...Kim, Kumar, and Kumar (2012) set out to discover whether or not a link exists between innovation and quality management practices. They stress the importance of innovation in business as necessary to standing out among competitors and remaining fresh within the business’s respective market. For this reason, innovation has remained a hot topic among researchers for quite some time (Kim et al., 2012). The real question at hand is whether or not quality management has anything to do with innovation, as past research has suggested quality management as a precursor to innovation. Moreover, quality management is being embraced more and more by leading companies (Kim et al., 2012). The trouble is that Kim et al. (2012) believe that past studies have been flawed, as they did not distinguish between the types of quality management in associating it with innovation. By the same token, the view of innovation by past researchers was rather simplified as well, disregarding various types. The former two flaws may be why past research results have produced such varying results (Kim et al., 2012). Consequently, Kim et al. (2012) set out to fill in the gaps by determining the connections between various quality management processes, as well as how each may or may not relate to innovation. Kim et al. (2012) begin by defining quality management as a company’s on-going effort to improve and change. As such, the practices entailed in quality management are aimed at giving the company...
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...Introduction The purpose of this assignment is to identify a utilitarian, ethical perspective of a company that supplies transistors to a pace maker company. This will be done by first describing Utilitarian ethics. Followed by identifying the key utilitarian ethical problems confronting the transistor company. Then covering the advice that Jeremy Bentham might have given in this situation. After this the Utility Test will be applied to the situation, followed by the Common Good Test. Upon completion of both test the results will be compared to decide which of the two test is the most informative and why. Transistor Company Back Ground The case that was presented for review was one of ethical decisions. A company that produced transistors (referred to from this point on as “Trans Inc”) was presented a decision to either stop selling to a particular company in order to avoid legal issues, or continue selling to that company in order to save lives. The company that Trans Inc was selling transistors to made pacemakers. For the use of this assignment the pacemaker company will be referred to as “Medical Inc.” At the time, the 1970’s, pacemaker technology was in its infancy (Shanks, 2012). There were many problems with the technology and if the pacemaker failed then the user would die. In one reported incident a patient yawned and this caused the pacemaker to stop causing the patient to die. After several incidents that caused patients to die, Trans Inc. starting...
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...Chúng ta có thể so sánh giá trị thị trường và giá trị sổ sách của cổ phiếu bằng cách tính hệ số giá thị trường trên giá ghi sổ. Tỉ lệ này được tính bằng cách lấy giá đóng cửa hiện tại của cổ phiếu chia cho giá trị ghi sổ tại quý gần nhất của cổ phiếu đó. Công thức tính như sau: [pic] Trong đó [pic] Trong trường hợp của Signal Cable Company năm 2004 thì giá ghi sổ của cổ phiếu bằng tổng tài sản là $2,913,450 trừ cho tổng nợ là ($895,000+$1,226,280=42,121,280) chia cho số lượng cổ phiếu lưu hành là 200,000, tính ra được là $3,96/cổ phiếu. Trong khi giá trị thị trường cảu mỗi cổ phiếu của công ty trong năm 2004 là $5.5 Vậy hệ số giá thị trường trên giá ghi sổ là 1.389 Giá trị sổ sách của cổ phiếu thường không phản ánh đúng tình trạng thực sự của công ty vì giá trị sổ sách của cổ phiếu không phản ánh được các yếu tố như phát minh sang chế, sáng tạo của nhân viên, hay thương hiệu của công ty…việc xem giá trị sổ sách của cổ phiếu để cổ đông thấy được giá trị tăng thêm của cổ phiếu thường sau một thời gian hoạt động so với vốn góp ban đầu. Signal Cable Company thì giá trị sổ sách cổ phiếu năm 2003 là $2.235/cổ phiếu, năm 2004 là $3.96/cổ phiếu, cho thấy cổ phiếu năm 2004 có giá cao hơn năm 2003 nhưng không có nghĩa là công ty phát triển hơn hay có lợi nhuận cao hơn, mà còn phụ thuộc vào nhiều yếu tố khác.Tuy giá trị sổ sách tăng cao hơn so với năm trước nhưng giá trị thị trường của cổ phiếu năm 2004 lại giảm,và tuy giá cổ phiếu giảm nhưng cổ tức tăng từ $37,410...
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...MGMT 364 8 April 2012 Tanglewood Case Study 3 1. Recruiting guide for Store Associates Position: Store Associate Reports to: General Manager Qualifications: All considered Relevant labor market: Western Washington Timeline: Continuous recruiting Activities to undertake to source well qualified candidates: Local and regional newspapers, radio, television Post openings to company’s employment website Request employee referrals Upload availability to Kiosk Employ a staffing agency State Job Service Staff members involved: HR Managers, Department managers and Shift leaders Budget: $2,000-6000 2. When looking at the desired results of hiring sales associates for Tanglewood I would have to say that the Open recruitment would be the best decision on the behalf of Tanglewood. The 50% turnover would cause the need for a higher pool of interviewed and qualified applicants; one reason for open recruitment would be because specific qualifications are not needed for the sales associate position opening that pool of applicants. . 3. The Western region of Washington is the only area presently using four methods of recruiting and the only one using job services. The higher costs associated with media almost doubles the cost of the other four and second would be the cost of kiosk recruiting, these two are not significantly cost effective to the organization in this region. The other two hiring practices in this region have higher retention levels and lower costs...
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...Tanglewood case Case3 1. Generate a recruiting guide for the store associate job Position: Store job associate Reports to: Regional mangers Qualification: College graduates or individuals who have extensive experience in another store chain directly into the assistant store managerial position Relevant labor market: Washington and Oregon Activities to undertake to source well-qualified candidates: 1. Regional newspaper advertising 2. Request company referrals 3. Contact kiosks and staff agencies and service-job agencies Staff members involved: Corporate HR recruiting manager Regional manager Budget: Around $12250 for each region2. 2. Describe the relative advantages of open versus targeted recruiting for Tanglewood In open recruitment, companies do not segment the labor market on the basis of KSAOs. All those who apply for the post are considered as qualified. The advantage is that this process is fair as all get the opportunity to apply. Moreover, it is useful when there is large number of employees. On the basis of this, media and referrals can be considered as the open recruitment as in both of them, a large number of employees can apply. In referral, a person recommended can be employed without testing for his KSAOs. Also, kiosks fall in this category as the organization itself is not segmenting the candidates. Kiosks provide opportunities for applicants to watch short videos at the entrance explaining what the job entails. In targeted recruitment, the...
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...Steven Moynihan PT1420 LAB 6 July 21, 2014 6.1 Declare integer mobileProvider = 0 Declare integer dataOption = 0 Declare Boolean dataPackage = True Module inputOptions( Ref Integer mobileProvider, Ref Integer dataOption, Ref Boolean dataPackage) Display “Enter 1 for ATT, 2 for SPRINT, 3 for VERIZON” Input mobileProvider Display “ Enter 1 if you want a data package, OR 2 if you do not” Input dataOption If dataOption = 1 then dataPackage = True else dataPackage = FALSE end module Module displayProvider (Ref integer mobileProvider) Case = mobileProvider Case1 Display “ You Selected ATT “ Case2 Display “ You Selected SPRINT” Case3 Display “ You Selected VERIZON” Case Else Display “ You Didn’t Select A Valid Option“ End module Module userDisplay (byVal mobileProvider, byVal Boolean dataPackage) If mobileProvider = 1 and dataPackage = True then Display “ You Have Selected ATT With A Data Package” If mobileProvider = 2 and dataPackage = True Then Display “ You Have Selected SPRINT With A Data Package” Else if mobileProvider =3 and dataPackage = false then Display “ You Have Selected VERIZON And No dataPackage” End module 6.3 Module Module1 Sub Main() Dim mobileProvider As Integer = 0 Dim dataOption As Integer = 0 Dim dataPackage As Boolean = True inputOptions(mobileProvider, dataOption, dataPackage) displayProvider(mobileProvider) userDisplay(mobileProvider, dataPackage) Console.ReadLine() End Sub Sub...
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...Huiming Zeng MKT333 Case3 Susan Carder September 27, 2015 How would you define the needs, wants, and demands of the Converse customer? Human needs are states of felt deprivation. Converse customers need converse shoes because they have physical need shoes to walk. They also have social need for Converse because they need shoes for belonging and affection. They also have individual needs for shoes because they want self-expression. Wants are the form human needs take as they are shaped by culture and individual personality. People wants Converse because they like the style and the design. They want Converse because Converse satisfied customers. Converse can make products want customers favor. This is why this brand is successful because it does nothing. Converse listen more to their customers rather than indicate. In addition, customers feel joyful because the brand do what customer want. When backed by buying power, wants become demands. Given customer wants and resource, customer demand Converse that add up to satisfaction. Customer have enough affection to the Converse and they buy the products. Please describe Converse’s “stand-back” approach. Is it appropriate? Effective? Converse’s “stand-back” approach is appropriate. Converse just stand back and leave the choice to customers. Converse see itself as one of making great products that customers want to wear. The brand positively and actively communicate with customers. In order to improve products, they try best to...
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...A. Status quo pricing 1. Offer PESA free of charge, price Tronn at $2000. 2. Loss of $20,00,000 spent on developing PESA 3. Product may seem equivalent to Ontario’s Zink, and will have to compete for market share. 4. Not a very good option. B. Competition based pricing Police were on high alert in a dragnet that appeared to stun even a part of the country familiar with dramatic police hunts. Teams of police officers were dispatched overnight to guard uniformed officers and their families, tactical officers set up lines of defense outside the fortress that is the Los Angeles Police Department, and motorcycle officers were ordered to retreat to the safety of patrol cars. In Torrance, two women delivering newspapers were shot and wounded by police officers who mistook the gray pickup they were driving for the one identified as belonging to the gunman. About 12 hours later in San Diego, squads of police cars, in a blaze of red lights and screeching tires, converged on a motel where the suspect was mistakenly thought to be hiding. The suspect was identified as Christopher Jordan Dorner, 33, who worked for the police department from 2004 to 2008. Mr. Dorner had posted a rambling and threatening note on his Facebook page saying he was suffering from severe depression and pledging to kill police officers to avenge his dismissal for filing a false police report accusing a colleague of police abuse. Mr. Dorner said he had struggled to clear his name...
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...! ! Privacy Technology ! ! Team 7 Summer 2014 ! ! COPYRIGHT TEAM7 !1 Privacy Technology Executive Summary Introduction System Architectural Case1: Create a privacy policy. Case2: Save an unfinished privacy policy form Case3: Upload Json file and continue finishing questionnaire Why Struts? 1 3 4 5 5 6 6 6 Functionality Start. Modification. Submission. 9 9 9 9 Design Rationale Web-based. Easy to use. Model form regulation satisfied. Hyperlinks to relevant opt-out mechanisms. Logical consistency. Computer-readable version. Preview generated policy. HTML and CSS outputs. 11 11 11 11 11 12 13 13 13 COPYRIGHT TEAM7 !2 Executive Summary ! The objective of this project is to develop a web-based tool, Interactive Form Builder (IFB), required by United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The tool is designed and developed for financial institutions to generate web-based, interactive privacy notices that comply with the model form regulation published by eight federal regulators on December 1, 2009, under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. The report discusses the system architecture for this project. It also covers how we address each requirement specifically for the Interactive Form Builder. COPYRIGHT TEAM7 !3 Introduction The current in use Online Form Builder enables the financial institutions to produce a PDF version of notice. However, the created PDF notice is reported containing errors and lack of consistency...
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...[Reaction Report: Case3. Netflix] [Description of the case and Company profile] - Movement of movie-rental business in USA How to provide customers appropriate household to household service? Netflix launched their business model to give customers convenience in order to keep their customers from competitors, has strong retail market experiences with certain unique points of the business. For seven years, Netflex has been under the fierce competitions in the video rental market, and their business position status can be explained by following the Porter 5 Forces strategic model. Rivalry very high: Netflix’ subscription based business model disrupted the movie industry and from then the main players which were Blockbuster and Wal-Mart(Recently Red-box) started to imitate Netflix’s model and today offers similar service at similar prices. Competitive edge is hard to sustain. The bargaining power of supplier’s medium low: To save the cost of enjoying their favorite movie with comfortable atmosphere, like in house with families or friends, they paid the costs for the copyright of suppliers. The fixed cost by suppliers is high, so customers are price-sensitive and lead to rental shop. Netflix gets its content from movie studios and movie distributors. Both need each other. Relationship is crucial with suppliers and vice versa due to customers’ sensitivity for their purchases. The bargaining power of buyers high: Competition for customers is high. Buying power is high...
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...Financial Strategy for Corporation Case3 MCI Communications Corp., 1983 Estimation of external financing MCI requires until the end of 1987 MCI is the second-largest long-distance provider in the telecom industry of United States after AT&T. First of all, in this case we estimate external financing MCI requires until the end of 1987. Exhibit 9A provides the projected capital investment needs for the following year, so our group plug those data in Exhibit 3 corresponds to Funds from Operations and Use of Funds, then come up with the External Financing MCI needs from 1984 to 1987 by deducting the total Source from the total Use. By looking at each year’s needs, we noticed that the external needs will continue to grow because of the increase in projected market expansion and decreasing in operating margin, in addition, since telecom industry is very capital intensive, the increase of large amount of CAPEX required year by year is another factor that causes the external funds grow for the following time period. Then, we obtained the 10-year U.S. Treasury rate for 1983, which is around 10.46% and discount each year’s external fund back to 1983 using it as the discount rate for convenience. We got the final total external fund needed for the next five years is $1984.3 million. See Appendix A. Analysis of MCI’s past financial strategy MCI needs external funds to operation, which is the main financial policy. During the past 1972-1983...
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...The Software Departmental Library System > Feasibility Report Version <1.0> 2/1/2016 Document Control Approval Document Change Control |Initial Release: | | |Indicator of Last Page in Document: | | |Date of Last Review: | | |Date of Next Review: | | |Target Date for Next Update: | | Distribution List This following list of people shall receive a copy of this document every time a new version of this document becomes available: Guidance Team Members: Engr Anum Tariq Clients: (Must staff) Software Team Members: Shoaib Tufail Mediha Maroof Muzaffar Hussain Ammema Sittar Change Summary The following table details changes made between versions of...
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...Conversion calculator final project Problem Analysis Problem: User requires a program that will convert two given numbers and at user’s option will find their sum, difference, product or quotient. Desired results: Find and display the sum, difference, product or quotient of two numbers entered by user. Results trying to achieve: Provide user with desired result between two given numbers Required inputs: intnum (interger) intnum (Interger) Required processes: Sum= intnum+intnum Difference= intnum-intnum Product=intnum*intnum Quotient=intnum/intnum Application level requirements: Program will welcome user and provide a description of what program will do Program will prompt user to enter numbers to be calculated Program will provide user menu options for calculating sum, difference, product or quotient Program will display desired calculations to user Major tasks of program Get user input Perform calculations Display calculations IPO CHART INPUT | PROCESSES | OUTPUT | Menu selection (integer) Num1 (float) Num2 (float) | Get user input | Menu selection (integer) Num1 (float) Num2 (float) | Menu selection (integer) Num1 (float) Num2 (float) | Calculations | Sum answer (float) Diff answer (float) Prod answer (float) Quot answer (float) | Sum answer (float) Diff answer (float) Prod answer (float) Quot answer (float) | Display output | Sum answer (float) Diff answer (float) Prod answer (float) Quot answer (float | ...
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...Project Report Research Methods CMP 551-A Fall 2014 Team # 4 Praveen Kumar Chundi #7 Sowmya Eruvuri #8 Nisith Harsha Kondapalli #12 Sudeep Taneti #25 Anuroop Vanam #28 Virginia International University Statement of Research Problem How to choose right technology to best develop a software? How the resulted analysis drive the project? Will the technology supports the system and easy to integrate the different modules? Deciding the Right platform and application development environment to develop a software and doing the right analysis which best develops the system provided the right resources. Selecting the right technology not only helps to best develop the system but also to provide necessary assistance and training for the deployed product later. This coheres the importance of analyzing the technologies before entering the development phase. Many systems fail or delayed because of not selecting the right technology for their projects in different stages like development, data Integration, Support, Training etc. For this we select different software solutions, analyze the problem and the selected technologies to solve that. Observing the development time. Measuring the maintenance costs and support capabilities. Example: A web application for online bus ticket booking system which is developed on different platforms by different software companies or individuals. We collect the information like duration for developing the system, resources and costs for...
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...Project Charter Wedding Bells MGT5164 Table of Contents SECTION 1 Project Name3 PROJECT BACKGROUND3 BUSINESS CASE3 PROJECT OBJECTIVES3 PROJECT CUSTOMER3 PROJECT STAKEHOLDERS4 CUSTOMER REQUIREMENTS4 MAJOR DELIVERABLES4 MILESTONES TABLE5 PROPOSED RESOURCES LIST5 PRELIMINARY BUDGET6 SECTION 2 PROJECT MANAGER AND AUTHORITY LEVEL7 PROJECT TEAM AND TEAM STRUCTURE7 TEAM ROLES7 CONFLICT RESOLUTION PROCESS7 SECTION 3 APPROVAL REQUIREMENTS8 BIBLIOGRAPY8 Project Name Wedding Bells Project Background Mary-Jo and Jimmy are getting married in 3 months, so there isn’t much time for planning. Mary-Jo’s parents want to plan a memorable event nonetheless for their only daughter so they have hired a Wedding Planner to help fulfill their dream wedding. Business Case This Charter formally authorizes the business case of planning and delivering a proper wedding of Mary-Jo and Jimmy to take place in 3 months. As the timeline is so tight, the parents of the bride recognized the need for a professional wedding planner, to create a proper wedding with Mary-Jo and Jimmy’s vision. This project charter defines the wedding, the budget of $20,000 for 150 guests, the deliverables and the timelines. The budget gives ample room to provide a beautiful wedding that will deliver Mary-Jo and Jimmy’s vision of a wedding that will give everyone fond memories. The Project Manager is fully authorized to commit resources to the deliverables, defined in this Charter. ...
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