MAC3703 Assignment 2 (COMPLETE ANSWERS) Semester 2 2025 - DUE 30 September 2025; 100% correct solutions and explanations.

MAC3703 Assignment 2 (COMPLETE ANSWERS) Semester 2 2025 - DUE 30 September 2025; 100% correct solutions and explanations. Dear Student This document contains the questions making up assignment 02 (compulsory, contributing 75% to your total year mark of 20%). NO EXTENSION OF TIME WILL BE GIVEN FOR THE SUBMISSION OF ASSIGNMENTS, SINCE SOLUTIONS WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE AUTOMATICALLY TO ALL STUDENTS AFTER THE DUE DATES. NO EXCEPTIONS WILL BE MADE REGARDING THE LATE SUBMISSION OF ASSIGNMENTS. ASSIGNMENTS RECEIVED AFTER THE DUE DATE WILL NOT BE MARKED AND WILL RECEIVE 0%. PLAGIARISM DECLARATION I declare that this assignment, submitted by myself, is my own work and that I have referenced all the sources that I have used. 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That is copying (a form of plagiarism) and none of these assignments will be marked and will therefore receive 0%. Furthermore, you may be penalised or subjected to disciplinary proceedings by the University. EXTENT AND PRESENTATION OF ASSIGNMENT ANSWERS Only one or more questions or parts of questions in each assignment will be marked. It is important that to obtain adequate marks all questions must be answered and be of an equally high standard. Do not only rewrite the information in the study guide and prescribed textbooks. As a third-year student, you are expected to use the information and apply to the various scenarios. You need to reference all your work using the Harvard method. However, when you reference your work this does not mean you can copy the text word for word from the source. Only three words in a row can be the same, the rest must be in your own words. Bonus marks may be awarded for a proper reference list of your work. Start each question on a new page. 2 ASSIGNMENT 02: COMPULSORY FOR YEAR MARK CONTRIBUTION TOTAL MARKS: 80 marks DUE DATE: 30 Sept. 2025 UNIQUE NUMBER: Before attempting this assignment make sure that you have studied Learning Unit 1-15 (in detail and the corresponding study material in the prescribed textbook. QUESTION ONE (60 MARKS) XYZF Ltd is a South African factory shop producing clothing for men and women from the age of 16 upwards. XYZF gets all their materials from ABCD Ltd, a local supplier. There are other local suppliers in the country for the materials used by XYZF Ltd. XYZF does not have its own sewing machines and rents them in from company X. The clothes produced by XYZF Ltd are sold to various clothing wholesalers in South Africa, who then supply the local retailers who physically supply the consumers. XYZF Ltd has its own delivery trucks which delivers the clothes from the factory straight to the wholesalers’ premises. Company Y uses various courier companies to deliver the clothes to the local retailers. XYZF Ltd is competing with All Clothing Limited. Although XYZF Ltd does not supply directly to consumers, the directors believe that XYZF Ltd is creating value for the end user and XYZF Ltd is now considering expanding its business by supplying the clothes directly to the consumer through creating and launching an online retail store. The online retail store will be accessible all over the world. The directors of XYZF Ltd have appointed a project team, led by a project manager, to investigate the feasibility of the expansion being considered. The directors have indicated that they will not be appointing a steering committee for the project instead they will be steering the project themselves. The software supplier will be TNX. The instructions in terms of what the investigation should entail are clearly stated and include additional ecosystem participants that will need to be added to the current ecosystem and their roles in the ecosystem, the features for the online store application to ensure value creation, other extra resources, and their costs, amongst others. The project manager has indicated that he is clueless about project management, however he trusts his management and leadership skills. The project management team is obedient, eager to learn and prefer healthy competition, i.e., compete by performing their tasks well. The project manager’s name is John. Required: A. (i) Identify and explain the roles of at least two business ecosystem participants in the current XYZ Ltd ecosystem, and two in the new ecosystem resulting from the introduction of the online retail store. (6) (ii) Identify and explain at least two features that