Q.1.3 Discuss the importance of environmental scanning and explain how the founders (15)
of Airbnb scanned the environment before starting their company.
NB: Your answer should be a minimum of 500 to a maximum of 650 words.
Markers are to stop marking after the threshold of 650 words has been reached.
Please indicate the word count at the end your answer.
(10)
Q.1.4
With reference to the above case study, describe three types of resources the
founders of Airbnb needed most to start the company and explain how they
acquired these resources.​

What is the advantage of developing criteria for assessing the effectiveness of business products and processes? a. assessment criteria are answers. b.assessment criteria are inexpensive. c.assessment criteria provide you with a list of relevant things to measure. d.assessment criteria provide you with a list of people to contact to learn more about process mentoring.

Anew 2-lane road is needed in a part of town that is growing. at some point the road will need 4 lanes to handle the anticipated traffic. if the city's optimistic estimate of growth is used, the expansion will be needed in 4 years and has a probability of happening of 40%. for the most likely and pessimistic estimates, the expansion will be needed in 8 and 15 years respectively. the probability of the pessimistic estimate happening is 20%. the expansion will cost $ 4.2 million and the interest rate is 8%. what is the expected pw the expansion will cost?

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