past cases such as, “APL vs. Peer Voss and the Rafaela S”, will be mentioned in order to distinguish the difference between a seaway and a straight bill of lading. Chapter 2: Literature Review 2.1 Bills of Lading The bill of lading (B/L) is used for the transportation of goods by sea. The word “lading” derives from the word loading, referring to the loading of goods onto a ship. (Investopedia, 2015) This document is signed and act as a legal contract between the shipping company, which
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Case Analysis Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Wireless Strategy The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce was founded in 1961 and is one of North America’s leading financial institutions. CIBC has a newly formed electronic banking division solely mandated to monitor emerging trends and to adapt to these trends. The outcome of the divisions work is to identify new products/technologies and decipher how said technology can be used to better serve the institutions customers. During the late 1990’s
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resources off-site (Basel, 2007). Organizations with higher mobility are able to focus on their key competencies, through transformed business strategies and stimulus offered by mobility. To enable employees reap maximum benefits from mobility companies have formulated mobile strategies (Cerra, Easterwood, & Power, 2013). Both the enterprise and employees benefit when the new level of communication achieved, but also there are disadvantages that are borne by both the enterprise and employees
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UnitedHealth Group is a diversified health care company, and a worldwide leader in helping people live healthier lives and taking the necessary steps in making the health system work better for everyone. The UnitedHealth group serves more than 85 million individuals worldwide with health benefits and services. In 2012, they produced revenues of $110.6 billion and were ranked number 17 in the Fortune 500. The economic and political segments would rank the highest in influencing the UnitedHealth
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important in managing relationships with customers, but an excessive focus on improving customer performance with only these metrics can lead to deteriorating financial performance. To balance the pressure to meet and exceed customer expectations, companies should also be measuring the cost to serve each customer and the profits earned, customer by customer. 6-2 Examples of differences between customers who have high and low costs-to-serve may be drawn from the chapter’s Exhibit 6-1, part of which
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Joe Salatino, President of Great Northern American Case Study Dr. Elizabeth Delone Business 520 – Leadership and Organizational Behavior July 26, 2012 Strayer University This case study involves the importance of perceptions and how it effect attributions in the business world. We will use Joe Salatino, President of Great Northern American, as an example of how businesses can be successful when their customers are their top priority and employees learn how to understand their
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Caregivers of Dementia patients Vascular dementia is the second most common form of dementia after Alzheimer’s disease. Caused by problematic supply of blood to the brain, symptoms include challenging communication, depression and anxiety, strokes, physical weakness or paralysis, confusion, changes in behaviour and difficulties in walking and unsteadiness. This paper discusses the problems faced by caregivers of patients suffering from vascular dementia who are above the age of 65 and possible
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this study, namely, a systematic literature review and a case study; the empirical data for our case study was collected from The Gambia in autumn of 2012. The systematic literature review covers 1107 studies (2000-2011) published in the top five ranked ICT4D journals in terms of journal citation ranking. The paper identifies a total of 43 ICT barriers. Forty of them are common to both studies while the remaining three were revealed in the case study, namely, lack of Internet exchange points, micromanaging
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mobile-phone users. This comparative study analyzes the concept of privacy with respect to mobile surveillance and draws upon prior work in the field of mobile surveillance, ranging from popular press on government surveillance in India and USA and case studies in these two countries related to people’s view on privacy, to the works of ACLU (American Civil Liberty Union) in USA and Stop CMS (Central Monitoring System) in India. The study is built around the analysis and comparison of the issue of
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In practice, the Coasian solution is at work in tandem with zoning regulation which affects transaction costs (Staley, 1997). Because of the pervasiveness of zoning regulation throughout the United States, the following will examine two different cases of land use regulation, namely, the lack of formal zoning in Houston, Texas and private zoning in the town of Celebration, Florida. It will be shown that the effectiveness land use regulation is
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