...Making Business Decisions I: M-Coupon Why are m-coupons better than traditional paper coupons? M-coupons are superior to paper coupons in several ways. M-coupons are easily accessible and can be obtained and used at any time. You don’t have to worry about leaving your paper coupon at home and missing out on a deal. You can store the coupon to your phone and save the time that you would normally use clipping paper coupons. Using m-coupons is also environmentally friendly; by eliminating printing the coupons you are saving trees. M-coupons are cheap and easily traceable, according to an article on Haddonave.com mobile coupon redemption rates averages are 10 times higher than the paper coupon. The fact that the m-coupons are sent to a mobile phone they have a 95% read rate, unlike coupons sent in email or over the web. What are the risks involved with mobile marketing and m-coupons? In any business venture you may always encounter some sort of risk. The risks associated with m-coupons are intrusion, scams, age appropriateness, and security. Using m-coupons is a very effective way to get that direct contact with the customer, and with that you can sometimes come off as being intrusive. You should set up a system that allows the customer to choose when they receive the coupons so they aren’t getting communications from you when they are not wanted. You don’t want your communications to seem like they are some sort of scam. Always be sure that communications are authorized...
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...Xavier Lopez 9-2-13 Making Business Decisions I Buyer Power:Low - In the city of Locust Grove, Georgia, the Broadway Cafe would not have to put up with much buyer power. There aren’t many restaurants there and the closest coffee shops (Dunkin’ Donuts and Starbucks) are both about 10 minutes away. Supplier Power: Low - Since coffee is a cash crop that can be found in several countries, there should be plenty of suppliers to chose from. Threat of Substitute: High - Since the Broadway Cafe doesn’t serve anything that you can’t get elsewhere within close proximity of Locust Grove, customers might feel compelled to go to a restaurant they are more familiar with. If the cafe offered a special dish with its own unique recipe or opened a new range of products; then the store would be able to force the threat of substitutes down. Threat of New Entrants: Low - Even though Locust Grove is a small city, there aren’t many mom and pop shops or family owned restaurants, and I don’t see anymore coming any time soon. Rivalry Among Existing Competitors: High -Even though there isn’t a coffee shop in Locust Grove now, that doesn’t mean one won’t be built in the future. Locust Grove is a steady growing city and plenty of new shoppes have been opening lately. I wouldn’t be surprised if a Dunkin’ Donuts or Starbucks were opened within the next year. Entry Barrier: In order to compete with their rivals, Broad way Cafe must: offer quality service to its customers Nice...
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...CIS 500: Information Systems for Decision Making Candise O. Sandiford Strayer University Prof. Eve Yeates November 6, 2011 Cohesion Case Study for Broadway Cafe 2 Table of Contents Abstract............................................................................................................................................3 Part I: Porter’s Five - Force Analysis..............................................................................................4 Part II: Creating an e-business strategy...........................................................................................7 Part III: Consideration for M-Coupons...........................................................................................9 Part IV: Online Virtual Customer Relations...................................................................................11 Part V: Outsourcing.......................................................................................................................13 Conclusions......................................................................................................................................? References......................................................................................................................................?? 3 Abstract As Mom and Pop restaurants and cafes continue to be on the rise, many times they find themselves trying to stay competitive...
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..."dressing" would satisfy the true transvestite (who is content with his morphological sex), it is only incidental and not more than a partial or temporary help to the transsexual. True transsexuals feel that they belong to the other sex, they want to be and function as members of the opposite sex, not only to appear as such. For them, their sex organs, the primary (testes) as well as the secondary (penis and others) are disgusting deformities that must be changed by the surgeon’s knife. This attitude appears to be the chief differential diagnostic point between the two syndromes (sets of symptoms) - that is, those of transvestism and transsexualism. No genetic cause has as yet been proved for any transsexual manifestation. In a few rare cases of the Klinefelter syndrome, being complicated by transsexualism (or vice versa), the usual genetic fault was found, the patients showing 47 chromosomes (instead of the normal 46), with a chromosomal constellation of XXY instead of XY. At the same time, there were the usual clinical findings (see Chapters II and III). All transsexual patients without complicating disorders so far reported showed a normal chromosomal sex. (Harry Benjamin). Anchersen quotes Kallmann from his studies of homosexual twins as follows: "In 40 monozygotic pairs of twins there was not only a complete...
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...Description of the topic General View Cohesion policy in the European Union has the intended purpose of reducing differences between the member states in matters of economic, social and territorial importance and works to ensure that each region achieves its full potential. Moreover, Article 174 of the Lisbon Treaty states that the policy aims to promote ‘overall harmonious development’ of the EU through the ‘strengthening of its economic, social and territorial cohesion’. According to the European Commission, ignoring the disparities that are apparent across the EU would undermine the single market and single currency, justifying the large percentage of the budget that is spent on these policies . The Greek Case As we know Greek regions have benefited from the inflow of community funds since 1981,when Greece joined the European Union. At this point we believe that we have to present briefly the main funding that Greece has received from 1986 to 2006.Firstly, we have to mention the Mediterranean Integrated Programmes (MIPs) from 1986 to 1993,which <<pushed>> the available funds to small infrastructure projects in Greece. Moreover, we have also to state that the 1994-1999 Community Support Framework, gave the incentives to the country to implement the major infrastructure projects of national character. These infrastructures (railway network,ports,highways) helped Greece not only to connect with other countries but also to be prepared to enter in the Economic...
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...Lexical cohesion and the organization of discourse First year report PhD student: Ildikó Berzlánovich Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Gisela Redeker Dr. Markus Egg Center for Language and Cognition Groningen University of Groningen 2008 Table of contents 1 Introduction.........................................................................................................1 2 Lexical cohesion...................................................................................................2 2.1 Lexical cohesion and discourse organization................................................2 2.1.1 Introduction.............................................................................................2 2.1.2 Lexical cohesion and genre.....................................................................2 2.1.3 Lexical cohesion and coherence .............................................................3 2.2 The role of lexical cohesion in the segmentation and centrality of discourse units......................................................................................................................5 2.2.1 Introduction.............................................................................................5 2.2.2 Discourse segmentation ..........................................................................6 2.2.3 Central discourse units............................................................................8 2.2.4 Conclusion .........................................
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...Forced marriage, family cohesion and community engagement: national learning through a case study of Luton Dr Nazia Khanum OBE March 2008 Forced marriage, family cohesion and community engagement: national learning through a case study of Luton Completed by: Dr Nazia Khanum OBE Director Equality in Diversity Commissioned by: MP Margaret Moran’s Office – Ushrat Sultana Metropolitan Police Service – Jim Blair Home Office – Deborah Jamieson Published by: Printed by: Equality in Diversity e-mail: nkhanum@aol.com Bartham Press (Watford) Ltd e-mail: koyes@barthampress.com Phone: 01582 459402 / 573471 Mobile: 07931 973967 © Nazia Khanum 2008 All rights reserved ISBN: 1-904070-02-7 March 2008 Acknowledgements As soon as I started conducting this piece of research in 2006, it became clear to me that I was dealing with one of the most sensitive subjects, the actual scale and complexity of which will probably never be known. The paucity of available data and the inconsistency of recording incidents across agencies were clear from the start. Since the lack of data was anticipated, this research project took a qualitative and not a quantitative approach, and so no attempt has been made to indulge in a number crunching exercise. Full advantage has been taken of the opportunity to delve into the interviewees’ personal views, perceptions and experiences. During the research, I came across all kinds of emotions and value judgments including mistrust, fear, denial,...
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...Janis’s model of groupthink is arguably the most widely publicized application of psychological principles to high level military, political and technical group decision- making in the history of experimental psychology. This had to have pleased its author who offered this formulation as a compelling bridge between principles documented by laboratory research and “real life” problems (e.g., Janis, 1971). As such the model “legitimized” the importance of decades of academic research on social influence and group process much of which focused upon perceptual and attitudinal judgments having little or no material consequence for participants1. The model has been widely cited (cf. Fuller & Aldag, 1998), and is still described as a valid model in most texts within social psychology (e.g., Baron & Byrne, 2003; Forsyth, 1999; Lord, 1997; Aronson, Wilson & Akert, 2003) and many introductory psychology texts as well (e.g., Myers, 2003). The longevity of this broad coverage both reflects and contributes to the common acceptance of groupthink as a valid and verified phenomenon not only by the lay public but by many academic psychologists as well (Fuller & Aldag, 1998, Turner & Pratkanis, 1998). As a result, it is disconcerting to find that there is substantial skepticism regarding this model among those involved scholars who have offered detailed reviews of the groupthink and group decision making literature (e.g., Aldag & Fuller, 1993; Esser, 1998; Hogg, 1992; Kerr & Tindale, 2004; Kramer...
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...Introduction Present there is a high number of companies worldwide, which have moved some activity of the company to another country. There are many variations of what activities companies choose to move, though some activities have remarkably higher tendencies of being moved. After the Second World War there has been a high number of companies, which move industrial activities such as manufacturing of textiles, cars and ships. During the recent decades there have been other tendencies for moving activities abroad, hence services as in helpdesks, and non-physical products such as programming. One of the countries, which have a very high influence on these activities is India. The purpose of moving an activity to another country has various reasons, for instance trips abroad or high accessibility to skilled resources, but the major reason is to reduce costs of these activities. For that reason India have made a high impact on these activities as of the low wage level. India is in general one of the successful countries when it comes to offshoring IT enabled services. It has for many reasons, but the major factor is India’s cost competitive labor, vast human capital, and their education system, which made them excellent English speakers. Yet, there is still many companies, which have not moved any activity across borders. The reason they have not may differ. As mentioned above some industries have a higher disposition to become offshored, and some activities may not profit from...
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...important types of cohesion that makes up unit cohesion within the military; social cohesion, task cohesion, and vertical cohesion. Social cohesion refers to the nature and quality of the emotional bonds of friendship, liking, caring, and closeness among group members. A group displays high social cohesion to the extent that its members like each other, prefer to spend their social time together, enjoy each other's company, and feel emotionally close to one another. It is imperative social cohesion is developed amongst all military members who work together. It is what bond us and drives military members to work harder in order to produce better products or whatever the task may be. Figuring out what drives each other...
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...Financial Instruments in Cohesion Policy 2014-2020 COHESION POLICY 2014-2020 The European Commission adopted legislative proposals for cohesion policy for 2014-2020 in October 2011 This factsheet is one in a series highlighting key elements of the future approach Table of contents What is the aim? What is proposed? What has changed from 2007-2013? What are the practical effects? Cohesion Policy Financial instruments represent a resource-efficient way of deploying cohesion policy resources in pursuit of the Europe 2020 Strategy objectives. Targeting projects with potential economic viability, financial instruments provide support for investments by way of loans, guarantees, equity and other risk-bearing mechanisms including policy-based guarantees for the European Social Fund (ESF), possibly combined with interest rate subsidies or guarantee fee subsidies within the same operation. Besides the obvious advantages of recycling funds over the long term, financial instruments help to mobilise additional public or private co-investments in order to address market failures in line with Europe 2020 and cohesion policy priorities. Their delivery structures entail additional expertise and know-how, which helps to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of public resource allocation. Moreover, these instruments provide a variety of incentives to better performance, including greater financial discipline at the level of supported projects. Financial instruments have been...
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...MGMT-591-14505-Leadership & Org Behavior Xiaojun Yu Robert Steinberg Oct. 1, 2014 Case Study After reading the scenario, we know that the Woodson Foundation is a large nonprofit social service agency, which is teaming up with the public school system is Washington, D.C., to improve student outcomes. According to the textbook, I identify the stage of Woodson Foundation is in the norming stage, which is having close relationship develop and the group demonstrates cohesiveness. Team cohesion refers to the mutual attraction attractiveness of the team members, members of the team cohesion, and team members, team cohesion is not only a necessary condition for the existence of maintaining the team, but the team has the potential to play a very important role. If a team loses cohesion, it is impossible to complete the task entrusted to the organization itself will lose the conditions exist. A social psychologist has said that what the cohesion do is to enable members of the group to stay together in groups, which is a kind of interpersonal attraction, attraction it had some similarities mechanics, such as a personal in the play "meteor ball", the meteor ball turn around with center. The primary question that the Woodson Foundation is facing is to figure out the conflict in the development team. Because each group has its own interests, and in some cases these are directly opposed to one another. The second problem is that how to distribute the job for different candidates....
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...Team and Performance Management Department: HRM, Organisational Behaviour and Tourism Module Code: MOD003554 Academic Year: 2012/13 Semester/Trimester: 2 Table of Contents 1. Introduction 3 2. Exclusive summary 3 3. Company's Background 3 4. Main Body 4 Nature of the Teams 4 Why do we join them? 5 What are teams, groups? 5 Formation 5 Personality 6 Social exchange theory 7 Belbin 7 Team cohesion 8 Concertive Control 9 Performance 10 Emotional Intelligence 12 Conflict 14 5. Conclusion 15 6. Recommendations 15 The List of References 17 The List of Bibliography 20 1. Introduction This report is designed to critically analyse positive and negative issues surrounding team dynamics and team formation that has occurred in the provided case study using appropriate theories and concepts such as team cohesion, structure, team norms/values and stages of group development. Furthermore, report will also evaluate the critical factors such as social loafing, team size, emotional intelligence and will summarise them introducing with the main ones which impacts effective team environment most. Moreover, recommendations will be proposed for change to occur in the team according to decision-making, leadership style and will explain how these recommendations could be implemented. Lastly, some relevant...
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...fulfill its potential and accomplish its responsibilities. A church board appoints and authorizes a chairperson to facilitate and enable its cohesive, effective operation of the church. The chair develops and exercises some team-building and team-cohesiveness competencies. “Concerning the initial research questions, group cohesion and performance were found to be positively correlated. Although there was a...
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...Abstract When working in a team conflicts are bound to happen. Conflicts can range anywhere from the inability to agree on a topic to the lack of participation of team members. In order to be an effective team member and agree on the content of the project, team members need to be open minded and flexible. When students are a part of a team the end result should be the same for all of those involved. However, this is not always the case. Conflicts are thought of as being negative responses to someone else’s ideas or suggestions, but conflicts can help different team members open their minds to new approaches and tactics. Team members have the opportunity to grow and learn to appreciate how others work. However, since each team member has their own distinct way of learning, they also have their own way of dealing with conflict. There are different types of conflict and within each type of conflict there are different methods of conflict styles. The three types of conflict are; Substantive, Procedural and Affective Substantive conflict takes place when team members disagree over each other’s ideas. Substantive conflict happens when a team argues over the details that could stand in the way of the final goal of the group. For example, when a topic or idea is presented and no one can agree with each other. This disagreement can stand in the way of the completion of the project. Procedural conflict takes place when the team members disagree about the process taken to complete...
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