Delta Corporation has been very impressed with the progress it has made with its new product line and the new marketing approach that you recommended and instigated. As a result, it is now considering expanding this approach for its other product lines, providing them with the ability to market and sell all of its products online. However, it has not considered the implications for its IT department in developing this type of plan. As the Social Media Marketing Consultant, you are familiar with integrating business and IT strategic planning. They have called upon you to provide advice. You need to:

• Explain what the company needs to consider if it is going to move to a more on-line approach for its sales and marketing activities. In particular, describe the consequences for its IT department and why they need to be involved in the planning phase.
• Given the likely increase in costs associated with this move, you need to outline the potential benefits and possible pitfalls of outsourcing the IT maintenance and development.
• Outline some strategic technology trends that the company may wish to monitor and consider for the future.
• Finally, research a company in Saudi Arabia and discuss whether they were able to align their overall strategy and their IT strategy. If they were successful discuss how they managed this alignment and what benefits they gained from doing so. If they were not so successful, explain how and why you felt that occurred.

– Your well-written report should be 5 pages in length, not including the title and reference pages.

– To make it easier to read and therefore grade, make sure you clearly delineate each section of your answer so it can be matched with the relevant question.

-Use academic writing standards and APA style guidelines, citing at least three references as appropriate.

– Each part carries equal weight in terms of length

Can you help me do these Chapter 9 questions, Chapter 9 Application Statement, Chapter 10 questions, Chapter 10 application statement?

Chapter 9 questions

question 1 What resources and capabilities did Disney and Matteleach bring to an alliance

question 2 Starbucks has created strategic alliances with Barnes& Noble and Target. Why might these companies want a Starbucks inside theirstores? Would this be a slow, fast, or standard-cycle market?

question 3 Microsoft started licensing its operating system to IBMin 1980. What type of business level cooperative strategy was that. Explain(2-3 sentences)

question 4 Identify a major company that uses internationalstrategic alliances. What type of company are they working with and why wouldthey do so?

question 5 How could a cost-minimization approach to managingcooperative strategies affect innovation?

Chapter 9 Application Statement

As you review the chapter, identify key conceptsand applythose concepts to a company. You may use an organization that you work for, areinterested in, or choose a public company that you are familiar with. The totalassignment should be about a page, double spaced, although you are welcome towrite more if you wish.

Chapter 10 questions

question 1 What could an owner do to avoid hiring a CEO that mightpursue their own interests?

question 2 How might owning stock in your company influencedirector’s behavior?

question 3 What potential benefits or drawbacks might come fromstock options as part of CEO compensation?

question 4 What are potential outcomes for shareholders if CEOsuse defense tactics to avoid a takeover in a struggling firm?

question 5 What corporate governance concerns might you have whenexpanding a company to different countries?

Chapter 10 Application Statement

As you review the chapter, identify key conceptsand applythose concepts to a company. You may use an organization that you work for, areinterested in, or choose a public company that you are familiar with. The totalassignment should be about a page, double spaced, although you are welcome towrite more if you wish.

Learning, training, and talent development are some of the most important methods to align staff with organizational strategy. They can help the organization to ensure that employees are equipped with the necessary competencies needed to address today’s ever-changing work environment (due to technological changes, marketplace disruptions, innovative practices, etc.). To ensure the effectiveness of a performance management program, learning, training, and development must be encompassed.

Select an organization that you have worked for or are currently employed by. Then, explain the following:

1. How is learning, training, and talent development incorporated into the performance management system?
2. Imagine you are the HR Manager for this company. Explain what you would do to ensure that the learning, training, and talent development opportunities offered enhance workplace success and also meet the needs of Saudi Vision 2030.

It is important to present an in-depth analysis and integrate sufficient support from scholarly resources throughout the assignment. Use suitable headings and subheadings to organize the work in an appropriate manner. Be sure to support your statements with logic and argument, citing any sources referenced.

Embed course material concepts, principles, and theories (require supporting citations) in your initial response along with at least one scholarly, peer-reviewed journal article. Keep in mind that these scholarly references can be found in the Saudi Digital Library by conducting an advanced search specific to scholarly references. Use Saudi Electronic University academic writing standards and APA style guidelines.

Ref:

Haider, S., & Kayani, U. N. (2020, May 11). The impact of customer knowledge management capability on project performance-mediating role of strategic agility. Knowledge Management, June 2020.

Patel, B., Patel, A., & Sharma, A. (2020). Examining the role of HR professionals in developing efficient and effective performance management systems. AAYAM: AKGIM Journal of Management, 10(1), 17-24.

Rever Team. (2019, February 27). 6 continuous improvement tools & techniques. Retrieved from https://reverscore.com/continuous-improvement-tool…

The Question:

You are the Chairman of the Board of a well-known, publicly traded corporation. You are personally responsible for convincing the Board to fund a new product design that ultimately failed when it was placed on the market, causing extreme losses for the corporation. The shareholders now want to hold you personally responsible for all the losses to the corporation and have filed a derivative lawsuit in the name of the corporation in which you are the defendant. Please describe how you would defend yourself using the Business Judgment Rule. Create and describe any facts you think will support your position under this Rule. Limit your facts to only those that will support your position under this Rule and no others.

Tips for answer:

1. Issues what is the business judgment rule (definition, etc.)

2. What do you argue to prevent the defendant. (Make sure to gather all information, admit if the decision is 100% is loyal to corporation, and talk about Good Faith.

In other word, describe first, what is the business judgement rule? And then you’re going to describe how you’re just make up the facts by the way, how your, just logic make up how you know, or what proof you would have that this person was acting 100% loyal to the company and the decision that they generally made a competent decision somehow because maybe they did a market survey, they did lots of, you know, get all the information that could possibly find to decide on which product they were going to put out. And number three, that they were dealing in good faith. Don’t forget about good faith, make sure you put in good faith and why.

Please solve based on the BOOK uploaded below. No plagiarism at all. APA style references.

For this Assignment, you are a member of the executive team for a global nonprofit aimed at improving health and reducing child mortality rates in the developing world. Funding for the organization comes primarily from private donors (mainly in the U.S. and Canada) and through foundation grants. You have just learned that a shipment of straw-type personal water filters provided (but not manufactured by) your organization have been found to be defective. These filters are widely distributed by your organization in areas with contaminated water supplies and have proven highly effective at reducing instances of water-borne infections caused by bacteria and parasites. However, reports are coming in of increased illness rates from contaminated water in the areas where this shipment was distributed.

You have been asked, as a member of a quickly convened crisis response team, to outline a crisis communication response plan for the organization with an accompanying rationale (with appropriate academic and professional sources to support your report) that will be reviewed by the CEO, Mary Stevenson. Your communications report should be 7–9 pages in total (4–5 pages for Part 1 and 3–4 pages for Part 2), not including title page, references page, and appendix (with your completed Stakeholder Worksheet).

To prepare for this Assignment:

Download the Module 3 Assignment Template. Note: Be sure to keep a copy of your completed Assignment this week, as you will be adding to the same file for your Week 8 Assignment.

By Day 7

Submit Part 1 of your communications report in which you address the following in 4–5 pages (excluding references):

• Part 1: Crisis Communication Guidelines

Identify key guidelines and/or principles to use in responding appropriately to a crisis, including social media considerations.

Illustrate steps for Ms. Stevenson to follow in formulating an effective and appropriate crisis message.

Choose methods for communicating with both virtual and geographically dispersed teams and stakeholders..