Costa Concordia Anatomy of an organizational accident Jayvee M. Fernandez Maritime Law Midway Maritime Foundation ABSTRACT This paper analyses the grounding that occurred on the 13th of January 2012 to the cruise ship Costa Concordia. The analysis is carried out only on the conduct of navigation – and
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For comments: ehabmes@yahoo.com Chapter 2: Competitiveness, Strategy, and Productivity Definitions: Competitiveness: How effectively the organization meets the needs of the customers relative to others that offer similar goods or services. Strategy: Plans to achieve organization goals. Productivity: Measure of effective use of resources, usually expressed as the ratio of outputs to inputs. Productivity =Output / Input Competitiveness: Organizations compete with each other in various ways
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(place) of a LAN can vary greatly, - Star: if the host computer goes down the whole network goes down. - Bus: all computers in the network are linked with cables and treated equally. - Ring: no central host PC, if one PC goes down the rest can still process data & transactions. WAN (Wide Area Network) or MAN (Metropolitan Area Network) for broad geographic setting. Physical Transmission Media: twisted pair wire & coaxial cable, fiber optic cable. These optical networks are used to transmit large multimedia
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AIS 630 COMPILATION OF PAST SEMESTERS QUESTIONS APRIL 2008 – JUNE 2013 COMPILED BY : AC220 6E STUDENTS LECTURER : DR. INTAN SALWANI MOHAMED DATE : AS AT 25TH NOVEMBER 2013 CHAPTER 1 – Introduction to Information Systems Development APRIL 2009 Question 1 a) System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is one of the commonly used methods for developing information system. Explain what SDLC is. (4 marks) OCTOBER 2009 Question 1 a) Developing information systems is a complex
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want, The information we want is not the information we need, The information we need is not available. Information is a Resource It is scarce It has a cost It has alternative uses There is an opportunity cost factor involved if one does not process information Why need Information? To ensure effective and efficient decision - making leading to prosperity of the Organisation. What is MIS? Short for Management Information System – MIS refers broadly to a computer-based system that
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quality</inst></para></question><question id="ch02ques02" label="2.2"> * Form to allocate costs to products * Form to collect time spent on production jobs * Form requesting raw materials for production process * Documents showing how much raw materials are on hand * Documents showing how much raw materials went into production * List of production processes * List of items needed to produce each product * Documents
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is a top priority for many schools. (http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu) Now-a-days intelligent automation has stepped its presence in every field all over the world. This project has a stepping in the attendance and power management of the classrooms in the colleges/schools. The use of low cost technologies for highly reliable applications with the help of newly innovated algorithms makes the automation process to reach the consumers at cheaper and reliable cost. (http://www.muxtronics.com) The widespread
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Does IT in the AEC industry create disruptions rendering IT ineffective? Information technology in the AEC industry has presented positive effects such as improved education, increased competitiveness and heightened training solutions. Conversely, information technology has also introduced negative effects, for instance, file incompatibilities, outages and the improper use of technology by staff. This essay explores the ways information technology creates disruptions in the AEC industry and whether
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unidirectional, non-contingent social impacts is neither realistic nor useful. A number of future research directions in this area are suggested. Keywords. Social impacts of technology; Programmable ing; Sociotechnical systems; Organizational design automation; CAD/CAM; Manufactur- 1. Introduction The microelectronics revolution in manufacturing
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1.1 Introduction An early market economy and an early form of mercantilism, sometimes called "Islamic capitalism", were developed between the eighth and twelfth centuries. The monetary economy of the period was based on the widely circulated currency the gold dinar, and it tied together regions that were previously economically independent. A number of economic concepts and techniques were applied in early Islamic banking, including billsofexchange, partnership (mufawada,including limitedpartnerships
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