...© HULT INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL | CASE STUDY: IROBOT - “WHERE TO WIN” AND “HOW TO PLAY” 1 Hult Strategic Growth Challenge: iRobot – “Where to Win” & “How to Play” in the increasingly crowded robotics space Competition Details Judge: Ronald Jonash Professor of Strategy and Innovation, Hult International Business School Case Study: iRobot - “Where to Win” and “How to Play” in the increasingly crowded robotics space Developed by Professor Ronald Jonash and Bert Fickel for the purpose of classroom discussion and analysis at Hult International Business School. ©2014 What would you do? You are the head of strategy at iRobot, and have been asked for your recommendations and rationale on “Where to Play” and “How to Win” over the next two years. 1. Where should iRobot best put its development resources and focus? 2. Where is iRobot’s marketing budget best spent? 3. How can iRobot best win given its strengths and weaknesses? 4. What are the key factors and competencies that are liable to drive success and gain a sustainable competitive advantage? Read the complete case study on pages 1 - 2. Rules Entries must be submitted in PowerPoint format 10 slide maximum including 1-2 page executive summary (not including title page) Presentation should be professional and “boardroom ready” Awards* 1st Place - 40% scholarship towards tuition 2nd Place - 25% scholarship towards tuition 3rd Place - 15% scholarship towards tuition How to submit Apply for our intake 2014 ...
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...Running Head: Pennies from Heaven 1 Case Study 25: Pennies from Heaven By Tiffany Moore Dr.Heather. PSL5002 Capella University Running Head : Pennies from Heaven 2 A Medicaid spend down is a portion of health coverage that an individual must pay for before Medicaid coverage begins. The exact amount of the “spend down” varies depending on the state in which you live, medical bills you have each month and other factors such as a bingo winning. Individuals who receive any portion of their income from Supplemental Security Income through Social Security are not required to pay a “spend down” for Medicaid (nysed.gov, 2014). In my essay I will be rendering an synopsize of the Pennies for Heaven Case Study. To include identifying the leader, the issue he faces, and what I believe to be the cause of the issue and evaluating how effective this leader is in the ability to build relationships within the organization; to encompass how well the leader manages professional responsibilities and priorities and how well this leader communicates and resolve the issues. In the case study Pennies from Heaven Patrick Ulmer who would be the new Director of the state Department of Health and Human Services in two more weeks had been recruited from out of state and just arrived to meet with the governor and other cabinet members. Around lunchtime he sat next man named Henry Walsh, who was...
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...Federal Ministry of Health: A Study into the Information Management System and How Best the Ministry can Implement FOI Ordinance 2002 Consumer Rights Commission of Pakistan (CRCP) Centre for Civic Education, Pakistan (CCE) Implementation of Freedom of Information Ordinance 2002: A Case Study of Ministry of Health 1. Freedom of information is impossible to conceive in the absence of elaborate and efficient information and data management systems. Only when such systems are in place and are effectively implemented, it can be expected that information or data required for various purposes can be retrieved and put to use to support policies or relevant decisions. Lack of such systems creates a totally undesirable situation, which leads to uninformed decisions and policies, and the consequent failure of service delivery by related agencies. The significance of information and data management is, therefore, well established, and is given utmost importance in the developed countries. It is also crucial to make citizens’ right to know feasible and operational as data and information must exist and be properly indexed before it could be made accessible to the requesters. However, many developing countries suffer from serious difficulties in connection with information and data management systems. The related problems range between sheer nonexistence of crucial data to its poor maintenance, non-indexing, and loss. This state of affairs has serious implications for relevant...
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...Case Study: Wal-Mart DeLeon A. Rich Management and Strategy Webster University May 15, 2013 Table of Contents Table of Contents 1 Introduction 2 Wal-Mart’s Threats and Challenges 2 Priorities of Wal-Mart CEO during the October Address 2 Wal-Mart Board’s Strategic Initiatives 3 Recent Wal-Mart Initiatives 4 Recent Initiatives 4 Comment: Strategy 5 Comment: Personal Relations 5 Wal-Mart’s Social Challenges 5 Conclusion 5 References 5 Introduction Every business organization in the contemporary world continues to face serious challenges and turbulences. Such challenges and turbulences have called on to business enterprises to re-structure and re-engineer their strategic plan in order to establish effective strategic initiatives. Dynamisms and increased competition are some of the challenges that business enterprises continue to face. One example of a business enterprise that has had to re-structure and re-engineer its strategic plan amidst increased dynamisms and competition with Wal-Mart. Late in 2005, Wal-Mart announced a series of sweeping new strategic initiatives. Such strategic initiatives are aimed at enhancing the position of the business within the industry and the market as well as performances. This case study provides an in-depth analysis of Wal-Mart in respect to its current strategy and challenges. Analysis of the threats and challenges coupled with priorities that Wal-Mart CEO, Lee Scott set in the address on “Twenty-first...
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...Introduction In the case study, a 350 bed not for profit supplier of surgical and medical services, Scarlett Hospital was presented with a dilemma of losing patients. The improvements in infrastructure of transportation have sourced the Scarlett Hospital top executives to reflect on the effect of a construction of new highway might have on the facility. Easy admission to the larger Salem city and its institutions of healthcare fetches the risk of prospective consumer’s loss to Scarlett Hospital. CEO and the president of Scarlett Hospital, Timothy Rogers is endowed with the decision making of discovering finest strategy for the Scarlett hospital to continue being competitive with the bigger facilities in Salem. Timothy Rogers believes his beliefs to convey the utmost medical care quality will carry on helping Scarlett Hospital contend in the additional competitive surroundings. For 14 years Timothy Rogers has been working with Scarlett Hospital proceeding to the merger amid two contending hospitals. With having earlier experience countenancing challenges from additional institutions of healthcare, I believe Scarlett Hospital and Mr. Rogers are prepared to contend with the additional effortlessly accessible Salem institutions. Complacency Complacency relates to self-satisfaction particularly when escorted by ignorance of real danger or deficiencies; it can be a case of typically uninformed or unaware self-satisfaction. When tackling with complacency, the pitch habitually place...
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...Julie Psychology Assignment Psychology and Management of stress Task 1 Outline and evaluate (i) Selye’s (1956) General Adaption Syndrome of stress. The General Adaption Syndrome (GAS) is Selye’s belief that that the body has physiological ways in which to deal with long term and short term stress and its and that prolonged exposure to stress can result in illness. He started this in the 1930’s and based this on researching hormones of rats and found that the rats had stress response to his research. He believed that regardless of the type of stressor, the reaction of the stressor was always the same. (Rice et al 2010p100) Selye’s model has three stages: Alarm stage – This is where the environmental stimuli is viewed as a stressor and the ‘fight or flight’ instinct is aroused and the first reactions are aroused. This is where the automatic nervous system (ANS) is activated and the sympathetic branch of the nervous system to release adrenaline and noradrenaline, which in turn raises the heart rate, blood pressure, perspiration and digestion, slows. This stage is usually disappears quickly through the parasympathetic branch which returns everything to normal. If it continues we then move to the next stage Resistance stage – This is where the environmental stressors are still there, and the body physiologically starts to adapt and adjust. Arousal is still high and the high level of adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH) is still in the body. ACTH will...
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...Running Head: Professional Regulation and Criminal Liability Regulation of Nursing Practice and Legal Aspects Marie Alexandre University Of Phoenix HCS/430 - LEGAL ISSUES IN HEALTH CARE: REGULATION AND COMPLIANCE Instructor: LENORA SMITH July 4th 2011 Running Head: Professional Regulation and Criminal Liability Abstract The delivery of care within the health care system is a challenge because of the changes that are influencing health professional, patients and health care organization. Nursing practice is governed by many legal concepts. It is important for nurses to know the basic of legal concepts, because nurses will be held accountable for making decision that can be harmful to patient’s health. Nurses most have a clear understanding of the law and how it affects nursing practice. Many of legal issues today require Nurses to use critical thinking abilities to practice safe nursing care, Safe Nursing care means to understand the legal boundaries within with nurses must function. The paper will help described nursing, legal issues nursing are facing today. Professional Nursing should know the legal limit which affects nursing practice. An understanding of the law bond with sound judgment should ensure...
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...HOW COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN TFD FOR GENDER BASED VIOLENCE CHALLENGES PATRIARCHY BY Agnes Nthenda UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI FACULTY OF HUMANITIES FINE AND PERFORMING ARTS DEPARTMENT- DRAMA SECTION SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FUFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE IN HUMANITIES. 26 AUGUST 2013 ABSTRACT This dissertation explores the use of community participation in TfD for Gender based violence in challenging patriarchy. It discusses the idea of TfD and community participation in relation to patriarchy and gender. It also discusses the idea of community participation in relation to TfD, Patriarchy and participation in gender related projects. The analysis in this dissertation focuses on GEWE project which was carried out by CRECCOM as a form of TfD for gender based violence. I look at field work in research, i conduct the performance analysis of the TfD for gender based violence performance and i conduct the analysis for the whole case study, i provide evidence for gender based violence and patriarchal rule in the community and i analyse the involvement of both men and women in the performance and how this helps in challenging...
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...AN ASSESSMENT OF ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCES IN ACHIEVING ENERGY SECURITY FOR EFFECTIVE OPERATION OF HOMES, SCHOOLS AND HEALTH FACILITIES IN KAJIADO COUNTY, KENYA BY ONYANCHA MORARA GEORGE A Research Project Submitted to the Graduate School in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Conferment of the Degree of Master of Business Administration DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS FACULTY OF COMMERCE KISII UNIVERSITY 2014 DECLARATION DECLARATION BY CANDIDATE This research project is my original work and has not been submitted for the award of a diploma or degree in this or any other institution/university. Signature……………………………….. Date…………………………… Onyancha Morara George CBM12/10003/10 DECLARATION BY SUPERVISORS This research project has been submitted for examination with our approval as University Supervisors. Signature:………………………………… Date:………………………… Dr. Nemwel N. Bosire Lecturer, Department of Business Signature:………………………………… Date:…………………………. Mr. Martin O. Lumumba Lecturer, Department of Business COPYRIGHT All rights reserved. No part of this report may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by means of mechanical reproduction including photocopying, recording or retrieval from systems without express permission of the researcher or Kisii University on his behalf. ©2014 DEDICATION This research project is dedicated to my father, the late Onyancha Michieka and mother...
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...Andrew Yard Case Study Analysis 1 Running Head: Andrew Yard Case Study Analysis The Andrew Yard Case Study Analysis (A-C) Harvard Business School Publication 9-911-028,029,030 MBA 612: Leadership I Northwood University DeVos Graduate School September 2014 Dr. Tara Peters Running Head: Andrew Yard Case Study Analysis 2 The Andrew Yard circumstance portrays a remuneration settlement from a worldwide HR executive, Joseph Rogers, alongside a hopeful, Andrew Yard, for a high-level executive position. He is highly qualified and experienced professional in retailing home goods and electronics. The negotiated 600K salary plus 75% bonus, and other benefits such as health insurance, a car allowance, stock options and housing were appealing but also too came with a price. Problem Statement: The problem becomes awkward once Andrew feels offended by Joseph while he is offered a monetary motivator to join the association more quickly than at first arranged. Hypothesis/Analysis: The Business Development team identified growth potential in retail business but the retail business was declining due to the absence of a good leader. Hypothesis 1: Ayoub Companies was missing out on growth opportunities in retail business. The COO was acting as an interim leader and he was under much burden. As an example in the Harvard Business case study states, his recent emails to the team showed that the retail business was a critical juncture: “We’re putting fires out daily...
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...Public Health Tehran University of Medical Sciences The Code of Ethics for Nurses F Zahedi, M Sanjari, [...], and M Vahid Dastgerdi Additional article information Abstract Nurses are ever-increasingly confronted with complex concerns in their practice. Codes of ethics are fundamental guidance for nursing as many other professions. Although there are authentic international codes of ethics for nurses, the national code would be the additional assistance provided for clinical nurses in their complex roles in care of patients, education, research and management of some parts of health care system in the country. A national code can provide nurses with culturally-adapted guidance and help them to make ethical decisions more closely to the Iranian-Islamic background. Given the general acknowledgement of the need, the National Code of Ethics for Nurses was compiled as a joint project (2009–2011). The Code was approved by the Health Policy Council of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education and communicated to all universities, healthcare centers, hospitals and research centers early in 2011. The focus of this article is on the course of action through which the Code was compiled, amended and approved. The main concepts of the code will be also presented here. No doubt, development of the codes should be considered as an ongoing process. This is an overall responsibility to keep the codes current, updated with the new progresses of science and emerging challenges, and pertinent...
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.../26733 HSA 535 Week 1 Discussion 1 "CDC and BMA" Please respond to the following: * From the first two (2) e-Activities, give a synopsis of the various challenges facing health care professionals, and determine whether or not you believe these professionals can formulate predictive plans from both agencies. Be specific, giving supporting rationales for your observations. * From the third e-Activity, give a comprehensive critiqued evaluation of your state’s DOH disease-management protocols. Also, from the analysis of the case study, determine if your state’s standpoint on the disease is adequate. Be specific, articulating the actions that can be taken to improve your state’s DOH. HSA 535 Week 1 Discussion 2 "CDC, BMA and Your State’s DOH" Please respond to the following: * From the first two (2) e-Activities, functioning as an investigator collaborating with the two (2) agencies to obtain vital statistics on your particular demographic, you are tasked with obtaining the logistics and planning phase of the report. Prioritize the items you would consider when formulating comprehensive letters of inquiry to the agencies. * From the third e-Activity, suppose you are the County Department of Health, Director of STDs Tracking and Surveillance System, tasked with drafting a memo to your state’s head of the DOH about ways to optimize your county’s efficiency. Prepare a rudimentary list of possible questions to articulate your concerns. Provide a rationale for...
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...Infant Mental Health Critical Review Abstract In this critical review, the newspaper article being reviewed is Infant mental health: Giving children the best head start, is described and summarized. The topic being discussed is infant mental health and how they should be receiving satisfactory care from their caregivers at an early age. Infant mental health can be defined as a field that studies the parent caregiver relationships and inner lives of infants. In agreement with this article, five scholarly academic sources arguments and findings are observed. This paper shows a critical review of infant mental health; the brain’s plasticity through a critical period and the importance of supportive infant-caregiver relationships that produce positive experiences for infants and further their developmental capabilities ultimately, helping them grow better. It also highlights the reality that the society as a whole is involved in providing better environmental influences for infants in order to supply them with a better future. Recommendations for future research and unanswered questions in infant mental health are made in response to the need of support of caregivers and the society. The news article, Infant mental health: Giving children the best head start, emphasizes the importance of the first 1000 days of an infant’s life (2015). Adulthood is shaped and impacted by our early experiences (D’alton, 2015). Professor Kevin Nugent is an expert of early child development...
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...upcoming six month plan. Al Ain Diary was UAE’s largest dairy company by market share but now wanted to replicate their success in dairy in both the regional market and the fruit juice market. There were challenges: increasing production capabilities; product innovation (increasing shelf life); the supply chain management (dairy especially needs to be transported at a 48C condition and there is a need for access to a steady supply of fodder); and brand building in newer markets. Shashi needs to prioritise what new products they want to move into (options include related lines like cheese); assets they need to acquire (manufacturing); and what future skills they need to develop to meet the regional challenge. There is a three to four year time frame to prioritise these objectives as the markets are still in recession. Shashi says about their vision for the future: S We are very much a local company and would like to be seen as regional at least in the Khaleej [GCC Countries], if not beyond . . . With the introduction of long-life juice, the whole world is a market for us because these products have a shelf life of nine months and unlike fresh products we don’t have limitations on time. Al Ain Dairy: a Government of UAE initiative Catering to local demand This case was written by Dr Melodena Stephens Balakrishnan at University of Wollongong in Dubai. It was prepared...
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...For reasons not quite fully understood, this therapy helps to treat headaches in positive outcomes for the majority of people. Acupuncture therapy is an alternative to the normal standard form of treatment that can virtually have no side effects, is much less invasive, and has no need drugs that need to be metabolized by the body. Acupuncture: What You Need To Know. (2014, November 1). https://nccih.nih.gov/health/acupuncture/introduction#hed3 According to the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, acupuncture is defined as a “technique in which practitioners stimulate specific points on the body—most often by inserting thin needles through the skin.” This Internet source article reviews what acupuncture is and what it can be used for in alternative medicine. For headache treatments, acupuncture may help relieve the pain from headaches and the amount of headaches one gets. In 2009, some studies were reviewed showing that acupuncture compared to drugs helped people with tension-type headaches. Also in 2012, studies were conducted to show the effectiveness of acupuncture on migraine and tension headaches, which in fact reduced the frequency and severity of the pain. Cady, R. K., & Farmer, K. (2015). Acupuncture in the Treatment of Headache: A Traditional Explanation of an Ancient Art....
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