...Phase 1 World Set Up In order for the dominos and the other objects to work properly, certain settings on the ‘reactor' Open the Units Setup dialog (Customize > Units Setup), and change the Display Unit Scale and System Unit Scale to “Centimeters”. Then, click on the ‘reactor’ settings. Change the Solver to “Havok 3”. Under Havok 3 World, changes need to be made for two(2) measurements or units: 1. 1m = 5.0 cm 2. Col. Tolerance = 0.2cm Then, open the Time Configuration dialog. Change the animation length to 25 seconds. Phase 2 Modelling 1. Firstly, a plane is made to act as the base for the dominos and other objects. 2. Then, a simple domino is drawn by using Box under Standard Primitives. The domino is then adjusted to this size shown in the picture below. 3. A Line is then drawn to make a pathway for the dominos and a simpler way of copying all the dominos at once. Select the previously drawn domino piece, and then open the Spacing Tool in Tools (Tools > Align > Spacing Tool). Click the “Pick Path” button, and select the line. Settings for Spacing Tool must be as follow: a. Spacing = 2.54cm b. Type of Object = Instance c. Under Context, depending on the scene/line, click on “Follow” to see if the dominos align with the line properly. The dominos are then adjusted accordingly to the scene below by using the line drawn. 4. To create slides/ramp for the balls, a Helix is drawn. The Helix is then adjusted...
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...How Taxes Affect Businesses The domino effect of these taxes, that can be considered as costs, is certain to be felt all over the country and negatively impact Puerto Rico economy and business competitiveness. These taxes hit especially small and midsize businesses that don’t have the in-house expertise. The impact, with no doubts, will take a toll. Affected firms will be facing an extreme disadvantage with their peers in other states and nations. Employees will feel the effect through lower wages, low jobs offer, retention of personnel and promotions. More imposing and augmentation in taxes will make it more difficult for entrepreneurs that are actually established in Puerto Rico to ignore the welcoming invitations from other states or countries that offer lower taxes rate. Business taxes affect business decisions and top management will have to come up with alternatives, which might be from increases in prices of goods (also another problem since it causes an accelerating inflation) and services to relocate their business somewhere else, the retention process, market competitiveness, among others. Since prices increases were mentioned before, it should be noted that the IVU tax of 7% has created a gap between the price paid by those who buy goods and the price that sellers perceive. As a consequence of this gap, demand for goods decreases since consumers’ habits might have to be adjusted to income and on the other hand, the market size (specially the industries...
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...1. Describe the nature of the organization, its size, and any specific human resource challenges it faces. Domino’s Pizza is a multi-billion dollar a year enterprise. The company operates through a network of roughly 9,000 stores scattered throughout the 50 states and located in over 60 countries (DATAMONITOR: Domnino's Pizza, Inc., 2010). Since the first Domino’s franchise opened in Ypsilanti, Michigan in 1967, the pioneering giant of pizza delivery has established itself as a household name (Lief, 2008). However, maintaining a position of leadership in this extremely competitive business has required the organization to adopt several unique methods of oversight. Domino’s maintains a direct influence in the manufacturing and delivery of many of their ingredients. The company “operates 16 dough manufacturing and supply chain centers” and even processes many of its own vegetables. (DATAMONITOR: Domnino's Pizza, Inc., 2010). Additionally, franchisees in the US are prohibited from having any commercial interest other than pizza as a means of ensuring that they stay focused and committed to the corporate goal (Lief, 2008). Domino’s rather unique human resource challenge of hiring and training entry level employees to spend most of their time away from an office is no easy task. Domino’s drivers cover 10 million miles each week in the U.S. alone (About Domino's Pizza, 2010). Most of these drivers display the distinctive company logo affixed to the roof of their automobile...
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...Domino’s Pizza: Marketing Research Report Submitted By: Dagar Katyal (FT12318) Mohammad Khurram Mirza (FT12335) Prachi Sawant Shuchita Vivek Joseph Domino’s Pizza: June 1, 2011 Contents 1. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................... 2 1.1 History ..................................................................................................................................... 2 1.2 Domino’s in Indian Market ..................................................................................................... 3 1.3 Organizational Structure Jubilant Food works ........................................................................ 3 2. Food Industry in India ..................................................................................................................... 4 2.1 Growth of the Quick Service Restaurant (“QSR”) industry ..................................................... 4 3. Financial Analysis ............................................................................................................................ 5 3.1 Year on Year Analysis .............................................................................................................. 5 3.2 Profitability Ratio - Profit Margins .......................................................................................... 5 3.3 Profitability Ratio - Return on Long Term Funds ...............
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...two adverts This essay will be about two adverts which I will be comparing, these adverts are; Dominoes; Oven Baked Subs! And Ribeana; drink! The Dominoes advert had a very effective tagline because it was short and snappy, however the Ribeana drink tag line was also quite catchy and it suits the product well. The colour which have been used in the Ribena advert are well suited for the drink; because the colours are nice natural colours, light colours which give off the soft, calm, relaxing effect that Ribena may have one you. The font is nice and large so it stands out and it is eye catching. On the other hand the colours on the Dominoes advert are very bright, and bold. It is very eye catching and colourful, and it is very distinctive, so it stands out and is recognisable, and the font is very large too, which makes it stand out even more! The graphics on the adverts are both very big, and eye catching; so they attract the attention of customers. Also on the Dominoes advert there are three big pictures of three different lunch Subs, which can instantly make any mouth water. Saying that, the Ribena advert is also persuasive, because there is a natural background, which automatically gives of the impression that Ribeana is natural; the ingredients are natural and healthy and a good drink I think the target audience, and who the advert appeals to for the Dominoes advert are people who, would be out, possibly at work on a lunch break and are going to buy a lunch...
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...Do the small actions we make cause big consequences? It’s the little things that we do that make a positive or negative effect. Whether that is recycling, conserving water, or smoking for the first time. All actions have a consequence whether they have a good or bad effect. Bradbury uses imagery and figurative language to convey that small actions have big consequences. Imagery is used to create vividness and capture details. One way bradbury uses imagery is in this quote “ It fell to the floor, an exquisite thing, a small thing could upset balances and knock down a line of small dominoes and then big dominoes and then gigantic dominoes, all down the years across time.” In this quote, Bradbury uses imagery to give an image of how small actions...
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...Stapling Papers There were many steps that were included in the B.L.A.S.H. Rube Goldberg project. Our group members were Lucas Simmons, Amber Owens, Sam Eason, and Haley Phillips. We had to fulfill the task of stapling papers together. Our project consisted of 12 steps and had 6 different types of steps. The different types of steps were rolling, sliding, falling, flowing, springing, and pulling. All of these steps worked together, like a chain reaction, to complete our assigned task. Our group had to select 8 items that we picked from the stage. These were two golf balls, short pvc ramp, long pvc ramp, pvc tube, 8 dominoes, screw, and toothpaste. We had to bring in many different items that included: slinky, nails, glue, tape, plywood, hook, string, solo cups, water, cardboard, pool ball, ping pong ball, toy car, two by four wood, white trim, hard cup, two science books, stapler, two pieces of paper, water bottle funnel, and pvc elbow. These all served a certain purpose in our Rube Goldberg Project. The first...
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...Our design started with a marble, and that marble rolls down a ramp to hit dominoes. These dominoes hit another marble, so that that marble rolls down a funnel hitting a mouse trap. When the marble hits the mouse trap it goes off; therefore, the mouse trap pulls a popsicle stick. This causes a golf ball and two marbles to roll down a ramp. Books were lined together to make a path, so that they hit another marble. This marble rolls down a funnel onto a open book. This open book makes a path for the marble to roll and hit a jenga block. When the jenga block falls it takes a line of beads with it connected to a popsicle stick. When the popsicle stick falls it causes a pepsi to roll down a ramp, and hit a block of wood connected to a popsicle stick....
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...outlets. • According to franchisees, customers seldom cared about price-per-square inch of pizzas, rather the absolute prices of the small, medium and large sized pizzas mattered more to them Context Analysis: • Growing demand for purely delivery based system • Franchisees which introduced delivery were doing significantly better than company-owned stores. • Prevalence of discounting in the pizza business Competitor analysis: • Initially only Godfather pizzas were next best in the business • Dominoes rapidly expanding into the Pizza Delivery-only market • Recent promotions into areas where Pizza hut is planning to enter • A little more tedious to implement CSC in their outlets • Have been a motivation to the franchisees for not implementing CSC’s Company analysis: • Market leader for a long while before 1986, when dominoes happened • Losing business on eat-in and carry-out business sectors • Need for investment on Delivery-out models • Franchisee-dependent for sales • Strong opposition from franchisees • Delivery out models not successful enough for company owned outlets • SWOT Analysis |Strengths |...
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...providing readily available information as well as the ability to communicate locally and globally with ease. 2 – Select one of the “Functions of Management” and explain how you use it or have used it. The function of management that I use daily is Planning. As a Supervisor of a specialized unit within the police department I am often re 3 – Discuss ONE driver that gives management a competitive advantage and how you have seen this used. The one driver that I would like to discuss that gives management a competitive advantage is innovation. Innovation can be used to bring a cI heard an advertisement stating that the company will no long be called Dominoes Pizza and now will go by the name of just Dominoes due to its expanding menu offering consumers many other options than pizza. It is my opinion that the reason Dominoes is now one of top pizza chain restaurants in the country is due to their willingness to change and offer a better products and expanded menu. 4- Do Fayol’s 14 Principles of Management still apply to today’s manager? I feel that Fayol’s 14 Principles of...
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...“It fell to the floor, an exquisite thing, a small thing that could upset balances and knock down a line of small dominoes and then big dominoes and then gigantic dominoes, all down the years across Time.” This quote from the short story A Sound of Thunder written by Ray Bradbury, shows how smalls thing can affect the world as we know it. The main character, Eckels, is so focused on his fear, he does not think about anything else, therefore starting a butterfly effect. He goes out hunting dinosaurs by time travel, while there, he is frightened of the dinosaur, and runs back to the time machine. In his journey back, he is careless and steps on a small butterfly, which creates a sequence of events that changes the world forever. Because Eckels is agitated, oblivious, and ignorant, he does change his life...
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...THE TIMES 100 Motivation lesson suggestions & activities (Tesco) Learning outcomes Students should be able to · Define motivation and know some of the theories of motivation (AO1) · Give examples of the different monetary and non-monetary methods of motivation (AO2) and analyse and discuss their use for different businesses (AO3/4) · Analyse the benefits of motivation for business (AO3) Starter activities · Tesco word search of the key terms · Ranking exercise students rank a range of motivational techniques according to what they think would be most important to them. This can prompt a discussion about motivation, motivational techniques and how individuals may be motivated by different things (resource attached). Delivery ideas · Use the motivation slide show to introduce the topic and apply theory in the context of a well known organisation Tesco. · GCSE After reading the introduction section of the Tesco case study, pairs or small groups of students take one of the remaining sections each. They should create a presentation of the key facts about motivation within that section and how it applies to Tesco. Their findings should then be presented to the rest of the group. · A Level After reading the Tesco case study, students are given the following scenario... A small chain of local supermarkets has recently suffered from poor reviews about its service in the local newspaper. A number of staff have left recently...
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...I had a group of people, and along with myself, we built a Rube Goldberg machine out of household items. Did the machine work overall? Well, the machine worked all the way through once, and some of the other times we had to help it. What were some of the Oh-No moments while working on the machine? We had quite a few fail moments during the time we worked on our crazy contraption. A lot of times we would have either the marble fall off the track, or the dominoes would fall sideways. Another moment was trying to get the wheel and axle step to work normally, and it only worked a few times throughout all. What were some of the good Ah-Ha moments? We had some good moments despite all the bad ones. The one time we got the machine to work...
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...like to extend our thanks to Prof. Kausik Gangopadhyay, Prof. Rajesh Srinivas Upadhyayula and Prof. Sumit Mitra, coordinators of the “Pricing” course at Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, for giving us the opportunity to work on this project. We also express our gratitude to the students of PGP-17 and PGP-18 who volunteered to participate in our survey. This helped us to get a good sample size to analyze the data. TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 1 ABSTRACT 3 INTRODUCTION 4 OBJECTIVE 5 METHODOLOGY 5 ANALYSIS AND RESULTS 6 RECOMMENDATIONS 8 LIMITATIONS 9 APPENDIX 10 ABSTRACT Our study identifies the most important and influencing factors for consumer preferences to eat at a pizza outlet like pizza hut, dominoes and pizza corner. With the help of factor analysis and regression we are trying to find out the willingness of a customer to pay at a particular outlet and hence what should be the pricing strategy of the pizza chain. The main elements in our study which affect the spending capacity and willingness are combo offers, services and variety offered by the outlets. Hence using this analysis we have also tried to find the premium which these outlets can charge over to its customers for the same products. INTRODUCTION As the society and changing eating habits is influencing a lot of people to savor variety of...
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...Executive Summary McDonald’s Delivery is a new service to be introduced to Australia in the year 2012. The service is already booming in overseas countries such as Singapore and India and is looking to be implemented into the Australian society early this year. With such high demands for fast food and minimum competition in the market for low cost convenient food services McDelivery looks to be a successful and profitable service on introduction to the Australian society. This marketing plan assesses the internal and external environment in which the service will be a part of and how it looks to be a highly sought after service in Australia. Through the research displayed and signs from overseas the McDelivery service looks to be a highly profitable commodity for the McDonalds giant and looks to be a very fast growing and unstoppable service. McDonalds looks to attain market dominance with the introduction of this service. Situational Analysis - Demographic: In regards to the demographics of this particular service it would only be feasible to function in areas of a population density that is of a high level. In order for this service to be a success there needs to be population density and large demand for the product. If introduced to a low density area the service wouldn’t be profitable. - Legal: Legal forces that would affect this service would be fairly standard procedure such as insurance, licensing of drivers, using qualified staff and meeting laws with regard...
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