...Quanta Computer and the One Laptop per Child Initiative Quanta Computer is a company based in Taiwan, China. They manufacture and design products for many major tech companies such as Apple Inc., Hewlett-Packard, and Sony, just to name a few. What turned Quanta into one of the largest computer manufacturers in the world? To start off Quanta is strategically positioned in Taiwan, which just like many other Asian countries has gained significant ground in the computer world since the 1970’s. With Taiwan's competition in the industry being so high it kept their margins and prices low, which is very appealing to many major computer companies. Component designs within computers also became simpler and more standard which made it easier for companies in Taiwan to produce. (2.) Based on the Network Readiness Index for 2013 Taiwan ranks 10th out of 144 countries poled. If we look at the GIT report for 2013 Taiwan scored 6 out of 7 for local competition giving them a rank of 3rd out of 144. With accessibility to digital content also scored high with 6.3 out of 7. Factor in their math and science education ranking 6th overall, it is easy to see why Taiwan is home to a major company like Quanta Computer. (1, p.268) Quanta’s competitive strategies were geared towards having the company become a market leader in almost every aspect of business it entered. We see Quanta recently move towards vertical integration by controlling many of its procedures ranging from shipping...
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...Concert report On May 2, 2013, the Jazz concert at YOSHI’s OAKLAND, my friend and me had their first concert of this semester, the jazz band called The Bad Plus is from United States, and there are special guest drummer Dave King, pianist Ethan Iverson and bassist Reid Anderson. The concert started at 10:00 pm and ended at 11:30 pm. The jazz concert performed five songs during the concert and there were three songs are the most unforgettable for me “People Like You”, “Never Stop” and “2 P.M.” Jazz music, like all music, tells a story and here are the stories “People Like You”, “Never Stop” and “2 P.M.” “People Like You”, written by Reid Anderson .i think it an song for someone they loved. The song was very pretty, and it has a different genre than other songs in the concert. It is honestly hard for me to recommend this song to anyone, for I thought it was dull and lacked the depth of the other songs throughout the evening. It can clean people mind. At the beginning of this song, a piano and bass began to alternate the melody in this song as though they were like two lovers dancing in the wonderland. The rhythm, which was continuously steady, seemed to get faster like a heartbeat by the climax of the song. The bass would pick up strong at the same time and then die down again. There was such an edgy sound to this performance. And really can take people in the song’s wonderland. “Never stop”, was written by Reid Anderson. It was a beautiful song. I...
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...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Potential Strengths” These are the general characteristics for these Personalities.[1] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Popular Sanguine Personality * The Extrovert * The Talker * The Optimist* Are Best: * In Dealing with People Enthusiastically. * In Expressing Thoughts with Excitement. * In Up-Front Positions of Attention.* . Their Emotions: As a Parent: As a Friend: At Work: -Appealing Personality -Makes Home Fun -Makes Friends Easily -Volunteers for Jobs -Talkative, Story-Teller -Is Liked by Children’s Friends -Loves People -Thinks Up New Activities -Life of the Party -Turns Disaster into Humor -Thrives on Compliments -Looks Great on the Surface -Good Sense of Humor -Is the Circus Master -Seems Exciting -Creative & Colorful -Memory for Color -Envied by Others -Has Energy & Enthusiasm ...
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...Salome Transformation. Dear Diary; My latest guise stared back at me, as I gazed into the mirror, eyes questioning. The same question that shoots up from my subconscious like an obnoxious neon sign, illuminating the darkest crevasses of my (in)sanity. It's always the same. Why? Why do I do this? And I always have the same answer; it's not even an answer, just a shrug and a 'mind your own business'. The response is shot back at my reflection as I begin to admire my work. Red locks curl around my now hazel eyes. Red. Yes, a very fitting colour I think. I wondered if I should add anything else, freckles maybe... Redheads normally have freckles don't they? I decided against it. I had them last time. Then again, last time I was a bronzed beach blonde goddess from Florida. And in a matter of hours, I had transformed to a red haired beauty from the breathtakingly magical country that is Scotland. I tried to remember if and where I told him I was from. Knowing me I probably mumbled something nonsensical; the first city to come to my mind when I speak of Scotland. Glasgow. Yes I told him I was from Glasgow. Oh well, it didn't matter anyway, I'm sure that idiot couldn’t care less where I was from. As if on cue, my phone snaps me out of my thoughts and I see my latest's conquest's number flicker on my screen. What was his name? Peter? Simon? Andrew? John? My thumb hovers over the answer button for a second, the presses down, aggressively, and I answer harshly, almost impatient...
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...REPORT: Critically examine the impact of a recent or proposed change in funding on your organisation’s provision in relation to the teaching remit. Institutional Context, Nature and Purpose The Careers Development Group (CDG) is a Welfare to Work charity that supports unemployed customers to find and sustain meaningful employment. Customers are aged between 16-64 and referred to 13-week courses from Jobcentre Plus. Many have multiple barriers to employment such as lack of recent work experience, disabilities, health problems and lack of relevant employability skills. In addition, customers often face anxiety, depression and low self-esteem, all of which impact their ability to find employment. To overcome these complex needs, CDG provides training, work experience and other support that can enable customers to achieve a better quality of life. Back to Work activities include job search; job brokerage; work experience placements; environmental and community sector placements; vocational qualifications; information, advice & guidance; pre-employment training; motivation and confidence building; literacy, numeracy and ESOL training. Role within Institutional Context The role of the Senior Personal Advisor (SPA) consists of delivering Literacy, Numeracy and ESOL Qualifications. In addition, internal and external vocational qualifications such as Security, Retail, Forklift and Construction are also organised and financed via the SPA. City & Guilds award the...
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...Rich Manufacturing So many firms use cost-plus pricing for supply contracts because it is the easiest method in order to calculate cost and eliminate error. Most of the time when firms are working with numbers, they must find ways that are efficient and not time consuming. What managers do is simply target a rate of return thus saving time and increase efficiency. In fact, it can be more useful in some occasions than others. As stated by Brickley, Smith, and Zimmerman (2009), “cost-plus pricing is more useful when the rate of return that yields the profit-maximizing price on the product is relatively stable over the relevant range of cost variation for a given product and varies little across a related set of products. (p. 212). One of the potential problems I envision with cost-plus pricing is the attention to consumer demand. For cost-plus pricing, this aspect is very much ignored. According to Brickley, Smith and Zimmerman (2009), cost-plus pricing ignores the rise in costs and neglects how the price sensitivity of consumers. Disregarding demand can be detrimental to a company and is a crucial factor. “If demand is slow, then the mark-up percentage may be lower in order to lure in customers. On the other hand, if demand for the product is high and economic conditions are good, then the mark-up percentage may be higher as the company feels they can get the higher price for their product” (Peavler, 2013). Both of these factors demand and pricing, are critical to increasing...
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...Matthew Gordon PROJ410 7/24/13 Week Three Case Study 1 Smith’s Information Services, Inc. A. PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES: Due to the fierce competition flattening sales and decreasing profits sharply for the last two years, adjustment may need to be made to increase our profit margins. A consideration of outsourcing our current data center might be in the company’s best interest. B. RELEVANT FACTS: In order to determine whether or not we need to outsource our data center we need to first look at what it is costing us to keep it in-house. Hardware and software expenses are on the rise. It is becoming quite expensive to keep our mainframes and servers cooled. As our data grows we are looking at expenses of adding new servers which will in turn cost us more money in cooling the rooms. It takes us a considerable amount of electricity just to run all of our hardware, servers, mainframes, and all other devices inside out data center. We have an extensive number of employees needed to run and maintain the data center. The overall cost of running a 24/7 data center is simply just getting out of control. The key questions here is do we have enough critical mass and are we planning on continuing a 24/7 operation in our data center. We need to look at several pros and cons to outsourcing; Access to state-of-the-art technology, cost saving and quality, flexibility, job security for or employees, media effects on us outsourcing, how easy is it actually going to be to outsource our work...
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...Atlantic Computer Case Study Marketing II Assignment Group 17 AMITESH PRIOLKAR (2009009) MANISH ARORA (2009022) NEELAY THALY (2009026) SAGAR KHICHADE (2009040) ALOK SHETTY (2009047) SIDDHARTH CHAKU (2009048) Case Issue Develop a pricing strategy for ¶Atlantic bundle· - the new Tronn server and the PESA (Performance Enhancing Server Accelerator) software tool before SME trade show Company Overview y y Atlantic Computers is a manufacturer of Servers and High-tech products Jason Jowers joined the Company four months back and he was responsible for the pricing strategy of the ´Atlantic Bundleµ i.e (A package of the Tronn server and PESA software tool) y The Tronn was developed mainly f or the emerging US market opportunity for basic web servers y The ´Performance Enhancing Server Acceleratorµ (PESA) would allow Tronn to perform four times faster than its usual speed for standard procedures and hence the bundling made sense y y Existence of 2 market segments - High Performance and Basic Servers Atlantic has 20% market share in High Performance Servers with Radia being premier product over 30 years y y An emerging market for basic servers is coming up in the late 1990s Decided to introduce the Basic server into the market by 2000 with the belief that it won·t be seen as a substitute of the High Performance Servers Advantages of PESA & Tronn PESA ² will improve Tronn speed by 4 times Need to purchase fewer servers Lower annual electricity charges...
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...1. Jeff wonders if the Hobbit’s Choice Restaurant is more appealing to women than it is to men or vice versa. Perform the proper analysis, interpret it, and answer Jeff’s question. Hₒ : men=women H1 : men do not equal women The above data output is insignificant because of the number zero being included in the confidence interval. Also because the p value of 0.538 is greater than 0.05 There is not enough evidence to support that there is a significant difference in the level of appeal between men and women. So because of this, Dean should not focus on either gender because the difference between men and women is insignificant. 2. With respect to the location of the Hobbit’s choice Restaurant, is a waterfront view preferred more than a drive less than 30mins. H0: waterfront – drive less than 30mins=0 H1: waterfront – drive less than 30mins does not equal 0 The above table shows the mean value for “waterfront” is 3.42. and the mean for “drive less than 30mins is 2.73 So the waterfront mean is higher and also the p-value is0.000, so there is significant evidence to support that “waterfront view” is preferred over “drive of less than 30mins.” So, Dean can use this information when deciding on the location of the restaurant. He should focus on finding a location with waterfront view, since his potential client favors view over location’s distance. 3. With respect to the restaurant’s atmosphere, is a string quartet preferred over a jazz...
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...Solving Proportions To estimate the size of the bear population on Keweenaw Peninsula, conservationists Captured, tagged, and released 50 bears. One year later, a random sample of 100 bears included only 2 tagged bears. The question I am asked is what do conservationist’s estimate of the size of the bear population? You will notice while reading question #56 on page 437, we are to assume that the ratio of originally tagged bears to the whole population is equal to the ratio of recaptured tagged bears to the size of the sample. The ratio of originally tagged bears to the whole population is 50X The ration of recaptured tagged bears to the sample size is 2100 50X=2100 This is the proportion set up and ready to solve. I will cross multiply setting the extremes equal to the means. 10050=2x 100and 50 are the extremes, while X and 2 are the means. 50002=2x2 Divide both sides by 2 X = 2500 The bear population on the Keweenaw Peninsula is around 2500 bears. The second problem for assignment one week one I am asked to solve the below equation for y. The first thing I notice is that a single fraction (ratio) on both sides of the equal sign so basically it is a proportion which can be solved by cross multiplying the extremes and the means. y-1x+3=-34 Is the equation I am asked to solve. 3y-1=-3x-4 The result of the cross multiplying. 3y-3=-3x+12 Distribute 3 on the left side and -3 on the right. 3y-3+3=-3x+12+3 Subtract 3 from both sides. 3y=-3x+15 3y3=-3x3+153...
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...18/04/2013 Individual assessment declaration: This assessment item is my own work, except where acknowledged, and is not the result of collaboration with others. Signature / Student ID Date Group assessment declaration: * This work is the result of collaboration amongst all members of the group listed below and no others. All members of the group have contributed to the assessment. Family name Given name Signature/Student ID NB: If the assessment is submitted electronically please type name/s into the signature field. 3392418 3451117 3407374 3405350 Livio Greg Grant Brett Barbagallo Marshall Kaczorowski Daley Gavin 3379593 Jennings Please complete either the individual OR group assessment declaration below. * I declare that I have read, understood and followed the University Rules in respect of student academic misconduct outlined in the Student Code of Conduct and Annexure 1 of the Student Misconduct Procedures. * I declare that this assessment item is my own work, except where acknowledged, and has not been submitted for academic credit previously in whole or in part. * I declare that appropriate citation methodology has been used throughout the assignment in accordance with the UNSW policy on Academic Misconduct. I have read the policy on plagiarism in the AGSM Student Handbook. * I acknowledge that the assessor of this item may, for assessment purposes: ...
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...could support a company’s website * Market Demand expected to be 50,000 unit in 2001 Product: * Tronn: Server developed to cater to the Basic Server Market * We will bundle the products together! Alternative Development: Competitors: * Major Competitor: Ontario Computer Inc. * Low End Server Zink, currently 50% markets share in the basic server market * Majority Sales were generated online * Zink’s server performed at approximately the same level as Tronn’s * Rest of competitors were Local Vendors Key Factors Influencing the Pricing Strategy: * Status Quo Pricing: Matzer believed that as per the company’s traditional Software, should be given for free with the purchase of the hardware * Cost Plus Pricing: According to Matzer’s standard approach to pricing, should be followed * Competitive Pricing: Cost should be as per the industry standards (i.e.- as in accordance with the Zink Server) * Value-in-use Pricing: Setting prices to capture a portion of customer’s savings by buying a firms product Advantages of Tronn with Pesa: * PESA: Will enhance the speed of Tronn by 4 times * Need to purchase...
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...Types of Contracts [pic] Choosing type appropriate contract type is essential to successful performance under a contract. The type of contract determines the cost and performance risks which are placed on the contractor. There are two broad contract groups--fixed price and cost reimbursement. Within each of these groups, there are various types of contracts which can be used individually or in combination. [pic] Firm Fixed Price Contracts [pic] This type of contract requires the contractor to successfully perform the contract and deliver conforming supplies or services for a price agreed to up front. This type of contract places the most performance and cost risk paid. It if costs them more than they expected, they still get the amount originally agreed upon. If it costs them less, they make more profit. A firm-fixed price contract is suitable for supplies and services that can be described in sufficient detail to ensure complete understanding of the requirements by both parties and assessment of the inherent risks of performance. [pic] Other Fixed Fixed Price Contracts [pic] Within the fixed price contract group you can award contracts with: • economic price adjustment factors to allow for industries where costs fluctuate frequently either up or down • various incentive types which can be used to reward good performance or to impose provisions to deduct for poor performance • price redetermination provisions which permit issuing an order on a fixed...
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...versus Forever 21: Is the plus side of PLUS SIZED shopping in low prices or quality and variety? Ebony Thigpen Psychology 3301 Fall 2015 /Dr. Pamela Auburn November 28, 2015 Abstract Over the past ten years, there has been an influx of department stores that have incorporated plus sized departments into their targeted demographic and ASOS and Forever 21 are among the two most sought after plus sized departments amongst its competitors. Although both stores offer plus sized fashions at much lower prices than their specialty plus sized counterparts, they both maintain their own distinct share of the market attracting a niche yet different shopper. Consider that there are now more young women than ever from their teens to their early-thirties...
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...For my role as a staff accountant, I was assigned to research the appropriate accounting for revenue treatment of construction contracts for a client, LabCo. In specific, I was assigned to oversee LabCos’ contract involving a six-axis laser-cutting machine with Halibut Co. After researching and developing a theory based on the Financial Accounting Standards Boards’ Codification, I have concluded that LabCos’ treatment of revenue was reasonable; however, they should have changed revenue recognition principles sooner. In this situation, there are three possible ways they can handle changing their accounting method: Retrospective Application, Change in Accounting Estimate Method, or Change in Estimate Affected by Accounting Principle. The revenue treatment principle for a construction type principle states, “In accounting for contracts, the basic accounting policy decision is the choice between two generally accepted methods: the percentage-of-completion method including units of delivery and the completed-contract method. The determination of which of the two methods is preferable is based on a careful evaluation of circumstances because the two methods should not be acceptable alternatives for the same circumstances (ASC 605-35-25-1).” LabCo agreed to build a six-axis laser-cutting machine for Halibut. The contract entered into was a fixed price contract. A fixed price contract is, “An agreement to perform all acts under the contract for a stated price” (ASC 605-35-15-4)...
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