...Introduction 1 The Company 1 Products and Services 1 The Market 1 Financial Considerations 2 Company Summary 3 Start-up Summary 3 Company Ownership 4 Company Location and Facility 4 Products 4 Sales Literature 4 Technology 4 Future Products 5 Market Analysis Summary 5 Market Segmentation 5 Target Market Segment Strategy 5 Industry Analysis 6 Web Plan Summary 6 Website Marketing Strategy 7 Development Requirements 7 Strategy and Implementation Summary 8 Competitive Edge 8 Sales Forecasts 8 Management Summary 8 Organizational Structure 9 Management Team Gaps 9 Financial Plan 9 Important Assumptions 9 Break-even Analysis 10 Projected Profit and Loss 10 Projected Cash Flows 10 Exit Strategy 11 Executive Summary Introduction SmartKids.com.my is an e-commerce start-up company positioning itself to become the market leader in offering bright children an entertaining place to interact with each other, the Web, educators, and the world in general. It generates traffic first, valuation for investors, and eventually commerce and profits. It is a healthy place for kids to play, for parents and schools to buy, and a creative and fair work environment for employees. The SmartKids.com.my e-commerce project is the natural evolution for the SmartKids.com.my Internet presence. The site will market and sell selected toys, books, and software products. It will also produce Web products and Web applications that will increase market share, promote name recognition...
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...Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary Book Critique: His Needs, Her Needs: Building An Affair-Proof Marriage by Willard F. Harley, Jr. A Paper Submitted to Dr. Brown In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Course Preventing Ministry Failure LEAD 625 By Adrian Mack 27 January 2014 CONTENTS SUMMARY 2 CRITIQUE 3 EVALUATION 4 Summary In His Needs, Her Needs, Willard F. Harley, Jr. is not solely talking about affairs, but is elaborating on the underlying themes of communication and selflessness. In the first chapter, Harley explains that when a person explains their relationship problems to someone external to the relationship, it can easily lead to an affair because a bond forms with this new person and he or she understands the needs that one yearns for in their life, time and again able to meet the needs if an affair begins (Harley 20). During his tenure counseling couples, Dr. Harley has recognized that men and women each have unique preferences in regards to their needs, and often differing perspectives on how the relationship would be “perfect.” Harley conceptualizes this with his analogy of a bank. Hence, communication, both talking and listening about problems and needs, is not the only necessary means to improve a relationship, but one must be willing to make the relationship work by considering not only themselves, but their significant other. For Harley, it is not about whether or not one is “skilled”...
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...How to Write an Executive Summary: Why Write It? Investors, lenders, executives, managers and CEOs are busy. Always. That means that the executive summary is an essential gateway for your business plan to get read. Think about it this way: if you had an endless list of things to do, and someone handed you an 80-page document and said "read this! you'd probably first want to know why. "The most important reason to include an executive summary is that in many cases, it is the only thing the reader will read," says Pablo Bonjour, founder & CEO of Katy, Texas-based SMG Business Plans, a company that offers entrepreneurs assistance in writing business plans. According to Bonjour, investors will read the executive summary to decide if they will even bother reading the rest of the business plan. It's rare for an investor or lender to read an entire business plan, at least in the initial stages of analysis and consideration for funding, so having a strong executive summary is key. When you're writing your business plan, your goal is to get your foot in the door and face-time with the investor. "Assuming that your business is a good fit for the investor, a strong executive summary will get you invited in for a meeting," Hirai says. "A poor executive summary will leave you standing in the cold." Dig Deeper: How to Write a Great Business Plan How to Write an Executive Summary: The First Paragraph Just like a movie might begin with a fight scene or a magazine article opens...
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...University of Phoenix Material Cell Structures Complete the following charts comparing prokaryotes and eukaryotes, plant and animal cells, and cells and viruses. Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes |Prokaryotes: unique structures |Common structures |Eukaryotes: unique structures | |Capsule |Cell Membrane |Plasma Membrane | |Cell WALL |Cell Wall |Nucleus | |Cytoplasm |Cilia |Nucleolus | |Cell Membrane | Flagella |Endoplasmic reticulum | | Plasma Membrane | |Golgi Complex | |PILI | |Lysosomes | |Flagella | |Vacuoles | |Ribosomes | |Mitochondria | |Plasmids ...
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...LINKEDIN CHECKLIST Use this checklist to make sure you have accurately included all of your information on your LinkedIn profile. Key Connections Headline Unique one liner that conveys the student’s personal brand 5+ people including: advisor, internship supervisor, mentor, writer of Year Up recommendation, former employers, coworkers, guidance counselors List all 5 here: _____________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ ____________________________ Summary 6-8 sentences No clichés or grammatical errors Supported by examples of relevant work experience Compelling case for why student is a great hire Experience Picture Full, description of each role All relevant experiences are listed Skills 4-6 skills listed Skills are consistent with student’s brand Education College Partner and Year Up are listed Degrees, dates attended, activities, and awards included Groups Recommendations 2 recommendations listed (YU staff member, mentor, or co-worker (above intern level)) List 2 of the people who have recommended you here: _____________________________ ____________________________ Connections Photo is a professional – looking “head shot” of just the shoulders and head Photo conveys warmth and friendliness, and hopefully, a smile! There is no one else...
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...Executive Summary Spa Connections Unlimited aims to be a premier health spa on wheels located in the Atlanta Metropolitan area. Our health spa will be specifically geared toward people 55 years and older. Through a unique combination of offered services and products, we will quickly gain our market share. Spa Connections Unlimited will provide customers with a relaxing, rejuvenating atmosphere right in the comfort of their own home. Table of Contents Introduction 4 Market Segment and Product Positing 4 Introduction 4 Marketing Segment 4 Target Market 4 SWOT Analysis 5 Strengths 5 Weaknesses 6 Opportunities 6 Threats 7 Market Position 7 Summary 7 Marketing Plan Introduction This is a marketing plan Spa Connections Unlimited, a health spa on wheels that is geared toward senior’s citizens that are 55 years and older located in the Atlanta Metropolitan area. Our spa will offer a wide variety of mind and body healing services and products. Our aspect of the business will be to provide spa services for both males and females seeking any type of spa services. The spa business is devoted to providing holistic methods of massage, body work, and energy work. This is all done in a relaxing, serene setting right in the comfort of our clients own home. Marketing Segment Aging is a natural process and brings with it benefits...
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...[pic] Progress Report with working outline/rough draft For Margaret Sledziewski, Supervisor Prepared by: Bilal Zaheer Researcher Submitted: November 2, 2007 Steamline Production To: Margaret Sledziewski From: Bilal Date: November 1, 2007 Re: Progress report Implementation of new digital audio workstation - FL Studio On October 19, 2007, I proposed an Implementation of new digital audio workstation - FL Studio. After your approval of my project, we have encountered a couple problems but other than that everything is going well and all the work will be done by November 19, 2007. This memo reports the progress report, the problem we have encountered and the conclusions. Background As you know, FL Studio is a digital audio workstation which can record, mix, create, and edit sounds. It has a sequencer that makes it possible to create beats from patterns, which is the foundation of any track. The program currently used by the firm is fairly complicated and hard to use. This results in poor production. By using FL studio, we can create exact tracks which we intend to make. In my research I found that our competition has increased. Other similar companies have also upgraded their software to assist them in meeting their clients’ demands. I however, found out that none of them are using this software. This software is very helpful for our music industry and can give us an upper hand against our competitors. Project...
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...Included in this report is the brief overview of three separate companies who may utilize job-order costing systems. The three companies looked at are Nortech Systems, Dynamic Material Corporation and Globecomm. You will see that each of these companies has unique offerings and provides multiple products to multiple industries. The first company that apparently uses job-order costing systems is Nortech Systems, Inc. Their website is http://www.nortechsys.com and a brief summary of their services is as follows: Nortech Systems, Inc., is a full-service electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider of wire and cable assemblies, printed circuit board assemblies and diagnostic repair and integration services including, higher-level assemblies and box builds for a wide range of industries. Markets served include medical, automotive, aerospace, computer peripheral, commercial, telecom, government and consumer. Nortech Systems has a range of specialized, high-tech facilities used for customized design, manufacture, testing and repair of its solutions. (Nortech, 2009). It is evident that the form of costing system that would be used in this company would be job-order costing. This company can manufacture and produce products for industrial, medical, aerospace and other industries. Their broad span of products and clientele require Nortech to not only manufacture many different products, but also manufacture them on different scales. The need for independent job-costing record...
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...Abstract Enclosed is a summary of E.F. Codd’s relational model concepts on how to protect a system and its users. An introduction to relational normal forms is explored in addition to its added benefits. Lastly, the summary highlights the importance of redundancies and the pros and cons associated. As data grows within a data bank, it is important to understand how to keep the integrity of the system in place. Codd states the benefits of a relational model is its ability to withstand large amounts of data languages alongside its data independence and the redundancies that can contain data inconsistencies. And, unlike the network or tree-structured models, relational models can avoid the infamous connection traps protecting them and making them resistant to change. Codd indicates the importance of data to be independent highlighting the need for ordering, indexing, and access path dependencies to be removed from the collections of data. For example, ordering dependencies can be difficult if the sequence at which they are entered entails the output, thus making and reposting or reordering difficult to process. Indexing is somewhat considered performance orientated, but can slow down the response times. Lastly, changes to the access path dependencies are difficult to make because if one structure fails the others associated will follow suite. Relations and how they correspond with the data is a large part of what makes the database flow more efficiently. Codd exploits...
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...The Foundation of Web Development Name Class College Name Instructor The Foundation of Web Development The internet, an international network linking and communicating thousands upon millions of computer devices, concerns an immense and impressive networking foundation, or framework. The web or the World Wide Web is not the internet, but instead consists of a method of acquiring data throughout the internet sharing the vast abundance of information. As soon as the web became an exclusive entity, web development was introduced. This article summary will evaluate how HTML, CSS, and JavaScript became the foundation of web development for the web. “The basic building blocks of the World Wide Web are the three most commonly-used web standards — HTML, CSS and JavaScript” (W3C, 2011). Web development communicates with the web to contribute to its performance, which seem similar to the primary components of a house, or any other structure of the sort. A house, for instance, consists of a concrete foundation (the internet), the house structure and engineering components (the web), and the décor, interior design, and Feng shui (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript). These technologies (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) work side-by-side to create artistry in the form of websites, web apps, and everything else roaming aimlessly on the web. Hypertext Markup Language or HTML could be used as (still can be) a standalone language to create webpages and sites without the need for Cascading Stylesheets...
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...analytical approach sees strategy making mainly based on a process to identify drivers(forces) of intra-industry competition and its corresponding barriers. His reasoning is based on the assumption that a company who deliberately choose a position within an industry and at the same time is able to combine activities in a different fashion, can create sustainable competitive advantages that will lead to profitability and with it sustain competition. Aside this more general position of Porter, in an article from 1996, he asks “What is Strategy” and discussed operational efficiency in connection with strategy making and he advised that those two things should not (can not) be used interchangeably. Below their is a summary of Porter‟s main arguments from his article and what he sees as main components on strategy and how to distinguish between operational efficiency and strategy. SUMMARY The ability the make an informed decision about how, when and where to target a customer group, facilitate resources and set objectives(limits) makes the difference between a manager who thinks from a strategic perspective in light of what might emerge in future. Anticipating those movements into current decision-making helps to set a stage to create sustainable advantages. Porter argues that positioning is still a notable way to shape advantages within a company and sees hypercompetition as rather odd concept to explain shifting patterns in competition and points out that a misunderstanding...
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...Business Strategy Business Strategy Introduction SmartKids.com.my is an e-commerce start-up company positioning itself to become the market leader in offering bright children an entertaining place to interact with each other, the Web, educators, and the world in general. It generates traffic first, valuation for investors, and eventually commerce and profits. It is a healthy place for kids to play, for parents and schools to buy, and a creative and fair work environment for employees. The SmartKids.com.my e-commerce project is the natural evolution for the SmartKids.com.my Internet presence. The site will market and sell selected toys, books, and software products. It will also produce Web products and Web applications that will increase market share, promote name recognition, and maximize efficiency. The Company The present SmartKids.com.my is a start-up company with four full-time employees. The company was incorporated late 2007as Galaxy Food and Technology owned by its principal founders, at 25% ownership each. The company has a single office in Ampang, Selangor. Our key competitive advantage is the in-house knowledge base we have developed. Our competitor spends five to 10 times the amount of money we do outsourcing to expensive companies for services we perform in-house. The same will take place with the SmartKids.com.my website. We already have the SQL™ server and ColdFusion™ programming expertise, and we will be adding the...
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...Business Assessment 1, Plan & Review Queensland Academy of Technology Diploma of Business Assessment 1, Plan & Review Introduction of Smart Ordering System Introduction of Smart Ordering System Cambay, Strawberry This article provides a brief summary of the new ordering system to be implemented in the company Cambay, Strawberry This article provides a brief summary of the new ordering system to be implemented in the company Queen’s Coffee 710 Queens St. Brisbane QLD 4000 Telephone :(07)12345678 4/28/2015 Queen’s Coffee 710 Queens St. Brisbane QLD 4000 Telephone :(07)12345678 4/28/2015 Table of Contents Executive Summary 2 The Project 3 Objective 3 Standard Requirement 3 Duration 3 Requirements 3 Staff and Customer Notification 3 Budget 4 Materials and Specifications 4 Potential Suppliers & Evaluation 4 Internet Service Provider 4 Budget Summary 6 Implementation 7 Staff Skill Matrix 8 Risk Management 9 Problems & Solution 9 Monitoring 10 Executive Summary Queen’s Coffee is a coffee shop that offers diversity of nutritional foods from the beginning of the day until it finishes. It is also specializing in different high-quality and unique-tasting beverages ranging from cold to hot which earned its popularity amongst great quantity of consumers. It is located in the middle the city thus the level of occupational demand is unpredictable each day. Although the number of employees is sufficient to attend...
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...PINKBERRY, INC. Integrated Case Analysis Prepared by Anaim Garibay May 31, 2012 Prepared for Management 350 Professor A. Phillips Table of Contents | Executive Summary………………………………………………….. | 2 | Introduction……………………………………………………………. | 3 | Human Relations Theory(Hawthorne, McGregor, Maslow)…………………………….......... | 4 | Communication Issues(Time & Distance, Communication Culture, Teamwork)……....... | 7 | Intercultural(High or Low Context Culture, Barriers, Overcoming Barriers)…. | 4 | Ethics(Employing Ethical Yardsticks)……………………………………… | 5 | Summary…………………………………………………………........ | 6 | Works Cited Page…………………………………………………….. | 7 | Executive Summary This analysis examines the theories applicable to Pinkberry, Inc. that have been discussed throughout the Management 350 course. The purpose of this analysis is to apply theories and concepts to illustrate actual organizational issues as of 2012. An overview of Pinkberry’s organizational chart will provide a brief overview of the organization. The first set of theories discussed will be: Hawthorne’s HR Theory, McGregor’s X and Y Theory, and Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Theory. Pinkberry has a strong human relationship with its people and the three human relations theory will demonstrate why the people are as important as the organization. The three communication issues that will be discussed include the time and distance between the international locations, the communication culture Pinkberry has created...
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...1.0 Executive Summary Company Profile Summary Adornya understands that all jewellery is a form of self-expression, allowing woman to differentiate themselves. Adornya creates one of a kind products by reinventing old trinkets and used jewellery into new contemporary earrings, necklaces, and bracelets. Although each piece is unique, all pieces share a connection to the history of Nova Scotia. Each piece’s history is shared in the product description accompanying each piece of jewellery. Adornya will focus on the Halifax area selling products at the Halifax Seaport Farmer’s Market. Adornya is owned and operated by Olivia Archibald. Miss Archibald is a recent graduate of the Nova Scotia Collage of Art and Design and has taken courses in metalsmithing and jewellery design adding a layer of skilled craftsmanship to the construction of each piece. Market Research Summary The jewellery industry has remained relatively unchanged over the last two decades. Jewellery is successfully sold by a mix of large national chains, regional franchises, smaller independent retailers and individual artisans selling online. According to the Global Gems and Jewellery Market Forecast and Opportunities, 2018 the global market will continue to see increases in jewellery sales overall due to the rising disposable incomes and changing lifestyles. The industry is set to experience strong growth over the coming years. With the diversity of products available and the proliferation of potential sources...
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