Discussion Questions in APA format

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Question 1:

Review chapter 4 in the course text.

Discuss only one of the building block required for a strong business-IT relationship. 

Respond to at least 2 learners posts.

  

Question 2:

Review chapter 5 of the course text.

What are the recommendation for improving business-IT communication?

Do you agree with the list?

Respond to at least 2 learners posts.

Each answer atleast 1 page plus references. Both Answers to be in APA format with references and citations.

The median incomes of females in each state of the United States, including the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, are given in table #2.2.10 (“Median income of,” 2013). Create a frequency distribution, relative frequency distribution, and cumulative

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Total of 9 questions.

  

Table #2.2.10: Data of Median Income for Females

  

$31,862 

$40,550 

$36,048 

$30,752 

$41,817 

$40,236 

$47,476 

$40,500 

 

$60,332 

$33,823 

$35,438 

$37,242 

$31,238 

$39,150 

$34,023 

$33,745 

 

$33,269 

$32,684 

$31,844 

$34,599 

$48,748 

$46,185 

$36,931 

$40,416 

 

$29,548 

$33,865 

$31,067 

$33,424 

$35,484 

$41,021 

$47,155 

$32,316 

 

$42,113 

$33,459 

$32,462 

$35,746 

$31,274 

$36,027 

$37,089 

$22,117 

 

$41,412 

$31,330 

$31,329 

$33,184 

$35,301 

$32,843 

$38,177 

$40,969 

 

$40,993 

$29,688 

$35,890 

$34,381 

2.2.6 

Create a histogram and relative frequency histogram for the data in table #2.2.10. Describe the shape and any findings you can from the graph.

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Chapter 3 Questions:

  1. Define value creation for customers and the components that can be used to determine value creation per unit. How value creation is related to competitive advantage?
  2. What is a value chain? Why is efficiency so important in an organizations’ value chain activities?
  3. What building blocks in value creation can an organization use to sustain competitive advantage? How best you can sustain competitive advantage? 
  4. What does internal analysis help a company to determine? How does this process contribute to the overall health (value creation, competitive advantage, profitability) of a company?
  5. Why do companies fail? How does competitive advantage relate to failure? If competitive advantage is not maintained, what would be the consequence for a company? 

Chapter 4 Questions:

  1. What are functional level strategies? How they relate to competitive advantage of a company? How can functional level strategy contribute to efficiency? 
  2. Describe economies of scale and how it relates to competitive advantage. What strategic significance does economies of scale have for a company? What it does with the competitive advantage of a company? 
  3. How does innovation relate to competitive advantage? What can be done to sustain innovation in a company?
  4. How does customer relations contribute to competitive advantage? What is the effect of customer relations on value creation and its components?

Python program

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Write a Python program called wdcount.py which uses a dictionary to count the number of occurrences of each word (ignoring case)in a file. Note that the input file name is given from the command line. To make it simple , you may assuime that the file doesnt contain any punctuation  character .Your program firstly prints the number of different words and the total number of words in the file. Next, your program should print the word which has more than 4 characters along with its number of occurrences( in descending order. )That is, the most frequent word should be printed first. Next your program prints the no of different words and the total no of words in the file.