Week 05 Business Capstone Project - Team Building Jason Norris Rasmussen College Author Note This research is being submitted on February 10 ‚ 2013 for Dr. Ryan Averbeck - B280/GEB2930 Section 01 Business Capstone - Winter 2013 course at Rasmussen College by Jason Norris. Week 05 Business Capstone Project - Team Building Many organizations like to utilize teams and/or groups in the decision-making process. Analyze your project and decide the best time to involve a group in the decision
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RICC: Building a Social Networking Strategy The Rock Island Chocolate Company was founded in 1997 by Seymour Burris‚ Jr. It is a small specialty retail store‚ selling fine chocolates purchased from other suppliers in near a strip mall downtown. Burris originally worked part-time and his wife Lottie worked full time managing operations. In 2000‚ they obtained heirloom Belgian chocolate recipes and in 2001 began to manufacture these. They needed to lease more space and purchase equipment. With
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development theory in his book- ‘Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity ’s Most Pressing Needs’. It originally picked massive traction because of Prof Yunus’ massively impressive reputation as the Godfather of Microfinance. In this book he outlines a model of business that builds from his experience creating the Grameen Foundation and a series of related ventures. The striking point of his described work is that it employs business sector principles of organization
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Business is for Everybody’s Benefit A business should not just look to increase profits for the stockholders but more so look at the well being of the customers‚ employees‚ suppliers‚ investors‚ vendors‚ communities‚ and the environment. Some businesses might argue that putting the investors first will lead to a more successful company. Businesses do not flourish by putting all of their attention on just the shareholders alone. As T.J. Rogers‚ founder and CEO of Cypress Semiconductor‚ explains
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health of children with Grameen Foods. With the help of Grameen Group’s establishment‚ he was turned towards Danone‚ where he continued his venture of social entrepreneurship. The partnership between Grameen and Danone was crucial to the organization that was built. Just as Homeless World Cup and Nike partnered to give each other benefits and social satisfaction‚ it created a win/win by an exchange of capabilities and information sharing. Grameen knew how to extend outwards to a vast majority of
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7 Business Development Marketing Tips for Social Media by Patrick Zuluaga‚ PMZ Marketing You would have heard so many marketing experts telling everyone to use social media as part of their promotional marketing mix. The Internet is flooded with information on using FaceBook‚ Twitter and other social media sites. Numerous articles have been written on how using social media can help promote your brand image and how it can generate web traffic for your main business website. Keep in mind that
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Range Planning 43 (2010) 291e307 http://www.elsevier.com/locate/lrp Business Models: Creating New Markets and Societal Wealth James D. Thompson and Ian C. MacMillan This thought piece proposes a framework for addressing the challenges of poverty and human suffering so widespread around the world. Based on the WSWP action research program‚ we suggest that visionary businesses can play a role in creating new business models that open up new markets‚ and simultaneously attend to societal
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Social enterprises apply business solutions to social problems. The ultimate goal is to achieve sustainability by enabling non-profits to support themselves financially in innovative ways instead of relying solely on grants and donations. Since there are no shareholders in a non-profit organization‚ the profits from the related social enterprise are completely re-invested in the work of the organization. The emergence of revenue-generating activities for non-profits has created a new operating model
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Lesson 4 Social Responsibilities of Business You know that business is an economic activity‚ which is carried out on a regular basis to earn profit. However‚ you must have seen businessmen spending money on different aspects‚ which is not going to give them any profit straightway. For example‚ you must have seen businessmen maintaining and developing gardens and parks on streets and squares in cities. Some businessmen engage themselves in research for improving the quality of products; some
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Perry-Rivers Seminar - Issues in Management: Social Entrepreneurship‚ Spring 2015 January 18‚ 2015 Topic Based Questions: 1) What is entrepreneurship? a. A movement with the goal to effect positive social change. 2) Define social entrepreneurship based on your reading. Which of the definitions provided do you believe is ideal or the most encompassing? a. Social entrepreneurship based on my reading are the people who want to go into business for themselves with the goal that society will benefit
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