Disc Q Responses

Subject: Operational Planning and Policy

Q1. Please read the below paragraph and write your opinion whether you agree or not?

Note: 150 – 200 words with intext citations and references must.

 The Coca-Cola Company enters the global market using various modes of entry. The most common modes are exporting, licensing, and franchising. Besides exporting beverages and its special syrups, Coca- Cola also exports its merchandise to foreign distributors and companies. The company has also started licensing with bottlers around the world and supplying them with the special syrup necessary to produce the product. Coca-Cola works with more than 300 bottlers internationally to produce, deliver, market, and sell products around the world. In recent years, the Coca-Cola Company has been looking to relatively undeveloped markets with a growing middle class and money to spend on soft drinks and juices. To that end, it announced it will invest US$5 billion with its bottling partners in Africa by 2021, raising its investment in the region to US$17 billion from 2010 to 2020 (Yang & Gabrielsson, 2018). Coca-Cola plans to build new manufacturing capacity, develop sustain ability initiatives, and create jobs in developing countries. In a move that supports expanding its fruit-based drinks portfolio and investing in Africa, in late 2014 the Coca-Cola Company announced a partnership with alcoholic beverage company SABMiller and South Africa’s Gutsche Family Investments to create Coca-Cola Beverages Africa, the continent’s largest bottler (Yang & Gabrielsson, 2018).

Q2. Please read the below paragraph and write your opinion whether you agree or not?

Note: 150 – 200 words with intext citations and references must.

Amazon.com, Inc. watched the SEC file papers in Spring 2014 with its biggest Chinese rival, Alibaba Group for the first public bid that could be one of the highest of its kind in history. Despite a few years of profitability, the leading rival in Brazil, MercadoLibre, suffered a loss of around 40% in stock prices. Two of India's leading rivals, Flipkart and Snapdeal, have developed their own fusion with other associated companies. Jeff Bezos had nothing new in the intensive struggle for e-wallet dominance of a world. After nineteen years of service, Amazon was voted to open Amazon.in in June 2013 as the 11th country portal for India (Harsimran, 2014). China was the first website of Amazon international markets and India was just the third. Amazon has a distinct business model and approach in India in comparison to its practice in China and Brazil.

 Amazon entered in India using Alliance and Joint Venture Strategies. On 5 June 2013, with the release of Amazon.in Amazon was formally introduced on the Indian market. Though in September 2012, the Indian government liberalized its stringent foreign direct investment legislation, it still forbids foreign multi-brand retailers from owning more than 51%. In addition to acting as a sales site for third-party retailers, Amazon did not replicate its market to sell own goods. In India, Amazon will only function as a pure marketplace connecting home-salespeople to retail customers. A cash-on-delivery will allow Amazon shoppers to pay their goods at the time of delivery, in addition to on-line payment options, such as credit cards, debit cards and bank transfers. This was possible due to ties with different cards, banks and government ("India’s e-commerce market rose 88% in 2013: Survey.", 2013).

 

Subject: Management of Information Security

Q3. Please read the below paragraph and write your opinion whether you agree or not?

Note: 150 – 200 words with intext citations and references must.

Based on Whiteman(2017), a cold site is a facility that provides only rudimentary services, with no hardware or peripherals. A warm site is a facility that provides many of the same services and options as a hot site, but without installed and configured software. A hot site is a fully configured computing facility that includes all services, communications links, and physical plant operations.

Based on omnisecu.com, a hot site is a backup site that running continuously. Once the disaster occurred, within a very short period, the hot site can be ready to replace the original site. Besides, the website mentioned that the distance between the original site and the hot site should be far enough in case the disaster damage the hot site along with the original.

A warm site, as described by omnisecu.com, is a backup site but less equipped compare to a hot site. The warm site is configured with power, phone, network, and other basic links. The reaction time is longer than the hot site with a lower cost to maintain.

A cold site contains even fewer facilities than a warm site. So that the response time is longer than the warm site and hot site. Normally it requires days or even weeks to set up.