Journal of Business Cases and Applications The rise and fall of Circuit City Amy Hart The University of Tampa Erika Matulich, Ph.D. The University of Tampa Kimberly Rubinsak The University of Tampa Kasey Sheffer The University of Tampa Nikol Vann The University of Tampa Myriam Vidalon Nielson Abstract Circuit City paved its way in the consumer electronics retail market by committing to its Five S’s operating philosophy – selection, savings, service, satisfaction, and speed. However, the company
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Analog / Digital Conversion Casey Doolan NTC 362 April 29, 2013 Eddie Horton Analog / Digital Conversion When you start the conversion from analog to digital there are three steps that need to be done to get the ball rolling 1) everything starts with the transmission of the original data, 2) then you have the modulation and 3) then receiver receives the information and they make sure there is no reduction in the quality of the signal. When you have a binary signal, it is made up of binary
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Discount Rate ( d ) 10% Sales Growth = 0% (assumption) 1+d 1.10 Attrition Rate 14% Retention Rate ( r ) 86% Customer Life Expectancy (1/(1-Retention Rate)) 7.37 Years 8700 Profitable Year "CF if Client Margin (m)" "Prob Survival (r^n)" (1+d)^n PV Factor 1/(1+d)^n m*r^n*(1/(1+d)^n) CLV 0 -41 1.00 1.00 1.00 -41.00 -41.00 1 427 0.86 1.10 0.91 335.26 294.26 2 465 0.75 1.21 0.83 287.15 581.41 3 505 0.65 1.33 0.75 244.76 826.17 4 505 0.56 1.46
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Summary Tri-Cities Furniture is small business company categorized under Furniture Stores and located in Jacksonville, Alabama. The company has been in operation for more than twenty years and has two other stores operating in Anniston and Gadsden area. Albert Mendoza, who is also the sales manager, a part-time sales person, and bill collector, owns Tri-Cities. Transactions including sales, purchases, inventory, income, and payments are handled and documented by the bookkeeper, Alice Cook. Ray
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Intel’s famed technical prowess was not without mishaps. Its greatest mistake was the so-called “Pentium flaw,” in which an obscure segment among the Pentium CPU’s 3.1 million transistors performed division incorrectly. Company engineers discovered the problem after the product’s release in 1993 but decided to keep quiet and fix the problem in updates to the chip. However, In 1994 American mathematician Thomas Nicely was using a personal computer equipped with the then new Pentium chip from the Intel
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CIS240 Homework Assignment 1 1. Why are standards important for protocols? In the absence of standardization, manufacturers and organizations felt free to 'enhance' the protocol, creating incompatible versions on their networks. In some cases, this was deliberately done to discourage users from using equipment from other manufacturers. There are more than 50 variants of the original bi-sync protocol. One can assume that a standard would have prevented at least some of this from happening
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Microcontroller. The Microcontroller uses this information to compare with the normal eye blink programmed in the chip and if any abnormal situation arises the vehicle is stopped with an alarm indication, this operation is enabled by means of the driver circuit connected to the vehicle motor and the signal is transmitted via RF-transmitter at the frequency of 433.92 MHz. In the Receiver side the transmitted signal is received and the signal is decoded and given to the Microcontroller, which uses this information
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I believe that although computers can be used as a tool to spread awareness about problems in the environment, they cause a lot of environmental problems themselves. Pollution caused by the production of computer hardware, as well as from the cleaning agents used to clean computers, is a great hazard to the Environment and the people that live in it. People leave their computers on non-stop resulting in a lot of energy consumption and enormous amounts of paper are being used daily to print out electronically
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program can be seen in automotive , injection moulding machines, wood processing machines, modern temperature controlled plants, speed control torque operations. Developing Program 1 Figure 1. The schematic circuit & PICDEM board configuration for Program Figure 1. The schematic circuit & PICDEM board configuration for Program The objective of program is to read the correspondent voltage analogous to the potentiometer position and switch the motor on if the reading is over 40 and
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damaging levels of heat. However they were hugely superior to the vacuum tubes, making computers smaller, faster, cheaper and less heavy on electricity use. They still relied on punched 1964 – 1971: Third Generation [ Integrated Circuits ] By this phase, transistors were now being miniaturised and put on silicon chips (called semiconductors). This led to a massive increase in speed and efficiency of these machines. These were the first computers where users interacted using
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