...Productivity & Management PREFACE The PGDM program is well structured and integrated course of business studies. The main objective of practical training at PGDM level is to develop skill in student by supplement to the theoretical study of business management in general. Industrial training helps to gain real life knowledge about the industrial environment and business practices. The PGDM program provides student with a fundamental knowledge of business and organizational functions and activities, as well as an exposure to strategic thinking of management. In every professional course, training is an important factor. Professors give us theoretical knowledge of various subjects in the college but we are practically exposed of such subjects when we get the training in the organization. It is only the training through which I come to know that what an industry is and how it works. I can learn about various departmental operations being performed in the industry, which would, in return, help me in the future when I will enter the practical field. Training is an integral part of PGDM and each and every student has to undergo the training for 2 months in a company and then prepare a project report on the same after the completion of training. During this whole training I got a lot of experience and came to know about the management practices in real that how it differs from those of theoretical knowledge and the...
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...Question 1 Quality objectives: “Quality means consistence conformance to costumer expectations” (Slack, Chambers & Johnston 2010 pg 40) Quality for the London eye could mean designing a structure that provides a bird’s eye view of London. Quality could also mean a high design of their processes, including ensuring that all 32 capsules are cleaned, staff are well trained in health and safety and are always professional at all times. Quality also means the London eye is safe and reliable. Quality also means that the timed admissions booking systems (TABS) is on time. Quality could also mean error free processing for their timed admissions system. Quality means that all parts for the London eye is made to specification and the assembly is made to specifications. Speed objectives: Speed within the operation could mean minimising the time it takes costumers from boarding to disembarking. Speed could also mean minimising the time it takes from designing and planning the London eye to the completion of construction to the London eye. Speed could also mean providing a high throughput rate during the year to cope with passengers demand. Example – The London eye take approximately six million people each year the London eye would have to provide a high throughput rate for the year to manage the demand. “Speed could mean the immediate stoppage of the London eye if an error is found with the wheel, a good example in March 2008 engineers found a problem, the London eye was immediately...
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...Memo To: Earl Thomson and Lisa Thompson From: Shinichi Tasai Date: December 1, 2013 RE: How Thomson Greenhouse can successfully transfer the ownership to Ryan, and increase the sales by expanding market, and increase the work efficiency by restructuring the organization structure. Short-Term (Immediately to September 2010, before winter season) 1. Develop a business plan for successful business transition and expansion. 2. Start training and a succession planning for successful business transition. 3. Start building a new greenhouse. Cash payment is recommended. Med-Term (November 2010 to Three Years) 1. Hire sales personnel with an incentive plan for sales increase. Advertising is recommended. 2. Expand the market. 3. Training and recruitment should be done in winter season. Long-Term (After Three Years) 1. Complete the transition of the business ownership and continue expanding the market. Control/Feedback 1. Incentive plans should be given to non-family employees in order to avoid the lack of motivation. Commission incentives are recommended. 2. Advertising on newspaper, school board, or websites (classified, kijiji) will be the advertising channels for recruitment. Contingency 1. Bank loans for investing building are the second recommended option. 2. The structure of the business can be changed based on the demand. 3. If the demand after the expansion requires more capacity and productivity, the company should stop...
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...As the cold weather is on its way out and the temperatures begins to rise, spring is the time that many people are excited to get outside and get active. Whether it is your goal be more active, shred some pounds, or are training for your first 5K, half marathon, or marathon this time of year often brings some of the best conditions for running and getting back into the swing of things! During the chilly winter months, it isn’t unusual for people to limit, reduce, or eliminate their running or exercise routines due to weather conditions. However, when the weather gets warmer, people are often longing to get back to running outdoors, expecting to start where they left off is not going to result well. Even remaining active and using the treadmill...
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...nonfinancial goals, and competitive advantage. Mission Statement To provide a healthy taste snack that is not only good for you but is also a taste and quick way to quench your sweet tooth. Goals Non-Financial: 1. To create the best frozen yogurt experience you've ever had. 2. Be the healthiest snack that a person can eat quickly. 3. Create unusual combinations with frozen yogurt and different delicious fruits, candies, and so much more. 4. Every time someone comes in make them feel the love and warmth as if they were at home. Financial: 1. Sell high quality food at a reasonable price. 2. Expand the company to more than 15 states, each year try to gain another state. 3. Create a demand even during the winter season. 4. Bring in more flavors of yogurt and different toppings to keep customers happy. Competitive advantage Sweet Frog is going to be the healthiest sweatiest snack that a person can eat. Not only does Sweet frog offer a variety of different yogurts, they also offer a different variety of toppings. Sweet Frog can offer everyone a chance to come in and enjoy there delicious yogurt and toppings. Sweet Frog is also founded on the principles of Christianity and our belief in bringing happiness and a positive attitude into the lives of our consumers. At sweet Frog, F.R.O.G stands for Fully Rely on God – and we hope to be an example of that in every community! Sweet Frog is easily found just look for the big pink sign with the lime...
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...Background – Sunset Grill at Blue Mountain (Sunset-at-Blue) located in the Village at Blue Mountain in Toronto is an all-day “fresh to order” breakfast restaurant owned by Bruce Melhuish and his partner. Unlike most diners in the location, Sunset Grill at Blue operates only one shift per day with the hours of operation from 7am to 4pm all year round. The franchise philosophy is to maintain a friendly environment serving made to order fresh and healthy food. To retain this image, Sunset Grill selectively approves the owners. It is one of two Sunset Grill franchises located in Toronto’s tourist destinations. This location has contributed to both the success and some challenges to the franchise owners. For example, due to being located in a tourist area, many customizations with the layout, floor finishing, and inventory management added to the initial investment costs. However, in the first year of operations, Sunset Grill at Blue broke even financially. Although Bruce has made this success in the first year, the business currently faces some operational issues which hinder the potential for Sunset-at-Blue to generate more sales. Bruce has noticed several problems with the restaurant operation which create constraints to their sales generation potential. Several of the problems Bruce noticed are as follows: 1. Queues on weekends could take up to 25 minutes of wait time to be seated by host. 2. Usually 40 to 50 chits/orders waiting in the kitchen to be cooked. Bruce...
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...The Selfish Giant “The selfish giant” is a short story by Oscar Wilde with the elements of fantasy and fairy tales. Oscar Wild, the author, is a famous Irish story-teller, playwright. A lot of stories show the mastery of Oscar Wilde’s story narrating skills. The Selfish giant is a bright example of his witty, intriguing and absorbing works. In this story, the writer wants us to know that if we are selfish and vile toward one another, we will always have a storm in our lives. The story explains that the Giant had a continuous winter storm in his garden because he wouldn’t allow the children to play there; this showed us his selfishness. The writer also revealed that the Giant kept company with a Cornish ogre (a giantic hideous monster that ate humans) thus, revealing how vile the Giant was. The Giant was moved with compassion when he saw a little boy struggling to get into a tree. The writer later conveyed that the little boy represented Jesus and because the Giant "blessed" the little boy and other children by letting them play in his garden, God blessed him by allowing the Giant into His Paradise. My opinion is that the writer is trying to inform us that if we give happiness to others we can also feel happiness in our life. This story teaches the reader the importance of the friendship. When love is involved it is important to be careful in the way you treat your friends and the way your things are shared because what it is given is what it is going to be received. The Selfish...
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...“Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.” This is one of my favorite quotes that were spoken by Henry David Thoreau. When the seasons alter from winter to spring or summer to autumn there are many changes that the world seems like a happier place. The two seasons that seems to stand out the most are autumn and spring. Although there is exquisite beauty in the seasons of autumn and spring, there are also distinctions, which allow each season to stand on its own. One of the first notable differences between them is the weather change. When spring arrives, the temperature rises and the days get longer. There are mass amounts of colorful flowers with beautiful smells that make everyone’s days a little brighter. The grass turns green and the flowers begin to blossom. One of my favorite spring memories is when I was eight years old and I loved gardening with my mother. We have a garden in our back yard that we call the “love garden” because it was shaped like a heart. We would put certain flowers in places to make a pattern. When you looked down from my deck, it doesn’t just look like colorful flowers, it appears to be like a mosaic picture. Spring is also known to accumulate a great amount of rain. Windshield wipers are on full blast so drivers can see. Children are constantly jumping and splashing in the puddles like a cat playing with a ball of yarn. I always like watching all of the birds...
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...9 August 2010 A Season of Changes In “To Autumn” by John Keats, the narrator uses visual imagery and personification to emphasize autumn’s progression towards winter. By using visual imagery, the narrator captures the season of autumn not only as a time of maturity, abundance, and warmth, but also as a time of death and dying, the cold desolation that becomes winter. The narrator personifies autumn as a woman, allowing the grace and beauty of the season to emanate from the words on the page. Autumn is a season that delights the senses with all of its colorful grandeur, yet autumn is also a season of gray, melancholy days that beg for quiet reflection as winter’s decay invades its existence. Autumn’s passing is gracefully mourned with the knowledge she will return to delight us again the following year. The first stanza uses visual imagery to appeal to the senses of sight and taste. The “seasons of mists and mellow fruitfulness” (1) captures the atmosphere of autumn in England. Autumn is a time for the cool fog that often permeates the morning dew as the sun rises. The richly colored leaves of yellow, orange, and red and the cornucopia of the harvest symbolize the maturation of autumn. An abundance of apples on “mossed cottage-trees” (5), “fruit with ripeness to the core” (6), and “plump...hazel shells” (7) tempt the taste buds with an array of succulence that cannot compare to any other season. Autumn is a time to savor the colors, the crisp morning air, and...
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...Robert Hayden 1913-1980 Those winter Sundays Sundays too my father got up early And put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, Then with cracked hands that ached From labor in the weekday weather made Banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him. I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When the rooms were warm, he’d call, And slowly I would rise and dress, Fearing the chronic angers of that house, Speaking indifferently to him, Who had driven out the cold And polished my good shoes as well. What did I know, what did I know Of love’s austere and lonely offices? Poem “Those Winter Sundays” is wrote by Robert Hayden, generally seen as a crafted lyric on a universal theme---paternal love, describing a past day and showing a present reverence for author’s father. The title “Those Wither Sundays” emphasizes the time background. It is Sundays, not Tuesdays or Fridays. Sundays are days at home, days completely belongs to ourselves, days that we see our families the most. Hayden recalls the past and realizes how much he had to thank his father. It was a normal Sunday in winter when the author was a little boy; his father got up early, made the fire with his “cracked hands”, woke him up and polished shoes for him. The theme is presented directly and explicitly through every rich physical detail. The poem doesn’t use a masculine pronoun; it sounds more like a woman’s. Through the choice of the gender of voice, I can see the speaker is a soft and sensitive man...
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...speaker begins by saying that his ladder is still pointing toward heaven, which conveys a sense of the afterlife. He goes on to describe one barrel of apples that was not filled, which could be a metaphor describing his fulfillment in life. When he is done apple picking, the speaker describes the change from fall to winter. He describes his feeling of sleepiness that is associated with the winter. This seasonal change and the deep sleep that the speaker is about to enter may represent the transition from life to death. In the beginning of the poem, the speaker is giving up on apple picking, but there is definitely a sense that this has a larger meaning: And there’s a barrel that I didn’t fill Beside it, and there may be two or three Apples I didn’t pick upon some bough. But I am done with apple picking now. Essence of the winter sleep is on the night. (lines 3-7) Before this quotation, the speaker notices that his ladder is pointed toward heaven. After he notices that, he expresses that he is giving up on apple picking. In this passage, the speaker conveys a feeling that he wishes he had picked more apples. He has to give up because of the impending winter sleep. The entire passage might be about giving up on life. The barrel he did not fill and the few apples he did not pick may represent some things in life that he was unable to do. Although he did not do everything he wanted to do in life, he still accomplished a lot of things. The things he did accomplish are represented...
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...prevailing images. In the first one it is the change of seasons, passing times of the days in the second one and in the last quatrain it is the development from fire to ashes. In the first quatrain there are symbols which refer to the change of seasons. "When yellow leaves, ¦.. (l.2) for example symbolizes autumn, "cold and the "bare ruined choirs (l.3/4) refer to winter and " ¦where late the sweet birds sang (l.4) stands for spring and summer. In the second quatrain "sunset (l.6) refers to evening and "death ´s second self (l.8) stands for night. In the last quatrain "glowing (l.9), "fire (l.9) and "ashes (l.10) are part of the prevailing image: a fire which is dying down. Spring/summer, morning/noon and the fire symbolize youth. You are still active, strong and your soul is carefree and not burdened by many memories of things you have lost in your life. Autumn, evening and the glowing of fire refer to becoming/being old. You lose your beauty and your passion, you are not that active anymore and you have a lot of hurting memories of beloved things and persons you have lost. Winter, night and the ashes refer to death. Life is over now and you can not change anything anymore. The couplet at the end has the function of a resume. The lyrical I says that you will love "things more strong by being aware of the fact that you are going to lose within a short...
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...Stepping Out of the Climate: Climacon A Comm 223 Project Group Members: Vincent Bernard 6084400 Marcelle Saulnier 6642322 Erica Jackman 6572820 Kamilia Bouraoui 6460305 Aida Hassar 6376479 Tung Nguyen 9218416 Professor Elana Cooperberg Comm 223/ Section Q Due Date: April 16, 2013 TABLE OF CONTENTS Identification of a New Product 3 Identification of Two Sources of Inspiration. 3 Description of the Product. 4 Explanation of the Product’s Success. 4 Macro-environmental Impact 5 Demographic Environment. 5 Economic Environment. 6 Natural Environment. 6 Technological Environment. 7 Political Environment. 7 Cultural Environment. 8 Segmenting, Targeting and Positioning 9 Identification of Two Potential Markets for the product. 9 Selection of the Target Market. 9 Value proposition. 10 Differentiation. 11 Unique selling proposition. 11 Explanation of our logo… 11 Secondary Data & Sales Potential 13 Secondary Data… 13 Sales Potential… 14 Marketing Mix 15 Appendix 20 References 27 IDENTIFICATION OF THE NEW PRODUCT Identified below are two sources that were used in classifying our product: 1. www.thefancy.com This website...
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... The land of the heavens, also known as Valldemossa is put on par with the divines for many different reasons’. One, is the luxurious landscape- mountains emboss the earths crust giving the land characteristics, such as the haze grey mountains were an expressed feeling from the earth itself. Continuing on, the mountains towered in groups as if they’re standing a post, watching, and keeping guard for troubles that lurks along the ocean’s horizon. The luscious vegetation filled the landscape, and skirted the contour of the mountains- as if it was water filling the volume of the available space. Or better yet a Bernhardt page 2. blanket that covers the mountains and its surroundings keeping them warm through the winter season. Although its the winter season, when the temperature...
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...A TIE-DYE SHIRT BUSINESS Process design, according to Slack, Brandon-Jones, and Johnston (2013, p.97), means getting everything from the looks, arrangement, and workings of something well-prepared in order to make it official. I and my friend have discussed a number of ideas for the product we are going to sell and finally decided that ‘tie-dye shirts’ is the best option. We have a clear strategy for our product to go out and make an impression with the customers. In this essay, I am going to apply the process design in the production of the tie-dye shirts, which I believe it can be a huge success on the market if our strategy goes as planned. Since most Vietnamese people are not really familiar with the term ‘tie-dye shirt’ and we are the newcomers to the business, the project processes is the best option for us to start the trial for our product. Different designs will be released in limited number for people in the capital city, Hanoi to test the market and people’s thoughts on tie-dye shirts. The curiosity of customers will be high as it could be the first time they have ever looked at a tie-dye shirt. As a result, many of them would have high interests in making purchases for our products, which is a positive note for a new start-up business like ours. At this early stage, we plan to introduce to the customers the best products with the best quality because we need to earn the reputation as well as their trust in order to make our business prosper in the future. In...
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