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• SBE 560 Week 1 Course Project(Company Summary,
  Products or Services)
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• Course Project
• Review the Guidelines from the Course Project tab
  under Course Home. This week, you will complete
  the Business Plan topics highlighted in the
  table. Consider the following when you prepare
  these topics. Note that these are only summarized
  recommendations.

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• SBE 560 Week 1-7 (Course Project, Case Study,
  DQs)
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• SBE 560 Week 1 Course Project (Company Summary,
  Products or Services)
• SBE 560 Week 2 Course Project (Market Analysis
  Summary, Web Plan)
• SBE 560 Week 3 Course Project Strategy and
  Implementation
• SBE 560 Week 2 DQ 1 (Competitive Advantage)
• SBE 560 Week 2 DQ 2 (Business Plans)

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• SBE 560 Week 1-7 Complete Course Project
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• Homework
• Review the Guidelines from the Course Project tab
  under Course Home. This week, you will complete
  the Business Plan topics highlighted in the
  table. Consider the following when you prepare
  these topics. Note that these are only summarized
  recommendations.

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• SBE 560 Week 2 Course Project (Market Analysis
  Summary, Web Plan)
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•  Course Project
• Review the Guidelines from the Course Project tab
  under Course Home. This week, you will complete
  the Business Plan topics highlighted in the
  table. Consider the following when you prepare
  these topics. Note that these are only summarized
  recommendations. See the sample Business Plan and
  the Grading Rubric for details.

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• SBE 560 Week 2 DQ 1 (Competitive Advantage)
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•  (TCO A) Select any company with which you are
  familiar. Define its competitive advantage. What
  core competencies differentiate it from the
  competition? Why? 
• Part 1
• In answering this question and discussing this
  topic with your other classmates, think about
  some of the topics related to competitive
  strategy formulation from an undergraduate
  business policy class that you might have taken
  or one strategy course you have recently taken in
  this program

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• SBE 560 Week 2 DQ 2 (Business Plans)
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•  (TCO A) Why should an entrepreneur develop a
  business plan? What are the advantages and
  disadvantages? Is it to satisfy just the banks,
  or can it really be put to practical, daily use? 
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• SBE 560 Week 3 Case Study Zatswho LLC
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•  Zatswho LLC
• Read Case Study 3, Zatswho LLC, from the course
  text. Answer the five questions at the end of the
  case. Submit your response to the Course
  Dropbox. 
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• SBE 560 Week 3 Course Project (Strategy and
  Implementation)
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• Course Project
• Review the Guidelines from the Course Project tab
  under Course Home. This week, you will complete
  the Business Plan topics highlighted in the
  table. Consider the following when you prepare
  these topics. Note that these are only summarized
  recommendations. See the sample Business Plan and
  the Grading Rubric for details.
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SBE 560Education Begins/uophelp.com

• SBE 560 Week 3 Course Project Strategy and
  Implementation
• For more course tutorials visit
• www.uophelp.com
• Course Project
• Review the Guidelines from the Course Project tab
  under Course Home. This week, you will complete
  the Business Plan topics highlighted in the
  table. Consider the following when you prepare
  these topics. Note that these are only summarized
  recommendations. See the sample Business Plan and
  the Grading Rubric for details.
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• SBE 560 Week 3 DQ 1 (Target Markets)
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• (TCO A) Select any company with which you are
  familiar. Define its competitive advantage. What
  core competencies differentiate it from the
  competition? Why? 

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• SBE 560 Week 3 DQ 2 (Global Marketing)
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• (TCO C) What forces drive small businesses into
  international marketing? What are the advantages
  and disadvantages of going global? What
  strategies can small businesses use to go global?

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• SBE 560 Week 4 and Week 5 Course Project
  (Financial Plan)
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• Course Project
• Review the Guidelines from the Course Project tab
  under Course Home. This week, you will complete
  the Business Plan topics highlighted in the
  table. Consider the following when you prepare
  these topics. Note that these are only summarized
  recommendations. See the sample Business Plan and
  the Grading Rubric for details.
• Financial Plan What assumptions (such as taxes
  or loan interest) impact your finances? Calculate
  a breakeven analysis. Prepare basis financial
  statements, including profit and loss, cash flow,
  balance sheet, and ratios. 

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• SBE 560 Week 4 DQ 1 (Pricing)
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• (TCO A) Describe the strategies a small business
  can use to set the price of a new product or
  service. What objectives should the strategy seek
  to achieve? 

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• SBE 560 Week 4 DQ 2 (E-commerce)
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• (TCO A) Explain the benefits a company earns by
  selling on the Web. What are the risks? Discuss
  the factors entrepreneurs should consider before
  launching an e-commerce site.

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• SBE 560 Week 5 Case Study Able Planet
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• Able Planet
• Read Case Study 2, Able Planet, from the course
  text. Answer the three questions at the end of
  the case. Submit your response to the Course
  Dropbox. 
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• SBE 560 Week 5 DQ 1 (Financial Analysis)
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• (TCO D) Ilene Polansky owns two trendy
  restaurants in Montreal, Canada. Since starting
  her first restaurant, Polansky has been juggling
  multiple roles, shortchanging a focus on
  profitability. Although her restaurants' net
  profit margin of 10-15 is within the industry
  average and loyal patrons pack both locations
  virtually every night, Polansky continues to
  experience periodic financial problems.

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• SBE 560 Week 5 DQ 2 (Raising Capital)
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• (TCO E) Why is it so difficult for most small
  business owners to raise the capital needed to
  start, operate, and expand their ventures? What
  can be done to make a venture more attractive to
  banks and investors?

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• SBE 560 Week 6 Course Project (Management
  Summary)
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• Course Project
• Review the Guidelines from the Course Project tab
  under Course Home. This week, you will complete
  the Business Plan topics highlighted in the
  table. Consider the following when you prepare
  these topics. Note that these are only summarized
  recommendations. See the sample Business Plan and
  the Grading Rubric for details

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• SBE 560 Week 6 DQ 1 (Employee Psychological
  Testing)
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• TCO F) Using a search engine such as InfoSeek,
  Yahoo!, or Google, conduct a search on the
  various employment tests available to companies
  as screening devices. What seems to be the most
  practical for the company you're using in your
  Course Project? Why is psychological testing a
  good idea? What are the pros and cons?
• For the American Psychological Association's
  website, click here. It may be a good place to
  begin. 

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• SBE 560 Week 6 DQ 2 (Quality)
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• (TCO F) What is TQM? How can it help small
  business owners achieve the quality of goods and
  services that they require? How does quality play
  into the role of a company's product line? Should
  every product always strive to be of the highest
  quality available? 

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• SBE 560 Week 7 DQ 1 (Family Business)
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• (TCO G) What factors must be present in a strong
  family business? Why? What problems can arise due
  to a lack of one or more of these factors? 

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• SBE 560 Week 7 DQ 2 (Ethical Ambiguities)
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•  (TCO H) David is a former drug user who has
  spent time in jail. For the past three years, he
  has not used drugs, and he now operates a
  forklift at a small construction company.
  However, lately, he has begun having seizures, or
  flashbacks, as a result of his earlier use of the
  drug PCP. He has been carefully evaluated by EAP
  professionals and was found to be clean of
  current drug use indeed, they say flashbacks of
  this nature are quite common in ex-addicts.

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