...Here we assess how easy it is for suppliers to drive up prices. This is driven by the number of suppliers of each key input, the uniqueness of their products and their strength and control over you. There are tons of suppliers. We can choose our suppliers however we want. However, let us consider quality products. Quality doesn’t always mean the cheapest. We need to also be sensible with our selections and try not to break the bank! C. Threat of Substitution This is the ability of the customer to find a different way of doing what you do; an easier way perhaps. Is there an easier way to cut your own hair? I’m sure there is. For me personally, I’m not going to try! I want to be pampered! Your customers come to you because you take care of them and make each individual feel special. My hairdresser is also my confidant and I enjoy the conversations we have while she is cutting my hair. I couldn’t get that customer experience if I tried to do it...
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...2.0 TABLE OF CONTENT Title Page 1.0 Title Page 1 2.0 Table of Content 2 3.0 Introduction 3 4.0 Brainstorming 4 5.0 Planning Stage 4-5 6.0 Implementation Stage 6-7 7.0 Evaluation Stage 7 8.0 Lessons Learned 8 9.0 Appendix 9 3.0 Introduction During the six weeks sessions on 2 November, our group members were engaged in organising an event relating to the charitable involve the steps of planning, implementation and evaluation. We took part in the charitable event actively to work as volunteers and visited to Glory Days old folk home at Jalan Vermont Georgetown, Penang. The main purpose of this event we had organized visit to old folk home is investigate and understand some old folks’ daily habits or activities. Otherwise, we organized this charitable event in order to contribute our helping hand as volunteer to involve some activities of charity such as celebrate birthday and hair cutting task for those old folks in need and not merely complete our assignment task without sincerely. The old folk home formerly known as Glory Home which established since 1988 year. Glory Days is a trustable old folk nursing home that provides the services of home care for the aged, ambulatory handicapped, bedridden...
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...UMUC Haircuts Stage 1 ISFM 300 Abstract A strategy for competitive advantage and improving a business strategy are fundamental for improving a business overall, as competition, customers’ expectations, technology, type, and quality of products and services are changing in time. This paper is analyzing UMUC Haircuts’ cost leadership strategy and improvement of customer and employee scheduling process, following Porter’s Five Forces Model. UMUC Haircuts Stage 1 I. Introduction The paper is a business environment analysis for UMUC Haircuts, at the request of Mrs. Myra Morningstar. UMUC Haircuts has been in business since 1995, and the news that a Hair Cuttery will open five miles away is concerning for Mrs. Morningstar, as she is trying to find ways to remain competitive in this changing environment. Mrs. Morningstar already selected a strategy for competitive advantage, using a cost leadership strategy. The business process that Mrs. Morningstar stated needs improvement is her customer and employee scheduling. The following pages will provide solid justification for Mrs. Morningstar’s strategy, for competitive advantage and the business process that she selected. Additionally it will help UMUC Haircuts enter the 21st Century standards, and able to survive in this competitive type of business. II. Five Forces Analysis Porter’s five forces analysis is a model that helps any business to understand “how competitive an industry is and to analyze its strengths...
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...saw women in this era. The flappers in the 1920’s were like a new breed of women. These women drank, smoked, danced, wore their hair how they wanted, went to parties, and wore makeup. There were a few different definitions of a “flapper.” One was a young girl who was still in the awkward stage before womanhood, some people used this word to reference a prostitute, while others merely thought the word...
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...Marketing Principles By Marc Libertine Bringas CONTENTS (1) Gaining a competitive advantage P3 (2) The product life cycle P4 (3) Distribution options to increase convenience for customers P5 (4) How you can set your prices in line with different market conditions P5 (5) Promotional activities for ‘Beauty not expensive’ P6 (6) Additional elements of the extended marketing mix P7 (7) The difference between consumer markets and organisational markets P8 (8) What is service? P8 (9) Cultural differences P8 References P10 Report for Mrs. Rice (1) Gaining a competitive advantage A competitive advantage is an advantage over other competitors in the market by being the business who offers greater value for its customers. For example, a business could gain a competitive advantage simply by offering lower prices, or creating better quality products compared to their competitors. Before anything you must first identify who your target market is, and who you’re competitors are. You must understand fully the services that you are providing and you must know who your service is aimed at and who is likely to use this service. Once you have identified who your target market is, you can find out which competitors are out there, that are providing a similar service and have the same or similar target market. You must do sufficient market research by looking up the profiles of your business competitors. Now that...
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...------------------------------------------------- Marketing Assignment Going Hair Salon October 1, 2014 Syndicate 5 PMD 37 October 1, 2014 Syndicate 5 PMD 37 Company Overview – Going Hair Going Hair is a full-service hair salon dedicated to consistently providing high customer satisfaction by rendering excellent service, quality products, and furnishing an enjoyable atmosphere at an acceptable price and value relationship. The business also maintains a friendly, fair, and creative work environment, which respects diversity, ideas, and hard work. Keys to Success: * Location: providing an easily accessible location for customers. * Environment: providing an environment conducive to giving relaxing and professional service. * Convenience: offering clients a wide range of services in one setting, and extended business hours. * Reputation: reputation of the owner as providing superior personal service. Business Objectives * Going Hair aims to provide an affordable personal care service across gender and race in a time and environment where affordability is the most important factor, along with personal attention. The services may include any trade relating to wellness (e.g. slimming), beauty (ranges from skin/nail care to massaging and teeth whitening) * Expansion of the business through hairdressing or complementary trades in order to utilize the entire shop and not be vulnerable to a rent share position where parties joining and leaving cause...
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...Communication Studies Major in Theatre Arts 4-1 Thesis Production “Ang Unang Regla Ni John” Ni: EM Mendez By: Elisia Jades Malicdem Ma. Lilyn Lupo Jay-Ar Empinado Jasper Roberto Jerome Angelo Tepace Introduction: ”Ang Unang Regla ni John is a play about a boy’s journey to manhood, his developing and growing preference towards who he really is. The concept of this play is about growing up, its reality and the tags along with it. It also focuses on LGBT Community to be represented by John, the 11 year old lead character in the story. The story will depict acceptance, freedom and responsibility where the lead character will discover what he really wants to be in spite of being surrounded by his gender oriented family. Brought up in the ideology of “machismo” Mang Julian, John’s father who has an occupation of being a barber raise the three of them with the belief of ‘the more hair you have, the manlier you are’ however his younger son John viewed it the other way. Unlike his elder brothers, Jerome and who fantasize about women particularly the pin up poster of “the dream girl” on their barber shop, John admires her for being flawless, hairless on particular areas where a boy’s hair grow. John wants to be like her. Later on in the story after the dream girl visit his dreams, everything suddenly became crystal clear to John. Instead of having “wet dreams”, he was enlightened about his gender preference. He doesn’t want any hair on his armpits or his pubic area, so...
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...Field Dressing After shooting a deer, the following imperative move is to field dress it. You have to distinguish from the start that there is another action that goes before this one: Ensure the deer is dead. On the off-chance that it hints at any life, shoot it once more at point-blank range. Field dressing includes expelling the innards and you ought to do it instantly before transferring the deer. Use a sharp knife all the time and be exceptionally watchful not to cut any internal organs. Remove as much of the windpipe as you could when field dressing, also the guts, heart, lungs and liver. Remember, removing the guts first cools the carcass. However, don’t cut the throat from the outside if you can help it. The greater amount of the inner parts that you uncovered at this phase, the more your deer’s meat gets soil and debris as you pulled it to the truck or camp. But you could take away any residual windpipe after you appropriately hung the deer. 2. Hanging the Body When you moved the deer to camp or your abode, you ought to hang it up. Sentiments contrast as far as whether you must hang the deer at the base or with the head up, yet the most necessary thing is to hang it. This way makes it simpler to handle and it permits the carcass to seep...
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...Hairspray ENG225: Introduction to Film April 18, 2011 Hairspray I have chosen to go with a film that has always been on my favorite list, ever since I first saw the film as a kid I was intrigued by the use of vivid colors and great music; in the 1988 John Waters film Hairspray. Ever since I was a child I have always had a love for the 1950's-60’s style, music and dance of that era. Hairspray is a look into the beginning of the 1960's, when segregation was on the verge of being intergraded. Blacks we're conversing with whites and becoming part of the everyday scene with the music industry; some of America’s best musicians come from black African Americans and has made music what it is today. This has created an impact on other people’s lives especially the adolescent teens. This film is a beacon of how the intergrading process was such a harsh subject to swallow, throughout that time, and also how parents interfered with their lives trying to brain wash society that blacks were nothing more that pimps and criminals. If parents would just give their children the opportunity to be who they wanted, this world could be a much better-off place through the act of music and dance. “Light-hearted, humorous stories involving people in love with a twist of craziness in a screwball, teen gross-out comedy” (Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 2010). This film is based with “character Actors who specialize in playing a wide variety of characters, most often supporting or minor roles rather...
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...information regarding the firm and its services. The report also touches upon the competitor’s knowledge, customer’s knowledge and distributor’s policy. All the parts in the report have been written in English as it is the most understandable formal language. The report has been made by surfing on different internet sites and picking up the exact data which was required. History Jawed Habib is one of the leading hair & beauty salon chains in India. The company currently operates a total of 225 outlets across 21 states and 67 cities in the country. The company is promoted by Jawed Habib, a renowned Hair Expert who started the company with a vision to provide quality hair styling and beauty services to the wider populace of the country. With his passion and relentless efforts, he has established an effective system which is self sufficient in terms of providing quality services to clients all across. Hair and Beauty services are provided through the company's own and franchised outlets. The company also runs academies to impart quality education in hair and beauty to aspirants in the profession of cosmetology. With 37 outlets in the year of incorporation, the company has grown rapidly and as of date, has 8 owned and 176 franchised salons in 62 cities across India. The company also runs 6 own academies and 35 franchised outlets across 36 cities. Jawed has worked extensively at grass...
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...UMUC Haircuts Stage 1 Since the opening of UMUC Haircuts in 1995, Myra Morningstar has seen an increase in customers and competition from a variety of competitors. Myra would like to expand her business into the gift shop area next door. To remain competitive, Myra recognizes that she needs to improve her current management practices in combination with better scheduling of her employees and customers and management of her supplies. Myra has hired a System Analyst to help her with determining how she can improve her business. FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS FORCE EXPLANATION (Minimum 2 good sentences) IMPACT (POSITIVE, NEGATIVE, or NEUTRAL) AFFECT STRATEGY? (YES/NO) BUYER POWER Customers buyer power is neutral.. Customer have the option to go to another competitor in the area. Neutral No SUPPLIER POWER Supplier Power is high. Supplies are going up in price. Myra has no means of finding cheaper prices. Myra has no control over suppliers. Negative Yes THREAT OF SUBSTITUTE PRODUCTS OR SERVICES Threat is neutral. Customer can let hair grow or get someone else cut their hair. Neutral No THREAT OF NEW ENTRANTS Several businesses have open and one more will open within a 5 mile radius, Barrier entry is high because Myra has no IS. Negative Yes RIVALRY AMONG EXISTING COMPETITORS Threat of substitute services is high, Myra has no means of contacting customers and has no promotions to offer. Rivalry offering same services as Myra’s business. Negative Yes Strategy...
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...ranging from cottage industry to heavy industry. The leather manufacturing process is divided into three sub-processes: preparatory stages, tanning and crusting. All true leathers will undergo these sub-processes. A further sub-process, surface coating may be added into the sequence. The list of operations that leathers undergo vary with the type of leather. Contents [hide] * 1 Production management * 2 Preparatory stages * 3 Tanning * 4 Crusting * 5 Surface coating * 6 Environmental impact * 7 References ------------------------------------------------- Production management[edit] The leather making process is in general restricted to batch processing, but if the surface coating sub-process is added then some continuous processing can be included. The operation flow has to follow the preparatory → tanning → crusting → surface coating sub-process order without deviation, but some of the sub-processes can be omitted to make certain leathers (or partially tanned/ untanned products). ------------------------------------------------- Preparatory stages[edit] The preparatory stages are when the hide/skin is prepared for tanning.[1] During the preparatory stages many of the unwanted raw skin components are removed. Many options for pretreatment of the skin exist. Not all of the options may be performed. Preparatory stages may include:[2] * preservation- the hide/skin is treated with a method which renders it temporarily unputrescible. * soaking -...
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...M1 Before Birth Pregnancy is divided into three semesters where the growth and development of a child occurs. Week 1 – 12 is called first semester, week 13 – 28 is the second semester and week29 – 40 is the third semester. After the union of the sperm and egg cell, the zygote will travel down the uterus of the mother to get nourishment and the cell division will take place. In the first trimester, the zygote will grow into an embryo and his nervous and muscular system will be established. By week 5 – 8 his heart begins to beat and some body parts such as arms, legs, eyes and ears have begun to show. Being two months old, he is now called foetus who has a webbed fingers. Muscle movements and urination will occur at week 9 – 12. In the second semester, the foetus now has his own fingerprints and his arms, legs, fingers and toes have developed. The gender can be recognised and all the major organ systems are present, but not yet working. As the foetus grows in about 5 inches long, his body will be covered with a fine layer of hair called lanugo. Between 16 and 24 weeks, the mother could finally feel the baby move for the first time and will be very active as the weeks pass. His organs will also be fully formed and his skin is wrinkled with a little fat. It is covered with a protection...
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...1. Introduction In the 21st century, beauty and make up are like the wheels of a cart or the two sides of a coin. Women are beautiful in themselves; but a little make-up does help a lot and it keeps one to make the day better and happier. Every woman wants to be pretty whether she’s young or old so the beauty salon is the place to go. The beauty parlor has become an almost iconic figure in Western culture and Southeast Asian culture as well as in modern generation. The beauty salon is where a woman goes to have their hair and nails done. As such, choosing a beauty salon is a process most women (and even men) will undergo. The first thing to start in choosing a salon is to evaluate what needs to be done. A woman who just wants her hair trimmed might go to a beauty parlor than women who wants a permanent coloring, or more extensive services. If a woman wants her hair cut promptly and that day, she might be better off visiting to a walk-in salon, more willingly than trying to find her regular stylist. For other kind of services, a woman might want to think about a full-service in by-appointment-only beauty parlor. This signifies that she will have a stylist who is expecting her and definitely knows what she wants to be done. Genesis Beauty Parlor has been established by six individual people who have formed partnership under the Partnership Act 1932. According to the agreement all the partners will invest equal amount of money as well as bear the equal amount profit/losses which...
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...Perioperative Shavings Victor A. Moore Western Governors University Prepping a patient for a surgical procedure usually involves removing the Hair at the incision site. The surgical care improvement project commonly known as SCIP is a national partnership of organizations focused on improving surgical care by significantly reducing surgical complications. One complication is surgical site infections SCIP has developed recommendations for hair removal. There are several SCIP measures, antibiotic within one hour before incision, received prophylactic antibiotic consistent recommendations, prophylactic antibiotic discontinued within 24 hours, control of postoperative serum glucose and appropriate hair removal. (Patterson, 2011, p. 120) What is appropriate hair removal? Razors can remove hair and has been the traditional method of hair removal, powered surgical clippers can trim hair at surgical site and does not leave cuts and microscopic abrasions where microscopic Flora can colonize in the surgical site causing postoperative infection. The National Quality Forum has endorsed to SCIP infection control measures. According to the Surgical Quality Alliance, which is a collaboration among specialty societies that provide surgical and perioperative care to improve the quality of care for the surgical patients, states that” following the endorsement by the National Quality Forum SCIP measures were incorporated into Medicare's reporting of Hospital Quality data for annual...
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