...In this article, “Two Years Are Better than Four”, the author, Liz Addison, conveys her speculation of the importance of community colleges. Over the years, especially in the 21st century, some people have been having an inaccurate mentality about community colleges for various reasons. So parents have been trying to raise the bar for their kids to seize every opportunity they possibly can to attend a university instead. Which degrades the value of community colleges and not acknowledging and appreciating it as they should. So in her piece, she emphasises these matters and counters them with positivity and an immense deal of prejudice on the issue. She explains that a community college offers a chance for students to start their lives however they need to and adds whatever path of life we are at, community college is always an option and a hope for a multitude. Liz Addison starts off in her introduction with the opposing the view of Rick Perlstein and defends against his...
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...Water Technologies, Inc. Rong Fan I. Firm Summary a. What is the firm’s current mission/vision? Gather background data on the possibility of Fairchild Water Technologies, Inc. entering the Indian market for home water purification devices. b. Describe the firm’s current brand. Fairchild Water Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1980 by Eugene Fairchild. The company’s first product was a desalinator used by mobile home parks in Florida to remove salts from brackish well water supplied to residents and that lead a huge success. New products’ prices higher than other competitors. The company have over 4,000 employees. The company start to export sales from 1985 and almost reach $140 million in 2000. The company has a lot of sales offices, small assembly areas and distribution facilities in other countries. By late 1995. Two models had been sale to other countries and got a big success. In late 1999, the company has the “delight purifier”. c. What is the firm’s current unique selling proposition (i.e. what is it that they do that their competition doesn’t do)? Delight Purifier. The Delight purifier used a combination of technologies to remove four types of contaminants found in potable water. The engineers at Fairchild Water Technologies, Inc. had interpreted several WHO reports on potable water and had combined the technologies to purify water to a level beyond WHO standards. II. Firm Marketing Mix Summary d. What are the firm’s current products...
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...|TABLE OF CONTENTS | | | |PAGE NUMBER | |BACKGROUND |1 | |AIM |1 | |MAIN PRODUCT |2 | |STATEMENT OF FINANCE COMPARISON |2 | |Asset |2 | |Net Profit |3 | |Equity |3 | |Liability |3 | |RATIO COMPARISON ...
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...The Human Resource Audit as an Improvement Tool Regardless of the type of company or the size of your HR department, the HR Audit is a simple, yet comprehensive tool to analyze and improve your effectiveness as a function. The audit is made up of four main steps: 1) 2) 3) 4) Define desired HR practices for your organization Assess current practices against the criterion that you have established Analyze the results Establish improvement goals and take action This simple four-step approach can be repeated as the annual planning and goal setting process occurs within your company. Progress can be measured against goals and a continuous improvement cycle naturally unfolds. Purpose(s) of an Audit The audit can serve any of the following purposes: · · · · · · To clarify desired practices of HR work and roles within the organization (HR Department, Line Managers). To establish a baseline for future improvement. To evaluate current effectiveness. To standardize practices across multiple sites within a division or company. To assess current knowledge and skills required of HR practitioners. To improve performance levels to key customers within the organization. The Audit Process Step One--Defining Audit Statements Definition of desired HR practices can occur through in a variety of ways. A good starting point is to take some time and reflect on the legal requirements and programs that the department must administer. Simply listing them is a good first step. Next, consider your areas...
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...Logistics Plan | Prepared for Scott Bennie - TMDT 1150 & James Peterson - COMM 2200 | April 10, 2011 Tom (Zaiyi) Liu INTT 2A | Executive summary Our consulting firm has been hired to assist Lamp Place Incorporated (LPI) with a product roll out in Canada. LPI wants to test the viability of the Canadian market by introducing a Prestige line of lamps. Previously, the lamps are being produced by an Indian supplier, who ships four containers of lamps (1,536 cartons) on a weekly basis to the Port of Halifax. After the arrival of these containers at the Port of Halifax, the lamps are then transferred to each of the LPI’s contracted distribution centres through rail and truck. The total cost of this whole process is $24,439 per week, or $1,270,815 per year. Currently, a new supplier based in Montreal has been identified as a comparable alternative to the India supplier. The Montreal supplier offers the same product with $8.10 higher unit price. But the transportation costs are significant lower, as it only costs LPI $11,000 per week and $572,000 per year. One thing to note is that, the Montreal supplier uses a 53’ container to transport the product; therefore, there will be a possibility of 100 more lamps to be shipped with every container. After an analysis both of the suppliers of their cost, convenience, environmental impact, and...
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...Skills Developed: In this lab, I have better understanding of how to use excel and find magnitudes. I learned how to use and download data from GISS website, which is Goddard Institute for Space Studies, one the databases of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to study on going global warming problem. Also, I learned to create “Global map” to show the regional surface temperature distribution of the years I chosen. I learned how to make comparison by observing maps and line plot graphs for the two chosen years. Thought this exercise, I have better skills on reading line plot graphs and maps. Summary: In task 4, we choose three major volcanic eruptions respectively occurred in 1902, 1963 and 1991 from the database, and the average annual global temperature for the year before each major eruption and two years after each major eruption. We calculate the typical magnitude for the four years (including the year of the major eruption) of the major eruption. By comparing the result of typical magnitude and sign, we discovered that the temperate of the year after the major eruption will drop at certain degree, and the temperate of the years following the year...
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...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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...1.0 Executive Summary 1.1 Objectives 2.0 Company Summary and ownership 2.1 Start –up Summary 3.0 Services 4.0 Market Analysis Summary 4.1 Target Market Segmentation Strategy 4.2 Competition and Buying Patterns 5.0 Strategy and Implementation Summary 5.1 Sales Strategy 5.1. Sales Forecast 6.0 Appendix 6.1 Personnel Plan 7.0 Financial Plan 7.1 Break Even Analyst References 1.0 Executive Summary Kodjo car wash will be the first hand car wash serving Takoma Park, Maryland. The car wash will be run by Cokouvi. Cokouvi has been working for decades in Maryland big dealership. The Business Kodjo car wash will offer customers with three different services: interior cleaning, and exterior car washing. Kodjo car wash has a lot of competitors who are trying to take over the market by offering low rate with high quality service. Kodjo car wash offer high quality service, by hiring best employees in regards to respond quickly to the time customers have to spend in the shop before they get their cars back .This delivery time will be very important to kodjo car wash to keep its customers, and distinguish itself from competitors. Kodjo car wash will hire best employees to operate in effective cost control. Research proves that unhappy employee provides less productivity than an employee who is happy. Unhappy employee always fell like the managers are taking advantage on him therefore his result will be less than a happy employee...
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...Concentrated Knowledge™ for the Busy Executive Vol. 24, No. 11 (3 parts) Part 1, November 2002 • Order # 24-26 FILE: HANDS-ON MANAGEMENT ® Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations THE HEART OF CHANGE THE SUMMARY IN BRIEF By John Kotter and Dan Cohen CONTENTS The Heart of Change Page 2 Increase Urgency Pages 2, 3 If you’ve ever tried to change anything, you know how hard it is. How do you go about getting your message across to truly change people’s behavior? While most companies believe change happens by making people think differently, that isn’t the case. Instead, according to John Kotter and Dan Cohen, change happens when you make people feel differently. You have to appeal more to the heart than the mind. In this summary, you will learn about a new dynamic — the “see-feelchange” dynamic that fuels action by showing people potent reasons for change that spark their emotions. Built around the eight steps of change first introduced in Kotter’s bestseller, Leading Change, The Heart of Change gives straight advice on successful change — and true stories of companies making change happen. Build the Guiding Team Pages 3, 4 Get the Vision Right Pages 4, 5 What You’ll Learn In This Summary In the following pages, you will learn about: ✓ The Heart of Change: Why people succeed and why they fail at large scale-change and how you can use an eight-step path to success. ✓ The Need for Urgency: You will see why you must raise feelings of urgency so that people...
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...Concentrated Knowledge™ for the Busy Executive Vol. 24, No. 11 (3 parts) Part 1, November 2002 • Order # 24-26 FILE: HANDS-ON MANAGEMENT ® Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations THE HEART OF CHANGE THE SUMMARY IN BRIEF By John Kotter and Dan Cohen CONTENTS The Heart of Change Page 2 Increase Urgency Pages 2, 3 If you’ve ever tried to change anything, you know how hard it is. How do you go about getting your message across to truly change people’s behavior? While most companies believe change happens by making people think differently, that isn’t the case. Instead, according to John Kotter and Dan Cohen, change happens when you make people feel differently. You have to appeal more to the heart than the mind. In this summary, you will learn about a new dynamic — the “see-feelchange” dynamic that fuels action by showing people potent reasons for change that spark their emotions. Built around the eight steps of change first introduced in Kotter’s bestseller, Leading Change, The Heart of Change gives straight advice on successful change — and true stories of companies making change happen. Build the Guiding Team Pages 3, 4 Get the Vision Right Pages 4, 5 What You’ll Learn In This Summary In the following pages, you will learn about: ✓ The Heart of Change: Why people succeed and why they fail at large scale-change and how you can use an eight-step path to success. ✓ The Need for Urgency: You will see why you must raise feelings...
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... Questions are from Geoscience Laboratory, 5th ed. (p. 213–226), by T. Freeman, 2009, New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons. Reprinted with permission. Lab Questions 12.2 (A) How many cubic kilometers of water reside within groundwater? Around 8.4 million cubic kilometers 12.2 (B) How many more times abundant is groundwater than water on land? It is 42 times more abundant than water on land. 12.7 If, for the model in Figure 12.11, h1 were 506 ft, h2 were 497 ft, and l were 150 ft, what would be the hydraulic gradient (in percent) between well #1 and well #2? Answer: 6 % 12.11 If contaminants were to find their way into groundwater at Acme Industries, in which well would those contaminants be more likely to appear—the well at the Smith farmhouse, or the well at the Jones farmhouse? Jones Farmhouse 12.18 (A) Which of the six wells in Figure 12.25 in chapter 12 should be flowing artesian wells? Four, five, and six In Figures 12.19A and B, two depressions are occupied by water, whereas others are dry. 12.19 (A) Explain this presence and absence of ponds in these two figures. The ponds lacking water most likely have an impermeable bottom. So water from the water table are not able to fill into the depression. 12.19...
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...Academic Summary In the article, “The Problem of the Transition from High School to University Science” by Abour H. Cherif and Marvin F. Wideen, the authors discuss their findings in a study focused on transitional problems students face between High school and College. The two base the study on four main questions: “1) Does a problem exist? 2) If so, what is the fundamental character of this problem? 3) To what extent do the stakeholders (professors, university freshman, high school students, and high school teachers) agree or disagree with causes of the problem identified from the literature? 4) What do they recommend to change it?” (Cherif and Wideen 10). Studies with regard to university freshman have displayed that the first year of college is used to make the ever difficult adjustment from high school to college. Students tend to be ill prepared and the college system doesn’t offer much aid in fixing the issue. Many previous studies have examined this problem from various viewpoints, however, none have addressed the problem directly. Only making reference to its correlation with other topics. This article uses High School students, Teachers, university freshman and professors as its subject groups in surveys and then further interviews from each party. The previous texts that have observed this issue were analyzed to identify causes of the problem from various points of view. Some authors based their arguments on theories or data, while in other papers, the causes had...
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...Primus Automation Division Matthew Probst, Matthew Kennedy, Hailey Ritenour Executive Summary Primus Automation is a manufacturer and services firm that has operations worldwide. Primus’s products include, Programmable Controllers, Numerical Controls, Industrial Computers, Manufacturing Software, Factory-Automation Systems, Data Communication Networks. Over the past few years Primus has experienced slower growth and increased competition for market share. Three months earlier Primus was competing with two foreign firms to sell the equipment to Avantjet. Primus is looking for a lease with terms that will give them a NPV that is higher than the asset they are lending. Primus will assume credit risks and must decide if the return from the lease is favorable enough for the risk taken. Primus will also be dealing with a residual value risk. If primus does not lease the system, they will probably lose the customer. Primus’s objective is to asses the risk and determine if the lease is economically attractive. The problem with creating these lease terms is that Avantjet’s cost of debt and tax rate are unknown to Primus. Because of this we created four different leasing option scenarios. Each scenario offered a high and low cost of debt with either zero or 34% tax. In our analysis we calculated Avantjet's cost of debt to be about 13%. As Avantjets cost of debt rises lease financing becomes more attractive. The lower the tax rate also makes leasing attractive option...
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...CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Lecture Notes for Essentials of Marketing 14e For use only with Perreault/Cannon/McCarthy or Perreault/McCarthy texts. © 2014 McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. McGraw-Hill/Irwin Multimedia Lecture Support Package to Accompany Essentials of Marketing Lecture Script 20-1 This slide refers to material on p. 499. Summary Overview This chapter concludes Essentials of Marketing by covering three broad concepts: 1) Evaluating marketing As indicated in Chapter 1, there are two levels of marketing: • the micro (managerial) level—concerns the marketing activities of an individual firm; and • the macro level—concerns how the whole marketing system works. 2) The key components of an innovative marketing plan. 3) Challenges facing marketers. Multimedia Lecture Support Package to Accompany Essentials of Marketing Lecture Script 20-2 This slide relates to material on p. 498. Summary Overview This chapter suggests that satisfaction and costs serve as criteria for evaluating the impact of marketing. Key Issues • A nation’s objectives affect the evaluation of marketing. • The social and economic objectives of a nation may differ depending on that nation’s socio-political structure. • Consumer satisfaction is the objective in the United States. • This objective is derived from a market-based economic system, and it implies that political freedom and economic freedom go hand in hand. • In the U. S., people have the right to live as they choose and to satisfy...
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...sophomore year, and I got an A in the class and a 4 on the exam, if you were curious. I was very interested in succeeding in that class and I wanted to share some advice on what helped me, and what I wish I did. The AP US History course is divided up into nine units, and there are seven themes (identity, work exchange, and technology, peopling, politics and power, America in the World, environment and geography, and ideas, beliefs, cultures) that can be, and are applied to each unit. The class is to be identical...
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