BUS 600 Foundation of Business Management Project Presentation

Below is the Project Presentation slides of BUS 600 Foundation of Business Management- prepared by Cherri Chiang and me.

Bus 600 Project Presentation Cherri_edmond 043010

View more presentations from lowedmond.

CSIT 534 Operating Systems Project Presentation

Below is the Project Presentation slides of CSIT 534 Operating Systems - prepared by Cherri Chiang and me.

CSIT 534 Presentation Cherri_edmond

View more presentations from lowedmond.

BUS540 Marketing Project Presentation

Below is the Project Presentation slides of BUS 540 Marketing - prepared by Cherri Chiang and me.

Bus 540 presentation cherri_edmond

View more presentations from lowedmond.

BUS 600 Week 10 Assignment Checklist

Summary of Wk10 Assignment checklist.

click image to view in full size

BUS 600 Week 10 Assignment 1

Assignment 1
Chapter 9 – Strategy

Brief Strategy analysis using the Seven S model on Nintendo Co. Ltd. - a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan.

Structure

Nintendo founded on 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi and their original product is handmade hanafuda cards. They did well in early 20th century with their playing cards product. They even structure the company by hiring assistants to mass production the cards as the demand is high.

Nintendo also implement the ability to change and to varies the market segment during 1950s when they venture to US market - taxi company, food industry and TV network plus toy manufacturing.

Their flexibility of the company structure allows them to react on failures or market slump of above products.

Nintendo made a good move by valueing their employee that changes the whole company structure and focus in 1970s with one of their maintenance engineers, Gunpei Yokoi with electronic background changed the entire business plan to start focussing on electronic gaming device.

Nintendo becomes one of the most influential in the video gaming industry and Japan's third most valuable listed company, with a market value of over US$85 billion.

Strategy

Nintendo is sensitive to the changes of the external environment - customer and competitor. They aim to attract customers from all ranges. Nintendo push technology to the edge with their newest consoles that made gaming more interactive with wireless (Wii).

Their all age inclusiveness has made Nintendo friendly and the most popular gaming system today as it helps to cultivate the family value and friends together. Good strategy!

Style

Japanese are well known for hardworking culture. Their ability to change and strong emphasization of quality and goal achievement allow them to be success. Nintendo is not exempted from this style at all.

In 1956, Hiroshi Yamauchi (Fusajiro Yamauchi's grandson) visited the U.S. to talk with the United States Playing Card Company to expand the international market with Disney character's.

They constantly develop new products from Famcom to Nintendo console and a whole new changes of technological gaming console of Wii. Not to forget their hand held game device of game boy to new Nintendo DSi XL.

Skills

With their superb research and development in technology and understanding of customer need skills, Nintendo manage to transform their ever lasting Mario character the legacy of Nintendo to where he is now - world most recognised video game character (official Nintendo's mascot)

Mario games, as a whole, have sold more than 210 million units - this prove the success of Nintendo staff's skill and ability to sustain and improve Mario character/ game. It's not easy to do this remarkable record referring to the history of the video game market.

Systems

Their Marketing research and sales tracking systems allow them to gather information about their customers to stay competitive with others companies.

As of October 2, 2008, Nintendo has sold over 470 million hardware units and 2.7 billion software units

Superodinate Goals

Nintendo's goals - "to build customers' loyalty, strengthening the relationship online."

Mission Statements

"At Nintendo we are proud to be working for the leading company in our industry."

"We are strongly committed to producing and marketing the best products and support services available."

"We believe it is essential not only to provide products of the highest quality, but to treat every customer with attention, consideration and respect. By listening closely to our customers, we constantly improve our products and services"

BUS 600 Week 9 Assignment Checklist

Summary of Wk9 Assignment checklist.


click image to view in full size

BUS 600 Week 9 Assignment 1

Assignment 1
Chapter 8 – Economics

When we read history books, we get to know that the success of a country or empire is related to the strength of the economy itself.

I would like to share some story telling (country economic analysis) about my home-country, Malaysia's economy history.

Hope you don't fall asleep! Hang on with me!

Malaysia Yesterday

Malaysia is situated right at the middle of South East Asia nation.

Long time ago during the 14th century.... during Malacca empire (one of the state in Malaysia) lead by a Sultanate named Parameswara transformed Malacca and Southeast Asia as a centre of trade that lasted for centuries. Various items such as porcelain and spices were actively traded during that time mainly with Europe, East Asia and China empire.

Parameswara

Malacca became an important international trading port in the far east during the 14th to 16th century. It became so rich that the Portuguese writer and trader Tome Pires said "Whoever is lord of Malacca shall have his hands on the throat of Venice".

Malaysia is known to be a source of gold, tin, birds’ nests, aromatic woods, tree resins and etc. The importance of the country mainly boosted by its strategic location. Many European traders made way into the nation in the 16th century. All begins with Portugese that came in 1511.

Bristish empire during 18th to 19th century.

Malaysia continued to attract and last conquer by English with their expansion of the British in the Malay Peninsula from 1870, Sarawak from 1841 and Sabah (Borneo) from 1882. British took over as administrators of Malaya (Malaysia's old name) and , rubber and palm oil trees were introduced for commercial purposes. Over time, Malaysia became the world's largest major producer of tin, rubber, and palm oil. These three commodities, along with other raw materials, firmly set Malaysia's economic tempo well into the mid-20th century.

With this economic expansion opportunities during that time, attracted the Chinese and Indian migrants. They work in the mines, plantations and fill up the void in professional expertise.

Malaysia national flag

Malaysia became independent in 1957. In the 1960s there was an increase in the export of hardwood timber log. The primary exports switched and came from the discovery of large deposits of oil and natural gas in East Malaysia and off the east coast of the Peninsula in the 1970s.

During 1970s, Malaysia began to imitate the four Asian Tiger economies Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore. Malaysia committed itself to a transition from being reliant on mining and agriculture to an economy that depends more on manufacturing.

With Japanese investment, heavy industries flourished and in a matter of years, Malaysian exports became the country's primary growth engine. Malaysia consistently achieved more than 7% GDP growth along with low inflation in the 1980s and the 1990s.

The development was assisted by improving health, service and education sectors. Malaysia economy continued to boom for much of the 1990s.

Malaysia Today

Manufacturing sector in Malaysia

Today, Malaysia is one of the world's largest computer hard disk manufacturing sites and involved in alot of heavy industry such as car manufacturing and high technology industry - nano technology.

The National Vision Policy (NVP) was launched in the new century. The NVP focuses on building a resilient and competitive nation. It uses key strategies of its previous policies, while summing up new policy dimensions. These dimensions include developing Malaysia into a knowledge-based society.

The ethnic Chinese continue to control the locally owned sector of the country's economy, meanwhile, has been ceded largely in favour of the Malays in many essential or strategic industries such as petroleum retailing, transportation, agriculture, automobile manufacturing, and other industries and with the support of Indian community and others ethnic group further develop and strengthen Malaysia market economy demand.

Malaysia is now one of the region's top education and healthcare destinations. Malaysia also have strong support and foundation in ICT sector. The world class ICT hub infrastructure and service - Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) initiative manage to attract leading ICT companies to locate in the MSC and undertake research, development of new products and technology. Malaysia also attracted flows of foreign investment in this sector.

Malaysia is recognised as a newly industrialised country. In 2008, GDP per capita (PPP) of Malaysia stands at US$14,215, ranking 48th in the world, and 2nd in Southeast Asia.


Malaysia Tomorrow

Malaysia's Vision 2020

Vision 2020 is a Malaysian ideal that calls for the nation to achieve a self-sufficient industrial, Malaysian-centric economy by 2020. The nation required an annual growth 7% (in real terms) in order to achieve that vision, that allow the economy to be eightfold stronger than its 1990 GDP of RM115 billion (US$38 billion). This would translate to a GDP of RM920 billion (US$290 billion) in 2020.
Globalization is also one of the key element in Vision 2020.

Conclusion:

In short, The old day economic sector of agriculture is still important for Malaysia as a backbone support of sustainability. Manufacturing plays important role in modernising the country to become the central of world technology development. Services and Investing sector is rapidly growing and will be the core of Malaysia's future economic.