"Attribution and Social Learning" Please respond to the following:•From the first e-Activity, contrast the advantages and disadvantages of just-in-time learning. Evaluate whether or not this is a valid and worthwhile investment to help increase the productivity within an organization. Describe your personal experience(s) with just-in-time learning.Just in time learning I think is a great advancement in the way we acquire and retain information. Per the “The Head First Formula” article I read it
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subjected to irrelevant information and information can easily be updated. Disadvantages to performance support are that some people are not easily "self taught". Many people prefer to have things demonstrated to them and like the traditional classroom teaching style of things. Performance support requires the employee to learn through work but some people may find this challenging and overwhelming. Another disadvantage is that employees can become dependent upon this system. For example when working
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you save a lot of money, such as getting your car detailed and saving $100. 5. Are there any disadvantages to both customers and merchants in using Groupon Now? A disadvantage to the merchants could be loss of revenue. Providing services at a lower price would cause them to have less profit. However, they may also be bringing in new customers who will come back and pay full price. A disadvantage for the customer would be purchasing a Groupon Now! and not using it before it expires.
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factors when deciding whether to raise $75m or $90m through IPO: Resources Preparing for an IPO is a lengthy and resource intensive process that requires 12-24 months lead up time (EY, 2013). If A&A decides to raise $75m through the IPO, it would have to go through a similar process for secondary offering. This time and resource should be better invested in developing and implementing the growth strategy. The direct cost of this IPO is approximately $2.5m in administration fees plus $5.25m
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IPO When a business is growing, but not as quickly as it could, the next best thing to do instead of borrowing capital is going public. A company can do so by creating an initial public offering, or IPO where they sell ownership shares of the business to the public. The IPO can open windows of opportunities for a business in terms of financial growth and public awareness. On the downside, an IPO can restructure a company’s management and everything about the company must be disclosed and viewed
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What type of IPO should E-Bay use to take Skype public - a traditional IPO or an online auction? E-Bay should use an online auction initial public offering (IPO) to take Skype public. In April 2009, E-Bay announced plans to separate Skype from the company. E-Bay’s main reason for selling Skype is the company allows 405 million users to make free phone calls over the internet which does not have the synergies to remain with an online payment business. This paper will argue that E-Bay an
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IPO When a company decides to go public it is viewed as no longer been owned by a set of private individuals, but instead, it is viewed as now being owned by those individuals as well as by members of the public (or shareholders). This ownership is acquired by shareholders through the purchase of shares in an Initial Public Offering (IPO) or even after an IPO. “An Initial Public Offering (IPO) may be defined as the first sale of stock by a private company to the public. IPOs are often issued
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discussions with the investment bank of Crowe & Mallard. The company has a working relationship with Robin Perry, the underwriter who assisted with the company’s previous bond offering. Crowe & Mallard have helped numerous small companies in the IPO process, so Larissa and Dan feel confident with this choice. Robin begins by telling Larissa and Dan about the process. Although Crowe & Mallard charged an underwriter fee of 4 percent on the bond offering, the underwriter fee is 7 percent on all
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David Neeleman in July 1999. Although the terrorist attacks of 9/11 made the huge loss of the whole airline industry, JetBlue airways try to publish its own IPO after 2 years of profitable operation in 2002, This case study is summarizing the step to publish the IPO. Following this, it will discuss the disadvantage and advantage to publish the IPO and use the financial data to evaluate the price is suit for the first publish. In this case, there are three different share valuation methods: P/E multiple
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organization, companies use initial public offerings (IPOs) to introduce their first sale of stock to the market, which is available to investors. An IPO allows a company to tap a wide pool of investors to provide itself with capital for future growth, repayment of debt or working capital (Wikipedia.com). Avaya, a global leader in business communications and phone systems, is considering an IPO in the near future but is uncertain of which method of IPO to use. Since Avaya has been a publicly traded company
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