Six Sigma focuses on creating an organizational climate that fosters and supports continuous improvement. Such improvement in quality begins a chain reaction that involves fewer delays, better use of resources, and fewer mistakes. This, in turn, results in increased market share and a more profitable company. (Six Sigma, p. 15)

Dr. Edwards Deming developed a series of 14 points that serve as a guide for management to improve all facets of an organization – from daily operations to leadership to empowering all levels of employees.

Review Deming’s 14 Points and respond to the following:

• Consider your own place of employment or that of a friend or family member. Briefly describe this organization and identify its core business.
• From your point of view, analyze each of the 14 Points as they relate to your choice of organization.
• Identify the strengths and the weaknesses. How would you improve the processes in this organization?
• Which of Deming’s 14 points do you find the most interesting? Explain why you selected this particular point.

When you reply to your classmates, assume you are the manager. Where do you see areas for improvement? What advice and recommendations would you give?

Chapter 3 is entitled “cost behavior” and deals with how an accountant who works for an organization can examine and analyze different aspects of costs.  Assume you are a CFO, and your CEO has asked you to give him/her a briefing on why he/she should be interested in how a cost behaves.  What do you explain to the CEO? Please give a brief discussion of why you believe cost behavior should be a part of information made to the CEO.

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I need this assignments answersat least 3 pages. use attached files to answer 6 questions. please number as it is in attached pictures using microsoftword.you dont need to rewrite question, just answer. ( example : chapter 5

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The above titles are actually questions for a two-part research assignment that I wanted to list all on one page. For the first one, “Strategy and Positioning Analysis Part 2”

Use the same product and organization you identified in your Week 3 Strategy and Positioning Analysis, here was my team’s idea from Week 3 of the company and product we picked:

Nestle Corporation and a Water Purification Product, specifically a single serve water purification product that comes in a small dropper and contains safe purifying water mixed with chlorine dioxide, which is a chemical you’ll find used in water treatment plants and is designed as a small, easy-to-grip bottle that can be convenient for any kinds of traveling, especially for something like camping outdoors, for workouts or to take on the job at work.

Develop a 2,100-word analysis (excluding cover page and reference page words) that includes:

• Introduction
• Describe how your marketing efforts and marketing mix will change with each phase in the product life cycle
• Explain how the packaging you will use for your product or service will add value.
• Analyze the appropriate pricing strategy for your product or service and the price you will set at launch.
• Evaluate the channels of distribution you will use to sell your product along with a description of how each channel partner will add value.
• Conclusion

Include at least four sources of research that support your analysis; at least a few that are peer-reviewed researched and a few that are secondary research.

Format your assignment consistent with APA guidelines, including citations used within essay paper.

For the second assignment titled “Marketing Research Report” the instructions include the following:

Use the same company from your Week 2 assignment.Company used was Netflix.

Your company has decided to launch a new line of products.

Create a 1,400-word report (excluding cover page and reference page words) and include the following information:

• Introduction
• Choose the target market for your new product, and describe your target market in detail.
• Create a new product that would appeal to your market. This should be a product that you come up with, not something that the company is already releasing. (My idea I sort of had in mind for this one was possibly maybe expanding their service by adding a livestream feature where the technology and systems behind this could compete even better with other current online livestream options and provide better benefits in the future for consumers, but if you may have other ideas to offer, I wouldn’t mind since I’m having a difficult time thinking what kind of new service or product I could think up of for the Netflix Company).
• Focus now on what you’ve learned about marketing research. Develop at least one question you’d try to answer via marketing research for each characteristic of the target market (demographic, geographic, psychographic, and behavioral) that will be important for you as you determine the marketing strategy for this new product.
• Recommend the best methods of conducting marketing research to answer these questions. Use at least some of the tools discussed in the text. Be sure to include why you chose these particular methods.
• Outline the steps you will take to bring your product to market from idea generation to commercialization, using a multi-step product development process.
• Conclusion

Format your assignment consistent with APA guidelines. As always, include a reference page and include citations used within essay research.

Side Note: Attached below are some essay papers and a PowerPoint presentation, one of them I’ve worked on with team members, but these two upcoming assignments are both individual ones and I appreciate any help I can get on them. Thanks!

Using IT for Strategic Purposes

There are many examples of businesses using IT for strategic purposes. Each member of Group A should do some research, or draw from your own experience, and tell us about a company that used some form of information technology for STRATEGIC purposes. Please be sure to tell us what the strategy was that they were working toward. There are many examples in the textbook, and our discussion will be much richer if you select something that is not covered there.

For this week, each member of Group A should create a main posting by Thursday midnight. Please cite all resource used to complete this assignment to avoid plagiarism. All content will be checked for originality.

Thank you,