case study 1 (information technology)

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Lesson 01 – Assignment 
Watch the following video (The World is Flat – Thomas Friedman) and then provide your personal point of view on today’s challenges, what solutions have matured and what business value is derived from Friedman’s perspective.
Your submission should be a Word document of at least 400 words, with proper grammar, spelling and punctuation, including APA formatted references and in-text citations.
Watch Video  The World is Flat 

YouTube URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53vLQnuV9FY 

toms shoes Business class strategy

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The goal of this case discussion forum is to demonstrate that you can apply the concepts and techniques learned from the video lecture and assigned readings to a concrete business situation.

When analyzing a business case, what matters the most here is to articulate your thought process: you are gradually developing your critical thinking abilities by formulating a conclusion and recommendation backed up by relevant information you picked out, and an analysis you conducted (possibly using a relevant analytical technique).

TOMS Shoes Case
Questions to answer in your initial post include:

1.What are the key elements of TOMS shoes competitive strategy: Is the main source of competitive advantage best described as low cost or differentiation? Has the company focused on a narrow market segment (“niche”) or chosen to pursue broad coverage of the footwear market? Explain.

2.Does TOMS’ business model create Shared Value or is CSR an ‘after-thought’?

3.What evidence suggests whether TOMS strategy is working: Does it have a sustainable competitive advantage in all its businesses? Is its financial performance improving or declining?

4.Now that TOMS Shoes’ largest owner has become Private Equity firm Bain Capital (Links to an external site.), do you think that TOMS will be able to preserve its social mission and grow profitably? (Why? and How?)

APA FORMAT

Write 500 words for me

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PART TWO: THE FALL – NOW

Consider how the fall and humanity’s exposure to good and evil are seen in the way some people treat themselves and others in dehumanizing ways today (examples: abuse, addiction, bullying, domestic violence, eating disorders, human trafficking, pornography, poverty, racism, vandalism, etc.).

Choose one act of dehumanization and write the script for a short TV public service announcement in 350-650 words. Use at least two different sources from the GCU Library cited in the text and listed below in the list of references. Include the following:

Highlight how the act of dehumanization is evident in the world today.
Provide solid ideas for prevention.
Include statistics, causes, and impact on people (victim, perpetrator, others as appropriate).
Discuss how a God-centered worldview contributes to a solution.
        Include notes within the script about the images and video that would be included when shooting the commercial.

From the topic materials, view the two examples of a public service announcement:

Child Internet Safety PSA – Online Predators
Dangers of Sexting: What Teens Need to Know

Write your paper below:

REFERENCES

List at least two references below for each part of the assignment above, for a minimum of four references. Prepare these references according to the guidelines found in the Student Success Center. Include the permalink for the GCU Library sources used.

Example reference:

Shuster, M. (2013). The mystery of original sin: We don’t know why God permitted the fall, but we know all too well the evil and sin that still plague us. Christianity Today, 57(3), 38-41. Retrieved from https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=rfh&AN=ATLA0001935909&site=ehost-live&scope=site

Threats to Internal Validity

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The material covered in Week 13 is likely new to most students in this course. I have tried my best to provide multiple examples of these concepts, though I recognize that they are difficult to understand when you are first learning them. One thing that I think will be helpful is providing your classmates with additional examples of these concepts that were not used in the textbook or PowerPoint. Thus, for this weeks Discussion post, I will be emailing each of you a concept that I would like you to describe in your post, using a NEW example of the concept.

For example, if I email you the concept of Testing Threats to Internal Validity, it would be your job to create a new, brief example of an experiment in which testing threats may occur. Please post your Discussion post by Sunday, 04/19/2020 at 11:59PM