...Questions for Report #4 1. a). Define virtual integration- the use of the Internet to replace physical components of a company with information. b). Define direct model: he could bypass the dealer channel through which personal computers were then being sold. Instead, he would sell directly to customers and build products to order. In one swoop, Dell eliminated the reseller's markup and the costs and risks associated with carrying large inventories of finished goods. 2. How did Dell leverage relationships with both suppliers and customers to achieve integration? Small specialized companies developed to make a specific product that dell uses made it so that they don’t have to focus on that aspect of that business which they couldn’t afford and instead focus on improving delivering solutions and systems to the customers. They also have a deal with their suppliers where they have their design engineers work with their the supplier agrees to meet 25% of our volume require displays, and because of the long-term commitment we make to them, we'll get our displays year in and year out, even when there's more demand than supply. The supplier effectively becomes our partner. They assign their engineers to our design team, and we start to treat them as if they were part of the company. For example, when we launch a new product, their engineers are stationed right in our plants. If a customer calls in with a problem, we'll stop shipping product while they fix design flaws in...
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...Cambio de modelos / mentalidades mentales Jorge Perez Rolon Class: OI /361 20 de abri del 2013 Profesor:Louis Lozada El cambio es un hecho cotidiano en la vida. Las personas no siempre están de acuerdo con el cambio, debido a sus modelos mentales o modos de pensar. Estos términos describen los procesos cerebrales de dar sentido a lo que está sucediendo en el entorno de una persona. Esto plantea un reto para las organizaciones ya que algunas ideas creativas pueden ser los peldaños para el progreso, el éxito, o proporcionar una ventaja competitiva. Transporte AAA en Waukegan, Illinois,es una compañía de transporte interestatal especializada en el transporte de los productos al por mayor del clima controlado se enfrenta a reticencias en el cambio propuesto en los servicios ofrecidos por el nuevo propietario. En cuanto a los recursos humanos , tiene la tarea de conseguir que dos de sus empleados reacios se unan a su equipo. Los nuevos propietarios quieren añadir la entrega de productos no perecederos que incluyen alimentos enlatados, a sus rutas de entrega, ya que creen que muchas de las rutas no requieren una plena carga en los camiones, y no hay espacio para agregar productos no perecederos a una tasa menor de clientes. Los dos compañeros de trabajo, Vernon y Bud tienen dificultades para aceptar los cambios. Vernon es supervisor de la empresa del conductor, y Bud trabaja en las oficinas. Tanto los empleados han estado con la compañía por más de 20 años, y los empleados...
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...AIU | MGMT415-1005A-04 | Global Operations Management | | Julie McCool | 11/14/2010 | | Running Title: PPQ PARTS Some of the issues that the host foreign country could face as a result of the expansion are the lively hood and job of the younger generation entering the labor force each year. Common concern such as cost, price and advertising in the different foreign countries in which the firm elect to market according to the consumers cost of living. Educating the right foreign country to market the goods and services for activities through their country would be a high output for their country and a high import. We live in historic and conflictual times. On the one hand, the recent global economic crisis that swiftly spread throughout the world has highlighted the risks and challenges of globalization and has emboldened its critics in a powerful way. Cultural barriers and diversity issues are commonly encountered by international and global organization for the laws, agreements, and code where the most cheapest and convent for their interest. Laws that are formed to have child labors laws for a reason that the children will not be taken advantage of and would be able to get an education for the foremost. The agreement are made by the countries for the reason of the input and output would not be taking advantage of in many was more than one. Codes are to be made knowledgeable of what resources that are too used and if there is a profit to be made by the...
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...Luggage Logistics Don't want to lug your extra personal or business items to the airport? Stop by The UPS Store and we will take care of your luggage shipping needs. We have cost competitive options to get your luggage where it needs to go and you can avoid airport hassles. College Move Out The UPS Store can help make your college move out easier. Whatever your student needs moved - electronics, bicycles, furniture, dishes - let us help. The UPS Store Certified Packing Experts® can ship just about anything. We have the products and services you need for peace of mind: * Custom boxes for electronics and odd-sized items * UPS® delivery confirmation standard with all shipments * Choose from a variety of UPS shipping options UPS My Choice℠ - Reroute Your Package to The UPS Store® Package delivery that fits your schedule. The UPS Store knows your schedule keeps you on the go. That's why we have the solutions you need to help make managing your day easier. In addition to an already long list of convenient, time-saving products and services, we now offer a way for you to choose when and where your packages are delivered. It's called UPS My Choice. You also have the option to reroute it to another address or even have your package delivered to your nearest The UPS Store location, where you can pick it up when it's most convenient for you. Mailbox Services At The UPS Store®, you can get a mailbox with a real street address and secure 24-hour access* to...
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...Forrest Gump: Management Accounting at the Movies Hollywood accounting can be every bit as creative as a good movie script. At least, that is what some lawyers and journalists seem to be telling us. According to news reports, the hit movie Forrest Gump, which won “Best Picture of 1994” honors at the Academy Awards, claimed a worldwide theatrical gross of $661 million through May of 1995. That amount excludes videocassette and soundtrack revenues, and it doesn’t include licensing fees of Forrest Gump products such as wristwatches, ping-pong paddles and shrimp cookbooks. Yet, according to Paramount Studios, the film project lost $56 million dollars on a box office gross of $382 million through December, 1994 (see Exhibit 1). Forrest Gump is the latest of a string of hit movies to report a loss. Other losers include Batman, Rain Man, Dick Tracy, Ghostbusters, Alien, On Golden Pond, Fatal Attraction, and Coming to America. Each of these motion pictures grossed well over $100 million, but in each case, costs were reportedly greater than revenues. The production costs for a film, part of what the studios refer to as “negative costs”, represents only part of the cost of the project. In addition, studios add promotion and distribution costs, advertising overhead, and distribution fees to the total negative costs to get the total cost of the project. A significant portion of the negative costs is the payments made to “gross participants” on the basis of a percentage of...
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...QUIZ13 1. Which of the follow represents a trait of disruptive technology? | Enters the marketplace at the low end | | Is a new way of doing things that initially doesn’t meet the needs of existing customers | | Tends to open new markets and destroy old ones | | All of these are correct | 2. Which of the following is a challenge of sustaining technology? | Provides a cheaper product for current customers | | Provides a product that does not meet existing customers’ future needs | | Provides a better product for current customers | | Provides a faster product for current customers | 3. What is the innovator’s dilemma? | A new way of doing things that initially does not meet the needs of existing customers | | Produces an improved product that customers are eager to buy, such as a faster car or larger hard drive | | Implies that organizations that cannot adapt to the new demands placed on them for surviving in the information age are doomed to extinction | | Discusses how established companies can take advantage of disruptive technologies without hindering existing relationships with customers, partners, and stakeholders | 4. Which company is expecting to gain the majority of its returns from existing investments? | Dell | | Phillips Petroleum | | Procter and Gamble | | Johnson and Johnson | 5. What provides access to Internet information through documents including text...
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...* What is Marketing? Marketing is an organizational function and a set of processes for creating, communicating, and delivering value to customers and for managing customer relationships in ways that benefit the organization and its stakeholders. * Marketing: Marketing is the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large. * What is Marketing Management? Marketing management is the art and science of choosing target markets and getting, keeping, and growing Customers through creating, delivering, and communicating superior customer value. * What is the Value Chain? The value chain is a tool for identifying ways to create more customer value because every firm is a synthesis of primary and support activities performed to design, produce, market, deliver, and support its product * Holistic Marketing; sees itself as integrating the value exploration, value creation, and value delivery activities with the purpose of building long-term, mutually satisfying relationships and coprosperity among key stakeholders. | What is Marketed? Goods: automobiles, computersServices :airlines, hotels, car rental Events :trade shows, sporting like the Olympics Experiences: Disney Land visit, Exotic Vacations Persons:artists, musicians, politicians, lawyers Places: Atlantic City, New York, and Las Vegas Properties :stocks,bonds, mutual fundsOrganizations :DuPont...
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...Organizational Planning Mayra Aida Arzac Perez MGT 521 November 1, 2013 Rob Chell Organizational Planning For more than a century AT&T has been providing consumers with the ability to “connect people with their world” (AT&T website). AT&T provides consumers with a variety of different products and services that providing competitive edge. AT&T ability to leverage the brand image has been a strong tool that maintains them in the top spot in the industry. Organizations such as AT&T is consistently planning in order maintain a competitive edge, and also have the ability to respond to environmental changes. Markets are consistently changing and so are competitor, AT&T competitor T-Mobile recently stated that the wanted to change the status-quo and they did just that. In order to plan and prepare for these changes and organizational analysis is important through its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. AT&T is currently in number 11th spot in the fortune 500 ranking, Verizon right behind in 16th place. Their mission is to connect people with their world; everywhere they live and work, and do it better than anyone else (AT&T website). With such ambitious goals and focuses AT&T is always looking for ways to maintain their competitive edge within the industry. An S.W.O.T analysis will provide the organization with a future view to what potential changes need to be made as well as continue to implement. Using a S.W.O.T analysis...
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...Content Table: Induction………………………………………………………………………………….3 Types of organizations, missions and goals…………….…………………………...3 Economic system and impact of organizations………………………………………5 Stakeholder……………………………………………...……………………………….6 Stakeholder influence of organization………………………….…………………...…8 Fiscal policy…..…………………………………………………………………………..8 Monetary policy…………..………………………………………………………………9 Competition policy and Regulatory Mechanism …………………………………….10 Market Structure ………………………………………………………………………..11 PESTLE………………………………………………………………………………….14 EU………………………………………………………………………………………...14 Summary……………………………….………………………………………………..15 Task 1.1 Introduction Morrison Supermarket is the UK’s fourth largest supermarket. It is part of the FTSE 100 index and headquartered at the West Yorkshire (Bradford) in England. Morrison Supermarket is the smallest partner in the chain of four supermarkets (Big Four) due to its small market share. Other members of the “Big Four” are Sainsbury’s, Asda and Tesco. Currently, Morrison Company has a total of 455 superstores, including those purchased from Safeway plc. Most of the stores operate from the large superstores and primarily deal with home wares and groceries as well as furnishings, clothing and electronic items. Morrison Supermarket has lately resorted to online shopping as a result of purchasing a stake 10% of the UK online grocer, Fresh Direct. Task 1.2 Types of organizations , purpose , mission and goals The general notion states that...
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...Business Impact Analysis In the lesson assignment this week I choose to write about the impact on a ‘Bank” and the information that should be protected to protect many different types of information and all those involved. A bank has many customers, members, employees and directors they have a responsibility to. I have listed several very important things in the following. 1. Data back-up and recovery 2. All mission critical systems 3. Financial and operational assessments 4. Alternate communications between customers and the member 5. Alternate communications between the members and its employees 6. Alternate physical location of employees 7. Critical business constituent, bank, and counter-party 8. Regulatory reporting 9. Communications with regulators 10. How well the firm will assure customers prompt access to their Funds and Securities in the event the member determines it is unable to continue its Business I would have a BCP that adapted to all changes to protect and enable the member to protect all the customers information and confidentially. My BCP plan would address: data backup and recovery: all mission critical systems; financial and operational assessments; alternative communications with customers, employees, and regulators; alternative physical location of employees; critical supplier, contractor, bank and counter-party impact; regulatory reporting; and assuring our customers prompt access to their funds...
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...CHAPTER ONE * 1.1 introduction What constitutes a small business varies widely around the world. Small businesses are normally privately owned corporations, partnerships, or sole proprietorships. What constitutes "small" in terms of government support and tax policy varies by country and by industry, ranging from fewer than 15 employees under the Australian “Fair Work Act 2009”, 50 employees according to the definition used by the European Union, and fewer than 500 employees to qualify for many U.S. Small Business Administration programs, although in 2006 there were over 18,000 "small businesses" with over 500 employees that accounted for half of all the employees employed by all "small business". Small businesses can also be classified according to other methods such as sales, assets, or net profits. Small businesses are common in many countries, depending on the economic system in operation. Typical examples include: convenience stores, other small shops (such as a bakery or delicatessen), hairdressers, tradesmen, lawyers, accountants, restaurants, guest houses, photographers, small-scale manufacturing, and online business, such as web design and programming, etc. Characteristics of small businesses Size definitions The European Union generally defines a small business as one that has fewer than 50 employees. However, in Australia, a small business is defined by the “Fair Work Act 2009” as one with fewer than 15 employees. By comparison, a medium sized business or mid-sized...
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...BSBRES401A analyse and present research information p85 q5 Employee Job Satisfaction for flexible working Please take a few minutes to tell us about your job and how the organization assists you | Strongly Disagree | Somewhat Disagree | Neither Agree nor Disagree | Somewhat Agree | Strongly Agree | I feel encouraged to come up with new and better ways of doing things. | | | | | | New work ways gives me a feeling of personal accomplishment. | | | | | | I have the tools and resources to do my job well. | | | | | | On my job, I have clearly defined quality goals. | | | | | | The Company does an excellent job of keeping employees informed about matters affecting us. | | | | | | When a customer is dissatisfied, I can usually correct the problem to their satisfaction. | | | | | | I understand why it is so important for (Company name) to value diversity (to recognize and respect the value of differences in race, gender, age, etc.) | | | | | | My job makes good use of my skills and abilities. | | | | | | My supervisor’s manager visibly demonstrates a commitment to quality...
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...International Business Management Section A: Part One: 1. What is the series consideration for strategy implementation? 2. The major activity in global marketing is: d. All of the above 3. 3. The third „P‟ in the international marketing mix is: d. Place 4. The European Economic Community was established in____________ d. 1957 5. Environment Protection Act on______________ a. 1986 6. People‟s attitude toward time depend on: 7. Culture necessitates adaption of : 8. The legal term for brand is: All of the above 9. FDI flows are often a reflection of rivalry among firms in____________ 10. ISO certification is: d. Both (a) & (b) Part Two: 1. What do understand by „Inward-oriented Policies An inward- oriented policy, usually , means over protection. What is less obvious is that sheltering domestic industries puts exports at a great disadvantage because it raises the cost of the foreign inputs used in their production. Moreover, an increase in the relative costs of domestic inputs may also occur through inflation or because of appreciation of the exchange rate as import restrictions are introduced. In practice, the distinction between inward-looking and outward looking approaches gets blurred. Most of the less developed countries have employed both strategies with different degrees of emphasis at one time or another 2. What is „Factor Endowments Theory‟? The factor endowments is a “modern” extension of the classical approach and attempts to explain the...
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...Personal Philosophy of Education Fatimah Stevenson EDU/301 May 9, 2014 Dr. R. Michael Hindermyer When going into an educational career, every teacher must develop a personal philosophy of education. “Philosophy of education is a statement of your beliefs about the purposes of education, the ways that students learn and develop and what and how students should be taught” (Philosophy, 2014). I have come to conclusion that I’m more of a student centered philosopher. I like to explore and develop responsibilities for decisions. “Student-centered philosophies are more focused on individual needs, contemporary relevance, and preparing students for a changing future. School is seen as an institution that works with youth to improve society or help students realize their individuality” (Sadker, 2005). The progressivism philosophy of education defines my own view because “promotes individual student inquiry” (Johnson, Musial, Hall, & Gollnick, 2011). In a classroom setting, I would probably have students focus on testing this by experimentation. The scientific method would be a great example, and therefore students will also be able to answer their own questions as they are experimenting. I will include open-ended questions to help students with this matter and to make students think more about the situation, problem, or picture. This particular philosophy of education is related to other philosophies such as existentialism philosophy of education. According to Sadker “Existentialism...
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...monopolized the colonies. The king says the colonist are under his role meaning that they must follow his rules and commands, however, because the Patriots were under British control one would expect them to be treated in the same manner as other British citizens living in Europe. This is not the truth, the Patriots are being forced to house soldiers, and pay takes on European goods that are crucial to a British citizens day, this was not the case in Europe. Not to mention the monopoly the King has brought upon the colonies, he has prohibited any making of finished goods in the states, as well and any trade, purchase, or smuggling of materials from other countries than Britain, or British controlled. This has put many people and componies out of busness and on the streets, which oblivishes the right of persute of happyness, moreover the king had also placed many unfair taxs onto the colonsits with out alowing a colonial reprsentitive, my aponent may arguee that because there were resonable people in court the taxation whould not have been put into acction if it was not the best idea, however the represetitives of briten where chosen by the king and the mojoritly would have been okay with taxing the colonnies because it did not affect them negitivly and whould make who they were representing wealthier. To make a substantially large decision that affects one certain group of people without allowing a representative from that group’s consent or even their presence is extremely unfair and...
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