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Overview

You are required to prepare an annotated bibliography related to the management of data as a strategic resource rather than an administrative process in an organisation. The planning and/or implementation of the information needs of an organisation are then viewed from a enterprise viewpoint and aligned with the goals and objectives of the organisation. The requirement is to research on this topic, and you can adopt a general viewpoint of this topic or choose a specific topic within this area of DRM. You will be required to critically analyse, summarise and integrate these articles in a report. 

Your annotated bibliography should identify current thinking on DRM practices. You will then use this information to guide your thinking and reporting for this assessment.

Annotated bibliographies

These resources give you examples of annotations, but you also need to refer to the requirements below to ensure that you include all elements of this assignment.

• What is an annotated bibliography?
• UNSW: Annotated bibliography

Requirements

Format

• Your paper should be an individually written Microsoft Word document.
• As a Griffith university student, you have free access to Office 365 Education.

Structure

Your bibliography should include:

• Brief introduction indicating the overall topic and approach to your annotated bibliography
• Annotations of at least FOUR (4) refereed journal articles
  • Articles must be published in the last 10 years
  • Annotations include: 

• purpose of the study
• main variables in the study
• short summary of findings
• Discussion that summarises and integrates the articles 
  • You may use other references in addition to the 4 articles in this section
• Recommendations that link evidence to practice
• Reference list
  • Begin the reference list on a new page
  • Not included in word count

Word limit

• 2000 words (+/- 10%)
• Reference list is not included

Please make sure that you are posting at least 4 separate post, on 3 separate days. If you disagree with your fellow classmates, please feel free to express your disagreement, but respond respectfully.

Please take time to watch the embedded video. Since we’re online and can’t take a trip to a port, this video provides you some insight to a port in South Carolina.

Discussion Post # 1

In the video they talk about how South Carolina’s economy is impacted by port operations. How do they affect the economies for areas that they deliver to and service?

What risks might the port face?

Discussion Post #2

What did you learn about port operations that you didn’t know before? Why is this important for you to know and understand?

VERY IMPORTANT INFO TO FOLLOW! PLEASE

Discussion question one 150 words

Discussion question two 150 words

Reply to first student positive comments 100 words. Which I will provide as soon as I receive it.

Reply to second student positive comments 100 words. Which I will provide as soon as I receive it.

Compare and contrast, concurrent engineering, quality function deployment, and traditional approaches to product design. Give empirical examples in the Ethiopian context for your explanation.

The assessment task consists of two parts: 

• First, you will need to identify a research topic. This involves clearly defining the nature of the phenomenon/problem you wish to focus on, and its conceptual demarcations, and how it is similar or distinct from related phenomena. Those studying OHSE must choose an OHSE related topic or problem;

• Besides clearly articulating the nature of the phenomenon/ problem, you need to also provide compelling arguments for why this topic should be studied, using the characteristics of good research topics from the prescribed literature. This may involve highlighting its (increased) pervasiveness, its scope (e.g., local, global), its timeliness, and possibly also growing recognition by scholars and practitioners of the need for more research on this topic. Personal relevance may be a contributing factor too (although it should not be the only factor). If you frame your topic as a problem, then clearly discuss why it is a problem, how big the problem is, to whom it is a problem, and why the problem should be solved now (rather than later), how research could contribute to solving this problem, and the extent to which the solutions/ knowledge from this research would be actionable and relevant to practitioners. 

This assessment task requires you to use the prescribed literature on characteristics of good research topics, as well as a using a minimum of 10 recent, high-quality scholarly journal articles on the substantive topic of interest (alongside other trustworthy sources, like government statistics and policy reports) in order to provide a clear description of your topic of interest and compelling case about its relevance. 

The essay has to be coherent, logically structured, clear, well-argued and precise.

Structure

Essay structure:

In the first few paragraphs of any research study, the researchers must describe their substantive topic, and make a persuasive case for its relevance to organizations, workers, society, and knowledge/theory.

Your task for the first assessment is to (1) comprehensively describe your topic of interest; (2) persuade your reader that the topic has broader impacts to orgs, workers, society, and theory; and (3) justify your specific choice of topic using the principles described in the unit’s readings. These three elements of your assessment map onto the first three criteria in the assessment rubric (shown on pp. 14-15 of the unit outline).

Recommended structure:

• Use the first section (1-2 paragraphs) to describe your research topic comprehensively. Define the phenomenon of interest (and note if people seem to disagree meaningfully on the definition). Describe the phenomenon to us so your readers can understand and visualize what’s going on. Share trustworthy statistics on the prevalence and importance of the phenomenon. Tell us about what the research says are the causes or antecedents of the phenomenon, as well as the established effects of the phenomenon for people, organizations, and stakeholders. Tell us about contexts in which the phenomenon is more (or less) common.  Use at least 10 recent, high-quality scholarly journal articles on the substantive topic of interest (alongside other trustworthy sources, like government statistics and policy reports).
• Use the second section (1-2 paragraphs) to explain the broader impacts of your research topic. Sell us on the importance of the topic. Show us the economic impact of the phenomenon ($$ values are always highly compelling!). Are lives at stake? How many lives might be lost because of the phenomenon? What are the impacts on people’s livelihoods and/or well-being? In what way is the topic especially timely today—how is it relevant to the big, hairy, audacious problems that face society today? Sell us on the idea and why it matters.
• Use the third section (1-2 paragraphs) to link your choice of topic back to principles in the unit’s readings. For example, Colquitt and George identify 5 criteria for a good topic: significance, novelty, curiosity, scope, and actionability. Persuade us that your chosen topic fulfills most (if not all) of these criteria. You may draw on criteria from the other readings on topic choice as well (Grant & Pollock, 2011; Waldman, 2008; Ashford, 2013; Suddaby, 2010; all of these can be found in the EUO and on LEO for Week 2).

Whenever you draw on criteria from the readings, please be explicit. For example, you might say that “this topic relates to the ‘scope’ criterion by Colquitt and George, which refers to …. This topic relates to scope because …”

General guidelines

• Word limit is 500-750 words. 500 words should be more than enough. You may use fewer than 500 words; that’s not an issue. However, you should certainly not go over 750 words. Generally speaking, if you find yourself going over 750 words, you are probably doing something wrong. The word limit excludes references.
• High-quality writing is important. Researchers need to be understood by the general public. The most important thing is that the writing is organized logically. A few grammatical errors will not be too bad.

However, writing with no logical structure or sense will earn poor marks.

In this section, we consider several supply chains and raise questions that must be answered during their design, planning, and operation phases. In later chapters, we discuss concepts and present methodologies that can be used to answer these questions. Gateway and Apple: Two Different Journeys into Retailing Gateway was founded in 1985 as a direct sales manufacturer of PCs with no retail footprint. In 1996, Gateway was one of the first PC manufacturers to start selling PCs online. After many years of selling its PCs without a retail infrastructure, however, Gateway introduced an aggressive strategy of opening Gateway retail stores throughout the United States in the late 1990s. Its stores carried no finished-goods inventory and were primarily focused on helping customers select the right configuration to purchase. All PCs were manufactured to order and shipped to the customer from one of the assembly plants. Initially, investors rewarded Gateway for this strategy and raised the stock price to more than $80 per share in late 1999. However, this success did not last. By November 2002, Gateway shares had dropped to less than $4, and Gateway was losing a significant amount of money. By April 2004, Gateway had closed all its retail outlets and reduced the number of configurations offered to customers. In August 2007, Gateway was purchased by Taiwan’s Acer for $710 million. By 2010, Gateway computers were sold through more than 20 different retail outlets, including Best Buy and Costco. As one can imagine, this was quite a transition for the company to experience. In contrast, Apple has enjoyed tremendous success since it opened its first retail store in 2001. By 2013, Apple had more than 415 stores worldwide, with sales of over $20 billion. Unlike

Gateway, Apple has always carried product inventory at its stores. Given its product designs, Apple carries relatively little variety in its stores. In 2012, average revenue per Apple retail store was $51.5 million, a 19 percent increase over 2011. The following questions highlight supply chain decisions that have a bearing on the difference between Apple’s and Gateway’s performance: 1. Why did Gateway choose not to carry any finished-product inventory at its retail stores? Why did Apple choose to carry inventory at its stores? 2. Should a firm with an investment in retail stores carry any finished-goods inventory? What are the characteristics of products that are most suitable to be carried in finished-goods inventory? What characterizes products that are best manufactured to order? 3. How does product variety affect the level of inventory a retail store must carry? 4. Is a direct selling supply chain without retail stores always less expensive than a supply chain with retail stores? 5. What factors explain the success of Apple retail and the failure of Gateway country stores? Zara: Apparel Manufacturing and Retail Zara is a chain of fashion stores owned by Inditex, Spain’s largest apparel manufacturer and retailer. In 2012, Inditex reported sales of about 16 billion euros from more than 6,000 retail outlets in about 86 countries. In an industry in which customer demand is fickle, Zara has grown rapidly with a strategy to be highly responsive to changing trends with affordable prices. Whereas design-to-sales cycle times in the apparel industry have traditionally averaged more than six months, Zara has achieved cycle times of four to six weeks. This speed allows Zara to introduce new designs every week and to change 75 percent of its merchandise display every three to four weeks. Thus, Zara’s products on display match customer preferences much more closely than do those of the competition. The result is that Zara sells most of its products at full price and has about half the markdowns in its stores compared with the competition. Zara manufactures its apparel using a combination of flexible and quick sources in Europe (mostly Portugal and Spain) and low-cost sources in Asia. This contrasts with most apparel manufacturers, who have moved most of their manufacturing to Asia. About 40 percent of the manufacturing capacity is owned by Inditex, with the rest outsourced. Products with highly uncertain demand are sourced out of Europe, whereas products that are more predictable are sourced from its Asian locations. More than 40 percent of its finished-goods purchases and most of its in-house production occur after the sales season starts. This compares with less than 20 percent production after the start of a sales season for a typical retailer. This responsiveness, along with the postponement of decisions until after trends are known, allow Zara to reduce inventories and forecast error. Zara has also invested heavily in information technology to ensure that the latest sales data are available to drive replenishment and production decisions. In 2012, Inditex distributed to stores all over the world from eight distribution centers located in Spain. The group claimed an average delivery time of 24 to 36 hours for European stores and up to a maximum of 48 hours for stores in America or Asia from the time the order was received in the distribution center (DC) to the time it was delivered to the stores. Shipments from the DCs to stores were made several times a week. This allowed store inventory to closely match customer demand. The following questions raise supply chain issues that are central to Zara’s strategy and success: 1. What advantage does Zara gain against the competition by having a very responsive supply chain? 2. Why has Inditex chosen to have both in-house manufacturing and outsourced manufacturing? Why has Inditex maintained manufacturing capacity in Europe even though manufacturing in Asia is much cheaper?

3. Why does Zara source products with uncertain demand from local manufacturers and products with predictable demand from Asian manufacturers? 4. What advantage does Zara gain from replenishing its stores multiple times a week compared with a less frequent schedule? 5. Do you think Zara’s responsive replenishment infrastructure is better suited for online sales or retail sales?