...Regina Woodford CJ 100: Preparing for a Career in Public Safety January 29, 2014 The three key social issues that contribute to the need for criminal justice practitioners are sex offenders, drug abuse, and gun control. The first key social issue is sex offenders. Sex offenders are required by state law to register in the system and allows the public to know where they live and what offense was made (Perlam 2006.). A sex offender is an adult, or child having consensual or nonconsensual sex with a minor. Having a sex offender in your neighborhood can prove not to be a good thing for schools or homes because of the children. When individuals register as they are supposed to, it allows people in the community to be aware of them. The second key social issue is drug abuse. This issue requires a need for criminal justice practitioner in for different reasons. Drug abuse is a social and physical problem. The physical problem is the pain that a person inflicts upon themselves intentionally and unintentionally while high. Drug abuse can lead to life threatening addictions and can also kill a person. Therefore, it contributes for a need of a criminal justice practitioner; the CJ practitioner can promote a lack of narcotics to prevent individuals from spending the rest of their lives jail. When a person abuses drugs, they do not see their problem as an issue. A criminal justice practitioner role would be to help drug abusers by, sending them to rehabilitation centers or locking...
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...The main purpose of this study is to identify and examine some key issues such as safeguarding and risk factors that mays be evident in the case of Toby in relation to parenting, development and environment in which he and his family find themselves with key focus on safeguarding as everyone’s responsibility and must be child centred. The effect of any identified harm the long term and short term consequences on the child identity and development with the application of safeguarding legislation and policies, children Act 1989(section 17and 47). This section of the legislation is focus on need, and detection of harm and when it is believe that a child may be facing significant harm. The social worker having an understanding of what significant...
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...Q E MIS Uarterly xecutive Key Issues for IT Executives 2012: Doing More with Less This is the seventh in a series of MISQE-published reports based on an annual SIM membership survey. With the enduring economic uncertainties prevailing, these U.S.based organizations are now focusing not only on leveraging IT to reduce business and IT expenses, but also to generate revenues from IT innovations. While IT budgets for hiring, and salary increases are on the rise, these increases are less than last year’s when organizations were more optimistic that the economic conundrum was ending. There is also greater attention to reducing IT budgets through IT infrastructure spending (especially Cloud) and sourcing (especially offshore). Jerry Luftman Global Institute for IT Management (U.S.) Barry Derksen Business & IT Trends Institute (The Netherlands), University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) Since 1980, the Society for Information Management (SIM), in a joint effort with different research leaders, has conducted an annual survey of the key issues facing IT executives globally and in the United States in particular. One of the important strengths of this research is in its ability to identify important trends by comparing survey data from previous years. The 2012 SIM survey, conducted in the 2nd and 3rd quarter of 2012, once again focused on three important areas: Key IT Issues Included in the Survey 1. Management concerns This year’s participants were asked to provide their...
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...Journal of Information Technology (2012) 27, 198–212 & 2012 JIT Palgrave Macmillan All rights reserved 0268-3962/12 palgrave-journals.com/jit/ Research Article Key information technology and management issues 2011–2012: an international study Jerry Luftman1, Hossein S Zadeh2, Barry Derksen3, Martin Santana4, Eduardo Henrique Rigoni5, Zhengwei (David) Huang6 1 2 Global Institute for IT Management, Fort Lee, NJ, USA; DIBA Group Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia; 3 Business & IT Trends Institute, University of Amsterdam (VU), Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 4 Graduate School of Business, ESAN University, Lima, Peru; 5 ˜ Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Sao Leopoldo, Brazil; 6 College of Economics and Management, Three Gorges University, China Three Gorges University, Yichang City, Hubei, China Correspondence: J Luftman, Global Institute for IT Management, Suite 15L, Fort Lee, NJ 07024, USA. Tel: þ 612 6128 7323 Abstract The importance of the impact of IT for organizations around the world, especially in light of a very slow recovery from the global financial crisis, has amplified the need to provide a better understanding of the specific geographic similarities and differences of IT managerial and technical trends. Going beyond identifying these influential factors is also the need to understand the considerations for addressing them in light of recognizing the respective local characteristics, especially when operating in a globally linked environment, although somehow...
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...National Cranberry Cooperative -- Key Issues OPMT 405 Summer 2006 Major Operational Problem: Long truck waiting time to dump berries -- customer service Excessive overtime -- operating costs Both “symptoms” of a common ailment -- a bottleneck in the process flow. A minor problem that can be easily solved has to do with the grading of berries. $.75/BBL premium paid for grade 3 berries. Premium paid on 450,000 barrels in 1980. Half were incorrectly labeled as grade 3. Accurate grading could save $169,000 per year. Light meter system would cost $20,000 plus annual operator salary. What does this imply to the growers who are also the owners of the plant? Bottleneck Analysis Some simplifying assumptions: 16,400 BBL are delivered per day (70% wet, 30% dry) over 12 hours. Trucks arrive evenly spaced over 12 hours. Each truck carries 75 BBLs Downstream processing begins at the same time as dumping (7 a.m.). Capacity Dumping = = [pic] = 2250 BBL/Hour Destoning = 3x 1,500 BBL/Hour = 4500 BBL/Hour Dechaffing (dry) = 2x1,500 BBL/Hour = 3,000 BBL/Hour Dechaffing (wet) =1x1,500 BBL/hour = 1,500 BBL/Hour Drying = 3x200 BBL/Hour = 600 BBL/Hour Separating = 3x400 BBL/Hour = 1200 BBL/Hour Bailey Mills = 3x400 BBL/Hour = 1200 BBL/Hour Processing Requirement Total: 16,400 BBLs...
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...Key Issues for Directors in 2014 — The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Gover... Page 1 of 2 Key Issues for Directors in 2014 Posted by Martin Lipton, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, on Monday December 16, 2013 at 9:20 am Editor’s Note: Martin Lipton is a founding partner of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, specializing in mergers and acquisitions and matters affecting corporate policy and strategy. This post is based on a Wachtell Lipton memorandum by Mr. Lipton. For a number of years, as the new year approaches I have prepared for boards of directors a one-page list of the key issues that are newly emerging or will be especially important in the coming year. Each year, the legal rules and aspirational best practices for corporate governance, as well as the demands of activist shareholders seeking to influence boards of directors, have increased. So too have the demands of the public with respect to health, safety, environmental and other socio-political issues. In reviewing my 2013 issues memo, I concluded that the 2013 issues continued as the key issues for 2014 with a few changes in detail or emphasis. My key issues for 2014 are: • 1. Maintaining a close relationship with the CEO and working with management to encourage entrepreneurship, appropriate risk taking, and investment to promote the long-term success of the company, despite the constant pressures for short-term performance, and to navigate the dramatic changes in domestic and world-wide economic...
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...Key Issues 1) Currently MTS is a decentralized company with three autonomous profit centers. Even though they are required in have internal sourcing, there appears to be a problem with each manager looking out for their own divisions goals such as meeting 12% ROI and not focusing on the long term growth and sustainability of the company as a whole. Since each division is concerned about operating income the internal transfer prices are overstated containing high mark ups and royalties. If the managers came together and shared information and resources for the organization as a whole they would continue to sustain operations and grow. 2) Modern Technology Services (MTS) needs to obtain the long term business selling it’s MT-10 in the European markets. MTS is facing some stiff competition, therefore it needs to adjust their internal transfer prices to be competitive in the Market place. Under the current control system it appears as though each unit is concerned with their own profitiability as opposed to the organization as a whole. The managers of MTS need to communicate and share information more freely. The lowest external market price is $560.00, therefore the managers will have to come together and determine a transfer price in order to reduce the selling price to be competitive. By using only the variable costs and removing the royalty and mark up costs between divisions, the transfer prices will be 420.00 from PD to RD, and 450.00 from RD to ID. These lower internal...
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...Introduction and background Cost accounting is the process of accumulating, measuring, analyzing, interpreting and reporting of the information related to the cost. This type of process is useful and relevant for all internal and external stakeholders of the business entity. In the management accounting, the term cost accounting includes the works of establishing budget and actual cost of operations, processes, departments, analysis of the variances and profitability or social use of the funds. In the external stakeholders we include all those who have invested money in the company, such as banks, financial houses, investors and others. Internal stakeholders are those people who work within the premise of the company, such as business or company directors, division heads and managers. Cost accounting has long been used to help managers understand the costs of running a business. Modern cost accounting originated during the industrial revolution, when the complexities of running a large scale business led to the development of systems for recording and tracking costs to help business owners and managers make decisions. In the early industrial age, most of the costs incurred by a business were what modern accountants call "variable costs" because they varied directly with the amount of production. Money was spent on labor, raw materials, power to run a factory, etc. in direct proportion to production. Managers could simply total the variable costs for a product and use this...
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...Key Supply Chain Issues The economic collapse has had at least one affirmative impact: It forced corporations to take a concentrated check at their supply chain, inquire some of their suppositions, and pluck out key incompetences. In a paradigm, unplanned decisions to source cheap-price products from states with the smallest labor cost since they may no longer make sense when the long-term amplifies in haulage rates, risks of interruption, and weeks of inventory in the pipeline are factored into general landed cost calculations. Currently there are analysis going on over the supply and chain management changes in SCC (supply chain council). SCC is working on various advancements on the issues of supply chain challenges, which are affecting the global economy and markets. The SCC is aimed at advancing the supply chains acknowledgement, and its application to solve the real world challenges (Supply chain council, 2012). Today, colossal markets in several states have developed links with other markets in different parts of the world; hence forming immense supply chains from raw materials to finished products. These products are supplied to their various destinations, which are markets around the continents. As a matter of truth, as contamination scandals continue to rage through French, Europe supermarket giant Carrefour has announced a number of initiatives to perk up the traceability and quality of its supply chains (Perkins C, 2013). The corporation pronounced last week that...
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...C - Key Issues Investigation Under the guidance of Dr. James Hall Ans. 1: Issue Ranking | 2008 | 2013 | 1 | IT and Business alignment | Alignment of IT with the Business | 2 | Build business skills in IT | Business Agility | 3 | IT strategic planning | Business Productivity | 4 | Attracting new IT professionals | Business Cost Reduction & Controls | 5 | Making better use of information | IT Cost Reduction and Controls | Comparing the list of issues of 2008 with 2013 from SIM survey report: Even though IT management working hard to maximize the use of IT to improve the business operations, but still this is the key concern from 2003 till 2013 as per SIM survey. Because of the ever-changing market, business and customer needs, this issue has become a continuous improvement process. Example: Enterprise Recourse Planning (ERP) solutions in the current market, even though many companies claims to provide best ERP solution for Transport, Manufacturing, Software or any business will have many limitations attached to it. The change in the priorities of concerns in border sense: When we compare the list of issues we can see that the management has changed its strategy to deal with the different concerns. Management enforced strategies to improve focus on concerns with high severity by segregating the merged areas and promoting such issue to higher level. Example: The ‘Business Productivity & Cost Reduction” which user to be considered as combined issue in...
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...Key Issues to Improve IT Project Management – article analysis It is mentioned as a major cause of project failure that they are not linked to company goals. Therefore, the starting point of discussion could have been the information systems strategy triangle. The text give great importance to the solution vendor, emphasizing that it is necessary to conquer him so that he will help with data to sale the project to the company directors (building the business case) and to create a partnership where everybody seek the project success. This issue could have been addressed more clearly and primarily emphasized the role of the vendor / consultant within the project (focus on core activities, maintenance of the same consultant throughout the project, etc.) rather than focusing on the trading of the service. Another flawed point is the fact that analyzes and questions that are usually answered in a business case are mentioned, but it is not given importance to the construction and use of it as a tool for project approval. It is also not properly addressed the life cycle of the project (especially the planning phase, which is essential to a good project) and nor the project management tools (PERT, CPM and Gantt Chart), which should be used to map critical activities, evaluate alternative routes in case of problems/difficulties at some stage, and follow up of activities planned, in relation to the project triangle (time, cost and scope, not leaving aside the quality). Another point...
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...HajelaYogesh Verma | WMP08052WMP08093WMP08095 | | Section- B | | Contents Executive Summary: 2 Few common issues in rural education in India 2 Research Objectives 3 Approach 3 References 3 Executive Summary: The number of illiterates in India is estimated to be over 400 million of which 75% live in rural areas. Of the literate population, a significant proportion lack basic vocational skills. India has world-class institutes of higher learning, such as the IITs, IIMs and medical colleges but the rural India still remain isolated to them. India’s most valuable intellectual capital migrates to western countries keeping gap in demand and supply of such intellectual capital in India, therefore we need to develop the equal opportunities for the isolated communities and enable them to access the elitist structure of Indian education. With the weak and tottering foundation India will not be able to achieve social and economic development The key challenge of India is to rapidly provide opportunities to the rural population to empower them with education and make them literate, and develop basic leadership and problem-solving skills. Have strong basic education foundation rural India will be able to raise productivity, entrepreneurship and material standards of living Here we would like to opt to do research into how into how provide solution to the critical issues of primary education in India through innovation strategy. As a part of research we will be meeting and collecting...
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...Urgent Looks 1. What issues got addressed in the key steps? The first issue was the adhering to the schedule. The team had a review and analysis session and came to the conclusion that deadlines and deliverables weren’t viewed with a sense of urgency and triggered a delayed chain of action. They also analyzed the impact this had on sales. The next issue the team noticed was management’s testing was out-of-date and undisciplined. Consulting seasoned employees, the team created a new comprehensive template for a weekly schedule that listed test cases and documented completion criteria. The “we’ll just finished tomorrow” attitude changed to “no one goes home until we’re finished”. Another issue was lack of leadership or a specific person who made sure that anything and everything was done or in place to keep on schedule. Our text asserts that a schedule “enables a project manager to monitor and control progress as work proceeds (p.14).” However, a project needs to be monitored on all levels. There was no such appointed person, someone was accountable and made sure that anything and everything was done or in place to keep on schedule. This project used a tip our text refers to a in its list of elements of a realistic schedule as “Provide clear visibility of the projects key deliverables (p. 24).” The team had a quite literal take and created a 4 x 8 whiteboard that to create a clear and very noticeable schedule to be reviewed weekly. A big issue that has a part in most...
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...Module 6: IT Department Now days it is getting harder and harder to find a company whose IT department is not based in a foreign country where English is the primary language. It is amazing how many Carls, Steves, and Bobs in the world have such a difficult time explaining what is wrong with your computer in their native tongue. The fact is companies are finding that just like automotive and retail manufacturing, IT departments can be cheaper if you outsource them. Below you will read an argument supporting keeping an IT department in house versus outsourcing its work. I will discuss issues like network familiarity, troubleshooting timeframe, and priorities. Module 6: IT Department Lack of Information In the article, To Outsource or Not To Outsource, Outsource magazine brought up the point about how cost alone should not be the deciding factor in outsourcing an IT department. One of the key issues they brought up is in-house versus a specialist. A specialist may sound nice, but is it as good as an in-house employee? Lets put this in a more understanding example. Your car needs new brakes; this is the car that you drive your kids around in every day. Whether to and from school or to soccer practice this car quite often holds the most important possessions in your life. You have two options for mechanics to replace your brakes. Both mechanics have the same amount of experience working on automobiles, but their expertise and prices differ slightly. Option one is cheaper and experienced...
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... product segments: Frozen savoury, Dessert, Fruit products customer segments: retailers (supermarkets), foodservice outlets (sporting venues or cafes), Petrol and Convenience Channel (Reliance BP sites) oversease markets: US market, Asia market Value chain: PFL doesn't sell directly to consumers. 2 What is the current life cycle position of the industry? (industry life cycle, and demonstrate why?) Maturity stage : The case mentioned that PFL has already achieved leadership in serveral markets. Besides, serveral other markets are very competitive. In addition, PFL is continuing to pursue conversion cost reduction, which is another character of maturity stage. So we conclude that this industry is in maturity stage. What are the key issues that will affect historical/future industry growth? What is their likely impact and the overall assessment of the industry’s future growth? (TEMPLES) Technology + The technology development, especially information systems and manufacuturing systems, will improve the efficiency and effectiveness of this industry by enabling economies of scale and scope. So the smaller compititors who doesn't have strong cash flow to invest in the new technology, will be swept out. And the left competitors will grow market share by both further acquisitions and cost management. Economy + The potential growing sales in US and Asia may make the total industry grow by expanding to international markets. The global financial crisis (Case doesn't mention) may...
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