...Week 3 Knowledge Check Study Guide Concepts Mastery Areas in which people are Score: 20 / 21 Questions 100% 1 2 3 100% 4 5 6 Strategic planning 100% 7 8 9 Levels of planning 67% 10 11 12 The creative process 100% 13 14 15 100% 16 17 18 100% 19 20 21 creative Ingredients for enhancing innovation at work and approaches to innovation Obstacles to corporate innovation Barriers to effective decision making Concept: Areas in which people are creative Mastery 100% Questions 1 2 3 1. Ramona, a member of the innovation team at Buzzer Co., a beer manufacturing company, suggests that the company use the spent grain generated through the process of beer manufacturing to create commercial products. Ramona explains how the wasted grain can be broken down through the process of fermentation to generate biogas and compounds that can be used to make personal care products and clothes. In the context of William Miller's research, into which area is Ramona channeling her creativity? A. Organization creativity B. Relationship creativity C. Event creativity D. Material creativity Correct: The Correct Answer is: D. In the context of William Miller's research, Ramona is channeling her creativity into the area of material creativity. Material creativity entails discovering new uses and inventing materials for services, products...
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...PHL 320 Week 1 Knowledge Check To Buy This material Click below link http://www.uoptutors.com/phl-320-new/phl-320-week-1-knowledge-check 1.The bandwagon effect is a common bias, which refers to A. the tendency to one’s thinking with the underdog B. the tendency to one’s thinking with a negative advertisement C. the tendency to one’s thinking with cognitive dissonance D. an unconscious tendency to one’s thinking with that of other people 2. Some cognitive biases involve heuristics, which are A. general rules we unconsciously follow in estimating probabilities. B. the probability of an event happening based on personal experience C. the probability of an event happening based on family experience D. the probabilities of an event happening based on science 3. The in-group bias is characterized by A. a rational evaluation of those in other groups B. conclusions supported by data C. accepting individuals from other teams and groups D. believing that the achievements of the members of my group are a result of hard work 4. The premise of a good deductive argument, if true A. does not prove or demonstrate its conclusion B. proves or demonstrates its conclusion C. supports the conclusion D. does not support the conclusion 5. If we know that an argument is weak, then we know that the conclusion A. is false B. is true C. may or may not be true 6. “The ensemble played an encore at last year’s concert, and I’m pretty sure they played one the year before as...
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...PHL 320 Week 2 Knowledge Check To Buy This material Click below link http://www.uoptutors.com/phl-320-new/phl-320-week-2-knowledge-check 1.Uncertainty exists when the manager A. knows that the probability of success is less than 100 percent B. knows the risk involved in making the decision C. faces two conflicting issues D. has insufficient information to make the decision 2. Which of the following statements about group decision making improves the chances that the decision will be implemented successfully? A. People who participate in a group discussion are more likely to understand why the decision was made. B. Different approaches to solving the problem are available. C. More information is available when several people are making the decision. D. A single group member can dominate the discussion 3.A phenomenon that occurs in decision making when group members avoid disagreement as they strive for consensus is known as A. goal displacement B. satisficing C. groupthink D. domination 4. Identify the fallacy in the following statement: “Frankly, I don’t think you would be satisfied with anything less than our Model 24, which allows for more expansion than any other personal computer in its class. The way you catch on to things—something I can tell just from the questions you’ve asked here in the store—you’re not going to be happy with a machine whose limits you’ll soon reach.” A. Apple polishing B. Wishful thinking C. Groupthink D. Scare tactics 5...
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...your success and education, and continue to offer our students the opportunity to begin classes or to graduate four times a year with our flexible, year-round full-time schedule of classes. If you really want to attend a school where your needs (your real needs) come first, consider Sullivan University. I believe we can help you exceed your expectations. Since words cannot fully describe the atmosphere at Sullivan University, please accept my personal invitation to visit and experience our campus for yourself. Sincerely, Glenn D. Sullivan President MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT 1 Table of Contents Mission Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Sullivan University Success Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4...
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...Development of World Scheduled Air Traffic World Economic Growth and Airline Profits Rankings - Passenger services Rankings – Freight services Section 2 - British Airways Profile Overview Alliances LHR Air Transport Movements LGW Air Transport Movements Awards History Key Events (1987-2005) Board Members Leadership Team British Airways Management Team Employees Brands Departmental Analysis Section 3 - British Airways Fleet Aircraft Fleet Aircraft Delivery Schedule Mainline Fleet Profiles Regional Aircraft Fleet Maintenance Section 4 - British Airways Performance Summary Strategy Social and Environmental Performance Incentive Plans Summary Financial / Operating Statistics Principal Investments Shareholder Information Share Price History Section 5 - Global Partners Overview BA Connect Franchisees oneworld Aer Lingus American Airlines Cathay Pacific Finnair Iberia LanChile Qantas oneworld At A Glance Section 6 - Route Network British Airways Franchisees Section 7 - General Information Airport Three Letter Decodes Outside Advisors Abbreviations & Specialist Terms How To Contact Us 2 3 3 4 4 5 6 6 7 8 89 91 92 93 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 9 9 10 10 11 12 13 38 39 40 41 44 47 105 109 110 115 116 118 56 56 57 69 72 73 74 75 75 77 86 87 88 This document has been prepared solely for the purpose of providing information about British Airways to interested parties. It does not constitute an offer to sell any securities and must not be relied upon in connection with...
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...TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT AND SIX SIGMA Edited by Tauseef Aized Total Quality Management and Six Sigma http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/2559 Edited by Tauseef Aized Contributors Aleksandar Vujovic, Zdravko Krivokapic, Jelena Jovanovic, Svante Lifvergren, Bo Bergman, Adela-Eliza Dumitrascu, Anisor Nedelcu, Erika Alves dos Santos, Mithat Zeydan, Gülhan Toğa, Johnson Olabode Adeoti, Andrey Kostogryzov, George Nistratov, Andrey Nistratov, Vidoje Moracanin, Ching-Chow Yang, Ayon Chakraborty, Kay Chuan Tan, Graham Cartwright, John Oakland Published by InTech Janeza Trdine 9, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia Copyright © 2012 InTech All chapters are Open Access distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, which allows users to download, copy and build upon published articles even for commercial purposes, as long as the author and publisher are properly credited, which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. After this work has been published by InTech, authors have the right to republish it, in whole or part, in any publication of which they are the author, and to make other personal use of the work. Any republication, referencing or personal use of the work must explicitly identify the original source. Notice Statements and opinions expressed in the chapters are these of the individual contributors and not necessarily those of the editors or publisher. No responsibility is accepted for the accuracy of information contained...
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...INSIDE Wipro in Brief Customer Focus Financial Highlights Chairman's Letter to the Stakeholders CEO's Letter to the Stakeholders CFO's Letter to the Stakeholders Board of Directors Sustainability Highlights 2012-13 Management Discussion & Analysis Directors Report Corporate Governance Report Business Responsibility Report Standalone Financial Statements Consolidated Financial Statements Consolidated Financial Statements under IFRS Glossary 2 4 8 10 12 14 16 22 24 41 55 85 106 147 183 231 This Annual Report is printed on 100% recycled paper as certified by the UK-based National Association of Paper Merchants (NAPM) and France - based Association des Producteurs et des Utilisateurs des papiers et cartons Recycles (APUR). Certain statements in this annual report concerning our future growth prospects are forward-looking statements, which involve a number of risks, and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding fluctuations in our earnings, revenue and profits, our ability to generate and manage growth, intense competition in IT services, our ability to maintain our cost advantage, wage increases in India, our ability to attract and retain highly skilled professionals, time and cost overruns on fixed-price, fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration, restrictions on immigration...
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...Communications Annual Report 2011-12 Profile Reliance Communications Limited Reliance Communications Limited is the flagship Company of Reliance Group, one of the leading business houses in India. Reliance Communications is India’s foremost and truly integrated telecommunications service provider. The Company, with a customer base of 161 million as on March 31, 2012 including over 2.5 million individual overseas retail customers, ranks among the Top 4 Telecom companies in the world by number of customers in a single country. Reliance Communications corporate clientele includes over 35,000 Indian and multinational corporations including small and medium enterprises and over 800 global, regional and domestic carriers. Reliance Communications has established a pan-India, next generation, integrated (wireless and wireline), convergent (voice, data and video) digital network that is capable of supporting best-of-class services spanning the entire communications value chain, covering over 24,000 towns and 600,000 villages. Reliance Communications owns and operates the world’s largest next generation IP enabled connectivity infrastructure, comprising over 2,77,000 kilometers of fibre optic cable systems in India, USA, Europe, Middle East and the Asia Pacific region. Mission: Excellence in Communication Arena To attain global best practices and become a world-class communication service provider – guided by its purpose to move towards greater degree of sophistication and maturity...
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