Part 1 Needed In 12 Hours Executive Pay Please Respond

Part 1 Needed In 12 Hoursexecutive Payplease Respond To The Follow

Part 1 – needed in 12 hours "Executive Pay" Please respond to the following: · Some evidence suggests that there is a direct and positive relationship between a firm’s size and its top-level managers’ compensation. Explain what inducement you think that relationship provides to upper-level executives. · Recommend what can be done to influence the relationship so that it serves shareholders’ interests. "Dr Pepper Snapple Group 2011: Fighting to Prosper in a Highly Competitive Market" Please respond to the following: · The case study outlines six specific strategies that the firm has chosen to support its strategic direction. Determine which strategy is most likely to benefit the firm. Explain your rationale. Briefly outline at least one other strategy the firm could take to support its strategic direction. Illustrate why this new strategy would be successful. Part 2 Given your educational and career goals, an e-portfolio is an effective tool for gathering evidence of your learning and showcasing your skills for a variety of audiences. The creation of an e-portfolio is an optional but valuable component to your educational career. Regardless of whether or not this is a tool you wish to adopt, mapping out the components of an e-portfolio can assist you in identifying potential skill areas to showcase to employers or other professionals. In this short paper, you will create a brief “map” of an e-portfolio. This map should include the following: · An introductory overview of you as a professional. This should be one to three paragraphs and should highlight the personal and professional goals you have established in your academic plan of study. · A possible photograph or image (e.g., an illustration, an avatar, a work of art that relates to your professional identity and personality) to include in your overview · A list of three to four potential “pages” in your e-portfolio that you wish to include and a description of the type of work you wish to showcase on each page Your pages can be aligned to the content domains you identified in Module Six or can include other broad headings that will organize the artifacts you wish to include. · A brief discussion of possible platforms to host your e-portfolio. What platform would you choose and why? Note: At their discretion, instructors may perform an originality check on submissions using Turnitin. For additional details, please refer to the Module Six Short Paper Guidelines and Rubric document in the Assignment Guidelines and Rubrics section of the course. Business Information Systems Group Assignment - I This Assignment will be marked out of 20 and is worth 20% of your Final Grade · Groups will be self-selected teams of 3-4 students. You are encouraged to form or join a group as soon as possible. · Due date and time: One member of the group must submit a copy of the report in Blackboard, by the due date – that is, by midnight on the day of the first class after Reading Week (that is, the day of the mid-term test) Topic: A Case Study: Information Systems in [Organization X] Select an organization (business, not-for-profit, institution, etc.) and interview a senior executive (e.g., the Owner, CEO, CIO or other senior officer) about his or her company’s use of Information Systems. Your goal is to write a case study of how they use information systems to better manage their enterprise to achieve their strategic or tactical objectives. You will need to select an organization and an executive willing to be interviewed then do some research on his or her company. Then you will develop a list of questions for your interview. Then do the interview. Based on what you learn, you may want to do some additional research and analysis before writing your case study paper. When you meet, you will want to learn something about their business. How do they use information systems in general? What has been their recent focus? What problems are they trying to solve and how have they gone about solving them? Are they happy with the results? What have they learned? What are their plans for the future? Your case study should start with a summary of what the business is all about. It should then deal with how it uses information systems and it should end with your group’s observations and analysis. What are YOUR conclusions? Do you have any recommendations? Your Group’s Paper: Submit your written report (i.e., MS Word .doc file), in Blackboard, before the due date. The report should be double-spaced and use the following format: · Cover page – (list the names of ALL group members) · Executive Summary - an overview / summary of your report · Introduction – What does the reader need to know before reading the report? · Overview of Company · Business / Industry Context · Company’s Objectives · Company’s information Systems (what problem are they trying to solve?) · Observations (the executive’s and your team’s) · Your thoughts … and analysis. · Your conclusions and / or recommendations · Works Cited - this is an academic assignment … remember to properly cite and credit your sources. If you’re not sure how to do this, see me or talk with someone in the library. Not counting the cover page, the written report should be at least 15 and no more than 30 pages – and should include ALL of the above sections. The apparent level of effort, thoroughness and completeness when doing the case analysis will be a major component in the evaluation of your submission. PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL GROUP MEMBERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FULL CONTENT OF THE ASSIGNMENT SUBMITTED. IN PARTICULAR, IF ANY PART OF THE ASSIGNMENT IS PLAGIARIZED, ALL GROUP MEMBERS WILL BE PENALIZED UNDER ######’S ACADEMIC REGULATIONS. NO STUDENT WILL BE EXEMPT FOR THE REASON THAT HE/SHE WAS NOT THE PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR COMPLETING THAT PORTION OF THE ASSIGNMENT. Marks: This assignment is worth 20 marks – 20% of your total mark for this course – broken down as follows: Up to 5 Marks Background / Description of the Business Up to 5 Marks Description of Information Systems used by the business Up to 5 Marks Analysis / Conclusions / Recommendations Up to 5 Marks Overall Quality of Written Report 1 – If the assignment is submitted late, 2 marks will be deducted for each day it is late. 2 - Everyone in the group receives the same mark. 3 – One member of the group MUST submit the assignment in Blackboard by the due date.