When I signed up for this class, I have a few preconceived ideas. I knew a few of the topics that we would discussed, as well as, that the course would be helpful in my work field. Both of these reasons were due to the fact that my employer had previously taken the class herself, and asked me to be sure to take it as well. Even with this foreknowledge, I learned so much more than I could have ever imagined. Coming into this class I knew play was an important activity for children, and that children
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Customer focus Definition | Why it is important? | Customer focus is the commitment to putting customers first and ability to deliver a consistently high quality service Customers are both internal (i.e. colleagues) and external (i.e. the community, tenants/service users or other organisations). | All employees must demonstrate a full understanding of customer needs and expectations to enable the effective delivery and development of appropriate quality services which exceed customer expectations
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Today in the modern world, gears are used in everyday activities, from cars to washing machines. There are various types of gears such as spur, internal, helical, skew, bevel, etc. Each of these gears has a different purpose, such as bevel gears are used to change the rotational motion to a different axis. Spur gears are used to this effect in washing machines, blenders, clothes dryers, construction equipment, fuel pumps, and mills. Lower gear ratios in the transmission and the back of the car allow
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Mzumbe University Dar Es Salaam Campus College MSC – PSCM 1 (2012 – 2013) Term-Paper Subject: BUS 5021 Strategic Business Management Maximum Marks: 30 Submission Last-Date: 12.01.2013 Maximum Word limit: 2000 Important: 1. There are three cases in the document. Students are required to develop their term-paper based on any case of their choice. 2. In addition to the information given in the case, students are encouraged to other learning resources in developing
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children, as it keeps their body moving and they use their gross motor skills effectively. Additionally, they also like playing indoors with Legos, and board games. For example, Alan and Dan like to build robots. Paul likes to use his creative imagination into building towers and bridges. When the other children see that they are making robots and towers using Legos, they become interested and also want to join the group and build them as well. Moreover, most of the children like to play with different
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the bricks and figures that children have played with for generations. The Danish company has experienced sustained growth since its founding in 1932, and for most of its history its major manufacturing facilities were located in Denmark. In 2003, LEGO was facing tough competition from imitators and manufacturers of electronic toys. In an effort to reduce costs, the group decided to initiate a gradual restructuring process that continues today. II. Time context A distributed architecture system
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Hemispheric Dominance, or right brain/left brain as it is more commonly known, is a widely discussed topic in psychology. Observations have been made in the field about how one side of the brain is utilized more in certain situations than in others. It has been said that one hemisphere dominates the other in every person, and said person has a better aptitude for subjects in their respective brain. It is true that most people have a propensity for the themes that correlate with one side or the other;
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People who engage with a brand through multiple digital channels buy as much as four to eight times more as those who simply interact with retailers through one channel,” according to Maginus digital marketing executive Amanda Mulquiney. ARTICLE HIGHLIGHTS: While retailers may consider showrooming to be a threat, the power of in-store Wi-Fi and displays shouldn’t be underestimated. M&S’s free next-day-delivery-to-store proposition has supported 54 percent of the orders placed or collected
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Erik Hansen, Lego manager, said ““People don’t have to work for us to work with us” to emphasize that their innovation comes also from their customers. This is one of the way to acquire innovative idea from the extern. Observing the world around us for a company it
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Typically you might expect that an economic downturn is bad for all businesses as generally consumers have less money to spend and usually demand might fall. Lego defied this at the height of the last recession by returning a 69% rise in profits in 2009, a time when other toy businesses were struggling badly. Part of what allowed Lego to thrive at this time was the nature of the product, because it is long lasting and children can use it in a multitude of ways, parents were attracted to it at a
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