1. Discuss and give example of Michael Porter five competitive forces. Bargaining power of customers, threat of new entrants , threat of substitute products, competitive rivalry within an industry, bargaining power of suppliers.
2. You are a business analysis for a new distribution company. The company plans to make and market of a casual clothing line consistent of a blend of sporting a casualwear. The target market are young college students and starting professional between the ages of 18 and 30. Discuss the four strategies : Low-cost leadership, product differentiation, focus on marketing niche, customer and supplier intimacy. Pick two of the four and explain how you would use smart computer system to deploy.
3. BI, what is it? What is a data warehouse and explain how it is used to flow and to convert dumb data into competitive intelligence? What is a relational database management system? Use the six spreadsheet in Excel book to create an access database . Create a query to link the tables, Generate a report from the table.