Several organizational strategies exist for developing effective presentations, depending on your purpose and the nature of your content. List and explain five of these strategies and give an original example of when you might use each
Chronology: Describes the history of a problem or event from the beginning to the present.
Example: A presentation that describes what has led to the decision to acquire another company
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Geography/Space: Presents information organized by geographic region or area or by space or location.
Example: A presentation about the 2015 sales and net profit revenues for each region of an organization
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Topic/Function/Conventional Grouping: Presents information organized by specific topics or groups.
Example: A presentation about wireless services offered by a telecommunications company
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Comparison/Contrast (Pro/Con): Presents information by comparing one item to others or by showing the pros and cons of an item.
Example: A presentation that shows the pros and cons of allowing employees to telecommute
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Journalistic Pattern (the five Ws and an H): Answers the questions who, what, when, where, why, and how.
Example: A presentation about an incident of embezzlement within the company
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Value/Size: Presents information organized by value or size in increasing or decreasing order.
Example: A presentation about commercial rental costs in the United States, organized from lowest to highest price by city
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Importance: Presents information that is organized from the most important reason to the least important, or vice versa.
Example: A presentation about the reasons for decreases in productivity, starting with the most important reason
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Problem/Solution: Presents the problem first, followed by a solution.
Example: A presentation about a problem with a network slowdown, followed by a solution for dealing with it
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Simple/Complex: Presents information that begins with the simplest concept, leading up to the most complex concept.
Example: A presentation about operating a software package that begins with how to start the software and perform basic operations, leading to how to perform more complex operations
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Best Case/Worst Case: Presents a scenario, describing the best possible results and the worst possible results.
Example: A presentation analyzing whether a company should sell its product exclusively online, organized by the best-case result opposed to the worst-case result
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Why is repatriation so difficult?
a) The expatriate has to re-establish social networks b) The organization has undergone gradual changes c) There is a loss of support on return d) All of the above
Which of the following is NOT likely to be a part of the segmenting step in market segmentation?
A. looking for similarities rather than basic differences in needs B. determining an appropriate number of segments C. clustering people with similar needs into a "market segment" D. naming a broad product-market of interest to the firm E. aggregating individual customers into market segments