...phenomenon every person experiences, and will continue to experience until death.The way that experiences happen is especially different, although they all share one thing in common: Even if you don’t realize it, personal experience can lead to changes in ideals and ways of thinking. John Green characterizes this fact in two of his novels, Paper Towns and looking for alaska. These books show this point by almost blatant changes in his characters. Furthermore, in the introduction of the books the main characters seem boring and opaque. When Miles “Pudge” Halter leaves Florida, things seem pretty stagnated. “The Week Before I left my family and Florida and the rest of my minor life to go to boarding school in Alabama, my mother insisted on throwing a going away party....
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...Table of Contents: Strategic Profile 3 * Company Introduction Situational Analysis 4-15 * External * PEST Analysis * Porter’s 5 Forces * Bargaining Power of Suppliers * Bargaining Power of Buyers * Threat of New Entrants * Threat of Substitutes * Competitive Rivalry between Existing Players * Competitor Landscape * Alaska Airlines * Southwest Airlines * United Airlines * Air Canada * Key Success Factors * Internal 16-23 * Resources * Tangible * Intangible * Value Chain Analysis * Primary Activities * Secondary Activities * Capabilities * VRIN Testing * Core Competencies SWOT Analysis 24-25 * Strengths * Weaknesses * Opportunities * Threats Strategy Formulation 26-28 * Strategic Alternatives * Alternative Evaluation * Alternative Choice Strategic Alternative Implementation 29-31 * Action Items * Action Plan References 32 Strategic Profile: Company Introduction Alaska Air Group is made up of two principle subsidiaries Alaska Airlines and Horizon Airlines. Alaska operates all jet engine aircraft with average mid-range flight distance of 1,051 miles while...
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...I. Company Profile Company Background “Nourishing Filipino Dreams” Alaska Milk Corporation first started developing its products through a joint venture with Holland Milk Products, Inc. In 1972, the company offered Alaska Evaporada Filled, Sweetened and Chocolate Sweetened Condensed Milk to the market. Since then the company became the number one brand and continued to expand its reach into other segments of the industry. In 1976, Alaska Milk Corporation became widely known as it launched its advertising strategies which featured the “One-on-One” campaign where the famous line “wala pa rin tatalo sa Alaska” originated, making its way into every Filipino household all over the country. The company then continued to use well-loved by Filipino sports to widen its market reach and won the various advertising excellence awards in 1977. In 1982, the company decided to revamp their packaging and developed advertising campaigns to “encourage use of Alaska liquid mild in food preparations”. Not long after, Alaska Milk Corporation expanded its product portfolio line and added the powdered filled milk in 1985 then the Alaska Choco brand in 1987. Aside from that, strong marketing initiatives were also launched in 1986 when it fully invested into sports and partnered with the “Sprint Queen”, Lydia de Vega, as the ambassador for the brand. Also in the same year, the company acquired a franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association which also helped establish the company’s equity in...
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...LEAN Principles in Today’s Manufacturing World Cock Sucking Strohm BUS 520: Leadership and Organizational Behavior Dr. Laura Jones Embry Riddle Aeronautical University Worldwide October 05, 2015 LEAN Principles in Today’s Manufacturing World LEAN is an innovative way of manufacturing that was first developed in a standardized manner by Henry Ford in 1913. When the automobile industry became large enough for the need to streamline the manufacturing process, Henry Ford took the lead and laid out steps in a process with the use of special-purpose machines and equipment. This standardized work and process became what was known as an assembly line. Henry Ford called this flow production. However, the innovation of Mr. Ford’s flow production was flawed. His system was only suited for one type of automobile with no variations except at the end of manufacturing offered by third party vendors (A Brief History of LEAN, 2015). When the World market wanted variety, other automobile manufacturers began to look for ways to improve on Henry Ford’s flow production system. One of the first to improve, modify, and fine tune the flow production system was Mr. Kiichiro Toyoda and a team of engineers at the Toyota plant. Mr. Toyoda realized that developing machining techniques to meet actual demand and to make those machines capable of being altered to develop different parts when needed was the next step in the flow production vision. This was the beginning of the Toyota Production System...
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...Alaska Airlines Strategic Management Model Linda Gay Cahill Table of Contents: Strategic Profile Company Introduction 3 Strategic Analysis PEST Analysis (Political, economic, social & technological factors) 4 Resource-Based View 6 Value Chain Analysis 8 SWOT Analysis 11 Strategy recommendations 13 References 14 Company Introduction Alaska Airlines is the ninth–largest U.S. airline based on passenger traffic and is the dominant U.S. West Coast air carrier. Headquarter in Seattle, Washington, Alaska carriers more passengers between the state of Alaska and the Lower 48 than any other airline. During recent years it has expanded significantly to serve more U.S. East Coast, Mexican and Canadian destinations. Long know for its Alaskan roots, symbolized by the Eskimo painted on the tail of the aircraft, Alaska Airlines offers a friendly and relaxed style of service, one that passengers have came to appreciate as the “Alaska Spirit.” The airline is known for embracing innovative technology to improve the customer experience. The carrier traces its roots back to 1932, when Linious “Mac” McGee airways started flying his three-seat Stinson between Anchorage and Bristol Bay, Alaska. A merger with Star air service in 1934 created the largest airline in Alaska, which eventually became Alaska Airlines. Alaska and its sister carrier, Horizon, are owned by Alaska Air Group.1 Alaska Airlines has a dominant market share serving Alaska. Unlike the rest of the economy...
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...Stephanie Says- The Velvet Underground Song Analysis The writer of the song seems to be talking about a girl who’s looking for answers; she’s confused and doesn’t really know what’s happening around her. Although this is not wrong there seems to be more to this girl- Stephanie – than meets the eye. Stephanie feels like she has wasted her life doing what people told her to do and following others without acknowledging her desires. This girl just wants to be herself but doesn’t know how. She wonders why she is the way she is and knows that she’s being foolish but doesn’t know how to stop. She’s stuck in a never-ending cycle. She watches life go by, feeling like she is not a part of the world around her. She connects calls but is never on them, she’s a door but she’s never in the room itself. She feels neglected from the world, stuck in this place where she exists in but is not a part of. She wants to leave but can’t or doesn’t know how. Since she’s not a part of that place, coming and going between worlds, people there don’t understand her. They feel her distance and coldness. Although people are somewhat curious about her, they never get their answers about her or they never really try. Stephanie reminds them of Alaska, always cold and far away. She want’s to leave this place she’s in but is unable to. She doesn’t want to be in the room instead she wants to flee and she doesn’t want to be on calls, talking; she just wants to hang up. Sick and tired of not finding the way...
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...SUMMARY Miles Halter meets the Colonel (real name Chip Martin), Takumi, and Alaska Young when he moves from his hometown in Florida to Culver Creek boarding school. Miles decides to attend the school in hopes to find friends unlike public school and thinks his life will improve due to it. The three take Miles (nicknamed Pudge because he's so skinny) under their wing and introduce him to the social order of campus, mischief-making, smoking cigarettes, and drinking. They have to avoid the Eagle—the aptly-named dean of the school—when they're creating mischief. After Miles is hazed pretty hard by the Weekday Warriors (students who stay only during the week at the boarding school) and almost killed unlike the normal ritual the friends vow to prank...
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...present for business development. During the presentation Ms. Canal mentioned that El Paso has been named as one of America’s safest cities. The validity of this statement alone sparked discussion amongst one another on whether or not El Paso was truly considered one of the safest cities in the nation. We then began researching the idea only to find conflicting information from various sources. This conflicting data and information led us to start developing our project from a micro environment towards a more macro perspective; investigating crimes rates within states rather than cities. This was a decision made due to the vast amount of cities within United States. Our group expects this analysis to rank the included states according to their crime rates. We believe that this analysis will prove helpful to others because since it can be used to make important decisions such as job relocation and provide information for crime prevention. Some of the different groups that might be interested in our...
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...much bigger growth. All the future outlooks of this technology points to a much wider use based on both enhanced functionality and cost reduction. “There are now more embedded devices than people on earth. As chips and wireless communications become universal and inexpensive, an enormous potential is created for new applications and novel ways to support our society and people’s lives” said Viviane Reding The former European Commissioner for the Directorate General Information Society & Media. This study by author Geomina Turlia and conducted with the support of European Commission, focused on the inter-linked between macro and micro approach to the technology so it can support the importance of the proposed overall methodology when looking into the economic value of the embedded devices in general. However, it is as important for implementation purposes to also use other supported tools like using a European National Accounts Data so finding the correct economic value can be refined specifically when more needed sectorial or thematic studies can be further conducted to support results. This also means that the study here advocated the abandonment of the measuring of embedded devices as own subject, to move towards a different integrated approach at the product level so that measurement of the this technology can get its economic value more precisely. There are two challenges that are theoretical, and need to be looked at when implementing the macro...
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...A. Summary of Situation The situation that will be evaluated in this analysis will be; is there a region of the United States in which childhood obesity tends to be more prominent? This will be done to show areas in which the Government, insurance companies and healthcare institutions should focus campaigns for healthy living to reduce future healthcare cost. The data that will be utilized to answer this business question will be the percent of children ages ten to seventeen that are overweight or obese in each of the fifty states. The states will then be categorized into their respective regions of East, South, Midwest, and West. It is important to look into the regions to see if there is a trend of obesity within a region, as this region should be the focal point of Government, insurance companies, and healthcare institutions to launch a healthy living campaign. Conducting such campaigns in a region of most need will in the long run, reduce healthcare cost because children will mature into health conscious individual with less preventable diseases. B1. Summary of Data Again the data that will be used in this analysis is the percentage of children ten to seventeen of which are overweight of obese in each of the fifty States and the District of Columbia. The States will then be put into regions to identify a region that shows more overweight or obese children. The data for this analysis will come from “The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation...
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...and Lung Cancer Ramon Gaetan, Kimberley Martinez, Anthony Paige, Mirany Legaspi, Annabelle Fohne HCS/330 December 06, 2010 Peter Mabrey Smoking and Lung Cancer Every year an estimated 392,000 people die from smoking -related diseases such as Lung cancer and another estimated 50,000 people die from secondhand smoke each year. Smoking is the number one preventable death within the United States. Of adults who have ever smoked most started at the age of 21 years old or younger. Smoking is directly responsible for over 90% of all lung cancer deaths (American Lung Association, 2010). The goal of this paper is to provide an analysis of lung cancer, which directly relates to smoking. Included in the analysis is an introduction of the disease, disease history, lung cancer etiology, affected populations, and possible treatments if any. By providing this information, one will understand why it is important to keep the younger generations from smoking and encouraging those who already smoke to quit, saving their lives and those around them from this unnecessary death known as lung cancer. When introducing lung disease one needs to know the emphasis from abstaining or acquiring help to quit smoking, which would greatly reduce the chances for someone to be affected by this deadly disease. Lung cancer is diagnosed by the results of abnormal cell growth in one or both lungs. This abnormal cell growth is...
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...……10 Overview…………………………………………………………………..…...…..10 Waterfall Method…………………………………………………….……………10 Prototype Method…………………………………………………………………10 System Design………………………………………………………….…………..11 Section 5: Information Systems and Society…………………………………………………13 Section 1: Information System Overview Organization Overview USA is a medium size credit union that was founded in 1948 and has grown to over half million members’ worldwide and about 6 billion in assets. USA operates 71 branches in four states and ATMs in a fifth all along the west coast. We operate a very diverse IT department, it is the second largest in the credit union after all the branch staff. We currently have two mirrored data centers, one in Alaska and the other is Arizona....
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...10-K 1 d855870d10k.htm 10-K Table of Contents UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 FORM 10-K (Mark One) x ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2014 or ¨ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 For the transition period from to Commission file number 000-28167 Alaska Communications Systems Group, Inc. (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) Delaware 52-2126573 (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) 600 Telephone Avenue Anchorage, Alaska 99503-6091 (Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code) (Registrant’s telephone number, including area code): (907) 297-3000 Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: Title of each class Common Stock, Par Value $.01 per Share Name of each exchange on which registered The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes ¨ No x Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act. Yes ¨ No x Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required...
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...Into the Wild Argumentative Essay Into the Wild is a 1996 non-fiction book written by Jon Krakauer. It is an expansion of Krakauer's 9,000-word article on Christopher McCandless titled "Death of an Innocent", which appeared in the January 1993 issue of Outside. Christopher Johnson McCandless was an intelligent, idealistic young man who believed that life was best lived alone, in nature. He spent two years testing his theory throughout the western United States before he entered the wilds of Alaska unprepared and starved to death. Chris had a very bright, hopeful future and why he left it all behind confuses most people. After analyzing Chris's personality traits, it helps things make sense. This makes many people ask the question, what was Christopher McCandless's temperament type? The theory of temperament type was introduced in the 1920s by Carl G. Jung. The essence of the theory is that much seemingly random variation in the behavior is actually quite orderly and consistent, being due to basic differences in the ways individuals prefer to use their perception and judgment. Based on evidence from the story, Chris McCandless was most likely an INTP (introverted, intuitive, thinking, and perceiving) temperament type. This means he was focused internally, where he dealt with things rationally and logically. Some people would diagree wiht this position and would argue that Chris McCandless leaned towards the preference of sensing and feeling. There is some evidence provided...
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... III. | Procedure | Page 4 | IV. | Results | Page 6 | V. | Additional Results | Page 7 | VI. | Business Implications | Page 10 | VII. | Project Implications | Page 10 | VIII. | References | Page 12 | IX. | Appendix | Page 12 | I. Project Question For our data analysis, our group decided to gather information pertaining to airlines and the different factors that go into calculating their revenue. To support our conclusions, we collected and evaluated 1,283 observations across 30 airlines, over a 12-year period beginning in 2000. We used this information to analyze the effects of a variety of independent variables on our dependent variable of revenue (both domestic and international). The independent variables we examined included number of flights, baggage fee revenue, fuel costs, amount of fuel consumption, and the dollar amount spent on advertising. These variables were divided into both domestic and international amounts. To complement our findings and evaluate data on a more disaggregated level, we separated the airlines into major and minor airlines. We placed all of the data we collected into Excel and then imputed all of the Excel information into SAS in order to run our analysis. II. Description of Variables All of the variables we analyzed, except for advertising spending, were found utilizing the RITA database provided by the Department of Transportation. Advertising spending data for airlines was found via Ad$pender. Ad$pender and RITA are both...
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