International Business -321 NO: 1
Deadline: 20/11/2021
Critical Thinking
Read the Management Focus on, “NAFTA’s Tomato Wars,” available in your e-book (page no. 620), and answer the following questions:
Assignment Question(s)
- Do you think that Mexican producers were dumping tomatoes in the United States? Discuss.
- Was the Commerce Department right to establish a new minimum floor price rather than scrap the agreement and file an antidumping suit? Who would have benefited from an antidumping suit against Mexican tomato producers? Who would have suffered? (marks:3)
- What do you think is the optimal government policy response here? Explain your answer. (mark:1)
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NO: 2- MGT 322 – Logistics Management
Deadline: 20/11/2021
Critical Thinking
The purpose of this assignment is to identify and apply Logistics and Supply Chain Management concepts/tools to suggest logistics performance priorities. To this purpose, you should review about available literature through secondary available information. Think about how you can apply the concepts/tools that you learned in this course.
Logistics outsourcing has attracted the attention of lots of Supply chain industrialist in recent years. As firms enlarge their global reach, they often find that they need to reconsider their internal capabilities in managing the global supply chain. In many cases firms decide to outsource this function in whole or in part to agents or outsourcing firms (Trent & Roberts, 2009).
Using this concept of outsourcing you should answer the following questions by taking any Saudi company or any Multinational company of your choice.
Question:
1. Discuss, how outsourcing firms function for smooth flow of SCM? (1.5 Marks)
2. Evaluate, the reasons for using outsourcing logistics service in Saudi Arabia/any company of your choice. Using some good examples. (1.5 Marks)
3. Reasons why outsourcing logistics arrangement are not always successful?
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Project Management (MGT323) NO:3
Deadline: 20/11/2021
PART -A
Assignment Question:
Please read the Case-7.1 “Alaska Fly-Fishing Expedition.”from Chapter 7 “Managing Risk” given in your textbook – Project Management: The Managerial Process 8th edition by Larson and Gray page no: 241 also refer to specific concepts you have learned from the chapter to support your answers. Answer the questions asked in case study as deliverables where you should consider the milestones and technical requirements. Also refer to the figures from textbook mentioned in the case study. Answers to the deliverables should be within 500 Words limit.
PART-B
DISCUSSION
Do you agree that true innovation can only come from a small group of dedicated professionals?
NO :4 Technology-325
As per your textbook-
‘..Timing can be crucial – a technology that is adopted earlier than others may reap self-reinforcing advantages such as greater funds to invest in improving the technology, greater availability of complementary goods, and less customer uncertainty.’
‘Entrants are often divided into three categories: first movers (or pioneers), which are the first to sell in a new product or service category: early followers (also called early leaders), which are early to the market but not first, and late entrants, which enter the market when or after the product begins to penetrate the mass market.’
With the help of conceptual knowledge from Chapter 5 – Timing of Entry of your Textbook and research of your own, answer the following questions.
Question 1-Write a short note (200-250 words) on a successful and an unsuccessful example of each-
(a) First Mover (b) Early Follower (c) Late Entrant.(3 Marks)
Question 2- Does being a Frist Mover in a market always yield undisputedly beneficial results. (300 -500 words)
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MGT403 NO:5- Knowledge
Assignment Questions
Q.1:
- Explain the Knowledge conversion processes highlighted by Nonaka Takeuchi Model of Knowledge management. Which of these conversions are difficult and why?(
- Write a detailed note on the “Three forms of knowledge” Explained by K. Wiig in his knowledge management model. Briefly describe the four types of knowledge explained by K. Wiig
- Provide a detailed description of major roles and responsibilities in a community of practice.
Q.2:
- Why are “Communities of practice” Important? How can organizations cultivate communities of practice? How can these communities of practice contribute towards the knowledge needs of the organization?
Q.3: Explain in detail any two “Tacit Knowledge” capturing techniques used by the organizations.
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