...Does Apollo Hospital Madras provide superior value to its customers, shareholders, and employees through a well designed service system – in other words is it a breakthrough service organization? Yes Apollo Madras provide superior value to its customers, share holders and employees.Apollo has well designed service system and it is a breakthrough organization. Apollo’s greatest strength is the first mover advantage. They were among the pioneers in setting up quality private hospitals in India. Since they were able to provide world class medical service at affordable rates, this became a value for customers. Government also helped them eventually by getting rid of many financial and regulatory obstacles. Liberalization of private sector was a boon. Apollo were good pay masters as far India was concerned and this enabled them to attract talent. Doctors who wanted to come back to their country of origin were more than happy to join Apollo. The hospital imported latest equipments and had a good success rate. By using sound marketing, they were able to build a brand name very quickly. The successful surgery of Vice-President of India was a major break through for them in brand building. India’s growing middle class were the target segment for Apollo Hospitals. The patients were ready to pay for quality treatment and this segment was growing at more than 8%. Also they had little or no competition in Chennai especially from the poorly managed Government hospitals. Apollo was started...
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...1996 Apollo Hospitals of India (A) Dr. Prathap Reddy's office was filled with flowers. The tags conveyed birthday greetings from employees of Apollo Hospitals Madras and former patients, including the vice president of India. Reddy greeted a steady parade of well-wishers and paused to chat warmly by telephone with a former janitor who had called from the United States. Throughout the day, employees greeted “the Chairman” with smiles, hugs, and gifts. Dr. Reddy had founded Apollo Hospitals Madras in 1983 as the first corporate hospital in India. It offered sophisticated treatment in a comprehensive range of medical specialties. Stateof-the-art medical technology, operated by skilled technicians, complemented superior doctors, many of whom had left lucrative jobs in Europe and North America to come to Apollo. Other entrepreneurs had followed Apollo into the market, building several dozen corporate hospitals to compete with Apollo and its government-run forerunners. Since Apollo’s founding, the quality of medical care in India had improved substantially for those who could pay. Despite competition, though, Apollo Hospitals Madras remained a leader in the provision of top-quality medical care and had made a profit for 10 straight years. Reddy had been joined at Apollo by his four daughters, who took prominent roles in the company. Having introduced a new form of medical business to India, the family entered 1995 hoping to expand the availability of Apollo-quality...
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...Name: Jack Brendon Instructor: Date: 08.10.2013 Case: The Apollo Group Major issues and problem * The primary problem UoP faces increased competition from both traditional not for profit universities as well as for profit universities as recently both private and public institution have expanded their part time and online offerings to adults, which was exclusively their competitive advantage earlier. Now students are seeking education with most up to date technology and with a renowned accreditation and UoP does not comes in either of those therefore they have to re-examine their focus market and continue their competitive advantage. * There is a lot of negative promotion and bad image associated with the Apollo group like “low standard education” by public universities and the media. Also according to the research conducted 95% of the employer said that they would rather hire a graduate who has done traditional in class graduation as compared to online graduation. * The new regulatory norms which are introduced now is likely to clash with UoP current condition as they are very close to 90% limit of federal fund and they are already above the stated 45% loan repayment rate. * The regulatory agencies had enormous power and could destroy the legitimacy of UoP programs by refusing to grant accreditation to the sponsoring institutions Suggested Alternatives and Implementation * The first alternative is to focus on the market focus which is...
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...Group 5 | Apollo Shoes Case Study | Parts 1 - 4 | | Brendan Fitzpatrick, Hui Liu, Yingqi Liu, Noushin Mousavi, Timothy Ryan & Pei Yan | 10/1/2013 | | Table of Contents Part 1: Staffing Assignment 2 Part 2: Audit Risk 2 Inherent Risk 2 Control Risk 3 Audit Risk Conclusion 4 Part 3: Materiality 4 Part 4: Analytical Review 4 Part 1: Staffing Assignment After looking over the preliminary work papers regarding the audit for the client, Apollo Shoes (Apollo), it is evident that we will require the help of industry specialists to complete our audit. First off, we will need a tax expert to come in and help with the audit. Our audit team has some experience with tax, but nothing past a basic level. Due to this, a tax expert will need to be brought in to audit Apollo’s tax documents. We will also require the assistance of a manufacturing expert, preferably somebody with experience in the shoe industry. Apollo recently started to manufacture some of their products in house and this will be the first time the manufacturing department will be audited. We need somebody, with knowledge of accounting for manufacturing operations, to help audit the manufacturing branch. In mid-2010, Apollo implemented a new computer system to aid the business. Due to this, we need to bring in an IT specialist. Our partner Mr. Anderson is extremely unfamiliar with the computing process, so it will benefit not just this audit, but our firm as a whole to bring in an...
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...This will confirm our understanding of the arrangements for our audit of the financial statements of Apollo Shoes, for the year ending December 31,2011. We will audit the Company's balance sheet as of December 31,2011 and the related statements of income, retained earnings, and especially cash flows for the year then ended, for the purpose of expressing an opinion on them. The financial statements are the responsibility of the Company management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the financial statements based on our audit. We will conduct our audit in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audit will provide a reasonable basis for our opinion. Our procedures will include tests of documentary evidence supporting the transactions recorded in the accounts, and direct confirmation of receivables and certain other assets and liabilities by correspondence with selected customers, creditors, legal counsel, and banks. At the conclusion of our audit, we will request...
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...smart for such a young baby. (Russell, 1992). While out on his adventure, Hermes came across a bunch of cows grazing in a field. The cows turned out to be owned by his brother Apollo. Hermes thought it would be funny to play a joke on Apollo. He decided to steal his cows. Since Hermes was so smart he decided to pad the cow’s feet and walk them backwards. He did this so Apollo would be confused and wouldn’t know which way the cows had gone. (Russell, 1992). The effort it took to pad and move all of the cows made Hermes very hungry. Hermes decided to put his clever ideas to good use again so he invented fire. He cooked and ate one of Apollo’s cows. Eating the cow definitely satisfied Hermes hunger. He decided to bring the rest of the cows’ home with him in case he got hungry again. ("Hermes", 2000-2011). While traveling home the cows were mooing in a musical way that made them sound like they were singing. Hermes saw a tortoise shell on the ground and he had another witty idea. He invented the first lyre out of the tortoise shell and string. It played wonderful music. He was playing the lyre when Apollo found him. ("Hermes Greek God", 2011). Apollo was very angry at Hermes for stealing his cows. When Apollo, who was a god of music, heard the music from the lyre he immediately loved it. As an apology to Apollo for stealing his cows, Hermes decided to give him...
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...Dedicated with regards to my Parents [pic] ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The project of such magnitude cannot be accomplished without the assistance and co-operation of several people. Exchange of ideas generates a new object to work in a better way. So, whenever a person is helped and co-operation by others, his heart is bound to pay gratitude and is not merely formalities but an expression of deep sense of gratitude and cumulative appreciation. Now first and foremost, I feel highly obliged to Mr. R. K. Sharma, District Manager: Apollo Tyres Ltd. Muzaffarpur who got me placed for project training, which had sent materials, according to my topic for execution in order to perform the work for preparing this dissertation. I would like to mention something special about my supervisor Mr. Vipin Kumar, (Asst. Professor) L.N.Mishra College of Business Management, Muzaffarpur, and making acknowledgement that without his kind co-operation, attention, wise guidance and a regular feedback from me, my mission would not have been fulfilled its milestone. I have not the desired word power to express my heartiest gratitude regards reverence and indebtness to him. I also acknowledge with a deep sense of reverence, my gratitude towards of my parents and member of my family, who has always supported me morally as well as economically. [Md. Nishat Alam] PREFACE As it is said ............"The theory without practice is lame and...
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...April 2012 Knowledge and its Limitations Greeks could never know exactly what their gods were up to, so they often had to travel to visit oracles that were able to give them insight. Greeks saw knowledge as a form of power that helped them gain some control over their lives. To ancient Greeks knowledge was such an important aspect of life they had a divinity symbolize it. Apollo was the god of knowledge and medicine, in many Greek myths the quest for knowledge, or attaining too much knowledge altogether was a common source of tragedy. Ancient Greek cultures believed that even if mortals had the knowledge they sought, once they acquired it they did not know what to do with it. There are many examples in Greek myth that plainly show how knowledge eventually leads to tragedy. For instance, Oedipus’ search for knowledge of the king’s murderer ends up becoming his demise and the major source of pain in his life. Oedipus needed to find out why Thebes was suffering from a plague, so he sent Creon to the temple of Delphi to ask Apollo what he could do to life the plague from his people. As the oracle of Apollo Tiresias goes to Thebes and tells him that the person responsible for the death of the prior king, king Laius was living amongst them, and the plague would only be lifted once they found the murderer. In the quest for the knowledge that would save his people, King Oedipus summoned the messenger that was given the task of killing the newborn son of King Laius (in an attempt to...
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...In the era of Homer, divine intervention was thought to be typical, and one of his foremost works, The Iliad, reflects this. Nearly all of the Greek gods are involved in the outcome of the Trojan War, which happens to be the background story of this epic poem. The gods are used by Homer to add twists on an otherwise standard plot of war. Evidently, the gods will be a powerful source of divine intervention and their actions certainly have significant outcomes on the Trojan War, and more importantly, the story of The Iliad. Zeus, very untypical of a Greek god in his lack of involvement in the Trojan War for selfish reasons, was portrayed as the father figure, being impartial and fair to both sides of the war. He remains this way to serve as a check for the other god's involvement in the war. Without the presence of fate controlling the inner circle of Olympus, it is likely that the activity of the Trojan War would have become chaotic, possibly even becoming a playground of war for the gods. The power of fate, above all of the other gods combined, is a power that not even divine intervention can prevent. This theme of fate and how it controls the god’s actions is quite befitting to the storyline of The Iliad. The Iliad, in essence, recounts the story of part of the tenth year of the Trojan War. It recounts of the anger of Achilles, the greatest warrior present at Troy, and of the background battle that is ensuing. The reoccurring theme in the Iliad is that no matter whom the character...
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...MYTHOLOGY IN MODERN SOCIETY [pic] [pic] [pic] |Mythology is everywhere! Daily you run across instances of words, city names, companies, | |literary allusions - and even planets and constellations - that take their name or borrow | |their theme from myths. Because of your many requests, I've provided a couple of thousand | |excellent examples to help you get started in your research. Remember, you're surrounded | |by mythology in today's society, whether you realize it or not! | Mythological Influence on Modern... |[pic]Companies & Groups |[pic]Planets & Constellations | |[pic] Words & Expressions |[pic]Literary & Pop Culture | [pic]American Cities Named From Mythology [pic] COMPANIES & GROUPS |Mythology is everywhere! There are hundreds of companies, groups and corporations that take their name, logo or theme from ancient mythology. | |I've provided a variety of examples to help you in starting your research. Some are well-known international companies, others are of a more | |local nature. | |Aegis - Zeus and Athena's protective shield; modern group of insurance companies (The Aegis Group). | |Ajax - Greek warrior in the Trojan War, who "cleaned up" in...
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...Agamemnon, the Greek king who wanted to destroy Troy, his only opposition. But Achilles refuses to fight for him, because he is disgusted by Agamemnon. This is the refusal to the call, another stage in the Hero’s Journey. But Achilles is convinced by Odysseus and Achilles own mother to fight in the war against Troy, to earn his name for eternity. This is a direct example of the encouragement of a wise old man or woman, the next step in the Hero’s Journey! Crossing the threshold is the next stage, and in Troy, Achilles “crosses the threshold” when he lands on the beaches of Troy. Achilles leads the Greeks to an easy victory, slaughtering all the Trojans on the beach and taking the temple of Apollo. Achilles then after, faces the supreme ordeal, the next stage in the hero’s journey. In this case, Achilles must fight the man who killed his younger cousin, who he was training to fight, and enter Troy. After he defeated the man and Entered Troy, he received his Elixir or treasure, the following stage in the hero’s journey, when the woman he loved held him as he died. She gave him his treasure of peace while he was dying. The following stages of the Hero’s Journey are carried out by Odysseus, who tok his spot as the leader of the Greeks after Achilles died. But, As you can see, the movie Troy, follows Campbell’s ideas of a Hero’s journey exactly, throughout the entire...
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...Cities where especially important to ancient Greek civilization- they were the primary spheres of influence in their time; a time of city states. Her basic contention is that there are certain words that are epithets but are seen as just descriptions. For example, The Greek word for “walled” is eureiyeos. So the epithet for Troy in this case would be “the walled city”. Bowra explains that “the absence of [this] from the description of other cities does not indicate that they lacked walls but rather that those of Troy were of particular importance- this is obviously helps explain why it took the Acheans ten years to capture it” (Bowra pg.17). The other words are that of euounros, which is towers. Again, the same concept, its not that other cities didn’t have towers its just that those of the city of Troy were that...
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...Lauren Tucker 1 Freshman English 1 March 2013 Pandora’s Box: All the Unanswered Questions Part 1: What I Already Know In 5th grade I read a Mythology book on goddess and gods and Pandora was one of them. I know that Pandora was created because of a disagreement between gods leaving a need for revenge. I also know that “Pandora’s Box” is just the name that was given by scientist and that it was actually said to be a jar containing all the evil spirits, bad fortune, and bad luck that was in the jar to later be released. Pandora was the first female goddess created. Part 2: What I Want To Find Out In this research project I would like to learn more about the way Pandora lived and all about the box of spirits. I would like to learn exactly what was in the box/jar. I would also love to learn what spirits were exactly in the box and what the meanings were. To start off this project I’m going to do research on the computer checking out different website on Pandora. Then I will try and look for books and if I find any I will take information on them. I plan on doing a little research every week so I don’t wait until the very last minute. Part 3: My Search Findings Tucker 2 Pandora was created by Hephaistos, the smith god, under the order of Zeus, to upset Prometheus the god of fire and friend of men. (“Pandora-Greek Mythology”) Pandora was created as revenge/punishment because Prometheus gave man the gift of fire. Prometheus was not supposed to give mankind...
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...Organisational Leadership Mattersey Hall Gods Of Management Charles Handy, in “Gods of Management”, attempts to classify four distinct management cultures that exist within all organizations. He uses the ancient Greek gods to symbolize these management cultures or philosophies. There are four types of management cultures or philosophies present within all organizations. The four cultures are the club (Zeus), role (Apollo), task (Athena), and existential (Dionysus) cultures. The first culture Handy discusses is the club or Zeus culture. He uses a spider web to represent the club culture. “[T]he lines radiating out from the centre” represent “divisions of work based on functions or products” (Handy p14). The most important lines however “are the encircling [lines], the ones that surround the spider in the middle, for these are the lines of power and influence, losing importance as they go farther from the centre. The relationship with the spider matters more in this culture than does any formal title or position description” (Handy p14). Handy also maintains that this type of culture is excellent for “speed of decisions” (Handy p15). However, because of its speed, quality is dependent upon Zeus and his inner circle. This results in an emphasis being placed upon the selection and succession of Zeus. The club culture achieves its speed through empathy. This in turn leads to very little documentation within the organization and face-to-face meetings between Zeus and his subordinates...
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