...1) What is the most important reason for Google® pursuing four business strategies simultaneously? | | A. | | The company’s platform enables it to develop applications quickly and deliver applications and results to users almost instantaneously. | | B. | | The company has a global platform. | | C. | | The company has a huge amount of cash reserves. | | D. | | The company saw that Microsoft® was vulnerable as a result of its proprietary software model. | | | 2) Which of the following statements is not correct? | | A. | | IT requires small investments over a long period of time. | | B. | | To succeed in today’s environment, it is often necessary to change business models and strategies. | | C. | | Information technology (IT) enables organizations to survive in the face of business pressures. | | D. | | Organizations may leverage their platforms to develop web-based applications, products, and services. | | | 3) The fact that you practice continuous computing means all of the following except: | | A. | | You can push your ideas to the web. | | B. | | You are surrounded by a movable information network. | | C. | | You can pull information about almost everything from anywhere all the time. | | D. | | Your daily routines are exactly the same as students 20 years ago, but you do your tasks much slower and with more effort. | | | 4) Which of the following statements about IS is not correct? | | A. | | IS...
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... CONTENTS Solving the problem * The consultation process * Research proposal * Preliminary scope * Human resources * Financial resources * Physical resources * External research assistance * Research location * Methods used for research * Sample size * Budget * Time frame * Client interview * Research plan * Objectives * Scope * Research methods * Type of data * Sources of data * Data gathering methods * Sampling * Processing methods * Feasibility Introduction: Coles Supermarkets is an Australian supermarket chain owned by Wesfarmers. It has 741 stores nationally, including 45 BI-LO Supermarkets that also stock Coles private label brands, and more than 100,000 employees. Coles was founded by George James (G.J.) Coles when what was called the "Coles Variety Store" opened on 9 April 1914 in Smith Street in the Melbourne suburb of Collingwood. Expansion to more stores occurred and the chain was regarded as leaders in providing value to Australian shoppers (G. J. Coles learned the retail trade working for his father's "Coles Store" business at Wilmot, Tasmania between 1910 and 1913). Coles' interest in food retailing was spurred in 1958 when it acquired 54 John Connell Dickins grocery stores. It then acquired the Beilby's chain in South Australia in 1959 and 265 Matthews Thompson grocery stores in New South Wales in...
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...Responsible sourcing ............................................................10 Australia first ............................................................................ 12 Our sustainability ................................................................... 13 Our community ....................................................................... 14 Our 3 year performance summary ..................................17 Cover image: supplier to Coles for over 20 years, apple grower Harvey Giblett of Newton Brothers Orchards, located in Manjimup, Western Australia. About us Coles is a leading national food, liquor and convenience retailer in Australia. We employ more than 102,000 team members across our brands, which include Coles and Bi-Lo supermarkets, Coles Express, 1st Choice Liquor Superstore, Liquorland, Vintage Cellars and Spirit Hotels. Our goal What we want to achieve “To give the people of Australia a shop they trust, delivering quality, service and value.” Our values What we believe in Our customers come first – always! We support each other to get things done. Our circle for success Our ways of working Our six point plan to deliver our goal How we work together Lead effectively Act collectively Support consistently...
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...Analysis of the grocery industry Coles Supermarkets Australia October 2012 Analysis of the grocery industry Contents Glossary ..................................................................................................................................... i Executive Summary.................................................................................................................. iii 1 Introduction .................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 1.2 Project approach and objectives........................................................................................ 1 Report structure ............................................................................................................... 2 2 3 Coles – an overview ........................................................................................................ 3 Economic contribution of Coles ....................................................................................... 5 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Modelling approach .......................................................................................................... 5 Direct economic contribution ............................................................................................ 6 Indirect economic contribution ......................................................................................... 6 Total economic contribution .......
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...Looking Beyond The Boundaries – A strategy to gain competitive advantage for the Coles Group of Australia By Aruna Kulatunga MGG9352 Management Processes and Systems. Semester 1, 2007 Looking Beyond The Boundaries – A strategy to gain competitive advantage for Coles Group Executive Summary The Coles Group of Australia has allowed its competitive advantage to slip away to rival Woolworth by failing to differentiate its core strategies and by failing to articulate well the strategies that could have been differentiated. In a bid to gain competitive advantage, this report suggests that the Coles Group should look beyond the company boundaries, extending its value chain to suppliers, partners and customers in a seamless manner, employ process like Total Quality Management and Business Process Reengineering in extending the value chain, bedded in a well structured change management programme and look towards globalisation and franchising along with such counter-intuitive, yet innovative, location strategies such as competitive clustering and saturation marketing to regain its competitive advantage. Page 2 23/10/07 Looking Beyond The Boundaries – A strategy to gain competitive advantage for Coles Group Introduction Strategy gurus Porter (1998, p. 2), Mintzberg (1994), Hamel (1998), Hamel and Prahalad, (1994) Champy and Nohria (1996) and Hammer (quoted in Champy and Nohria, (1996)) agree in principle that in order to meet business needs, specific actions need to be...
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...Instrument of Data Many methods exist to collect data, such as questionnaires or surveys, interviews, or tests. Ballard Integrated Managed Services (BIMS) is using the survey approach. The human resources manager devised a survey containing 10 scale-based questions ranging from one to five with one as very negative and five as very positive. Employees circle the answer that closely matches his or her feelings towards the question. Additionally, the human resources manager added four demographic questions that include division, length of employment, gender, and a yes or no response if the employee is a manager or supervisor. BIMS employees 449 people who each received a survey along with his or her bi-weekly paycheck. The survey is anonymous and optional for the employees to participate. The survey is not without flaws. The human resources manager did not consider that one of the 10 questions does not fit into the scale-based method of answering. Inserting a question that asks employees to note number of sick days within a month requires a definitive answer. However, employees are not allowed to write in an answer, they can only select a number between one and five. A question of this nature is confusing and could lead to incomplete data. Because the human resources manager made the survey optional, only 17.3 percent of employees completed the survey. The small percentage of returned surveys will not provide BIMS with a clear understanding of how employees feel or...
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...Evaluation My results told me basic information about how attractive Stratford is to tourists, but the information we collected was not as informative as I would have liked them to be. The results I got were fairly accurate, but not all of them because a lot of them were based on our opinions which meant that they were subjective. The effect of having incorrect results could effect on how I answer and analyse my main question. If I got the wrong amount of pedestrians for example then, my result for the average amount of people to visit Stratford would be incorrect. So to change how accurate my results were, if I was to do it again I would have more than one person doing the pedestrian and then getting an average from that then doing it two or three times more in the same spot then get another average or we could have compared it with another groups piece of work and get an average from that. Another thing wrong with the pedestrian count was you may miss or double count some of the people walking past us. When we counted people we probably counted people as workers or locals meaning we counted people who weren’t tourists, meaning that our results was correct for our hypothesis.. A way to improve the way we did this to more accurate results is if we went on a day (like a Saturday) then there would be more people there for us to count because then people wouldn’t be at work. We may have also used a digital method to get more accurate results. We could have also recorded which direction...
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...appear to have a solid scientific basis for students to increase comprehension. The first strategy is Comprehension Monitoring which involves students reading text with an aggressive awareness of when they do and don’t understand something. The second strategy is Cooperative Learning, which involves students working on clearly defined reading tasks in small groups or as partners. The third strategy is the Use of Graphic Organizers or Story Maps. This helps display concepts and interrelationships among concepts in text through the use of diagrams. The fourth strategy is Question Answering, which involves students answering questions posed by the teacher, and includes immediate teacher feedback. The fifth strategy is to Generate Questions. This involves teaching students to ask their own questions prior to reading by scanning the text and then having students read the text to answer their questions. The sixth strategy is...
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...Television Interview Report: A Reflective Essay The interview I selected was conducted by Oprah Winfrey (interviewer) of Joel and Victoria Osteen (interviewees) on January 8, 2012 via the Oprah: Next Chapter show. I selected this particular interview as I am a fan of Joel Osteen and typically enjoy Oprah’s interviewing style. While this interview was very entertaining, this was not what I would consider to be a “hard hitting” journalistic interview that delved into any one particular subject. There were really no conflicting views, controversial opinions, or original insights that you could not have learned by either reading one of the many books written by Joel Osteen or observed in prior interviews. This was, however, more of a “feel good” piece that continued the examination of Joel Osteen’s belief’s and character. It is worth noting that while Victoria Osteen is part of this interview, she plays more of a corroborative role by giving additional insight into Joel Osteen as the person. This essay will show Oprah’s safe approach at interviewing and Joel Osteen’s non-controversial response still. The interview was conducted at the Osteen’s home in Houston, Texas. This set a casual and comfortable tone for the interview, but the attire was Sunday formal which maintained the gravity of the subjects. It is unlikely that the Osteen’s would have allowed a risky interviewer to come into their home and by allowing Oprah to do so, helped establish a positive rapport...
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...submission: Note : Question No. 1 is of short answer type and is compulsory for all the students. It carries 5 Marks. (Word limits 50-100) Q. 1. Answer all the questions: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. What do u understand by Economic order quantity (EOQ)? What do u mean by variance analysis? Give four differences between management accounting and financial accounting. What is trend percentage? How cash flow statement is different from Fund flow statement. NOTE: Answer any two questions. Each question carry 5 marks (word limit 500): Q. 2. What is the meaning of Cost Accounting? Explain the difference between cost accounting and financial accounting. Q. 3. Write short note on (any two): a) Comparative Balance sheet statement. b) Ratio analysis. c) Fund flow statement. Q4. Prepare a cost sheet from the following particulars: PARTICULARS Stock of finished goods 1.1.2009 Stock of raw material on 1.1.2009 Purchase of raw material Productive wages Sale of finished goods Stock of finished goods on 31.12.2009 Stock of raw material on 31.12.2009 Factory overheads Office and administrative overheads Selling overheads 72,800 33,280 7,59,200 5,16,880 15,39,200 78,000 35,360 1,29,220 70,161 20,000 RUPEES JAIPUR NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, JAIPUR School of Distance Education & Learning Internal Assignment No. 2 Bachelor of Business Administration Paper Code: Paper Title: BBA – 201 Cost and Management Accounting Max. Marks: 15 Last date of submission: Note : Question No. 1 is of short...
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...are the topic areas that will be discussed today, in reference to the assessment interviews that were conducted: Introduction Interview Questions Purpose of Assessment Development of Assessment Implementation of Assessment Analysis of Assessment Conclusion Introduction Notes Slide 3 Team A interviewed two post-secondary instructors and two corporate trainers. When asked several questions on assessments, the answers showed a variance in techniques and purposes. In addition, a variety of assessment tools produce results appropriate for the diverse educational environments. Purpose of Assessment Notes Slide 4 Assessment is the systemic collection and analysis of information. When comparing and contrasting both the post-secondary and corporate trainer, the following was found for each question asked on the Purpose of Assessments: 1. Based on your purpose for assessment, which format for assessment do you use in your learning environment and why? a. Both the corporate trainers and the post-secondary instructors stated many forms of assessments. b. One trainer mentioned doing an initial level of knowledge questionnaire to understand needs of employees, and the only one that mentioned using a performance matrix to monitor employee job performance. The other trainer adds narrative response questions, so that students are able to add comments on what was best and what could be better. c. One instructor found that role-play assessments were...
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...submission: Note : Question No. 1 is of short answer type and is compulsory for all the students. It carries 5 Marks. (Word limits 50-100) Q. 1. Answer all the questions: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. What do u understand by Economic order quantity (EOQ)? What do u mean by variance analysis? Give four differences between management accounting and financial accounting. What is trend percentage? How cash flow statement is different from Fund flow statement. NOTE: Answer any two questions. Each question carry 5 marks (word limit 500): Q. 2. What is the meaning of Cost Accounting? Explain the difference between cost accounting and financial accounting. Q. 3. Write short note on (any two): a) Comparative Balance sheet statement. b) Ratio analysis. c) Fund flow statement. Q4. Prepare a cost sheet from the following particulars: PARTICULARS Stock of finished goods 1.1.2009 Stock of raw material on 1.1.2009 Purchase of raw material Productive wages Sale of finished goods Stock of finished goods on 31.12.2009 Stock of raw material on 31.12.2009 Factory overheads Office and administrative overheads Selling overheads 72,800 33,280 7,59,200 5,16,880 15,39,200 78,000 35,360 1,29,220 70,161 20,000 RUPEES JAIPUR NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, JAIPUR School of Distance Education & Learning Internal Assignment No. 2 Bachelor of Business Administration Paper Code: Paper Title: BBA – 201 Cost and Management Accounting Max. Marks: 15 Last date of submission: Note : Question No. 1 is of short...
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...of your resume, transcript of records, work samples and a list of references. 2. Get a good night sleep on the interview’s eve so you’re fresh and alert on D-day. Eat a good breakfast and take along a small snack to keep you going throughout what might be a long day. 3. Don’t forget the cardinal rules of any interview: Arrive on time, wear proper business attire, and maintain eye contact with the interviewer. And don’t forget to smile! 4. Prep even more for the second interview, which may involve more people (including group or panel interviews), more tricky and in-depth questions, and definitely more pressure. 5. Recall your performance in the first interview and plan how to better handle any difficult scenes or questions should these occur again. 6. If possible, get the names and titles of the interviewers beforehand. 7. Be prepared to answer a broader range of questions, including behavioral, case and off-the-wall queries. 8. Be prepared to ask...
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...SCIENTIFIC NOTE........................................................................... B. SCIENTIFIC ARTICLE..................................................................... C. SCIENTIFIC REPORT...................................................................... D. SCIENTIFIC ASSIGNMENT............................................................ TABLE OF CONTENT CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION Part 1: Introduction Rationale Aims and objectives Scope of the study Research questions Methods of the study Part 2: Development Chaper 1: Theoretical Background 1.Wh- questions in English . 2.1 What is a Wh- question?. 2.2 The semantic and pragmatic approach to English Wh-questions . Chapter 2: A contrastive analysis of the English and Vietnamese Wh-questions 1. A contrastive analysis of Wh- questions in English and Vietnamese equivalents. 1.1 Introduction . 1.2 Structures. . Chapter 3: Common errors made by HOU students in using English Wh- questions and suggested solutions 1. Introduction . 2. Research background and Methodology 2.1 The subjects 2.2 Instrument . 2.3 Procedures . 2.4 Findings . 3. Some suggestions to correct common errors . Part 3. Conclusion 1. Summary of the findings . 2. Implication for teaching and learning . 3. Suggestion for further studies. Appendix 1: Questionnaire. II.SCIENTIFIC NOTE Faculty of English, Hanoi Open University ...
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...Helpful Hints for ACADEMIC MODULE BY GARRY ADAMS & TERRY PECK Practice Tests and Hints for IELTS Listening • Reading • Writing • Speaking fully updated for new IELTS Speaking Test format 101 Helpful Hints for IELTS PUBLISHER'S ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The publishers are grateful for permission to use copyright material. We would like to acknowledge the original sources of text material listed below. Permission has been sought to reproduce all material whose source could be identified. Information that will enable the publishers to rectify any error or omission in subsequent editions will be welcome. The nine Band Score descriptions on page 12 are reproduced from The IELTS Handbook, a joint publication of the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate, The British Council, and IDP Education Australia: IELTS Australia. The reading passage "Regional Student Survey" on page 97, is adapted from The ELICOS Student Contextualised - Facts & Figures by Ms. CM. Bundesen, with permission of the author. AUTHORS' ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We would like to acknowledge the support of the following people: Bruce Bell, HelenkaPiotrowski, Laurent Seibert, Andrew Thomas (Sydney English Language Centre), and Soon-Young Yoon. ABOUT THE AUTHORS Terry Peck and Garry Adams have extensive IELTS coaching experience, both having been involved in implementing and designing IELTS coaching programmes. Terry Peck was an IELTS examiner for a number of years in Sydney, Australia. AVAILABLE...
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