Impact of Telecommunication on Business

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THE COMPANY SELECTED IS: McDonald’s

The topic is: Mobile Application – Write a paper on how a particular company uses a mobile application in developing a strategic advantage to improve its efficiency or market share and create increased profits.

Course Project Outline

  • Overview and current status of the company. This should include the following: Short (not more than 1 page) introduction to the paper, the major players in the company’s industry, and a brief historical review of the company.
  • What are the characteristics of the company? What are the company’s goals, objectives, and mission? What is its organizational structure and context: Is it centralized or decentralized? What is its size (number of employees, sales volume), age, technological sophistication, business processes, automation, and leadership?
  • What strategies are currently employed by the company? What are its products and services? Who are the beneficiaries of the company products and services?
  • Discuss the company’s external opportunities (trends, vacant niches, demographics, etc.). What does the industry look like? What are the economic data (population/demographics, cost of living, GDP, etc.) that impact the organization?
  • Perform an analysis of the company’s telecommunications (includes both voice and data) function, including goals and objectives of the telecommunications function, alignment of telecommunications goals with the business goals, and the criticality of telecommunications to the organization. Is telecommunications central to the organization’s business? Is it primarily a supporting function? Is the telecommunications function used for problem solving, problem recognition or to open up new opportunities? What telecommunications equipment is employed? What vendors or sources are used and what services are used? What telecommunications problems does the company encounter? Does the company use telecommunications to its advantage or are they understaffed regarding a telecommunications manager and staff to support the technology? Are any telecommunications functions outsourced? Is there any business process design initiatives? Are there any telecommunications projects being planned or implemented? Is there a systemic approach to telecommunications projects?
  • Recommendations: Propose suggestions to management describing a project that uses telecommunications technology in an innovative way for competitive or strategic advantage. (What suggestions might you offer? Why might these suggestions be helpful? What would you recommend that the organization continue? What should they change? Would you make any changes to the mission, objectives, goals (or other inputs), the culture, structure, leadership; especially information systems/technology, etc.?)
  • Summary and Conclusions: Provide a closing to your paper that ties back to the introduction and the goals and objectives of the company in using telecommunications to obtain a strategic advantage, increase market share, and improve profits.

Guidelines and Best Practices

Papers should be approximately 12 – 14 pages, not including title page, table of contents, references, appendix or exhibits. The paper should be double-spaced, and in Times New Roman 12-point font with 1 inch margins. Please refer to Writing the Research Paper: A Handbook, 6th edition for guidelines when writing your report. The primary focus of your paper should be on how your company uses, or could better use, telecommunications features. Your paper should be formatted similar to the outline shown below.

  • Title page
  • Table of contents
  • Executive summary
  • Introduction
    • Overview and current status of the company
    • Characteristics of the company
  • Strategies of the company
  • Company strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats
  • Analysis of the company’s telecommunications
  • Recommendations
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Exhibits or Appendices
 
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"Student experience and opportunities for engagement in multi-stakeholder partnerships to achieve sustainable development goals."

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write two page essay on “Student experience and opportunities for engagement in multi-stakeholder partnerships to achieve sustainable development goals.”
When tackling large problems like sustainable development, no one organization or stakeholder can do everything themselves. They need involvement with and participation of other stakeholders. That is the focus of your essay: Who else beside businesses should be involved in achieving the SDGs? My suggestion is to focus your essay on one SDGs that is of personal interest to you.
Read only the highlighted parts of this edited pdf.
 
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SDG International Student Essay ,,

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International student essay competition “If I were a business leader … for advancing the sustainable development goals (SDGS)”
INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ESSAY COMPETITION
“IF I WERE A BUSINESS LEADER … FOR ADVANCING THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGS)”
organized under Project 15-2018 “The Role of Leadership for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals“, funded by the state subsidy for scientific work intrinsic to D. A. Tsenov Academy of Economics – Svishtov, Bulgaria.
Thematic Strands:
1. Choosing the most urgent SDG(s) at local level
These essays should address the most urgent SDG(s) in the local economic and social environment (in the opinion of the essay author) where chances to implement change and advance the choses SDG(s) seem most realistic. The essays could be focused on a single SDG or several inter-related SDGs that could be addressed simultaneously.
2. Choosing the most urgent SDG(s) at global level
These essays should address the most urgent SDG(s) at the global level (in the opinion of the essay author), where chances to initiate and implement change and advance the chosen SDG(s) seem most realistic. The essays could be focused on a single SDG or several inter-related SDGs that could be addressed simultaneously.
3. Developing an appropriate business mission
These essays should propose necessary changes in the mission statements that are prevailing in their local business environment and/or specific industries and business sectors at the global level
4. Developing new business models
These essays could focus on leadership action in proposing new business models (for the existing or emerging businesses) that would facilitate the advancement of the SDGs
5. Internal shared values and mobilization of human factor
These essays should identify key internally shared values needed to advance the SDGs through business and management practice, and elaborate on how this could be achieved through the leader’s transformational action in a concrete economic, social and cultural environment.
6. External dialogue, mobilization and partnerships
These essays should identify key external stakeholders in the specific context and suggest ways and means (including leader’s action) to facilitate a dialogue and establishment of appropriate partnerships to advance the SDGs.
7. Employing technology
These essays should elaborate on how business leaders in their specific environment could either mitigate the negative impact of the currently used technologies or employ new (environmentally friendly and socially responsible) technologies.
8. Relying on key competences gained
These essays should focus on the key competences of a responsible business leader that the author has gained in his education so far, while also providing information on good educational approaches and practices that enabled the development of these competences.
9. Developing new competences
These essays should focus on the key competences of a responsible business leader that the author believes were not sufficiently covered in the author’s education so far.
10. Suggesting changes in the educational approaches and practices
These essays should propose changes in the educational approaches and practices to facilitate the development of responsible leadership. The changes could be related to any (or a combination) of the following: educational content, educational process, faculty and students, organizational and institutional arrangements.
 
Participation in the competition:
The international competition is open to students studying in the Bachelor and Master degrees in economics, management and administration and related fields. Competition guidelines:

  1. Length of the essay – up to 3600 characters or 2 standard pages (A4, TNR14 pt, 1.5 lines).
  2. Each author can participate with one essay only. Authors should indicate their names and surnames, university, major, course, faculty number and address for feedback.
  3. The essays will be judged by a jury of faculty from the D. A. Tsenov Academy of Economics – Svishtov and from international universities involved in the project.

 
The authors if selected will receive certificates of participation and their essays will be published on CD with an ISBN.
Official languages: English
 

 
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JRN1100: News coverage of COVID-19

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Question Description

 
This assignment requires you to write a response to the following questions based on the following article and your personal experience with news coverage of COVID-19:
Reading link: Americans who primarily get news through social media are least likely to follow COVID-19 coverage, most likely to report seeing made-up news (Links to an external site.)
Assignment questions:

  1. Consider the news coverage of COVID-19 in current city and state. In your opinion, would you view the news coverage of COVID-19 in your city and state as being positive or negative. What, if anything, would you change about the news coverage concerning this pandemic in your current city and state; this could include the content, videography, digital photography packages, etc. In your explanation, be sure to identify your current city and state and the climate of news there.
  2. Consider the news coverage of COVID-19 at the national level (e.g., CNN, Fox News, New York Times, etc.). In your opinion, would you view the coverage of news about the pandemic at the national level as being positive or negative. What, if anything, would you change about the news coverage concerning this pandemic at the national level; this could include the content, videography, digital photography packages, etc. In your explanation, be sure to identify the national news organizations that you have relied on for recent news about COVID-19.
  3. What news sources do you frequent for updates about COVID-19? Why are you relying on these sources for your news and not other news sources? How did you learn about the pandemic? Provide an explanation in 2- 5 sentences.
  4. What influence has social media coverage of COVID-19 had on consumers of news? Why are some consumers of news relying on social media to get news about the pandemic?
  5. What are your thoughts about the news coverage of COVID-19 and misinformation? Have you experienced false and inaccurate or misinformation about the pandemic? Based on the findings in the article, explain at least one problem that has surfaced as a result of misinformation about the pandemic?

Instructions:
There are five questions that you should provide a response. For questions 1, 2, 4 and 5, you should include a 100 – 250 word response. As indicated on Question 3, you can respond within two to five sentences. First and third person can be used in this assignment.
Here are the additional technical specifications:

  • Type using Microsoft Word and save document as a word.doc (save as initial of first name and lastname.doc) – Example: ATabb.doc
  • Font size: 11 pt. or 12 pt.
  • Single-spaced, no more than four sentences per paragraph, 1 spacing line to separate paragraphs
  • Font options: Times New Roman, Times, Arial, Helvetica or Georgia
  • Perform a grammar, spelling and punctuation check
  • Follow the structure example
 
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