Day #2 Porter’s Strategic Models: The Five forces and the Value Chain CIS Department Professor Duane Truex III The Information Systems Strategy Triangle Business Strategy Organizational Design Strategy ICT/Information Strategy Professor Truex E-CommercePrinciples 1 HOW CAN INFORMATION RESOURCES BE USED STRATEGICALLY? Professor Truex E-CommercePrinciples Aligning IS/ICT strategy (Infrastructures) with business strategy • Using multiple approaches to evaluating
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Time Value of Money (TVM)‚ developed by Leonardo Fibonacci in 1202‚ is an important concept in financial management. It can be used to compare investment alternatives and to solve problems involving loans‚ mortgages‚ leases‚ savings‚ and annuities. TVM is based on the concept that a dollar today is worth more than a dollar in the future. That is mainly because money held today can be invested and earn interest. A key concept of TVM is that a single sum of money or a series of equal‚
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Earned Value Analysis (EVA) takes consideration of the following in a project (Context for the plant & actual expenditure‚ integrates the project scope‚ schedule and resource characteristics into a comprehensive set of measurements. The use of earned value analysis can be categorized in the following ways: Financial Databases for EVA Earned Value Definitions Establishing Earned Value Budgets Determining Earned Value Variance Analysis‚ and Forecasting There are three important sources that
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Value Stream Mapping 1 Value Stream Mapping Definition • Value Stream Mapping (VSM): – Special type of flow chart that uses symbols known as "the language of Lean" to depict and improve the flow of inventory and information. 2 Value Stream Mapping Purpose • Provide optimum value to the customer through a complete value creation process with minimum waste in: – Design (concept to customer) – Build (order to delivery) – Sustain (in-use through life cycle to service) 3 Why
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FIN41340: Quantitative Methods in Finance Tutorial: Time Value of Money Lecturer: Email: Dr. Thomas Conlon conlon.thomas@ucd.ie Tutorial Questions 1. What is the present value of a 3-year annuity of $100 if the interest rate is 6%? What is the present value of this annuity‚ if you have to wait two years instead of one year for the first payment? 2. Your hedge fund can lease a supercomputer for the purposes of high frequency trading for $8‚ 000 per year (paid at year end) for six years
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Value Stream Mapping is a method of creating a “ One page picture “ of all the processes that occur in a company‚ from the time a customer places an order for a product‚ until the customer has received that product. Several things are correlated with value stream maps in businesses. Some examples include value-adding processes‚ non-value-adding (waste) processes‚ and cycle time. That being said‚ the process that we chose to analyze is Barnes and Noble‚ Inc. supply chain. This process includes many
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Western Michigan university | Is It Fair to Blame Fair Value Accounting for the Financial Crisis? | By Robert C. Pozen | | Luma Raha | 10/12/2011 | The article from the Harvard Business Review‚ "Is it Fair to Blame Fair Value Accounting for the Financial Crisis?" ‚ author Robert Pozen stipulates that the fair value accounting principles did not cause the financial crisis of 2008‚ but certainly aggravated it by common misconceptions about accounting standards. The article defines
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investors want a 40 percent rate of return on their investment‚ calculate the venture’s present value. B. Now assume that the Year 6 cash flows are forecasted to be $900‚000 in the stepping stone year and are expected to grow at an 8 percent compound annual rate thereafter. Assuming that the investors still want a 40 percent rate of return on their investment‚ calculate the venture’s present value. C. Now extend Part B one step further. Assume that the required rate of return on
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determination. One must not easily give up hope and accept defeat. As long as one has the chance‚ one must keep on going till success is met. ------------------------------------------------- From the novel you have studied‚ write about an important moral value you have learnt. Support your
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Why is the time value of money concept important? In what quantitative decisions might the time value of money be used? How do you apply the time value of money concept to make decisions in your personal life? The idea of the time value of money is important because of the fundamental assertion that one would rather have X number of dollars now‚ than later. If the money is taken later a value of X+i is preferred. This concept is applied to all situations where someone uses the monies of another
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