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Questions: 1. Identify and briefly describe four characteristics you would expect to find in a successful manager of this type of venture. 2. What steps does Jack need to follow to successfully identi
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ONLINE ACTIVITY WEEK 13
Entrepreneurship
CASE STUDY:
Instruction: Write your answer in clean yellow paper/s. Hand Written. NO ERASURES. Kindly Print this activity including the rubric and have it attached on your answer sheet/s.
Keeping Things Going
The Clayton Company has grown 115 percent in the past year and 600 plus percent in the past three years. A large portion of this growth is attributable to Jan Clayton’s philosophy of hiring the best possible computer systems people and giving them the freedom they need to do their jobs.
Most of Jan’s personnel operate as a part of work teas that analyze, design, and implement computer systems for clients. The process works as follows: First, the company will get a call from a potential client indicating that it needs to have a computer system installed or special software written for its operations. Jan will send over one of her people to talk to client and analyze the situation. If it turns out that the Clayton Company has the expertise and personnel to handle the job, the client will be quoted a price. If the price is acceptable, A Clayton group will be assigned the project.
An example of a typical project is the client who called three weeks ago and wanted to purchase five personal computers for the firm’s engineering staff. The company wanted these machines hooked up to the main computer. Additionally, the firm wanted its computer-aided design software to be modified so the engineers could see their computer-generated drawings in a variety of colors, not just in monochrome. The Clayton group installed the entire system and modified the software in ten working days.
Jan realizes that the growth of her enterprise will be determined by two factors. One is the creativity and integrity of her workforce. The other is the ability to attract talented personnel. “ This business is heavily labor intensive,” she explained. “If someone want a computer system installation, that may take 100 labor hours. If I don’t have the people to handle the project, I have to turn it down. My expansion is heavily dependent on hiring and training talented people. Additionally, I need more than just hard workers. I need creative people who can figure out new approaches to handling complex problems. If I can do these two things, I can stay a jump ahead of the competition. Otherwise, I won’t be able to survive.”
To try to achieve these key factors for success, Jan has initiated three changes. First, she has instituted a bonus system tied to sales; these bonuses are shared by all of the personnel. Second, she gives quarterly salary increases, with the greatest percentages going to the employees who are most active in developing new programs and procedure for handling client problems. Third, she has retreats every six months in which the entire staff goes for a long weekend in a mountain area, where they spend three days discussing current work-related problems and ways to deal with them. Time is also devoted to social events and to working on developing an esprit de corps among the personnel.
Questions:
1. In what phase of the venture life cycle is Jan’s firm currently operating? Defend your answer.
2. How are Jan’s actions helping to build an adaptive firm? Give three specific examples.
3. If Jan’s firm continues to grow, what recommendations would you make for future action? What else should she be thinking about doing to keep things moving smoothly? Be specific in your answer.
Rubric:
| Trying to become Entrepreneur
(0) |
Beginner Entrepreneur
(1) |
Developing Entrepreneur
(5) |
Accomplished Entrepreneur
(8) |
Advanced Entrepreneur
(10) |
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| Holistic Critical Thinking | No Answer | Consistently does all or almost all of the following:
Offers biased interpretations of evidence, statements, graphics, questions, information, or the points of view of others. Fails to identify or hastily dismisses strong, relevant counter-arguments. Ignores or superficially evaluates obvious alternative points of view. Argues using fallacious or irrelevant reasons, and unwarranted claims. Does not justify results or procedures, nor explain reasons. Regardless of the evidence or reasons, maintains or defends views based on self-interest or preconceptions. Exhibits close-mindedness or hostility to reason. |
Does most or many of the following:
Misinterprets evidence, statements, graphics, questions, etc. Fails to identify strong, relevant counter-arguments. Ignores or superficially evaluates obvious alternative points of view. Draws unwarranted or fallacious conclusions. Justifies few results or procedures, seldom explains reasons. Regardless of the evidence or reasons, maintains or defends views based on self-interest or preconceptions. |
Does most or many of the following:
Accurately interprets evidence, statements, graphics, questions, etc. Identifies relevant arguments (reasons and claims) pro and con. Offers analyses and evaluations of obvious alternative points of view. Draws warranted, non-fallacious conclusions. Justifies some results or procedures, explains reasons. Fair-mindedly follows where evidence and reasons lead. |
Consistently does all or almost all of the following:
Accurately interprets evidence, statements, graphics, questions, etc. Identifies the salient arguments (reasons and claims) pro and con. Thoughtfully analyzes and evaluates major alternative points of view. Draws warranted, judicious, non-fallacious conclusions. Justifies key results and procedures, explains assumptions and reasons. Fair-mindedly follows where evidence and reasons lead. |
| Creating, imagining and innovating | appears happy with status quo; cannot generate any new ideas | tries to solve problems by examining alternative possibilities | generates more than one original idea, ingenious product and solution to
problems. |
strives for greater fluency of ideas, flexibility, originality and elaboration | evaluates to refine work; engages discovery, exploration, and experimentation to
reach unexpected answers. |
| Applying past knowledge and experience to new and real life situations | considers each event to be separate with no connections to what came before or
comes afterward. |
is able to apply some events to other contexts. | uses experience from the past when confronted with a new problem when
reminded by others how it relates. |
uses previous, knowledge, data, theories or processes to solve challenges | abstracts meaning from an experience, applies it to a new situation and explains
how it relates to previous experiences. |
| Format | Fails to follow format and
assignment requirements; incorrect margins, spacing and indentation; neatness of paper needs attention. |
Meets format and assignment
requirements; partially correct margins, spacing, and indentations; essay is neat but may have some assembly errors. Neatness of the paper needs attention. |
Meets all formal and assignment
requirements and evidences attention to detail; all margins, spacing and indentations are correct; essay is neat and correctly assembled with professional look. |
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| Completeness of Citation | None of the sources and pictures are cited. | Most the citations have the required elements in the proper order. | All sources and pictures are cited. | ||
| Timeliness | Submitted within or more than 30 minutes after deadline or not submitted.
(Only students who have medical conditions are excused. ) |
(Excused Students)
Excused due to medical condition provided that he/she have the ff. documents:
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Submitted by deadline | ||
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MR. ELIEZER JOSHUA MENDOZA GONZALES, CFMP DATE: **************************************************** DATE RETURNED: |
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https://www.uen.org/rubric/previewRubric.html?id=17988
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https://wvde.state.wv.us/osp/GiftedRubric-Benchmarking-3-5-2014.pdf
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