Business Intelligence and Analytics

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Please write a concise (one page) position statement regarding recent BI technology trends and their impact to an organizations strategic focus.  Please pick any of the BI technologies. How does this technology have a potential to disrupt?  What new value would be produced?  Is the BI technology a real game changer or is it just a temporary trend?

– 12 font, double spaced, apa format, no more than one page.
-the topic is about BI(Business Intelligence) technology

Kingsford Charcoal Case

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(1) How did Clorox get itself into this present situation?

(2) Of what relevant trends should the Kingsford brand managers be aware?

(3) Why do people grill?

(4) Profile a frequent griller.

(5) Why do people use charcoal versus gas when grilling?

(6) What marketing objectives do you recommend for the Kingsford brand? What is your recommended marketing objective and primary competitive focus? Make sure to explore the following categories:Cooking out vs. Dining In, Grilling vs. Gas and Charcoal.

(7) What is your action plan? Make sure your plan captures the specific aspects of pricing, advertising, promotion and production. What pricing action do you suggest? Would you spend additional money on advertising or promotions? If so, how much and why? What is your core communication message? What are your promotion objectives and tactics?

(8) What should the brand managers propose? How does your plan relate to business objectives relative to market share, profit and brand equity?

Read the case. Analysis it and follow the format. Use easy words.

Gaming Company Report

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This assignment will reinforce your ability to understand the importance of cash flows, forecasting, and discounted cash flow analysis using cost of capital.

Choose a PUBLIC company (you may NOT choose Disney!) The company You will Analyze is Activision Blizzard

Use the Disney template

Analyze the last few years (3 years minimum) in terms of the trends. Download the 3 financial statements (income statement, balance sheet, cash flow) data from MorningStar using Export button.
http://financials.morningstar.com/income-statement/is.html?t=KO&region=usa&culture=en-US

Replace KO with your stock symbol

Fill out the provided DCF template file with historical numbers for the income statement, balance sheet, depreciation, and capex using Morningstar. Review Finbox.com for hints.

Forecast the ratios needed to do a Discounted Cash Flow analysis:
Sales, EBIT, Depr, Net Working Capital, Capex. Explain your forecasts.

Calculate the Free Cash Flows to the Firm, building a discounted cash flow model with appropriate cost of capital to arrive at a current stock price.

In a paper with a max of 1200 words, explain, analyze and provide your own views of the company fundamentals using your own research, SWOT or Porter Analysis. Analyze the historical trends and which financial ratios are most important or are changing. Explain how you arrived at your forecasts of sales and ratios.

Are your forecast sales rising/falling and why?
Do you have expenses rising/falling and why?
Does the firm need more/less working capital (inventory, etc)?
Is the firm spending more/less on capital expenditures?
How is the competitive environment vs your company?

Explain if the stock is over or undervalued, and if the stock is a Buy, Hold, or Sell.

Create 6 slides

Helpful hints:

Read the latest Annual (10K) or Quarterly Report (10Q),
Research Porter/SWOT examples
Listen to the latest quarterly conference call, Earningscast.com
Finbox, Morningstar, Yahoo Finance, CNBC to do analysis

In sum, You need to fill out the template with data. Writing a 4-5 page paper and the 6 slides. Be sure to follow the template exactly and the guideliness.

Company developing Analysis

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!!!Write about Business Level Strategy (units, strategy of each, implications), Corporate Strategy, International Strategy (depending on the issue examined) of IKEA.!!!
I attached the documents below. You must read through three documents named Tips(whole document), FINAL GROUP PROJECT guidelines_2020 (all guidelines, but only need to write about Page’s topic No.8&9!!!), IKEA(browse page8-16 of the Powerpoint) as the inspirations for the essay. Thank you!!