...ecommerce businesses. What Is The Buzz On Smart Grids? The Smart grid is a class of technology that people are using to bring electricity delivery systems to the 21st century using computer based remote control and automation. Two way communication technology and computer processing make it possible and has been used by other business for years. The “grid” is the network that carries the electricity from the plant to the consumer. The grid is made up of transformers, substations, wires, switches and more. The “smart” entity is pretty much the same as the new “smart phones” and it basically saying that the grid is computerized. It includes a 2-way digital communication technological device. (Energy.gov, n.d.) Smart grids differ from the current electricity infrastructure because of the way the electricity is delivered to the consumer. The current grid does not explain how the power is distributed or used. The smart grid was developed to digitally save the consumer money by increasing ways to save energy, reducing cost and increasing reliability. With these new smart grids the energy company will be able to send information from the electrical provider to the consumer and back to the grid allowing the consumer and the provider to get a better deal when it comes to energy consumption. (Laudon and Laudon, 2012) The smart grid will show when and how much to raise...
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...What’s the Buzz on Smart Grids? CASE STUDY What’s the Buzz on Smart Grids? CASE STUDY T T he existing electricity infrastructure in the United States is outdated and inefficient. Energy companies provide power to consumers, but the grid provides no information about how the consumers are using that energy, making it difficult to develop more efficient approaches to distribution. Also, the current electric- ity grid offers few ways to handle power provided by alternative energy sources, which are critical compo- nents of most efforts to go “green.” Enter the smart grid. A smart grid delivers electricity from suppliers to consumers using digital technology to save energy, reduce costs, and increase reliability and trans- parency. The smart grid enables information to flow back and forth between electric power providers and individual households to allow both consumers and energy companies to make more intelligent decisions regarding energy consumption and production. Information from smart grids would show utilities when to raise prices when demand is high and lower them when demand lessens. Smart grids would also help consumers program high-use electrical appliances like heating and air condition- ing systems to reduce consumption during times of peak usage. If implemented nationwide, proponents believe, smart grids would lead to a 5 to 15 percent decrease in energy consumption. Electricity grids are sized to meet the maximum electricity need, so a drop in peak demand...
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...author of "Nature Nurture in psychology from Simply Psychology, "At the other end of the spectrum are the environmentalists – also known as empiricists (not to be confused with the other empirical / scientific approach). Their basic assumption is that at birth the human mind is a tabula rasa (a blank slate) and that this is gradually “filled” as a result of experience." Other people for nurture believe our childhood and experiences are the only thing that determines how well each individual deals with social situations. In the article "Taking the 'vs.' out of nature vs. nurture" the author, Alana Snibbe, states how culture is a big part of nurture and who we are. Culture is humans way of answering life's unanswerable questions and it's this that shapes a lot about how we think and our individual psychology. People who believe in the same things are probably going to think alike and act alike. Obviously, there are some very extreme cases where nature is taken out of the debate all together and nurture is the sole factor to why someone behaves the way they do. Some examples are an abusive parent, being abandoned or neglected and always being in someone's shadow. These situations have a much bigger effect on humans than any genes. On...
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...EMBA Class 2012-2013 MGMT 907 - Managing Human Resources Course Notes II Mithat KOC 020120255 mithat.koc@gmail.com Integrating the Organization 1. Culture and the Informal/Voluntary Network 2. Formal Teams 3. Integrators 4. Matrix Design 5. Cells and Networks 2d -Assess Internal Fit : Systems Which systems optimize the employee performance -To keep the employee in the loop... Recruitment Performance appraisal Rewards Additional sys (inform. Mang.) 2d -Assess Internal Fit : Culture Culture : values Climate : Practice Key Themes Dominant culture vs sub cultures Espoused versus real cultures Case Nestle , espresso is a completely different organization . ALTO CHEMICAL EUROPE (ACE): ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE CASE STUDY Stabilizer market situation Shrinking , Drop off in consumption 600.000 tons x 1.000$ prices vary to month 30% over capacity competition KEY STRATEGIC ELEMENT Profitability $40 to $80 (4% to 8%) Price Leadership (set by HQs) Non-price sensitive acc. - wire/cable (2% contribution to cost = 4% of 2% for these customer) - small / medium Raise volume Tin (we have it) Give customer expertise Sales Management Reponse - Ideas (Dramatic change in behaviour) More work , new customer aquisition , convert to tin Accept loss of price authority Service oriented selling Incentives (not based on volume any more) What should Graaf do to pursuade the Sales Management ? Change reward system Explain the why ( face to face meeting) costs of old strategy / behaviours versus...
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...Address: 516 Senate Road Port Pirie SA Postcode: 5540 Assignment details Unit code: ACG10 Unit name: Communication and Information Systems in Business Assignment no. 2 Due date: 28/04/2012 Assignment topic (as stated in the Unit Information Booklet): Case Study: Google, Apple and Microsoft Struggle for Your Internet Experience. Student names UniSA email ID 1. Kirrily Loring Lorky002@students.unisa.edu.au 2.Adrian Holmes Holai001@students.unisa.edu.au 3.Debra Evans Evady008@students.unisa.edu.au 4.Ana Irisari Iriap001@students.unisa.edu.au 5. Student Declaration We declare the work contained in this assignment is our own, except where acknowledgement of sources is made. We authorise the University to test any work submitted by us, using text comparison software, for instances of plagiarism. We understand that this will involve the University or its contractor copying our work and storing it on a database to be used in future to test work submitted by others. We understand that we can obtain further information on this matter at http://www.unisa.edu.au/ltu/students/study/integrity.asp Note: The attachment of this statement on any electronically submitted assignments will be deemed to have the same authority as a signed statement. Signed Date 1.Kirrily Loring 25/4/2012 2.Adrian Holmes 25/4/2012 3.Debra Evans 25/4/2012 4.Ana Irisari 25/4/2012 5. LODGING YOUR ASSIGNMENT If...
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...Company G has a long standing reputation of quality and innovation in its products. This reputation stems from the consumer confidence the company has delivered since its inception in 1981 by the inventor, Ash Williams. Mr. Williams always valued the consumers who were willing to use new, unfamiliar products. He felt that these new products needed to be convenient and of the highest quality, as not to disappoint these courageous consumers. Company G has never faltered from this tradition as it has grown, and the Shop Smart line is set to promote Company G’s reputation to even greater heights. Mission Statement “We enable consumers to improve the quality and convenience of their lives by providing high-quality, innovative electronic solutions.” The Product The Shop Smart system is designed with convenience in mind. There is no other product line that is similar to it in design, or concept, giving us a commanding lead on potential competition. The Shop Smart system has a launch date of 09/01/2015, and consists of two devices. These devices will deliver better shopping habits,...
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...LAPTOPS V/S HAND-HELD DEVICES IN B-SCHOOLS- STUDIES ON USAGE, PREFERENCE AND BEHAVIOR PATTERNS Neeraj Kumar; Rekha Makhija; Prashant Iyer and Mohamed Sheriff Ameer neeraj.gjan14@spjain.org S P Jain School of Global Management | Dubai ∙ Singapore ∙ Sydney ABSTRACT: Today’s market has so many gadgets that consumers are almost spoilt for choice. Also a bulk of the consumers who are students have difficulty in choosing between laptops or handheld devices like smart phones and tablets for their day to day activities. In this paper attempt has been made to highlight how education and technology have evolved hand in hand over the years. We also have conducted an exhaustive research on the usage patterns of laptops and handheld devices among students to find their preferences and behavior patterns. We have restricted our research to Business school students because they are widely exposed to various gadgets as part of their academic learning and daily activities. This study helps us to gauge, compare and to an extent even predict the future of different gadgets in the higher education sector. The survey showed that though the current usage of laptops is highest for academic and leisure activities, their preference are more towards tablets. There are various business schools that have already adapted tablets as a substitute for laptops and books. With the rapidly increasing advancement in technology, the usage of tablets for education is expected to become more widespread...
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...Virtual World vs. Real World There is no doubt that computers and technology are taking over the lives of Americans. Technology is a very universal concept that is developing day by day, causing simpler and easier living. Today, technology has become very advanced, dealing with worldwide problems in a more efficient manner. However, many are abusing this breakthrough invention because internet users are not aware of the vital connection that the real world has with the virtual world. In the article “Character Education for Cyberspace: Developing Good Netizens” by Andrew J. Milson and Beong-Wan Chu, human’s actions opposing from the real world is explained. Furthermore, in the article “We Need to Learn to Become Digital Citizens,” by Nick Harkaway, the connection between the real world and the virtual world is clarified and the importance of becoming a smart internet user is expressed. This paper will illustrate the authors’ claims in emphasizing the dangers of the virtual world that humans are ignorant toward by asserting claims sub claims, and examples to express their purpose. The main argument of the article, “Character Education for Cyberspace: Developing Good Netizens” by Andrew J. Milson and Beong-Wan Chu, is that cyberspace allows people to communicate and say words that they would not say or do in real life. Milson and Chu state, “In the most complex sense, cyberspace may be conceived as a parallel world where people can conduct ordinary activities without engaging...
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...Similarity based Analysis of Networks of Ultra Low Resolution Sensors Relevance: Pervasive computing, temporal analysis to discover behaviour Method: MDS, Co-occurrence, HMMs, Agglomerative Clustering, Similarity Analysis Organization: MERL Published: July 2006, Pattern Recognition 39(10) Special Issue on Similarity Based Pattern Recognition Summary: Unsupervised discovery of structure from activations of very low resolution ambient sensors. Methods for discovering location geometry from movement patterns and behavior in an elevator scheduling scenario The context of this work is ambient sensing with a large number of simple sensors (1 bit per second giving on-off info). Two tasks are addressed. Discovering location geometry from patterns of sensor activations. And clustering activation sequences. For the former, a similarity metric is devised that measures the expected time of activation of one sensor after another has been activated, on the assumption that the two activations are resulting from movement. The time is used as a measure of distance between the sensors, and MDS is used to arrive at a geometric distribution. In the second part, the observation sequences are clustered by training HMMs for each sequence, and using agglomerative clustering. Having selected an appropriate number of clusters (chosen by the domain expert) the clusters can be used to train new HMM models. The straightforward mapping of the cluster HMMs is to a composite HMM, where each branch of...
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...without a screen. These Mp3 players were great in their time however; due to an increase in technology, Americans wanted a gadget that was an all in one. This is where the popularity of iPhones, Androids, and other smart phones saturated the market. Users no longer prefer to carry around a MP3 device when they have newer more technical savvy gadgets. For example, the smart phone has given its consumer base the ability to have the same MP3 capabilities, internet usage, games options and more in one device. There is no longer a need to have stand-alone devices for different uses. In order to acquire the same concept as Apple I will need to thoroughly study my competitors target market approach. For instance, Sony and Samsung actually never reached the level of success that Apple has with their iPods, one reason being is that they did not analyze their pricing data to determine what target market would work best for them. Instead, they choose the same segmentation as Apple. Statistics show that Apple and their iPods dominate the MP3 player market with a 70% selling advantage over other MP3 player manufacturers (Rollins, 2011). Consumer lifestyles MP3 PLAYER REASSESSMENT have been geared towards the technology age, consumers are wanting one item to do everything vs. multi items performing one task. Such devises that are increasing in demand, for example: mobile phones, navigation...
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...Threatening Driving down the road, on the right the driver is swerving, to the front the car does not seem to be able to maintain its speed. What could be going on, are the drivers drunk or perhaps having a medical emergency? Truth is the drivers are using their smartphones while they are driving. This is a theme that is becoming more and more apparent as technology becomes cheaper. New innovations bring more to the consumer’s finger tips than ever before. Smartphones can now be used as onboard GPS units, they have the ability to stream video or watch downloaded movies, texting, calling, almost anything imaginable can be accomplished with these newer devices but what they cannot do is improve a drivers skills or driving habits, in fact in most cases these devices impair one’s ability to drive safely. Smartphone/cell phone use needs to be banned from use in automobiles except to use for hands free communication only. How can this problem be addressed so that the drivers of this Nation can feel safe without wondering what the driver next to them is doing on their cell phone. A Federal proposal that would ensure a nationwide ban on cell phone use while driving would help accomplish this. The proposal would allow officers to stop any driver that is using a cell phone as a primary offense. This means that if you have a cell phone in your hands for any reason you can be stopped for it. Why is such a harsh course of action required, as stated these unnecessary distractions can lead to serious...
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...implicit theories about the world we live in that are largely shared by the members of our society.” (LaPlante, 2005) Thus, the popular beliefs amongst one’s peers in conjunction with widespread word of mouth lend to similar thoughts amongst the ‘Generation Y’ demographic. The speculation of global warming and climate change has sparked many people to begin trying to make changes in the way their lives are lived, including installing devices that can make their homes ‘smarter’, and more environmentally friendly. Energy conservation, and environmental issues are very important topics in the world today. As a result the U.S. electrical system has undergone some revolutionary social changes in the past few years (Levinson, 2010) by creating a smart grid in additional efforts to try and reduce greenhouse admissions. Designed to be significantly more efficient than the modern thermostat, Nest Labs Inc Learning Thermostats remind the owner to change the air filter, which is just one...
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...1. Genie gave researchers an opportunity to ethically study the effects of nature vs. nurture. She had not been taught to talk or do really anything. However the fact that the researchers are not sure if she was retarded at birth or not kind of makes the results questionable, they finally had a chance to see how language develops in a grown person who was passed the critical period. 2. One of the first things the researchers looked at was her brain waves. They found that she had an abnormally large amount of sleep spindles. This is characteristic of people who are retarded. They also did speech practices where they would repeat a statement to her until she would be able to repeat some part of it back to them. Like when they got her to say “doctor”. In order to make sure she was able to form special bonds with people, the researchers gave her a derogate parent who was with her during times a parent would normally be with a child. 3. They found that there was not really a way for the both of them to get their way entirely. If they wanted to preform good research on her, then some of Genie’s interests were going to put second. While if her interests were all a priority, they would not be able to fully study her. 4. When the researchers first started to teach Genie how to talk, things looked promising; so promising in fact, that they thought they were going to disprove the critical period theory. However, Genies progress soon started to dwindle. She was not able to express...
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...Position Power and Personal Power A View of Leadership vs. Management owner 12/18/2020 GM:591: Leadership and Organizational Behavior Instructor: INTRODUCTION In the past twenty to forty years, the face of corporate America has changed drastically from family owned businesses to conglomerates that absorb smaller businesses by the dozens. Those days where a person works for a single company until retirement are long gone. Retirement funds, 401k’s, investment accounts, and high efficiency technology dominate lunch counter conversations, versus our parent’s conversations about family matters and how the kids are doing. Something has been lost from those days where people actually cared about coworkers and each other. I’m sure if you would ask ten people for a reason for the lack of concern, you would get different responses. According to what I have learned through this course in Organization Behavior, all the case studies, and the research on personal and position power, I have concluded that people are not put first. This has lead to and lack of success in business as well as failures. In most recent times, Enron Corporation comes to mind, along with other companies that accepted government bailout money in order to avoid massive layoffs or closing altogether. My group in this course chose to do the group project on position power and personal power. My individual subtopic deals with how a manager with only position power affects his/her subordinates...
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...for their guidance and constant supervision as well as for providing necessary information regarding the project & also for their support in completing the project. I would like to express my gratitude towards my parents & member of BC Webwise for their kind co-operation and encouragement which help me in completion of this project. I would also like to express my special gratitude to Mr. V.V. Naik, Course Coordinator (MET Institute of Management Studies) for giving me an opportunity to take this project and complete it successfully. 2|Page Table of Contents Sr No. 1 2 3 4 Particulars Need & Justification Introduction Company Background and Information Data Collection & Data analysis & Interviews 4.1 4.2 4.3 Mobile Internet Mobile TV Trends in Mobile Device Screen Size Page No. 1 2-5 6-7 12-13 8-10 11-15 16-18 19-20 21-24 25-26 27-29 30-37 38-40 41-43 44-46 47 48-49 50 4.4 Smartphone Usage in India [Overview, Numbers...] 4.5 Recent Smartphone trends 4.6 4.7 4.8 5 6 7 8 9 10 Mobile Apps 3G in India Scenario worldwide Case Study - Chevrolet The Question Answered Recommendations and Suggestions Conclusion A peep in the Future Bibliography 3|Page Need & Justification We have seen the recent shift from the traditional media being taken over...
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