A SWOT analysis is very important to any sport organization. Design a SWOT analysis for the New York Jets and explain how the Jets would use each phase of the SWOT analysis to “game plan” for the 2013 NFL season. Your SWOT analysis should cover the Jets organization both on the field AND off the field.
Describe in detail a new product concept that you think would meet unfilled consumer needs in your favorite sport. Support your answer with facts.
You have just been hired to be ticket sales manager for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the NFL. The Jaguars are coming off a terrible season and need help selling tickets for the 2013 season. How are you going to increase ticket sales? How are you going to use the escalator concept to help you accomplish this task? Support your answer with facts.
Consumers associate price with value. Assume you are the new marketing director of a franchise with a history of selling discount tickets. The new owners have mandated no more ticket discounting. Create a strategy to overcome negative consumer responses to the new policy.
Explain in detail the product life cycle of a sport product/organization invented/developed in the last fifteen years. Be specific with your answer and support your opinion of the various stages of the product life cycle with fact.
Explain the difference between a marketer’s view of “price” and a consumer’s view of “cost”. Develop a set of five ingredients for a “Consumer Cost Index” that could be used to compare costs in the sport industry segment of your marketing plan. Be sure to include “hidden” costs that typically influence consumer decisions. Include a justification for each ingredient and a projected average cost for each category.

For this assignment, you’ll be interviewing someone in the Finance field to learn about their current work, communication skills required, and communication challenges. Because this is a discussion board posting, please use the following format (which will make it easier to read through other posts).Background1. What is your current job? Company or organization?2. How many years have you been in your current position?3. What is your educational background? (degrees, majors, school)4. Where do you currently work (US or another country)?5. What size team or group do you currently work with? (If it varies depending on the project, it’s fine to include a range.)Current Position1. Can you tell me a little about your current position? What are your major responsibilities?2. How much time, on average, do you spend reading/responding to work emails (or text messages)? In group meetings? Planning, creating, giving, or attending presentations? Planning and preparing written reports or other documents? Other communication tasks?3. How many email and/or text messages, on average, do you receive each day?4. How many email and/or text messages, on average, do you send each day?5. How many presentations do you give, on average, each year?Challenges1. Have you experienced any challenges or difficulties in communicating with others? If so, what are they? (If they say no, you can ask specifically about time required for communication, ability to persuade others, being efficient in delivering presentations or communicating with others, etc.)2. Is there a communication skill that you wish you had learned more about while you were at university? (For instance, delivering presentations, writing reports, giving feedback to others, etc.)

READ THE INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLYUSING MNEMONICSMind Tool’s (http://www.mindtools.com/memory.html) website on memory techniques and mnemonics will help you apply the concepts taught in Chapter 6 to improve your own memory. This reviews the underlying principles of effective mnemonic systems then introduce several specific mnemonics and apply them to the remembering names, dates, telephone numbers, and so on. You may also access the website, Improving Your Memory through Mnemonics. What to Do:Visit the website listed above; read the first article, Memory Techniques (start here), and then choose three other articles/links to read. Then answer the questions below (assume a short essay format and means typed and double spaced). You will be graded on the thoroughness and completeness of your responses. 1. Identify and describe three specific mnemonic techniques you learned about and explain how each of these mnemonic devices may be applied to studying for an exam, a speech, lists, or other information. (Be sure to explain this information in your own words.)2. Next, develop and describe a mnemonic to help you remember key concepts/vocabulary for the following essay questions. In order to receive full credit, you must come up with your own mnemonics for each. (The intention is for you to practice developing your own mnemonics. You will only receive credit for creating the mnemonic, not simply answering the question.) a. Identify and describe the two types of LTM information. (Chapter 6) b. Explain both the repressed memory and false memory controversies. What is the difference between a false memory and a repressed memory? Why may they be confused? (This one might be tricky, but figure out what will be meaningful to you)

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Selected Issue: The lack of parking spaces at USF. It is an important issue because it is difficult to find parking spaces when coming to campus for classes. Everyday students struggle with finding closer parking spaces near their classes. Especially, in the beginning of each school semester, to find a good parking spot, students need to arrive hours earlier than their allotted class time. In as much detail as you can, write the background information for the issue at hand. The background information describes the context of the problem, which means you need to explain what the audience needs to know in order to understand why this problem is real. (provide evidence)Next, explain the problem locally. Do this by describing the problem in as much detail as you can. Make sure you answer, “What is happening here?”(provide evidence)Now describe the causes of the problem by writing in detail the factors that contribute to the problem’s occurrence. In other words, address why the problem is happening in the first place. (provide evidence)Lastly, you need to note the impacted population by considering and describing the people that are most directly impacted by the problem you have mentioned. Write specifically about who the problem is happening to, and target a local population that could benefit from your solutions/recommendation. Remember, the population you identify should be one the audience’s organization can affect by enacting a solution, so be specific. For example: The impacted population at USF includes the following (include evidence such as a survey or other primary research that expresses the perspective of your targeted population)

The purpose of the written paper is for you to reflect on your course text and module material when answering the prompt(s)/question(s) to illustrate your knowledge of what you have reviewed in this course and your understanding of the material.
Upon completion of your written paper, you should be able to:

Identify the ways in which understanding and accommodating diversity is important for gerontological theory, practice and policy. (SLO#2)
Describe how values, behaviors, cultural variation and cultural change can enhance or impede working with delivering services to a diverse aging population globally. (SLO#3)
Identify facts about culture, ethnicity and aging when observing and communicating with older adults.  (SLO#6)

Instructions:  
Choose an option (either #1 or #2 – not both) to write your paper about.
With what you have reviewed in Chapters 8 & 9,  Module 7 and your understanding of this class material:
Option #1:  How would you improve the Future of Employment in the Context of Global Aging?  (After reviewing your class material what would you prioritize as the top 3 issues to solve for a diverse aging workforce (explain in detail why you chose each issue) and what innovative ideas would you propose/recommend for each of those issues to governments, policy makers and employers to improve the future of employment in the context of Global Aging.)
Option #2:  After reviewing Retirement Policy Issues for an Aging World, what would you prioritize as the top 3 most important issues (explain in detail why you chose each issue) and what changes/recommendations would you make, to governments, policy makers and employers, to solve each of those issues.

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