...An analysis of two of the main environmental impacts of global warming and an evaluation of two recent solutions to this problem. Contents page Introduction- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3 Causes of global warming- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 4 Environment impacts- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 5 Increasing cyclones and flood risks- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 5 Changing marine biodiversity- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -6 Other impacts- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -10 Latest solutions- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -10 CO2 absorption- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 10 Renewable energies- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 11 Other solutions- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -12 Evaluate the two latest solutions- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 13 Summary- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -13 Reference list- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 15 Introduction Global warming has become one of the most challenging problems in the world today. This is the observed...
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...Israel Global Competitiveness Report Analysis GCR 2013 Israel dropped one place, from 26th to 27th this year. The meager business sector in Israel is high-tech industrial sector. This innovation business combined with the presence the best research institutions on the world. Supported by the government’s public procurement policies. Give Israel high rank Israel have varies industries. Like high-technology products, metal products “diamond”, electronic and biomedical equipment, agricultural products, processed foods, chemicals, and transport equipment. Science and technology in Israel is one of the country's most highly developed and industrialized . Israel are the 1st of the world for expenses at R&D “Research and Development “, as percent of GDP Gross domestic product. The research institutes are not only supports business. This lead to get the 6th place of patents on the world, and 4th according to PCT patents applications per million populations. Many of international company invest in R&N in Israel. For examples Intel, Microsoft, Cisco, Motorola, and more than 20 high-tech companies on the world have institutes in Israel. Most of these institutes was the first one out of their original countries. Macroeconomic is a meager key on business development. Israelis success on increasing budgetary discipline with a view to reducing debt levels. This will help the country maintaining stability and support economic growth going into the future. Israel investing and facilitate...
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...GIS and GPS is a very important application in my field of work. I work for an aerospace company that launches rockets to space and sends spacecrafts to orbit either for satellites or for supplying and returning cargo from the International Space Station (ISS). Geographical information systems is a necessity for my company. Everything is precise and has to work perfect in order for a mission to be successful. We rely on GIS to navigate our rocket and time perfectly where we will end up and at what time. Global positioning systems (GPS) is at the same time, just as important. Actually, my company puts these satellites that are used for GPS into orbit so everyone can have the ability to know exactly what is going on. Knowing location, time, weather anywhere on earth is a huge contribution to flying rockets in space. All of it factors in. There are many fields in my company that allow you to expand on issues of Geography. Many engineers deal with telemetry and things of that sort. If the training relates to work, which in this case it does, then my company will provide it. GIS and GPS is a must within the industry. I think it would be cool to locate where our spacecraft is and track it, then recover it or check if there are any issues with geography such as weather or objects in the sky that might be harmful to our mission. GIS and GPS is advancing more and more every day and the technology we have in today’s world is allowing us to do things we’ve never done before...
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...Global Crimes Analysis University of Phoenix Cynthia Butler CJA/394 April 16, 2012 This paper will identify the various major global crimes and criminal issues that affect national and international criminal justice systems and processes. In addition, there will be a comparison and contrast of the different criminal justice systems and how they have addressed major global crimes and criminal issues. Global crime is an issue that threatens the safety and security of people all over the world. Global crime can be international drug smuggling operations, human trafficking, or international prostitution rings. Weapons trading are also a problem that exists all over the world. There are always concerns of rogue nations selling nuclear weapons to other nations that do not follow the guidelines of the world community. In the international community, human trafficking has become an issue that is spiraling out of control. The "International Trafficking" (2010) website cites that victims of this crime are usually trafficked both within the countries borders and inside other countries borders. Human trafficking happens in different ways, sex trafficking occurs all over the world, while Burma traffics children to be soldiers. The trafficking crimes are not contained to other countries as Florida has been known to have forced labor practices within the citrus fields. Lucas (2011) addresses the difficulties in securing weapons caches that can be...
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...Abstract This paper will discuss the global children health needs analysis health analysis of global children population. … Select one specific global population- child profile their health issues (at least five). Key words: Global population, Health, Children. Background Human beings are the only species whose offspring are born in a vulnerable state. Children are not able to walk, talk, feed or defend themselves. They are completely dependent on others for many years until they start learning to be independent and are able to defend themselves. Children are also completely governed by the culture, economy and social status of adults from the moment they are born. Children are considered the poorest human beings because they are unable to or it is difficult for them to thrive on their own. Global population- children profile their health issues Around the world children are facing different health issues. Beginning from the moment they are conceived. Children are exposed to different preventable and infectious illnesses and conditions beginning when they are in the womb. Some children are not fortunate enough to survive labor because of their mothers’ compromised health. If children are privileged to survive birth, they do not have access to basic things such as food or clean water. Some children around the world starve to death. Many children around the world do not have access to basic prevented health care such as medicine and vaccines, consequentially...
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...GLOBAL ANALYSIS- AVON MGT 795: Section G11 Professor: Patrick Saparito Jennifer Callaghan J.R. Longino Rasa Navickaite Meghan Quinn Lia Torre Table of Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY/ABSTRACT 4 OVERVIEW 5 History and Background 5 Mission Statement 5 Social/Corporate Responsibility 6 BUSINESS ANALYSIS 8 Core Competencies 8 Management Structure 9 Current Objectives 9 Current Short Term Objectives 9 Current Long Term Objectives 10 Current Strategy 10 Advertising and Representative Value Proposition (“RVP”) 10 Product Line Simplification(PLS) 10 Strategic Sourcing Initiative 10 Enterprise Resource Planning System 11 Zero-Overhead-Growth 11 Restructuring Initiatives 11 SWOT Analysis 13 Strengths 13 Weaknesses 15 Opportunities 17 Threats 22 FINANCIAL INFORMATION 23 SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDATIONS 25 Technology and Social Media 25 Focusing on International Growth- the BRIC Countries 27 Brazil 28 Recommendations for Brazil 33 Russia 34 Recommandations for Russia 40 India 41 Recommendations for India 46 China 47 Recommendations for China 53 Conclusion ………….…………………………………………………………………………………….54 REFERENCES 55 AVON- A GLOBAL COMPANY FOR WOMEN EXECUTIVE SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Avon is a powerhouse in the beauty industry with over $10 Billion...
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...Global Crime Analysis Global Crime Analysis Global crimes cause global issues that affect the national and international justice system. For more than 20 years, as the world economy has globalized, so has its illicit counterpart. The international impact of global crime has risen to record levels. The increase in international crime represents the dark side of globalization. Transnational criminal organization has utilized ever-changing technologies, has adapted intricate network structures that are difficult to trace and stop, and have expanded their criminal activities. This has resulted in an unmatched scale of international crime. Global Crime Global crime threatens the safety and security of every person throughout the world. International crime is drug smuggling, human trafficking, trading in weapons, actions that involve serious violence and physical harm. Global crimes do not respect geographic borders. Non-violent crimes involve extortion, fraud, money laundering, counterfeiting, economic espionage, intellectual property theft, and cybercrimes. These global crimes are not influenced by violence, but cause major damage to those affected. Global Drug Trade According to the UN Drug Report 2012, between 153, and 300 million people consumed illicit drugs at least once last year (Wolf, 2012). Around 10% of users are considered “problem drug users”; this is a disturbing percentage because more than 100,000 people die each year as a result of illicit drug use (Wolf...
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...TM-Chapter 1 (Motivations, Means and Mentalities) In this chapter, a number of important questions that companies must resolve before taking the leap to operate outside their home environment. 1. What market opportunities, sourcing advantages, or strategic imperatives provide the motivation for their international expansion? 2. By what means will they expand their overseas presence-through modes such as exports, licensing, joint ventures, wholly-owned subsidiaries, or some other means? 3. How will the management mentalities – their embedded attitudes, assumptions, and beliefs- that they bring to their international ventures affect their chances of success? Operating in an international rather than a domestic arena presents managers with many new opportunities. Having worldwide operations not only gives a company access to new markets and low-cost resources, it also opens up new sources of information and knowledge and broadens the options for strategic moves that the company might make to compete with its domestic and international rivals. However, with all these new opportunities come the challenges of managing strategy, organization, and operations that are innately more complex, diverse, and uncertain. What is multinational enterprise? * Multinational enterprise has substantial direct investment in foreign countries (Not just the trading relationships of an import-export business), and actively manage and regard those operations as integral parts of the company...
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...leaders and adopt similar strategies. White, (2009) wrote that many factors are contributing to the increasing diversity in the workplace, factors such as the rising numbers of immigrants, mergers or joint ventures with companies in other countries, the rising use of temps and contract workers, and the increasing globalization of business are a few of the forces making the workforce more diverse on a daily basis. White (2009) continue to state that because of this rise in diversity, human resource personnel are scrambling to match benefits with newly diverse employees in order to compete for the best-qualified workers. Aspray et al. (2006) mentioned that computer science and technology have been stunningly successful in forging a global market. Through these...
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...Gap Analysis: Global Communications Katrina L. Bailey MBA 500/Foundations of Problem-Based Learning John Craddock October 22, 2007 Gap Analysis: Global Communications Introduction Significant changes and declining confidence from Wall Street has placed the telecommunications industry under extreme economic pressure. As a result, Global Communications has found itself in a “sink or swim” situation. They must regain consumer confidence by becoming more relevant and technologically advanced, while increasing stock values and market position, or risk becoming obsolete. In order to determine the future direction of the company, a Gap Analysis has been performed which will identify the issues and opportunities that have arisen as a result of the current crisis, the ethical dilemmas that stakeholders are confronted with, and where the company sees itself in the future. Situation Analysis Issue and Opportunity Identification [Triple click anywhere in this sentence to begin typing.] Table 2 Stakeholder Perspectives |Stakeholder Perspectives | | | | |Stakeholder Groups |The Interests, Rights, and | | ...
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...Global Payment Industry Analysis This essay will focus on the global cards payments industry where Visa and MasterCard operate. Introduction VISA and MasterCard belong to the non-cash business of the global payments industry, an economic sector that is strongly affected by technology and innovation due to the fundamental shift from paper based payments (cash/checks) towards paper-less payments (credit cards, mobile payments, etc). This shift is considered almost irreversible as consumers appreciate more and more the convenience, practicality and security of the electronic money. Similarly for corporations the use of paper-less money brings uncontestable benefits in terms of management, efficiency and security of money flows. The global volume of non-cash transactions is approximately 260 billion (2009 data) and is growing globally at an average rate of around 7%, with Asia-Pacific and Emerging Markets growing a higher rate than USA and Europe. USA represents without any doubt the largest non-cash payments market in the world (40%) followed by the Europe (21%) and mature Asia-Pacific (all together 83%). In terms of future trends, non-cash payments are expected to grow at a very high rate in (37%) in CEMEA (Central Europe, Middle East, Africa) followed by Asia (23%, excluding China and India), BRICs and other mature economies in Asia-Pacific (14%), while Europe and North America will progress with much lower rates. For what concerns cards sub sector, we...
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...Gap Analysis: Global Communications University of Phoenix Gap Analysis: Global Communications Global Communication faces internal and external challenges in implementing its overall growth strategy. In order to move forward with cost-cutting measures, Global Communications must communicate lay-off plans to its affected employees. These measures will eliminate jobs in the United States. In turn those jobs will be outsourced to foreign labor sources in India and Ireland where the labor is highly skilled and cost efficient. The management team failed to utilize the union as a powerful support system in broadcasting the lay-off announcement. Due to Global Communication’s lack of communication with the union, management now faces a potentially volatile situation. Damage control measures need to be identified, evaluated and analyzed in order to minimize the negative impact that the union will have on customers, employee morale and the general public. Situation Analysis Issue and Opportunity Identification Global Communication’s management team had a difficult decision to make in order for the company to survive the advancing telecommunication market. The management team devised a growth strategy which required the introduction of new services into the domestic market and expansion into the global markets through a partnership with an international satellite provider. The strategy called for aggressive cost-cutting measures which would result...
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...Gap Analysis: Global Communications Placide Bashonga University of Phoenix Gap Analysis: Global Communications Business is constantly in move. Some organizations have the ability to follow the progress of new business trends and adapt to them smoothly. Some others fail to invest their time, energy and talents in research and development to respond to the constant demand for new and innovative products and services. Global Communications (GC) is in that case. Leader in telecommunications in the past, the company is struggling to stay afloat. The organization has diverse problems that are undermining its progress, even its existence. From ineffective to unethical negotiation practices, the management is facing challenges to make it profitable again. In the following lines, we will identify the issues that GC is facing and the different opportunities open for its future. We will assess the different interests in the situation and review the problems in the decision making process and the negotiation failure between the management and the union. Finally, we will make a gap analysis to understand what didn’t work and what needed to be done for a better closure in this situation. Situation Analysis Issue and Opportunity Identification Telecommunications industry has experience important changes over the time. Many new businesses have entered the industry to compete on local, long distance and international markets with innovative and technical advanced products...
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...Running head: GAP ANALYSIS: GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS Gap Analysis: Global Communications LaDonna Smith University of Phoenix Gap Analysis: Global Communications Global Communication has been under pressure to keep up with new technology that its competitors have been giving to consumers for a very long time through local and international markets. They are getting a lot of slack from their stockholders, whose shares have declined more than half in the last couple of years. Also, they are having the Union people stay on them for not treating their employees properly and fairly. Global Communication was not up front with its people and they are now in an up roar about the unethical acts of Global. They plan to go global in hopes that they can now compete with local markets and increase the value of their stock. Situation Analysis Issue and Opportunity Identification Global Communication eventually was faced with the problem of lower stock values, circumstances before hand caused this problem to happen. Not having the ability to keep up with modern technology was the key to Global Communication keeping up with its local markets. “In a world of increasing globalization and cultural diversity, organizations face new opportunities as well as communication challenges,” (McShane, S., & Von Glinow,M. p.78) Having the ability to go global and communicate well is very valuable to any company’s wealth. Being able to learn new ways of marketing new calling features...
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...Global Communications was a leader in the telecommunications industry until several competitors began to enter market with lower prices and a wider variety of services. The current situation has awakened interest of several stockholders and forced the company to reevaluate its current processes, as the loyalty of employees and allegiance of customers has seen a significant decline in recent months. In order to assist with raising stock value, the company has decided to outsource technical jobs overseas but has yet to announce this plan to current employees in view of the fact that it will mean innumerable layoffs. This is one of many challenges that lay before the company as the quest to secure a position in the marketplace begins. In order to reacquaint itself with the industry, Global Communications must build a loyal and dedicated workforce by confirming with employees that their jobs are safe while also concentrating on assuring stockholders, members of the Union and the Board of Directors of future profitability. This paper will take a look at opportunities and issues facing the company, current conditions of the environment and alternative solutions for running a successful operation. Situation Analysis Issue and Opportunity Identification Global Communications recently initiated mass layoffs and started outsourcing major projects in order to assist in cutting company costs. This has caused the company to come under attack because of poor office morale and a steady...
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