...2002. Sales of three Centralia stores were $14,326,700 in 2002. Randall Johnson, the District Manager for the Centralia stores, has recommended that they implement everyday low pricing (ELP) since Superior’s prices are higher than the competition at a time of growing price consciousness, and that the price differential could cause them to lose market share. Problem Statement Superior Supermarkets (SS) must decide whether o not to pursue an everyday low pricing (ELP) strategy at its three Centralia MO locations. Analysis Three viable alternatives have been found. Alternative #1 is to do nothing. Do not adopt ELP and keep the current promotional budget. If market share continues to decline, at the growth rate of -0.53% or greater, this alternative would be deemed unsuccessful. Conversely, if market share remains stagnant or improves, this strategy would prove to be prudent. Alternative #2 is to implement a ‘limited ELP’ model. By marginally increasing the amount of loss leaders, the model could attract price-conscious customers at the margin. Under this model, the advertising budget could either remain the same or slightly increase. This alternative would be considered successful if SS contribution margins remain unchanged and/or sales revenue increases. Alternative # 3 is to implement an ELP model and increase the advertising budget accordingly. If by lowering prices SS would increase sales revenues and restore SS image of “Superior Supermarkets = Superior...
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...PROBLEM STATEMENT Superior Supermarkets (SS) must decide whether or not to pursue an everyday low pricing (ELP) strategy at its three Centralia MO locations. Strategic Issues & Marketing Mix Pricing: Current prices are reflective of a high-end branding strategy. SS everyday (non-promotional) prices are approximately 10% higher than Harrison (Hr) and about 7 percent higher than Grand American (GA) and Missouri Mart (MM). Subsequently, higher prices have become a competitive concern due to their declining market share in Centralia. The negative growth rate, based on 1995 to 2002 figures from Figure 2, is -0.53%. Product line: SS are supermarket stores. The stores’ products may be divided into 5 categories: 1) grocery (including diary); 2) fresh meat/poultry/seafood; 3) produce; 4) seasonal and general merchandise; and 5) bakery and deli. Promotion: The 2002 advertising budget was 0.89% of sales revenue, or $127,500. Competitors spent an estimated 1.0% of their sales revenue. If ELP is adopted, SS would increase the advertising budget (discussed later). Location: SS’s three locations (North Fairview, West Main and South Prospect) provide a competitive advantage. As cited by the VP of Operations: “we offer greater convenience of shopping with our three stores and that is worth something (implying higher prices)”. Further evidence is indicated in Exhibit 6 customer survey ranking “most convenient”: SS -35%, MM -25%, Hr -21%, and GA -18%. Goals & Objectives 1. Increase...
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...Improving Instruction for ELLs According the Echevarria, Vogt, and Short (2013), the 44 states that implemented the Common Core Standards these states are working “to ensure the required standards are included and the U.S. Department of Education (USED) is requiring participating states to revise their NCLB assessments” (p.8). While this alignment of standards promotes a unity between states and helps to promote college preparedness (p.8), it fails at considering the needs of English language learners. Some states, like Illinois and Arizona have created standards that help teachers to understand ELLs and consequently develop instruction that can be differentiated for their various proficiency levels. No two ELLs enter school at the same proficiency level or with the same experiences. This diversity makes it quite challenging for teachers to accommodate every learner. Consequently, teachers can use the Arizona English learner standards to supplement the Common Core Standards in an attempt to differentiate instruction for their ELLs. The standards address all proficiency levels, including pre-emergent, emergent, basic, low intermediate, high intermediate, and proficient. Obviously, the strategies that are adequate for general education students and proficient ELLs would not suffice for those at the pre-emergent or even the low intermediate stage. Therefore, differentiation is absolutely necessary. Differentiation would vary at the different stages as well as take into consideration...
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...English Language Proficiency Assessment in the Nation: CURRENT STATUS AND FUTURE PRACTICE Edited by Jamal Abedi U N I V E R S I T Y O F C A L I F O R N I A , D AV I S • S C H O O L O F E D U C A T I O N Copyright © 2007 The Regents of the University of California The work reported herein was supported in part by the National Research and Development Centers, PR/Award Number R305A050004, as administered by the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES). The findings and opinions expressed in this report are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the positions or policies of the Institute of Education Sciences, or the U.S. Department of Education. T his study required the participation of all fifty states, their assessment directors, particularly those involved with the NCLB Title III assessments. Their cooperation and patience is much appreciated, and their dedication to educating young people is greatly admired. We cannot thank the states enough for their collaboration with this project. Many people generously contributed to the development of this report. We are especially indebted to the chapter authors for their invaluable contributions and for their patience throughout this process. Sue Rigney from the U.S. Department of Education contributed greatly to the quality of this work by providing excellent comments and suggestions. We are so grateful for her support, advice and contribution to this report. Kathleen Leos of the U.S...
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...MBA635 – ELP ASSIGNMENT – WEEK 01 Avinash Shankar Coleman University Database Integration – A framework The Physical Database Design depicts the actual structure of a set of relational tables specific to the platform and Database Management Systems (DBMS) on which the database is implemented. It is used to transition a logical data design into a physical database design that can be used to generate Data Definition Language (DDL). It also takes the current Systems environment into consideration, as well as some non-functional requirements. Basically the Physical Database Design is the implementation of the logical data design with any changes needed for physical considerations, such as capacity and performance. A physical database design is performed in three stages (LePendu, P., & Dou, D., 2011, p. 217 to 244): 1. Logical database design, which includes gathering of business requirements, developing a logical data model, and designing how to load the data 2. Conversion of the logical data design into a Physical Database Design includes table definitions, primary and foreign key relationships, and basic indexing 3. Post deployment Physical Database Design (often performed by a database administrator) includes improving performance, reducing I/O, and streamlining administration tasks. Data Integration Layer The data integration layer should be modeled in 3rd normal form or near 3rd normal form and is considered to be similar to an operational data design...
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...Some of us think th at our current pizza is just fine the way it is. Others h ave a favorite pizza joint th at makes it like no on e else. And m any pizza lovers in America agreed up until recentl y that Dom ino 's home-delivered pizza was amo ng the worst. The home-delivery market for pizza cha ins in th e United States is approximat ely $15 billion per year. Domino's, which owns th e largest home-delivery market share of any U.s . pizza chain, is find ing ways to innovate by overhauling its in-store transaction processing systems and by providing other us eful services to customers, su ch as its Pizza Tracker. And more important, Dom ino's is try ing very h ard to overcome its rep utation for poor quality by radi cally improving ingred ient s an d fresh ne ss. Critics b elieve the company sign ificantly im proved the qu ality of its pizza and cus tomer service in 2010. Domino's was founded in 1960 by Tom Mon agh an and h is brother James wh en th ey purchased a single pizza store in Ypsilan ti, Michigan. The company slowly b egan to grow, and by 1978, Domino's h ad 200 stores. Today, th e compa ny is h eadquartered in Ann Arbor, Mich igan, and operates alm ost 9,000 store s located in all 50 U.S. states and across th e world in 60 international markets. In 2009, Dom ino's h ad $1.5 bill ion in sales and ea rned $80 million in profit. Domino's is part of a heate d battle am ong promi n ent pizza chains, incl uding Pizza Hut, Pap a John's, and Little...
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...CHAPTER 4 Promoting Children’s School-Readiness Growth with Academic, Persistence, Social and Emotion Coaching I n the first chapters we have talked about the importance of teachers nurturing their students’ social and emotional growth by promoting positive relationships with their students and their families and by scaffolding a safe classroom learning environment by setting up predictable routines, clear rules, and effective limit setting. These are core teaching strategies that provide the foundation of the teaching pyramid described in Chapter One that supports early school age children’s learning growth and eventual academic achievement. Incredible Teachers: Nurturing Children's Social, Emotional, and Academic Competence. (Excerpt.) ©Carolyn Webster-Stratton 134 Incredible Teachers In this chapter we will discuss another foundational teaching tool; that is, scaffolding children’s learning interactions with peers and teachers with coaching methods that support their school readiness growth, academic success, and social emotional development. This coaching involves using descriptive comments to highlight specific learning skills such as persistence with learning something new, focused activity, cooperation, emotion regulation, and patience. This approach addresses the social, cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and academic elements of children’s school readiness. School readiness implies that students have made significant progress toward...
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...The Social Life of Information by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid Harvard Business School Press, February 2000. ISBN: 0875847625 Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Tunneling Ahead 1 1 Limits to Information 11 2 Agents and Angels 35 3 Home Alone 63 4 Practice Makes Process 91 5 Learning -- in Theory and in Practice 117 6 Innovating Organization, Husbanding Knowledge 147 7 Reading the Background 173 8 Re-education 207 Afterword: Beyond Information 243 Notes 253 Bibliography 289 Index 307 About the Authors 319 Chapter 5: Learning -- in Theory and in Practice Knowledge management is the use of technology to make information relevant and accessible wherever that information may reside. To do this effectively requires the appropriate application of the appropriate technology for the appropriate situation. Knowledge management incorporates systematic processes of finding, selecting, organizing, and presenting information in a way that improves an employee's comprehension and use of business assets. We began the last chapter contemplating the trend from business process reengineering to knowledge management. There, we focused primarily on the limits of process, which we suggested was an info-friendly concept, but one that might be blind to other issues. In this chapter, we take up the other half of the matter and consider knowledge and learning, again in relation to practice and again as distinct from information...
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...Insider trading is the trading of a corporation's stock or other securities (e.g. bonds or stock options) by individuals with potential access to non-public information about the company. Such a trade is motivated by the possibility of generating extraordinary gain with the help of nonpublic information (information not yet made public). It gives the trader an unfair advantage over other traders in the same security. insiders are defined as a company's officers, directors and any beneficial owners of more than ten percent of a class of the company's equity securities ------------------------------------------------------------2--------------------------------------------------------------------------- It is important to distinguish between a STAKEHOLDER and a SHAREHOLDER. They sound the same – but the difference is crucial! Shareholders hold shares in the company – that is they own part of it. Stakeholders have an interest in the company but do not own it (unless they are shareholders). Often the aims and objectives of the stakeholders are not the same as shareholders and they come into conflict. The conflict often arises because while shareholders want short-term profits, the other stakeholders’ desires tend to cost money and reduce profits. The owners often have to balance their own wishes against those of the other stakeholders or risk losing their ability to generate future profits (e.g. the workers may go on strike or the customers refuse to buy the company’s products)...
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...Setting Key Targets for Executive Agencies: A Guide November 2003 Setting Key Targets for Executive Agencies: A Guide November 2003 © Crown copyright 2003 Published with the permission of HM Treasury on behalf of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. The text in this document (excluding the Royal Coat of Arms and departmental logos) may be reproduced free of charge in any format or medium providing that it is reproduced accurately and not used in a misleading context. The material must be acknowledged as Crown copyright and the title of the document specified. Any enquiries relating to the copyright in this document should be sent to: HMSO Licensing Division St Clements House 2-16 Colegate Norwich NR3 1BQ Fax: 01603 723000 E-mail: hmsolicensing@cabinet-office.x.gsi.gov.uk HM Treasury contacts This document can be accessed from the Treasury Internet site at: www.hm-treasury.gov.uk For further information on the Treasury and its work, contact: Correspondence and Enquiry Unit HM Treasury 1 Horse Guards Road London SW1A 2HQ Tel: 020 7270 4558 Fax: 020 7270 4574 E-mail: public.enquiries@hm-treasury.gov.uk ISBN: 0-947819-69-X C ONTENTS Page Preface 3 Executive Summary 5 Chapter 1 Introduction 7 Chapter 2 The Purpose of Targets 9 Chapter 3 Principles for Agency Target Setting 11 Chapter 4 The Strategic and Organisational Context 15 Chapter 5 Different Types of Target ...
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...All about 2011 Contents About us .........................................................................................1 The Coles story .......................................................................... 2 About Wesfarmers ...................................................................4 Our year ........................................................................................5 Our new format stores ...........................................................8 Our team ......................................................................................9 Responsible sourcing ............................................................10 Australia first ............................................................................ 12 Our sustainability ................................................................... 13 Our community ....................................................................... 14 Our 3 year performance summary ..................................17 Cover image: supplier to Coles for over 20 years, apple grower Harvey Giblett of Newton Brothers Orchards, located in Manjimup, Western Australia. About us Coles is a leading national food, liquor and convenience retailer in Australia. We employ more than 102,000 team members across our brands, which include Coles and Bi-Lo supermarkets, Coles Express, 1st Choice Liquor Superstore, Liquorland, Vintage Cellars and Spirit Hotels. Our goal What we want to achieve ...
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...21878 Organisational Dialogue: Theory and Practice 21878 Autumn 2013 Z I D A-G roup UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, SYDNEY Reviewing and Assessing H E L PS Communication C hannels Organisational Dialogue: Theory and Practice 21878 Autumn 2013 Prepared for: Higher Education Language Presentation Support (HELPS) Presented by: Aditya Sriraja Chintalapati Mary Gadelrab Ramneek Sharma Xueshan Wu Yulia Kulagina Submission Date: 6th of May 2013 Z I D A-G roup 11586942 11540349 11614094 11550264 11569605 1 21878 Organisational Dialogue: Theory and Practice 21878 Autumn 2013 Z I D A-G roup T ABLE 1. 2. 3. OF C O N T E N TS E xecutive Summary .......................................................................................................... 3 Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 4 Methodology, F indings and A nalysis .............................................................................. 6 3.1. 3.2. ................................................................... 6 Findings of the case study ........................................................................................... 7 3.2.1. 3.2.2. 3.2.3. 3.2.4. 3.2.5. 3.2.6. 3.3. 3.4. 3.5. 4. 5. Leadership communication .................................................................................. 7 Mode of communication ...............................
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...Contents Introduction 2 Literature review: 4 Methodology 14 Secondary Research: 15 Primary research: 15 Sample size: 15 Data analysis: 16 Questionnaires: 17 Interview: 19 Findings 19 Social Interaction: 19 Emotional Interaction: 20 Expression: 20 Culture: 21 Conclusion and recommendations: 22 Limitations 23 Appendix 1 24 Appendix 2 29 Questionnaire 29 Interview Questions: 30 Appendix 3 32 Codes 32 Response Sheet 33 Abstract IM is a text based, real time communication tool that has swept the world and altered how people interact with each other. It has created its own culture and ‘language’ and its effects can clearly be seen especially in teenagers. IM is a phenomenon that has countless effects on different parts of language, culture and society. This research aims to examine some of these effects based on one interview and questionnaires that were filled out by 25 young people. The key findings are drawn on the basis of responses given by respondents and the interviewee as well as the research done of the existing literature. Introduction By definition, instant messaging is a set of communication technologies used for text-based communication between two or more participants over the Internet or other types of networks. It basically offers real-time direct written language-based communication. Instant messaging falls under the broader term of ‘Online chatting’. This is because it is text-based, exchangeable in many directions...
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...HR PRACTICES OF WIPRO STUDENT UNDERTAKING This is to certify that we have completed the Project titled “H R P r a c t i c e s o f W I P R O ” under the guidance of Prof Sana Danani in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the award of degree of Bachelor of Management Studies at Rizvi College of Arts, Seience & commerce. This is an original piece of work & we have not submitted it earlier elsewhere. ROLL NO. 105 86 100 89 71 NAME: Jyoti Singh Atul kumar Pandey Muzaffar Shaikh Asim Qureshi Jangle Sanchit SIGN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We would like to thank my Project Guide Prof. Sana Danani for her immense guidance, valuable help and the opportunity provided to us to complete the project under his guidance. I would like to thank all faculty members of Rizvi College of Arts, Science & Commerce for guiding and supporting me in the completion of project from time to time. Last but not the least, my gratitude to great almighty and my parents without whose concerned and devoted support the project would not have been the way it is today. ROLL NO. 105 86 100 89 71 NAME: Jyoti Singh Atul kumar Pandey Muzaffar Shaikh Asim Qureshi Jangle Sanchit SIGN SUBJECT PROFESSOR (Prof. Sana Danani) CO-ORDINATOR (Furkan Shaikh) CERTIFICATE This is to certify that the project titled “ HR p r a c t i c e s o f W I P R O ” is an academic work done by the following student submitted in the partial fulfillment of the requirement for the award of the degree of bachelor of management...
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...S ARAH B ROWN W ESSLING 2010 N ATIONAL T EACHER OF THE Y EAR M A K I N G A D I F F E R E N C E – S H A P I N G T H E F U T U R E SARAH BROWN WESSLING 2010 Iowa Teacher of the Year Johnston High School Johnston, IA School profile: Students in district: Students in building: Suburban 5700 1250 Teaching area: Teaching level: Years in teaching: Years in present position: 2010 National Teacher of the Year Sarah Brown Wessling English 10 - 12 11 10 Page 1 II. Educational History and Professional Development Activities: DEEPENING THE LAYERS ACADEMIC BACKGROUND Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. Master of Arts, August, 2003. • MAJOR: English. Specialization: Literature. • THESIS TITLE: Using Literary Theory in an Advanced Placement English Classroom. • AWARDS: o Excellence in Research for Master's thesis, 2003. o Albert Walker Excellence in English Award, 2003. o Critical Writing Award (for critical scholarship), 2003. Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. Bachelor of Arts, Graduated with distinction, May 1998. • MAJOR: English Education. • Honors: o Phi Beta Kappa Liberal Arts and Sciences Honor Society, 1998. o Mortar Board Honor Society, VICE PRESIDENT, 1997-1998. o Phi Kappa Phi International Honor Society, 1997-1998. o Kappa Delta Pi, FOUNDATION REPRESENTATIVE, 1997-1998. o Golden Key National Honor Society, 1996-1998. o Dean's List: 1995-1998. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY Johnston Community School District, Johnston...
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