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Business Communication Company Research Report- Cisco

The best way to convince your interviewer that you know the company well is to be able to articulate what makes it special compared to competitors. Companies will often tell you the answer to this and many other questions right on their websites.
Last week you reviewed companies and chose one company(Cisco) that is a best fit employer for your skills, goals and personality. The company was approved as one to use for your Career Project.
For the company you chose, research and find the following information to include as required components in your report:
1. What makes the company special compared to its competitors (usually discovered by examining the company’s mission and values)?
2. What is the company size and where is the company located?
3. How did the company get started (company history) and where is it now?
4. What is the company’s financial health (new products, expansion efforts, company risks, whether revenues are growing or stable, etc.)?
5. Check out the company’s community interaction (news, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, etc.). Is the tone professional or casual? Is there heavy promotion with little interaction? Is the company responsive to complaints?
6. What sources did you use for your research? (List in-text citations and list references in APA Style – see Appendix B, pages 595-596 and Company Report Format document found below.)
Organize your research to outline the most important elements of the company.
Write report in an essay format to include what you have discovered in your research about the company. All areas outlined above need to be included. You should include a title page and reference page. Note that you cannot copy and paste information from websites without citing the sources used.

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Frequency distribution: Construct a frequency distribution and a chart for the "Browser" variable

Frequency distribution: Construct a frequency distribution and a chart for the “Browser” variable.
2. distribution: Construct a frequency distribution and a chart for the “Time Frequency variable
3. rate Excel output (Descriptive statistics) for the time spent per transaction “Time (min)” and the total dollars spent “Amount Spent (s)” variables. mpute the sample correlation coefficient to examine the relationship between the
4. number of website pages viewed and the amount spent.
5. Describe the customer characteristics by summarizing the results of the above Excel output (with one single space typed page)
6. Construct a Cross-tabulation of the two variables (Pages viewed and Amount Spent).

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Analysis of Fundamentals: Goals, Strategy, Market, Competitive Technology, Regulatory, and Operating Characteristics

Case Study Instructions: Overall
In this topic you will select a publicly traded company and submit the name of the company to the instructor for approval by the end of the topic. Note: You will need to have this step finalized before you can complete the assignment detailed below, so it is in your best interest to select and obtain approval as soon as possible.
Select a company that is public and enjoys extensive analyst coverage (e.g., Apple, GE, Southwest Airlines, Walgreen, Exxon Mobile) to insure access to sufficient financially oriented material regarding your chosen company. The more information available, the easier it will be to perform the financial analysis.
As you move through the nine steps in conducting your analysis, you will research the market at each step for relevant data on your chosen company, including analyst reports and market information. Disclose all assumptions you are making in the case study (e.g., revenue growth projections, expense controls) and provide supporting reasons and evidence behind those assumptions. As your case study analysis develops over the span of the course, you will synthesize the research data and outcomes of the nine-step assessment process in order to assess the long-term financial health of the chosen company.
Component 1:
For this assignment, apply the following two steps of the nine-step assessment process to develop a 500-word analysis of the company you have selected and which has been approved by your course instructor:

  1. Analysis of Fundamentals: Goals, Strategy, Market, Competitive Technology, Regulatory, and Operating Characteristics
  2. Analysis of Fundamentals: Revenue Outlook

Note: You will be required to resubmit this assignment, revised to incorporate all instructor feedback, along with the other three component assignments as one comprehensive submission in Topic 8. To save time later in the course, consider addressing any feedback soon after this assignment has been graded and returned to you.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide,

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Personal Language Paper

Personal Language Paper

Describe for your readers what a personal language is and tell us how your personal language developed over your lifetime. The paper is 2-3 pages long, word-processed; and proofread. Remember to send it through the assignment function and in either word or rich text format (rtf).

Suggested format for Paper

  1. Introduction Paragraph: Start with some kind of attention-getter for your readers: perhaps a question or a dramatic statement. Let your readers know what the topic of your paper is. Be sure to define the term personal language for your readers and explain to them the important role that the symbolic nature of language and fields of experience plays in the existence and development of a personal language  (Do not use the Wikipedia definition—it isn’t what we are talking about). Preview the paper for your reader (that you will be discussing your personal language—or even better how jargon, slang, regionalisms, and connotations make up your personal language).
  2. Body: Then have a series of paragraphs, each one addressing one of the categories of personal language. Remember to define (the definitions are right here on the assignment page) the category for your readers and to give specific examples from your personal experience of those categories.
  3. Conclusion: Summarize your main points and then conclude in a memorable way.

Language Category Definitions to be included in paper:

  • Jargon: Special words peculiar to the members of a profession or a group (usually technical language)
  • Slang: Words and phrases used in casual speech often invented and spread by close-knit social or age groups.
  • Dialect: A language variety used by a particular group of speakers; dialects are the mutually intelligible forms of a language that differ in systematic way from each other (Cajun, Ebonics).
  • Connotative: The evocative or affective (emotional) meaning of a word.
  • Regionalism: Where the same thing has different signifying words in different regions where the same language is spoken.
  • Accent: The relative prominence of a particular syllable of a word by greater intensity or by variation or modulation of pitch or tone.
  • Idioms: Words or phrases that can not be translated literally
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BLS Current Employment Statistics survey

Select one of the following surveys as a team, from the BLS Current Employment Statistics survey (National):

  • Goods-producing Employment – CES0600000001
  • Construction Employment – CES2000000001
  • Manufacturing Employment – CES3000000001
  • Trade, Transportation, and Utilities Employment – CES4000000001
  • Retail Trade Employment – CES4200000001
  • Education and Health Services Employment – CES6500000001

Retrieve and save a Microsoft® Excel®  file and the graphs to your desktop for analysis. You will have to  check the “include graph” box along the top of the page to see the  graph, and you will need to copy and paste the graph separately into  your Microsoft® Excel® document. 
Tutorial help on Excel® and PowerPoint® functions can be found on the  Microsoft® office website. There are also additional tutorials via the  web that offer support for office products.
Consider the following two articles, located in the Week 4 Electronic Reserve Readings, discussing actor salaries and hedge fund executives’ average salaries:

  • “Robert Downey Junior is Hollywood’s Highest-Paid Actor”
  • “In Tough Year, Hedge Fund Leaders Still Paid Well: Average Salary of $467M Was Half 2013, Report Says”

Online Classes: Prepare and present a 5- to 8-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation-analysis.
Campus Classes: Prepare a 5- to 8-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation based on your analysis to share in class.
Include the following content in the presentation:

  • What are trends in the labor market for the chosen labor group that  you can identify for the last 10 years? Please provide the retrieved  statistics.
  • What factors affected the demand and supply for this labor group  during the last 10 years? Research and report data available from Bureau  of Labor Statistics (BLS) and other peer reviewed sources.
  • Why do actors and actresses earn so much compared to the chosen labor group?
  • Why do hedge fund executives earn so much compared to the chosen labor group?
  • In addition to wages, what other factors influence an individual to choose one job over another?
  • What jobs do you think have the best mix of salary and other characteristics that individuals care about?

Cite a minimum of three peer-reviewed sources, not including the textbook and required economic data.
Format consistent with APA guidelines.

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Group Proposal-Individual Portion

Individual Portion
Your individual task will be to contribute a section of the product proposal and pro-forma statement for the new product idea. Make sure your portion is 2 pages. In addition to sending it to a designated person who will consolidate all of the contributions into a proposal, this paper will be submitted to your instructor. 
Part 1: Group Proposal

  1. Using the Small Group Discussion Board, the group will come to a consensus on a single product idea and develop a proposal of 8 to 10 pages addressing this new product, the state of its industry, and details of its market.
  2. The group will also come to a consensus on the business model approach: intrapreneurial or entrepreneurial. Details about the character of the company, its contributors, of why this approach was chosen for this project should be included in the proposal.
  3. Provide information on the product selected, its market, and its industry.
  4. The proposal must also provide new information on the chosen product’s main competitors, how their product is different the competition, and detail the demographics of the product’s target customer.
  5. Additionally, the proposal should include a company overview of pro-forma, its business principles, its contributing team members including details about their skills and strengths, and a basic pro-forma income statement utilizing business premier index. This should include basic cost projections and other resource requirements for the product. Download Pro-Forma Statement Template.
  6. Individually, each student will create 3 to 4 slides (with 200 to 250-word speaker notes per slide) covering their portion of the proposal in slide presentation format to be pitched to investors.
  7. Make sure to provide APA citation and references for both portions of this assignment

Each member of the group should select a section of the proposal described above. In addition, select a member of the group who will consolidate all of the individual contributions into one clear and polished piece upon which a decision to proceed can be based.
In addition to discussing the logistics of completing the project, each team member is expected to contribute the following:

  • a minimum of 1 contribution about the product, its industry, market, its demographic, its competitors, etc.
  • a minimum of 1 contribution about the company, its business model approach, its team member’s skills and strengths, its principles, etc. Part 2: Presentation

Lastly, the group will prepare a 10 to 12 PowerPoint slide presentation to share the group’s vision of how this new product will position Triangle Solutions as the market leader for years to come. The presentation should provide sufficient details and supporting information to convince Triangle’s CEO and Board of Directors to approve the proposal and begin the intrapreneurial or entrepreneurial development of the product. The presentations should also demonstrate a solid understanding of the intrapreneurial or entrepreneurial approach that has been chosen.
Additionally, include a title and reference slide. The title slide (including topic title, your name, etc.) makes your presentation look and appear professional. The reference slide should provide APA references for information cited throughout the presentation and ensures credit is acknowledged for other’s work.