The division of a large office services company that makes high-end copiers recently signed a five-year, $25 million contract for it services from cgi group, a canadian information technology company. if you were the manager of the division, how would you justify the long-term nature of your contract with cgi group?

The wall street journal reported that walmart stores inc. is planning to lay off 2,300 employees at its sam's club warehouse unit. approximately half of the layoffs will be hourly employees (the wall street journal, january 25-26, 2014). suppose the following data represent the percentage of hourly employees laid off for 15 sam's club stores. 55 56 44 43 44 56 60 62 57 45 36 38 50 69 65 (a) compute the mean and median percentage of hourly employees being laid off at these stores. (b) compute the first and third quartiles. (c) compute the range and interquartile range. (d) compute the variance and standard deviation. (e) do the data contain any outliers? (f) based on the sample data, does it appear that walmart is meeting its goal for reducing the number of hourly employees?

Karen is working on classifying all her company’s products in terms of whether they have strong or weak market share and whether this share is in a slow or growing market. what type of strategic framework is she using?

Do a swot analysis for the business idea you chose in question 2 above. describe at least 2 strengths, 2 weaknesses, 2 opportunities, and 2 threats for that company idea.