Category: Essays

Topic: Ikea supply chain management

Assessment Details

Please use mainly English sources and answer the question below according to the UK. Not USA! Many Thanks

The purpose of the assessment for this study is to test whether, and to what extent, you have reached the learning outcomes for this module. This will be related to the coursework to assess your ability to write an essay. The final-examination takes place in order to measure your ability to analyses independently the subject matter via knowledge and understanding.
Type and Weighting of Assessment

Coursework: This takes the form of a written essay of 1500 -2000 words. The purpose of this work is to assess the students’ ability to write answers on certain financial issues employing economic theory from a variety of resources. The topics for the essay will be outlined below. The result accounts for 50% of the final mark.

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Details of coursework

The coursework for this module will be assessed by the essay below:

1. Explain the term structure of interest rates. What are the effects of rise in risk and expectations on the formation of long term rates?

Basic rules for writing essays

You are requested to conform to the appropriate academic style in writing. The following guidelines should strictly be adhered when writing essays.

• Final year students are expected to do a comprehensive research before writing their essays. You should try to be selective in the use of the research material.
• Essays must have an appropriate formal structure, which is introduction, main part, and conclusions. Discussion, ideas and evidence should be organised around the main theme of the essay.
• Essays must have an appropriate contextual structure with consistency, integrated presentation, logical flow of discussion, clear connection between paragraphs and sections, statements supported with evidence.
• Do not only summarise what you have read. Try to analyse them in a critical manner. Be original.
• Essays must be typed, and proof-read to avoid minor errors regarding punctuality, spelling and grammar. . Use the mathematical editor and the drawing facilitates. Clarity is important
• Every paragraph should have, at least, three sentences and every section, at least, three paragraphs.
• Slang, colloquial words, contractions (e.g. won’t, didn’t) not to be used.
• When ideas and findings of others are presented, then the appropriate academic style of citation should be Harvard referencing.
• Each essay must have a full reference list in alphabetical order at the end.

Remember, your assignment must be your own work.
Ask yourself,
• Have I cited all sources using Harvard referencing system?
• Have I listed in my reference list all authors cited in-text?
• Have I put speech marks around quotations and cited the source.
• If I changed the sentence structure of any sources (paraphrased), have I cited that source?
• Is my discussion predominantly my own with my citations being used to justify my arguments?

You must not copy from another student nor allow other students to read or have an electronic copy of your work.
All coursework submissions will be thoroughly inspected for evidence of plagiarism and collusion and any suspected instances will be immediately reported for investigation and action through the University’s academic conduct process. Plagiarism software, for example, Turnitin is routinely used by

Instructions

The essay should be word-processed and be between 1500 – 2000 words in length. A word count should be included at end with the references. One copy must be handed in at the lecture on 11th of December, 2015, with the assessment sheet. The referred/deferred coursework deadline will be the 17th of June, 2016 in the form of another topic from the essay list.
The lateness penalties will be strictly applied. Feedback from coursework assignments will be normally provided using the Business School Assignment Assessment Form which will provide details of the strengths, weaknesses, grading rationale and points for improvement regarding your submitted work. reserves the right to use electronic means to identify plagiarism.

The General Assessment Criteria

Classification Grades 100 to 70:
• thorough understanding of key concepts /integration of theory and practice;
• focus on key factors/processes as specified in question;
• evidence of wide reading with critical understanding; evaluation of contrasting viewpoints;
• independence of thought and argument;
• well-structured flowing argument; clear, concise and correct writing;
• good academic referencing;
• well presented.

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2nd assignment: Individual Report. In this individual assignment I ask you to undertake a full case study analysis of a given company, which will involve three main parts:<br>
Part 1. The analysis of the external and internal environment of the company Part 2. The selection of the main strategic options for growth<br>
Part 3. Your strategic solutions for the company’s ongoing health.<br>
In the following paragraphs you will find advice on how to approach the different elements of case analysis in Strategy as reflected in the assignments. I will also give you advice on how to do well in these assignments.<br>
Case analysis in Strategy<br>
When considering how to analyse a case in strategy you might like to follow the model offered below, although you will find that your proposed text book contains more detailed and extensive advice.<br>
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Part one. The analysis of the external and internal environment of the company<br>
o Locating the company in its environment. This is where you set the scene, and so you should:<br>
– Offer a brief overview of the company (from your own research or the case material provided).<br>
– Put the company in its context, which will be international or global. At this point you will start using the various analytical tools available to describe the main opportunities and threats of the environment analysed. PESTEL is the usual tool employed. You should also analyse the characteristics of the industry in which the company competes and here you should employ the 5 Forces of Competition analysis carried out in some analytical depth.<br>
– You could emerge from this first analysis with a PARTIAL SWOT analysis, that is drawing out the opportunities and threats facing the firm.<br>
o After having analysed the company’s environment, the focus moves to the company itself by conducting an internal analysis where the objective is to identify the capabilities and resources developed by the company. This will be carried out through the application of some well-known analytical instruments, such as the value chain, the threshold and distinctive resources and competencies framework and the VRIO framework.<br>
You should be able by now to complete the above SWOT analysis by identifying the strengths and weaknesses of your company.<br>
o Finally, you should now be able to define the competitive position of the company in relation to the Generic Strategy chosen.<br>
Part two. The selection of the main strategic options for growth<br>
You should emerge from this Phase with an inquiry based view of your company’s level of business success and what it must do to sustain that success and continuously improve.<br>
Which are the main options for growth? To answer this question you can refer to the Ansoff Matrix and – if the company is part of a larger diversified corporation – to the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Matrix.<br>
Somewhere in this phase you will need to appraise the company’s financial state of health using well- established measures of efficiency and profitability. But please take note that we do not cover finance in our twelve weeks together but my expectation is that your studies in corporate finance should equip you to include a general commentary on the company financial predicament.<br>
Part three. Your strategic solutions for the company’s ongoing health<br>
Now that you have derived a picture of your Company’s state of health, can it be improved—what medicine can you offer?<br>
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So Phase three is about Strategic options for the future. There could be many but which would you recommend and why? Are you happy that your choices are derived from your systematic analysis of the company at Phases one and two? Are they feasible? Can they be resourced? Can they be implemented and sustained?<br>
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Introduction (100)<br>
Part I – External analysis (500 words)<br>
Part II – Internal analysis (500 words)<br>
Part III – Description of Eataly current corporate and business strategy (200 words)<br>
Part IV – Eataly’s Issues and challenges (100 words) Part V – The Selection of Strategic Options (400 words) Conclusions (200)<br>
Reference List<br>
Appendices<br>
o Purpose of the report<br>
o What does Eataly do?<br>
o What is the background of the organisation?<br>
o What industry does it operate in?<br>
o What are its geographical markets?<br>
o What products and services does it offer and what are the market segments?<br>
o What are Eataly mission, vision and value?<br>
o What generic strategy it is following? (cost leadership or<br>
differentiation?)<br>
o Who are the key stakeholders?<br>
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Overview to state the purpose of the analyses<br>
<a href=”https://1.1″ target=”_blank”>1.1</a> Macro-Environmental Analysis<br>
Refer to PESTEL model (appendix?)<br>
Discuss the main points<br>
 How do these macro factors impact the industry you are analyzing and therefore your company?<br>
<a href=”https://1.2″ target=”_blank”>1.2</a> Industry Analysis<br>
Refer to Porter’s Five Forces of Competition model (appendix?)<br>
Discuss it and draw conclusions about the attractiveness of the industry analysed.<br>
 Remember to use the appropriate factors… and to conclude: Is the industry profitable or not??<br>
<a href=”https://1.3″ target=”_blank”>1.3</a> Opportunities and Threats (Partial SWOT analysis) Derive them from <a href=”https://1.1″ target=”_blank”>1.1</a> and <a href=”https://1.2″ target=”_blank”>1.2</a><br>
IMPORTANT: You need to carry out some additional research (online) in order to undertake these first 3 sub-sections 3–5<br>
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Overview to state the purpose of the analyses<br>
<a href=”https://2.1″ target=”_blank”>2.1</a> Analysis of Eataly resources and competencies<br>
<a href=”https://2.1.1.Identification” target=”_blank”>2.1.1.Identification</a> of the Resources &amp; Competencies Refer to Value Chain model (appendix?)<br>
<a href=”https://2.1.2″ target=”_blank”>2.1.2</a>. Distinction between Threshold and Distinctive Resources &amp; Competencies Refer to Competency framework<br>
<a href=”https://2.1.3″ target=”_blank”>2.1.3</a>. Appraisal of the Resources &amp; Competencies Refer to the VRIO framework<br>
 Draw conclusions: which resources and competencies are really contributing towards Eataly sustainable competitive advantage?<br>
<a href=”https://2.2″ target=”_blank”>2.2</a> Strengths and Weaknesses (Partial SWOT analysis)<br>
Optional: Here you can also add some discussion about The Financial Performance of Eataly (using some financial ratios and statistics ..etc)<br>
3–6<br>
Threshold Resources<br>
Threshold Competences<br>
Strategic Capital<br>
Distinctive Resources<br>
Distinctive Competences<br>
<a href=”https://3.1″ target=”_blank”>3.1</a> Eataly corporate strategy<br>
Where does the company compete?<br>
Refer to the three main corporate strategies that you know<br>
<a href=”https://3.2″ target=”_blank”>3.2</a> Eataly generic strategy<br>
How does the company compete?<br>
Refer to the Strategy Clock model (appendix?) and/or Porter’s Generic Strategies model (appendix?)<br>
Provide a summary of the issues from the external and internal analyses<br>
Then highlight the issues and challenges that you believe Eataly now faces in order to remain competitive and continue to grow the business<br>
<a href=”https://5.1″ target=”_blank”>5.1</a> Generating Strategic options<br>
o Which are the 3/4 strategic options available to grow and develop the business further? To do this use:<br>
o Ansoff matrix (appendix?)<br>
o and Tows Matrix models (appendix?)<br>
<a href=”https://5.2″ target=”_blank”>5.2</a> Evaluating the Strategic Options<br>
o Refer to the SFA framework to evaluate the options identified and select the best one.<br>
<a href=”https://5.3″ target=”_blank”>5.3</a> Implementation: Which are the resources needed to implement the strategic option chosen?

MATS22001 Summative Coursework Assessment 2015/16

TASK
Working as small peer-learning groups, during the timetabled workshops, complete three Excel spreadsheet tasks (balance sheets/budgeting, ratios/metrics and absorption costing/activity based costing) given to you for the workshops.

As an individual, produce a 1000 word (+/- 10%) written piece to compare and contrast the two approaches to costing (1 paragraph) and the potential impact on profits (1 paragraph). This will include a brief justification of the data sources used (from where they would be generated and what they relate to – 1 paragraph); a brief description of the method(s) and tool(s) used for analysis (a simple table of the Excel formulas/relationships used) and your interpretation of the data in the wider economic context (what impact macro-economic factors may have on the costs of direct materials, direct labour etc. and consequent business decisions – 1 paragraph).

This coursework is designed to assess the unit learning outcomes underlined below.

Knowledge and Understanding
Explain, analyze and motivate key economic principles, accounting concepts, business metrics and statistical techniques relevant to contemporary challenges in Fashion Business.
Comprehensively explain and exemplify the nature of business analysis and the application of information systems/technology problems to address these in contemporary Fashion Business scenarios.

Intellectual Skills
Apply, question and relate and select a range of economic principles, accounting concepts, business metrics and statistical techniques a range of theories relevant to the systematic analysis and appraisal of contemporary fashion business environments and organisations.
Analyse, evaluate and interpret appropriate material from a variety of sources.

Practical Skills
Appraise, select and apply appropriate tools of analysis, including software packages and computer-based approaches, to inform and support business decision making processes.
Use appropriate sources to gain relevant information to inform and support decision making in contemporary Fashion Business.

Transferable Skills and Personal Qualities
Analyse, interpret and report clearly on data or information in accordance with a given brief; using communication methods appropriate to the context.

Submission date: December 17th 2015. 1pm Via Blackboard.
Feedback: After exam period January 2015/16.

Choose a topic from Chapters 14 or 15 of your textbook (examples below). Write a 10-12 page literature review of your topic using at least 7 scholarly journal articles. The goal of this assignment is to demonstrate your knowledge of the topic and critical thinking skills by using original research articles to demonstrate your ability to synthesize and discuss your topic.

TOPIC: Individual and cultural differences in critical thinking

According to the APA manual (p. 10),

“Literature reviews are critical evaluations of material that has already been published. By organizing, integrating,and evaluating previously published material, authors of literature reviews consider the progress of research toward clarifying a problem. In a sense, literature reviews are tutorials, in that authors

define and clarify the problem;
summarize previous investigations to inform the reader of the state of research;
identify relations, contradictions, gaps, and inconsistencies in the literature; and
suggest the next step or steps in solving the problem.”

Be sure to use APA style, including appropriate grammar, spelling, and mechanics, as well as citations and references.

Religion and Religious cultures topic: The Charter of Medina

NOTE: All sources will be uploaded

Main source: “The Charter of Medina” Author Ibn Ishaq

Secondary Sources:

-Yetkin Yildirim (2009) The Medina Charter: A Historical Case of Conflict
Resolution, Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, 20:4, 439-450

-The Constitution of Medina: A Sociolegal Interpretation of Muhammad’s Acts of Foundation of the “Umma”
Author(s): Saïd Amir Arjomand

-Edinburgh : University Press, ©1968.
Guillaume, A. (1955) The Life of Muhammad. A Translation of Ishaq’s Sirah Rasul Allah (Karachi: Oxford University Press).

(Please find 2 more secondary sources from wikiedia so you’d have a total of 5)

Read about the charter of medina from wikipedia to get a general knowledge, and then using the main source write about what it was and a general history of the charter. Then using the secondary sources, back up the primary one on how the modern scholars analyzed it.

Professors advice:
Main Idea – What is the source about?
Author/Creator – When was the source created/written?
Context – What was going on in the region, locality, country, or world when this was created?
Bias – Is the source reliable?
Contributions – How does the primary source contribute to our understanding of religion/religious belief in the time period?
Questions – What questions do you have about the source? What issues still remain?

Prepare: As you prepare to write your answer to the discussion question, think about the general education
courses that you have taken as a university student. To help you address the prompts, carefully read the articles
and websites that address the philosophy behind general education courses.
Reflect: After reviewing websites and reading the journal articles, and in light of what you discovered in
preparing to write your answer to the discussion question, consider, analyze, and explain why general education
courses should be a significant part of every student’s education.
Write: For this discussion, address the following prompts:
• Provide at least three reasons why every student should be required to take general education courses.
Explain your rationale.
• Describe what you have learned from at least two specific courses (e.g., philosophy, history, or
psychology) that illustrated usefulness in your daily life. For instance, what did you learn in history
classes beyond just names, dates, and places? In literature courses, what did you learn about life, the
university, and everything beyond the literary work itself?
• Support your claims with examples from required material(s) and/or other scholarly sources, and properly
cite any references. Be sure to include information from the websites and articles.
• Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length.
Please answer all questions.
A little about myself to help you answer questions, I am going for Healthcare Administration and would like to make a difference in my community which is Albuquerque new Mexico.
Please cite references within the discussion in brackets with authors name.and date for example (authors name, date)

The assignment is about systematic approach to writing a Review protocol. There are two review questions the writer can choose from and I will want the assignment to be done to high quality by a writer who holds a PhD degree:
The two Review questions that the writer can choose are
Either
“Is repetitive Transcranial Magnetic stimulation(rTMR) effective in the treatment of Vascular depression?”
OR
“The emotional experiences of conversion from Mild Cognitive Impairment to Dementia-Carers Perspective”
The writer work on any of the review questions he is most comfortable with.
I will be attaching the details of the specific of the assignment.
Can you please let me know if you don’t have PhD writer that will be able to do the job to high standard please.

My study subject is Fashion Marketing, and the course title is fashion business and analysis. I will upload three Excel spreadsheets later.
TASK
Working as small peer-learning groups, during the timetabled workshops, complete three Excel spreadsheet tasks (balance sheets/budgeting, ratios/metrics and absorption costing/activity based costing) given to you for the workshops.

As an individual, produce a 1000 word (+/- 10%) written piece to compare and contrast the two approaches to costing (1 paragraph) and the potential impact on profits (1 paragraph). This will include a brief justification of the data sources used (from where they would be generated and what they relate to – 1 paragraph); a brief description of the method(s) and tool(s) used for analysis (a simple table of the Excel formulas/relationships used) and your interpretation of the data in the wider economic context (what impact macro-economic factors may have on the costs of direct materials, direct labour etc. and consequent business decisions – 1 paragraph).

This coursework is designed to assess the unit learning outcomes underlined below.

Knowledge and Understanding
1.Explain, analyze and motivate key economic principles, accounting concepts, business metrics and statistical techniques relevant to contemporary challenges in Fashion Business.
2.Comprehensively explain and exemplify the nature of business analysis and the application of information systems/technology problems to address these in contemporary Fashion Business scenarios.

Intellectual Skills
3.Apply, question and relate and select a range of economic principles, accounting concepts, business metrics and statistical techniques a range of theories relevant to the systematic analysis and appraisal of contemporary fashion business environments and organisations.
4.Analyse, evaluate and interpret appropriate material from a variety of sources.

Practical Skills
5.Appraise, select and apply appropriate tools of analysis, including software packages and computer-based approaches, to inform and support business decision making processes.
6.Use appropriate sources to gain relevant information to inform and support decision making in contemporary Fashion Business.

Transferable Skills and Personal Qualities
7.Analyse, interpret and report clearly on data or information in accordance with a given brief; using communication methods appropriate to the context.

Two parts of this project are required. 1. One-page long report to explain the documentation and answer the questions below. 2. Java documentation.

Late delivery of either the report or the code will cause the refund.

https://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~matsd/uv/uv14/nlp/wsdnlp.html

First, make sure you understand: What is the problem of Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD)? Why is it important from a language technology engineering point of view? How is it a classification problem? How do you use SVM learning and classification to solve classification problems generally and in this WSD case? (No detailed understanding of the internal mechanisms of SVM:s and SVM learning algorithms is required.) What is an n-fold cross validation? How do you compute the precision, recall and F1 scores? And what do they show?
The course literature, the links given here, and other net resources give plenty of useful information about the matters important to this assignment.
A Java implementation for WSD experiments provides the point of departure for the assignment [package wsd (tar), doc].
The sense keys are from WordNet and you can see how they are explained there. Classification applies to tokens belonging to a certain lemma, defined by the lemma and pos attributes, and is binary, predicting that a token has a certain sense (defined by a WordNet sense key) or that it doesn’t have that sense (has another sense).
You (and the Java implementation) will use the following resources (placed as specified in theFileLocations class fields, which you’re expected to modify according to your own preferences):
 Data: The largest publicly available sense-tagged corpus: semcor3.0. (Download semcor3.0.) Put the semcor3.0 contents in the FileLocations.semCorLoc directory. (This is already done for our own linux system.)
 We’ll use Thorsten Joachims’ SVMlight implementation of SVM learning (svm_learn) and classification (svm_classify). (Other SVM implementations can be used, of course.) Put the two programmes in the FileLocations.progLoc directory. (This is already done for our own linux system.)
 We’ll use the classification tasks in the following text file for our experiments:senseDistinctions.txt. It lists those senses which have at least 100 positive instances, and which applies to between 40 and 60 percent of all the instances of that lemma. The 32 entries are like “add VB 2:30:00::”, i.e. lemma, pos tag, and sense key separated by blanks. PutsenseDistinctions.txt in the FileLocations.wsdData directory.
 The FileLocations.wsdData directory should have the subdirectories examples, model, and predictions, in which input and output from SVMlight will reside.
The code is compiled and executed in this way on our Linux system when you stand in the srcdirectory (but you might want to use som other environment):
javac se/uu/lingfil/stp/wsd/*.*
java se.uu.lingfil.stp.wsd.Main
To describe the experiment briefly, it performs WSD SVM training and classification on each of the sense distinctions in “senseDistinctions.txt“. First, the example data are extracted from the SemCor corpus, i.e. positive and negative instances are located and features extracted. After that, training and validation sets are created for a 10-fold crossvalidation. They are used for SVM training and classification.
The Main.main method runs the experiment and reports precision, recall and F1 score for each sense distinction crossvalidation experiment and also averages of these outcome scores. This is an example of this: output.
The Java code that is provided gives us the following:
 The ten-fold crossvalidation setup is for each sense distinction based on all available instances (i.e. the training set sizes vary). It computes precision, recall and F1 score for each sense distinction crossvalidation experiment.
 An extremely parsimonious feature extraction class – FeatureExtractorLetterLeft – is provided. It only extracts the letter immediately to the left as a feature for a token.FeatureExtractorPosLetterLeft in addition extracts the pos tag for the token immediately to the left. (Of course, a lot of useful information escapes these schemes.) FeatureExtractorLetterLeftgives this result. As the result depends on a random partitioning of the data into ten folds, each run will give slightly different results.
The assignment consists in doing the following:
 Evaluation may also be based on training sets of equal size. Overall evaluation metrics may also be based on the totality of token level outcomes. Contrast these evaluation choices with the ones made in the existing implementation! Which evaluation metrics are most interesting (in what context)? Furthermore, modify the implementation to allow evaluation metrics to be computed also in these ways.
 Try to find and implement the best pos-tag-based collocational (pos at a certain relative position) feature extraction scheme.
 Try to find and implement a better collocational (something at a certain relative position) feature extraction scheme.
 In relation to the these extractions schemes, are there any sense distinctions that are unusually easy or difficult to predict? Is it possible to explain this with the help of a linguistics-based analysis of what is reasonable to expect from behaviour of the lemma?
 Try to find and implement the best bag-of-lemmas and bag-of-word-forms feature extraction scheme and compare the two.
Grading
In order to pass this assignment, you will need to: submit solutions to all points above, document them, and support your conclusions in a way that shows that you understand the empirical methods being used.