...Plan Preferred Security is a security company that specializes in full home automation technology. We would like to provide a healthy, customer service atmosphere in the office as well as in the field with our technicians. Our goal is to assure that every customer have a piece of mind while having our products in their home. Business, Products, and Customers: Mission Statement Preferred Security is designated to service a variety of clientele including varying cultures, ethnicities, and religions all with the common goal of achieving a piece of mind while in their home. The main competition for Preferred Security will be other alarm companies such as Adt and Brinks. Customers have the choice between going to a larger alarm company such as Vivint or Adt paying more money for less equipment, with longer contract terms. Preferred Security offers less money for more equipment with shorter contract terms. This is how Preferred Security will create a niche for itself in the business market and become a huge competitor for alarm systems. The company will have a website whereas customers could interact with the products to see how each device functions, and its purpose in your home. Preferred Security mission statement is to provide the highest quality of products and services for customers to help them achieve that piece of mind that they have been searching for within their homes. Organization Vision The vision of Preferred Security is to provide the...
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...ASSIGNMENT ON THE DEMOGRAPHIC, SOCIAL & CULTURAL CONTEXT OF BUSINESS Submitted To: Mr. Ruhual Amin Faculty Member, BRAC University Submitted By: Iffat Zarin Khan ID No: 15364042 MBA, BRAC University Subject Name: Business Environment Subject Code: BUS503 Date of Submission: 8-12-15 Review and Discussion Questions 1. What is meant by an “ageing population”? Examine some of the key ways in which an ageing population can affect the supply side of the economy? Answer: Population ageing is a phenomenon that occurs when the median age of a country or region rises due to rising life expectancy and/or declining fertility rates. Aging of population (also known as demographic aging, and population aging) is a summary term for shifts in the age distribution (i.e., age structure) of a population toward older ages. A direct consequence of the ongoing global fertility transition (decline) and of mortality decline at older ages, population aging is expected to be among the most prominent global demographic trends of the 21st century. Population aging is progressing rapidly in many industrialized countries, but those developing countries whose fertility declines...
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...GM 594: Global and Domestic Security Management Table of Contents I. Introduction i. An example of an international company ii. Introduction to the subject of the paper II. Background i. Geographical location ii. History and its consequences of on this region iii. Current financial and economical situation III. Differences in the cultures i. Common ways of doing business ii. Understanding the culture and traditions IV. Security issues i. Benefits of establishing a business in this region ii. Business security issues facing an organization iii. Adverse effects on an organization V. Recommendations on reducing the risk i. Protection of assets and information ii. Protection of labor iii. Adhering to the laws and regulations VI. Conclusion VII. Works Cited Business Opportunities in Eastern Europe I. Introduction How safe is it to explore the business markets outside of the USA, particularly in the undeveloped markets? A good example of a company willing to take the risk to discover new business opportunities in such economic markets is the Coca Cola Company. Its early recognition of the global demand for their products led them to explore investing in the yet unexplored, and politically and economically challenged markets including the markets in the region of Eastern Europe. In the early 1990s, after some significant political and economical changes in this region, the...
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...socio/economic changes during the past 25 years that indicate women as investors might be an untapped target market. A. One significant change during the past 25 years that indicate women as investors might be an untapped target market is that they are becoming more increasingly powerful in owning and managing wealth. * The BCG valued female global wealth at $20 trillion in 2010. * Estimates show women’s share of wealth in financial management will increase at a compound annual growth rate of 8 percent through 2014. * 33 percent of wealth in 2009 was controlled by women in the U.S and Canada. B. Another significant change during the past 25 years that indicate women as investors might be an untapped target market is that it is a growing presence of women in the workforce. * The world bank estimated in 2007 that one-third of women owned businesses in the United Arab Emirates generated over $100,000 a year compared to 12 percent of American women owned companies (Reuters, 2010) * Women held 37% of the jobs in the securities workforce in 2003 (pg. 319) 2. Analyze the UBS organizational culture using Edgar Schein's "Model" of Levels of Organizational Culture: Artifacts (visible), Values (espoused and operational), and Basic Underlying Assumptions. See p. xv in the Harvey & Allard text for an overview of Schein's Levels of Organizational Culture. A. Surface Level Artifacts * The merger of the Union Bank of Switzerland and the Swiss Bank...
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...Yes Full Time Frequent Domestic and Foreign Travel Experiences X None are applicable Adjudication experience Arabic language skills Autotrack Canine Handler/Team Member Canine Training Chinese language skills Commentator profiles Elicitation experience Explosives Federal government personnel security investigations Foreign media collection French language skills Greek language skills HAZMAT/CBRN response Indonesian language skills Instructor - Security and/or law enforcement training Internet research Interpretation techniques Interrogation experience Interviewing experience Investigative experience Japanese language skills Korean language skills Law enforcement Marine security guard Medical defensive tactics Microsoft Access Microsoft Excel Microsoft PowerPoint Microsoft Publisher Microsoft Word Military police officer Military special operations officer National Crime Information Center (NCIC) Operation & maintenance of alarm system Operations & maintenance of X-ray systems Operations & maintenance of closed circuit TV systems Persian (Farsi) language skills Personal protection Polygraph experience Portuguese language skills Private security police officer Protective security services Russian language skills...
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...2.1 – Human Resource Planning * Human resource or workforce planning: analyzing and forecasting the number of workers and the skills of those workers that will be required by the organization to achieve its objectives 2.1.1 – Identify the constraints and opportunities provided by demographic change. 2.1.2 – Discuss the significance of changes in labour mobility, both domestic and international. * Separated into occupational mobility of labour (based on workers’ willingness to take jobs requiring different skills) and geographical mobility of labour (based on willingness to move locations for jobs) * High labour mobility helps a country achieve economic efficiency if jobs are lost in one area, workers are willing/able to move to other occupations * Developed economies labour is typically immobile; emerging market economies labour mobile * The more mobile workers are, the higher the supply of labour tends to be * However, a high degree of geographical mobility, especially between rural and urban areas, can lead to overcrowding and worsened living conditions 2.1.3 – Compare present human resources with future requirements and evaluate strategies for developing future human resources. * HR departments need to calculate future staffing needs to avoid having too few or too many staff, or staff with the wrong skills * HR departments must respond to business (corporate) plan and its objectives, to build workforce plan * Starting workforce...
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...GM 591: ORGANIZATION CULTURE INVENTORY (OCI) Part I – Introduction The organization that I selected to study was my own company; Sandstone is Thai exporter and trading company. Sandstone exports various types of foods and beverages. Main products are: Jasmine rice and other Thai rice, canned fruits, and canned vegetables. Every work clearly separate work and responsibility in each department. Each department manages their work in their organization. It has President Manager, manager assistant, and an employee respectively. Organization Culture, is importance part of organization, is social rules in an organization. Everybody has to know their organization culture in order to follow those culture. Part II – Current Culture A. Cultural Type As we can see in the accompanying OCI Circumplex, Sandstone is strongest in the Aggressive/Defensive Styles. This Aggressive/Defensive culture is generally one “in which members are expected to approach tasks in forceful ways to protect their status and security, are characterized by Oppositional, Power, Competitive, and Perfectionistic norms.” * Oppositional: pointing out flaws * Power: building up one’s power base * Competitive: turning the job into a contest * Perfectionistic: doing things perfect Primary style is Competitive This was the cultural norm with the greatest percent score: 89%. According to the OCI Interpretation & Development Guide, a Competitive culture is generally one “in which winning is valued...
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...Patterson Venue Management Learning Transfer Venue Management Key Principles 4 Points of Cultural Intelligence * Motivational * Drive. Your level of interest, drive, and energy to adapt cross-culturally. * Cognitive * Knowledge. The knowledge dimension of CQ - your understanding about cultures and culture's role in shaping the way you think and behave and how it affects business. * Metacognitive * Strategy. Your ability to strategize when crossing cultures. The ability to think about your own thought process and draw on your cultural knowledge to understand a different cultural context and solve problems in that situation. * Behavioral * Action. The action dimension of CQ is your ability to act appropriately in a range of cross-cultural situations. Knowing when and when not to adapt 7 Characteristics of Culture * Culture = Behavior * Learned through rewards or consequences and interactions with other employees * Subcultures form through rewards; not necessarily from management * People shape culture * Culture is negotiated * It is difficult to change * Culture can be strong or weak Mission/Values/Goals Mission Statement * Addresses who customers are, services provided, how services provided. * Who you are right now. Values * Underline agency's reason for existing; principles, qualities and beliefs. * Formed by merging member, leader and societal...
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...the Internet. Practicing strong computer security is a nonnegotiable requirement for organizations doing business today. However, building security into an existing corporate culture is a complex undertaking. Every organization has a security culture, and each is as unique as the organization itself. Security culture can be collaborative or argumentative, structured or unstructured. Security can be an integral part of a process beginning at the project-definition stage, or a separate process added on to an existing project. It can be ingrained or reactive. Information security is the protection of information from a wide range of threats in order to ensure business continuity, minimize business risk, and maximize return on investments and business opportunities. Security issues are unknowingly generated via employees using consumer electronics in their homes. As more consumer communications and devices enter the corporate enterprise security professionals need to consider the risks for business security. Things to consider included IM, gmail, iphones, un-secure home networks, etc. Employees are using these devices at home and in the workplace. . The first and most important strategy is to align information security with business strategy. The higher the value, the bigger the target, the greater the damage and overall risk to the company. As business executives, we have to take risk Sometimes these choices are disquieting to a security team. If teams feel the risk of a particular...
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...available in Lawton, I have also realized that females especially teen agers and working women in this area are not fully satisfied with the available attire. For this reason, all female customers’ need quality clothing, reasonable prices, but according to the fashion trends of the time. Introduction Clothing is a beautiful visual demonstration of the social and emotional needs of people wearing it. It also portrays in a clearly understood visual manner what people of different cultures and styles want socially. Through the years fashion has gone through so many rapid changes and very strange extremes that it has examples of nearly every kind of clothing function. The range of Pakinstani dresses is remarkably wide according to the vast cultures, geographical differences, purchasing capacities, influence of the western culture, and diversities of the ethnic groups. Therefore, to sift and isolated the ideas for creating various designs which can fit in the context of the fashion in vogue and the culture in practice (Carroll, 2012). For this reason, there is a massive potential in this field. If one has the ability to design and market his/her products through introducing...
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...system to be a national security threat due to strong encryption of the Blackberry system that guaranteed customers privacy. Local governments had difficulty to intercept or monitor conversations (regarding illegal or terrorists activities), as the information did not pass through domestic servers. The case study points out that the UAE had intentions to ban Blackberry in 2010 following arrests of several youths that organized a peaceful protest using Blackberry Messenger. It was believed that the attackers of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, senior leader of Hamas (Palestinian militant group), in Dubai, is allegedly a team of Israeli intelligence agency in 2010 communicated securely on their Blackberry phones. The regulators in UAE argued that some features operated by Blackberry fell outside the country’s laws, therefore causing judicial, social and national security concerns. This overshadowed the initial considerations of the freedom protection of the population. Saudi Arabia intentions to ban the Blackberry arose as government claimed that the Blackberry services did not meet the regulatory requirements and posed a national security threat. The country, which is RIM’s biggest Middle East market, also believed that the Blackberry is influencing the youths negatively, challenging the moral and culture values. Other Middle East countries involved in the Blackberry controversy are Lebanon, Bahrain and Kuwait; of which concerns are also on national security. Lebanon’s Telecommunication...
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...Analysis on the Importance of Organizational Culture and its relation with Motivation in XYZ Technologies Co. Ltd. Page 1 of 27 Module Code: 56214 Student No. 201112880 Managing in Organizations The University of Hull Business School Assignment Question “Choose one or two areas covered in the Managing in Organizations module. Critically analyze these areas with the context of an organization in which you have worked or with which you are familiar.” Page 2 of 27 Module Code: 56214 Student No. 201112880 Managing in Organizations The University of Hull Business School Contents S.I. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Introduction XYZ Technologies – Background Theories of Organizational Culture Role Culture Factors of the Culture Theories of Motivation Expectation and Motivation Motivational Factors Conclusion Description Page Nos. 4 5 7 9 12 18 21 24 25 Page 3 of 27 Module Code: 56214 Student No. 201112880 Managing in Organizations The University of Hull Business School Introduction Telecommunication industry is one of the largest industries of 20th century. Competition among the companies is getting tighter day by day. Although more detail or composite investigation is required to prove but there is at least some strong reference that variations in cultural values may have a momentous impact on employees‟ and job performance. Organizational life reflects the Organizational culture and Organizational culture has direct impact to keep the organization...
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...Features………………………………………………………...…………..9 7. Organizational Culture………………………………………………………...…..10 8. SWOT Analysis …………………………………………………………………...11 9. Conclusion and Recommendations………………………………………………..12 References………………………………………………………………………...13 1. Introduction. The term “E-commerce” has roots in the 1970’s with the development of Electronics Funds Transfer (EFT) and the introduction of the Automatic Teller Machines (ATM) in the 1980’s. With the development of the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) standard in Mosaic web browser and the explosion of the Internet in 1990’s the term has been universally accepted as the ability to buy and sell via the Internet (Graham, 2008; p. 776). Zappos.com is an online shoe and apparel shop that was found in 1999 by Nick Swinmurn and developed into the largest online shoe store. Today this online retailer “offers 500 brand names and 90,000 styles and stocks over 2 million pair of shoes” (Lamb; 2011; p. 97). Currently, the headquarters of the company is based in Henderson, Nevada. Its products include shoes, apparels, handbags, accessories and eyewear. In 2009 the company announced that it will be acquired by Amazon.com. At the very beginning the company’s name was ShoeSite.com that was changed a few months after the sites’ launch. The word “zappos”, according to the company’s leaders, should be a variation of the Spanish word “zapatos”, which means shoes. Since that time the company enlarged its target...
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...of selecting target marketing is • BMW created the lower-priced 1 Series and X3 SUV to target the “modern mainstream,” a group who are also family-focused and active but had previously avoided BMWs because of the premium cost. • The 1 Series reached this group with its lower price point, sporty design, and aspiration to own a luxury brand. The X3 also hit home with its smaller, less consumers expensive SUV design. BMW introduced convertibles and roadsters to target “post-moderns,” a high-income group that continues to attract attention with more showy, flamboyant cars. BMW’s 6 Series, a flashier version of the high-end 7 Series, also targeted this group. • It helps to identify and asses the relative worth of different market segments and selecting one or more segments in which to compete. • It helps to easily identify the potential customers by targeting into specific groups or individuals. • BMW uses a wide range of advertising tactics to reach each of its target markets but has kept the tagline “The Ultimate Driving Machine” for over 35 years. During that time, U.S. sales of BMW vehicles have grown from 15,000 units in 1974 to approximately 250,000 in 2009. Cons to BMW The Cons of Selecting target segmentation • It was too selective strategy and were not able to see other marketing strategy • The strategy was not flexible and gave options . • The area of competitive differentiation was very small. • Reaches a small percentage of a target market has financial...
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...1) List the major security problems of CNB of Oklahoma and relate them to the attack methods described in section 9.2 through 9.4. The Security problems faced by CNB are as follows • Malware • Malicious software • Unprecedented of Spam Malware, short for malicious software, is software used to disrupt computer operation, gather sensitive information, or gain access to private computer systems. It can appear in the form of code, scripts, active content, and other software. 'Malware' is a general term used to refer to a variety of forms of hostile or intrusive software. Malware includes computer viruses, ransomware, worms, trojan horses, rootkits, keyloggers, dialers, spyware, adware, malicious BHOs, rogue security software, and other malicious programs; the majority of active malware threats are usually worms or trojans rather than viruses. In law, malware is sometimes known as a computer contaminant, as in the legal codes of several U.S. States. Malware is different from defective software, which is a legitimate software but contains harmful bugs that were not corrected before release. However, some malware is disguised as genuine software, and may come from an official company website in the form of a useful or attractive program which has the harmful malware embedded in it along with additional tracking software that gathers marketing statistics. Software such as anti-virus, anti-malware, and firewalls are relied upon by users at home, small and large...
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