Introduction In the world of rapid changing environment and globalization, for an organization to compete favourably and competitively, the performance of their employees goes a long way in determining the success of an organization (Ajila and Abiola 2004). Both public and private sectors organizations are putting increasing attention on human resource management to maintain and motivate its most valuable and worthy assets, the employees. According to Catalini (2012), organizations are
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take their business to the internet is primarily to reach more customers. Today, most consumers do online research before they make any decisions to make a big purchase. We will also make some improvements in our marketing strategy by performing Search Engine optimization making sure HH is quickly and easily found on the internet. As with online research, consumers go to social media sites to read what others have posted about businesses and the relationships or lack of a business and consumer
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Revenue recognition – the accounting term for determining the amount of revenues to be “booked” for purposes of calculating a firm’s earnings in a given period – is an important, complex and controversial issue. The importance of revenue recognition stems from the accountant’s approach to calculating earnings, which is to first calculate recognized (“booked”) revenues, and then deduct the accounting costs of earning those revenues (a process known as “matching costs with revenues”). Consequently
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describe at least three (3) technologies that allow an individual to research citizens’ private data. Google Inc. offers what may be the largest and most used tool to search for information over the internet. Their mission statement says it best: “Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” (Google, Inc., 2013). By typing any word or set of words into the search field, Google is able to bring together information about individuals, businesses;
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Closed Source Vs Open Source Pao Yang POS/335 03/06/2013 Mr. STERNIERI Closed Source Vs Open Source In the world of operating system we have two options to choose from these is Unix/Linux which is an open source, meaning that its source code made available and licensed with an open source license in which the copyright holder provides the rights to study change and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose. The other option is the closed source such as Microsoft’s Window
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SWOT Analysis of Apple, Inc. Name Institution Affiliation SWOT Analysis of Apple, Inc. Company Overview: Apple Inc. Apple Inc. was co-founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak on April 1, 1976 (Johnson, 2012). Originally, the duo sought to develop a simple micro-computer board that could be offered to small and businesses. However, since its conception, Apple exhibited unprecedented growth in the ICT industry with its initial products, including Apple I, Apple II and Macintosh becoming the first commercially
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CASE SUBJECT SUBMITTED TO SUBMITTED BY BLACKBERRY’S ACQUISITION BID BY FAIRFAX FINANCIAL HOLDINGS STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT PROF. V K RANJITH GROUP #10 MEMBERS: NEETU MURALI SOUNDHARYA S RAO BHARGAV SEERAM RAMESH DEBARMA 121202030 121202067 121202079 121202125 Foreword: Fairfax Financial Holdings announced on Friday (September 23, 2013) its interest in acquiring Blackberry. The focus of this case is to understand the implications of this acquisition for both the parties. What strategic alternatives
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逢 甲 大 學 國際貿易學系研究所 碩 士 論 文 The Integrated Business Model for E-Commerce 指 導 教 授：黃焜煌 博士 研 究 生 ：譚雅 中華民國一百年一月 The Integrated Business Model for E-Commerce Abstract In today’s ever developing e-commerce world, the success of any enterprise strongly depends on its chosen business model. Since the peculiarities of each firm’s external and internal environment differ drastically, sometimes it is difficult to find a unified scheme for any organization to implement. Therefore, the purpose of this
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of the corporate. Consequently, in this study the author sheds light on the value creation from corporate-foresight activities and methods and practices used in different companies for corporate foresight. The paper focuses on the data from 20 case studies to assess if potential value contribution is done through the corporate foresight activities. Corporate
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of 31 billion. In 2006, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo replaced Jorma Ollila as the CEO, but was not able to reverse the decline of Nokia’s market share especially in the high end segment. Competitors like Apple, Blackberry, HTC, Samsung, and phones using Google’s Android operating system captured market share from Nokia at an alarmingly increasing rate. By the end of 2010 Android was already the most widespread smart phone operating system in the world and Nokia’s market share in the smart phone segment had
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