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               College of Technology & Management Capstone Projects

Business Plans & Marketing - International Operations Plan

Process Improvement Plan    |  Systems Requirement Analysis
How to Write & Cite

Business Plans & International Operations Plans

Starting Out-Business Plans

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Business Plans via Gale Virtual Reference Collection (Passwords needed - see Student Commons)                               
Industry Outlooks

 

 

Product Industry and Outlook Research - Is there growth or need for products or services

Companies,
Products, Services & Pricing
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Locating Companies That Sell Products - how are they doing?

Use Google.com, Yellow Pages, Superpages.com (businesses) or other preferred search engine to locate company information:

  • to find who sells products
  • to look at individual companies web page for information
  • Thomas Register  (company catalogs)  http://www.thomasregister.com/

Doing Research On Specific Companies

Pricing

  • Thomas Register  (company catalogs) -  http://www.thomasregister.com/
  • Existing products in stores::
    • Walmart --http://www.walmart.com
    • JC Penney --http://www1.jcpenney.com/jcp/default.aspx
    • Claires (hair products) --http://www.claires.com/site_map.asp
    • Target – http://www.target.com
  • Google or Yellow Pages  -- Company homepages or catalogs for pricing, locations, new product development, etc.
 Marketing Research

See local area  information (below) who you can market to

 Area Demographics, Lifestyles, Trends & Attitudes

Operations Costs For Area Costs & Regulations for Doing

 

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Government Sources/ Statistics/Laws

Process Improvement Plans
Systems Requirement Analysis

E-Books  Searchable E-books    Find business plans, marketing and other reference information.

Tutorials  
Gale Business Plans
Netlibrary
Netlibrary Account

Research Databases
Easy to search databases with full-text online articles from journals, magazines, reports &  newspapers. Over 11,000 journal titles!

Journal/Magazine Article Databases: 
Find  thousands of full text articles from one easy search.

Academic Search Complete Largest database of articles covering all subjects. 4,000+ titles & thousands of articles.
Business Source Complete Excellent coverage of business, international, IT and management. Industry profiles, company reports, country profiles & marketing information.
Lexis Nexis Business & legal news.
Computer Database Computers, telecommunications, electronics,  high-tech topics and industry status reports from 150 key technology periodicals.
General Business File International database provides 2000,000 company profiles;  50,000 full-text Investext® reports; late-breaking company news, industries products and executives
IEEE
  • IEEE Computer (new developments in computers and industry
  • IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
  • IEEE IT Professional (Security)
  • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (Networking)
  • IEEE Software (programming and project management)

Newspapers

Wall Street Journal  
New York Times  
Regional Newspapers 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all US metropolitan and rural areas.
International News International News websites.

Ebooks

Gale Reference - Business Plans Over 200 online samples of real business plans including set up and staffing and break even costs; market analysis and plans. 
Netlibrary Over 50,000 online books including international, management and business topics. 2 IT centers. Country profiles.
 

Tutorials        
 
Business Source Complete - Business Searching Interface

EBSCO - Business Searching: Basic

Steps:

Library Online

Passwords

Select Database

 

HELP  |  Writing &Citing

Help & Passwords
Get  Database Passwords or Research Help
Writing and Citing

 

Avoiding Plagiarism

Writing/Citing Your Resources:

Writing

Citation Help Tools

Other Library Guides  - Use SPC databases first and exclusively. These guides are for information only.


 

 

 



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