...holistic view of the IT activities as the virtualization occur and the impacts of those efforts on the current environment. . The ITV framework is the mechanism to facilitate structured communication amongst stakeholders to enable clearly defined measurable success. It allows the stakeholders to assess and implement the virtualization plan that will best meet their immediate business needs, with the end goal of a fully virtualized environment. VBZ’s ITV framework consists of five components: (Note: All components are tied back to the fifth component - Governance ) Figure 1. 1) Business Architecture -- aligns VBZ’s operations, strategic goal and objectives with IT requirements; provides the pertinent data for the creation of a business case the virtualization transformation and provides the business...
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...Putting Predictive Analytics to Work in Operations James Taylor CEO, Decision Management Solutions More information at: www.decisionmanagementsolutions.com Using Decision Management to maximize the value of predictive analytics Predictive analytics applied to operational decision making is the next major source of competitive advantage. The most successful companies are using Decision Management to put predictive analytics to work powering the day-to-day decisions that impact performance most. ©2011 Decision Management Solutions Maximizing analytic value in operational decisions Insights from predictive analytics Contents: Insights to actions—improving operational decisions Customers—they think your decisions are deliberate Challenge—getting analytics into operations Solution—Decision Management increases analytic value 1 3 5 7 Insights to actions improving operational decisions “Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives’ decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.” Peter Drucker Companies that systematically apply predictive analytics to operational decisions, especially those pertaining to customers, outperform their competitors. Many organizations think of predictive analytics as being valuable primarily for strategic purposes. They look to it as a source of market insights to help guide executives and managers making decisions about where to focus and allocate...
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...APPENDICES A B C Quantitative Review References to CFA Questions Glossary A P P E N D I X A QUANTITATIVE REVIEW Students in management and investment courses typically come from a variety of backgrounds. Some, who have had strong quantitative training, may feel perfectly comfortable with formal mathematical presentation of material. Others, who have had less technical training, may easily be overwhelmed by mathematical formalism. Most students, however, will benefit from some coaching to make the study of investment easier and more efficient. If you had a good introductory quantitative methods course, and like the text that was used, you may want to refer to it whenever you feel in need of a refresher. If you feel uncomfortable with standard quantitative texts, this reference is for you. Our aim is to present the essential quantitative concepts and methods in a self-contained, nontechnical, and intuitive way. Our approach is structured in line with requirements for the CFA program. The material included is relevant to investment management by the ICFA, the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts. We hope you find this appendix helpful. Use it to make your venture into investments more enjoyable. 1006 Appendix A 1007 A.1 PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS Statisticians talk about “experiments,” or “trials,” and refer to possible outcomes as “events.” In a roll of a die, for example, the “elementary events” are the numbers 1 through 6...
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...Venture Capital Funding Proposal Venture Capital Funding Proposal 08 Fall 08 Fall EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Mobileye N.V. is a growing competitor in the Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) industry. Mobileye is the successful developer of the EyeQ software on a low cost, automotive standards chip that allows for real time interpretation of data on visual surroundings, assisting drivers in prevention of collisions and identification of threats. The single camera system and strong relationship that Mobileye maintains with currently 18 original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) means the product is low cost, but still maintains quality and effectiveness. Mobileye being the developer of its flagship product, the EyeQ, with primary costs to production being the purchase of microchips on which the software is reproduced, means that cost of revenues is low, output is highly scalable and so Mobileye is capable of devoting substantial portions of future earnings to further research, improving existing products and gaining further growth through introduction of other ADAS products. This suggests extremely positive growth potential for Mobileye over the medium term. The ADAS market in which Mobileye operates shows a potential compound annual growth rate of more than 50% until 2018 (vli Ltd, 2014). This expected growth is attributed to several strong factors. Firstly, rapid technological progress has substantially lowered costs to production, meaning a much broader market of vehicles...
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...Assignment: Understanding the Concepts FIN 100 – Principles of Finance Assignment: Understanding the Concepts Ever dream of owning your own business? The life of a business owner can be a glorious one with many exciting benefits such as a big house, a nice car, and oodles of money. According to (Henderson, 2012), “The average income of small business owners varies widely depending upon their level of experience. For example, small business owners with less than one year of experience in running an organization earn an annual salary ranging from $34,392 to $75,076. Those with more than 10 years’ experience, on the other hand, earn upwards of $105,757 per year”. As seen here, experience literally pays off big and is all about making good decisions in business. Some of the first decisions a business can make is determining the financial strategy. Financial Ratios Important to Large and Small Businesses Before a business can determine the best financial strategy, they must identify the strengths and weaknesses of their business. One way this is done is by computing ratios that compare values of key accounts listed on the financial statements. There are a lot of financial ratios that can be determined by business owners and managers through analyzing these financial statements. Depending on your size of business and the experience of the business people, will determine the best financial strategies for their firms. According to Bankrate.com, “A financial ratio...
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...Corporate Payout Policy Select three publicly listed companies. Analyse their recent dividend decisions and use these to support your critical assessment of the main theories of corporate payout policies. Dividend policy is one of the most important decisions that a manager of a firm makes in order to achieve the goal of the firm, maximising shareholder wealth. Determining a company's corporate payout policy is a question of "how much, when, and how", that is, the value of the payouts, when to deliver the surplus cash to investors, and in what form should the payouts be delivered. Corporate payout policy is also one of the most polarising topics in finance. Theorists such as DeAngelo and DeAngelo (2006a, 2006b, 2008), and Fama and French advance a theory on the financial life-‐cycle of the firm determining dividend policy. Other academics are less sanguine about how dividends affect the value...
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...Project management From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Business administration | | * Company * Business * Conglomerate | Business organization * Joint-stock company * Limited liability company * State-owned enterprise * Privately held company | Business entity * Cooperative * Sole proprietorship * Partnership * Corporation | Corporate governance * Annual general meeting * Board of directors * Supervisory board * Advisory board | Corporate titles * Chairman * Chief executive officer (CEO) * Chief financial officer (CFO) * Chief information officer (CIO) * Chief human resources officer (CHRO) * Chief business officer (CBO) * Chief technology officer (CTO) | Economy * Commodity * Public economics * Labour economics * Development economics * International economics * Mixed economy * Planned economy * Econometrics * Environmental economics * Open economy * Market economy * Knowledge economy * Microeconomics * Macroeconomics * Economic development * Economic statistics | Corporate law * Commercial law * Constitutional documents * Contract * Corporate crime * Corporate liability * Insolvency law * International trade law * Mergers and acquisitions | Finance * Financial statement * Insurance * Factoring * Cash conversion cycle * Insider dealing * Capital budgeting * Commercial bank * Derivative * Financial statement analysis...
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...Swot banking The rise of retail lending in emerging economies like India has been of recent origin. Asia Pacific’s vast population, combined with high savings rates, explosive economic growth, and underdeveloped retail banking services, provide the most significant growth opportunities for banks. Banks will have to serve the retail banking segment effectively in order to utilize the growth opportunity. Banking strategies are presently undergoing various transformations, as the overall scenario has changed over the last couple of years. Till the recent past, most of the banks had adopted fierce costcutting measures to sustain their competitiveness. This strategy however has become obsolete in the new light of immense growth opportunities for banking industry. Most bankers are now confident about their high performance in terms of organic growth and in realising high returns. Nowadays, the growth strategies of banks revolve around customer satisfaction. Improved customer relationship management can only lead to fulfilment of long-term, as well as, short-term objectives of the bankers. This requires, efficient and accurate customer database management and development of well-trained sales force to develop and sustain long-term profitable customer relationship. The banking system in India is significantly different from that of the other Asian nations, because of the country’s unique geographic, social, and economic characteristics. Though the sector opened up quite...
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...Chapter Six Business Formation: Choosing the Form that Fits Review Questions 1. Describe the basic features that distinguish the four basic forms of business ownership: sole proprietorships, general partnerships, C corporations, and limited liability companies. 2. Why do many entrepreneurs initially set up their businesses as sole proprietorships? Why do many successful entrepreneurs eventually decide to convert their sole proprietorship to some other form of ownership such as a corporation or LLC? 3. How do limited partnerships and limited liability partnerships differ from general partnerships and from each other? 4. What advantages help explain why virtually all large companies are organized as C corporations? 5. What steps are involved in forming a C corporation? 6. Describe the relationship between a corporation’s common stockholders, its board of directors, and its chief executive officer (CEO). 7. How does a merger differ from an acquisition? What is the difference between a horizontal merger or acquisition and a vertical merger or acquisition? Give a real world example of recent merger to illustrate each type of combination. 8. Compare an S corporation with a limited liability company. Why do you think limited liability companies are currently more popular than S corporations? 9. What are the main advantages and disadvantages of a business format franchise arrangements for the franchisee? For the franchisor? 10. What is a Franchise Disclosure...
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...Section 1: Introduction Australian Meat Pies Australian Meat Pies are the hand sized small pies with fluky pastry on top and it can be considered one of the high demanded fast foods that are consumed by the locals. Frequently consumed in sports events and very good combination with chilled beer. According to Asia Travel Guides (2014) local people likes theses meat pies so well that it is already started to count as national dish of Australia. We can compare Aussie pies as a fast food eaten in their own sport events with American hot dogs whish is consumed during the football games. Business Plan Founders of the company Anna Amphlett and Andrew Ferris came up with the idea to start producing hot pies in US, Seattle after their very first visit to Australia. To start such a business with the shortage of financial resources Amphlett together with Ferris planed to take loan from the Bank that has very good contacts with Ferris who was their prior employee for while. For the loan giving there are some required documents that Bank needs to complete Business Plan, Cash Flow, Balance Sheet and Income statement. One of the main intentions of preparing a business plan is a initial move of commencing a business, to locate the answer the fundamental and investigative questions of what amount of capital it will be required to start the plan (Berry, 2011). Section 2: Financial Analyses Success Factors of Aussie Business There are 3 very important success indicators needs to...
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...100 years of Strength. Performance. Passion. Corporate Sustainable Development Report 2011 20 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 37 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 54 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 71 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 88 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Holcim’s original cement plant in Holderbank in the Swiss canton of Aargau. 100 The new Ste. Genevieve plant of Holcim US in Missouri. Contents Introduction Performance against targets Chairman’s statement CEO interview Vision and strategy Q “Delivering value to your stakeholders is part of your mission. How do you achieve results while operating with sustainability and integrity? Are incentives for sustainable practices integrated into performance compensation plans?” SD challenges Sustainable solutions and construction Q “What is Holcim’s contribution to improve efficiencies in the building materials industry?” Energy and climate Q “Holcim appears to be ahead of its competitors with regards to its level of carbon emissions. How does Holcim plan to further reduce its CO2 footprint, while providing the construction materials for the schools, hospitals, homes and infrastructure the world needs?” Biodiversity and water Q “Reducing energy use will in turn reduce CO2 emissions and water consumption. How can Holcim ensure that the overall synergies between energy, climate, biodiversity and water are taken into consideration?”...
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...ros57395_ch01.qxd 12/21/04 2:45 PM Page 1 Part 1 The Global Financial System in Perspective Try to imagine living in a world in which there are no financial institutions, no financial markets, and no financial assets. In such a world, there would be no opportunity to borrow against future income in order to purchase a home or an automobile, or to finance an education. Nor would you be able to save some of your current income (and, thereby, accumulate wealth over time) to handle the future expenses of a growing family or retirement. Businesses could not come up with the resources needed to produce the goods and services you like to consume. There would be no way to acquire insurance against sickness and death. Even the simple act of buying food would become extremely difficult, requiring you to barter simply to survive. The financial system has emerged to fill these and many other critical needs that require some separation in time between the use of resources (such as capital and labor), the production of goods and services, and the actual consumption of those goods and services desired. Financial markets and institutions deal with these issues and provide for the smooth functioning of modern economies, enabling resources to find their way to their most highly valued use. In so doing, the financial system dramatically enhances the efficiency of the economy and raises our standard of living. In order to set the stage for our study of the global financial system, Part...
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...ITIL ® V3 Processes IT Service Management Training, Courseware, Consultancy www.mountainview-itsm.com Goals, Activities, Inputs, Outputs and Roles To collect, analyze, process relevant metrics from a process in order to determine its weakness and establish an action plan to improve the process. Activities 1 Define what you should measure 2 Define what you can measure 3 Gathering the data 4 Processing the data 5 Analyzing the data 6 Presenting and using the information 7 Implementing corrective action Repeat the Process Inputs Each activity has inputs Outputs Each activity has outputs Roles Process Owner, Service Manager, CSI Manager, Service Owner Knowledge Management Process Owner Reporting Analyst Service Measurement and Reporting Goal To monitor services and report on improvement opportunities Activities Service Measurement •Objective (Availability, Reliability, Performance of the Service) •Developing a Service Measurement Framework •Different levels of measurement and reporting •Defining what to measure •Setting targets •Service management process measurement •Creating a measurement framework grid •Interpreting and using metrics •Interpreting metrics •Using measurement and metrics •Creating scorecards and reports •CSI policies Service Reporting •Reporting policy and rules Inputs SLA Targets, SLRs, OLAs, Contracts Outputs Service Improvement Program, SLAM Reports Roles Process Owner...
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...Uncertainty and Consumer Behavior CHAPTER OUTLINE 5.1 Describing Risk S o far, we have assumed that prices, incomes, and other variables are known with certainty. However, many of the choices that people make involve considerable uncertainty. Most people, for example, borrow to finance large purchases, such as a house or a college education, and plan to pay for them out of future income. But for most of us, future incomes are uncertain. Our earnings can go up or down; we can be promoted or demoted, or even lose our jobs. And if we delay buying a house or investing in a college education, we risk price increases that could make such purchases less affordable. How should we take these uncertainties into account when making major consumption or investment decisions? Sometimes we must choose how much risk to bear. What, for example, should you do with your savings? Should you invest your money in something safe, such as a savings account, or something riskier but potentially more lucrative, such as the stock market? Another example is the choice of a job or career. Is it better to work for a large, stable company with job security but slim chance for advancement, or is it better to join (or form) a new venture that offers less job security but more opportunity for advancement? To answer such questions, we must examine the ways that people can compare and choose among risky alternatives. We will do this by taking the following steps: 1. In order to compare the riskiness of alternative choices...
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...http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb466232.aspx#eacompar_topic4 Home Library Learn Downloads Support Community Sign in | United States - English | Preferences Expand MSDN A Comparison of the Top Four Enterprise-Architecture Methodologies Roger Sessions ObjectWatch, Inc. May 2007 Applies to: Enterprise Architecture Summary: Twenty years ago, a new field was born that soon came to be known as enterprise architecture. This paper covers a broad introduction to the field of enterprise architecture. Although the history of the field goes back 20 years, the field is still evolving—and rapidly so. (36 printed pages) Contents Executive Summary Introduction A Brief History of Enterprise Architecture Case Study The Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architectures The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) Gartner Comparison Conclusion Glossary References Executive Summary Twenty years ago, a new field was born that soon came to be known as enterprise architecture. The field initially began to address two problems: System complexity—Organizations were spending more and more money building IT systems; and Poor business alignment—Organizations were finding it more and more difficult to keep those increasingly expensive IT systems aligned with business need. The bottom line: more cost, less value. These problems, first recognized 20 years ago, have today reached a crisis point. The cost...
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