...Scenario: Apex Printing, Inc. Apex Printing, Inc. is a private, domestic United States printer of periodicals, newspaper inserts, and advertising materials that accompany distributions of Sunday and weekday circulations of large metropolitan newspapers. The company, headed by CEO John Matthews, generates $450 million in revenues from three product lines (periodicals, inserts, and advertising) and has long-term contracts with several large U.S. retailers to produce weekly sales flyer inserts as well as metropolitan newspapers to produce Sunday magazine inserts and coupons. Its printing presses are characterized by offset print technology and capable of high-capacity output; in addition, the company recently migrated to water-soluble inks, which reduce manufacturing emissions considerably. The company’s executive team, employees, and above all, its Vice President (VP) of Production, Luke Stewart, are committed to environmentally sustainable manufacturing practices. Presently, the only substrate Apex uses is paper, specifically newsprint of various weights. Trim and waste are recycled in accordance with the company’s sustainability commitment. Manufacturing divisions are geographically aligned with customers’ locations to minimize logistics cost and response time to customer requirements; however, a centralized corporate entity administers functions such as human resources, information technology, and financial reporting. The VP of Sales and Administration, James Simeon, oversees...
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...Transcript of Reinventing the Wheel at the Apex Door Company Reinventing the Wheel at Apex Door Company SUMMARY Jim Delaney, the president of the company His employees prefer doing the tasks in their own ways The company also had problems with the training process because the workers always failed to meet the job specification Also they have overlapped training period and some of the training are outdated Besides, training process is homogenized 3 MAIN PROBLEMS 1. Training Process 2. Employer's Problems 3. Employee's Problems SOLUTIONS 1. Training Process 2. Employer's solutions 3. Employees' solutions Employer's Solutions To improve the training process and revise training the system Preliminary info Monitor and feedback system Programs more task-relevant Align the training with strategic goals More direct first-hand info from employees regular meetings, normal retreat, critical incident diary, work log Involve the employees into decision-making process Employees' Solutions Design some motivational programs Pay for performance Intrinsic and Extrinsic Reward Solutions for Trainers Provide "Train the Trainers" Course Build up the trainers team Solutions for Training program Define the training objectives Work out for the training budgets Prepare master training plan Improve the training contents Induction Program Develop some training forms for data record Employer's Problems low-quality and insufficient downward communication Lack of proper human resources...
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...Business Basics Apex Training Company As the sole proprietor of Apex, Martha has had the full responsibility of running all aspects of her company for the past six years. At the time of initial start up, the company was small and was easily managed by one person. Martha worked numerous hours as she developed her training company to structure a strategic plan that addressed her short and long term business goals. Martha, as the sole proprietor, did not have to share Apex’s earnings with anyone else. She was able to turn her profits immediately back into the company. Martha also paid lower taxes due to the fact that Apex earnings are considered her personal income. She played all roles within the company. For example, she was able to fill in when Rose, her one employee, called in sick, and still monitor all business operations. Based upon her four years experience as the vice president of marketing for a training company and the financial success she had in the position, Martha felt very comfortable stepping into the presidency of her own company. However, as her company’s revenues grow and her training requests expand, Martha is re-evaluating her business plan as well as her form of business ownership. As Martha’s accountant, I am concerned that she has reached several limitations of sole proprietorship. Marth had to take a loss the first year Apex was in business. She had to ensure that she had enough money to pay Rose, as well as the operating...
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...APEX MINING CO., INC. May 2, 2011 PHILIPPINE STOCK EXCHANGE, INC. Disclosure Department Tower One and Exchange Plaza Ayala Triangle, Ayala Avenue Makati City Attention: Ms. Janet Encarnacion Head, Disclosure Dept. Dear Ms. Encarnacion: We are submitting herewith SEC Form 17-A for the year ended December 31, 2010. Very truly yours, ROSANNA A. PARICA Corporate Information Officer Head Office: Unit 1704 17th Floor, Prestige Tower Condominium, F. Ortigas Jr. Road, Ortigas Center , Pasig City 1605 Tel. Nos.: 706-2805/706-2806 * Fax No.: 706-2804 Minesite: Maco, Compostela Valley COVER SHEET 4 0 6 2 1 S.E.C. Registration Number A P E X M I N I N G C O . I N C . (Company's Full Name) 1 7 T H F. O R T I F L OOR G A S J R P R E S T R D I G E T O W E R P A S I G C I T Y O R TI GA S (Business Address: No. Street City/Town//Province) ROSANNA A. PARICA Contact Person 706-2805 Company Telephone Number 1 2 Month 3 1 Day SEC Form 17-A FORM TYPE 0 6 Month 3 0 Day Fiscal Year Annual Meeting Secondary License Type, If Applicable Dept. Requiring this Doc. Amended Articles Number/Section Total Amount of Borrowings of Stockholders Domestic Foreign To be accomplished by SEC Personnel concerned File Number LCU Document I.D. Cashier STAMPS ck ink for scanning purposes SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION SEC FORM 17-A ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17...
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...Loss of Top Predators is Humankind’s Most Pervasive Influence on Nature Thesis: For thousands of years, nature and humans have coexisted in equilibrium. As human population increases and expands, it cases severe effects in every ecosystem. Evidence of human growth and urbanization can be seen through the impacts on virtually every ecosystem in planet earth, marine and terrestrial. Effects of, such as species decline, endangerment and extinction of enormous proportions. In most cases, driving some species to the edge of extinction. Possibly no species are more affected than the world’s large top predators. These animals are extremely important to the overall health and function of an ecosystem, but conservation and restoration of them and their habitat is a remote thought on humans. The absence of predators in certain areas has led to an explosion of their natural prey, which leads to a damaging impact on their habitat. Ecosystems need to be healthy in order to maintain the health of all living things within and around them, including humans. It seems logical then to restore the natural balance by reintroducing the animal’s natural predator, conserving the population, and protecting the wild environment. Humans can no longer wait to address this growing environmental and ethical issue, and by establishing clear goals they can ensure the future of these species and ecosystems along with the continuing growth and success of their own. DOT: Sharks influence on the structure and...
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...WEEK 2 – CASE STUDY APEX CHEMICAL CASE We learned that innovation is creating and implementing ideas that generate new customer value and/or improve the value of the firm.[1] While Apex desires to be an innovative company, I don’t believe that the only way to accomplish this is through the introduction of Compound A-115, a new electrolysis agent. It is important that Apex carefully weigh the benefits and drawbacks of their two options. Given the limited information we have, I would recommend that Apex Chemical commercialize the Compound B-227 beta-prednigone. In offering this recommendation, I would stress the fact that innovation is not simply R&D, or new product development. From an innovation perspective, the commercialization of Compound B-227 would represent a new product in a market they already serve, as well as a potential branding innovation, whereby Apex could now be marketed and viewed as a comprehensive supplier of plastic oxidizers. From a pure financial standpoint, the market for electrolysis agents is $10 million and one competitor, Hamfield, dominates the market supply. The information provided indicates that Hamfield’s customers are loyal, satisfied and, in all likelihood, would not be quick to adopt a new product such as A-115, despite its claims of superiority. Apex believes that customers would gravitate towards A-115, but we have little sense of how long this transition in product loyalty would take to transpire. Apex is not recognized in the electrolysis...
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...1/19/2015 1/19/2015 One Giant Leap for Apex Design Wireless Network Plan One Giant Leap for Apex Design Wireless Network Plan Team B Team B Apex Design has found the need to incorporate a wireless network to collaborate with their existing wired network. Team B found this opportunity to display to Apex what they can do to bring their company to enjoy the modern conveniences of a wireless network. This deployment plan will cover Team B’s recommendations based off of the site survey provided by Apex. We will discuss our recommended wireless network type. The access point layout and how these points will be managed. We will go over the foreseen obstacles and what our plan is to overcome these obstacles. Finally, we will go over the security policy that should be implemented to keep Apex as secure with our wireless network as they are with their current wired network. IEEE Network Type Apex Designs has asked our company to design a wireless network for their business. This network will consist of several different pieces of hardware that all will work together to meet Apex’s needs. To ensure that the new network is operational, special considerations must be made as to which IEEE network standard to be used. Since Apex Designs is a business that has a preexisting network installed, the new network must be compatible with the legacy systems already in use. Failure to meet this requirement would cause major interruptions in work flow, thus hindering...
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...A single ecosystem holds all the food chain and this is called a food web. Every living creature in the ecosystem is a component of multiplex food chains. Every food chain is a possible pathway that nutrients, and energy could take on while they travel throughout an ecosystem. Each and every one of the overlapping, and organized food chains in the same ecosystem create a food web. "A food web is a graphical description of feeding relationships among species in an ecological community, that is, of who eats whom"( J. Duffy, 2013 ). Trophic levels consist of a group of organisms in the food webs. Also, this trophic levels are divided into three levels and this levels are decomposers, consumers, and producers. The first trophic level is known as Producers. Also, they create their food and they don't turn to other organism, and they also called autotrophs. Normally autotrophs create food using a process known as photosynthesis, and that create a nutrient known as glucose, and these consist of water , carbon dioxide, and sunlight. There are different types of autotroph but plants are the most known type. One larger plant that's known as seaweed is a autotroph. Also, tiny organisms living in the deep-sea called Phytoplankton, are also autotrophs. There are various bacteria that are autotrophs. Example, in a lively volcanoes exist bacteria and they use sulfur to put together its own food. This procedure is known as chemosynthesis. The following trophic levels consist of organism...
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...may take (Mader, 1996). Indeed all of the interconnected and overlapping food chains contain many organisms that take place within various niches because their resources are available for their habitat (Mader, 1996). Various types of organisms within the food web are grouped into categories called trophic levels. In this food web case study, we will use the food web as a directed graph to model the relationship between predators and prey in an ecological community and the use of graph to visually explain the important parameters that consider a competition for ecological surroundings for organisms. As directed in a simple food web of an ecological community, the graph displays an apex for each organism in a trophic level and a direct border from the apex visually explaining individual A to the apex illustrating individual B, and however, the path continues if A preys on B (Roberts, 1976). Within this particular graph, the toad, milk snake, salamander, raccoon, grasshopper, fox, and the robin were chosen for a group of seven species, and the results show competition among one another. Again, if there is a common prey to catch, the species will compete for the catch, two species will compete for the catch. The graph displays the vertex of the raccoon and fox since the robin is a common prey. The vertex of the milk snake and raccoon shows that both species compete for their common prey, the grasshopper. The vertex of salamander and the robin do not compete with one another since...
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...The primary producer in my ecosystem that has the largest influence is the banana tree. The banana tree provides sustenance for many species in a tropical rainforest; tapirs, monkeys, ants and other insects, small mammals and birds all rely on the banana tree as part of their diet. As the apex predator in my trophic pyramid I selected the jaguar. The jaguar being an apex predator, as it diets on other animals but was virtually no predators of its own (PBS.org, 2008), exists in a unique position. The jaguar limits the populations of other inhabitants, predators included, thusly maintaining a balance in the tropical rainforest. As the jaguar preys on many species, including predators such as the black caiman and anaconda, neither species’ population is allowed to grow beyond control thus protecting the lower level consumers that black caiman and anaconda prey upon. The amount of energy gained is much greater than the amount of energy lost through the 2nd-4th trophic levels. Energy that is consumed at any tropic level is used through many life processes such as moving, breathing, reproducing and searching for food. A significant portion of the energy is lost before being absorbed into the next level. Scientists estimate that 90% of the energy that enters each level is “lost” (Annenberg Foundation, 2014) If one species was removed from my trophic pyramid many species would be affected. For example, if the anaconda were removed any species that it preys on, such as tapirs, would...
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...DOG PROPERTY. Diala Henry (Leader of the pack). Dog, man….and nothing in between. SIMPLE CARE TIPS Vol 1. How do you listen to your dog? Do you call all sounds your dog makes a bark? How do you rapport with your dog? Can you tell how happy or sad your dog really is? Do you see your dog as just an animal or as a company? Amazing!!! ..... you can actually listen and relate with your dog. You can be a very close friend to your dog and make a great company. You can be very happy with your and share awesome moments together. How smart is your Dog? How smart would you rate your dog to other animals? The famous saying…… “man’s best friend", compliments a dog for obeying commands, carrying out tasks, go out for a walk, protecting and guarding the house etc…. GUESS WHAT?!!! Dogs are not in the top 10 list of smartest/intelligent animals, as the "CHIMPANZEE" stands as 1st position and“RAT” stands at 10th position. So why do these top 10 animals don’t stand the chance to live with man as best companion or as a tool to enhance living standards? There are other smart animals apart from the top 10 listed animals but the outstanding quality that makes the dog stand out is the inborn loyalty in a dog trait. DOGS ARE LOYAL TO THE DEATH! Other animals lack loyalty and therefore knowledge cannot be impacted easily in them since they live free and do not see you as...
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...PART III GRAPH THEORY 224 13 Food Webs Author: College. Robert A. McGuigan, Department of Mathematics, Westfield State Prerequisites: The prerequisites for this chapter are basic concepts of graph theory. See Sections 9.1 and 9.2 of Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications. Introduction A food web is a directed graph modeling the predator-prey relationship in an ecological community. We will use this directed graph to study the question of the minimum number of parameters needed to describe ecological competition. For this purpose we will consider how graphs can be represented as intersection graphs of families of sets. We will also investigate the axiomatic description of measures of status in food webs. Competition In an ecological system, the various species of plants and animals occupy niches defined by the availability of resources. The resources might be defined in terms of factors such as temperature, moisture, degree of acidity, amounts of nutrients, 225 226 Applications of Discrete Mathematics and so on. These factors are subject to constraints such as temperature lying in a certain range, pH lying within certain limits, etc. The combination of all these constraints for a species then defines a region in n-dimensional Euclidean space, where n is the number of factors. We can call this region the ecological niche of the species in question. For example, suppose we restrict ourselves to three factors, such as temperature...
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...Part 1: The Producers Go to http://www.learner.org/courses/envsci/interactives/ecology/food_web.php Challenge Try to get two plants to happily co–exist. In any given ecosystem, most organisms will carve out a niche for themselves where they can obtain all of the necessities to survive. Often, different species within the ecosystem will compete for the resources that a niche provides. However, certain species live well together—symbiotically, parasitically, or by staying out of each other's way. For example, lichen and moss, often the primary colonizers of a new ecosystem, tend to live fairly harmoniously in each other's vicinity. Let's see what happens in this model. Step 1 Imagine the ecosystem is newly forming—the previous ecosystem has been destroyed by fire or flood—and the first colonizers of the successive ecosystem are, of course, producers. Given the two fictitious species of plants in the simulator, predict what will happen in this young system and record your prediction in the Data Table. Then run the simulator to 100 time steps and record the population numbers for both plants. Answer the following: 1. What assumptions does this model make about co-dominance as well as the general terrain of the ecosystem? 2. Do you find one producer to be dominant? Why might one producer be dominant over another? Step 2 Now you'll introduce an herbivore into the environment. In theory, an herbivore native to the ecosystem should feed primarily on the dominant species...
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...These are some reasons on why I believe in dogs. Dogs make great friends and you can I believe in dogs always trust them. They are forgiving and will always love you. I believe we should treat dogs with same amount of respect that they give us. Dogs are trustworthy and loyal to there owners. Dogs have been known as mans best friend for a long time. Dogs are strong animals and will defend you in any situation. They can be trained to defend, and do amazing things. Sometimes when you feel all hope is lost you will have a dog by your side. To help you through any crisis. Dogs will never leave you and have unlimited love they make the best defenders amid guard animals....
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...Case 3: The Insider I. Brief Summary In 2011, a stock trader of a well-known investment firm along with two alleged accomplices was convicted of insider trading. The lawyers allegedly browsed around their law firm picking up information regarding corporate deals and would provide it to a person who would then pass the inside information to the trader. This information was then used by the trader for him to earn millions of dollars. Since the information came from the lawyers, the trader would thank them by providing envelopes filled with cash. II. Central Problem * Screening out the potential bad stock traders and only those stock traders with good values and can be trusted with confidential information are selected. * Find a way to control the behaviours of those already in the firm who are prone to engage in inside trading. III. Conclusion The firm shows that they have a poor system in selecting employees since unethical employees are able to enter their company. They also possess poor security regarding with the works of their employees that is why most probably some employees are able to do insider trading. And lastly there is limited communication between top management and the employees which lead to this kind of behaviour by employees. IV. Recommendation Due to the alarming case of insider trading we recommend that the firm should strengthen their employee selection program in order to select the right personnel with ethical values. With...
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