production system. a. A college library b. A hotel c. A small manufacturing firm Chapter 2 12. What is the distinctive competence of the following companies? If you don’t know the distinctive competence, see if you can determine it from the company’s Internet site or articles on the company. a. starbuck Coffee Company b. Hewlett Packard c. Burger King Chapter 3 1. Classify the following types of processes as continuous, assembly line, batch, job shop, or project: a. Doctor’s
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in-house. This allowed for a high level of commu¬nication and ability to develop products based on the company's interaction with its clients. But in Direct business model organization treat suppliers and service providers as if they were inside the company. Their systems are linked in real time and their employees partici¬pate in design teams and product launches. Technol¬ogy enhances the economic incentives to collaborate because it makes it possible to share design databases and methodologies and
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liquidity of the company • Failing to disclose risky investments or “creative” accounting practices • Over-recording sales revenue • Under-recording expenses (i.e. depreciation expense) Accounting fraud leads to many serious problem for everyone not only for the perpetrator. Accounting fraud causes problem in the market place and the economy. As a result in most cases, investors' loose large sum of money due to the misrepresentation of financial position and financial result of the company. Also, because
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balance. References: 1. O’Leary, M. B. (Mar 15, 2013). Telecommuting Can Boost Productivity and Job Performance Retrieved from http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2013/03/15/telecommuting-can-boost-productivity-and-job-performance. A. Companies should not require all employees to work on site all the time. While telecommuting is popular, it is not something that's run amok and–when well managed–it boosts productivity, commitment, work-life balance and retention. Presented by Michael Boyer
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1. Swot analysis Strengths: Apple is a successful company with a well known brand. They have longevity in the market place and are a very profitable company. In the quarter ended September 2011, Apple had its all time record high sales of Macintosh and iPhones, ever. They posted a quarterly revenue of $28.27 billion and a quarterly net profit of $6.62 billion. International sales accounted for 63 percent of the quarter’s revenue, according to a press release on their website announcing their
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promising start, and the company was troubled by internal problems. Infighting between divisions continued, and poor inventory tracking led to overproduction. Although Jobs had originally been a strong supporter of Sculley, Jobs eventually decided to oust Sculley; Jobs, however, lost the ensuing showdown. Sculley reorganized Apple in June 1985 to end the infighting caused by the product-line divisions, and Jobs, along with several other Apple executives, left the company in September. Competition
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vendors (Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Lenovo, and Acer) accounted for 53.6% of worldwide shipments in 2011. Leadership in the industry has shifted numerous times, leading to slight differentiation and price competition by each company in an attempt to get ahead. Threat of new entrants is a weak competitive force for the PC industry. The presence of the four existing dominant players and significant barriers to entry deter new competitors from seriously entering the market. A new company would need
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1. Based on EC book Chapter 7, Review Question 4 (RQ4) in page 342, please explain what a warranty disclaimer is and describe the circumstances under which a company that is doing business online might want to use one. 2. Based on EC book Chapter 7, Exercise 1 (E1) in page 342: Please try to write a brief report to evaluate the overall clarity of the privacy statement. You don’t need to print the privacy statement that you obtained from the visited webpages, but you need to use it to write your
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QRT2 Task 1 QRT2 Task 1 A1. Viability of Product or Service N & F Computers of Clarksville Tennessee is proud to start offering its expanded product line online through e-commerce. Customers have to personally enter the business in order to facilitate purchases at this time for home and small office computer solutions. Currently N & F Computers is engaged in the local market with a Website but it does not allow online purchases. Through offering products for purchase via a modified
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allow for any actor to attempt to exploit the service without fear of prosecution. If this actor stays within the scope of the Bounty (e.g. not compromising personal data, breaking key infrastructure, etc.), and reports the bug responsibly to the company, without publicly releasing it first, they may receive compensation or awards. Bug Bounties have become increasingly
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