ARISTOTLE PG
COLLEGE
MBA II YEAR
ASSIGNMENT QUESTIONS
INNOVATION MANAGEMENT
1. R &
D Investment & Company success 2.Operations that make up r & d. 3. R& D strategies. 4.
Strategic Pressures on R & D. 5. Setting R & D Budget. 6. Changing nature of R
& D management. 7. Organising industrial r & d 8.forms of external r & d.
9. Managing scientific
freedom. 10. Scientific freedom link with product innovation process. 11
.effect of R & D Investment on products. 12. Evaluation Criteria of R &
D. 13.Importance of Innovation. 14. Differentiate between Invention and
Innovation. 15. Types of Innovations. 16. Innovation as a Management process.
17. Organizations and Innovation. 18. Organisational Structure and Innovation.
19. Role of Individual in Innovation. 20. It Systems and their Impact
on Innovation.
OPERATION MANAGEMENT
1.Operation
management 2. Production life cycle 3. Process design 4. Batch processing
5. Aggregate planning 6. Maintenance management 7. Line balancing
8.Work study 9. Service management 10 Culture
and innovation 11. Value creation through service 12. Materials
management. 13. Value analysis 14. Material
requirement planning. 15. Purchasing management. 16 Inventory
management. 17. Safety stock. 18. Stores
management. 19 Bin card. 20.capacity planning
FINANCIAL RISK MAMAGEMENT:
1.Define risk and scope of
risk, Sources and types of risk.2.Risk
Management Process, integrated approach to Corporate Risk Management.3.The
concept and computation of Value at risk (VaR)stresses testing and back
testing.4.VaR and CaR to make investment decisions.5.
Non-Insurance methods of Risk Management.6.Asset-Liability Management
(ALM).7.RBI guidelines in Asset-Liability Management.8.Capital Adequacy.9.concept
of Derivatives and types of Derivatives.10.speculators, hedgers,
arbitrageurs.11.features and pay-off profile of Forward contract.12.The
role of Derivative securities to manage risk.13.Clearing house, margin
requirements.14.Differences between forward contracts and futures
contracts.15.Mechanics of Interest rate swaps.16.Types of
Currency Swaps. Valuation of currency swaps.17.Pricing of Interest rate
swaps at origination.18.call option, put option, American option and
European option.19.The Binominal option pricing model (BOPM):
assumptions.20.The Black & Scholes option pricing model (BSOPM):
assumptions
ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
1.Definition and characteristics of OD 2.Growth
and relevance of OD 3.History of OD 4 Values,
Assumptions and beliefs in OD 5. Difference between planned and unplanned
change 6.Team and Team work. 7.Theories and Models of
planned change. 8. Difference between transactional change and
transformational change..9.Six box model in OD. 10 OD
interventions. 11.Evaluation and institutionalizing. 12.Organizational
process approaches. 13.Types of Team Interventions. 14.Negotiation
technique. 15.Responsibility charting. 16.Diagnosis model 17.Quality
circles. 18.Total quality management. 19. Strategic
interventions. 20.Characteristics of organizational transformation.
Compensation Management
1.
Concept of compensation management. 2. 3-p
compensation concept. 3.
New trends in compensation management. 4.
Non financial compensation systems. 5.
Traditional pay systems and modern pay systems. 6. Incentive pay. 7.
Seniority pay and longevity pay. 8.
Merit pay linked with competitive strategy. 9. Process of building market competitive compensation
system. 10. Internal equity
through job analysis 11.Organizational
pay structures. 12. Internal
job structure with external pay rates. 13.
Components of employee benefits. 14.
Brief VEBA. 15. Importance
of totally integrated employee benefit program. 16. Employee benefits and employee services. 17. International compensation
and competitive strategies 18.Flexible
work schedules.19.Executive
compensation packages.20.stratagic
issues and choice.
E- Business Assignment
1.What
is E-Business.2.What are the
E-Business Models.3. Define
Internet, Intranet, Extranet.4.Define
E-cash and E-wallets.5.Define
Intellectual Property Rights.6.Mention
Ethical and Taxation issues.7.How
E-Mail Marketing works.8.Define
Search Engine Positioning.9.M-Commerce
Frame work.10.Compare E-Commerce and M-Commerce.11.Mention 5 uses of M-Commerce.12.List out the M-Commerce Applications.13.What is Wireless Communication System.14.Define Satellite Communication.15.Define terms GSM, CDMA, FDMA.16.Mention Mobile Communication Standards.17. Define Mobile Banking.18.Advantages
and Disadvantages of Mobile Banking.19.Short
notes on Mobile Ticketing Process.20.Define
Mobile Computing.
INTERNATIONAL FINANCE
1. Gold standard system. 2. Bretton
wood system 3. Foreign exchange market 4.International financial system 5.Subsidiary bank 6.Offshore bank 7. Euro bonds 8.Global bonds 9.American depositary report 10.Balance of
payments 11.Foreign bonds 12.Swaps 13. Option 14. Foreign direct investment
15.Forward market 16. Future market 17.Derivatives 18.Capital account convertibility 19Value added tax 20.Hedging.
OPERATION RESEARCH
1. Mathematical formulation of LPP 2. Nature and
scope of OR 3.Managerial
applications and limitations of OR 4.Simplex
method 5.Optimality conditions 6. Degeneracy 7. Relation
between primal and dual 8. Sensitivity
analysis 9.Initial basic
feasible solutions 10.Transportation 11. Assignment problem 12. Travelling sales man13. Matrix minima method 14.Hungarian method 15. Fulkerson’s method
16. Network fundamentals 17. Probablistic models 18. Resource analysis and allocation 19.Queuing theory and game theory 20. Saddle point
PROMOTION AND DISTRIBUTIO N MANAGEMENT
1. Marketing Communication.2. Integrated
Marketing communication.3. Explain Planning process.4. Models of Marketing Communication. 5. Advertising. 6.what is Personnel Selling. 7. What is Sales Promotion 8? Interpersonal vs Mass Communication. 9. Product life Cycle. 10. Types of Advertising. 11. Public Relations and Publicity.
12. Personnel Selling Approaches.
13. Creative strategy
development. 14. Media
objectives. 15. Distribution.
16 Advantages of Newspaper Advertisement.
17. Product Market Analysis. 18.
Word of Mouth Marketing. 19. Market Potential. 20. Demand Forecasting.
PRODUCT AND BRAND MANAGEMENT
1. Product
Policy 2.Product
Mix 3. Modification and deletion. 4. Brandin
5. Brand Positioning 6. Repositioning
Strategies 7. Brand loyalty
8. Brand Equity. 9. Brand Management Practices. 10.New
Product Development Strategy. 11. Theories of NPD 12. Generic Product Development Process.
13. Diversification Strategies. 14. Risk
Return Analysis 15.Product Portfolio Analysis 16.Models
of NPD 17. Growth Strategies 18. Test Marketing. 19.Product
Launching. 20. Market
Segmentation.
