...Version 2 General Certificate of Education (A-level) June 2011 Geography GEOG1 (Specification 2030) Unit 1: Physical and Human Geography Post-Standardisation Mark Scheme Mark schemes are prepared by the Principal Examiner and considered, together with the relevant questions, by a panel of subject teachers. This mark scheme includes any amendments made at the standardisation events which all examiners participate in and is the scheme which was used by them in this examination. The standardisation process ensures that the mark scheme covers the candidates’ responses to questions and that every examiner understands and applies it in the same correct way. As preparation for standardisation each examiner analyses a number of candidates’ scripts: alternative answers not already covered by the mark scheme are discussed and legislated for. If, after the standardisation process, examiners encounter unusual answers which have not been raised they are required to refer these to the Principal Examiner. It must be stressed that a mark scheme is a working document, in many cases further developed and expanded on the basis of candidates’ reactions to a particular paper. Assumptions about future mark schemes on the basis of one year’s document should be avoided; whilst the guiding principles of assessment remain constant, details will change, depending on the content of a particular examination paper. Further copies of this Mark Scheme are available from:...
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...successfully launch this product, we first and foremost recommend that CMI acquire a patent to prevent this product from being copied and imitated, thus avoiding the entry of competitors. The associated value and advantages of CMI’s metal cushion pads are evident from the results of the two comparative performance tests by Colerick and Fazio. CMI pads drove piles 33 percent faster than asbestos per hour and lasted the entire job while also eliminating the downtime required for changeover compared to asbestos, resulting in significant savings for the contractors. Additionally, the health dangers associated with using asbestos pads is a growing concern, making CMI pads that much more attractive. The pile driving industry has paid little to no attention to cushion pads and no manufacture has dominated the business thus far, making the entry of the CMI metal pads featured as a work-saving tool both ideal and crucial in setting the new cushion pad industry standard. 2 We recommend that CMI utilize a value-based pricing strategy to introduce the 11 ½ inch metal pad and price it at $299.00 per pad. The value and efficiency of the metal pad will be the driving force behind this price strategy and will offer the customer a savings of up to 33 percent. A major fixed cost that CMI needs to consider is the 360 percent of labor to account for engineering that is required to create the pads at the 9000 year production level. There will be added value shown to the customer by not having to invest...
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...Case 1: Capital Mortgage Insurance Company Overview This case is set in the late 1970’s and describes an acquisition attempt by Capital Mortgage Insurance of Corporate Transfer Services. CMI is a company that sells mortgage insurance to mortgage lenders and banks but executives at CMI want to grow into the real estate relocation industry. Corporate Transfer Services assists employees who have been transferred to a new city as they try to find a new home. Capital Mortgage Insurance Corporations goal is to acquire Corporate Transfer Services at the lowest cost. The president and vice president of CMI met with the owners of CTS many times. If CMI acquires CTS, it will provide them with an easy way into the relocation industry and a high potential for profit. This makes the acquisition appealing to CMI, regardless of the fact that financially, CTS has been struggling to break even. Corporate Transfer Services wants to be acquired, but is worried about their ownership levels after the acquisition. Analysis Capital Mortgage Insurance Company’s main interest is to expand their financial services capabilities and build a strong network that can rival Merrill Lynch. Growing at a 10-15% annual rate, the corporate relocation business was a very appealing market. CMI has to protect their close relationship with MetroNet, with which Elliott Burr sat on the board. MetroNet proposed and approved the acquisition attempt of CTI. Preservation of good relationships with the CTS...
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...CMI LEVEL 5 DIPLOMA IN MANAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP (5D1) Assignment 5 Unit 5006 C5009 Project development and control Unit 5002 Information based decision making Andor Kovacs CMI no: 4205133 Assignment 5_Submission1 AEA group Assignment Requirements 5002.....................................................................................4 Learning Outcome 1: Be able to identify and select sources of data and information ....................................................................................................................................4 1.1 Discuss the nature of data and information......................................................4 1.2 Evaluate relevant sources of data and information..........................................4 1.3 Discuss the criteria for selection of data and information................................4 1.4 Identify the legal requirements relating to the collection, use and storage of data and information...............................................................................................4 Learning Outcome 2: Be able to analyse and present information to support decision making..........................................................................................................4 2.1 Evaluate the decision making models which are used to support decision making....................................................................................................................4 2.2 Identify those to be involved in analysing...
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...הפקולטה לניהול בית הספר למוסמכים במנהל עסקים ע"ש ליאון רקנאטי 1243.3412 - Pricing Policy 2013, Second Semester Curled metal case Lecturer: Dr. Meir Karlinsky Submission date: May 5th, 2013 ------------------------------------------------- Executive Summary Curled Metal Inc. (CMI) examines a new potential product: using wounded, flattened curled metal as a cushion pad for piles driving hammers. The Decisions the company needs to take are what price should be charged for it, and how to market it to the costumers (channels). The alternatives we've examined are: Perceived value, Differentiation and Contingency value. EVC is the offered solution, with a price tag of XXXXXXX for the 11.5 inch pad. Suggested marketing plan is based on focusing in the 11.5 inch pads and … Main risk is the unsufficient data, which can resolve in a different demand function/market characteristics than expected. Another risk lies with the cooperation of the manufacturer rep's. Situation analysis Company (Product): CMI sells metal-based products. It has developed a special seal for the auto industry, which was a big success and currently holds 80% market share. However, CMI isn't confident with maintaining that percentage, and therefore started looking for other opportunities. This approach led to the development of a cushion pad which allows Pile-hammers to work faster and in a more safety way. Manufactoring process allows any diameter pad to be manufactured from the same band...
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...Oct 10 ACCREDITATION SCHEMES WITHIN OUR ORGANISATION – SSGT MARCUS MILES “An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t” – Anatole France, French Novelist (1844-1924) INTRODUCTION 1. Accreditation is available to our Military Administrators throughout their careers via a number of sources; this accreditation incorporates civilian qualifications into military training and is vital to the personal and professional development of our branch and soldiers. It is of extreme benefit to the corps as well as the individual. The aim of my report is to guide and advise administrators on the opportunities available to them via accreditation schemes to enable them to be recognised and rewarded inline with their civilian counterparts, I also intend to remind senior management of the opportunities available, so they are better informed to achieve the requirements of the corps recruitment and retention plan. I will be writing my report in a rank chronological order starting from Pte through to the Officer ranks. THE ORGANISATIONAL CONTEXT 2. The AGC (SPS) branch delivers administrative support to the entire British Army. The administrative support is from the very bottom, all the way to the top. At the same time civilian business functions are under pinned by administration, no organisation civilian or military can survive without effective administration...
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...operations, including the manufacturing and design of products, the managerial operations, and the supply-chain processes, are overseen by INGHKA Holding, which is private, for-profit Dutch Corporation. INGHKA Holding currently runs 235 of the IKEA stores, the remaining are operated and ran by franchises that are outside of INGHKA Holding. IKEA has differentiate themselves from their competitors, by satisfying the needs and wants of their consumers, with upholding a value proposition that is center on providing, high-quality products (furniture), at affordable prices. IKEA’s value proposition differentiated them from their competitors, secured competitive advantage and positioned themselves as the leader in furniture retailer, on a global level, by their value-based services, and marketing mix that emphasizes on areas such as: Location, Merchandise, Store Format, Market Communications, and Service and Selling Environment, which produced a remarkable “brand image”; “The essential role of brands is to differentiate a product or service from others in satisfying a given customer need.” Marketing, 2010) IKEA’s powerful brand image and conveying there core values throughout the marketing platforms, and operational processes, in its self-have erected barriers in terms of competitors within their industry. Branding is where IKEA thrives. IKEA‘s marketing platform consists of four primary areas: Product Design, Catalogs, Public Relations/Communications, and...
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...KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET a medical university Development of a new tool for healthcare company analysis CMI Corporate Database Jonas Lundberg Supervisor Associate Professor Carl Johan Sundberg Stockholm 2001 Master thesis in medical science with a major in biomedicine Centre for Medical Innovations Karolinska Institutet Sweden Contents SUMMARY....................................................................................................................................3 ABBREVIATIONS........................................................................................................................4 DEFINITIONS ...............................................................................................................................5 PURPOSE OF THE THESIS .......................................................................................................8 INTRODUCTION .........................................................................................................................9 The biotechnology industry in Sweden ...............................................................................9 Technology Transfer at Universities ...................................................................................9 A corporate database as an analytical tool.........................................................................10 Thesis disposition ...........................................................................................
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...Research paper In English II Roeniel Jetrew Galon BSBA- 1B Sir Dennis Duyag Introduction Corruption has recently become a major issue in foreign aid policies. However, behind the screens it has always been there, referred to as the “c-word”. The major concern for international aid policy through the last five decades is to improve the living conditions for the poor in the poorest countries of the world. This endeavour requires a close co-operation with the national governments in poor countries. Generally speaking, however, the governments in poor countries are also the most corrupt. This is one of the few clear empirical results of recent research on corruption. The level of GDP per capita holds most of the explanatory power of the various corruption indicators (Treisman, 2000; Paldam, 1999a). Consequently, if donors want to minimise the risk of foreign aid being contaminated by corruption, the poorest countries should be avoided. This would, however, make aid policy rather pointless. This is the basic dilemma corruption raises for aid policy. Unlike international business most development aid organisations and international finance institutions have the lion’s share of their activities located in highly corrupt countries (Alesina and Weder, 1999). The international community in general and some donor countries in particular are, however, increasingly willing to fight corruption. Within the “good governance” strategies of the World Bank and the International...
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...Unit 5013 - Leadership practice ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Introduction ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- This unit is about being able to define and show an appreciation for key leadership principles in setting and communicating organisational direction, and the application of leadership styles in the achievement of organisational objectives. It is also about being able to differentiate between the leadership and management aspects of a job role and show an understanding of how these are integrated to enable effective performance. ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Scenario ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Learners may use their own employment context, or that of another organisation with which they are very familiar, to base their assignment. However, in the case that they are not able to do so, please use the below scenario:- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- You are a manager, leading a department in a medium sized company. You have responsibility for setting direction, motivating and inspiring the team and individuals, and for co-ordinating workload and outputs...
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...Management Institute Report by: Deena Goodhead Qualification and Level CMI Level 5 5001V1 Personal Development as a manager and leader CMI registration No. Organisation: Barnsley Hospital Word Count: Submission date: 12th November 2015 Course Tutor: Sue Copeland Contents 1 Learning Outcome matrix 2 Introduction This assignment report is submitted as part of the Chartered Management Institute Level 5 Diploma in outcomes for ……….. Management and Leadership and evidences the learning 3 Executive Summary 4 Results and Findings 5 Conclusions 6 Recommendations 7 Reflective report 8 Appendices 9 References 10 Bibliography Learning outcome Matrix 1. Be able to assess and plan for personal professional development | 2.1 Identify the importance of continual self-development in achieving organisational objectives 2.2 Assess current skills and competencies against defined role requirements and organisational objectives 2.3 Identify development opportunities to meet current and future defined needs 2.4 Construct a personal development plan with achievable but challenging goals | 2. Be able to plan the resources required for personal professional development | 3.5 Identify the resources required to support the personal development plan 3.6 Develop a business case to secure the resources to support the personal development plan | 3. Be able to implement and evaluate the personal development plan...
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...SECURITY AND COMMUNICATION NETWORKS Security Comm. Networks (2011) Published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com). DOI: 10.1002/sec.299 SPECIAL ISSUE PAPER Attack Countermeasure Trees (ACT): towards unifying the constructs of attack and defense trees Arpan Roy* , Dong Seong Kim and Kishor S. Trivedi Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, U.S.A. ABSTRACT Attack tree (AT) is one of the widely used non-state-space models for security analysis. The basic formalism of AT does not take into account defense mechanisms. Defense trees (DTs) have been developed to investigate the effect of defense mechanisms using measures such as attack cost, security investment cost, return on attack (ROA), and return on investment (ROI). DT, however, places defense mechanisms only at the leaf nodes and the corresponding ROI/ROA analysis does not incorporate the probabilities of attack. In attack response tree (ART), attack and response are both captured but ART suffers from the problem of state-space explosion, since solution of ART is obtained by means of a state-space model. In this paper, we present a novel attack tree paradigm called attack countermeasure tree (ACT) which avoids the generation and solution of a state-space model and takes into account attacks as well as countermeasures (in the form of detection and mitigation events). In ACT, detection and mitigation are allowed not just at the leaf node but also...
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...uk/ that can be seen below. In my plan, I have identified what my short, medium and long term objectives will be for the next 12 months and beyond. I did this by using my Performance Management Review and my personal objectives I have included relevant training courses to enhance and expand my knowledge, but also formal and informal discussions and feedback from my colleagues to assist me to reflect on my practice and develop. Part 1 – Personal Analysis Strengths | Area for Further Development | * My personal organisational skills are excellent and I work well with others in the team. * I am confident in showing other members of the team how various system work such as the Financial System. * I have shown by attending the CMI leadership course that i have excellent time management skills by juggling my work and the demands of the course and assignments. | I need to double check m work to avoid mistakes especially when working with numbers. Due to our workload I tend rush my work sometimes in orders to meet deadlines. | Opportunities | Threats | I have been given the opportunity to shadow others in meetings as well as evaluate contracts which is a responsibility for staff members two grade above...
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...With the massive economic contributions behind LGBT group, huge potential opportunity for marketing exists. Marketing Response towards the Trend More and more brands are following the trend to respond to the LGBT advertising and most of them have widespread impact online (Snyder 2015). Burger King launched a regular burger with special rainbow-colored wrapper printing a message “we are all the same inside” in Pride week (Snyder 2015). People in LGBT community said that they feel supported and this made them feel proud (Oster 2014). Ben & Jerry produced a limited edition flavor ice-cream called “Apple-y Ever After”, with the aim to set an ideology but not about marketing. Surprisingly, they received the highest ever engagement levels from social media posts compared to their previous campaign (Goldhill 2014). Tiffany & Co....
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...Qual Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 6–12 Copyright c 2012 Wolters Kluwer Health | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Missed Nursing Care, Staffing, and Patient Falls Beatrice J. Kalisch, PhD, RN, FAAN; Dana Tschannen, PhD, RN; Kyung Hee Lee, MPH, RN Patient falls in hospitals continue to be a major and costly problem. This study tested the mediating effect of missed nursing care on the relationship of staffing levels (hours per patient day [HPPD]) and patient falls. The sample was 124 patient units in 11 hospitals. The HPPD was negatively associated with patient falls (r = − 0.36, P < .01), and missed nursing care was found to mediate the relationship between HPPD and patient falls. Key words: falls, missed nursing care, staffing P to 12% of hospitalized patients experience at least 1 fall during their hospital stay.1 A fall is defined as any event in which patients are found on the floor (observed or unobserved) or an unplanned lowering of the patient to the floor by staff or visitors.2 In 2008, and 2010, falls were identified as one of the top 10 sentinel event categories by the Joint Commission.3 Fall rates in hospitals range from 4 to 14 falls per 1000 patient days.4 With the adoption of the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid rule, which no longer reimburses hospitals at the higher diagnosis related group for the care and treatment associated with patient falls that occur during hospitalization, a clearer understanding of what factors U Author Affiliations: School of Nursing, University...
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