...Zip-6 in France: A Future Venture Due to the recent ban of the rival drink Red Bull in France, Zip-6 has decided to look into its potential prospects in France. Entering into the French energy drink market could be beneficial not only for Zip-6 but also for a country that is becoming increasingly concerned with the ingredients in energy drinks. In order to make an informed decision concerning the possible entrance into the French energy drink market Zip-6 needs to know what kind of competition currently exists, what the trade limitations might pose a problem, and what entry strategy would be best suited for the situation. One of the biggest influences for the company to enter into a country would be the competition currently on the market in the host country. “The degree of rivalry in the French market is affected by the continuing concentration of market share by two or three players, market rivalry is therefore currently classified as moderate.” [ (MarketlLine Industry Profile Carbonated Soft Drinks in France, 2012) ] The two or three aforementioned companies that have a hold in the French market would be Coca-Cola, Nestle SA, PepsiCo, Inc., and Suntory Group. Coca-Cola is the only one that has a corner in the energy drink market with several already in production, while the others do not distribute an energy drink to speak of in France. France’s beverage market can be “difficult for a new entrant to compete with the brand strength and reach of existing players.” ...
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...Wal-Mart Amanda Reeves SS340-01American Business History Kaplan University Wal-Mart On July 2, 1962 when the first Wal-Mart store opened in Rogers Arkansas, no one would have guessed that in less than fifty years, one store would explode into nine-hundred and seventy one locations across the United States. The Wal-Mart Store has revolutionized the way that Americans shop for groceries, household supplies, clothes, and even home repair items. Sam Walton’s vision for a place that people could come to purchase a variety of items in one location for a reasonable price, began in 1940 when he started working in retail for J.C. Penny. During his career at Penny’s, Walton was approached by Butler Brothers Retailers, who offered him the opportunity to run one of their variety stores in Newport Arkansas called “Ben Franklin”. Walton jumped at the chance and was actually very successful at the venture. After the initial lease expired for “Ben Franklin”, Walton chose to relocate and rename the store. He moved to a building in Bentonville Arkansas, and renamed the store “Walton’s Five and Dime”. It was here that Walton learned a valuable lesson in sales. By slightly reducing his markup on products, he was able to out sell his competitors with significant profit and sales margins. Walton took this valuable knowledge and began to study and research different discount retailers across the country, learning everything he could about discount retailing...
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...BEGIN TITLE THREE INCHES FROM TOP OF PAPER Bachelors Capstone Final Project First Name, MI, Last Name Course Number and Section Professor Table of Contents Section 1: Executive Summary (Business Description) 2 Section 2: Code of Conduct 3 Section 3: Marketing Plan (Strategy and SWOT) 4 Section 4: Operations 5 Section 5: Finance 6 Section 6: Cash Flow Analysis 7 Section 7: Information Management 8 Section 8: Management Summary 9 References 10 Appendix 11 (After you copy and paste each section, return to the Table of Contents, right click on the table and select Update Fields. Once this is done, delete all instructions in the template and delete them). Section 1: Executive Summary (Business Description) In addition to information from Executive Summary "Business Description" from Unit 1, please include the following information in just a couple of paragraphs: Type of Business The Professional Typing Services (PTS) is owned and operated by Katina Jones. PTS will cater to the needs and demands of varies corporations. Also, PTS will specialize in a wide range of services such as typing, graphic designs, business plans, thesis, resumes, business letter, photographs, and family documentation. PTS also provide services to small businesses, and individuals. Mission: “To bring different corporations a wide range of services, clerical, administration support that they can trust.” Vision: “To be the most trusted company to our customers...
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...Unit 9 Final Project Kaplan University Exploring the 1960’s: An Interdisciplinary Approach Unit 9 Final Project The year is 2325, and I, archaeologist extraordinaire, have been summoned to view the contents of a strange sealed capsule that was found buried outside what used to be our nations capital. I have seen these capsules before but have never had the opportunity to be the first to analyze what is in side. Many of the capsules that I have read about before have had a brief glimpse of history and how things used to be during a certain time period. The first item found when opening the time capsule from the 1960’s is The Vietnam War. The Vietnam War was waged from 1961 until 1975 ("Battlefield: Vietnam,"). The Vietnam War cost over $150 Billion and lost over 58,000 American lives (Van Buren, 1991). The Vietnam War was such a big part of the 1960’s; it is almost impossible to no it include it in any time capsule representing the 1960’s. The second item found in the time capsule is the civil rights movement. The civil rights movement was a movement started to create equality between white people and black people. The fight for racial equality started in 1954 is still going on today (Brunner & Haney, 2007). The Third item removed from the time capsule is the band The Grateful Dead. The Grateful Dead provided the sound track for the psychedelic movement of the 1960’s, creating 23 albums over 24 years ("Grateful dead discography," 2013). The fourth object...
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...Unit 9 Final Project 1 MT359: Advertising in the 21st Century January 15, 2013 The product that I have decided to market is 3M Thinsilated hats, gloves and scarves. The reason that I chose the product is evident. I was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. I have spent the last thirty-nine years braving Chicago winters. These winters are the stuff of legend. Chicago is better known by tourist as “The Windy City”. Chicago earned the nickname of the Windy City because of from the chilly gusts of wind coming off Lake Michigan. All Chicagoans know that early fall and winter mornings can be unbearable without some form of protection from the wind. Keep in mind that large numbers of the population of the city ride public transportation every day. This is common for such a large metropolitan city. The Chicago Transit Authority estimates their daily ridership to be approximately 2,209,000 rides (Transitchicago.com, 2011). This is broken down by the different means of public transportation offered. The averages are as followed. CTA Rail Ridership: 680,000 rides, Bus Ridership: 1,068,000 rides, Metra Ridership: 336,000, PACE Ridership: 125,000, Total daily ridership in Chicago: 2,209,000 (Transitchicago.com, 2011). This is a lot of riders. All of these riders need to be protected from the elements as they wait on the cold streets for the public transports to arrive. As we all know, it gets pretty cold in Chicago. Between the months of December and February...
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...Studio Bookings is to provide a user-friendly, effective way for yoga studios and classes and their members to organize them. We have worked very hard to use the latest technology and design techniques to make Studio Bookings everything you want it to be. Our yoga studio management software helps you control your scheduled classes with ease. Customers can book places online and you can track attendance easily from within the application. You can keep track of how many sessions each of your students are still owed, and redeem these sessions automatically after each class attendance. Our yoga software helps you manage both your scheduled classes as well as your private appointments. Integrated point of sale makes it easy to control invoicing and manage stock if you also sell retail items to clients. Our comprehensive reports mean you'll spend less time managing your business and more time focusing on your clients. Easily track your sales, projected sales and class attendance. All our reports can be exported into various formats or emailed directly from the application. Studio Bookings yoga management software helps you manage and solve critical studio challenges quickly and affordably, understanding the important relationship between your staff, clients, services and the financial needs of your studio. Studio Management Software handles all the elements of your day to day operations. It manages sales transactions, signups, employees and teachers, workshops, appointments and tasks...
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...Cornell Creative Machines Labs are developing a 3-D printer called the Fab@Home, these printers uses food as ink to allow users make precise, digitally designed food. These printers will allow users to experiment with recipes and create artistic dishes. So far, these printers can only print out raw materials using soft materials. The impact that these printers will have on everyday life will be pretty significant. Since it will allow more room to experiment with different recipes and designs and less room for mistakes because these printers follow a digital blueprint and future models will involve download able menus. These printers will help with portion control, since it follow a blueprint that tell the printer the amount to output. For those people that are picky eaters, these printers allow you to shape the food into anything they desire , for example, you could shape your food into a superhero. At home, these printer will allow people prepare meals quick and easy. Imagine treating your friends and family to a fancy dinner just with a single press of a button. The Fab@home will effect almost anyone in the food industry such as chefs, bakeries, candy makers, etc. For restaurants, these printer can help speed up the efficiency in the kitchen by helping the chef design the dish and make dishes such as pasta dishes. In a bakery setting, these printers can help with designing and icing cakes, however they want by creating their own blueprint. This could allow customers to design...
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...Marine salt Marine salt is used to emulate an ocean setting for an aquarium. Maintaining a marine or salt water aquarium takes exacting science to make it work. Too much marine salt and the environment because too acidic causing coral die off as well as fish. Not enough marine salt and the aquatic life will fail to thrive. There are numerous kinds of marine salt from magnesium loaded salt to special formulations designed to feed reef coral. Specialized marine salt can be formulated for mineral free reverse osmosis water to add back the essential minerals needed. There is a plethora of marine salts available each formulated to provide the proper balance to keep your salt water aquarium healthy. Substrates Aquarium substrate is the material used at the bottom of the tank for aesthetics and for a place to build beneficial bacteria. Depending on what type of aquarium you have; salt or fresh water, your substrates will be different. Substrates have multiple functions including releasing and absorbing substances from the water. Some substrates like coral are used to alter the pH balance of the tank. Substrate is also used as biological filtration. Planted tanks require substrate loose enough for the plants to root adequately. The most common substrates are gravel, limestone, marble, coral, peat and sand all having different purposes. Multi Phosphor flo Bulbs Multi phosphor flo bulbs are fluorescent lighting designed to provide multiple effects through the spectrum...
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...The privacy mobile app I will create will help clients feel safer about choosing which parts of communities they would feel safer living in. This app will allow individuals to know current dangerous locations, recent crimes that may have happened in an area they may be interested in and to become aware of an area that still may have high levels of danger going on. The application will be a beneficial service to many, while following several Fair Information Principles (FIPs) and Principles of Privacy by Design (PbD), ensuring that it overall complies with PIPEDA requirements. When a user first downloads this app, they will have to agree to all the terms and conditions that will include all details, as well as outline specific points many people may miss. Firstly, for this app to be downloaded it will require permission from a real estate agent at the company. This will prevent other people from downloading the app for their own purposes. Once they download the app, it will identify the purpose of each feature so individuals get a full understanding of each functionality. After they have gone through all the features and explanations the app will provide, they will then need to give their consent and agree to all the terms and conditions. This would entail that the application will follow the “Consent Principle” from FIPs since they would be acknowledging possible risks yet willing to use the app (Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada). There will be crucial features...
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...the progress of tasks/activities in a project. Also, another useful tool is a Work Breakdown Structure¹, which decomposes the project into smaller tasks to show relationships between the tasks. By combining project scheduling, project time estimation and risks analysis, there will be a higher chance of finishing the project successfully without delays. 2.3.3 Cost Overruns Cost overruns are closely related to project delays, but that is not always the case. Other cases could be changing the project direction from what was planned, or stakeholders...
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...Step 1: Review the monthly expenditures below. Imagine that like so many companies, you experience a cash crunch. Your revenue (income) shrinks 25%, so you must trim your budget. If your current monthly expenditure is $545.00 what is the new total with the reduction of 25%? My total monthly expenditure would now be $408.75 after having a reduction of 25% Where will you trim? I would trim the complimentary coffee down to $60.00 by finding a new coffee vendor. I would find a new catering service for our monthly office brunch. I’m going to start saving money, by buying my paper and plastic goods in bulk, I will change out the water jugs myself or have my employees assist me on changing them out instead of paying a vendor to change them out. I wouldn’t want to mess with the morale of my employees, by taking away the employee of the month. Why? Thoroughly explain your reasoning for the trim and think of how this might be viewed amongst your employees The budget cuts that I have made, has not taken away any of the extra benefits from my employees. Therefore, the adjustments that I have made in the budget. I expect a boost in morale and work performance by my employees. Total monthly expenditures for an office of 30 Current 25% 15% Office Supplies $65.00. $0.00 $0.00 Employee of the Month $30.00 $0.00 $20.00 Electric Water Cooler $90.00 $88.75 $0...
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...To start building your final project, please identify three processes in at your site that enhance patient care, health care delivery, or health care management. These can be policies, daily routines, even informal things that you find happening at your site that betters care. Health care management: I have chosen health care management. The internship that I am interning at revolves around patient management systems and communication amongst the many staff members. - Health policies: There are many different policies to follow by having a patient management system in a health care facility. Information is now being stored in the ‘cloud’ and has to be protected. There are different security measures that a patient management system in a health care facility has to know before it is passed such as HIPPA and HITECH. This relates back to the recent ruling that every facility must have an PM integrated system. It is hard for everyone to adapt to technology but that is now why communication is key. I have seen it for myself while I have been interning. -...
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...In this project, we are required to create an abstract art. Abstract art is no recognition in the object that we can relate to real world. Things that are inside abstract art, is something we can’t recognize it directly, it needs to be felt. We need to understand the texture, colour, tone and mark making in the abstract art in order to know what the artist wants to communicate. Most of abstract arts are created to express emotions which we can see by how the artist paint the painting or decorate spaces. Firstly, in this project, we have to make 10 paintings of abstract art that conveys emotions in it. Honestly, I don’t understand at all in making this project. I don’t know how to communicate emotions in terms of abstract because it’s a new thing for me. Since I’m always painting something that is recognizable in the real world, this is a tough, challenging project for me. I have to go research more about abstract art in order to make this project. I began to look for inspiration on pinterest and took some idea, modify them and eventually I could create 10 paintings. The struggle in creating this 10 paintings is whether what i want to communicate in my painting is understandable by the teachers and friends....
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...2. Give special attention to the sites for later class visits so that negative impacts from activities, such as a grieving attack, can be reduced to minimum 3. Do a stress test of the lab facilities to ensure proper functioning of systems during class exercises while letting students be aware of the technological constraints so they won’t be overly frustrated when facing technical difficulties 4. Offer training to students before carrying out any crucial tasks to make sure students know how to navigate in the system and how to control their avatars 5. Combine videos, hands-on lab sessions in Second Life and research-based projects to improve student engagement and learning during class discussions. 6. Give students the freedom to form groups and to select project topics in an area related to the course to increase student motivation 7. Design activities for small groups to ensure that the instructor and students won’t be overwhelmed by the task needed. 8. Determine the role of Second Life in the course before designing or implementing any activities Recommendations Careful consideration on the training materials and exercises need to be taken before the start of any activities in virtual world. Instructors should also consider the technical feasibility of their particular computer lab environment. The...
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...The main goals for Project 13 include: testing light absorbance of different phosphate concentrations, learning the relationship between color and wavelength of absorbance, and learning how to use the Spec20 accurately. We created and tested different concentrations of phosphate and found that the higher the concentration, the more light is absorbed by the solution. Next, we studied color and wavelength and found that solutions of different colors transmit and absorb at different wavelengths. Lastly, by conducting all of these experiments, our group has become efficient and consistent while using the Spec20. We used the guide on how to use the Spec20 found on Canvas. By mastering these goals, we are ready to further study the phosphate concentration...
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