...| Preliminary Investment Proposal - Information Checklist1. Brief description of project. 2. Sponsorship, management & technical assistance: * History and business of sponsors, including financial information. * * Proposed management arrangements and names and curricula vitae of managers. * * Description of technical arrangements and other external assistance (management, production, marketing, finance, etc.). 3. Market & sales: * Projected production volumes, unit prices, sales objectives, and market share of proposed venture. * Potential users of products and distribution channels to be used. * Present sources of supply for products. * Future competition and possibility that market may be satisfied by substitute products. * Tariff protection or import restrictions affecting products. * Critical factors that determine market potential. 4. Technical feasibility, manpower, raw material resources & environment: * Comments on special technical complexities and need for know-how and special skills. * Possible suppliers of equipment. * Availability of manpower and of infrastructure facilities (transport and communications, power, water, etc.). * Breakdown of projected operating costs by major categories of expenditures. * Source, cost, and quality of raw material supply and relations with support industries. * Import restrictions on required raw materials. * Proposed plant location in relation to suppliers, markets, infrastructure...
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...Building a Customer Service Strategy Hector Castellanos Busn-258-19281 Michial Schickedanz 1. If you were an owner or leader in this business, what could you do to help employees understand the value of excellent customer service? The organization needs to deliver a clear message from top management to bottom as to the importance of customer service. Company’s culture that sets organizational values, how business is to be done. HR training programs developed to deal with customer service, how to deal with difficult clients and complaints. Communicate to employee’s organizational strategy through a competent customer service approach, which is to develop customer retention and customer loyalty. Train customer service staff on key points such us knowing the customer and their needs, providing a good experience and setting customer expectations. “Companies need to educate employees to understand what it means to serve someone else, so that the employees step away from an “I did what I was supposed to do” mindset, and into the “I did what the customer really needed/appreciated.” It requires a move from training employees on the mechanics of service to educating them on the meaning of service. “Kaufman, Ron. (January 2015) Why your customer service training won’t lead to happy customers. Retrieve from http://eds.a.ebscohost.com/eds/resultsadvanced?sid=2102d773-103e-49bf-a4df-2c7a971eca63%40sessionmgr4001&vid=1&hid=4111&bquery=Why+your+customer+service+trai...
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...Direct Foreign Investment Decision Proposal Paper To Buy This material Click below link http://www.uoptutors.com/FIN-403/FIN-403-Week-5-Learning-Team-Assignment-Direct-Foreign-Investment-Decision-Proposal-Paper FIN 403 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment Direct Foreign Investment Decision Proposal Paper Prepare a 5,250- to 7,000-word proposal in which you select the optimal financing and investment strategy for your scenario. Include the following information in your proposal: Identify which country you chose and why. Identify foreign exchange rate data. Use foreign exchange and cost of capital data to determine appropriate capital sources. Conduct a sensitivity analysis, based on the following questions: What if funds are blocked? How does this affect the parent organization? What if the subsidiary provided funds? How does the source of capital affect the subsidiary and parent organization? What sources of capital would minimize the cost of capital to the subsidiary? What happens if the country you chose provides incentives to invest? Now that your organization is profitable, the country is taking incentives back. How do you determine the residual value at the end of the project life? How is the value of an organization determined from the following perspectives? Expiration of project life Friendly or unfriendly buyout Economic decision to change locations Nationalization or confiscation of organization Identify available alternative investment and financing decisions...
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...An Investment Proposal for InterClean’s Future HRM 531 April 4, 2011 Professor Walfredo Leiva New Training and Mentoring Needs InterClean and EnviroTech are now one. This merger has brought about the necessity for training for all employees regarding new vision of InterClean: no one will be left out. This training program will help us understand what the new organization's expectations are and how to go about successfully meeting those expectations. On average, company annually spends approximately $ 1,241.00 on employee development (Bersin & Associates, (2011). Our goal is to make sure that each one of these precious investment dollars are spent on ensuring your success. Every dollar spent wisely is a “buy-in” for your future success and commitment to the future of InterClean: we are striving to develop our future company leaders today. The company’s new vision is more industry focused. Because of this, more knowledge is needed for us all in the areas of environmental regulations, OSHA standards, and sanitation standards as it pertains to this specific industry. Customers, regardless of the division, are not interested in or do not need to see or hear catch phrases such as, “At EnviroTech we used to….” Or “ Here at InterClean, that is not how we do things.”; therefore, it is essential for all personnel to go through an training program in communication as well as customer satisfaction. The information in this report specifies how the training and mentoring...
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...Executive Summary A request for a proposal was set by Jennifer Childs, Manager of a mid-size pharmaceutical company, to her three General Managers to propose on the reinvestment of an additional profit of $2,000,000 into the company. She has strained that the proposal should lead to a reduction of cost to the company and or increase in sales. The money would be allocated to one or more of the affected areas. Proposed areas to improve on are: * The Product development department needs upgrading in more laboratory equipment and scientists but the costs involved could absorbed the whole profit amount * Production department needs to be restructured by using employee teams. This could be a good idea, the reasons are as follows: * Suggestions made by employees could be implemented * Cost not too much if work spread over a period of time The only problem we foresee is that Tyler should convinced Jennifer as the things that her father built, weigh up very high for her. * Operational department needs upgrading. Computer equipment can`t handle the volume of transactions – this would require buying new software but this could led to a loss of disruption to the legacy system. It would be suggested that this project being breakdown into phases. * A proposal was made by the Marketing manager to increase his budget to employ more sales representatives, rather than allocating funds to projects as he believe that this will increase sales. What needs to be taken...
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...Marketing Management ! ! Dr. João Borges Assunção Eng. Natércia Trindade ! ! ! ! Brannigan Foods Strategic Marketing Planning for the Soup Division ! ! Brannigan Foods Soup Division is a 100 year old company with mature products which account for 40% of the whole soup market and it is the most significant division of the Brannigan Foods group. The most important category is the RTE soups which account for 78% of total sales. (Exhibit 2) Other products include Low sodium RTE “Heart Healthy”, dry soups and mixes and private label and Annabelle’s fast and simply. Annabelle’s was a soup company acquired 5 years ago in order to add healthier sups, dry soups and fast to the company’s portfolio, a growing trend in the market. In terms of costumer perception of Brannigan comparing with competition, Brannigan’s falls behind in the following: - Health trends - Diet claims - Convenience offerings - Flavors-especially popular regional ones - Seasonal products outside cold weather ! Retailers perceive Brannigan to be: -Category leader -not innovative -less profitable than store brands and competition ! Over the past 3 years the results of the division have been decreasing and there are several reasons behind this: - The whole soup industry has been declining for several years. The Lisbon MBA Class 2014 Ana Amaral 1 Marketing Management - The largest and most loyal segment of soup consumers, the baby boomers, which account for 20% of American population and are the main target...
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...Richman Investments Security Outline Richman Investments has experienced an increase in security breaches that have resulted in the loss of company proprietary information and damage to systems due to many virus and Trojan Horse infections. The following outline contains some of the security mitigation proposals to be implemented shortly. This is just a basic plan for the moment and if security breaches continue, more stringent policies will be installed. The Seven Domains of a typical IT infrastructure are as follows, with the corresponding security proposed for each domain. 1.) User domain proposal: Track and monitor abnormal employee behavior and use of IT infrastructure during off-hours. Begin IT access control lockout procedures based on Acceptable use policy (AUP) monitoring and compliance. 2.) Workstation Domain proposal: Use workstation antivirus and malicious code polices, standards, procedures, and guidelines. Enable an automated antivirus protection solution that scans and updates individual workstations with proper protection. 3.) LAN Domain (including wireless LANs) proposals: Implement encryption between workstations and Wireless Access Points (WAPs) to maintain confidentiality. 4.) LAN-to-WAN Domain proposal: Conduct post configuration penetration tests of the layered security solution within the LAN-to WAN Domain. Test inbound and outbound traffic and fix any gaps. 5.) Remote Access Domain proposal: Apply first-level (i.e., user ID and password) and...
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...point of view of Edward Brown, president and chief executive officer of Quality Metal Service Center Analysis ROA is the indicator that the company is profitable or the company’s assets generates revenue. The Economic Value Added is a good measure for evaluation of the performance of investment centers, The current compensation system of district managers is affected by his or her region’s performance, 75% was based on district performance and 25% was based on his or her region’s performance. The investment in machine of $540,000, 10 years cash inflow of $286,000 yields PV of cash inflow of $39,182 and a payback period of 4.5 years. Ken Richards proposal can make a lot of profit for the company The bonus of the district managers should be solely based on his district’s performance so that they will not be affected by the poor performance of others or motivation not to perform well because they will still have good bonus if the region performs well while his or her district is not. Reco Accept the capital investment proposal to Quality because the payback period of 4.5 years is lower than the standard of 10 years and QMSC will have positive cash flow. Ken Richards should send the proposal to the home office for approval because this will increase the market share and a lot of profits for the company. EVA will resolve the issue of Columbus District Manager and proposed project will be...
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...1. The basic format for a proposal includes the following steps: Introduction Problem Analysis; major causes, Evidence and Effects of the probem. Plan for solving the problem: Major steps, Support and Deliverables. Benefits of the Plan: Costs-benefits analysis Conclusion 2. Proposals are used in college, in the workplace and anywhere you want to pitch a proposal or new project idea including grant writing. 3. The steps for inventing your proposal’s content are defining the problem, analyzing the problem, researching, inquiring, and finding similar projects. 4. The three primary sources of information for proposal writing are online, print, and empirical sources. 5. The steps to planning to solve the problem are map out the plan, explore each major step, figure out costs and benefits, and finding similar projects. 6. Costs and benefits should be listed to prove to the readers that the benefits of their investment are worth the risks. 7. In choosing an appropriate style, the steps are creating an Authoritative Tone, use metaphors and similes, pay attention to Sentence Length, and minimize the jargon. 8. Three tips for designing the proposal are creating a look, create white space and use meaningful headings. 9. The four steps in revising and editing a proposal are looking for inconsistencies in content, getting rid of extra stuff, tweaking the design and proof reading. 10. Five major problems listed are students are “paid to play”, have out of...
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...about the overall state of the company. Due to the company’s history of poor performance in previous years, his despair about the future of The Dim Lightning Company is necessary. This potential future failure is threating his personal life as he is worried about his job security, (Woolfe, 2002, pg. 82) . The director of Research & Development (R&D), is known to be “autocratic, strong-willed, and impatient,” and resigned at previous industry competitor’s firms due to their lack of innovation. Spinks proposal of the “Lamp of the Future” proposal seems to put them in a difficult position that could threaten the company’s overall health. The new proposal has a long-term ability to stabilize the company and provide them with income; however, time is not on their side as they are already in a financial crisis, (Woolfe, 2002, pg. 83). The staff has to ultimately make the decision whether to try or deny the new proposal, as it is not a guarantee that it will be a successful investment. The causes for problems at The Dim Lightning Company originate from a divided culture and divided management who share different organizational views. While looking at the culture, it is not functioning properly to adequately make a decision because everyone is not on the same page. Dysfunctional management makes dysfunctional team members who do not perform efficiently,...
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...restaurant , had been growing by about 10% per year, even when the industry growth rate is just 5% per year but in 1995, for the first time , sales were down in 20 The Coop’s stores. To find out the reason behind this underperformance, two top managers of the Coop had suggested systematic market research for better quality and customer service. His managers suggested market research techniques like Quality Inspection Program, Controlled taste tests. Also Brand Image Monitoring Survey and Customer Experience Study were some of the method suggested by Trevor Wallace, vice president of Marketing. The objective of case is to decide which course of action Daryl Buckmeister , CEO of the company , should take? Whether he should put large investment in market research? Which of these proposed programs he should implement? Major Marketing Problem The Coop’s had always given preference to food items to create value priced meal. After little investigation Buckmeister came to know about degradation of performance standards in some of the kitchen. Also he found out some of the stuffs were not trained properly. Few of the customers also were dissatisfied with the food price of the Coop and they feel its food items are overpriced than the food price of their competitors. Another area of investigation was The Coop’s marketing spending. Although according to CEO, The Coop’s share of voice was comparable to that of KFC but there was uncertainty to whether Coops is communicating the write...
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...totally decentralized governance and how changing to a centralized governance leads to unrest and resistance. It also illustrates how the cultural/managerial change effects the business decisions needed to be made by a company to achieve success. Essentially, the case shows that IT governance must be aligned with business activities and tie all functions together to support the company’s strategy. 2. Problem Statement Will BPOC give a go-ahead for the proposal that the customer advocacy group was proposing? The proposal was to build a state-of-the-art customer interaction network that would centralize all incoming calls into a globally managed set of contact centers. Though this is a potentially valuable project, CISCO’s new centralized governance means that the customer advocacy group needs to get an approval from the BPOC. Will the BPOC realize the potential? Will it support the project and commit to a full cross-border and cross-functional implementation? If I was in Boston’s shoes, do I think he should approve the proposal? 3. Proposed Solution First, we need to understand the new strategies put in place by the CIO Brad Boston in late 2001 and why the new strategy faces resistance. This directly has an effect on the result of the BPOC’s decision on whether to go ahead with the central call center or not and how it might affect...
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...Request for Proposal UK‐1357‐14 Proposal Due Date – 04/17/14 Environmental Health & Safety Software‐Based Research Facilities Inspection and Recordkeeping System An Equal Opportunity University REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) ATTENTION: This is not an order. Read all instructions, terms and conditions carefully. PROPOSAL NO.: Issue Date: UK-1357-14 RETURN ORIGINAL COPY OF PROPOSAL TO: 3/20/2014 UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY Environmental Health & Safety SoftwarePURCHASING DIVISION Based Research Facilities Inspection and 411 S LIMESTONE Title: Recordkeeping System ROOM 322 PETERSON SERVICE BLDG. Purchasing Officer: Joyce Holmberg LEXINGTON, KY 40506-0005 Phone: 859-257-9104 IMPORTANT: PROPOSALS MUST BE RECEIVED BY: April 17, 2014 @ 3 P.M. LEXINGTON, KY TIME. 1. NOTICE OF REQUIREMENTS The University’s General Terms and Conditions and Instructions to Bidders, viewable at www.uky.edu/Purchasing/terms.htm, apply to this RFP. When the RFP includes construction services, the University’s General Conditions for Construction and Instructions to Bidders, viewable at www.uky.edu/Purchasing/ccphome.htm, apply to the RFP. Contracts resulting from this RFP must be governed by and in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Any agreement or collusion among offerors or prospective offerors, which restrains, tends to restrain, or is reasonably calculated to restrain competition by agreement to bid at a fixed price or to refrain from offering, or otherwise, is prohibited...
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...Britt, 2008). When making these goals two areas need to be addressed. These two areas are the needs of the business and the desires of the stakeholders. These two do not always go hand in hand therefore, it needs to be determined how valuable and influential the stakeholders are to the organization. The organization wants to create a long lasting alliance with the most important stakeholders so knowing and meeting their desires is a common goal between the two (Li, 2008). Li (2008), "Once the business understands its own needs, the needs of the stakeholder that it desires as a partner, and the means through which an alliance can help satisfy both sets of desires, that business can use that information to create the terms of an alliance proposal.” (para. 4). Another strategy to create an alliance within...
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...CITY OF NEW ORLEANS 2013 Budget Proposal October 29th, 2012 10/29/2012 Mayor’s Office of Communications 2013 Budget Presentation • Background • Performance Management/Review of Improvements • 2013 Budget Proposal 2 2013 Budget Proposal Funding Cuts at the State and Federal level are posing significant budgeting challenges for municipalities across the U.S. ● Nearly 48% of cities plan to reduce workforce this year ● Los Angeles predicts over 200 City jobs will be eliminated due to budgetary challenges ● San Bernardino closing all but one library and reducing 100 jobs including Police and Fire positions ● The State of Louisiana is not meeting its obligation to fund District Attorney, Indigent Defender, or mental health We must continue to take action to be smart about how we get smaller 3 2013 Budget Proposal The Landrieu Administration addressed an inherited $97M spending gap Budget Comparison $550M 2009 Expenditure $528M 500 110 450 $431M $97M Gap 400 418 431 Gap Recurring Revenue 2010 350 300 2009 Note: One-time revenue sources not included in chart 4 2013 Budget Proposal First step to eliminating gap was to reverse the spending trend Annual Expenses $550M $528.0M $496.0M 500 $483.0M $479.9M $477.8M* $50.2M Difference 450 400 350 *= Proposed $477.8M expenditure does not include $13.4M appropriation to fund balance. Including fund balance contribution, the City is proposing a budget...
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