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Please introduce yourself as an entrepreneur. Describe your field of interest and your product or service. If you are not sure about your entrepreneurship characteristics and areas for improvements, please do this weeks assignment first. A minimum of 150 words is required as your DF submission. ** Use Name – Ivan Belle. Field of Interest Entrepreneurship. You can chose the product or serves you want to use **

This question is based on this unit and your own reflections. You are asked to introduce yourself as an entrepreneur. Imagine that you are featured in one of entrepreneurs newspaper or magazine. Write up your profile as an entrepreneur featured there. You may insert your picture in your text if you wish to do so. It could be serious or funny. Preferably it should show you in any type of action related to what you do best.

Please substantiate your presentationuse examples and explain. Also note that in your submission you must indicate at least one specific product (real or imagined) that you would like to develop during the duration of this course. You need to decide on what you would want to develop. Will it be a service? A product?

Please ensure that you describe your entrepreneurship qualities first as this will allow you to have a solid starting point and will afford you a bit more time to come up with the product line-if needed. Should you want to change your product in the future units, you may do so after discussing it with your professor. This product will accompany you throughout this course so choose wisely. Should you choose to change the product (or service) in the future, you will have to explain the reason for the subsequent change and obtain your professors authorization.

Reading Assignment

“Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.” Author: Lao Tzu

Now, going back to the very beginning of this course while using metaphors please finish the following statement, but use different words and imagerynot simply a copy the opening quote:

To me entrepreneurship is.(fill in the blanks with a description of a pictureeven water if now you are still struggling with coming up with something original..).

To get a more formal definition of entrepreneurship, please visit:

What does entrepreneurship mean to you? Can you recall stories from your childhood, adolescence or adulthood when you showed any entrepreneurship inclinations? Any memories of situations when you saw a need and responded to it while creating a sustainable outcome for others. What are the entrepreneurship inclinations you ask? Lets find out.

Please take a few minutes to go back in your personal history and think of all the possible moments when you invented something or run-managed something so that it made a lasting, positive change. Now imagine yourself featured as an entrepreneur in a magazine. Your smiling face with a title of your invention-business right underneath..

READING ASSIGNMENT:

1. To read more about the history of leadership as well as familiarize yourself with leadership approaches and styles, please visit: A Framework for Addressing and Measuring Entrepreneurship by Nadim Ahmad and Anders Hoffman pages 1-12 only – available to download .

2. To read about the issues surrounding the developmental growth of an exemplary entrepreneur, please visit: – Please read the Introduction and the first two chapters of My Life and Work by Henry Ford

While reading please work closely with your Learning Journal and write down your thoughts and self-discoveries. Moreover, note in your Learning Journal the qualities exhibited by Henry Ford as well as your personal comments pertaining to entrepreneurship as a notion. How are you and your circumstances different and similar to Fords? What have you learned from his lessons?

– I want original text, no plagiarism.

– You can find the instructions in the file. Please read it carefully.

– APA Style (7th edition).

Thanks

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Textbook:

Pollard, C., Turban, E., & Wood, G. (2018). Information technology for management: On demand strategies for performance, growth, and sustainability (11th ed.). John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN: 978-1118890790; eBook ASIN: B07F7R7L6K.

In the learning journal, you should record your activities, and record problems you may have encountered, as well as your notes and thoughts about the material. In addition, you should consider the following questions for reflection:

What does quality mean to you? How does good (or bad) quality affect you personally as a consumer? Have you had experiences where your expectations were exceeded, or on the contrary, not met? How did that change your opinion of the organization and its product or service?

Please answer these questions in 300 words or more. Your answer should reflect your personal experience and should be thoughtful and introspective.

Reading Assignment

Quality Management (Knowles) Chapters 2 & 3

Read the Article from the July 8, 2007 issue of Business Week entitled

One contributor writes: “Americans have switched from Detroit Big Three vehicles to Honda and Toyota vehicles not for visual design features but for durability, reliability, good fuel consumption, and low full cost of operation. Detroit needs to offer five-passenger, 35-mile-per-gallon vehicles with 100,000-mile bumper-to-bumper warranties over 10 years of ownership to cause satisfied Honda and Toyota buyers to switch.

What is implied about what drives quality in these comments? Do customers have unrealistic expectations, or are they demanding their rights? What does this demand for quality drive innovation?

Please answer in 200 words or more. As usual, use your own words – please do not copy and paste from a web site. Be sure to reference your sources.

Reading Assignment

Read the Article from the July 8, 2007 issue of Business Week entitled

Quality Management (Knowles) Chapters 2 & 3

Student should document their activities, record problems they may have encountered and draft answers for Discussion Forums and Assignments. In addition, the student should consider the following questions for reflection: Should firms begin their strategic planning process by setting vision and mission and then go on to analyze its environment? Or, should firms first consider their environment and then shape vision and mission around it? What are benefits and drawbacks to each approach?

Reading Assignment

To get started, thoroughly read the Syllabus for this course found on the course home page in the “General Information and Forums” section.

Maijanen, P. (2020). Teaching Strategic Management. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Meyer-Cuno, Doug. (2021, February 21). Is a vision statement important? Forbes.

Sedmak, J. (2021, March 11). What is Stakeholder Engagement, and Why is it Important for Strategic Planning?

Amanda J. Gregory, Jonathan P. Atkins, Gerald Midgley, Anthony M. Hodgson. (2020) Stakeholder identification and engagement in problem structuring interventions. European Journal of Operational Research. (283)1. 321-340. .

Optional Videos

Cascade Strategy. (2019, March 19). How to Write a Good Vision Statement. [Video] Youtube.

Girdler, A. (2019, November 6). The difference between mission and vision statement [plus examples] [Video]. YouTube.

Pick an organization you are familiar with and identify which stakeholders ought to be involved in the strategic planning process. What makes these stakeholders particularly important? What unique insights do they offer? Describe which functional areas are important to the process. Which functional areas are relatively less important? Identify the most important and influential decision-makers in the strategic planning process. Evaluate the relative importance and their effect on the planning process.

Prepare a two page (double-spaced) essay. The paper should be 12-point font, Times New Roman, be at least 550 words, and include a final source list.

Reading Assignment

To get started, thoroughly read the Syllabus for this course found on the course home page in the “General Information and Forums” section.

Maijanen, P. (2020). Teaching Strategic Management. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Meyer-Cuno, Doug. (2021, February 21). Is a vision statement important? Forbes.

Sedmak, J. (2021, March 11). What is Stakeholder Engagement, and Why is it Important for Strategic Planning?

Amanda J. Gregory, Jonathan P. Atkins, Gerald Midgley, Anthony M. Hodgson. (2020) Stakeholder identification and engagement in problem structuring interventions. European Journal of Operational Research. (283)1. 321-340. .

Optional Videos

Cascade Strategy. (2019, March 19). How to Write a Good Vision Statement. [Video] Youtube.

Girdler, A. (2019, November 6). The difference between mission and vision statement [plus examples] [Video]. YouTube.

1. How has modern strategic planning changed? In what ways has strategic planning stayed the same? How do firms use mission and vision statements within a modern organization?

2. Research the vision and mission statement of an organization you’re familiar with and share it with the class. How might you improve on the statements?

Your Discussion should be at least 250 words in length, but not more than 750 words. Use APA citations and references for the textbook and any other sources used.

Reading Assignment

To get started, thoroughly read the Syllabus for this course found on the course home page in the “General Information and Forums” section.

Maijanen, P. (2020). Teaching Strategic Management. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Meyer-Cuno, Doug. (2021, February 21). Is a vision statement important? Forbes.

Sedmak, J. (2021, March 11). What is Stakeholder Engagement, and Why is it Important for Strategic Planning?

Amanda J. Gregory, Jonathan P. Atkins, Gerald Midgley, Anthony M. Hodgson. (2020) Stakeholder identification and engagement in problem structuring interventions. European Journal of Operational Research. (283)1. 321-340. .

Optional Videos

Cascade Strategy. (2019, March 19). How to Write a Good Vision Statement. [Video] Youtube.

Girdler, A. (2019, November 6). The difference between mission and vision statement [plus examples] [Video]. YouTube.