Learning Goals
To assess factors that create international business opportunities
To identify potential global business opportunities for various foreign markets
Purpose
Some organizations attempt to expand their international operations by seeking foreign markets appropriate for existing products and services. Other enterprises assess foreign business environments in an attempt to meet needs in those markets.
Global Business Opportunities
Potential foreign business opportunities may be viewed in two major categories:
A. Various Country Factors create international business opportunities. These include:
Natural resources, agricultural products, or geographic factors (climate or terrain)
Level of economic development and infrastructure
Cultural characteristics, social activities, or demographic trends
Changing political situations or legal factors
Technology that may enhance production or distribution of an item
B. Relevant Industry Factors- companies attempting to gain entry into new global markets must also evaluate industry factors in order to effectively expand overall market penetration and increase revenues. These include:
Marketing potential
Entry Strategy
Organizational Structure
Business Operations
Marketing and Management Focus
You should consider several possible global business opportunities that could be the basis for new or expanding international business operations- but select only one for this project. This business opportunity may be consumer goods or services; or organizational goods and services, sold to businesses, government agencies, nonprofit organizations, schools, hospitals, hotels, or other organizations.
Some examples of global business opportunities may include:
sale of water filtration systems in developing economies;
sale of specialty food products adapted to the tastes of different cultures;
development of communication systems in countries with a weak infrastructure;
promotion of a variety of businesses (construction, medical, travel, etc.) into countries with expanding economies.
**Remember that you are trying to fill a ‘unique’ need with your business idea. Whether it is a product or service, it should provide something that other competitors do not currently offer. Your business focus also needs to use local resources from your selected country to justify the business being located there.
Development Targets:
1) Use local country resources with your new product or service.
2) Keep your start-up costs below $500,000
3) Avoid involvement with franchises or already existing companies.
4) Have your business operational in 3-6 months.
Conduct Research
Collect data and information to use in formulating this aspect of your business recommendation by considering the following:
POTENTIAL MARKETS
Discuss one of the global business opportunities for your business focus in terms of:
(a) a specific product or service, including customer benefits; and
(b) a potential market—a country that would be appropriate for this business opportunity.
POTENTIAL COMPETITORS
Identify companies that:
(a) have business activities similar (or related) to the business opportunity you are
proposing; and
(b) operate in the country that you are considering for your international business
enterprise.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES
Discuss the competitive advantages of these companies. (For example, some companies
may gain a competitive advantage as a result of access to raw materials; others may gain
an advantage through the use of technology for production and distribution or as a result
of a well-known brand name.)
ABSOLUTE AND COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGES
Analyze for the presence of an absolute or comparative advantage that might be related to
a business opportunity in the country where the item will be produced or sold. Describe
how this analysis might influence the success of your proposed business idea. (For
example, the availability of natural resources can make a business opportunity cost
efficient.)
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY ANALYSIS
Compare two or more proposed business opportunities based on factors such as foreign
market potential, start-up costs, and foreign business risks.
Prepare your summary report/recommendation in two parts-
A three-to-four page business plan abstract AND
A PowerPoint presentation (10-12 slides)
The above report should be addressed to your manager or CEO as an employee of the firm.
In addition to the above report content, you MUST include a cover page, table of contents, and reference page (in MLA or APA format) for both components of your project. These items are not counted in the minimum page/slide requirements for your report.
Your report must include the following components:
A clear description of your FDI business plan with specific details about its potential, organizational structure, timeline to be operational, etc. You MUST include the reasons why your selected country is appropriate for this business investment.
An overview of geographic, economic, cultural, political, and technological factors that creates the proposed global business opportunity.
A description of the market potential for this product or service.
A discussion of potential competitors (if any) and their global business activities.
A synopsis of any absolute or comparative advantages (as applicable).
A discussion of global business strategies that could create competitive advantages.
Recommend one foreign business opportunity (within a specific foreign market) for an existing company or a new enterprise based in the United States. Include modes of entry, organizational structure, and management focus as appropriate. Provide evidence to support your proposal.
Best Writer
Discuss Chapter 10: Alfred Marshall and Partial Equilibrium Theory.
1) Chapter 10: Alfred Marshall and Partial Equilibrium Theory – read only the first 8 pages
2) Chapter 12: Thorstein Veblen from the Lautzenheiser book
Describe Program and Career Exploration.
Support from those around you is really important. They can give you the courage and support—emotionally, personally, and in other ways—that you need to continue in school. And now that you know more about your program, the support you have at University of Maryland Global Campus, and yourself as a learner, you have a clearer idea of what brought you here, why you are here, your personal and professional goals, and what support you have and need to achieve your goal of earning a degree.
For this unit’s discussion you’ll put together a motivational speech that you would give to someone you are close to if they asked about your decision to enroll in the university right now. To prepare for your speech, review your Goals, Values, and Motivations assignment from Unit 1. Think about why you are pursuing a degree, what it means to you, and how you will be supported to achieve your goals. Consider how achieving your academic goals aligns with your personal goals, motivations, and values.
Here are some important points to cover during your speech:
How have you or your perspective changed since the first week of class?
What did you learn about yourself?
Why did you decide to go to school? Why now?
Why did you choose the program you are in?
What do you find interesting or exciting about your program?
What do you hope to achieve as you pursue your degree? How about after you finish?
What support is available at the university that you think will be important to you?
What support do you need outside the university, from family or friends?
While you may choose the format for your motivational speech, be sure that it is in a narrative format and tells your story rather than answers each question individually.
Develop a disaster recovery plan to reduce health disparities and improve access to community services after a disaster.
In this assessment, you will assume the role of the senior nurse at a regional hospital who has been assigned to develop a disaster recovery plan for the community using MAP-IT and trace-mapping, which you will present to city officials and the disaster relief team.
You may also wish to:
Review the MAP-IT (Mobilize, Assess, Plan, Implement, Track) framework, which you will use to guide the development of your plan:
Mobilize collaborative partners.
Assess community needs.
Plan to lessen health disparities and improve access to services.
Implement a plan to reach Healthy People 2020 goals or 2030 objectives.
Track community progress.
Develop a disaster recovery plan for the community that will reduce health disparities and improve access to services after a disaster.
Assess community needs.
Consider resources, personnel, budget, and community makeup.
Identify the people accountable for implementation of the plan and describe their roles.
Focus on specific Healthy People 2020 goals and 2030 objectives.
Include a timeline for the recovery effort.
Apply the MAP-IT (Mobilize, Assess, Plan, Implement, Track) framework to guide the development of your plan:
Mobilize collaborative partners.
Assess community needs.
Use the demographic data and specifics related to the disaster to identify the needs of the community and develop a recovery plan. Consider physical, emotional, cultural, and financial needs of the entire community.
Include in your plan the equitable allocation of services for the diverse community.
Apply the triage classification to provide a rationale for those who may have been injured during the train derailment. Provide support for your position.
Include in your plan contact tracing of the homeless, disabled, displaced community members, migrant workers, and those who have hearing impairment or English as a second language in the event of severe tornadoes.
Plan to reduce health disparities and improve access to services.
Implement a plan to reach Healthy People 2020 goals and 2030 objectives.
Track and trace-map community progress.
Use the CDC’s Contract Tracing Resources for Health Departments as a template to create your contact tracing.
Describe the plan for contact tracing during the disaster and recovery phase.
Develop a slide presentation of your disaster recovery plan. Be sure to also include speaker notes
Supporting Evidence
Cite at least three credible sources from peer-reviewed journals or professional industry publications within the past 5 years to support your plan.
Graded Requirements
The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide, so be sure to address each point:
Describe the determinants of health and the cultural, social, and economic barriers that impact safety, health, and recovery efforts in the community.
Consider the interrelationships among these factors.
Explain how your proposed disaster recovery plan will lessen health disparities and improve access to community services.
Consider principles of social justice and cultural sensitivity with respect to ensuring health equity for individuals, families, and aggregates within the community.
Explain how health and governmental policy impact disaster recovery efforts.
Consider the implications for individuals, families, and aggregates within the community of legislation that includes, but is not limited to, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, and the Disaster Recovery Reform Act (DRRA).
Present specific, evidence-based strategies to overcome communication barriers and enhance interprofessional collaboration to improve the disaster recovery effort.
Consider how your proposed strategies will affect members of the disaster relief team, individuals, families, and aggregates within the community.
Include evidence to support your strategies.
Organize content with clear purpose/goals and with relevant and evidence-based sources (published within 5 years).
Slides are easy to read and error free.
1Life experiences: Cross-cultural travel experiences, experience as a lower-level employee without managerial responsibilities, experience with major personal tragedy, parenting experience.
Instructions: Your task for this activity is to build an ideal leader. Following are sets of personality traits, emotional dispositions/sociocognitive traits, motivations, skills, knowledge, life experiences, and values that a leader may possess. Which are most important, though? You will choose 10 of these characteristics to use in building your leader. If you think of characteristics that aren’t in our “workshop”, then you may use others of your choice as well. Once you’ve established your list, rank these in terms of order of importance. Think through your reasons for including specific characteristics, as well as the reasons for your specific rank order. Submit a write-up a Word document that includes (a) your 1-10, ordered list of characteristics and (b) a a written explanation justifying these rankings.
Note that the characteristics reflect continuous traits or attributes. Thus, you’ll need to think through whether you want your leader to have weak, moderate, or strong tendencies toward each characteristic.
Personality traits: Openness to experience, agreeableness, conscientiousness, extraversion, neuroticism, narcissism, authoritarianism
Emotional traits/sociocognitive traits: Perspective-taking, empathy, guilt-proneness, shame proneness
Motivational tendencies: Affiliation/need to belong, drive for power, need for achievement
Skills: Listening skills, public speaking skills, persuasion/influence skills, organizational skills
Knowledge: Technical knowledge in the relevant leadership domain, knowledge of human behavior
1Life experiences: Cross-cultural travel experiences, experience as a lower-level employee without managerial responsibilities, experience with major personal tragedy, parenting experience
Values: Power, achievement, hedonism, stimulation, self-direction, universalism, benevolence, tradition, conformity, security
1Note that experience in leadership positions is not included here because this is a relatively taken for granted characteristic that nearly all people would probably choose.
Describe the public policy and the agenda setting, including why this policy was created (policy strategy) and explain how and why your policy was adopted.
Using the public policy that you chose in Topic 1 and outlined in Topic 4 (The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic
Security (CARES) Act ),
Create a paper to discuss the following criteria applying the six stages of public policy making.
In 1,750-2,000 words, do the following:
Describe the public policy and the agenda setting, including why this policy was created (policy strategy) and explain how and why your policy was adopted.
Explain how the policy was implemented and identify the target group the policy was intended for.
Describe different contexts that drive the public policy and if government has been involved in any way.
Evaluate the impact of the policy and suggest changes or make recommendations for improving the policy.
Correctly identify and discuss any public relations techniques that were used to promote this public policy.
Describe the forces and dynamics at play in the policy formulation, adoption, and implementation process. Which forces and dynamics were most significant in the formation of the policy?
Nurses Should Not Be Encouraged To Participate In Mandated Overtime Because Of The Shortages: Discuss.
Nurses Should Not Be Encouraged To Participate In Mandated Overtime Because Of The Shortages: Discuss.
Discuss Online social networks for older adults.
Discuss Online social networks for older adults.
Describe Psychiatric Medication: Psychiatrists or Primary Care Physicians.
Describe Psychiatric Medication: Psychiatrists or Primary Care Physicians.
Discuss the Issue of Implementation.
ESSAY: ISSUES OF IMPLEMENTATION ASSIGNMENT
INSTRUCTIONS
OVERVIEW
In this assignment, you will apply the learning material in a meaningful way to clarify your
understanding of the concerns associated with restorative justice, and its future. Some skeptics of
restorative justice approaches like peacemaking alternatives often cite that the process can leave
the victim open to being further victimized, and the offender as being in control. While, this is
not always the case, there are occasions in which peacemaking alternatives are not right for the
victim of the crime and the offender. Because of this, it is important that the implementation of
restorative justice approaches are made in careful consideration of best interests of all the parties
involved. Failure to do so can erode the trust that the community has in the restorative process
which will impact its implementation.