...Executive Summary: Organizational Focus & Goals Derron Venerable University of Phoenix HRM/326 MARIBEL HINES September 15, 2014 Introduction The purpose of an Executive Summary is articulate a full report with the least amount of words possible depending on the size and nature of the issue. In most cases executive summaries serve as a report for executives who do not have the time to read the full report; therefore, the summary will give the executive the information that he or she needs to understand the objective, the issue(s), and the plan(s) in place to solve the issue(s). The following summary is focusing on an on-going overtime issue that one of the company’s branches is having. Focus and Goals The current focus at this particular location is to complete the daily task in the fastest most efficient safest way possible. The goals are to minimize or combine the current routes, run the routes from the closet point to the furthest and create a benchmark for each driver to attempt to meet in a safe but efficient manner. The research states that if the routes are done in a sequence form from the closet point to...
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...An executive summary, sometimes known as a management summary, is a short document or section of a document, produced for purposes, that summarizes a longer report or proposal or a group of r business elated reports in such a way that readers can rapidly become acquainted with a large body of material without having to read it all. It usually contains a brief statement of the problem or proposal covered in the major document(s), background information, concise analysis and main conclusions. It is intended as an aid to decision-making by managers[1][2] and has been described as possibly the most important part of a business plan.[3] They must be short and to the point. An executive summary differs from an abstract in that an abstract will usually be shorter and is intended to provide a neutral overview or orientation rather than being a condensed version of the full document. Abstracts are extensively used in academic research where the concept of the executive summary would be meaningless. "An abstract is a brief summarizing statement... read by parties who are trying to decide whether or not to read the main document", while "an executive summary, unlike an abstract, is a document in miniature that may be read in place of the longer document".[4] An executive summary differs from an abstract in that an abstract will usually be shorter and is intended to provide a neutral overview or orientation rather than being a condensed version of the full document. Abstracts are...
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...Executive Summary The purpose of an executive summary is to summarize a report. Executive summaries are written for executives who most likely do not have time to read the complete document. Therefore, the executive summary must cover the major points and be detailed enough to mirror the content yet concise enough for an executive to understand the substance without reading the entire report. An executive summary differs from an abstract. Readers use an abstract to decide whether to read the complete document. They read an executive summary to obtain information without having to read the report in full. The executive summary should be written as a document that can stand on its own and is usually written on one or two pages, depending on the length of the report. It restates the purpose of the report and describes any results, conclusions, or recommendations made in the report so that the reader understands the reasons for the conclusion or recommendations. Acronyms, symbols, and abbreviations must be written out. Tables and figures in the report should not be referred to by number in the executive summary. The audience for an executive summary is receptive to the message, so the writer should assume that the audience wants to know and understand the message. It is written in a formal tone using an impersonal style and eliminating first person pronouns (I, we, our, etc.). Use the following guidelines when writing an executive summary: • • • • • State clearly the purpose of the...
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...Good and poor examples of executive summaries This is a GOOD example from an Accounting & Finance assignment. Footnote Executive Summary This report provides an analysis and evaluation of the current and prospective profitability, liquidity and financial stability of Outdoor Equipment Ltd. Methods of analysis include trend, horizontal and vertical analyses as well as ratios such as Debt, Current and Quick ratios. Other calculations include rates of return on Shareholders Equity and Total Assets and earnings per share to name a few. All calculations can be found in the appendices. Results of data analysed show that all ratios are below industry averages. In particular, comparative performance is poor in the areas of profit margins, liquidity, credit control, and inventory management. The report finds the prospects of the company in its current position are not positive. The major areas of weakness require further investigation and remedial action by management.Recommendations discussed include: improving the average collection period for accounts receivable· improving/increasing inventory turnover· reducing prepayments and perhaps increasing inventory levels The report also investigates the fact that the analysis conducted has limitations. Some of the limitations include: forecasting figures are not provided nature and type of company is not known nor the current economic conditions data limitations as not enough information is provided or enough detail...
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...[Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document. Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document.] [Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document. Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document.] Electronic Discharge Summary EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Electronic Discharge Summary EXECUTIVE SUMMARY S. CHANDE, C. CHAHAL, N. GANDHI, A. HUSSEIN, K. MANOHARON. N. NURU S. CHANDE, C. CHAHAL, N. GANDHI, A. HUSSEIN, K. MANOHARON. N. NURU THE PROPOSAL There were 15 million discharge summaries produced for admissions into hospital last year. A staggering 80% of these were found to be inaccurate or incomplete and another 70% of these were reported as being severely delayed on a regular basis. This compromise to clinical care and patient safety is simply unacceptable. Our empirical market research has found that the majority of junior doctors, the principal users of discharge forms, were unhappy with the current systems in place. It has also been reported that on average junior doctors spend more time carrying out admin duties than in formal training and teaching sessions. There are electronic discharge systems present however, these have been described as insufficient as they lack comprehensive coding and in some circumstances...
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...attractions. Now with twenty-four seven telephone assistant to our customers, they can book their vacation at any time. We have been named one of the most competitive price companies within the travel agencies. After seeing our companies wrong, we believe that we are prepared to expand into South America this upcoming year. With that being said and much research, our company can only expand into one country. Travel Express has consider expanding into Colombia and Panama. We believe that these two countries have a lot to offer our clients, and also countries where not that many traveling agencies have expanded. The three major factors that we researched in order to come with this conclusion are their economy and government, climate and seasons, tourism. BENEFITS AND RISKS OF EXPANSION IN COLOMBIA OR PANAMA Economy and Government Colombia’s Economy and Government Colombia is currently a democratic country, with a central government and separate powers. Just like in the United States, Colombia has Executive, Legislative, and Judiciary branches (“About Colombia,” 2014). Their current currency is Colombian’s pesos; one American dollar equals a bit over two Colombian pesos. With the Colombia peso being so weak compare to the American dollar; tourist are able to get more for their money. For example, they can vacation longer in Colombia, visit more tourist areas, buy higher quality...
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...Destination Clear Skies Marketing Plan for Success 08/21/2011 Keller Graduate School of Management MM522 Professor Szostek 1. Executive Summary: In the past 10 years, medical expenses and cost of living have increased to unprecedented levels in the United States, while the stock market collapse wiped out many savings. In some cases, individuals reaching the age of retirement cannot even afford to retire. This environment has provided DBS with an opportunity – facilitating the relocation of Baby Boomers reaching the age of retirement to Panama where due to the lower cost of living and free medical services most US citizen can still retire in style at a fraction of the US cost. DBS will target Baby Boomers and use both traditional and innovative approaches (TV advertisement, newspapers, seminars, and Internet technologies such as Facebook and Google (PPC)) to create an awareness and demand for the product. During the first year DBS will undertake a considerable amount of market analysis and testing before launching the services in order to accurately identify the unique characteristics of its target consumers. After the first year of operations, DBS will reach its break-even point and soon after generate initial profits of 60,000.00; these are projected to increase exponentially and continue to grow in as it captures the potential market. 2.0 Situation Analysis: Just as the Baby Boomer generation changed American...
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...Contents 1. Executive summary ................................................................................................................... 32. Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 33. Drivers to Atlas’ international strategy ................................................................................... 44. Implications of Atlas strategic options between 1989 and 2000 .............................................. 75. Atlas’ likely implementation issues of the internationalization process.................................. 96. Conclusions ............................................................................................................................. 117. Recommendations ................................................................................................................... 12References .......................................................................... Personal identifier: Y0217531 3 1. Executive summary This repost assess Atlas’s international strategy by in the decade 1990-2000. Section 2 briefly introduces Atlas company and calculates its return on capital employed (ROCE) of the 1990s highlighting its descending trend. Section 3 presents the factors that underpinned the reasons for which Atlas undertook its international strategy. Section 4 follows with the description of the strategies implemented and their implications on the company’s...
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...Status and Trends of Caribbean Coral Reefs: 1970-2012 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Jeremy Jackson “Perhaps the most striking aspect of plant life on a coral reef is the general lack of it. It seems anomalous to even the casual observer that tropical reefs, notable for their dazzling profusion of animal life, are almost devoid of conspicuous plants.†Sylvia Earle, 1972 INTRODUCTION Sylvia Earle’s early observations upon Caribbean reefs describe a forgotten world. Caribbean coral reefs have suffered massive losses of corals since the early 1980s due to a wide range of human impacts including explosive human population growth, overfishing, coastal pollution, global warming, and invasive species. The consequences include widespread collapse of coral populations, increases in large seaweeds (macroalgae), outbreaks of coral bleaching and disease, and failure of corals to recover from natural disturbances such as hurricanes. Alarm bells were set off by the 2003 publication in the journal Science that live coral cover had been reduced from more than 50% in the 1970s to just 10% today. This dramatic decline was closely followed by widespread and severe coral bleaching in 2005, which was in turn followed by high coral mortality due to disease at many reef locations. Healthy corals are increasingly rare on the intensively studied reefs of the Florida reef tract, US Virgin Islands, and Jamaica. Moreover, two of the formerly most abundant species, the elkhorn coral Acropora palmata and staghorn...
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...Table of content 1. introduction 2 2. Finding 3 3. Discussion 3 3.1 Location decision in humanitarian supply chain 3 3.1.3 numerical analysis 6 3.2 Sustainable humanitarian supply chain 6 3.2.1 Social aspect 6 3.2.2 Economical aspect 7 3.2.3 environmental aspect 8 4. Conclusion 9 Executive summary This report, at first draws a map to show the Food and Agriculture Organization’s(FAO) supply chain. Then, through utilizing the evidences generated by scientific research, the report analysis that how the Food and Agriculture Organization apply the humanitarian supply chain management and sustainable supply chain management principles. 1. introduction This report create a map of the Food and Agriculture Organization’s(FAO) supply chain. The FAO is an intergovernmental organization, it has 194 member states, 2 associate member and one member organization-the European Union. Its staff’s capacity allows it to support improved governance, generate, develop and adapt existing tools and guidelines and provide targeted governance support to poor countries and regional FAO offices. As a non-profitable organization, the major goals of the FAO is to eliminate hunger, food insecurity, poverty; driving economy and society forward and to ensure sustainability of management and utilization of natural resources. In literature review. Based on the specificities of humanitarian relief activities, the humanitarian...
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...Picking Wal-Mart's POCKETS By Michael Bergdahl, International Speaker, Author & Wal-Mart Competition Authority Author of the Books: “What I Learned From Sam Walton” & “The 10 Rules of Sam Walton” Wal-Mart is coming! Wal-Mart is coming! Wal-Mart is coming! The mere mention of the name Wal-Mart engenders fear in the hearts of competitors around the globe. The reality is that Wal-Mart is coming to a town near you . . . so what are competitor’s to do? Historically, as Wal-Mart has expanded its operations around the globe the local competitive environment changes . . . forever! Wal-Mart has trounced hapless competitors worldwide so what can you do to make certain you are not one of them? The fact is that in every market Wal-Mart has entered there are retailers who were there before Wal-Mart arrived and they are still there today, competing surviving and even thriving! Unfortunately there are many other retailers who break under the pressure of Wal-Mart’s Every Day Low Prices. Where can you learn the lessons you need to learn in order to insure the success of your business in a Wal-Mart World? The answer is by Picking Wal-Mart’s POCKETS! POCKETS is actually an acronym “P.O.C.K.E.T.S.” which defines the seven strategies of Wal-Mart. The symbolism of P.O.C.K.E.T.S. is that for any business to compete effectively it has to identify its own unique market, niche or “POCKETS”. The acronym stands for: P = Price, O = Operations, C = Culture K = Key Item Promotion/Product...
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...Memorandum To: Vice President (Instructor) From: Operations SBU Team A Date: Sunday, March 30th, 2014 Subject: Company Strategic Goals and a Project Portfolio Management Process EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The 2014 Cruise Industry report indicates that the cruise line industry will continue its global presences and with the economy in an ongoing recovery mode, the Oasis Cruise Line & Travel Company is anticipating a positive year of growth and expansion. Our organization, Oasis Cruise Line & Travel Company is fortunate enough to have a viable Strategic Business Unit (SBU) team that can analyze and develop our company’s organizational strategy aimed at generating future business and/or revenue. Our SBU Operations team supports the company’s key business objectives in the Project Portfolio Evaluation and Selection process by conducting the following: * Clarifying the various projects and missions of the company * Defining the best business approach for each project * Surveying the landscape and the environment for future growth and development * An internal and external appraisal of the projects * Setting the corporate objectives with each project * Assisting in the formulation of the corporate strategy * Finally, monitoring the project strategy for corporate success In order for our company to stay competitive and be successful we must embrace the PPM business practices that can generate more value with our project selection to make better, more...
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...The World Market for Dumpers Designed for OffHighway Use: A 2011 Global Trade Perspective By Professor Philip M. Parker, Ph. D. Chaired Professor of Management Science INSEAD (Singapore & Fontainebleau, France) www.icongrouponline.com ©2011 ICON Group Ltd. ii COPYRIGHT NOTICE ISBN 1-114-72662-1 All of ICON Group Ltd. publications are copyrighted. Copying our publications in whole or in part, for whatever reason, is a violation of copyright laws and can lead to penalties and fines. Should you want to copy tables, graphs or other materials from our publications, please contact us to request permission. ICON Group Ltd. often grants permission for very limited reproduction of our publications for internal use, press releases, and academic research. Such reproduction requires, however, confirmed permission from ICON Group Ltd. Please read the full copyright notice, disclaimer, and user agreement provisions at the end of this report. IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER Neither ICON Group Ltd. nor its employees can be held accountable for the use and subsequent actions of the user of the information provided in this publication. Great efforts have been made to ensure the accuracy of the data, but we can not guarantee, given the volume of information, accuracy. Since the information given in this report is forward-looking, the reader should read the disclaimer statement and user agreement provisions at the end of this report. www.icongrouponline.com ©2011 ICON Group Ltd...
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...International Economics Paper Gabriela University of Phoenix Author's Note This paper prepared for ECO/372 facilitated by Introduction The Federal Reserve system is the main banking system within the United States. Established by Congress, its primary objectives are to seek full employment for US citizens, ensure price stability, supervise banks via regulation, provide financial services to banks, the US government, and foreign official institutions, and review and stabilize long-term interest rates. A seven person Board of Governors, also known as a federal agency, administers the Federal Reserve. Currently the Board Chair is Janet Yellen, the first woman to hold the position since the Reserve's creation in 1913. The Federal Reserve balances are affected by not only the Board but by the Federal Open Market Committee, which monitors monetary and credit market conditions within the US as well as foreign exchange markets (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 2015). The Reserve is an essential component in the current monetary and fiscal policy. The president and Congress are policy makers who seek to influence the economy with this monetary and fiscal policy. They seek legislation that changes taxes and increases or decreases government spending and borrowing. Central banks take cues from this legislation and therefore adjust interest rates, reserve requirements, and the buying and selling of government securities and foreign exchange...
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...Introduction The IMF is an intergovernmental institution established by an international treaty in 1945 to create a framework for international economic cooperation focusing on balance of payment problems and the stability of currencies. IMF headquarters is in Washington D.C, U.S.A History / establishment of IMF: IMF was founded on 27th December, 1945. During the closing years of world war second, different countries realized that there must be a common International Forum for achieving economy cooperation, promoting International Trade and providing help to needy nations during emergency. So IMF was formed for this purpose. World War Second has its adverse effect on global economy. To remedy the situation, an international monetary conference was convened in 1944, at Bretton Woods in America. It was attended by the representatives of 44 countries. It was decided in this Conference to set up IMF for the economic development of all countries. Problems: Three main problems are: ▪ Economic order and piece ▪ Reconstruction of economies ▪ Stable world piece Role: The IMF was intended to play two major roles in the Bretton Woods System: o The fund should discourage aggressive exchange rate behavior by members and help them manage their balance of payments efficiently; o The fund was given resources to lend international reserves to countries with balance of payments difficulties. Purposes/ objectives The purposes...
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