...Analysis Of Harrington Collection Submitted by J. G. I. Factual Summary: 1. Harrington Collection, a large manufacturer and retailer of high-end women’s apparel faced declining sales and shifting consumer tastes, and the company needed to consider new strategies to compete in the women’s apparel industry. 2. Harrington Collection’s retail group operated 120 company stores: 70 stores sold a combination of Harrington Limited and Christina Cole merchandise, and 50 of the stores were dedicated solely to the Vigor division. 3. The U.S. women’s apparel industry market is mature; the average growth rate from 2005 to 2007 was 4.66 percent. 4. There are six categories of clothing in which companies compete: haute couture, designer, bridge, better, moderate, and budget. Each category targets customers with different needs and different price ranges, with haute couture and designer clothing ranging upwards from $10,000 and moderate to budget clothing as low as $50. 5. The primary channels by which retail sales occurred was specialty stores at 58.6 percent; department stores – 19 percent; discount and mass merchandise stores – 11.4 percent; warehouse clubs/supercenters – 8.1 percent, and other channels – 2.9 percent. 6. What is a unit? Since active wear is sold as separates, the ratio of hoodies to tee shirts to pants was not equal. One unit equals ½ hoodie + 1 ½ tee shirt + 1 pant. II. Case Problem: How should Harrington Collections put forth their...
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...Case analysis-Harrington Collection Problem identification In 2008, Harrington Collection, a large manufacturer and retailer of U.S. high-end women’s apparel, was facing opportunities and challenges whether to launch of active-wear products to meet the market and customers’ needs. But according to the macroeconomic environment, the target market, competitors and its own financial condition, Harrington needed to take careful consideration and then make the best decision for their own development. The U.S. women’s apparel industry Market trends From the data of U.S. Apparel Market Sale (2002-07), we could find out that, even when subjected to the impact of the economic downturn, the U.S. women's apparel industry remained in a mature and stable state and held by continued growth momentum. The Retail Sales increased from $106 billion in 2002, to $133 billion in 2007. The average annual growth rate is 4.7%. It showed that the total sales of the women's apparel industry did not receive the macroeconomic impact. Consumers still had a high desire to go shopping. At the same time, analyzed the data from U.S. Apparel Market Units, influenced by the economic downturn, consumers were more interested in less than $100, low-priced women’s apparel. From 2005 to 2007, the growth rate of units sold in more than $200 is 3.4%, the product growth rate of between $100-200 is 1.4%, and $50 to 100 product growth rate is 14.3%, while less than $50 low-priced...
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...DMB/380 February 10th 2014 DMB/380 February 10th 2014 Art Museum Database By: For the past couple of years, a local art Museum has been collecting different art pieces from various artists. The Museum then displays the art throughout different galleries across town. The collection has significantly grown and it is now complicated for the museum to keep track of the many different artist and their different art pieces and collections, as well as where the art is located, whether it is stored in different galleries or the Museum itself. It is important for the Museum to develop a database that can keep track of the different art pieces, the artists, the different locations the pieces can be located and a total amount of pieces collected since it continues to grow at a very fast rate. The database will help the Museum substantially as well as the artists who create many various art pieces. Problems and Constraints The Museum continues to grow and it has become difficult for the manager and staff to keep track of the art collection. Not having a database that can tie the artist with his art and the location of it has caused the Museum to lose some of the different art pieces which in return equal financial losses to the Museum. Another problem the Museum continues to have is keeping track of when and where the art is being displayed. Most of the art is displayed for a period of time throughout the different galleries then either stored back...
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...The MMA is one of the most public in the country, and more heavily dependent on the mem- bership contribution than any other [museum]. Like most, it is underendowed and underfunded from reliable public funds. In fact, the American Association of Museums reports that only about 60 percent of America’s 2000-plus art museums have enough income from their endowment to cover their operating costs. Nevertheless, this institu- tion has chosen to be public, with free access, and this is very noble. It is wonderful that the museum has decided not to belong to an agglomeration of very rich people. This museum has more character than it thinks it has. It has the best balanced collection between Western and non-Western art of any museum in the country. We have not chosen to sell or promote the unique aspects of this collection or the museum’s emphasis on historical context.What we have are the makings of an institu- tion that is very different from other museums, and we ought to be able to make that into an advantage rather than apologize for...
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...Will Hawkins is the Museum Coordinator at the Tuscaloosa Museum of Art, home of The Westervelt Collection. Mr. Hawkins graduated from Huntington College in Montgomery, AL with a degree in History. After college, he began working in the restaurant industry and continued for 15 years. While working in Tuscaloosa, he began volunteering with the Tuscaloosa Museum of Art, and shortly after, he was hired as a member of the staff and worked his way up to becoming the Museum Coordinator. The Tuscaloosa Museum of Art houses The Westervelt Collection comprised of approximately 1000 works of fine and decorative arts. The collection was amassed by Jack Warner as investments for Gulf States Paper, now the Westervelt Company. Operating under a nonprofit foundation, the museum was asked by the Westervelt Company to share its collection with the community. Being a collection that was pieced together simply by the tastes of one man, the Westervelt Collection is remarkably cohesive. Hawkins stated that's he is always amazed at the story told through the pieces of art. There are four paid staff members at the museum. Mr. Hawkins and Kathy Thurman are the only two professional staff members. The museum employs two part-time college students. Mr. Hawkins’s duties as Museum Coordinator include a very wide range of daily tasks. From handling the art to training docents and from scheduling tours to giving them himself, Hawkins’s day is packed with many different tasks. The museum has gone through...
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...Olowe of Ise “It is insufficiently understood that a museums power lies not in the possession of objects and collections, but in the acceptance of its authority to name them by both label and context. This is the most jealously guarded divine right of the museum as the curator of soi-disant public collections” – Duncan F. Cameron. Duncan F. Cameron served as a museum curator and director in the Brooklyn Museum in the New York City Borough of Brooklyn, the second largest museum in New York City and one of the largest in the United States. Duncan served in the museum from 1971-1974. An artist once told me, “Art is in the eyes of the beholder” – anonymous. It’s a statement with a broad perspective of thought and meditation. First I would like to give an example of what the quote by Duncan meant can be seen by the work of Constantine Petridis, a museum curator of African art gallery in the Cleveland Museum of art. He explains objects from the same culture are displayed together and differentiated with those of their neighbors. This concept shows the formal and stylistic relationships between neighboring and familiar artistic customs or traditions that ex-plains the distinctiveness of the arts of distinct people. An addition to the regional framework, thematic connections are highlighted through the use of gallery cards which explain topics of artists, leadership, masks and masquerades, styles and the supernatural. Gallery cards provide photo, descriptions and narrative text linking...
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.................................................................... 5 3. Composing the Project Group............................................................................................ 6 4. What: Specifying the Collection ........................................................................................ 7 4.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................. 7 4.2 Subject ........................................................................................................................ 7 4.3 Character and extent .................................................................................................... 7 4.4. Information about the collection ................................................................................. 8 4.5 Results......................................................................................................................... 8 5. Why: Reasons for Digitising and Disclosing the Collection ............................................... 9 5.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................. 9 5.2 What is the social and cultural significance of the collection? ...................................... 9 5.3 What is the present importance of the...
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...WORLD VISION POSITION DESCRIPTION |KEY POSITION INFORMATION | |Job Title |DM&E Coordinator | |13 | |Reports To |Program Team Leader | |Department/Group |Quality Team |Location |Sarajevo | WORK CONTEXT / BACKGROUND: World Vision’s earliest involvement in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) was in 1994. Over the years, WV BiH has re-shaped its ministry from a largely return-focused program to one in alignment with the country’s basic development needs. WV BiH strategic intent is to contribute towards CWB in BiH (child wellbeing). To date, WV BiH works in partnership with communities, local and national government, faith-based institutions and civil society for the well-being of children. WV BiH makes no distinction of faith, ethnicity or gender when delivering its assistance to children and their families. Currently WV BiH employs 80 staff across the country. The overall annual budget for World Vision Bosnia and Herzegovina is around $4.6 million. PURPOSE OF POSITION: To lead the DM&E processes of intentional design and gathering of evidence of programs. This will be done through the...
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...Critical Behavior In Research Princess Gunthrope University of Phoenix In research it is very important to adhere to ethical norms, these values ensure the proper and initial aim of research is carried out. The law of ethics in research prohibit researchers from falsifying information or misrepresenting information to participants. Often times “research involves a great deal of cooperation and coordination among many different people in different disciplines and institutions, ethical standards promote the values that are essential to collaborative work, such as trust, accountability, mutual respect, and fairness”(Sent, 2003). The critical behavior in research analysis will analyze an ethical issue raised in the article, The Causal Generalization Paradox: The Case of Treatment Outcome Research, written by Graham L. Staines. The article by Staines discusses the causal generalization paradox. The ethical issue at the heart of the article is the use of improper sampling procedures. With the vast amount of research taking place and random assignment techniques, less of a priority is being placed upon random sampling. According to Staines,2008 experimental research typically selects units, in part or in whole, at the convenience of the researcher. The researcher then makes no attempt, or often times only a limited attempt, to ensure that this sample is an accurate representation of some larger group or population. This form...
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...she worked at Peppercorn. During the course of their conversation, Erica asked Drew how things were currently operating; Drew replied by saying, “Staffing is a nightmare. We can’t find qualified people anywhere; recruiting and retention has become a constant challenge” (Cummings & Worley, 2008, p. 217). Of course, the other consultants were all ears and wanted to hear everything that Drew had to say. However, although Drew knew there were many symptoms of a much bigger problem, he had no idea what the “root” of the problem was. He would eventually enter into a contract with the consultants to get their unbiased, external point of view as to what the bigger problems really were at Peppercorn. The consultants would use various data collection methods involving the management, workers, and the customers to get a clearer picture as to what the actual problems were and why the students working at Peppercorn were unhappy and why recruitment for additional student help was unsuccessful. Actually, Peppercorn used to be predominantly run by student workers, but in recent years, due to the shortage of student workers, temporary workers had to be brought in to fill the gaps and keep the diner running. There was animosity between the fulltime workers, temporary workers, and the student workers. Each section resented the other for one reason or another and the tension was only getting...
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...participants were naive as to the nature of the questionnaires. PROCEDURE After done and printing out the questionnaires, we the researchers started to distribute the questionnaires randomly using a random sampling method which is a coin toss method at University Tunku Abdul Rahman Perak Campus. We explained the objective of this research to the participants and obtained informed consent from participants after the participants agreed to participate in this research. Participants were given 10-15 minutes to complete the questionnaires. Researchers collected back the questionnaires right after participants completed it. Participants are not allowed to change any of the answers after the submission of questionnaire. The process of this data collection took 2 days. It started from 17th January 2014 to 18th January 2014. HOW TO GET SAMPLE The population of this research is UTAR, Perak Campus students. While our sample is 50 undergraduate students from Faculty of Arts and Social (FAS). These 50 students were divided into 2 groups according to gender which is male and female. Therefore, our sample was 25 male students and 25 female students from FAS. We got this sampling method through random sampling method. Random sampling means every member of the population have an equal chance of being selected. Our sample is said to be an unbiased sample because the sample is chosen at random from the population. We used ‘coin toss’ method to randomly select our sample. The results are based on...
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...BIMS Research Study Overview QNT 351 January 17, 2012 Team, This is very well written and the research is one that can be effectively proven and lead to further analysis to improve employee/management relations. This is a very applicable business research problem. Watch out for grammatical errors and work on sentence structure. You might one to have additional references to strength you related literature. Overall, you did a nice job. 7.75/8.0 BIMS Research Study Overview Headquartered in New York City, The Ballard Integrated Managed Services (BIMS) is a support service company that specializes in providing housekeeping and food services to many corporations and institutions to include 22 Fortune-100 businesses. The focus of the research is the BIMS site at Douglas Medical Center (BIMS-DMC). The problem BIMS is facing is to determine the cause for the decrease in worker productivity and morale, which resulted in an increase in complaints from the hospital staff and administration. The purpose of the survey is for BIMS-DMC employees to express their view about their job and to compute descriptive and frequency techniques and further study data for possible correlations. The research questions ask if respondents enjoy working for BIMS, how many times they have called in sick, if they are well trained, if they are paid fairly, and if they like their supervisor. Our assumption is that at 17% participation, this survey will not have enough participants to get...
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...* 1. PRIMARY ANDSECONDARY DATA We explore the availability and use of data (primary and secondary) in the field of business research.Specifically, we examine an international sample of doctoral dissertations since 1998, categorizingresearch topics, data collection, and availability of data. Findings suggest that use of only primarydata pervades the discipline, despite strong methodological reasons to augment with secondary data.IBRAHIM NAVEENReg. No. IPHRM 5001Diploma in Human Resource Management Batch 01INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT * 2. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY DATA CONTENTSINTRODUCTION --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 02IMPORTANCE OF DATA AND DATA COLLECTION --------------------------------- 02DATA COLLECTION TECHNIQUES ------------------------------------------------------- 02PRIMARY DATA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 03IMPORTANCE OF PRIMARY DATA ------------------------------------------------------- 03SOURCES OF PRIMARY DATA -------------------------------------------------------------- 04ADVANTAGES OF PRIMARY RESEARCH ----------------------------------------------- 05DISADVANTAGES OF PRIMARY RESEARCH ------------------------------------------ 07SECONDARY DATA ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 08IMPORTANCE OF SECONDARY DATA --------------------------------------------------- 08SOURCES OF SECONDARY DATA ...
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...Marketing Research test 2 Chapter 3 Secondary Data: -Data not gathered for the immediate study at hand. - Primary reason is to save time and money -Internal Secondary Data: -External Secondary Data -Sales Invoice -Periodicals -Accounts Receivable -Statistical Sources -Reports -Government Documents -Warranty Cards -Consumer Panels -Customer Letters -Past Research Results -Current Databases Literature Review: -Comprehensive examination of secondary info related to your research topic. -Provides background and contextual information -reveals whether info already exists -clarifies research problem and questions Syndicated Data -market research data that is collected, packaged and sold to different firms. -3 Common Methods: -Consumer Panels: large samples of households agree to provide data for an extended amount of time -Store Audits: formal examination and verification of how much a product or brand has been sold at the retail level -Optical Scanner Technology: point of purchase data is collected Hypotheses: suggests a relationship between variables 2 Types of Hypotheses: 1. Descriptive: Possible answer to specific business problems. 3 steps: 1. Review Research Problems 2. Write Down Questions 3. Brainstorm possible answers 2. Causal: theoretical statements about relationships between variables. Help businesses understand how to make changes. -What are the Relationships between variables? -Positive...
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...P ra c t i c a l ve ri f i c a t i o n & s a fe g u a rd tools for C/C++ F Michaud . R. Carbone DRDC Valcartier Defence R&D Canada – Valcartier Technical Report DRDC Valcartier TR 2006-735 November 2007 Practical verification & safeguard tools for C/C++ F. Michaud R. Carbone DRDC Valcartier DRDC Valcartier Technical Report DRDC Valcartier TR 2006-735 November 2007 Principal Author Approved by Yves van Chestein Head/IKM Approved for release by Christian Carrier Chief Scientist c Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada as represented by the Minister of National Defence, 2007 c Sa Majest´ la Reine (en droit du Canada), telle que repr´sent´e par le ministre de la e e e D´fense nationale, 2007 e Abstract This document is the final report of an activity that took place in 2005-2006. The goal of this project was first to identify common software defects related to the use of the C and C++ programming languages. Errors and vulnerabilities created by these defects were also investigated, so that meaningful test cases could be created for the evaluation of best-ofbreed automatic verification tools. Finally, when relevant, best practices were inferred from our experiments with these tools. ´ ´ Resume Ce document est le rapport final d’un projet de recherche qui a eu lieu en 2005-2006. Le but de ce projet ´tait avant tout d’identifier les d´fauts logiciels courants li´s ` l’utilisation des e e e a langages de programmation C et C++. Les erreurs et vuln´rabilit´s...
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