...Before you begin this assignment, be sure you: 1. Have completed all previously assigned readings, particularly those assigned in Week 2. 2. Re-read the “MUC HUaircuts Case Study" and the Stage 1 assignment, and review the “Walmart Example,” beginning with "Background for Stage 2" on page 3. 3. Review Instructor feedback from the Stage 1 assignment. 4. Carefully review the Example shown following the Assignment instructions below. Overview of Business Process Analysis and Functional Requirements for UMUC Haircuts For your Case Study Stage 1 assignment, you performed a Five Forces Analysis and justified Myra's chosen strategy for competitive advantage and the business process that she would like to improve through the application of technology. In the Stage 2 assignment, you will identify the inputs, processing, and outputs of Myra's selected business process. Those inputs, processing, and outputs form the functional (business) requirements for an IT system to improve the process. The first step in identifying the functional or business requirements for an information system is to develop the high level requirements that establish the scope of the system. Myra has selected the Customer and Employee Scheduling Process for improvement using an IT solution, and together you have identified the following high level requirements. The system must: • Allow employees to enter their availability and desired days/times to work • Allow Myra to review the employee...
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...Team Video Analysis Report Strategic Management Consultants, Inc. Team A Camesha Hunt Alex Landos Derrence Kun Liang Lim Rodney Scott Miguel Soto BUSN 460 Senior Project DeVry University Professor Milford Abstract Team A has been instructed to list 6 issues facing CanGo that Team A assembled from the week 1 and 2 videos. They should be prioritized in order of importance. They should be numbered. The team must then come up with an actionable recommendation for each of the issues found. These should also be numbered and the recommendations must be actionable (DeVry Week 2 Assignments). The following body of text will outline and explain the questions to the fullest extent possible while citing the appropriate sources in APA (6th ed.) format on the references page at the end of this document. Strategic Management Consultants, Inc. Team Video Analysis Report Introduction Strategic Management Consultants, Inc. will address six issues facing CanGo that Team A collected from the week one and two videos. Strategic Management Consultants, Inc. will come up with actionable recommendations, number, and prioritize the solutions for each of the issues found (DeVry Week 2 Assignments). Methods The research for this assignment was collected through DeVry’s E-platform portal from our course e-shell in week one and week two video episodes. 6 Issues After reviewing the video episodes in week one and two Strategic Management Consultants, Inc. believes that the six issues facing...
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...MASTER IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- December 2015 FINAL EXAMINATION ------------------------------------------------- SUBJECT: ORGANIZATION BEHAVIOR SUBJECT CODE: MGT 6263 ------------------------------------------------- Assessment CRITERIA: Assessment | | | Total (Marks) | COURSEWORK: 1. Group written assignment2. Individual assignment | | | 3030 | FINAL EXAMINATION | | | 40 | TOTAL | | | 100% | Course work 1: Group Assignment (30 marks) A group assignment should cover a selection of an established business organisation in Malaysia (Multinational/foreign Company which MUST have related business in Malaysia for example Mc Donald) from different sector/industry as follow. Other sector/industry not listed below shall seek for approval. 1) Consumer sector/industry. 2) Trading sector/industry. 3) Services sector/industry. 4) Finance sector/industry. 5) Manufacturing sector/industry. 1. Coursework 1 will be distributed in week 1. 2. The assignment should be submitted. Students who do not submit their group assignment will be awarded zero mark. Student who submitted late will have mark deduction stated from the due date given. Mark reduction stated as the following: Late Submission * A 10% deduction per day of total coursework marks (excluding weekends and public holidays). * Late submission...
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...less resembles the format of an English term paper. Sections Summary A standard journal article laboratory report is organized into the following sections: Title: A single sentence fragment (no verb) that describes your experimental objective and gives some indication of the method (procedure). Abstract: A one-paragraph summary of the entire experiment—your procedure, results, and analysis. Introduction: A description of the scientific background for your experiment, including any previous experiments that your experiment builds on. (Remember to cite your sources!) The final sentence (analogous to the thesis statement in a term paper) is the objective of your experiment. Materials and Methods: A detailed description (in paragraph format) of the procedure for your experiment. Results: Your data, as you observed/recorded it. Note that this section is only for data that you observed or measured directly. Your analysis (including calculations) belongs in the Discussion section. Discussion: Your calculations, an analysis of what your results mean, and your error analysis. Conclusion: A short paragraph that restates the objective from your introduction and relates it to your results and discussion, and describes any future experiments or improvements that you would recommend. Works Cited: A bibliography of all of the sources you got information from in...
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...Introduction 2 2.) Process Analysis 2 3.) Process Flow at National Cranberry Cooperative 4 4.) Installing a Light Grading System 5 5.) Decreasing the truck waiting time 6 6.) Bag pack or Bulk Pack 8 7.) Conclusions 9 1.) Introduction This case analysis looks at the two primary problems at the receiving plant no. 1 (RP 1) faced by National Cranberry Cooperative during the cranberry harvesting period, viz. 1) too much waiting period for trucks before they unload berries at the RP1 and 2) too much overtime costs. There is also a secondary problem regarding grading of process berries. Half of the berries graded top quality are actually not top quality and do not deserve extra premiums paid on the top quality berries. 2.) Process Analysis We start by making a process flow diagram for the flow of berries at RP1 from the moment berries arrive at the RP1 in trucks to the moment they leave in RP1 after being bag packed, bulk loaded into trucks or loaded into bulk tins. The capacities of the various processes are based on the assumptions or data as shown below: Dumping Capacity Number of Kiwanee Dumpers = 5 Average time taken by truck to load the berries onto Kiwanee Dumpers = 7.5 minutes (Maximum being 10 and minimum being 5 minutes) Average weight of berries in a truck = 75 bbls. Dumping Capacity = 5 * 75 * 60 / 7.5 = 3000 bbls/hr. Holding Bin Capacities Bin No. 1-16 can hold dry berries only up to 250 bbls per bin. Total capacity of bin numbered 1-16 = 250*16 = 4000 bbls ...
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...Paper : TCS Placement Paper Pattern (English, Aptitude) Hi, Its Vineet Mishra. TCS Test Consists of 3 Sections.. 1. Test on Synonyms and Antonyms (40 questions, 20 minutes: Also Q's on Sentence Completion). 2. Aptitude Test (32 questions(may vary), 40 minutes: General Questions on Mathematics). 3. Critical Reasoning (30 Minutes: 3 Analysis Paragraphs and 12 questions Relating them Written Test: Written test is on line test paper. There were three sections. plz prepare last papers too & BARRONS Properly. Some of Antonyms are Admonish= usurp Adhesive = tenacious, sticky, glue, gum, bonding agent Alienate = estrange Bileaf = big screen, big shot, big success Belief = conviction Baffle = puzzle Brim = edge Covet = to desire Caprice = whim Concur = similar, acquiesce Confiscate = appropriate, to take charge, to annex Cargo = load, luggage Dispel = scatter Divulge = reveal, make known, disclose Discretion = prudence Emancipate = liberate Efface = obliterate Embrace = hug, hold, cuddle Furtive = stealthy Heap = to gather Hamper = obstruct Heap = to pile Hover = linger Incentive = spur Instigate = incite Inert = passive Latitude = scope Lethargy = stupor Lamont = lakes, lamentable Lament = wail Latent = potential Merry = Enjoy Meager = small, little, scanty Misery = distress Momentary = for small time Merit = to deserve Miserable = unhappy, sad Obstinate = stubborn Overt = obvious, clear, explicit, evident Pretentious = ostentatious Potential = ability Rinaile = rigorous Renounce=...
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...would be more effectively done by someone at [my] level.” 78%. That probably includes you. Fortunately, most managers agree with their team members. 66% of managers say they would like to “increase their use of delegation as a time management and personnel development tool.” To determine whether you are a good candidate for considering delegation as a tool to improve you (and thereby your team’s) performance, take this simple quiz. Yes Do you allow your team members to make mistakes? Do you frequently take work home or work late at the office? Does your team function smoothly when you are absent? Do you over-rule or reverse decisions made by team members? If you were incapacitated for 6 months, could a team member take over smoothly? 6. Do you do some things your team members could be doing? 7. Do your team members take initiative without input from you? 8. When you return from a trip or training, is there a big pile in your in-box? 9. Do your team members delegate to their teams (if applicable)? 10. Do you spend time on details that you would rather spend on planning and supervision? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. To determine whether delegation may be able to help you, give yourself one point for each answer of Yes on the even-numbered questions (2, 4, 6, 8, and 10), and one point for each answer of No on the odd-numbered questions (1, 3, 5, 7, and 9). The higher your score, the more likely you are to need to use delegation more than you are now. Any score higher than 5 indicates some need for additional...
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...of this effort is focused on managing outside counsel to improve adherence to case budgets. However, there has been a reluctance to provide the tools to the outside counsel that can truly enhance efficiency, particularly within the area of discovery. This article will provide an understanding of how new tools and procedures can help to make the litigation process more efficient. Perhaps even more importantly, we show how these tools will provide a better understanding of potential liability earlier on to enable better decision making, more predictability and even help promote economies of scale in the ongoing battle to contain legal costs. One of the areas of largest expense is discovery: the identification, acquisition, management and analysis of evidence. Today, evidence takes many forms: paper, electronic files, different media, as well as testimony and a panoply of case specific formats. As the volume of this evidence grows it becomes more difficult and expensive to manage. But new technology has equipped the legal practitioner with tools to organize, understand and access large collections of evidence in meaningful ways that help achieve the...
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...a patient. Each pill contains 0.003 grams of the medicine. How many pills will the patient need?” This problem may seem difficult at first but there is a problem-solving method called the unit factor method that will guide you, step by step, to the correct answer. This method is sometimes also called the “dimensional analysis” method. A) Numbers and units Any value or quantity in a problem has two parts: A number and a unit. For example, 0.08 grams The number The unit The unit tells you what type of thing you are talking about. The number tells you how much of that thing you are talking about. B) Making unit conversion factors What is a unit conversion factor? A unit conversion factor is anything that relates one quantity to another quantity. For example, the phrase “60 seconds per minute” is a unit conversion factor because it relates seconds to minutes. “Peaches are $1.50 a pound” is unit conversion factor that relates pounds of peaches to dollars. “Four legs per dog” is a unit conversion factor that relates legs to dogs. Unit conversion factors are important because they are what you use to solve medication problems, like the Dr. Gomez medication problem given at the start of this handout. All unit conversion factors can be written as a fraction, with one quantity on top of the fraction and the other quantity on the bottom of the fraction. For example, the unit conversion factor “60 seconds per minute” can be written as: ...
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...The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin is an analysis of race relations in America in the 1960’s. It is a personal perspective in the experience of being a Negro in that time. My Dungeon Shook is a letter addressed to the author’s nephew, named after him, written in the one hundredth anniversary of the emancipation, in which he tries to enlighten his nephew in order to keep him from following his father’s footsteps. He numbered the reasons why the white men have such closed perspective about inter racial relations and insists that it’s the Negros who must accept them and accept them with love because they are just confused and do not understand. He believes that the white men are innocent people with no hope, trapped in lies. He thinks they are like younger brothers to African Americans and therefore they shall force them to see themselves as they are. I am amazed of the way of thinking of this man. Instead of inciting fighting or protesting, which are in their every right after all African American people had been through, he rather put himself in the white men position. He has an almost Jesus Christ philosophy of love and acceptance and sees the white men as lost young brothers of the Negros and has the urge to guide them back the right path. He also points that African American are almost as guilty as the white men for following the standards they put them and live the lives that they set them to. Pretty amazing if you ask me. I think I would have never led myself to this...
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...Ray Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine: Summary & Analysis Dandelion wine was a story about a twelve-year old boy named, Douglas Spaulding. Douglas was just a typical twelve year old boy, who lived to play, run around and do what any other twelve year old would do. Not a very physically fit person, but it didn’t really seem to matter. He was a person who got what he wanted, not by whining for it, but by keeping his mind on whatever he wanted and setting out a goal for it. He was a happy boy and not many problems, till now, and he had a younger brother named Tom. Tom Spaulding, age ten, did what other little brothers like to do, tag along with his older brother. He was never in the way of his older brother; in fact they liked being together. Tom took every day slowly, writing most everything down, the first day of summer, the first this, his first that. Dandelion wine took place in a small town called Green Town, Illinois. In Green Town the Spauldings owned a patch of land that they grew dandelions on. Every summer, Douglas, Tom, and their grandfather would pick the dandelions and bottle it for wine. Summers in Green Town were very hot and winters cold. It was a town where almost everyone knew each other like a big family. In this story many problems confronted Douglas. There were many deaths, Great-Grandma, Helen Loomis, Colonel Freeleigh and Elizabeth Ramsal, which were friends and neighbors of Douglas. A good friend of Douglas, named John Huff, moved away to Milwaukee because...
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...follow two passages. These passages are also available as separate Word documents and PDFs posted to week 13A of the Moodle course site. PASSAGE 1 Downloading Movies from the Internet for Free is Wrong! Adapted from: “Downloading music from the internet” by Dr. Asher Meir from The Jewish Ethicist. http://www.besr.org/ethicist/downloadmusic.html It is wrong to download copyright protected movies from the Internet for free using peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing using systems like BitTorrent. Movies are similar to other public goods like bridges or roads. They cost a lot to create, but once they're around many people can enjoy them at low cost. Just as the government supports bridges by giving builders a concession to collect large tolls, even though your trip costs them a minimal amount, so it supports movie production by granting a copyright which enables the film maker and producer to collect from viewers. Downloading a copyright protected movie for free from the Internet is like making a detour around the toll booth. Even if you don't get a ticket, you've taken a free ride on someone else's investment. Our Sages viewed paying tolls as a prime example of the citizen's duty to obey the law, and emphasized the importance of avoiding even the appearance of evading this duty. And while it is true that if everybody downloads copyright protected movies for free from the internet, eventually the copyright may be impossible to defend, it's not ethical to join the...
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...Martin Luther King Memorial Analysis Martin Luther King to some is one of the most influential and iconic African Americans in US history. His “I Have a Dream” speech is globally known for its attack on civil rights segregation. When looking back throughout history, Martin Luther King would be a name you would recognize with others such as Jesus or even Mahatma Gandhi. Today, we can remember Martin Luther King as a man who had hope and truly cared about his countries people, so why shouldn’t he be respected by all with his memorial? Two articles that debate and identify individuals who have beleif that the Martin Luther King memorial is a “violent allegory of political conflict and tribalism,” have been posted by Philip Kennicot and Colbert I. King. Kennicot and King both approach the memorial in their articles from different styles and tones. In Kennicot’s article you can see that its style is more informational and the tone is positive while in King’s you can notice the sarcasm as well as the negative tone. When analyzing both articles, I can relate to the opinion based on the ideas of King. In the beginning you can see that King pokes fun at the immediate reaction of the “I Have a Dream” speech by saying how that it “did not spark an “Aha” moment causing the south to repudiate segregation” nor “ignite an Arab spring (Colbert I. King).”Although he might be recalling facts of that day, he also follows up the impact of the speech as a whole and that the idea of racial segregation...
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...[pic] Style Guide CONTENTS 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Research and sourcing information for assignments 1 1.2 Referencing 2 1.3 Assignment layout 2 1.4 Cover page 2 2 Writing objectively 4 3 Reports 6 3.1 Purpose of reports 6 3.2 Report Format 6 3.3 Table of Contents 7 3.4 Executive summary 7 3.5 Headings and series 7 3.6 References 8 3.7 Appendices 8 4 Essays 9 4.1 Essential features 9 4.2 Essay format 9 4.2.1 Title page 10 4.2.2 Synopsis or abstract 10 4.2.3 Reference list and appendices. 10 5 Plagiarism 11 6 Referencing within the body of your work 13 6.1 Paraphrased References. 13 6.2 Short quotes 13 6.3 Long quotes 14 6.4 Same author, same year, different work 14 6.5 Documenting tables/charts 14 6.6 The Reference List 16 6.7 Examples of referencing 1 7. References 1 Introduction Good writing takes practice and there are many ways that students can enhance and support their writing to achieve sound academic results. This guide has been designed to help students meet the requirements of academic writing. In essence, this is a style guide. There are rules to follow to correctly present the original author and avoid plagiarism, and there are suggestions to follow to communicate clearly and concisely. This guide will not replace the generally accepted academic practices of using a spell checker or proof reading your work for grammar errors. Rather, this...
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...Comparative analysis Gilgamesh and Odysseus Nikki Porter Hum Cultures 111 (world cultures 1) Professor Monique Baucham Strayer University Comparative Analysis: Gilgamesh and Odysseus This is a comparative analysis between two hero’s Gilgamesh and Odysseus who are two heroes from two different time periods that were both in search of the meaning of life. The epics that the two characters are featured in Gilgamesh, was developed from early Mesopotamia and the Odyssey in early Greece. Gilgamesh was a very popular and it was very valuable to the historian of Mesopotamian culture because it reveals much about the religious world, such as their attitudes toward the gods, how a hero was defined and regarded, views about death and friendship. Comparative analysis Gilgamesh and Odysseus This comparative analysis is that of Gilgamesh and Odysseus who were both historical hero’s. Gilgamesh who lived from 2700 BC-2620 BC he died in uruk. Gilgamesh compared to Odysseus Gilgamesh, the hero from the epic Gilgamesh, was the historical king of Uruk in Babylonia, on the river Euphrates in modern Iraq: he lived about 2700B.C. Odysseus, the hero from the epic the Odysseus, was the ruler of the island kingdom of Ithaca. He was one of the most prominent Greek leaders of the Trojan War. Both of these men were equipped with certain strengths, the difference in their strengths were Gilgamesh had physical, while Odysseus had mental strengths. Gilgamesh was a very self-confident and at times...
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