...and schools, public services, infrastructure cut, and construction sector unemployment soars. Floods of unsafe imported food, products. Financial deregulation, instability and repe ated financial crises. He alth, labor, land use, other public interest laws around world atta cked in foreign tribunals. Some dump ed. Initiatives chilled. Billions extra cted from taxpayers and paid to corporations for violations of new “rights.” Drug prices up. In poor nations, de adly cut in a cce ss to meds. Rich nation higher prices slam poor consumers, govt budg ets as Big PhRMA profits soar. U.S. loses 170,000 family farms. In ‘12, volume of U.S. food exports only 1% higher than ’95 (when NAFTA-WTO started). Imports of food now 97% above ‘95 level. Livelihoods of tens of millions of pe asant farmers destroyed, mass migrations, hunger incre ased. Growth rates decline in nations that follow NAFTA-WTO model. U.S. In c ome Ine q u ality a t Levels not See n Sin c e Ro bb er Baron Era Incre ased inequality is prediction of free trade theory, question is degree of effect Trade affects types of jobs available in U.S., wage levels DoL: average manufa cturing worker displa ce d went from e arning $40,154 to...
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...Google’s Innovation Metrics Meghan Schuetz ORG530: Business Ethics and Sustainability Colorado State University – Global Campus Professor Victoria Figiel June 3, 2013 Google’s Innovation Metrics Metrics are an important tool used to monitor the performance of the success of innovation. Managers must select metrics based on the strategy of their company and their current need. This requires a good model to manage innovation and a balanced scorecard of a business innovation model that describes inputs, processes, outputs, and outcome from generating ideas (Module 5, 2013). The innovation process will be ineffective if leaders attempt to measure the wrong things at the wrong time. Yet innovation has to be measured or else it cannot be managed (Davila, Epstein & Shelton, 2013). A closer look at Google Corporation will be done showing what innovation metrics are relevant to their organization and why. Google Corporation Inputs. Tangible and intangible elements that are devoted to a company’s innovation effort are considered inputs (Davila, Epstein & Shelton, 2013). Google has a very unique corporate culture that’s main goal is to keep employees happy and maintain productivity. It has been documented that a large portion of what Google does is based off of data (Bulygo, 2013). Google has created tests that they use to create an environment that facilitates happiness. This is important because happy employees tend to be more creative and productive. An example...
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...Contents Executive Summary: 3 1.0 Introduction: 4 2.0 Situational Analysis: 5 3.0 Gaps Model: 8 4.0 Apostle Model: 10 5.0 Service profit chain model: 11 6.0 Recommendation: 12 7.0 Conclusion: 12 8.0 References: 13 9.0 Appendix: 15 Executive Summary: This report provides an overall portfolio of business activities of MacDonald’s Corporation which considered being the world leading food retailer. This report made up of six main parts where the introduction includes the history of the company as well as a brief explanation about the case study. The situational analysis (TOWS) is about the company internal strengths and weaknesses, and the external opportunities and threats as well as the strategies. In addition, the main parts include the gap model where it shows the gaps in the services that the company provides to their customers and the strategies that may aid them to minimize or close those gaps. Furthermore, Apostle Model is one of the main parts in this report where it shows the types of customers according to their loyalty to the company. As well as, the service profit chain where it shows the relationship between profitability, customer loyalty, and employees’ satisfaction. In addition, recommendation is provided in this report which may aid the company to retain its customers and make them loyal to their brand. 1.0 Introduction: MacDonald’s is considered to be the world’s leading food service retailer, it was found by the two brothers Richard...
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...on the African continent, designed to feed low-cost cars and trucks to showrooms in Europe, Asia and North America. The plant's initial capacity of 200,000 vehicles per year will increase gradually to 400,000 a year, including variants of Renault's low-cost Logan car line and a new range of $10,000 trucks under development at Nissan, the companies said. The plant is slated to open during the second half of 2010. Mr. Ghosn said moving into the no-frills segment represents a tough challenge. He set a high standard for success, saying he expects the Logan program could achieve a 6% operating-profit margin in 2009. "It is easy to make a cheap vehicle," Mr. Ghosn said. "To make a cheap vehicle that is robust and reliable and to turn a profit, that's the future of the auto industry." Mr. Ghosn, like his major rivals in the global mass-market car business, is moving in the face of a fast-rising competitive...
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...the manufacturer, wholesaler, and retailer act as a single system. An organization that can control the product and services until it reached to the end consumers is the plain example of vertical marketing system. Apparently only few of the businesses around the world successfully managed this type of system. It may define as a difficult approach to maintain the sales and effectiveness but it serves as the strongest point of the organization to boost the various areas within the organization. Zara System One of the successful organizations that use the vertical marketing system (VMS) is Zara which have a distinctive feature of business model. With the aid of the vertical integration, the company is allowed to develop the strong merchandising strategy that continuously led the Zara to create the opportunities particularly in the fast-fashion...
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...department heads, emergency department staff and the patients. Saint Joseph’s Medical Center is a Catholic Health Care facility, sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul of New York.it is a not-for-profit facility governed by a voluntary Board of Trustees made up of business, civic and religious leaders of the community. The day to day operations of the medical center are handled by a management team of experienced healthcare professionals. Saint Joseph’s has one of the busiest Emergency Departments in Westchester County, with a annual volume 45000 patients. It is the Emergency Medical Control Hospital for the City of Yonkers and a paramedic training center. The Emergency department has a fast Track system for evaluating and treating small emergencies quickly, dedicated asthma treatment area, psychiatric treatment area, main treatment area with special protocols for chest pain and stroke, and dedicated radiology suite to expedite diagnosis and treatment. Revenue comes from the number of patients we see, privately insured, Medicare, Medicaid and self-pay. Current status of operation is with a registered nurse in triage and a emergency department physician in main emergency department and a nurse practitioner in fast track. The only requirements for this model include a small, private workspace, basic tools and a nurse to work with the provider to treat patients. After assessing the patient, the provider can then write a prescription and discharge the patient, or divert...
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...because the image wasn’t a copyright free image. A way I could improve further would be make a series of logos and do a vote or survey on which one they find more appealing. Also I could’ve used different softwares like Maya or Cinema 4D to create my logo as it would’ve made it more attractive, instead of using fireworks. Track List: The purpose of the track list was to organize music tracks in order and also to help organise them to make finding the track easier than if it was not in alphabetic order. I had to produce several tack lists as most the time they was either too long or too small or the colour text and theme of the list didn’t look right when viewed in a PDF type of file. Audio Clip: The purpose of having an audio clip was to notify people of my event so that it would attract people to come and visit. It includes the time and date, location, events and what’s taking place without telling them everything as it intrigues them to come and find out more about the event. It was to be suitable to have been aired as an advert on radio. I had to change the backing track twice because my teacher and test buddy both told me it was too loud and fast compared to the speed of me talking. The second time they told me the audio didn’t suit it and was inappropriate. ‘Community Spirit’...
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...leader has to think global. Nowadays, thanks to globalization, a great idea can makes huge success. The Kirkham’s case really show that point. Started with a car and an idea, they manage to become the largest private employer in a region of Poland. The important thing about global strategy is arbitrage, which means profiting from differences in prices in different market. A company can takes profit of national differences to be powerful. This is also linked to international production which is the most powerful driving force for globalization. A company is no more compulsory to produce next to the selling place but can produce its products in the country it wants thanks to international production and the development of quick way of transportation across the world. Of course global expansion and global strategy require a leap of faith. Set an organizational commitment to global expansion and a long term development plan focusing on international business induced to be totally involved in the project. Globalization gets a huge impact on national economies throughout the world. And China takes profits of this because it has made that leap. For instance China’s annual economic growth rate for the last 3 decades is over 9%. By adopting its open-door policy and started its economic reform in 1978, and entered the WTO in 2001, China showed to the world and to companies that it get a strategy of global thinking. Some Chinese companies as Galanz were helped by global perspectives to become...
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...Grill Royal Roads University BUSA506 – Strategy Instructor: Dr. Terry Powers Craig Westcott November 22, 2015 Word Count: 2,050 Steve Ells may not have invented the “fast-casual” sector, but since his founding of Chipotle Mexican Grill in 1993, he has shepherded the development of the restaurant chain which many in the industry might say best exemplifies it. Growing Chipotle from a single unit Denver-based operation to an international 1,230-unit chain which one Wall Street analyst called “the perfect stock,” Ells, a Culinary Institute of America graduate, set out with a vision “to change the way people think about and eat fast food.” When Chipotle announced the launch of a second restaurant concept, ShopHouse Southeast Asian Kitchen, putting to the test Ells’ belief that “the Chipotle model could work well with a variety of different cuisines,” it left many optimistic that lighting, perhaps, could strike twice and that ShopHouse might prove to be a second home run for both Ells and Chipotle. Core Competencies Chipotle Mexican Grill has two core competencies that can best be rolled up and described as “the Chipotle Experience,” namely the quality of their food, prepared as per Ells’ mantra of “slow food served fast,” and their setting being more upscale than a traditional fast food restaurant. Figure 1 – Core and Distinctive Competencies Figure 1 illustrates that these core competencies are arrived at through four distinctive competencies of the five...
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...PGP2015-17 Project Report on Recent trends in Ecommerce logistic and their adaptation in Steel Logistics process To Mr. Gopal Kapoor & Mr. Alok Singh Student Name: - Suraj Tripathy Roll number: - PGP/19/350 Introduction The fast development of information and mobile technology in the past few years is changing many aspects of our lives i.e. how we look for the information we seek, how we plan our travel and most of all how we buy products or services. Even though classic store based retail is still preferred, e-commerce, which involves buying and selling of products and services mainly through electronic channels, like computer, tablets, mobiles etc. is gaining ground. The most common form of e-commerce is online shopping. Ecommerce can be of mainly three categories. Most common is business to consumer e-commerce (B2C), where individual customers order various products online, which they then receive through courier, parcel or by post. Second category of e-commerce focuses mainly on transactions between companies or businesses, such as manufacturers and a wholesaler, similarly from wholesalers and retailers and vice versa is called business to business e-commerce (B2B). The next category of e-commerce refers to the transactions between...
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...Case study: eHarmony Concepts of a case study: General to specifics. The economic, strategic and business logic of the industry. What are the choice, pros, cons, trade off. Intro eHarmony: online dating site for marriage-minded individuals. It combines extensive relationship questionnaire, patented matching system and guided communication. Information good of eHarmony: individual match. Match: eHarmony biggest competitor. I. Overall view of the industry | Size | Information flow | interaction | activities (work, random encounters) | 3 | 1 | 3 | brokers (family, friends) | 2 | 2 | 1 | market (parties, bar, club) | 1 | 3 | 2 | Interaction: how easy it is to get a relationship out of random encounters, friends etc. Information flow: information you give about yourself and information you learn from the other. From this table we can deduce that there is no perfect and best channel. Every channel has a significant disadvantange. Hence there is a potential of overcoming these difficulties through online dating. Companies have to add value and capture as much of this additional value as possible. II. How much of that value can a company get? For this we need to do an industrial analysis. How structurally attractive the industry is. Suppliers and buyers are the same group of people. They are the customer supplying information/profiles. They have a very strong power because they can go to another firm. But the limit of...
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...is their business? UPS is a company that delivers packages and also documents to more than 6.1million customers in more than 230 countries around the world. “UPS’s primary business is the time definite delivery of packages and documents worldwide’’(Wikipedia, 9/9, 12:18pm). One of the primary components that determine UPS’s success is how time definite and quick they are. This is accomplished by equipped, effective and efficient technology. COMPILATION What are the IT issues surrounding this case? * By investing heavily in IT, UPS has been able to gain a competitive advantage over its competitors. * How IT has been able to make work efficiient and efective by planning quicker and easier delivery roots, and also being able to track those delivery rootscan be an issue in this case. * Records of customers are kept, calculation of fees, and management of logistics are also saved through IT devices such as the bar code scanning systems etc. TO THINK ABOUT. 1) What are the inputs, processing and outputs of UPS package tracking system? A) Inputs * When UPS customer signs on theDelivery Information Acquisition Device (DIAD) that signature can be considered an input. * Customer Information eg house address. * Pickup’s eg mails, packages etc. B) Processing The whole process that involves from the UPS worker delivering the package to its final destination, which includes the recipient entering his/her information such as pick up and...
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...study done in October 2012 by online-Marketing firm Vertical Response showed many small business owners have jumped onto the bandwagon whole hog. But appears many are buckling under the added social media marketing workload. Carol Tice (2012) In the present day everything is about Social Media, some industry gurus claim that if you do not participate in Facebook you are not part of the cyberspace anymore. Social Media allow firms to engage in timely and direct end-consumer contact at relatively low cost and higher levels of efficiency than can be achieved with more traditional communication tools. This makes Social Media not only relevant for large multinational firms, but also for small and medium sized companies, and even non-profit and governmental agencies Kaplan, et al (2010) Social networking sites Primarily this report will look at the challenges and risks to SME when using social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Linked In although...
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...Sociology 300 | Technology and Culture affects | Final Draft | John Prathammavong 9/9/2012 | Thailand, Philippines, China, and Indonesia are different nations that have grown with technology and culture due to western society. Technology makes our lives as people more efficient and for these countries a change from traditional ways of lives. The workforce of these countries and culture change with adaptation to what technology they are exposed to in life. Venture capitalists and consumers have their ways to expand business with technology in these countries and affect lives in good and bad ways. There are always ups and downs to everything and technology has its glitches too. There are even some of the best hackers but have been caught that come from the Philippines. Thailand, Vietnam, China, and Philippines are some countries that will open their first Payless shoe operation recently due to some of our western culture. Technology and its culture have made some lives more civilized within these countries. Technology is a universal language that people all over the world may use that has access and is able to communicate. There are many opportunities for capitalist to expand businesses in countries such as these because of many reasons. One it is cheap, cheap labor, and chance to broaden business overseas. There are good and bad reasons with everything as in some people benefit and others pay for it in a negative way. Technology has its negativity where there...
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...Sound and Audio Engineering Dubai Unit FND 100: Foundation Course FND 100.2 Essay Student Name: Fin Sheffield Date : 25/9/2012 Unit Lecturer: Tasnim Saleh The media industry has changed in the past twenty years in so many ways, most for the better but, in some cases, for negative reasons. Since the late 1990’s, society has witnessed the blow up of the internet allowing people from all over the world to access and research many different things, the influx of mobile phones and the advantage it has had on the people, the many different game consoles around and other things such as the transition between VHS to DVD’s and the introduction of BluRay and Bluetooth. Two major impacts on the media industry for both positive and negative effects, have been the iPod and the music sensation, Spotify. Both have created a large hype within the media industry for several different reasons, and are both appreciated and cursed by the audience of today. Spotify is a downloadable window, where if you have internet connection, you are able to stream music for free. There are many positive effects that come with Spotify. You are able to listen to music anywhere, due to a new app that can be downloaded to any Android phone. On Spotify, there are two different subscriptions that are available. One can either pay for “The Ultimate” or “The Premium” or, alternatively, one can opt out of subscription, pay nothing, and...
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