...Collaborative Fund-raising Activity Checkpoint: 3/12/2009 The Phoenix Homeless Agency (PHA) is in the need of increased funding to further future funding toward job counseling for qualified clients. Regularly agencies get traditional contracts and grants; but the economy has increased the need and requires them to find other sources. The Executive Director and Board of Directors have begun their search by using the internet, other agencies, and community networking. They have agreed on, that there are three options that will yield revenue while keeping costs under control. This will result in money left over for their program; appealing to local government officials, contacting local businesses for donations, and holding a strong public donation campaign. Contacting local government officials the agency may access information about funding that is available to community agencies that are not related to federal or state traditional grants and contracts. These may include United Way, connections to people who might donate, grants from large out-of the area businesses and foundations, or city donations to help unemployment. They may also receive (employ, volunteer, students) grant writers who will be willing to help organization understand, locating, and the writing process, that achieve better results. Local businesses are often feeling the same negative results as the individuals with the recession. The people understand needing help and should donate products to be sold...
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...Nontraditional sources of funding, I think would be to commercial venture. Organizations could sell it services to people who can pay for them. Bequest program - having people leave money to the organization in their will. Affinity marketing- a store could its customers that they will put a certain portion of their profit towards the organization. Phoenix Homeless Agency needs funds to continue providing counseling to qualifying recipients, so they would need to come up with the best possible way to fund their efforts. They could try several fund raising strategies to do that such as Client donations, special events, and annual campaign. I think these would do best because you would think that with the economy being the way it is that donations would not come in but that is just not true. If you make it known would your cause is for and appeal to passionate people that want the same thing they will donate. Special events are another fundraising idea I think would work, especially raffles. The organization could have another organization donation something that people would want such as a gift cards, or maybe tickets to something, I say small things like this because they could have many company’s donate this and that way there are more prizes at the end which when you think about it more people will play. Annual campaign I think would be a good idea because the organization is not new so you would think that have had donors in the past that they could contact to make...
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...Group Collaboration and Web 2.0 Applications: | Knowledge sharing/retention, innovation and talent management | | | | [Type the author name] | 8/16/2009 | | Instructor Background Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (ACS) is an outsourcing company for business process outsourcing and information technology services and has more than 70,000 employees worldwide. ACS has three divisions: IT services, Government Solutions and Financial and Accounting Services (F&A). The contractual agreements between ACS and the clients are not uniform. Each contract has specific Service Level Agreements (SLA) that ACS must perform. In the event that the SLA of the contract is not meet on a monthly basis then financial penalties are assessed according to the contract. The Mission Statement describes to goals of the company. The following two excerpts from the Mission Statement are an important to the success of ACS in providing exceptional service to the clients: We will design innovative solutions to meet our clients’ business requirements and deliver only the highest quality of service. We will marshal talented, committed people and create an environment in which they can grow professionally through their achievements. In addition to the Mission Statement, the core of the ACS culture is referred to as the Hustle Principle. The Hustle represents a “can-do” attitude. In essence, the Hustle Principles require above average individual and team performance, dedication...
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...Chapter 2 Global E-Business and Collaboration 75 Collaboration and Innovation at Procter & Gamble CASE STUDY L ook in your medicine cabinet. No matter where you live in the world, odds are that you’ll find many Procter & Gamble products that you use every day. P&G is the largest manufacturer of consumer products in the world, and one of the top 10 largest companies in the world by market capitalization. The company is known for its successful brands, as well as its ability to develop new brands and maintain its brands’ popularity with unique business innovations. Popular P&G brands include Pampers, Tide, Bounty, Folgers, Pringles, Charmin, Swiffer, Crest, and many more. The company has approximately 140,000 employees in more than 80 countries, and its leading competitor is Britain-based Unilever. Founded in 1837 and headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, P&G has been a mainstay in the American business landscape for well over 150 years. In 2009, it had $79 billion in revenue and earned a $13.2 billion profit. P&G’s business operations are divided into three main units: Beauty Care, Household Care, and Health and Well-Being, each of which are further subdivided into more specific units. In each of these divisions, P&G has three main focuses as a business. It needs to maintain the popularity of its existing brands, via advertising and marketing; it must extend its brands to related products by developing new products under those brands; and it must...
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...Topic: Examine groupware systems including their various types and examples of organisational activities they support, and discuss how they would evolve in the future. Student number: 21819254 Introduction Nowadays, usage of IT systems in enterprise environment is growing at an incredible pace. The main purpose of it is to help groups of cooperating individuals to overcome time and spatial barriers. Enterprise systems implementation has led to the problem of cooperation between companies to reach their goals and successfully operate in the current market environment. The rising demand for collaboration software has led to the groupware market expansion. Collaborative software has influenced the expansion of enterprises by improving the effectiveness of a range of tools such as the ability to communicate over long distances. This software had a significant impact on expansion of enterprises and increased efficiency of its work, for example, the communication over long distances. Along with development of technologies, the way workers operate in organisations has completely changed. Monotonous and time consuming tasks can be easily solved using the computer. Consequently, this change led to increase in the number of “knowledge workers”, workers, whose main capital is knowledge (Davenport, Thomas, 2005). Organisations more often require employees, who have the skill and experience of working within a team. Obviously, teamwork has a significantly greater efficiency, especially in...
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...How teams work effectively through collaboration software. Collaboration software has become the most popular communication media, and the America is part of the essential communicator in business surface. All the information we can look for and sharing are based on internet. For examples, conference meeting, online confirmation, and quick announcement, our business movement is deeply connected to the collaboration software. However, the communication collaboration is widely use in the business and change our business behavior in America. The essential business collaboration software is different in the America; although the internet is very easy to access every communication and information, business is always to leak out their business strategies, like some sensitive communication is always monitoring by collaboration software. A good collaboration software is very essential to the safety of business product or documents, also the stable and a reliable software. For examples, video conference, the Skype is popularized by its stable connection and low rate of international call. The Skype saved a lot of time and money to do a conference meeting with different countries. The business can use some platform to communicate with each other through virtual private network. Such as what we called, the social software, “ Individuals in the team reported the importance of indeterminancy (allowing for incomplete entries), ownership (highlighting authorship of entries in repositories)...
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...strategies and technologies that allow employees to collaborate and communicate across local, or nationwide boundaries. So for future use we also were looking in implementing collaborative software. The increase of communication technologies such the Internet, e-mail, and video conferencing has led to the expansion of collaborative software that helps the sharing of information and knowledge between other businesses them to work together towards the accomplishment of a single goal. Groupware refers to programs that assist personnel working together as one while located away from each other. These types of programs are what facilitate real time collaboration. Some of the services that collaborative software include are e-mail handling, displaying information to others, shared database access, collective writing, the sharing of calendars, and electronic face-to-face meetings. Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange is some product examples of that groupware include, both of which facilitate the replication of files across a distributed system so that all users can view the same information. In conclusion collaborative systems are an accessible way to capture communication between personnel and take action to a crisis situation to achieve understanding into successes and failures. Furthermore, collaborative systems improve streamline business processes, deliver services more cost effectively, enhance organizational intelligence, Increase efficiencies and Develop solid relationships...
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...company like P&G, finding methods of collaboration that are effective throughout the company can be difficult. That's why P&G has been active in implementing IT that fosters effective collaboration and innovation. Procter and Gamble utilizes a distributed development strategy, to form a basis for the distributed development strategy Procter and Gamble must make use of a collaborative environment. both as a way to develop groundbreaking innovations more quickly and to reduce research and development costs. P&G is using collaboration systems to execute its business model and business strategy by allowing researchers to use the tools to share the data they've collected on various brands; by giving marketers a more effective way to access the data they need to create more highly targeted ad campaigns; and enabling managers easier ways to find the people and data they need to make critical business decisions. To do this P&G needed to develop alternatives to business practices that were not sufficiently collaborative. Such as e-mail. Although seemingly a tool used for communication it is not a sufficiently collaborative way to share information and does not support 3D visual data to be shared easily. Another challenge for P&G was managing information and applications across multiple platforms. In order to ensure that this problems are overcome, Procter and Gamble considered a...
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...L'Oreal decided to use Microsoft SharePoint server to create a global knowledge management and collaboration platform. The system runs on a corporate intranet called M@sternet that spans the globe and coordinates the work of hundreds of teams in over 150 subsidiaries. L=2:57 "The L'Oreal Group is the world's largest cosmetics and beauty company. It is headquartered in the Paris suburb of Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France. 96% of L'Oreal revenue is generated from cosmetics, from hair color products to skin care, sun protection, make-up, perfumes and hair care. L'Oreal also is active in the dermatological and pharmaceutical fields. The company was founded in 1907 by Eugene Schueller, a young French chemist, who developed an innovative hair-color formula. In 1920, the small company employed three chemists. By 1950, the research teams were 100 strong; that number reached 1,000 by 1984, and is nearly 2,000 today. While L'Oreal got its start in the hair-color business, the company soon branched out into other cleansing and beauty products. L'Oreal currently markets over 500 brands and many thousands of individual products in all sectors of the beauty business: hair color, permanents, styling aids, body and skin care, cleansers and fragrances. The company's products are found in a wide variety of distribution channels, from hair salons and perfumeries to hyper - and supermarkets, health/beauty outlets, pharmacies and direct mail. L'Oreal has five worldwide research and development...
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...Australasian Journal of Educational Technology 2009, 25(5), 645-665 Factors affecting the way students collaborate in a wiki for English language learning Vida Zorko University of Ljubljana Wikis are believed to be a powerful tool assisting the development of constructivist learning environments, as their very nature supports collaboration. However, not much research has been done into the types of collaborative interaction that take place in wikis when used for learning. The main purpose of this study is to explore the factors that affect the ways students collaborate in the wiki environment. To this end, a qualitative exploration of students’ perceptions of collaboration in the wiki was carried out among sociology students at university level who used this environment in blended, problem based learning as part of their English for Specific Purposes course. The research shows that the wiki promoted many collaborative behaviours among students, such as learning from each other and communicating with the teacher. However, the data indicate that the wiki was less successful in facilitating other types of collaboration, such as communicating with peers and co-constructing products, primarily because the students had the opportunity to collaborate in live meetings and preferred to use Messenger and email to communicate. Overall, the results obtained here confirm that the wiki can be used to enhance effective collaboration in a constructivist approach to language...
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...Collaboration and Innovation at Procter & Gamble 1. The Procter & Gamble’s business strategy is to keep the consumers by maintaining the brand and popularity they have with existing consumers. Procter & Gamble also focuses on improving their already existing line of products in order to keep the popularity that they already have. Lastly, Procter & Gamble creates completely new products from start to the final product and sent out new items to the market to improve their sales. Procter & Gamble innovates and adds to the market by dividing its focus to developing and creating new brands and items for the market. The company needs the collaboration between all of their stake holders being the researchers, marketers and the managers to all work together in order to improve work efficiency which has made them one of the top companies in the world. 2. The collaboration of over 8,000 scientists and researchers that are employed by Procter & Gamble worldwide, marketers and managers working together increases innovation and as a result further their success in the industry. As large as the company is, they keep utilizing all of their employees to research, experiment, produce, market and organize their own brand and create new products. With a large amount of employees throughout the world, good communication was crucial to working as one and becoming successful. Proctor and Gamble collaborated with Cisco Telepresence to improve their communication abilities...
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...Look in your medicine cabinet. No matter where you live in the world, odds are that you’ll find many Procter & Gamble products that you use every day. P&G is the largest manufacturer of consumer products in the world, and one of the top 10 largest companies in the world by market capitalization. The company is known for its successful brands, as well as its ability to develop new brands and maintain its brands’ popularity with unique business innovations. Popular P&G brands include Pampers, Tide, Bounty, Folgers, Pringles, Charmin, Swiffer, Crest, and many more. The company has approximately 140,000 employees in more than 80 countries, and its leading competitor is Britain-based Unilever. Founded in 1837 and headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, P&G has been a mainstay in the American business landscape for well over 150 years. In 2009, it had $79 billion in revenue and earned a $13.2 billion profit. P&G’s business operations are divided into three main units: Beauty Care, Household Care, and Health and Well-Being, each of which are further subdivided into more specific units. In each of these divisions, P&G has three main focuses as a business. It needs to maintain the popularity of its existing brands, via advertising and marketing; it must extend its brands to related products by developing new products under those brands; and it must innovate and create new brands entirely from scratch. Because so much of P&G’s business is built around brand creation and management, it’s...
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...Businesses must be productive to succeed and to be more productive they must embrace the technologies that are available to them to ensure success. For over 150 years business technology has given businesses the edge that they desired over their competitor and allowed them to produce results faster, but also saving man hours in the process. From the telegraph and stock ticker, to the Fax machines of the 70s and on to the information age of the 80s with email and the first group ware, business technologies have given us a 24 hour knowledge factory to pull from. Business technologies can be put into simple groups based upon their use. During our group discussion we found that most technologies fit into multiple groups, thus showing a greater use with more effect to the company. The groups that we used for this study were a) communications technology b) collaboration technology c) meeting technology and d) information technology. Communications technologies These technologies are used by business to convey information by voice, in writing and electronically. These include the hard wired telephone and VOIP (voice over internet protocol); email and instant messaging on a computer; and finally today’s smart phone which has many more uses then just basic communicating. Collaboration technologies Collaboration technologies are used in business for the sole purpose of allowing an exchange and collection of information between single and groups of people. Ever since...
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...COM10003 Learning and communication online Assessment 2B: Analysis of collaborative work The following is a review of Assessment 2A: Producing an online informational resource. I will be discussing, demonstrating and addressing the key criteria as it applies to my group’s now submitted assessment and how the factors of online collaboration affected the effective productivity of my group with reference to learning materials we have studied throughout. The shining example that comes to my mind is the strong leadership from one of our members, Will Martin. I am unfamiliar with Will’s background but he has a firm understanding of leaderships skills and abilities. He was immediately instrumental in getting us on track for a topic and discussing strengths/ weaknesses of group members Will Martin 8/4/15 “So my interests: Health, Food, Wine, Social issues (Bullying, refugees, indigenous, tolerance, politics), Travel, Artists, Filmmaking, Filmmakers, Writing, Blogging, Technology. I can do sports I suppose if inspired! lol. My skills: Html, Adobe Creative Suite 6, Video production/editing, graphic design, published author/writer.” Will Martin, taken from group Wiki transcript, Assessment 2B 8/4/2015 With strong frontline leadership we were able to: * Agree which individuals will carry out which specific tasks and responsibilities; * Agree a schedual for when tasks have to be completed; * Agree on what will be acceptable as a final group product -Donelan...
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...Collaborative Learning Community (CLC) * Introduction: * Group work can seem like a daunting task, particularly in an asynchronous environment in which communication occurs primarily online or, at a distance. Even if you are enrolled in a course that meets weekly, conflicting schedules can make it difficult to arrange outside meetings with your group members. However, with proper planning and clear communications, teams can work effectively and efficiently with little or no face-to-face contact. Achieving good outcomes requires that individuals with different strengths, weaknesses, and perspectives come together to arrive at consensus. Several tools have been created to help your group get started, get organized, and stay on task. With these tools and tips, you will find that working as a team of educated professionals is not only more efficient but more rewarding as well. This professional collaboration is after all, the nature of nursing. Nurses work with others to help others. Working in teams produces the best outcome for patients and the nursing profession. The first step in working effectively as a team is to arrive at consensus. Before the real work begins, the entire group must agree on fundamental aspects of the work to be done. Together, the group must decide: What the outcome or final product should look like? What the objective is and what method should be used to achieve it? Who should be responsible for doing what tasks, given their experience...
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