During week four you studied process costing and saw how this cost accounting system varied from job order costing that you learned about in week three. For your week four discussion board post I would like you do identify a publicly traded manufacturing company. BY publicly traded it means they have stock traded on an […]

  This assignment asks you to write an explanation and then give examples of Key Performance Indicators. Identify what a qualitative indicator would be. Identify what a quantitative indicator would be. Differentiate them and give two examples for each (4 examples total). What is a leading indicator? What is a lagging indicator? What would make an […]

 Read the RR Communications Case Study on pages 156-159 in the textbook. Answer Discussion Questions 1-3 at the end of the Case Study. Your responses must be complete, detailed and in APA format  1. List the advantages of a single customer service center for RR Communications.  2. Devise an implementation strategy that would guarantee the support […]

Given the growth in telecommuting and other mobile work arrangements, how might offices physically change in the coming years? Will offices as we think of them today exist in the next ten years? Why or why not? Provide extensive additional information on the topic Explain, define, or analyze the topic in detail Share an applicable […]

 Chapter 5 discusses decision making using system modeling. The author briefly mentions an open source software tool, EMA Workbench, that can perform EMA and ESDMA modeling. Find EMA Workbench online and go to their main website (not the GitHub download site). To prepare for the discussion board task do the following: 1) Under documentation, go to the Tutorials page. 2) Read through the […]

  See Chapter 9.  Briefly describe what these analysis are and offer 2 benefits examples of each:                      what- if analysis, sensitivity analysis, and goal- seeking analysis If the manager said, How many servers will be needed to reduce the waiting time of customers to less than 5 minutes?” What is the best analysis to use?   […]

   Research an area of Business Intelligence and Analytics of interest or is relevant in your industry. Areas can include topics identified in the textbook, such as: Business Intelligence and Analytics Foundations and Technologies for Decision Making Business Reporting, Visual Analytics, and Business Performance Management Web Analytics, Web Mining, and Social Analytics Model-Based Decision Making Automated Decision […]

Chapter Eight (8) According to Ligtvoet, van de Kaa, Fens, van Beers, Herder, and van den Hoven, (in press), full and comprehensive overview of all relevant components of a system increasingly continue to become difficult.  The authors assert that, the natural response to complex problems is to delve into details.  The suggestion is that an […]

  Please find 5 research articles related to the topics discussed in Chapter 5.  Topics could include: System dynamics Multi-actor systems modeling Complex adaptive systems modeling or any other topic contained in the chapter. After reading and finding the 5 research articles, create an annotated bibliography. The deliverable will be one MS Word file that you […]

   Background: Quantitative data can be measured and documented with numbers. Additionally, quantitative data can be represented as quantities. On the other hand, qualitative data is not measured with numbers, but it is represented by qualities. For example, I use quantitative methods to conduct my PhD research because I like working with counts and measures. […]