The focus of the assignment is the re-launch of the “Lobster/Sea-food festival” which will take place sometime in 2021.  You are to design the festival and need to think through some of the following issues in coming up with your ideas:

• What the nature of event should be (type, duration, facilities and activities….)• When should the festival run?• What would be attractive in the marketplace (competitor offerings, best practice, value proposition, price point)• Which customer segments to target and how• How they could use events to create customer experience congruent within the mission (Bridlington Lobster Capital of Europe) and brand (customer journey)• Risk of undertaking the activity and how these can be mitigated. • How immersive such a festival should be e.g. overnight camping/glamping, tasks, activities, instruction……..• What type of things would work for a 12/24/36 hours of activity? • Could it be tied into other tourist assets that exist?• Are their learnings from organizations which have tried and succeeded or failed in similar activities?• What specific customer experience factors need to be considered both positives and negatives?• Some indication of how to “launch” such an event.• Costs, budget, profit?

This is an Individual assignment:

Requirements

Key Specifications and Requirements:

1. All contact with “sea food festival” organizing committee must be via the module leader.2. Assignment is to be produced as a professional report.3. Assignment length – 3500* (not including cover page, executive summary, contents, data charts, references and appendices).  Mark penalties will be applied in accordance with HUBS guidelines. 4. You are expected to produce 10 PowerPoint slides in the format of a “sales pitch” based on the ideas you create.  This will be submitted as an appendix to the main report and should not exceed 500 words (part of the 3500 words).5. You must acknowledge any factual sources of information and include references to ideas, assertion or concepts used in your discussion.  Failure to adequately referencing resources is treated as plagiarism under regulation of The Business School, University of Hull.6. You must use Harvard Referencing System to state any factual sources of information in the text and the list in a bibliography.  You can find further detailsof how to do this in the Business School Study Skills Handbook.7. It may help to have someone read through your assignment in draft form, to detect any grammatical errors, spelling mistakes, typing errors or confusion in your use of language. Careless work rarely achieves top marks and good presentation can help a strong argument to be understood more easily. 8. Content Requirement, students must demonstrate:

•Knowledge of the subject area in question.

•The ability to search out additional (relevant) material to that given in the lecture.

•The ability to marshal material into logical and coherent lines of reasoning in critical and analytical fashion.

•The ability to inform the reader whilst answering the question.

•The ability to acknowledge the contribution of others with accurate and appropriate referencing (use Harvard Referencing System) – when relevant to use.

Exercise 3-1 This chapter’s opening scenario illustrates a specific type of incident/disaster. Using a Web browser, search for information related to preparing an organization against terrorist attacks. Look up information on (a) anthrax or another biological attack (like smallpox), (b) sarin or another toxic gas, (c) low-level radiological contamination attacks. Exercise 3-2 Using a Web browser, search for available commercial applications that use various forms of RAID technologies, such as RAID 0 through RAID 5. What is the most common implementation? What is the most expensive?

The following sections discuss the RAID configurations that are most commonly used in the IT industry. RAID Level 0 This is not a form of redundant storage. RAID 0 creates one larger logical volume across several available hard disk drives and stores the data using a process known as disk striping, in which data segments, called stripes, are written in turn to each disk drive in the array. When this is done to allow multiple drives to be combined in order to gain large capacity without data redundancy, it is called disk striping without parity. Unfortunately, failure of one drive may make all data inaccessible. In fact, this level of RAID does not improve the risk situation when using disk drives; instead, it rather increases the risk of losing data from a single drive failure. RAID Level 1 Commonly called disk mirroring, RAID 1 uses twin drives in a computer system. The computer records all data to both drives simultaneously, providing a backup if the primary drive fails. This is a rather expensive and inefficient use of media. A variation of mirroring is called disk duplexing. With mirroring, the same drive controller manages both drives; with disk duplexing, each drive has its own controller. Mirroring is often used to create duplicate copies of operating system volumes for high-availability systems. Using this technique, a plan can be developed that mirrors and then splits disk pairs to create highly available copies of critical system drives. This can make multiple copies of critical data or programs readily available when needed for high-availability computing environments. RAID Level 2 A specialized form of disk striping with parity, RAID 2 is not widely used. It uses a specialized parity coding mechanism known as the Hamming code to store stripes of data on multiple data drives and corresponding redundant error correction on separate error-correcting drives. This approach allows the reconstruction of data if some of the data or redundant parity information is lost. There are no commercial implementations of RAID 2. Failure-Resistant Disk Systems (FRDS) Failure-Tolerant Disk Systems (FTDS) Disaster-Tolerant Disk Systems (DTDS) Protection against data loss due to replaceable unit failure Replaceable unit and environmental failure warning Protection against loss of access to data due to zone failure Replaceable unit monitoring and failure indication Protection against loss of access to data due to device channel failure Long-distance protection against loss of data due to zone failure Protection against loss of access to data due to controller module failure Protection against loss of access to data due to cache failure Protection against loss of access to data due to power supply failure Table 3-3 RAID classification model (continued) © Cengage Learning 2014 Data and Application Resumption 99 Copyright 2013 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be copied, scanned, or duplicated, in whole or in part. RAID Levels 3 and 4 RAID 3 uses byte-level striping of data, and RAID 4 uses blocklevel striping of data. These approaches use a process in which the data is stored in segments on dedicated data drives, and parity information is stored on a separate drive. Similar to RAID 0, one large volume is used for the data, but the parity drive operates independently to provide error recovery. RAID Level 5 RAID 5 is most commonly used in organizations that balance safety and redundancy against the costs of acquiring and operating the systems. It is similar to RAID 3 and 4 in that it stripes the data across multiple drives, but there is no dedicated parity drive. Instead, segments of data are interleaved with parity data and are written across all the drives in the set. RAID 5 drives can also be hot swapped, meaning they can be replaced without taking the entire system down. RAID Level 6 A combination of RAID 1 and RAID 5, this provides block-level striping with double-distributed parity and allows systems so protected to recover from two simultaneous drive failures. RAID Level 7 This is a proprietary variation on RAID 5 in which the array works as a single virtual drive. RAID 7 is sometimes performed by running special software over RAID 5 hardware. RAID Level 0+1 This is a combination of RAID 0 and RAID 1. Raid 0 is used for its performance, and RAID 1 is used for its fault tolerance. This model creates a second striped set to mirror a primary striped set (striping, then mirroring). RAID Level 1+0 This is a combination of RAID 1 and RAID 0. Raid 0 is used for its performance, and RAID 1 is used for its fault tolerance. This model creates a striped set from a mirrored set (mirroring, then striping). RAID Level 5+1 This is a combination of RAID 5 and RAID 1. Raid 5 is used for its robustness, but then the method adds a separate data parity drive not found in RAID 5

Should be atleast 3 pages

Note: for reference question is from below textbook ,
From Chapter 3, page 123, Real World Exercise 3.1 and 3.2

For this assignment, please read Alcacer, J., Agrawal, A., Vaish, H. (2013, 2017). Walmart around the world. Harvard Business School. (Access is available in the course modules under the “Getting Started” heading, then “Course Pack”)

Your written report should be three to five pages. This report is written for the CEO. Your assignment is to provide a 5-year strategy to successfully grow in the African market.

In 2011, Walmart entered the African market by acquiring a controlling (51%) interest in Massmart. Based on your analysis of Walmart’s global expansion performance up to today and your research on the African retail market, present your recommendations on what Walmart should do to be successful in Africa. (Use a five-year timeframe.) Your strategy should include a discussion of market entry methods and explain why they are appropriate. You should mention specific countries and recommend the type of Walmart store appropriate for each market. Provide compelling support for your recommendations. Also, please consider Ghemawat’s CAGE Distance Framework (remember the HBR “Distance still matters” article you read earlier in the term) when you are analyzing the case. (You should devote over 90% of your case analysis to answering this question.)

Please include exhibits and references in a separate Appendix.

Case Analysis Guidelines

• Three- to five-page typed Case summary. Do not exceed the five-page limit for your written paper. You can use a sixth page for graphics (chart, graph, table, and picture) that are relevant to your case analysis or recommendations. The appendix is an added page
• Assume your case summary will be read by the CEO and Board of Directors. Be professional
• Be clear and concise. However, be specific enough to demonstrate what you know
• You will receive a much better grade for thorough research, original thoughts and ideas, and well-supported recommendations. You will receive a very low grade for lack of research and unsupported recommendations. Do not repeat the facts given in the case
• Written analysis
  • Discuss the challenges and/or important factors facing the company
  • Show evidence that you performed research on relevant topics (industry, company, product, country, market, competition, etc.) and understand the current situation (the cases are several years old)
  • Recommend a specific course of action and provide a convincing explanation as to why your actions will lead to success for the company (vague and general reasons will not convince me)
  • Do not merely repeat facts stated in the case. Demonstrate your critical thinking ability
• Financial analysis
  • Use the knowledge and quantitative skills you acquired in your accounting, finance, economics, statistics, etc., courses
  • Use data and information to analyze the situation and support your recommendations
  • Use charts, graphs, tables, etc., to explain the situation and help others to understand your recommendations

For this assignment, please read Alcacer, J., Agrawal, A., Vaish, H. (2013, 2017). Walmart around the world. Harvard Business School. (Access is available in the course modules under the “Getting Started” heading, then “Course Pack”)

Your written report should be three to five pages. This report is written for the CEO. Your assignment is to provide a 5-year strategy to successfully grow in the African market.

In 2011, Walmart entered the African market by acquiring a controlling (51%) interest in Massmart. Based on your analysis of Walmart’s global expansion performance up to today and your research on the African retail market, present your recommendations on what Walmart should do to be successful in Africa. (Use a five-year timeframe.) Your strategy should include a discussion of market entry methods and explain why they are appropriate. You should mention specific countries and recommend the type of Walmart store appropriate for each market. Provide compelling support for your recommendations. Also, please consider Ghemawat’s CAGE Distance Framework (remember the HBR “Distance still matters” article you read earlier in the term) when you are analyzing the case. (You should devote over 90% of your case analysis to answering this question.)

Please include exhibits and references in a separate Appendix.

Case Analysis Guidelines

• Three- to five-page typed Case summary. Do not exceed the five-page limit for your written paper. You can use a sixth page for graphics (chart, graph, table, and picture) that are relevant to your case analysis or recommendations. The appendix is an added page
• Assume your case summary will be read by the CEO and Board of Directors. Be professional
• Be clear and concise. However, be specific enough to demonstrate what you know
• You will receive a much better grade for thorough research, original thoughts and ideas, and well-supported recommendations. You will receive a very low grade for lack of research and unsupported recommendations. Do not repeat the facts given in the case
• Written analysis
  • Discuss the challenges and/or important factors facing the company
  • Show evidence that you performed research on relevant topics (industry, company, product, country, market, competition, etc.) and understand the current situation (the cases are several years old)
  • Recommend a specific course of action and provide a convincing explanation as to why your actions will lead to success for the company (vague and general reasons will not convince me)
  • Do not merely repeat facts stated in the case. Demonstrate your critical thinking ability
• Financial analysis
  • Use the knowledge and quantitative skills you acquired in your accounting, finance, economics, statistics, etc., courses
  • Use data and information to analyze the situation and support your recommendations
  • Use charts, graphs, tables, etc., to explain the situation and help others to understand your recommendations

Discuss Strategic Project Management for Supply Chain Management

Strategic Project Management for Supply Chain Management

Instructions:  You must pick 2 of the 4  questions listed and answer them.  Indicate which questions you are responding when you turn this in.

You may use word, excel, or power point format

questions:  SCM6030_Stevenson_FinalExam 8_14_2020.docx

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Strategic Project Management for Supply Chain Management

Instructions:  You must pick 2 of the 4  questions listed and answer them.  Indicate which questions you are responding when you turn this in.

You may use word, excel, or power point format

questions:  SCM6030_Stevenson_FinalExam 8_14_2020.docx

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