...Environmental Scan Paper Jessica Swindler MGT 498 April 7th, 2015 T. Dunning Environmental Scan Paper A strategic plan helps a company excel during good times and maneuver through tough times. However, having a plan does not always determine the direction the company will go, the strategic plan is more like a map or GPS for the company. There are tons of other variables that drive a company. For instance, having great internal and external environments play a role on how the company will progress. The internal environment entails employees, management, the work culture/mission, and ethics. These components help make or break a company’s morale. If your company’s environment is unhealthy, then it is very possible the strategic plans that would be implemented improperly. The external environment is very important in a company as well, these are variables that occur outside the companies facilities that alter the company’s plans. Companies take their environments’ very seriously, there is a process call environmental scanning which, is an analysis of a company’s internal and external environments. Two companies that were recently researched using an environmental scan were Time Warner Cable and Nike. After an environmental scan it is possible to analyze the competitive advantage of Time Warner Cable and Nike. While, analyzing the competitive advantage, it is possible to see the value and effectiveness of Time Warner Cable and Nike’s business strategies. These two companies...
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...Running head: MEDIA Power of Media Random Student Jones International University The company that I currently work for relies on media in its daily operations. Time Warner Cable is a cable company here in central Florida. Just a few months ago the contract with Fox Networks was expiring and both TWC and Fox Networks were under negotiation to renew the contract. As the deadline came closer and closer Fox Networks started to apply pressure on TWC through the media. Fox started local radio ads warning customers that Fox Networks is in danger of not being shown on TWC, and urged customers to call TWC and tell them to keep Fox Networks on their televisions. Fox even went as far as setting up a eight hundred number that automatically forwarded to the TWC call centers. The call volume was amazing and often two hundred to three hundred people would be on hold at any given time. Billboards went up all over town, warning customers that they had other choices such as satellite if they still wanted to watch Fox stations here in central Florida. Local Fox stations ran commercials during their shows and had tickers across the bottom of the screen again urging customers to call TWC and tell them you want Fox or will cancel their service. TWC quickly rebutted with Ads of their own letting customers know that they were working with Fox Networks to resolve this issue and the reason behind this negation was because Fox wanted a significant amount more money to renew their contract...
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...BUSM 20 April 2, 2012 Current Event/Article My current event is based on an article I read on the Los Angeles Times website, the article was titled “Consumers left in dark during fight between Tribune and DirecTV” by Joe Flint. The article talks about the fees dispute between Tribune Co. and DirecTV, this dispute led to the shutdown of channels KTLA and WGN, which went dark on Sunday, April 1st leaving customers without access. This dispute goes back to the battle over fees between the programmers and the distributors. Although channels have been threatened to be pulled before, in prior negotiations, most have been adverted to even fixed within days of going dark. DirecTV claims the dispute will be resolved soon and customers shouldn’t worry, however, Tribune Co. is claiming that DirecTV is refusing to make a fair deal and that there is no agreement at this time. At this point there are over 19 million DirecTV subscribers over the country that have lost channels in their area. I wonder if the negotiation is really worth the loss of a customer, or thousands. Being a DirecTV customer had this happened with the channels I watch on a regular basis I would be considering moving to another company. Not having access to the channels you already pay a fortune to maintain would not make me want to keep my loyalties with DirecTV. I don’t’ see why DirecTV would be willing to lose customer instead of coming to an agreement on the fees and saving their customers the frustration. DirecTV...
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...Article 1: This Is the First Weekend in America With No Saturday Morning Cartoons (http://gizmodo.com/this-is-the-first-weekend-in-america-with-no-saturday-m-1642441646?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow) * The CW ran its last batch of “Vortexx” cartoons last weekend. Going forward, where there were shows like Yu-Gi-Oh, Dragon Ball Z, and Sonic X, there will be “One Magnificent Morning”, a block of live-action educational programming * NBC ditched Saturday morning cartoons in 1992, CBS followed suit not long after. ABC dropped its run in 2004. The CW was the last man standing, so to speak. * Saturday morning cartoons were killed by a combination of cable, streaming, and the FCC. * The FCC mandated that broadcast networks provide a minimum of 3hrs of “educational” programming every week. * With the addition of many new cable and satellite channels that don’t have to abide by FCC regulations, kids can get their cartoon fix any hour of the day. * Top it all off with streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, etc. and you’ve got a truly spoiled generation. Article 2: Could ‘Wolverine’ Be At The Center Of A Sharing Plan Between Marvel And Fox? (http://uproxx.com/gammasquad/2014/10/could-spider-man-be-at-the-center-of-a-sharing-plan-between-marvel-and-sony/) * The latest rumor, much like the whole “Avengers 3 will be split into two movies” rumor, this one involves Days...
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...The modern day is the advent of technology and entertainment. With so many people able to access the internet and satellite television, some fear the impact and influence of popular television and movies on viewers. As television shows are gradually becoming more and more violent, a part of society believes that shows such as Supernatural, a realistic fiction program hosted by the CW, negatively impact viewers ability to handle stressful situations without violence. To understand why this show, and others like it, are so popular, the genre of violent fiction and its true impact must be examined. In the wake of the concern about the impact of violent television on viewers, Lecturer Magdalena Andrés of the Autonomous University of Barcelona hosted a study evaluating how viewers perceive violence on tv, with intriguing results. She discovered that even young viewers had a distinct differentiation between violent fiction, and more realistic violence. Evidence suggests that viewers choose to watch violent fiction only if there is a second attraction to the show, such as comedy, fantasy, or a good storyline. Surprisingly, most of those involved in the study reported that they found the real violence of society to be more brutal than that of fiction tv shows. Further into her study, Andres uncovered proof that while viewers were exposed to violent television, most showed no obvious negative effects, unless they had personally been victims of violence. The CW’s show Supernatural...
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...Running Head: Media Reaction Paper Media Reaction Paper By Camilla Gibbs University of Phoenix This paper will be around diversity in television. Once upon a time, television was primarily dominated by just one race. Civil-rights groups seeking greater ethnic diversity in the TV industry stated that the major broadcast networks, FOX, ABC, CBS and NBC are making improvements more progress is needed. ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox have begun to initiate subtle changes both onscreen and off. Black and White television is a thing of the past. FOX television has developed the following strategic plan to incorporate diversity into their every day business. • Creative: To increase diverse employment within the writing, directing, producing and casting of all FOX productions. • Communications Plan: Consistently and comprehensively demonstrate FOX's commitment to diversity both internally and to the general public • Recruitment, Succession Planning & Internship: To increase representation of diverse talent at FOX through executive succession plans, recruitment and internship activities. • Minority Procurement: To increase opportunities for and procurement from minority and women-owned vendors and professional service providers. • Executive Component: To increase opportunities for people of color in key creative management and senior management positions at each of the FOX business units. “We believe our future rests in our collective ability...
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...Article 6 A vision Beyond Cable for Comcast After Merger If Chief executive, Brian Roberts, had his was Comcast would not be cable anymore. They have pushing more into the internet side of things. Nextflix has started paying Comcast for faster internet allowing video streaming easier to stream. Comcast wants to be more of a technology company running against Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple. They don’t want to wait for cable to die out so Comcast needs to find more ways of doing business. Time warner has business in 29 different states and Comcast and Time warner don’t cross and compete. Since they don’t cross this has no impact on competition. This merger size could end up controlling about 30 percent of the national television subscribers. This will also allow them to lower their prices to compete with Netflix. There have been some antitrust law issues which is used to protect consumers. At one point Time Warner blocked CBS and this did not go over well with their customers and they had to fall to CBS’s demands. Comcast is going to help the Time Warner customers in allowing them to gain access to their new Xfinity wireless gateway. The features of Comcast are way better than that of Time Warner, Comcast’s menu options allowed easier navigation to customers favorite content. They also have an app on smartphones to control the guide. Comcast marginally out performs Time Warner Cable, and are preparing for improvements. Saying everything will change once Xfinity service...
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...Historiography It is the study of the history and methodology of the discipline of history. The term historiography also denotes a body of historical work on a specialized topic. Scholars discuss historiography topically – such as the “historiography of Catholicism,” the “historiography of early Islam,” or the “historiography of China" – as well as specific approaches such as political history and social history. Beginning in the nineteenth century, at the ascent of academic history, a corpus of historiography literature developed. Furay and Salevouris (1988) define historiography as "the study of the way history has been and is written — the history of historical writing... When you study 'historiography' you do not study the events of the past directly, but the changing interpretations of those events in the works of individual historians." Questions studied Some of the common questions of historiography are: 1. Reliability of the sources used, in terms of authorship, credibility of the author, and the authenticity or corruption of the text. (See also source criticism). 2. Historiographical tradition or framework. Every historian uses one (or more) historiographical traditions, for example Marxist, Annales School, "total history", or political history. The historiography of early Islam refers to the study of the early origins of Islam based on a critical analysis, evaluation, and examination of authentic primary source materials and the organization of these sources into...
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...() from other countries. Therefore in terms of America’s identity historically, politically, economically and socially, these should be understood differently because America was created differently. Hence why the idea of American exceptionalism’ stems from the principle of America being unique. Furthermore, In addition to this the idea that “American exceptionalism” implies superiority is a key concept to embrace and identify through out America history, contemporary politics, foreign policy and social culture. However, due to the essay title I will be analyzing and examining to what extent is “American exceptionalism’ identified as U.S superiority. Although due to the wide context of the theoretical term ‘American exceptionalism’’ and word limit. I will focus on the significant impacts that has led to the idea of ‘American exceptionalism’ to be implied as U.S superiority such as American history, foreign policy, economic and social culture. History Explaination The significant impact of America’s revolutionary history sparked an inspirational movement of independency to pervious colonized nations although on a later stages for them. This highlights America as exceptional historically in being “the first new nation” () to become independent and also being the ideology for independency for previous colonies nations. To an extent on this note “American exceptionalism” in terms of it’s revolutionary independency can be amplified as a model to other nations than...
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...Analyse the way in which history and memory generate compelling and unexpected insights. – Jake Cronin The interaction between history and memory is a complex and dialectic process through which perceptions of the past are negotiated, reinforced or challenged. Despite official history’s dependency on validating its claims through documented evidence, it must be acknowledged that it is not objective and remains vulnerable to distortion of those with political power or hegemony. Similarly, the subjective nature of memory allows for official history to be vulnerable to the bias of personal experience and differing perspectives. Furthermore, although official history and subjective memory both provide adequate insights into the past, it is through the consideration and combination of the two that compelling and unexpected insights into the past are generated. Paul Keating’s ‘The Redfern Address’ offers a reasonable challenge to the dominant historical narrative surrounding the European colonisation of Australia and their acts of social injustice in regards to Indigenous Australians. Similarly, Shaun Tan’s ‘Memorial’ explores Australia’s wartime history through the medium of a community’s personal experiences, perspectives and memories converging to form history, and illuminates the way in which history is dictated by those with political power. Through the dialectic interplay of history and meaning, compelling and unanticipated comprehensions of the past are generated and are...
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...language and reason in history. History as the area of knowledge is virtually indivisible from language and reasoning. Language is one of the most potent means of interpreting and reporting historical information that is derived from the sources pertinent to the events and occurrences. The sources themselves, in their turn, are frequently presented by the written documents, recorded anecdotal experiences, and works of art, archeology, anthropology and photography which, yet again, are interpreted through the language in conjunction with the context of a historical event. It appears to be an endless loop, where language is the alpha and omega, the main vehicle of conveying history. However, to arrive to the valid interpretation of a certain historical event or development, historians frequently use reasoning to connect the factual data of the tangible sources since the latter ones often come in the form of fragments, related to a particular aspect of the happening. Ideally, reasoning, applied to the interpretation of historical data, should be impersonal, unaffected by predominant views and opinions and completely untainted by political agenda. Yet, it is hard to imagine that throughout the centuries those who held power would willingly allow the contemporary historians relate to the masses the adequate information on the details of their governing techniques and actions. As Winston Churchill pointed out, “History will be kind to me for...
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...your parents raise your babies. Even news outlets that are supposed to be legitimate and unbiased are telling only one side of the news to fill a political agenda. Politics are sugar coated and ignored on some networks, or completely farfetched from reality for political gain and control from one party or another. Media writers can put their own agenda and emotion into any piece they report on to give a one sided view of any subject. It is hard to know what is fact or opinion anymore with so many resources out there. Many things on the internet are also untrue, for example history books in public schools are being rewritten with “facts” that were never taught to us, a rewriting of history to fill some modern liberal agenda. I believe that the media is biased and hates anyone or organization that represents morality and especially if Christianity is in any way linked with it. You have to know your history,...
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...the three holocausts, including historical racial problems, historical religion problems and totalitarian. As a modern man, I can not image the scene that tens of thousands of people are killed in these slaughters, and even can not find some reasonable reasons to explain why these killers are so cold and bloody that a lot of women and children are killed by them? Suddenly, I realize that I can not to find some right word s to describe these crazy killers’ behavior, just think they lose human nature at that moment, even can not compare with wild animals. All human history is just from wild animals to human nature, which is a developing history from barbarity to civilization. But in the process, the moment that human nature is veiled often present. In the moment that human beings have highly civilized, but the holocaust appears again and again, which is worthy of all people to ponder! One two three do not cry, history is the silent tell and defense, which also is the miserable...
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...History, Memory, and Monuments: An Overview of the Scholarly Literature on Commemoration Kirk Savage, University of Pittsburgh (…) The first key question might be, what is commemoration? Dictionary definitions tell us that to commemorate is to “call to remembrance,” to mark an event or a person or a group by a ceremony or an observance or a monument of some kind. Commemorations might be ephemeral or permanent; the key point is that they prod collective memory in some conspicuous way. French sociologist Maurice Halbwachs ushered in the modern academic study of collective memory with his book The Social Frameworks of Memory (1925) in which he argued that all memory – even personal memory – is a social process, shaped by the various groups (family, religious, geographical, etc.) to which individuals belong. In an even more influential posthumous essay, “Historical Memory and Collective Memory” (1950), published after his death in a Nazi concentration camp, Halbwachs insisted on a distinction between history and collective memory: history aims for a universal, objective truth severed from the psychology of social groups while “every collective memory requires the support of a group delimited in space and time.” Thus our view of the past does not come primarily from professional historical scholarship but from a much more complicated and interwoven set of relationships to mass media, tourist sites, family tradition, and the spaces of our upbringing with all their regional...
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...acquired / practiced when studying History? Make a list of as many of these skills as you can. (If you are not sure, think about what historians do when examining or writing a historical work, when evaluating and critiquing the works of other historians, and when teaching people about history – at any level of the educational system. After making a detailed list of skills that are involved in the study of History as an academic discipline, briefly discuss the potential usefulness of these skills for other professions and/or in our everyday lives. This will help you to see how the academic study of History is useful as part of our general education.) Investigative Research Communication Patience Writing Commitment History is the ultimate puzzle. Mastering the skills developed through studying history gives you the ability to discern fact from fiction and reality from myth. It makes you more able to document an event with better accuracy. In Science, this can help you reach a desired solution or result by depicting the outcome of trials and tests with better understanding. In everyday life you will be more critical of events as they are told or received initially by you. You will look for ways to justify or corroborate facts/ events presented to you. I think you will become less likely to fill in the spaces and more likely to pursue proof to validate the event and to better separate fact from fiction for yourself. 2. What can you do with History in a practical sense? (Think...
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