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Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management
BE322/4 -- Second Semester 2017-2018

I. TMA Topic overview: Business Plan


One vehicle for acquiring an understanding of the entrepreneurial process is through the preparation of a start-up business plan. The focus of this TMA is to select a business idea and create a complete and persuasive mini- business plan. Writing a business plan requires you to ask tough questions about the nature of the business.
• What are the benefits of your product or service?
• What is the target market and how will you penetrate it?
• How will you develop and produce the product or service?
• What is required from the management team?
• What are the risks of the venture and what can you do to reduce them?
• What are the financial implications of the plan?
• What resources, including funding, are required to successfully create the business plan?

II. TMA components (for essay paper and PowerPoint presentation)

A. The Written Plan: The body of the written business plan should be no more than 10 pages including the executive summary and all financial statements. Plans must include an explanation of the offering to investors that indicate the investment required, expected ROI, marketing plan, operations plan, and management team description.

Introduction

Executive summary: Major Objectives, Description of Product(s), Financial Projection, Marketing Strategy.

Description of the business

Description of the market: Target Market: Who? How Many?
Analysis of Competition: How Many? Strengths and Weakness?
Market Penetration Projections and Strategies

Description of the products: What Is to Be Developed or Sold?

Management structure: Owners and Their Experience

Goals/Objectives/Strategy: Revenue Forecasts
Marketing Plans
How Sales Are To Be Made
Advertising and Sales Promotion
Manufacturing Plans
Financial Plans

Financial Analysis


B. Business Plan Presentation: Strong written and oral skills greatly facilitate success in the business world. Those individuals that can effectively communicate their ideas will have an advantage over those that cannot. Your team will present your business plan to the class and, if applicable, participate in a business plan competition.










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T306B TMA- SPRING 2017-2018



You are asked to discuss with your tutor the topic/situation that you will investigates, once you got the approval from your tutor then you need to submit 3 new pieces of work to your tutor for this assignment. You should produce:

Q1. A Tutor Report of about 2000 words that describes the situation you are addressing in course terms drawing freely on the concepts taught in T306. The discussion and argument should guide your tutor through your chosen method and demonstrate the progression and interconnectedness within your method from one stage’s outcome to the next. Your Tutor Report should include a range of diagrams to help your tutor make sense of the situation and subsequent analysis. It should also include the analysis method diagram and your Ethicality Statement. (60 marks)

Q2. A Client Report of about 500 words. This should be a briefing document aimed at your Client and in plain English that justifies and ‘sells’ the options for change and/or recommendations coming out of your study. (20 marks)


Q3. Project Log. The whole of this document can be seen as ‘the story of your Project’ and is in two sections. The first part – the summaries – can be an extract from your Learning Album if appropriate. These should consist of weekly or period summaries, whichever is appropriate to you and your style of working, detailing your progress through the Project production period. The second part is an overall summary where you are expected to reflect, in course terms, on your experience of putting your project together. This is very much an opportunity to communicate to your tutor how you have reflected on your learning and applied your systems thinking in practice (see Block 5).
This item does not have a word limit specified but as a rough guide to upper limits:

(a) The weekly summaries should be no more than 200 words each.
(b) The overall summary should be no more than 1000 words. (20 marks)


Your report should be based around an explanatory commentary in course terms that guides your tutor through your analysis and includes:

1. Your description of the problem situation using appropriate systems language where possible. This should be as presented to, and seen by you. Your data collection should have been completed.

2. An analysis method diagram illustrating the procedural steps through the analysis method you have adopted or developed together with a rationale for its use in this context.

3. Your Ethicality Statement.

4. A Stakeholder Analysis that identifies all the stakeholder individuals and/or groups who should be considered in some way in your study.

5. Explanation of any problems you encountered in this project and how you dealt with them.

6. A reflection on how your understanding of complexity has developed so far while engaging in this project.


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ARAB OPEN UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF BUSINESS STUDIES T205B – SYSTEMS’ THINKING THEORY & PRACTICE
2017/2018 SEMESTER II

T205 B - TMA- Semester II - 2017– 2018
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Question 01 (100 % marks)

(a) Read through the attached Case study “Toshiba’s Accounting Scandal”. As you read through the article create one spray diagram to summarize the case content respecting the conventions, and techniques. It is advised that students submit hand drawn diagrams as opposed to computer generated ones. Photocopies of diagrams should not be accepted. Reflect on your diagram in no more than 200 words. (15% marks).
(b) Based on what you learned in T205B concept file 04 section II “Control”, and based on the content of the article, and taking “Fixing corporate culture” as your goal draw one closed loop control model diagram to show the various inputs, and the transformation process, that can lead to reaching this goal. You need to show all the components of the control model diagram, the inputs’, processes, control (actuator, comparator, sensor), that can lead to goal achievement . Reflect on your diagram (15% marks)

(c) Using an essay format of no more than 2500 words, and based on what you learned in T205B concept file 04 section I “Organizations are They Rational”, readings 01 and 07, section III “Structure”, section IV development, section V culture and climate, and section VI “Decision Making” and based on the ideas put forth in the attached case study:

1- Discuss the concept of organizational goals and the three categories of goals, and assess the existence of goal displacement and pluralism at Toshiba. (Word Count 500; 15 Marks)
2- Discuss the management approach at Toshiba, and the extent of employees’ empowerment and teamwork. (Word Count 250, 05 Marks)
3- Discuss the concepts of organizational culture and climate and assess Toyota’s culture and climate. (Word count 400; 10 Marks)
4- Assess the extent to which Toyotas culture and climate and the unwritten rule of behaviors lead to the accounting scandal, (Word count 400; 15 Marks).
5- Discuss the different perspectives on decision making and assess how the decision-making process at Toshiba has affected the managers ability to resist pressures to inflate profits from top management (Word count 400; 15 Marks).
6- The investigation report mentioned that the interference of old generation of managers and their refusal to fully retire affected organizational culture and performance. Discuss the concept of organizational learning, and assess how the older managers’ attitude and power, can affect Toshibas ability to be a learning organization; justify your answers with evidence from the case (300 words; 10 Marks).

Guidance to Question 01

For this question you need to read the assigned article carefully and to reflect back on concept file 04 for the theoretical assessment.

(a) At this stage of the course you are expected to have developed good understanding of the purpose of drawing spray diagrams as part of applying the SUDA process for solving a messy situation. A spray diagram is the first type of diagrams drawn in the sensing phase of the SUDA process of mess analysis, in order to summarize the main ideas of a case, or the main components/elements of a situation. Please pay attention to the conventions and make sure that the central topic and other subtopics are relevant, and do make sense to the reader. Go back to T552 (Diagramming) the appendix to your memory about the conventions.
(b) This is your first attempt at drawing control model diagram. The task should not be challenging though. Refer to Concept file 04 section II “Control”. You need to draw a control model diagram to show how the selected inputs can reach the stated goal. You also need to illustrate clear, relevant, and non-overlapping inputs, clear and accurate transformation process and an output which is consistent with the goal. You also need to specify which organizational entity is in charge of assuming the role of each of the elements/components of the control model (i.e. actuator, sensor, and comparator). The parties in charge of performing each task within the control mechanism should be clearly identified. It is very important that your diagram is specific rather than generic.

(c) Here you need to practice your analytical skills to assess what is required. Remember to start with a good introduction in which you define the assessed topic before moving on to explaining your plan for working on the TMA. In the body you should move on to assess the causes of the problems faced by Toyota and the impact of the organization’s structure, climate and decision making on its reaction to the problem. You also need to evaluate whether Toyota is a learning organization by relying on both theoretical principles and practical examples, and on the ideas presented in the assigned article.












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B301 B: Making Sense of Strategy II
SPRING Semester 2017– 2018

The TMA is based on the concepts from Readings for Block 3-Readings 12 &13
Question
Determinants of national competitive advantage create the national environment in which companies are born and learn how to compete.
Assuming that you are strategy and policy expert for your own country Bahrain, Lebanon, Oman, Jordan, Kuwait, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan) you are:

Required:
1. To critically analyze and discuss FOUR different policies with each of the four determinants of national competitive advantage that will attract Multinational Corporations (MNCs) and protect domestic firms in your country. (1000 words)

2. To suggest and critically discuss FOUR strategies that can enhance the capacity of firms in your country to create more employment (500 words)









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1. Course Code: BE210 (BE210/4)





The TMA Questions
Jazeera Airways
Jazeera Airways K.S.C.P. (the “Ultimate Parent Company”) was incorporated by Amiri Decree on 3 March 2004 as a Kuwaiti Public Shareholding Company under the laws of Kuwait and is engaged in the business of air transportation and commercial passenger services under a license from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation.

You can download the 2016 annual report for Jazeera Airways directly from the following web page:
http://www.jazeeraairways.com/FinancialReports.aspx
Instructions:
Use the annual report to answer the following questions:
1- What are the consolidated financial statements of Jazeera Airways K.S.C.P. (“the Ultimate Parent Company”) and its subsidiaries (collectively “the Group”)?

[10 marks]
2- What is the basis of preparation of the consolidated financial statements 2016?

[5 marks]

3- List five objects of the Ultimate Parent Company?
[5 marks]
4- What are the subsidiaries of the Ultimate Parent Company?
[5 marks]
5- Go through the “INDEPENDENT AUDITORS’ REPORT TO THE SHAREHOLDERS” and answer the following questions:

a. Who is responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of these consolidated financial statements?

b. What is the name of the independent auditors?

c. What is the basis for opinion of the independent auditor, and determine the auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the consolidated financial statements?

[15 marks]
6- What are the total assets of Jazeera Airways at December 31, 2016 and at December 31, 2015? Write Jazeera airways’ accounting equation at December 31, 2016 & December 31, 2015, by filling “Assets=Liabilities + Stockholders’ Equity”.

[10 marks]
7- Identify Revenue for the years 2016 and 2015. Did Revenue increase or decrease in 2016 compared with 2015? Comment.
[15 marks]

8- Identify Net Profit (Net Income) for the years 2016 and 2015. Did Net Profit increase or decrease in 2016 compared with 2015. Based on this, was the year 2016 better or worse than the year 2015? Comment.
[15 marks]

9- Compute Jazeera airways’ current ratio at December 31, 2016 and December 31, 2015. Did the company’s ability to pay current debts improve or deteriorate or did it remain the same. Comment briefly on your findings.
[10 marks]
10- Compute the debt ratio for Jazeera airways as of December 31 2016 and December 31, 2015. Comment on your answer.

[10 marks]
End of TMA Questions









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