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External Assessment Assignment
The External Assessment assignment is the third part of your project. It consists of three (3) major parts: CPM, EFE and MPM.
Competitive Profile Matrix (CPM)
Complete a Competitive Profile Matrix (CPM), use at least 12 factors and three (3) competitors, including your company (your company + two more companies). Provide analytical comments on matrix results, four (4) factors, and cite sources in the APA format. Please submit CPM in excel.
Market Positioning Map (MPM)
Create a Market Positioning Map (MPM) for you company and at least its two (2) major competitors (same competitors that you use in CPM can be used for MPM). Discuss the consumer perception of the companies’ products, services, and marketing strategies. Provide analytical comments on matrix results and sources in the APA format. You may submit MPM in word, excel, power point, or any other format.
External Factor Evaluation (EFE) matrix
Complete the External Factor Evaluation (EFE) matrix with ten (10) opportunities and ten (10) threats. Provide analytical comments on matrix results, three (3) opportunities, three (3) threats, and sources in the APA format.
Please use the CPM & EFE Template and view the samples posted in this D2L module. templates attached.
also attaching the previous assignment to look back on.
Company TESLA
thank you

o complete this activity, use the Internet and Strayer databases and refer to your textbook readings. You will be tasked with finding reliable sources about a transmissible disease outbreak in a healthcare setting.
Step 1
Choose any transmissible disease for this assignment (you will focus on that same disease in the following assignment in Week 7). The disease you focus on should be a transmissible disease of concern in your own community or area of interest. You may choose to reference your county or state Department of Health (DOH) as well as the CDC website to narrow your focus. As an option, you can also choose to use one of these websites to narrow your focus to a disease of concern near you:
HealthMapLinks to an external site..
Global Incident Map Displaying Outbreaks of All Varieties of DiseasesLinks to an external site..
The Global Health Observatory Map GalleryLinks to an external site..
Step 2
Write a 1-2 page report to an audience of interest in which you do the following:
Identify and cite at least three relevant and reliable sources of data an epidemiological manager would consult when managing this outbreak.
You may consult any reliable Internet resources as long as they are less than 5 years old. This may include reports from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), or the World Health Organization (WHO).
Your resources should also provide a clear and concise summary of the data and results.
Summarize the major findings on the disease. Include a table from at least one of your resources that includes that report’s data.
Resources
HealthMapLinks to an external site..
Global Incident Map Displaying Outbreaks of All Varieties of DiseasesLinks to an external site..

The following week the student must then post 2 replies of at least 400 words each by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Sunday of the assigned Module: Week. For each thread, students must support their assertions with scholarly citations in APA format. Each reply must incorporate scholarly citations in APA format. Any sources cited must have been published within the last five years.

The Drip footwear brand: managing a
successful start-up launch and rapid
expansion during Covid-19 pandemic
The Drip footwear brand: managing a
successful start-up launch and rapid
expansion during Covid-19 pandemic
Steven Zwane, Motshedisi Sina Mathibe and Anastacia Mamabolo
Introduction
In July 2019, Mr Lekau Sehoana launched his start-up business venture called Drip
Footwear [1], which sold branded sneakers. It took Sehoana 6 weeks to sell the first 600
pairs of shoes from his car boot, not having applied any robust marketing strategies. During
his interactions with customers, it became clear that there was a gap in the market and
demand for a new South African sneaker brand. In December of the same year, he
manufactured and sold 1,200 sneakers within a few days. This rapid achievement was
enough confirmation for Sehoana that there was a need for locally manufactured and
branded shoes. Based on his early success, Sehoana decide to launch of his own
business. However, during the process of planning the formal launch, the world suddenly
experienced the first impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. During the stage of planning the
mode of operation and the full business launch, in March 2020, South Africa was placed
into the Covid-19 Alert Level 5 lockdown [2], which had an impact upon and complicated
Sehoana’s decision-making process. Despite the extremely severe lockdown regulations in
place at the time, in May 2021, Sehoana had already managed to open 11 stores in
reputable malls and sold multiple thousands of his sneakers. This instant success, putting
pressure on the manufacturing ability, distribution and costing structure, led to Sehoana
questioning the cause of the rapid growth during a pandemic and whether this level of sales
would continue to post the Covid-19 era. His major question was whether and how he would
be able to sustain the fast growth of his business without the constraints caused by the
lockdown.
Background and early years
Lekau Sehoana was born in Limpopo [3] and is an entrepreneur who progressed from a
stage in his life when he did not have any shoes to wear in High School, to establishing,
owning and managing one of the biggest and fast-growing sneaker brands in South Africa.
Sehoana’s upbringing was a challenging and difficult one because of the poor economic
living conditions in Limpopo [4] and the family issues he had to master. In the early 1990s,
Sehoana and his mother and three siblings moved to Gauteng Province to settle in a
township called Alexander [5] to seek better economic and living opportunities.
When Sehoana was still in Primary School, his family had relied on government feeding
schemes, and thus he was unaware of his poverty. However, in 2003, when he started High
School at Eqinisweni Secondary School, he realised that his family was poor when he
compared himself with other learners who came from middle-class families [6]. His mother
Steven Zwane,
Motshedisi Sina Mathibe
and Anastacia Mamabolo
are all based at the Gordon
Institute of Business
Science, University of
Pretoria, Johannesburg,
South Africa.
Disclaimer. This case is written
solely for educational purposes
and is not intended to represent
successful or unsuccessful
managerial decision-making.
The authors may have
disguised names; financial and
other recognisable information
to protect confidentiality.
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did not even have enough money for the school’s fundraising activity known as Civvies [7]
day. Since he did not own any fashionable clothes, Sehoana decided to make himself a T-
shirt, which he used as his Civvies attire. He received such positive feedback from his peers
that this encouraged him to also design a pair of sneakers. This was the beginning of his
love and passion for fashion design and entrepreneurship.
Although Sehoana essentially recreated the shoe for his own use, there was a huge interest
in his ability to remodel sneakers, and this soon became a business venture for the
youngster. He continued to pursue the passion for remodelling sneakers throughout his
years at High School from 2003 to 2008. It was the sneakers venture that helped him to be
able to buy a decent pair of school shoes, and also financially support his family.
Past entrepreneurial failures
When Sehoana was in his mid-teenage years, and while balancing his High School efforts
with his fashion enterprise dream, eager to take the sneakers business to the next level,
he conducted an intensive research on the fashion industry. After this process, when he
started to understand the industry a bit better and who the key role-players were, he
developed a business plan to be able to apply for funding. With the support from one of his
teachers, who believed in his vision and a good design portfolio, he approached
established organisations for potential partnership and funding. Sadly, he failed to obtain
funding and support.
In 2012, he went back to the drawing board, believing there was an opportunity to launch a
cleaning business. Despite the promising performance of the business, he felt as though
the returns were not sufficient or worth any sleepless nights. He decided that he wanted
more out of life, one of which was to study at a college, and thus he passed on the business
to his cousin.
He registered to study Civil Engineering at Ekurhuleni West College in 2013. While he was
still in the final year of his studies, he was already used as a site manager in a construction
company. Sehoana felt that his life was now restarting on a positive level, but within eight
months, he was retrenched on the basis of “last in first out”. However, despite this setback,
he was able to find another job in the mining industry, and in 2018, he married his High
School sweetheart. With the increasing family responsibilities in his role of provider, he
decided to launch a Chicken Dust [8] business. Upon conducting in-depth research on the
different locations and developing a business plan, he was convinced he had found the big
break-through concept. In 2018, he resigned from his work and sold his car to raise capital
for the new venture. Unfortunately, and because of too many assumption having been made
by him, the Chicken Dust business did not do well and had to be closed down within five
months. This left him in debt.
Reflection and re-entry into entrepreneurship
After the failure of the Chicken Dust venture, Sehoana found himself without a job, no
income and drowning in debt. He reflected on why he was failing and not able to sustain his
businesses. Fortunately, his wife believed in him, motivated and assured him that he was
going to rise again and be a successful entrepreneur. Following this business failure, he
took a gap year in 2018 and became a stay-at-home husband. He had been reading
fashion magazines and that is when the “fashion bug” bit him again. Sehoana remembered
that he had always had a passion for fashion entrepreneurship as demonstrated during his
High School years. He conducted a study on the industry from the comfort of his home,
looking for an entry angle that would work for him. He settled on pursuing the sneakers
business, but said to himself that “If I am to do this thing, then I have to do it big”. From his
research, he knew that he would need to target ladies for his products because they are the
major buyers of shoes and the target market for his sneakers. Since South Africans actively
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The EAT Lancet Summary report, respond to the following statement from the report: “Food will be a defining issue of the 21st century.” Your response should indicate that you’ve been able to integrate the content from the coursework, critique the impact of your own experiences, and evaluate the significance of the interconnections between food choices, health, and planetary sustainability.

Use the Basic Balanced Scorecard Template to create a balanced scorecard for each company. Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
Use the data given in Company A Information and Company A Financials to create a balanced scorecard for Company A. The balanced scorecard should highlight key performance indicators, such as net profit, annual growth, and market share, and include the four components:
Financial: Complete the financial section of the balanced scorecard template, identifying two of the most relevant key performance indicators.
Explain your rationale for the KPIs chosen, with an explanation of the cause-and-effect relationship between the chosen KPIs.
Internal Processes: Complete the internal processes section of the balanced scorecard template, identifying two of the most relevant key performance indicators.
Explain your rationale for the KPIs chosen, with an explanation of the cause-and-effect relationship between the chosen KPIs.
Customers/Market: Complete the customers/market section of the balanced scorecard template, identifying two of the most relevant key performance indicators.
Explain your rationale for the KPIs chosen, with an explanation of the cause-and-effect relationship between the chosen KPIs.
Learning and Growth: Complete the customers/market section of the balanced scorecard template, identifying two of the most relevant key performance indicators.
Explain your rationale for the KPIs chosen, with an explanation of the cause-and-effect relationship between the chosen KPIs.
Use the data given in Company B Information and Company B Financials to create a balanced scorecard for Company B. The balanced scorecard should highlight key performance indicators, such as net profit, annual growth, and market share, and include the four components:
Financial: Complete the financial section of the balanced scorecard template, identifying two of the most relevant key performance indicators.
Explain your rationale for the KPIs chosen, with an explanation of the cause-and-effect relationship between the chosen KPIs.
Internal Processes: Complete the internal processes section of the balanced scorecard template, identifying two of the most relevant key performance indicators.
Explain your rationale for the KPIs chosen, with an explanation of the cause-and-effect relationship between the chosen KPIs.
Customers/Market: Complete the customers/market section of the balanced scorecard template, identifying two of the most relevant key performance indicators.
Explain your rationale for the KPIs chosen, with an explanation of the cause-and-effect relationship between the chosen KPIs.
Learning and Growth: Complete the customers/market section of the balanced scorecard template, identifying two of the most relevant key performance indicators.
Explain your rationale for the KPIs chosen, with an explanation of the cause-and-effect relationship between the chosen KPIs.

Dear all,
I would you to talk about how importance is investing in the leaders of tomorrow in general and the future talents.
and include the United Arab Emirates and oil and gas industry.
find below the under the article what they wrote that I will write my research about to have an idea :
To succeed in the energy transition, having skilled talent is crucial, as demand for such expertise is expected to rise in the coming years. As the energy transition progresses, many current energy leaders will be stepping aside, creating opportunities for emerging leaders to rise and take charge. It is essential that the perspectives, aspirations, values, and visions of this upcoming generation are amplified. The integration of digital skills and a digital mindset will be extremely important for these leaders, enabling them to extract value from emerging opportunities driven by AI and data.
Cultivating the potential of bright young individuals to become the future workforce and pioneers in the energy transition, equipping them with the new skills necessary to fulfil the net-zero agenda is key to achieve the necessary progress for the industry. For these forward-looking visions to become a reality, today’s young leaders must be provided with the appropriate platforms and resources to ensure their voices are genuinely acknowledged.
Gain insights into the importance of climate action, energy equity, digital skills and social empowerment aimed at nurturing the skills of the next generation within the industry. This Leadership Roundtable also seeks to equip the youth with the necessary tools to become future leaders and entrepreneurs in the energy sector. In addition, offers a unique opportunity for young people to learn from, and network with, some of the energy industry’s foremost and respected leaders.

Write a 5–6 page report for an executive-level management team about whether Adidas should develop a similar DTC competitive strategy to Nike’s.
You have been hired as a consultant by Adidas to analyze Nike’s direct-to-consumer (DTC) distribution strategy to determine if Adidas should develop a similar competitive strategy. A report is to be presented to the executive management team of Adidas with your analysis.
In this assessment, you will write a report with your analysis of a DTC distribution strategy for an executive-level management team.
Respond to the following scenario as you complete your report:
You have been hired as a consultant by Adidas to analyze Nike’s direct-to-consumer (DTC) distribution strategy to determine if Adidas should develop a similar competitive strategy.
Nike, the U.S. sportswear giant, has been working to bring its manufacturing process closer to the point of sale, and concurrently adopting a direct-to-consumer strategy with a focus on owning the experience. Selling direct to consumer, commonly referred to as DTC or D2C, means you’re selling your products directly to your end customers.
Write a management report analyzing Nike’s supply chain strategy for Adidas’ executives. Include the following:
Analyze why the company (Nike) has adopted a DTC supply chain strategy by explaining the advantages and disadvantages and the impact of this strategy on its profitability.
Analyze the importance of the Internet and social media (to Nike) and compare today’s marketplace to a future marketplace advantage.
Analyze how the company’s (Nike’s) DTC strategy satisfies customers and discuss the advantages of this type of competitive distribution strategy.
Recommend steps for the company (Nike) to continue to grow its DTC strategy and support with cited sources in areas of organizational structure, technological investments, digital strategy, and customer relationship management.
Recommend steps for the company (Adidas) to effectively grow its DTC strategy and support with cited sources in areas of organizational structure, technological investments, digital strategy, and customer relationship management.
Submission Requirements
Your assessment should also meet the following requirements:
Format: Submit a professional and well-organized Word document.
Length: 5–6 double-spaced pages.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12-point.
APA format: Use current APA style and formatting for in-text citations and references. See Evidence and APA for help if you need it.
References: 3–4 sources are required. As the basis for your research, you can use any of the resources noted in this course, in the library, and on the Internet.
Note: Attributing sources in your professional and academic work throughout this course and your program supports your analysis and conclusions and demonstrates ethical behavior and academic honesty. Following APA rules for attributing sources provides consistency and ensures that readers can locate original sources if desired.
Note: Use of additional resources will assist in achieving distinguished level ratings.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
Competency 1: Examine how a supply chain supports an organizational strategy.
Explain why the company has adopted a DTC supply chain strategy.
Competency 2: Assess how to improve supply chain efficiencies.
Recommend steps for the company to continue to grow its DTC strategy.
Recommend steps for the company to effectively grow its DTC strategy.
Competency 3: Analyze supply chain systems in order to meet customer demands.
Analyze how the company’s DTC strategy satisfies customers.
Analyze the importance of the Internet and social media as related to the company’s supply chain strategy.
Competency 4: Communicate in a professional manner that is consistent with the expectations for supply chain managers and participants.
Convey purpose in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.

Excel is a tool that can be used to do everything from simple calculations like adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing to complex statistical calculations and data visualizations. Throughout the course, you will complete 6 assignments that will allow you to learn some of basic Excel techniques.
Assignment 1 is designed to give you an understanding of how to write basic formulas in Excel using relative and absolute references.
The instructions can be found in the file Excel Assignment 1 – Instructions.docx Download Excel Assignment 1 – Instructions.docxand are also shown below.
The steps to complete this assignment are below.
Watch the video entitled “Hospital Personnel Data File Orientation” for a brief overview of the data file used for the assignments. The data file is quite large. For the first 3 assignments, you will use a smaller subset of the data file. For the last 3 assignments, the entire file will be used.
Watch the video entitled “Excel Assignment 1 Demo – References and Formulas in Excel”. The video uses a different data file to demonstrate the techniques needed to complete the assignment.
Open the demo file called “Excel Assignment 1 Demo.xlsx Download Excel Assignment 1 Demo.xlsx”. This is the file used in the demo video. You can review the completed formulas in the demo file to help with the assignment.
Open the assignment file called “Excel Assignment 1.xlsx Download Excel Assignment 1.xlsx” and complete the following columns:
Pay Period Salary (Column Q) – You are given the information that there are 26 periods in the year in the file. Write a formula using the annual salary and the number of pay periods to calculate the values for the column. You must use only references in the formula. No typed numbers!
Pay Period OECs (Column R) – Other Employee Costs (OECs) are additional costs that organizations incur for each employee beyond just the employee salary. They include things like Social Security, Medicare, contribution to pension plans and health care plans. You are given the information that OECs are 38% of the salary for each employee. Write a formula using the pay period salary and OEC rate to calculate the additional costs the hospital incurs for each employee. You must use only references in the formula. No typed numbers!
Salary + OECs (Column S) – Write a formula using the pay period salary and pay period OECs to calculate total employee cost for each employee. You must use only references in the formula. No typed numbers!

Mumbai Ragpickers: Read the article, then explain how and why ragpickers balance both pride and stigma in their work.
Online Privacy in Hiring: Read the article, then decide if job applicants have a right to online privacy or if recruiters are justified in checking their online profiles.
Each answer should show your understanding of the articles and the issues they discuss.