...SURVEY DEVRY CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS – The Devry Center Jim Jones February 15, 2013 Eval of Security Systems Professor Semore Butts Overview This site survey was conducted by Jim Jones on February 15, 2013. This document is intended to detail the security survey and analysis for Devry Corporate headquarters. The report will detail the strengths and weaknesses of each of the operational areas. While it will detail an overview of staff and visitor procedures it will not be a personal evaluation of the staff’s readiness or ability to carry out those activities and responsibilities. The objective of the recommendations in this audit are to ensure that Devry Corporate headquarters complies with state, local, and federal regulations for the safety of its employees, the public, and visitors. It will also assist with recommendations that ensure Devry Corporation is free from any legal liabilities as a result of action or non action as it relates to security and safety (Garcia, 2008). Summary The Devry Corporate Headquarters is the central location for Devry Inc., which owns and operates fourteen educational institutions, their supporting both domestic and international operations. These Institutions are comprised of large scale educational facilities requiring sophisticated infrastructures. Each of the supported institutions must adhere to the Higher Education Act standards of security and safety. Those standards would not be applicable in the corporate headquarters as...
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...A garage door company is committed in satisfying the needs of customers by providing a variety of quality products. The main objective of a garage door company is to change the perception of garage doors and improve the quality of life. A company should be able to turn its competitive products into profits. A garage company should fuse its marketing strategies with the competitive products in order to develop a competitive advantage in the market. The relevant set of competitive products for a garage company includes; residential garage doors, commercial sectional doors, garage door openers and mini storage doors. A garage door company usually has a set of determinant attributes that define the product space in which positions of current offerings are located. Differentiating goods along specific features and details is a very important marketing strategy for a garage door company in defending its price from going down the price spectrum. One of the determinant attributes is difference in quality of the products. Difference in quality as perceived by the customer plays an important role in the decisions to purchase. Consumers have their perception on the features of the product and this determines the product space. The type of the product is another determinant attribute. The product can either be a necessity or a luxury good but the nature of the need has to be satisfied. The price of the product determines the product space in the market. Customers believe that products that...
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...for Palladium Door Inc., a small regional garage door manufacturer, reaching $9.2 million dollars in sales with $460,000 in net profit. As the 2004 approached, the director of sales and marketing, Richard Hawley, asked that they create a plan to raise sales for 2004 by 36% to $12.5 million. This idea was driven primarily by suppliers, in respect to the raw materials needed to make the steel doors. It was agreed that more sales were necessary to keep a stable buying position with these suppliers and more budget was needed on promotions and advertising to achieve this goal. The company distributes steel residential and commercial garage doors and supplies through 300 independent dealers and 50 exclusive dealers which service 150 markets. However, 50 of these markets have the 50 exclusive dealers as the only provider of Palladium doors. Palladium also had 10 sales representatives. To meet the sales goal, it was imperative to determine the amount of dealers, their locations and particulars needed to achieve this. A number of solutions were offered by Palladium executives: adding more dealers into the current markets it operates in; developing an exclusive franchise program with nonexclusive dealers operating in different markets; reducing the number of dealerships, not changing the distribution strategy or dealers. Main Competitors: Cloplay Corporation, Overhead Door Corporation, Wayne-Dalton Corporation, Amarr Garage Doors, and Royner Garage Doors. Key Issue: Which distribution...
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...partnership in a garage. It grew rapidly and, by 1985, became a large publicly traded corporation with 60 million shares of stock and a total market value in excess of $1 billion. At that time, the firm’s more visible cofounder, 30-year-old Steven Jobs, owned 7 million shares of Apple stock worth about $120 million. Despite his stake in the company and his role in its founding and success, Jobs was forced to relinquish operating responsibilities in 1985 when Apple’s financial performance turned sour, and he subsequently resigned altogether. Of course, you can’t keep a good entrepreneur down. Jobs formed Pixar Animation Studios, the company that is responsible for the animation in the hit movies Toy Story, A Bug’s Life, and Toy Story 2. Pixar went public in 1995, and, following an enthusiastic reception by the stock market, Jobs’s 80 percent stake was valued at about $1.1 billion. Finally, just to show that what goes around comes around, in 1997, Apple’s future was still in doubt, and the company, struggling for relevance in a “Wintel” world, decided to go the sequel route when it hired a new interim chief executive officer (CEO): Steven Jobs! How successful was he at his new (old) job? In January 2000, Apple’s board of directors granted Jobs stock options worth $200 million and threw in $90 million for the purchase and care of a Gulfstream V jet. Board member Edgar Woolard stated, “This guy has saved the company.” Understanding Jobs’s journey from garage-based entrepreneur...
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...the present day, Google has infiltrated itself into a variety of different markets in order to continue to develop new ideas and projects. Google's other enterprises include Internet analytics, cloud computing, advertising technologies, and Web app, browser and operating system development. In merely 19 years of existence, Google has been able to transform itself from being a tool to becoming part of our culture and everyday life. Such incredible success is the result of its transcendental leadership, its innovative corporate culture and its well distributed and managed corporate strategy. In 1996, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the original leaders of Google, developed the search engine “Backrub” as a research project while they were Ph. D students at Stanford University. Page’s and Brin’s mission was to develop a way to categorize infinite amount of information in an attempt to organize the internet in terms of relevance to the search’s input. Backrub used a technology to determine a website's rank by the number of pages, the importance of those pages, and by checking backlinks to estimate the importance of a site. After working under Stanford University’s domain for one year and recognizing their success, Brin and Page left Stanford and moved their business to a Silicon Valley garage where they changed their name to Google Inc. It quickly became one of the best garage startup companies in history because Brin and Page were able to do what most online companies in the 1990s were...
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...implementable plan based on the specific and unique considerations of the individual business. The company of Data Tech, Inc was started by Jeff Styles. Data Tech is a business that transfers hard copies of documents, such as invoices, bills, or mailing lists, onto CDs (John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2010). As other companies move to a paperless environment, the placing of data on CDs was the wave of the future. Jeff had started the company in his two-car garage three years earlier by purchasing the essential software and signing of two large corporations as his first customers. At this point, he was about to sign on two additional corporate customers. All of a sudden what was a small garage operation was turning into a major business. Data Tech can capture market share with space to expand as companies look to become more eco-friendly. The Business operation of Data Tech, Inc. seem as a functional and simply deceptively operation. But its operation grew enormously every day, and that Data Tech received packages of mail from corporate customers containing documents they want transferred to disc....
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...Business Analysis - Hewlett-Packard Business Evaluation - Hewlett-Packard Whenever the brand name Hewlett-Packard (HP) is brought up, I think of garage innovation. It has been the entrepreneurial symbol of the firm from its birth. It is referred to as the “Birthplace of Silicon Valley” on its own website ("Rebuiding HP’s Garage," 2012). Throughout time, a corporation may go through as many as 10 stages of life (Adizes, 1996). As a Mutual Fund manager, the most sought after opportunity is to invest into a company in its infancy stage, and sell out well before its death stage to maximize the investment return. To get a better determination as to where a company like HP is in its corporate life stage, it is important to conduct a business analysis. This would include running a SWOT analysis, identify the internal and external stakeholders and to determine if expectations are currently met of those stakeholders. SWOT Analysis Regardless of the size of the corporation, it is important to analyze and address its areas of concern internally and externally to the firm. A SWOT analysis consists of strengths and weaknesses affected internally as well as opportunities and threats externally (Nickels, McHugh and McHugh, 2010). First, it is important to consider the products and services HP provides. HP provides a wide range of technology hardware products including computers (both desktop and laptop), printers, servers, cameras and monitors. It also provides software and firmware...
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...Apple started in include the • Growth of the industry • Changes in how the product is used and who buys it • Other firms entering and exiting the market. Key Success Factors • Technology began growing • Outsourcing and manufacturing • New Product/skills of management Resources and Capabilities Tangible Resources - Apple was able to get going at the beginning due to a large investment. They were able to sell their products through distributors and retail stores. They were later able to invest in their own stores and sell products directly to the consumer. They had a positive culture. Employees are happy and truly believe in the products. Apples corporate organization has allowed them to be successful. Intangible Resources - Apple is considered one of the most innovative companies in the world. From the beginning they were looking for ways to change the world and bring new technology to the forefront. They have a good reputation with quality products. Apples ethics are not questioned and they are a major player in technology world. They have been extremely flexible, especially when making their products compatible with a windows operating system. Capabilities/Value Chain - Apple began operations out of a small garage. This small garage grew to a warehouse, to a hundreds of stores around the world. They have a very sharp and clean image. After sales plummeted in the early 90’s, sales began increasing more than ever before. With the introduction of the iPod sales soared. ...
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...1998 Andy Bechtolsheim wrote the two a check in the sum of $100,000. The two set up their work space in a garage in Menlo Park. They also filed for incorporation on September 4 in the state of California. Craig Silverstein was the first employee of this at the time very small company. However in February of 99 they had too many people for the garage and moved the company to Palo Alto now with 8 employees. By June of 99 at their 1st press release they announce that Sequoia Capital has given them $25 million and in august the company moves again to Mountain View. By May of 2000 Google was now in 10 different languages and in June a partnership was developed with yahoo to be the default search. This is where the company really begins its humongous growth. In October Google Ad words is released then in December Google toolbar By February of 2001 the company has its first acquisition of Usenet Discussion Service, and by March Google is now in 26 languages. In August they opened an office in Tokyo and Eric Schmidt is named CEO. In February of 2002 AdWords now uses cost-per-click in the pricing. Then in May the company develops a huge partnership with AOL. Then in September another international office is opened in Sydney. In December of 2003 they release Google book search which will now include book excerpts in the results of your search. Over the next couple of years many new programs and acquisitions are made including AdSense, Google Grants, and Google local. They Also...
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...22, 2011 Tammy Walker Why Organizations Change Organizations change for different reasons, external pressures, the change in the economy, new product line, global influence, or internal pressure, a new business strategy, a change in the vision, or mission statement, reorganization, or acquisitions. When an organization changes the people within the company must also transition. Transition means a person has to let go, say goodbye, and live outside his or her comfort zone. To illustrate an organizational change I choose Budget Panels and their employees as an example. Budget panels went through a series of eras. The final era was the acquirement in 1986 by Hon Industries. This acquisition brought many transformations in the company, for the employees as well as new pricing, products, and services. This paper will follow Budget Panels transitions; describe the change transition curve, and the influence of global and internal environments. First, a small summary of how Budget Panels was originated and the organizations transition into the final era. Budget Panels was created by entrepreneur Gary White. Gary started Budget Panels in the garage of his home in the early 1980s. The company produced office partitions. The organization quickly grew and evolved from an entrepreneurial business to a professional management structure in a new location in Kent, Washington. The company also changed their name from Budget Panels to Budget Panels Incorporated also known as BPI. The next...
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...Problem: Car Services Ltd (CSL) rends motor vehicle breakdown recovery service to its members. It attracts new members through a television advertising campaign that encourages potential clients to telephone a free call number for further information and the opportunity to immediately enroll with a credit card. Members are offered the choice of three levels of annual service contract in descending order of coverage and price: Gold, Silver and Standard. The telephone inquiries come through to a call centre staffed by CSL employees at the company’s premises who are paid a basic salary and a bonus of each new member that they successfully enroll. Located in the same building on another floor is the Car Hospital (CH) team who take the calls from the stranded motorists and arrange for a franchised garage to deal with the breakdown. These garages are independently owned and CSL pay them a fee for every callout that they undertake. CSL has recently (after January 2004) commenced employing trained mechanics on enhanced salaries to dispense technical advice to members on the telephone in the hope that a proportion of the call-outs to franchised garages will be avoided. Detailed information on costs, revenues, business activity and staff is displayed in the following tables. Table 1 Cost, Revenue and business Activity data for 2004 | |Gold |Silver |Standard | |Annual...
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...this merger after 13 year picture is changed. HP share price has raised more than 150% after merger. Carly Fiorina is not CEO and HP is still one of the most profitable companies in the world. HP is one of the famous companies found in Pao Alto in the garage. It was founded in 1938 in the year when PC industry wasn’t existing, when Steve jobs and Bill Gates weren’t even born. It is the company from which PC industry giants like Apple and Microsoft inherited corporate culture. Bill and Dave were graduates of the electrical engineering program of Stanford University. They decided to start business on drawing on Bill’s study of negative feedback. So there first product became the resistance capacitance audio oscillator, used to test sound equipment. First client was Walt Disney which used HP product in his animated movie Fantasy. From the day of founding HP was distinguished from other tech companies by it’s corporate culture. They called it HP way. Even Steve Wozniak founder of Apple praises HP corporate culture and says that the Apple seed was planted in Hewlett-Packard cubicle. It was philosophy which emphasized integrity, respect for individuals, teamwork, innovation and contribution to customers. HP grow from garage to world's one of the most valuable company. Most of the large companies have problems, which they haven’t had when they were small. In 1972 HP introduced first scientific calculator, in 1980 it introduces first PC and in1985 Laser Jet Printer. These are...
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...using course materials. You may complete this exam on your own time before class, or in class during the final exam time. You may type it or hand-write it. Either way, you will need to turn in a paper copy, by hand, during the final exam class time (Monday, May 9, between 1:00 – 2:50 pm). This exam is open-book and open-computer. 1. Identify current and future issues in sustainability for urban locations. There are a lot of major issues as a nation, that we are trying to combat. Firstly, a major problem, that is only getting is high urbanization rates. It is not just causing problems with carbon emissions, its affecting food and water security. As we expand into an ever growing population. We are now trying to encroach into new areas, for our population. An example is Rio De Janiero, they are ever expanding to...
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...history. In 2001, Eric Schmidt became the Chief executive officer. He added maturity and organization skills to the creative dreams of the founders and since it went public in 2004 it has seen tremendous growth not only in its core business, but it expanded it various businesses from google maps to autonomous cars. This case study analysis shows how Google achieved it success and what strategies and opportunities it needs to take to be successful in the near future. Some analysts say Google is almost at the mature state of its core business but they keep coming up with new products. Introduction In 1996, Google was formed by Sergey Brin and Larry Page, in a friends’ garage in Palo Alto, California. The two intellects dropped out of the Ph. D. program at Stanford to launch a search engine that analyzed and prioritized Web links based on relevance of queries. Within months, Google moved out of the garage into a downtown office where they multiplied their success (Hartley, 2011). In the beginning, Google was founded on an enterprise wanting to make searching for information easier and free to users. This project was well received by users, however had very little revenue to last very long. In 1998, Brin and Page accepted their first investment of $100,000 as Google Inc. This initial funding was short lived and soon Google was back to meeting with investors. Within a year, Google announced another $25 Million dollar investment by Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia Capital...
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...Corporate Responsibility and Marketing Strategies Contemporary Business BUS 508 Dr. Melinda Swigart January 18, 2015 Abstract This paper will examine Apple’s current position in regards to ethical and social responsibilities. The leadership under Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak has built this empire with great success and long term relationships. The violations that they have endured have strengthened their moral and ethical fundamentals. I have identified Apple’s current position and the background of this huge empire. The paper will also introduce the methods used for their success and overall advertising strategies: that has enhanced product sales. The loyalty of their customers and continued growth has factored in significantly increasing new product development. Apple’s contribution to this world has made them a well-known corporation. Introduction Apple Corporation Steve Job co-founder of Apple Computer alongside with Steve Wozniak pioneered a cycle of revolutionary technologies. In 1980, Apple Inc. had a market value of $1.2 billion during their first day of trading. Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, Inc., is a conglomerate corporation that creates consumer electronics, computer software, and commercial servers. Apple’s foundation lines are the iPad, iPhone, iPod music player, and Macintosh computer line-up. The founder’s s Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak effectively created Apple Computer on April 1, 1976, with the release...
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