...Shutter Or Not To Shutter Wonder Widgets Inc. Xxxx xxxx Dr. James xxxxx ECO550 Managerial Economics and Globalization February 20, 2014 Strayer University Overview Wonder Widgets, Inc. designs and manufactures widgets for use in various commercial manufacturing facilities. Wonder Widgets has been in business since 2004 with a steady and reliable group of core customers. Recently however, costs of raw materials have risen reducing the profitability of the company. The board of directors has become concerned and requested an independent valuation of the company with recommendations for increasing profits or cutting losses and shutting down the plant. Current Environment Environmental scanning must be used to determine factors used to continue operations or close the plant. BusinessDictionary.com (2014) defines environmental scanning as “careful monitoring of an organization’s internal and external environments for detecting early signs of opportunities and threats that may influence its current and future plans.” The customer environment is stable and has been for many years. However, pricing has not increased significantly in the last 5 years. With the cost increase in raw material looming and the narrow profit margin, a decision must be made on how to absorb or pass on those costs. With pressure from the Wonder Widget stakeholders increasing, absorption of those costs in the profit margin is the least likely scenario. Passing those costs along to the customer...
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...of Widget Wonders Inc. Gadget Wonders Inc. has set up itself as the debut designer and producer of gadgets, and the proceeded with achievement of the company requires expansion. As the company leaves on the organization it’s up and coming era of gadgets, it is important that the IT framework used by Widget Wonders Inc. can maintain the expanded interest required of expansion. Our answer will rebuild the whole IT arrangement of Widget Wonder's and guarantees that the company will stay on the bleeding edge of the gadget business. Gadget Works is included five center divisions, each with contrasting capacities, needs, and size. We will probably give every division: deals, manufacturing, stock control, innovative work, and IT, with the apparatuses to guarantee most extreme efficiency in their capacities, while crossing over the isolation between each. Generally, our answers will permit every division to work autonomously, while bringing a feeling of innovative union between every department. Gadget Wonder's present practices leave a break between departments, which can't proceed if the company is to encounter a fruitful expansion. Our answer will merge these present cracks, and bind together the Widget Wonders in general. To fulfill this, our staff trusts that a lasting move from customary Windows based frameworks and servers is required. While Microsoft has demonstrated itself a staple of business innovation, our staff feels Apple Inc. is the best fit for the new Widget Works...
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...Teamwork & Motivation BUS 520 Date: August 5, 2014 Imagine that you are the owner of a small manufacturing company. Your company manufactures a commodity, widgets. Your widget is a clone of a nationally known widget. Your company’s widget, WooWoo, is less expensive and more readily available than the nationally known brand. Presently, the sales are high; however, there are many defects, which increase your costs and delays delivery. Your company has fifty (50) employees in the following departments: sales, assembly, technology, and administration. The motivation of the team lays heavily on the leadership of the company. Managers must learn how to motivate the team in an effective manner to reach a common goal. In this case, making sure that the widgets are being produced with little to no defects, and being sent out in a timely manner while keeping costs down. The objective is to design an organization motivation plan that will encourage the team to work and achieve this goal. Highly motivated individuals can make a huge difference to the overall attitude of a team and the production. The first step in developing a motivated team is being able to understand what a team really is. According to Organizational Behavior, “A team is a group of people holding themselves collectively accountable for using complementary skills to achieve a common purpose.” (Schermerhorn, Jr., Osborn, Uhl-Bien, & Hunt, 2012) Team work...
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...interaction (Morgeson, DeRue, & Karam, 2010). A less motivated workforce can do damage to a small business by not providing the quality of service required to maintain clients or build product that is of a quality customers expect. A motivated workforce, on the other hand, can be trusted to hold the reins of the organization at a level the owner can depend on (Dana, 2008). This assignment helped to examine the pros and cons that of working in a group setting. We were able to experience firsthand how creating a teamwork environment could change productivity within the company. My group members and I were randomly selected to collaborate with one another on our non-existent Widget manufacturing company called Woo Woo that has only fifty employees. Woo Woo produces a less expensive clone of a nationally known widget. Although Woo Woo sales are presently at an all-time high there has been a many defects and delivery delays reported. Leadership defines the mission, attitudes and culture (Llopis, 2012). Employees value managers that establish a structured work setting, create a positive culture and have goals for employee advancement. Corporate Brand’s positioned in the market place has a direct impact on how their employees feel about representing it and performing to grow its market share and reputation (Llopis, 2012). This relates to our company Woo Woo because not only will we like...
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...BUSN 226-Marking Rubric-Assignment #1 Your Name:___________________________________ Your Student #_________________________________ |Rubric attached to front of assignment | /1 | |Cover page and introduction & typed page numbers |/5 | |Four summaries ( if article not different from other group members, summary will not be marked) |/40 | |Direct quote and in-text reference included in each |/8 | |summary , using proper format | | |Ref Works bibliography addressing all four articles, with works cited in alphabetical order by author |/8 | | | | |Original articles attached in same order as shown in bibliography (each article different from group members) |/8 | | | | |Late? ...
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...Running Head: “Long-Term Investment Decisions – Assignment 4” Long-Term Investment Decisions – Assignment 4 ECO 550 December 15, 2013 Long Term Investment Decision This assignment is a continuation of assignment 3. Facebook and social media were addressed in the previous Economics 550 course assignment. This assignment discusses long term investment decisions. Long Term Investment decisions are important for the longevity of every company. Long term investment decisions require managerial planning, strategies, knowledge and adequate resources. Government Regulation Government regulation is needed in the market economy. A lack of government regulations in the market economy would allow utter chaos in most markets. A lack of government regulations would allow for unfair business practices. Supply and demand would become totally undisciplined. Facebook and other social media companies generate revenue from advertisements. Advertising companies are their customers. Facebook delivers the advertising via the social network comprised of consumers. Advertisements are place on the consumer’s homepage and newsfeed in hopes that this will result in purchases from the advertised company. Government regulation in social media is relatively new. One of the biggest challenges is disclosure of consumer information. A bill introduced by state Senator Ellen Corbett (D-San Leandro) would regulate privacy on social networking...
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...2015 Dr. Ann Pohira-Vieth Assignment 1: Corporate Responsibility and Marketing Strategies This case study will discuss corporate responsibility and marketing strategies within the Apple Corporation. Ronald Wayne, Steve Jobs, and Steve Wozniak founded Apple on April 1, 1976 (Chun R. 2011). In this assignment you will read about the Apple Corporations current position and reputation regarding ethical and social responsibility as well as the strategies that are used to market its products (Chun R. 2011). Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation as well as the worlds second largest information technology company; their designs develop and sell consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. Apple’s successful journey is a combination of many factors including corporate culture, enthusiasm and innovation as well as the outstanding leadership of the late CEO Steve Jobs (2011), and the high performance products for which Apple Inc. is know for. Examine Apple’s current position on the company’s ethical and social responsibilities, and determine whether or not the company has met these responsibilities. Provide two examples that support your position. Companies have to demonstrate the importance of ethics and social responsibility. Business ethics refers to the standards of conduct and moral values involving right and wrong actions arising in the work environment (Boone & Kurtz, Contemporary Business, 2005). Social responsibility is management’s...
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...Effective Modern C++ Topics include: ■■ The pros and cons of braced initialization, noexcept specifications, perfect forwarding, and smart pointer make functions ■■ The relationships among std::move, std::forward, rvalue references, and universal references ■■ Techniques for writing clear, correct, effective lambda expressions ■■ How std::atomic differs from volatile, how each should be used, and how they relate to C++'s concurrency API ■■ How best practices in "old" C++ programming (i.e., C++98) require revision for software development in modern C++ After the C++ “ I learnedlearned basics, I then how to use C++ in production code from Meyers' series of Effective C++ books. Effective Modern C++ is the most important how-to book for advice on key guidelines, styles, and idioms to use modern C++ effectively and well. Don't own it yet? Buy this one. Now. ” —Herb Sutter Chair of ISO C++ Standards Committee and C++ Software Architect at Microsoft Effective Modern C++ Coming to grips with C++11 and C++14 is more than a matter of familiarizing yourself with the features they introduce (e.g., auto type declarations, move semantics, lambda expressions, and concurrency support). The challenge is learning to use those features effectively—so that your software is correct, efficient, maintainable, and portable. That’s where this practical book comes in. It describes how to write truly great software using C++11...
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...trouble is, the way the system is rigged, companies are getting huge subsidies to go where they would go anyway. Here’s a typical search process. A company of substantial size will usually hire a site location consultant to perform the research on new locations. If the company doesn’t use a consultant, it will assign lead duties to one of its divisions, usually real estate or finance. In either case, a management team will coordinate with the consultant or internal lead, providing input about what the company needs, from operations, sales, and other departments. The company—let’s call it Acme Widget—says to the consultant: to make widgets, we need a location that has plenty of workers who 47 know how to make widgets or who have comparable skills and can be readily trained. We also need a location with plenty of access to the main ingredients of widgets. And we don’t want to be far from our widget customers or from transportation systems to reach them. Business Basics: What Really Drives Site Location The factors that drive site location—access to key inputs, suppliers,...
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...No life for a child: The grim reality of Nepal's child laborers -... http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/14/world/asia/nepal-child-labor/ You've selected the U.S. Edition. Would you like to make this your default edition? SET EDITION: U.S. TV: CNN CNNi INTERNATIONAL CNN en Español MÉXICO HLN ARABIC Yes | No Sign up Close Log in Home TV & Video CNN Trends U.S. World Politics Justice Entertainment Tech Health Living Travel Opinion iReport Money Sports No life for a child: The grim reality of Nepal's child laborers By Bibek Bhandari, for CNN updated 1:17 AM EDT, Thu August 15, 2013 SHARE THIS Print Email Recommend More sharing 1.4k Part of complete coverage on CNN Recommends Nepal's vulnerable child laborers >> STORY HIGHLIGHTS Though child labor is illegal in Nepal, an estimated 1.6 million aged between five and 17 work About three-quarters of child laborers are under the age of 14, and most are girls Many are employed in the carpet, brick and garment industries The country hopes to eliminate the practice by 2020, but former child laborers are skeptical Kathmandu, Nepal (CNN) -- To see her playing with her friends, Maya Lama seems much like any other child. But until last year, the 12-year-old Nepalese girl led a very different existence, forced to work grueling 16-hour shifts in a carpet factory in Nepal's capital, Kathmandu. Maya's ordeal began in 2011 when, as a 10 year old, she came to the city...
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...35 New Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs Scott Meyers More Effective C ADDISON-WESLEY PROFESSIONAL COMPUTING SERIES ++ Conforms to the new ISO/ANSI C++ standard! From the Library of Yuri Khan Praise for More Effective C++: 35 New Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs “This is an enlightening book on many aspects of C++: both the regions of the language you seldom visit, and the familiar ones you THOUGHT you understood. Only by understanding deeply how the C++ compiler interprets your code can you hope to write robust software using this language. This book is an invaluable resource for gaining that level of understanding. After reading this book, I feel like I've been through a code review with a master C++ programmer, and picked up many of his most valuable insights.” — Fred Wild, Vice President of Technology, Advantage Software Technologies “This book includes a great collection of important techniques for writing programs that use C++ well. It explains how to design and implement the ideas, and what hidden pitfalls lurk in some obvious alternative designs. It also includes clear explanations of features recently added to C++. Anyone who wants to use these new features will want a copy of this book close at hand for ready reference.” — Christopher J. Van Wyk, Professor, Mathematics and Computer Science, Drew University “Industrial strength C++ at its best. The perfect companion to those who have read Effective C++.” — Eric Nagler, C++ Instructor...
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...Internet Technology, Marketing, and Security It is a new world—a world where everyone has the ability to influence opinion; a world where everyone has the ability to influence purchase; a world where distances are down to zero; a world where voice has speed greater than light; a world that pushes away any attempt to regulate it, except through the mechanisms of self-regulation; the world that is today, is a world shaped by social media and the free-flow of conversations that the phenomenon enables and endorses (Lalwani, 2012). In just a few short years, social media has grown into a global phenomenon, with hundreds of millions of users all over the world. With so many people logging into check their accounts every day, it’s little wonder that businesses have begun to look at social media for their own marketing efforts. With the advent of social media giants like YouTube (2005), Facebook (2005), and Twitter (2007), millions of people all over the world have gained the ability to connect like never before, and more importantly, create and share content of their own without much effort and in a timely manner. Massive participation in these social networks is reflected in the countless number of videos, comments, news, and status updates that are constantly posted and discussed in social sites such as Facebook, Digg, and Twitter. The effect of this proliferation is evident from the numbers that these websites boast of as well as the global demographics that engage these...
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...Design Patterns Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software Produced by KevinZhang Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software Contents Preface to CD ........................................................ 5 Preface to Book ...................................................... 7 Foreword ............................................................. 9 Guide to Readers .................................................... 10 1 Introduction ...................................................... 11 1.1 What Is a Design Pattern? ...................................... 12 1.2 Design Patterns in Smalltalk MVC ............................... 14 1.3 Describing Design Patterns ..................................... 16 1.4 The Catalog of Design Patterns ................................. 18 1.5 Organizing the Catalog ......................................... 21 1.6 How Design Patterns Solve Design Problems ...................... 23 1.7 How to Select a Design Pattern ................................. 42 1.8 How to Use a Design Pattern .................................... 44 2 A Case Study: Designing a Document Editor ......................... 46 2.1 Design Problems ................................................ 46 2.2 Document Structure ............................................. 47 2.3 Formatting ..................................................... 53 2.4 Embellishing the User Interface ................................ 56 2.5 Supporting Multiple...
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...The below are the requirements for term paper. 1)Title 2)Object 3)Review(2 articles) 4)Analysis 5)conclusion 6)Source(References) http://www.businessweek.com/blogs/globespotting/archives/2009/01/satyam_scandal.html The terror attacks on Mumbai were just a tremor for the country’s tech industry compared to the shocks coming from the Satyam scandal. Earlier today, Ramalinga Raju, Satyam’s founder and longtime chairman, admitted in a letter to the board that he had been cooking the books for years to make up for revenue and profit shortfalls. Read the details in this report by my BW colleague, Manjeet Kripalani. In his letter, Raju wrote that the cover-up finally got the best of him: “It was like riding a tiger, not knowing how to get off without being eaten.” This admission will have a crippling impact on Satyam. Its chances of getting new business are nil. Don’t expect its current customers to abandon the company overnight. That’s not easy in a tech services business where the operations of the client and service provider are so interwoven. On the other hand, it’s possible that the company may collapse financially, in which case clients will have no choice but to flee. Which brings us to a bigger shock: This betrayal of trust could have a major impact on the entire Indian tech services industry. The industry has spent 20 years building up credibility with Western clients, but this disaster will make many US and European clients rethink their reliance on Indian outsourcing...
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...Emerging Technology Human Androids Semantha Sebastian Theresa Keefer Hazel Marie Roxas Juan Martinez Amilcar Vasquez Shasta Taguran DeVry University LAS432 Professor: David Scoma April 13, 2014 ABSTRACT (200-word summary of the entire paper) This research discusses the emerging technology of the human android. Different types of robots are discussed and, how these devices come together with computer technology. It begins with a description of this innovative modern day science and discusses its applications. To this end, it explores how robots and androids assist in both domestic and workplace activities. Next, our paper goes into detail on the historical development of human androids which goes back into the into the Renaissance time period. In addition, current development is briefly mentioned which includes economic support from the U.S President, further research, and considering an ongoing project. The collection of models are also noted followed by innovation changes that have been implemented up to this date. Last of all, the legal issues and concerns are described under different cases while government manufacturing has become significant. Next we will delve into the environmental implications androids and robots have on our society such as ensuring a safe society with the additions of these man-made creations and the possible threats they bring. This leads us into the moral and ethical implications...
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