinations for the firm to conduct its international business operations. You can choose, any two countries other than the country of origin of the firm. The firm must not have any existing operations in either of the countries you select.
The purpose is to develop a report with recommendations to be presented to the Board of Directors of your chosen firm.
1. Conduct research into each country and produce a comparative analysis of the two countries. The headings below are an indication of the type of information you may need to be able to collect and use:
a. The ease with which international firms report being able to do business in each country. You can find information about this from a range of sources including business news, official government websites or other online and offline sources.
b. Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Inflation Rate, Interest Rates
c. Education levels and the labour force skills available
d. Current interest rates
e. Current value of the local currency against the United States (US) dollar
f. Employment rate and average income per person per year
2. Use the following headings in developing your report.
a. Introduction to your chosen firm and its background
b. What are the commercial implications for your firm wishing to engage in an international business venture?
c. Provide an overview of products or services that your firm is seeking to use to expand into the two new countries that you have selected (their entry strategies).
d. What are the key factors/reasons that support the introduction of these new products/services and why do you think that their introduction will be successful.
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e. Make a clear recommendation to the Board of Directors of your firm about which country they should consider opening up a new market in and the product/service.
3. The analysis does not require an executive summary.
Assessment Instructions
You must Submit via Turnitin as a “WORD” document
Please remember that you will need to cite the sources you used, so you are required to reference at least 5 sources of information. These may include corporate websites, government publications, industry reports, census data, journal articles, newspaper articles, and textbook material. In referencing sources, you must apply Harvard Referencing Style to your in-text citations and consequently to the reference list.
Please refer to the Assessment Marking Guide to assist you in completing all the assessment criteria.
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Submissions that exceed the word limit by more than 10% will cease to be marked from the point at which that limit is exceeded.
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Assessment Marking Guide
Criteria Value (Marks) NN (Fail)
0 – 49 P (Pass)
50 – 64 CR (Credit)
65 – 74 DN (Distinction)
75 – 84 HD (High Distinction)
85 – 100
Analysis of Identified International Issues 10 Your analysis lacks depth, and your interpretation is not relevant to the assessment criteria. You briefly analyse some of the issues and your interpretation is not always relevant to the assessment criteria. You analyse most of the issues and your interpretation is well structured. You analyse and interpret issues thoroughly. You analyse and interpret the issues articulately and convincingly.
Recommendations 10 The quality of your recommendations is poor and/or incoherent. You have drawn some useful recommendations although a more comprehensive analysis of the case study would have been helpful. You have drawn mostly useful
recommendations. You have drawn varied, well-researched and compelling recommendations. You have drawn dynamic, comprehensive and convincing recommendations.
Research 10 Your research lacks focus because of an unsuitable choice of sources. You have selected some appropriate scholarly sources. Better use of quality sources would help focus your research. Your research is focused, drawn from an appropriate range of scholarly sources. It is obvious that your research is focused, complemented by a quality selection and range of scholarly sources. It is clearly obvious that your research is extensive and focused, complemented by a quality selection and range of scholarly sources.
Academic Writing 5 Spelling, grammar and presentation/or grammar is consistently incorrect. In-text referencing and/or reference list is mostly incorrect or non-existent. Spelling, grammar and presentation have numerous errors.
In-text referencing and/or reference list is obvious but there are major errors. Spelling, grammar and presentation have numerous errors. In-text referencing and/or reference list has only minor errors throughout Errors in grammar and spelling are rare and professionally presented. In-text referencing and the resultant reference list is correct, with only the occasional error. Correct grammar and spelling throughout the analysis with no obvious errors.
In-text referencing and the resultant reference list is correct, with no errors.
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MARIE and ISA
Assignment 2: MARIE and ISA Value: 15% Due date: 12-May-2018 Task 1. (a) The Fibonacci numbers are the numbers in the following integer sequence, called the Fibonacci sequence, and are characterised by the fact that every number after the first two is the sum of the two preceding ones: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 114, … etc. By definition, the first two numbers in the Fibonacci sequence are 0 and 1, and each subsequent number is the sum of the previous two. We define Fib(0)=0, Fib(1)=1, Fib(2)=1, Fib(3)=2, Fib(4)=3, etc. The first 22 Fibonacci numbers given below:
Fib(0) Fib(1) Fib(2) Fib(3) Fib(4) Fib(5) Fib(6) Fib(7) Fib(8) Fib(9) Fib(10)
0 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55
Fib(11) Fib(12) Fib(13) Fib(14) Fib(15) Fib(16) Fib(17) Fib(18) Fib(19) Fib(20) Fib(21)
89 144 233 377 610 987 1597 2584 4181 6765 10946
Write a MARIE program to calculate Fib(n), where the user inputs n. For example, if the user inputs 7, the program outputs the value 13; if the user inputs 15, the program outputs the value 610; if the user inputs 20, the program outputs the value 6765 etc. You need to write and run the program using MARIE simulator. Please include appropriate comments to make your code readable.[10 marks] (b) For some values of n, your program will not produce correct results. You can check this by gradually increasing the values of n and checking for the correct outputs. What is the maximum value of n for which your program produces a correct result? Why? Please comment on this [5 marks]. 2. You are designing an instruction set for your computer. All the instructions are of same size (11 bits long). The size of an address field is 4 bits. You have already designed six 2-address instructions and 30 1-address instructions. How many 0-address instructions still you can fit? Justify your answer. [7 marks] 3. Write codes to implement the expression: A= (B + C) * (D – E) on 3-, 2-, 1- and 0-address machines. In accordance with programming language practice, computing the expression should not change the values of its operands. [8 marks] Rationale This assessment task covers topics on CPU operation and Instruction Set Architecture, and has been designed to ensure that you are engaging with the subject content on a regular basis. More specifically it seeks to assess your ability to:
? be able to investigate the internal operation of the Central Processing Unit (CPU) and describe how it is used to execute instructions; ? be able to investigate and describe in detail the essential elements of computer organisation including internal bus, memory, Input/Output ( I/O) organisations and interfacing standards and discuss how these elements function; ?
Presentation File naming convention: When you upload files to the TURNITIN for this subject, please use your student ID and Assignment number to name your files. For example, 123456_Assignment2.doc or 123456_Assignment2.mas (where 123456 is your Student ID) Please also adhere to the following formatting rules: 1. For Q1(a) you need to submit a *.mas file. 2. Please compose the answers of 1(b), 2 and 3 in a document file (doc or docx format). Please do not submit in pdf formats. Please upload the document in the TURNITIN within deadline. 3. You may put the mas file and document file in a folder, compress the folder and upload the compressed file to the TURNITIN. You may also upload the two files separately. 4. The first page (cover page) of the document file should have the following information clearly mentioned: a. Your full name b. Your Student ID c. Subject Code (ITC544) d. Assessment item number and name (Assignment 2: MARIE & ISA) 4. Each page should have page numbers in “page x of y” format (including the cover page). 5. You DO NOT need to provide any references for any of the questions
Assume ABC Company has chosen to invest in new manufacturing equipment. The initial cost of the equipment is $1,200,000. The equipment has a useful life of 20 years. The company uses straight-line depreciation. Their tax rate is 30%. Their weighted average cost of capital is 10%. The new equipment is expected to increase net cash flows by $500,000 in year 1, $350,000 in years 2 through 4, and $100,000 in years 5 through 10. Using all four investment assessment methods (IRR, ARR, NPV, or payback), perform the calculations for this project. Based on just ONE of your calculations should the project be accepted or rejected? Critique the results of the other three calculations you completed. Do they all support your accept/reject decision? Which assessment method is the best?
Question 1
What are the key types of stock typically issued by publicly traded organizations? If you were to invest $10,000 of your own funds, which type would you choose, why? Your response should be in your own words.
Question 2
Identify and explain the key elements that impact the time value of money. Your response should be in your own words.
Question 3
Outline the key elements of the Efficient Markey Theory and identify which, if any, you feel most accurately depicts how our market behaves. Your response should be in your own words.
Question 4
Identify two key liquidity ratios, explain how they are calculated, and discuss what each ratio can tell about an organization s performance. Your response should be in your own words.
Question 5
Explain the three types of premiums and the role they play bond rates. Your response should be in your own words.
Question 6
What role does the time value of money play in determining the issue price of a bond? Your response should be in your own words.
Question 7
What are junk bonds and would you recommend investing in them? Defend your answer. Your response should be in your own words.
Question 8
What is trend analysis and what information can it tell you about an organization that looking at the $$ s on the financial statements alone cannot provide? Your response should be in your own words.
Question 9
Identify one liquidity, one solvency, and one profitability ratio, explain how they are calculated, and discuss what each ratio can tell about an organization s performance. Your response should be in your own words.
Question 10
What are the key arguments of those who feel the Efficient Market Theory is invalid? Your response should be in your own words.
Write a 750-1000 word paper. APA. In your paper include the following:
Research your organization and find capital projects your company has completed in the last 5 to 10 years. Explain the project assessment methods the organization should have used to assess these projects (IRR, NPV, payback, and ARR). What are the advantages and drawbacks to using each one?
Include a title page and 3-5 references. Only one reference may be from the internet (not Wikipedia).
LEADMENT3A
To Prepare:
· Identify two to three scholarly resources, in addition to this Module’s readings, that evaluate the impact of leadership behaviors in creating healthy work environments.
· Reflect on the leadership behaviors presented in the three resources that you selected for review.
· Reflect on your results of the CliftonStrengths Assessment, and consider how the results relate to your leadership traits.
The Assignment (2-3 pages):
Personal Leadership Philosophies
Develop and submit a personal leadership philosophy that reflects what you think are characteristics of a good leader. Use the scholarly resources on leadership you selected to support your philosophy statement. Your personal leadership philosophy should include the following:
· A description of your core values
· A personal mission/vision statement
· An analysis of your CliftonStrengths Assessment summarizing the results of your profile
· A description of two key behaviors that you wish to strengthen
· A development plan that explains how you plan to improve upon the two key behaviors you selected and an explanation of how you plan to achieve your personal vision. Be specific and provide examples.
· Be sure to incorporate your colleagues’ feedback on your CliftonStrengths Assessment from this Module’s