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Question 1: What is the difference between long-range planning and strategic planning? Explain your answer.
Question 2: Describe the strategic management process, and include how it is used by organizations.
Question 3: Distinguish between the concepts of mission and vision. Provide examples in your explanation.
Question 4: Within this unit, we discussed how businesses may need to adapt to changing times in order to stay competitive. Their initial practices may have worked well previously, but may not serve them well in the long term. The newspaper industry is one that may face extinction. Explain why they may need to rethink their business strategy, and provide some advice on possible strategic management changes. Be specific to include goals/objects, strengths, and weaknesses.
Question 5: Colleges and universities, like all business, have strengths, weaknesses, and competitors. What would you consider to be an online university's internal strengths and weaknesses? Why? Also, who would you say are the competitors to online universities? What are three external opportunities and three external threats?
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Are we in a large inflationary gap
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Produce on an ad and as graph
: What is the best output that we can produce on an AD and AS graph? In looking at the AS AD graph, where do we want to be producing in the long run?
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How a manufacturing company uses jit
: Develop three (3) examples that illustrate how a manufacturing company or a service company of your choice uses JIT, and then determine three to four (3-4) benefits of JIT for that particular organization
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Environmental regulations on crude oil extraction
: Suppose that the U.S. places tighter environmental regulations on crude oil extraction, an important component in the production of plastic. How might this environmental regulation on oil affect the market for recycled plastics?
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Describe the strategic management process
: What is the difference between long-range planning and strategic planning? Explain your answer. Describe the strategic management process, and include how it is used by organizations
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Analyze differences between shiites and sunnis in relation
: Analyze the fundamental differences between Shi'ites and Sunnis in relation to the war on terrorism. Hypothesize one way in which the analysis of such differences and the information that it yields is relative to the current situation in the regio..
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Evaluate the role of ethical decision-making in business
: Discuss the key countries that might be associated with the risk and Evaluate the role of ethical decision-making in business organizations
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Libertarians and rawlsians concerning the nature of freedom
: Explain the disagreement between Libertarians and Rawlsians concerning the nature of freedom (specifically, the difference between liberty and opportunity). Explain where you stand in this debate and why. Be sure to connect your reflections to y..
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Discuss art works stylistic differences drawing conclusions
: Choose and compare three works (painting, sculpture, architecture, or mosaic), within the context or the course, there have some similarity but are of different periods. Discuss their stylistic differences, drawing conclusions where possible.
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