...Business Management and Leadership Controlling 4/15/2010 Unit 5 IP: Controlling By: Shawndell Lewis AIU Welcome, Fine womenfriend and gentlemen. Congratulations! You have joined the outstanding Management team of Just Web Internet Company.We are a new Wireless Internet Service Provider. Wireless is a company that offers its customers access to the Internet via a 4G connection. The service we offer provides Internet e-mail accounts to customers, allowing them to communicate with one another by sending and receiving electronic messages through their ISP's servers. We also provide such services as remote storage of data files and WiFi technology. Our WIFI technology is available to all our customers for their choice to use with any Wi-Fi enabled device. This includes personal computers, personal digital assistants, mobile phones, video game consoles and MP3 players While 2010 has seen a wide use of WIFI within businesses and at industrial sites, many cities have scaled back or altogether cancelled their once lofty goals of city wide WIFI . Another drawback is that spectrum assignments have limitations, as they are not consistent worldwide. Furthermore, WIFI has a practical, but limited range, which makes for strained mobility. Just Web Mobile Modem turns your computer into a hotspot. In other words, where the customer goes, the connection goes. At work, at home in the car, on the go, dropouts and lost connections are...
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...Introduction: Organizations use research primarily for two functions, first function is to find out the habits and needs of the people and coming up with new innovative ideas and products to satisfy their needs. Second function is to help managers in their decision making process and improving their decision making skills by identifying the future and present issues organization might face. The ability to contribute complex theoretical descriptions of experience of people in a given research is known as Qualitative analysis (Davidson, 2009). For better functioning of teamwork, business research is very useful to organizations in their decision making process. The success of any organization and impact on performance can be achieved through teamwork effectiveness (Smith, 2008). A qualitative research plan of Fomplus teamwork is addressed in this report. Usually employees of any organization have their own various contexts of the problem and data of numerical analysis are both included in this report. Organization background: This organization is a Colombian based company established in 1993 which is Fomplus. Management information system, financial information system and administrative accounting in a structural and interchangeable way by developing design and by executing business software (Fomplus, 2015). The organizations from various economic sectors are aligned with Fomplus through this strategic decision making, evaluation and planning uses the information technology...
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...GPS-to-GO Takes on Garmin Sharon Smith-Basey BUS 518 Project Leadership Dr. David Plumer Strayer University February 3, 2013 GPS-to-GO Takes on Garmin Analyze the personality and temperament of Joseph Thomas. Joseph Thomas is considered as an everyday manager who has grown up in the business of Global GPS and he commands great respect from his peers. Thomas has a full understanding of the makeup of workers at GPS. He knows too well how the workers are comfortable with working at their own pace and spending is of very little concern because their organizational culture is built around serving clients such as the government, who will fund their overruns and will allow years for development. Thomas is now functioning under new management, Michael Scott, a young, hopeful who plans to take on the strongest competitors in the consumer market. Thomas has the personality and temperament of an NT (Intuition-Thinking) Type. NT’s gather data consisting of abstractions and possibilities (N), which they filter through their objective decision-making process (T) (Rutledge, 2008). NTs have a driving force that is a never-ending quest for competence and this is demonstrated by Thomas and his peers as they desire to spend years on development and production, which causes them to pursue products not according to deadlines or costs because it is more about the soundness of the product. NTs are oriented toward continuous improvements and Thomas was scared to enter the faced-paced...
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...MMWHTI Assignment 15 Design thinking and Innovation at Apple A Write-Up Abhiroop Mankin(1311072) Why has Apple been so successful? What do you attribute it to? What are the key reasons for Apple's success? Are Apple product so successful because of the brand status and premium pricing? Many believe that Apple is so successful because of their marketing and brand status. Is it really true or there is something else? Do Apple products really stand out amongst all its competitors? I'm no expert in Apple products nor am I what is called an "Apple fan-boy" but I will highlight the reasons why I think Apple is successful: 1. Simplicity One of the things that fascinated me about Apple products was its sheer simplicity. A device which is an audio/video player, and has several additional features can be operated with the help of two buttons. An inner round button coupled with the outer "click" wheel could in essence operate the whole device. Apple has exported this outlook to all their other products, and tries to make them as simple as possible; products which the Average Joe could operate with ease. Apple is a classic example of simplicity and ease of use over everything else. 2. Beauty Aesthetic value is of prime importance when it comes to Apple. When was the last time you looked at an Apple product and thought it was ugly? The built, design and form factor of their products along with the choice of material used is usually spot on. More than a Samsung Galaxy S5...
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...Axia College Material Appendix A Midterm Exam • Access the Week Four Electronic Reserve Readings located under the materials section of your student website. • Read this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings. • Write a paragraph of approximately 100 words for each section listed below. 1. Using the critical thinking skills you have gained so far and referring to the materials provided for this assignment, identify two possible strategies that Thomas Hutchinson or Samuel Adams likely used to develop and improve their thinking as those historical events unfolded prior to taking a stand and acting according to their beliefs. Samuel Adams may have used strategy one: analyzing a single statement for what is means by asking yourself if the statement makes sense and if so responding with a yes or no answer. Adams was not only an extremist but a political writer speaking to issues that directly affected colonies like the Stamp Act and tea distribution from East India. Both of these events affected many colonists in a negative way because the Stamp Act added taxation to certain products, while India tea imports, caused some colonists to lose money from their own tea sells. Adams would have had to ask himself why these acts where just or unjust by analyzing them individually in a literal sense. He publicly came to the conclusion that these acts were unjust because they both caused colonists to lose money and also put a damper on their personal values and liberty...
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...Case File Slowdowns bring with them a sea of changes. Purse strings become tighter and less is just enough. Expansions take a back seat and companies play it safe. But there is something that cannot afford to succumb to this changing environment: the quality of customer service. 21st century bank serving the new needs of the modern customer. “We consciously wanted to avoid settling for a system and working with it just because our organization was still evolving. We wanted a flexible solution that would change in accordance to the dynamics of our business. What we wanted was a scalable CRM that could grow as we grew and not just any CRM solution,” says Sharma. And from those priorities was born the concept of the Yes Bank Collaborative CRM (YCCRM). But Sharma’s in-house YCCRM wasn’t satisfied with just fulfilling these needs. Sharma felt that customer feedback was vital, and that the bank needed to embrace its customers. “The difference was collaboration. We wanted to make it collaborative by making the customer part of the system. We were keen on empowering the customer to share his ideas and feedback. The system has two logical separation models: a pre-acquisition and a post-acquisition service cycle for customers,” explains Sharma. It took six to eight months to develop and implement the solution in the first branch. The YCCRM banks very heavily on employee collaboration. “Information lying in islands, without being shared across, is of no use at all. Internal collaboration...
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...Assessing your own leadership capabilities and performance Understanding leadership styles within an organization A leadership style is a way of providing direction, implementing plans and motivating people. Every company applies its own leadership styles, choosing to adopt those which best suit their particular needs. no one style of leadership fits all situations, so it's useful to understand different leadership frameworks and leadership styles and adapt your approach to fit your situation. Looking through leadership theory, we find that different books and studies opt to split leadership differently. However for this assignment we will be using the Situational leadership theory, developed by Paul Hersey and Kenneth Blanchard in the 1960’s. The model rests on two fundamental concepts; the Leadership Style and the individual or group Maturity Level. Hersey and Blanchard categorized all leadership styles into four behaviour types, which they named S1 to S4: S1.Directing This is where leaders make all of the decisions within the company, then give specific instructions to their (followers) expecting them to follow, all whilst supervising closely the work which is being carried out. S2.Coaching The Coaching style of leadership clearly defines the roles of each follower while still seeking input and suggestions from them. Final decisions are still made by the leader but communication is two way. S3.Supporting The supporting...
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...Business | Assessor name | Fran Mackenzie | Unit number and title | Unit 7 Management Accounting ( J/502/5419) | Learner name | Zahra Ali | Assignment title | Tasks 1, 2 and 3 Regional Business Support Agency. Costs and Break Even | | Grading criteria | Achieved? | Comments | P1 | | | P2 | | | M1 | | | D1 | | | | General comments | | Action plan | | Assessor signature | Fran MacKenzie | Date | | Issue date: 6th October 2014 Final hand in date SUBMISSION 1: 3rd November 2014 Student Name: Zahra Ali Learner’s Declaration: I certify that the work submitted for this assignment is my own Signed: Zahra Ali Date: 30/10/14 Issue date: 6th October 2014 Final hand in date SUBMISSION 1: 3rd November 2014 Student Name: Zahra Ali Learner’s Declaration: I certify that the work submitted for this assignment is my own Signed: Zahra Ali Date: 30/10/14 Contents Introduction 3 Task 1 3 P1 3 ‘’1.Describe the main cost elements that a business needs to consider, explaining what category the costs fall into.’’- Blackboard 3 Revenue expenditure – 3 Capital expenditure – 3 ‘’2. Describe variable costs and give an example’’ – Blackboard 4 ‘’3. Describe fixed costs and give an example’’ - Blackboard 4 ‘’4. Describe semi-fixed or semi-variable costs and give examples’’ - Blackboard 4 ‘’5. Describe the concept of absorption of overheads’’ – Blackboard 5 ‘’6. Describe what is meant by marginal costs’’- Blackboard 5 ‘’7...
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...AMITY UNIVERSITY MBA SECOND SEMESTER ASSIGNMENT 2014 – 16 Minor Project Financial Fraud –Sathyam computers SUBMITTED BY: Abhijith Rajan AUD 2351 MBA (GENERAL) ABSTRACT From Satyam, we can see that corporate book keeping misrepresentation is a noteworthy issue that is raising both in its recurrence and seriousness. Exploration confirmation has demonstrated that these developing number of fakes have made undermined the trustworthiness of monetary reports, added to generous financial misfortunes, and disintegrated speculators' certainty with respect to the handiness and dependability of money related articulations. The expanding rate of these sort of law violations need to get hardened punishments, excellent disciplines, and powerful requirement of law with the right soul. An endeavor is made to inspect and investigate inside and out the Satyam Computer's "inventive bookkeeping" embarrassment, which conveyed to spotlight the significance of "morals and corporate administration" (CG). The extortion submitted by the authors of Satyam in 2009, is a demonstration of the way that "the art of behavior is influenced in huge by human eagerness, aspiration, and crave influence, cash, acclaim and wonderfulness". Dissimilar to Enron, which sank because of "organization" issue, Satyam was conveyed to its knee because of "burrowing" impact. The Satyam embarrassment highlights the significance of securities laws and CG in "developing" markets. Without a doubt, Satyam misrepresentation...
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...2011, McKinsey indicated that men were advanced based off potential, while ladies are advanced based off of achievement. Society puts limitations on females for different reasons that are shameful and out of date where they were labeled into just being perceived as a housewife. Females create blocks for themselves that can keep them down dreadfully. An extremely savvy female that is filled with potential in their field can undoubtedly keep herself down and do not have the certainty they know they have inside them. Females contemplate themselves and fear being forceful and capable isn't right, which is the most far from reality. Alternatively, females should be making improvement and exploring each open door that is before them, instead of bringing down their desires. Men think that ladies must to do most of the housework and deal with the kids, while surrendering their goals and dreams. Their objectives are put on hold and in not very many cases, are men sufficiently seeking to look past such a changed times. It’s the time for more ladies to be elevated to senior positions and not have their abilities and objectives put on hold on the grounds that they chose to have kids. Females everywhere throughout the world need to be encouraged to lean in. Sheryl Sandberg explains how many people told her she would face obstacles as a woman in the workplace and the difficulties of a family and a career brought together. Recognizing and destroying the outside limitations in the work environment...
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...Psychology Assignment 4 Task 44: Define the principles of Classical conditioning. The study undertaken by Ivan Pavlov is still today the most well known example of classical conditioning. After studying the digestive system of dogs in 1927, Ivan noticed that his dogs would salivate at the sight of the lab assistant bringing them food. Through the process of classical conditioning, soon the sight of the lab assistant alone was enough for the dogs to salivate. Pavlov believed that the dogs had learnt to expect food from the assistant by association; he then investigated his theory further by beginning to experiment with a neutral stimulus, in this case the sound of a bell. Pavlov sounded a bell as food was placed in front of the dogs, it did not take long for the dogs to produce saliva at the mere sound of the bell. The process of Classical Conditioning or Pavlovian conditioning as it is also known as works as follows: Stage 1 – Food in this experiment is the unconditioned stimulus (UCS). The UCS equals salivation which is the unconditioned response (UCR). Salivation is an involuntary automatic response to a certain stimulus. This is a reflex controlled by the lower part of the brain; no learning is required to produce this response. At this stage before learning has taken place, the sound of a bell will cause no response or an irrelevant response from the dogs. Stage 2 – Acquisition is the initial stage of learning, after repeatedly pairing food with the sound of...
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...Business Ethics: A Discourse on Rights: Moral, Legal, and Human Myriad optimistic forecasts, of what comprises the core of business ethics, have permeated numerous discussions on management and commerce practices in the marketplace today. Global economics and trading across borders nearly demands it. In fact, ‘ethics’ in business has come to represent one of the key buzzwords of our decade, along with ‘sustainability’ and the ideological concept of global warming – seemingly shoved down the throats of people. But what is business ethics anyway, and why does it matter? The discourse herein hopefully highlights a cogent and logically based compilation of answers as required from the rubric of Assignments Four. While this paper is written in essay format, for the sake of clarity and precision for the reader, each section shall appropriately and clearly display the topical area or question being addressed. (1) – Define a right, a legal right, a moral right, and a human right explaining how they are related. The philosophical idea of what constitutes a ‘right’ is an age-old concept that many men of God and theorists have confronted from ancient times. One things seems clear. A ‘right’ cannot be discussed without dividing the premise from a ‘privilege.’ According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a right is simply defined as “being in accordance with what is just, good, or proper” as in conduct (“Right,” 2015). Judge Napolitano defined a right as “a gift from God that extends...
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...A Study on Reliance Retail Supply chain Operations Operations Management-Assignment MBA- 1st Semester, Sec-‘B’ Submitted by George Vincent Table of Contents 2 BACKGROUND OF RETAIL 2 3 COMPANY PROFILE 5 3.1 RELIANCE RETAIL LIMITED 5 3.2 THE RELIANCE EMPIRE 5 3.3 BACKGROUND 10 4 A GLANCE AT EXISTING RELIANCE 12 5 “FARM TO FORK” 13 6 SUPPLY CHAIN MODELS 14 6.1 RELIANCE FRESH: (MODEL 1) 14 6.2 UPDATED POLICY 16 6.3 WHOLESALE TRADING (WST): (MODEL 2) 17 BACKGROUND OF RETAIL India is a land of retail democracy- hundreds of thousands of weekly haats and bazaars are located across the length and breadth of our country by people’s own self-organizational capacities. Our streets are bazaars – lively, vibrant, safe and the source of livelihood for millions. India has the highest shop density in the world, with 11 outlets per 1000 people. This does not include the village haats. Our retail democracy is characterized by 1. High levels of livelihoods in retail with nearly 40 million employed which accounts for 8% of the employment and 4% of the entire population. 2. High levels of self - organization. 3. Low capital input 4. High levels of decentralization Retail in India has started with the concept of weekly markets, where all the traders gather at one big place to sell their products every week. The people come to these weekly markets to buy the household items for the next one week. Village fairs and melas were also common...
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...Welcome to the Case Analysis Coach This tutorial is designed to start you down the road toward becoming an expert at analyzing business cases. You'll learn how to identify and define the business concepts raised by a case, as well as to develop analysis-based solutions, recommendations, and action plans. These skills will prepare you for class discussions and exams. You will have access to a complete real case, called Komatsu Ltd. and Project G., so that you can apply what you learn to a concrete example. You will also get other helpful resources, such as a Case Analysis Worksheet and samples of classdiscussion notes on the Komatsu case that were prepared by real students like you. In addition, smaller excerpts from other real cases are used to illustrate some of the steps in case analysis. 1 Introduction to Case Analysis Types of Cases The "case method" is an approach to learning that encourages students to extract useful lessons from the experiences of others ("cases"). Students study accounts of specific events in order to discover general principles that they can apply in other situations. Cases tend to fall into one of three categories that sometimes overlap: • • • Decision Cases describe a decision faced by the case protagonist. The student ultimately must choose among a finite set of distinct decision alternatives. Problem Cases require a student to diagnose a problem in a business case and to formulate possible solutions. Evaluation Cases illustrate a...
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