Cow Ninja Tech is a 17-year old computer repair business owned by Jeffrey Bloom. The author proposes helping Cow Ninja Tech improve its operations by developing legal contracts, invoices, marketing strategies, and standard repair procedures. A budget of $1,000 per month is suggested to implement changes like troubleshooting classes, business cards, and vehicle signage. The author believes these steps will help protect and grow the business.
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Theodore Panagacos, a former Management Consultant with Booz & Company in the podcast, Business Process Management more than an IT Function, gives an introduction to Business Process Management. Theodore recently authored the book, The Ultimate Guide to Business Process Management: Everything you need to know and how to apply it to your organization. His book has become an Amazon top seller in its category, Business Process Management. This is a transcription of the podcast.
Are you interested in starting or scaling a YouTube channel, without having to show your face or become a YouTuber?
Do you want to increase your revenue, freedom, and become your own boss?
Good day,
Please find attached the October 2017 edition of our very informative Newsletter. Apologies for the tardiness.
We look forward to your continuing support and comments. Please send all comments and suggestions to training@kawmanagement.com or training.kawmgmt@candw.ag.
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More information at predictiveresults.com
Tom Mornement from Purple House HR discusses the role of the HR interim and the many challenges and opportunities this presents. He was joined by Yvonne Payne who gave her side of the story as life as a HR interim. Recently presented to the CIPD West of England Branch.
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Full article: https://www.academia.edu/19596990/Was_Imam_Ali_a_Misogynist_The_Portrayal_of_Women_in_Nahj_al-Balaghah_and_Kitab_Sulaym_ibn_Qays
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Chesapeake IT Consultants (CIC)
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I’ve assigned a score of the 60 points for the first stage at this point. I encourage you to redo this paper and pay much more attention to the instructions given for stage 1. They will tell you how to more easily format (with cut and paste functions) and produce a professional document. There are three more stages upon which to build this.
Pay particular attention to the Rubric contents, its labels and how the accuracy and details affect points in the grade.
Additional advice is given herein to improve content.
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Introduction
CIC was established in 2004 and has been in business since then. The company has been working through the years by adopting a strategy of adopting new business concepts and technology to give customers the best business solutions. Adopting best practices in tis operations has been a key part in the success of the company. The company’s operations involves bringing IT consultants to the client and offering the services that they require. The industry however is ever growing amidst new technologies and heightened competition. CIC therefore has had to struggle to get new clients as well as maintain their old ones. Quality staff is one of the things that differentiates CIC from the rest. They bring in a lot of experience and knowledge enabling them to serve the customers better.
This section (above is not directly addressing it’s purpose.) What is the purpose of this report? What is it going to provide? How will you improve things, what are your steps? (read the requirements for this paragraph).
Strategic Use of Technology (MISSING)
Structure of the Organization
The strategy of the company involves provision of excellent services to the clients by incorporating new technologies and concepts. Introducing a new hiring system will support this strategy by the company because highly skilled consultants are key in driving their vision. The new hiring system will enable the company to source for the best consultants and with the highest credentials. Adopting a new hiring system will also eliminate the time that’s wasted before the consultant comes on board. The company is anticipating some big clients and a new team will be able to eliminate any errors that might occur in service delivery.
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Technology and the People
An information system is compr ...
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Activity Based Costing
Activity-based costing (ABC) is a concept which refers to the accounting method whereby the costs are identified and assigned to the overhead activities and subsequently to the products. As such, an activity based costing is a method that recognizes the relationship between costs, overhead activities and the products. Consequently, through this relationship, the method assigns indirect costs to the products less indiscriminately as compared to the traditional methods (Kenton, 2018). However, using this method of activity based costing, some costs often become difficult to assign. For instance, indirect costs such as office staff salaries and management sometimes become very difficult to assign to the products. As a consequence, this method is usually applied in the manufacturing industry because in enhances the reliability of cost data thus producing almost accurate costs and results into better cost classification as incurred by the company during the production process. Furthermore, the method is important in product line profitability analysis, product costing, service pricing and customer profitability analysis.
The ABC method is based on activities which refers to any unit of work task or event such as setting up machines for production purposes, distribution of finished products, operating machines, designing products, among others. Since the activities use overhead costs, they are considered cost objects. In addition, under this system, an activity may refers to any event or transaction that is a cost driver. A cost driver, which is also referred to as an activity driver, is used to denote an allocation base. Some of the examples of cost drivers include power consumed, machine setups, maintenance requests, quality inspections, purchase orders and production orders. On the other hand, activity measures are categorized into two groups including transaction drivers and duration drivers. Transaction drivers pertains to counting of the number of times an activity occurs whereas duration drivers measure the length of time an activity takes to complete.
Activity based costing is effective in the process of improving the costing process in three different ways. First, it increases the number of cost pools that are used to group overhead costs. As such, instead of grouping all costs of a company into one large pool, the method groups the pools based on activities. In addition, it comes up with new bases for allocating overhead costs to items. As a result, the costs are allocated depending on the activities responsible for the costs and not the volume measures such as dir.
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Cow Ninja Tech Final Business Report
Timothy Wright
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Cow Ninja Tech
Executive Summary
This report will help with the Operational Requirements of Cow Ninja Tech and give them
better protection and understanding why they need to have procedures and structure in place to
have a profitable and functioning business model. I will be suggesting some understanding of
certain procedures and legal documentation to help protect the interest of Cow Ninja Tech and its
employees.
This company is ran by Jeffrey Bloom and he has been the owner for 17 years. He currently
holds an Associate’s Degree in Technology with certifications in Network +, Security +, A+, and
C++ and works for the U.S. Navy.
I am tasked with helping in all aspects of the business including field requirements which are
checklist, tools, software and hardware and any items needed for an outbound call. The
development of marketing techniques and strategies that will allow Cow Ninja Tech to increase
their client base and increase the need for their services by using advertising, cards, signs, flyers.
I will help create and help develop contracts for the financial responsibility agreements, liability
statements, invoices, and pricing structure so the company will have protection from any wrong
doing of clients and also assuming no responsibility for damage that was caused prior to
assessment or because of work done that resulted in a non-operating device.
By the end of this project there will be a clear and concise report that states ways that a
business can be structured to be protected, efficient in their work, use of documentation for
records, and how to increase their service and needs for consumers with computer issues.
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Identification of Proposed Idea
My proposed idea is to help Jeffrey Bloom owner of Cow Ninja Tech to come up with ways
of making his business better protected and putting in place certain legal disclaimers to help
protect him and his company. As we had talked I saw the need for more than just protection.
Some of the things that I noticed was that there was no contract, invoices, a set out procedure
that was set up of how the work was to be done, documented, and shown to the client so they
could have something that was tangible to reference to or have proof of Cow Ninja Tech working
on their device.
. So I found out exactly how he worked and what he did because I called him to fix a friend’s
computer and was interested in what he was doing and how he did it. I observed the whole
computer repair process and took note how he did his job and instantly seen ways to improve.
I identified some of the problems he had which were the cost was too cheap for the amount of
time he put in, that he had no formal way of documenting what had been done to the computer
except what he told you as he went along, there was no protection from liability of any damage
that was caused before or during the repair. As I looked farther into the company I found other
areas that I could help with. Like a service pricing list, there were no methods of how he did
marketing to have repeat clients or referral business come to him, and no set process on the order
of how things would be handled.
So I took some time to figure out a plan to do these things and how to help Cow Ninja Tech
become better then what it already is.
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Strategic Plan
Goals and Objectives for Cow Ninja Tech are to:
Organized and to put in place protection agreements
Write a pricing list
Create invoices
Breakdown and reassembly of devices check list
Create an outbound tools requirement sheet
Talk about some marketing ideas that may help increase business
Having classes to troubleshoot simple problems
Pass out cards
Ask for referrals
Have signs on the cars so it would be billboard for the company
Implementation of Proposed Ideas
Write a liability statement that is clearly understandable to both parties
Create templates for the breakdown and reassembly process of the devices
Create an invoice that showed price, parts, labor, tax, total, date or work performed, and
address
Outline a pricing structure so it’s very easy to read and understand
Create a field checklist for tools, software, hardware, cables, or anything needed for
outbound calls
Certificate of participation in troubleshooting classes
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Necessary resources
Time to speak with Mr. Bloom about the changes that may help
Money for marketing material (flyers, cards, cars signs)
How to set up time to do troubleshooting classes and where
Implementation of the processes and how they work for the company
Budget
The budget proposed to have the effect that the company wants is about $1000.00 a month to
start and as the time goes on then the budget can be raised because of more services provided
and to reach out to more consumers. I think in time the total budget of about $2800.00 a
month for marketing will help the increase of the business.
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Reflection
Doing this project has made me feel like I can make a difference in the business world, like I
was part of something that will impact Jeffrey Bloom and Cow Ninja Tech so they can have a
better life.
Some of the processes that need to be in place is to constantly think about how to improve
what you are already doing and how to be better at it. Get outside suggestions from friends,
business owners, people who work in the field and ask them what they would change if they
could change anything. Talk to your customers and get there feedback they are the ones that
really matter and they will tell you what they think.
This project has kept me busy as I try to think of the best ways to help out a person and a
business to be the best that it can be. With some or all of these processes in place I truly believe
that Cow Ninja Tech will turn over more clients in less time and achieve customer satisfaction,
which will in turn create a stronger business and more profit for Jeffrey Bloom and Cow Ninja
Tech.
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References
Bloom, J., J., (2015). Owner of Cow Ninja Tech
Mr. Bloom is the Owner of Cow Ninja Tech and has been in business for the last 17 years. He
has an AAS in Technology and many certifications Network+, C+++, Security+, A+ . Also in the
U.S. military and works in a position that deals with technology.
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