Marketing 1 Marketing – an organizational function and a set of processes for creating, capturing, communicating, and delivering value to customers and for managing customer relationships in ways that benefit the organization and its stakeholders • Creating value o Production-Oriented Era – manufacturers were more concerned with product innovation, not with satisfying the needs of individual consumers and retail stores were considered places to hold the merchandise until a consumer wanted it
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Improving Government Performance Using the Balanced Scorecard to Plan and Manage Strategically Howard Rohm President and CEO, the Balanced Scorecard Institute Are programs, services, and staff aligned around a shared vision of the future? Do government leaders have a clear strategy for delivering cost-effective services for citizens and other stakeholders, and is that strategy communicated with clarity, both internally and externally? Do you have a disciplined way of choosing priorities among
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functionalist theories in understanding religion theory Functionalist believe that religion is good for society as they believe it creates value consensus in which is a set of shared norm and values that society cannot live without. Functionalists believe that religion plays an important part in creating and maintain social solidarity and order as well as value consensus. They take on the consensus view. The first functionalist to put forward his view on religion was Durkheim who believed that religion
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Knowledge Management. Contemporary Trends and Issues ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING Povilas Brilius Baifoteka Ltd, Lithuania, povilas@baifoteka.com Abstract: Organizational Learning (OL) is recognized to have established itself as a discipline. However, it remains unclear what it is primarily focused onto – practical problem solving or theoretical descriptive analysis. Due to largely fragmented literature, sometimes interweaving concepts and a variety of attitudes, practitioners find it difficult to
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| | | |A ‘prompter’ enabling those creating a partnership to ask systematic questions of any potential partner to ensure a good fit with the goals / needs of the | |partnership. This tool should be used as a starting point for exploring a potential relationship by providing a basis for
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resources that don’t provide value. Next, they combine the resources in ways that give the organization capabilities, such as researching new products or resolving problems for customers. These combinations may involve knowledge sharing and alliances between departments or with other organizations. Finally, managers need to leverage or exploit their resources. They do this by identifying the opportunities where their competencies deliver value to customers—say, by creating new products or by delivering
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OF SHARED GOVERNANCE | | SYLVIA COLE 4/16/2013 | The Decline of Shared Governance Shared governance is a commitment to freedom of ideas, the professionalization of faculty, and the importance of deliberative decision-making. It is the process of soliciting broad input from individuals affected by decisions. The compromise approach to shared governance is epitomized by comprehensive efforts supporting cooperation and collaboration without domination. The objective of shared governance
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Contents At a Glance I Advanced UNIX Programming with Linux Advanced Linux Programming 1 Getting Started 3 2 Writing Good GNU/Linux Software 17 3 Processes 45 4 Threads 61 5 Interprocess Communication 95 II Mastering Linux 6 Devices 129 7 The /proc File System 147 8 Linux System Calls 167 9 Inline Assembly Code 189 10 Security 197 11 A Sample GNU/Linux Application 219 III Appendixes A Other Development Tools 259 B Low-Level I/O 281 C Table of Signals 301 D Online Resources 303 E Open
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PART I Introduction Von Bertalaffy (1956) defines a system as a complex of interacting elements. Rapaport defines a system as an entity which can maintain some organization in the face of change from within or without. Ryan defines a system as a set of objects or elements in interaction to achieve a specific goal. In 1936, it was first revealed by Ludwig Von Bertalanffy, a biologist. Just because he witnessed them striking parallel to each other he sensed the need for an approach to lead research
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Branding Case Study ------------------------------------------------- Branding Definition: The marketing practice of creating a name, symbol or design that identifies and differentiates a product from other products (Entrepreneur Encyclopedia) A Brand is:• Names or symbols that identify the unique source of a product or service• The personification of an organization, product or service • The source of a promise to the customer • A trust mark • A single concept or idea imbedded in the mind
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