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MBA Set 1 Second Year
MBA Set 1 Second Year
Adarsh Avva
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The company should expand its capacity (50
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Q 5. 2 What is the annual installment of bank loan?
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A. The company should borrow from bank since it will be paying less
interest when compared to financial institute loan.
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Adarsh Avva
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All the above roles will be played by cross functional teams who will
ensure there is increase in the project efficiency.
Adarsh Avva
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in the MIS. The plan of development of MIS is linked with the steps
of the implementation in a business development plan. Once the
management needs are translated into information needs, it is left
to the designer to evolve a plan of MIS development and
implementation.
2. Contents of the MIS plan
3. MIS goals and objectives
in the MIS which have a life cycle, that is, they have birth and
death. Their emergency may be sudden or may be a part of
the business need, and they are very much structured and rule
based. They have 100% clarity of inputs and their sources, a
definite set of outputs in terms of contents and formats.
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parties are satisfied that the new system meets their standards, the
system is formally accepted for installation.
The direct cutover strategy replaces the old system entirely with
the new system on an appointed day. At first glance, this strategy
seems less costly than the parallel conversion strategy. But, it is
a very risky approach that can potentially be more costly than
parallel activities if serious problems with the new system are
found. There is no other system to fall back on. Dislocations,
disruptions and the cost of corrections are enormous.
The pilot study strategy introduces the new system to only a limited
area of the organization, such as a single department or operating
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Moving from an old system to a new system requires that end users
be trained to use the new system. Detailed documentation showing
how the system works from both a technical and enduser standpoint
is finalized during conversion time for use in training and everyday
operations. Lack of proper training and documentation contributes
to system failure, so this portion of the systems development
process is very important.
Extranet :
An extranet is a private network that uses the Internet protocols
and the public telecommunication system to securely share part of
a business's information or operations with suppliers, vendors,
partners, customers, or other businesses. An extranet can be
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Intranet:
An internal use, private network inside an organisation that uses the
same kind of software which would also be found on the Internet.
Inter-connected network within one organization that uses Web
technologies for the sharing of information internally, not world
wide. Such information might include organization policies and
procedures, announcements, or information about new products.
Internet:
An electronic network of computers that includes nearly every
university, government, and research facility in the world. Also
included are many commercial sites. It started with four
interconnected computers in 1969 and was known as ARPAnet. A
network of computer networks which operates world-wide using a
common set of communications protocols. The vast collection of
inter-connected networks across the world that all use the TCP/IP
protocols.
Adarsh Avva
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Assignment Set – 1
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What is Market?
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They are:
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Analyzing the Micro Environment of the Organization
Marketing intermediaries:
These are firms which distribute and sell the goods of the company
to the consumer. Marketing intermediaries play an important role
in the distribution, selling and promoting the goods and services.
Stocking and delivering, bulk breaking, and selling the goods and
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Marketing Research
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Business Buying Process
e. Durability
At this stage marketer should provide comparative
advertisements to evaluate the different brands. The
advertisement should be different for different segments and
highlight the attribute according to the segment.
4. Purchase decision
In this stage consumer buy the most preferred brand. In India
affordability plays an important role at this stage.
Organizations bring many varieties of the products to cater to the
needs of customers.
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New Product Survey
Hence the lightest of laptops will almost (always) cost more than
the heaviest ones.
Another relationship is the features of a laptop which would affect
the weight of the laptop, which can be if it has a powerful graphics
card, or a larger screen etc. The laptop will end up being
comparatively heavier and more expensive. So keep a look out for
that.
2. Power Consumption
Battery life is critical for users who are on the go. On an average
workload, a regular low budget laptop would easily give you 2.5 to 3
hours of battery time. A fairly good machine would easily clock in 4
hours.
These are battery times for regular 6-cell batteries and 9-cell
batteries have longer backup times. However, power consumption
varies from manufacturer to manufacturer and model to model.
Additional features usually result in a powerful drain on battery
supply. If you are mostly mobile, power consumption becomes a
critical factor to consider.
3. Processing Power
Laptops are almost more expensive than a desktop with similar
specifications and so, it is essential to opt for a level of processing
power that matches your current and near future needs.
For office work only, an entry-level processor such as the single
core Celeron is more than enough. For multimedia enthusiasts and
power users, a Core 2 duo or equivalent processor is recommended.
4. Warranty
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Consumer Business
Every customer has equal value and There are a small number of big
represents a small % of revenue customers that account for a large % of
revenue
Sales are made remotely, the Sales are made personally, the
manufacturer doesn't meet the manufacturer gets to know the
customer customer
Products are the same for all Products are customised for different
customers. The service element is low customers. Service is highly valued
Purchases are made for personal use - Purchases are made for others to use -
image is important for its own sake image is important where it adds value
to customers
The purchaser is normally the user The purchaser is normally an
integrator, someone down the supply
chain is the user.
Costs are restricted to purchase costs Purchase costs may be a small part of
the total costs of use
The purchase event is not subject to The purchase event is conducted
tender and negotiation professionally and includes tender and
negotiation.
The exchange is one of transaction. The exchange is often one of strategic
There is no long-time view (financial intent. There is the potential for long
services differ) term value
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Important prerequisites of effective segmentation
Requisites of Effective Segmentation
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Important bases for segmenting markets
Profiler Examples
Geographic
• Region of the country
• Urban or rural
Demographic
• Age, sex, family size
• Income, occupation, education
• Religion, race, nationality
Psychographic
• Social class
• Lifestyle type
• Personality type
Behavioural
• Product usage - e.g. light, medium ,heavy users
• Brand loyalty: none, medium, high
• Type of user (e.g. with meals, special occasions)
Adarsh Avva
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Semester – Second
Assignment Set – 1
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The machines have sensing and control devices that enable them to
operate automobile. The simplest of them called machine
attachments replace human effort. They guide, locate, move and
achieve revise position by means of came, optical sensing. Load
sensing mechanisms and activate the controls to remove human
intention.
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Individual and Organisations
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Monitoring and Controlling
Monitoring and Controlling consists of those processes performed to
observe project execution so that potential problems can be
identified in a timely manner and corrective action can be taken,
when necessary, to control the execution of the project. The key
benefit is that project performance is observed and measured
regularly to identify variances from the project management plan.
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SCM is the abbreviation of supply chain Management. It is
considered by many express worldwide as the ultimate solution
towards efficient enterprise management.
Reduction of inventory
Adarsh Avva
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Minimal time and effort and maximum benefit coupled with the
best possible output or a set of outputs is the mantra of any
decision-maker. Today, decision-makers or managements have
to tackle the issue of allocating limited and scarce resources at
various levels in an organisation in the best possible manner. Man,
money, machine, time and technology are some of these common
resources. The management’s task is to obtain the best
possible output (or a set of outputs) from these given resources.
You can measure the output from factors, such as the profits, the
costs, the social welfare, and the overall effectiveness. In several
situations, you can express the output (or a set of outputs) as
a linear relationship among several variables. You can also
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Requirements of LPP
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The Simplex Algorithm
row and last column. Assign that element to the work column to
yield the smallest ratio as the pivot element. If more than one
element yields the same smallest ratio, choose the elements
randomly. The program has no solution, if none of the element in
the work column is non-negative.
Hence, for any two primal and dual feasible solutions, the
values of the objective functions, when finite, must satisfy the
following inequality.
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The strict equality, z = w, holds true when both the primal and dual
solutions are optimal. Consider the optimal condition z = w.
Given that the primal problem represents a resource allocation
model, you can think of z as representing the profit in rupees.
bi represents the number of units available of the resource i.
Therefore, we can express the equation z = w as profit (Rs) =
(units of resource i) x (profit per unit of resource i) This means
that the dual variables yi, represent the worth per unit of
resource i.
Note: Variables yi are also called as dual prices, shadow prices and
simplex multipliers. With the same logic, the inequality z < w
associated with any two feasible primal and dual solutions is
interpreted as (profit) < (worth of resources).
This relationship implies that as long as the total return from all the
activities is less than the worth of the resources, the
corresponding primal and dual solutions are not optimal.
Optimality is achieved only when the resources have been
exploited to their fullest extent, which can happen only when the
input equals the output (profit). Economically, the system is
said to be unstable (non optimal) when the input (worth of the
resources) exceeds the output (return). Stability occurs only when
the two quantities are equal.
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Sensitivity Analysis
Q 5. How can you use the Matrix Minimum method to find the initial
basic feasible solution in the transportation problem.
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Matrix Minimum method