...http://prezi.com/309ispjykcgi/absolut-vodka/ absolut vodka http://www.mbaskool.com/brandguide/food-and-beverages/4442-absolut-vodka.html http://prezi.com/x2hhkygf3wjl/absolut-vodka/ http://www.jgbm.org/page/9%20Etienne%20Musonera%20.pdf HISTORY Absolut was established in 1879 by Lars Olsson Smith and is produced in Åhus, Sweden. Smith introduced fractional distillation that produces liquor without fusel alcohol in Sweden in 1877, under the name "Tiodubbelt Renadt Brännvin" (Tenfold Purified Vodka). Brännvin literally means "burn-wine" and is analogous to the German "Branntwein". The term is also used in Norwegian, Danish and Icelandic.[citation needed] ("Vodka" was not used for Swedish liquor until 1958, with the potato-based Explorer Vodka.) The name was changed to "Absolut Rent Brännvin" (Absolutely Pure Vodka) by Smith to market his much improved product. [1] Smith challenged the city of Stockholm's liquor marketing monopoly with his vodka. It was sold at a lower price than the monopoly's product, just outside the city border. Smith even offered free boat rides to the distillery and "Rent Brännvin" made Smith a fortune.[1] In 1917, the alcohol industry in Sweden was monopolized by the Swedish government. Vodka was then sold nationwide under the name "Absolut Rent Brännvin". The name changed with intervals, Renat Brännvin or Absolut Rent Brännvin. In 1979, the old name Absolut was picked up when the upper-price range ABSOLUT VODKA was introduced. Renat is still a euphemism...
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...IS used in FDX What is information systems: Information system is defined by different ways but they are all in the same field. Information system is a collection of hardware, software, data, people and procedures that are designed to generate information that supports the day-to-day, short-range, and long-range activities of users in an organization. Information system is a very wide field that is divided in different types, to fulfill business’s variety of requirements for information, which are: Executive Support Systems, Management Information Systems, Decision Support Systems, Knowledge Management Systems, Transaction Processing Systems, and Office Automation Systems. Firstly, the Executive Support Systems ("ESS") is designed to help senior management make strategic decisions. It gathers analyses and summarizes the key internal and external information used in the business. Secondly, Management Information Systems ("MIS") is mainly concerned with internal sources of information. MIS usually take data from the transaction processing systems and summarize it into a series of management reports. Thirdly, Decision Support Systems ("DSS") are specifically designed to help management make decisions in situations where there is uncertainty about the possible outcomes of those decisions. DSS comprise tools and techniques to help gather relevant information and analyze the options and alternatives. DSS often involves use of complex spreadsheet and databases to create...
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...A SEA of cars stretches as far as the eye can see. Rows and rows of gleaming new vehicles that no one wants gather dust on the concrete landscape. The poignant picture of Avonmouth docks near Bristol shows imported cars that dealers can't sell. It is a stark symbol of the terrible plight of the British motor industry today. One of our biggest employers is desperately fighting for its future, the latest victim of the growing global economic crisis. Leading experts have warned that no one will be immune from the backlash that has already claimed hundreds of jobs. The car industry employes 860,000 workers — and until this year has been one of our greatest success stories. Yet our plants, still among the most efficient and productive in the world, are facing the harsh reality of a crash in global sales. They are producing vehicles that people, worried about losing their jobs, are unwilling to buy. New car sales in Britain have fallen for six months in a row. But that is just half the story. In a double whammy there has been a slump in orders from overseas, and 77 per cent of British-built cars are exported. New car sales are set to fall this year by nearly 200,000, to 2.15million — but experts are warning they could crash as low as 1.6million by 2010. September figures signalled that things were going really badly as sales fell by a whopping 21 per cent — and it was even worse last month, with a fall of 23 per...
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...Death Anxiety and Coping Strategies about Death among Elderly Death Anxiety Scale Name: _________________________________________________________________ Age:___________ Male:____ Female:_________ Direction: Please read the following Statements and then circle the number of the response that best describes how you feel about the item as follow: 1. Strongly Disagree 2. Disagree 3. Agree 4. Strongly Agree 1. Death should be viewed as natural undeniable and un avoidance event. 1. 2. 3, 4. 2. Death is simply part of process of life. 3.The thoughts of death near bothers me 4.Death is neither good or bad. 5.I would rather welcome death nor afraid it. 6.Death will bring end to all my troubles. 7.Death provide an escape from the terrible world. 8.Death is deliverance from pain and suffering. 9.I see death as a relief from the burden of the life. 10.The prospect of my own death arouse anxiety in me. 11. Death means terrible loneliness. 12. I get depress when I think about death. 13.Hearng the word death makes me sad. 14. Death is painful 15.I am very much afraid to die. 16.Passing the cemeteries makes me sad. 17.The sight of dead body is horrifying me. 18.It doesn't make me nervous when people talk about...
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...Case Study MGMT 303 Dr. King The Temptations of Temping Question 1. You're a senior manager at a growing business and you're ready to add employees. Your HR manager has recommended a temp-to-perm policy. You know the advantages of this approach, but what might be some of the disadvantages? The disadvantage of the “try before you buy” notion doesn’t work in all cases. As a senior manager, I do not feel it would be the most successful method in hiring the best candidates. If there is a megastar employee searching for work, they may not necessarily be interested in temporary work. How committed would this temporary employee be to my company since we are offering no stability and no benefits. The truth is that this person will probably have one foot out the door while they are looking for full time work In my experience, companies that offer temp-to-perm positions want to “hold all of the cards.” In truth, I feel they often lose out by choosing this option. If forced to, I would hire temp to perm employees while simultaneously searching for full-time employees. If the temporary employee works out to be the right fit, that’s wonderful and I can convert that individual to a permanent position. If they do not work out, I will still search for a full-time employee while hiring another temporary worker. In the long run, temp-to-perm is not the best method to find the qualified employees for my company needs. Question 2. Assume that you're a prospective job seeker...
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...Environmental Regulation Sarah White Colorado Technical University MGM366-1301B-02 Professor: Alan R. Witty March 18, 2013 Environmental Regulation International business expansion plans are vital for an organization looking at expanding into another country. With the economy today and the rise and fall of the almighty dollar, it has generated more international customers. Large and small businesses have several ways in which they can profit with international business ventures, and the opportunities are endless. It is always recommended that one registers a company’s trademarks within the foreign markets establishing solid business relationships at different trade shows are vital. Finding possibly an international business partner, who may be looking at entering your organizations market, can prove to be beneficial as well. The internet is a great source in which to expand globally. The first important step is to look for your organizations import and export opportunities. Being able to market in countries which have more strength against the American dollar will enable more export chances and the individuals which live in those countries can buy more. In this paper, I will be discussing Mexico as the country in which to expand into. When deciding to expand into any country, it is always a good idea to locate and hire a good well known corporate Business Attorney, CPA, Accountant and a Consultant, within that country to help guide your organization in the right direction...
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...The Art of Effective Listening Definition: Paying close attention to, and making sense of, what we hear (The Art of Public Speaking by Stephen E. Lucas) Listening is an active process of “Receiving”, “Understanding”, “Remembering, “Evaluating”, and “Responding”. Listening is cyclic, responses of one person serves as the stimuli for the other. (The Interpersonal Book by Joseph A. Devito) Difference between hearing and listening: Class Demonstration Importance of Listening: • Nearly all Top notch business executives, successful politicians and brilliant teachers are excellent listener. • Effective listeners hold higher positions and are promoted more often than others. • When business managers rank-order the communication skills most crucial to their jobs, they usually rank listening number one. • In one survey of Fortune 500 companies of America, almost 60 percent of the respondents said that they provide some kind of listening training for their employees. • Close to 90% of class time in colleges and universities is spent listening to discussions and lectures. • A number of studies have shown a strong correlation between listening and academic success. • Students with higher grades are usually those with strongest listening skills. • Listening is also important as speaker, it is probably the way you get most of your ideas and information—from talk shows, lectures, seminars etc. • If you do not listen well...
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...PEST Analysis Barclays Bank identified the sustainability as a means of recognizing and managing the economic, social, and environmental issues across the Group, and at the same time, contributing to the wellness of the society. PEST analysis is created to identify the factors that might affect the sustainability of the organization. Political Analysis The sustainability of Barclays’s agenda has expanded rapidly. It reflects the company’s increasing focus on the wider nature of business and made the stakeholders growing interests in competitive world of business. There is now a great awareness about the global challenges such as climate changes, poverty, scarcity of resources, and demographic shifting. The responses came from the government and from different businesses, as well as the non-profit organization helped the Barclays made it possible for the sustainability. Economic Analysis The approach to the sustainability program is useful and encourages the company to be open and transparent to the issues such as the initiatives in further research and development, dialogue with the government and various organizations, and their priorities. Barclays enable to broaden their focus on corporate responsibility to prove that they play an essential role in establishing an economic advantage in the country where they operate. Social Analysis The sustainability strategy focuses in their objective to improve the value of the business and their stakeholders. They...
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...Judgment and how it makes people unhappy... (food critics) food an art form.. culinary of all the art forms is more well integrated with a person being more decisive in their opinion of liking or disliking the art. Either you like the dish or you don’t… the food is either good or disgusting… little middle ground.. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S15/62/69K40/index.xml?section=topstories http://www.wikihow.com/Become-a-Food-Critic http://www.departures.com/articles/could-this-be-the-most-feared-food-critic-in-the https://twitter.com/GaelGreene from ratatouille.. this character anton ego… is a food critic.. gordon ramsay / watch relationship between him and ppl he is screaming his judgment at … one of sources … clips and observations from the show.. One of the major sources of unhappiness in humanity is judgment. There is of course invaluable forms of judgment but to understand how judgment makes people unhappy we must first define it in a negative social context. Judgment is an open expression of one’s opinionative dislike of a particular action or expression of another. Specifically, the forms of judgment that make people unhappy are “unprovoked,” “unconstructive” or “un-inquired judgments.” Judgment, when dealt through harsh arbitrary opinions, inspires fear in everyone. When judged, people think twice about being their authentic selves, attempting to do something right the second time, and generally feel hurt. One can understand how these situations...
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...Chapter1 Introduction Strategic management : strategic management process: the full set of commitment, decisions, and actions required for a firm to achieve strategic competitiveness and earn above average returns strategic competitiveness: is achieved when a firm successfully formulates and implemens a value-creating strategy (p4) above-average Returns: returns in excess of what an investor expects to earn from other investments risk:an investors uncertainty about the economic gains or losses that will result for a particular investment competitive advantage: when firm implemets strategy that creates superior value for customers and competitors are unable to duplicate or find too costly to immitate resources:imput into a firms production process such as capital equipment, the skills of individuals, employees,patents, finance, and talented managers (pg 17) capabilities:the capacity for a set of resources to perform a task or an activity in an integrative manner core competencies: are resources and capabilities that serve as a source of competitive advantage for a firm over its rivals sustainable competitive Advantage strategic flexibility: set of capabilities used to respond to various demands and opportunities existing in a dynamic& uncertain competitive environment -Causes of firm performance (profitability): industry vs. firm • Profit Pool – entails the total profits earned in an industry at all points along the value chain. – helps...
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...Legal Article Paper-Ambulatory Surgery Centers Themelina Vallas HCS/430-Legal Issues in Health Care:Regulation and Compliance Due: 6/1/15 Teela Carmack Medical facilities called “ambulatory surgery centers”, are that provide same day surgeries for patients that rather do it this way versus going to an actual hospital. This facility is not considered a hospital and therefore does not provide any type of emergency care. In an ambulatory surgery center patients do not need admission, go home right after their procedure and do not stay overnight. Running a surgical center is no easy task, so knowing the laws and regulations are extremely important. There can be many legal issues involved so proper training and education are vital components for the staff and healthcare professionals within those types of facilities. There are many legal issues that mainly involve dealing with physician ownership, network waivers and Medicare cases. Physician ownership seems to be one of the most legally debatable issues having to do with ambulatory centers. This is due to a lot of new owners that come in and buy the business from old owners leaving it. Most owners have to be able to understand their contract with legal obligation for the concerning buyer when selling the center. Selling a surgery center can be difficult especially if it is due to a financial situation. All owners of a business like this must be optimistic about acquiring new business to increase financial compensation and...
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...Touchpoint: a point of contact or interaction, especially between a business and its customers or consumers. Customer Experience Management Defined ¢ Process to oversee, track, and comprehensively manage a customer’s cross-channel exposure, interaction and transaction with or about a company, brand, product, or service. Touchpoint: Process to oversee, track, and comprehensively manage a customer’s cross-channel exposure, interaction and transaction with or about a company, brand, product, or service. ¢ All exposure/contact points from the customer’s view – direct and indirect! TOUCHPOINTS: PHASES: CONSUMPTION: special asics stores, special running stores. If you are serious about positioning for just running, they shouldn’t be in every sports store but more on specific running stores. Clearly identify the image we want to show and the target public AWARENESS: advertisements on sports channels, hosting marathons CHANNELS: The touchpoints should be available for consumers in every different aspect, they should approach a 360 angle by advertising via tv and online, and once someone becomes a customer add them to an asics network and send them information via e-mail and a magazine. By augmenting the advertisement sales will increase and therefore more asics shoes will be on the street and that will also be a touchpoint itself. DESIGN: Design is a very important aspect that helps differentiate asics shoes. They should utilize their touchpoints to emphasize on their...
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...Contents What Is Market Research 3 Primary Research 3 Secondary Research 3 Quantitative 3 Qualitative 4 Qualitative research is about finding out not just what people think but why they think it. It’s about getting people to talk about their opinions so you can understand their motivations and feelings 4 PESTLE Analysis 4 Swot Analysis 5 Referencing 6 What Is Market Research Primary Research The process of gathering, analysing and interpreting information about a market, about a product or service to be offered for sale in that market, and about the past, present and potential customers for the product or service; research into the characteristics, spending habits, location and needs of your business's target market, the industry as a whole, and the particular competitors you face. An example of market research is that Tesco may use one to one surveys to ask their customers what their opinion of Tesco is, they will also use one to one surveys to make their research more solid and reliable as they are talking to the person directly and will be able to tell if the person is lying or not. Online questionnaires are also a very good way of researching information, this is because many people nowadays tend to do online shopping, so the researchers will receive a lot of feedback as the people who use...
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...Java Basics Java Basics Topics in this section include: • • • • • • • • • • • What makes Java programs portable, secure, and robust The structure of Java applets and applications How Java applications are executed How applets are invoked and executed The Java Language, Part I Comments Declarations Expressions Statements Garbage collection Java Semantics Portability Java programs are portable across operating systems and hardware environments. Portability is to your advantage because: • • • You need only one version of your software to serve a broad market. The Internet, in effect, becomes one giant, dynamic library. You are no longer limited by your particular computer platform. Three features make Java String programs portable: 1. The language. The Java language is completely specified; all data-type sizes and formats are defined as part of the language. By contrast, C/C++ leaves these "details" up to the compiler implementor, and many C/C++ programs therefore © 1996-2003 jGuru.com. All Rights Reserved. Java Basics -1 Java Basics are not portable. 2. The library. The Java class library is available on any machine with a Java runtime system, because a portable program is of no use if you cannot use the same class library on every platform. Window-manager function calls in a Mac application written in C/C++, for example, do not port well to a PC. 3. The byte code. The Java runtime system does not compile your source code directly into machine language, an inflexible...
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...How to ‘Break the Glass’ and move ahead in life. Do you feel that you've gone as far as you can with your current employer? Despite knowing that you have much more potential, is there a limit for "people like you" in your organization? If so, you've hit what's known as the "glass ceiling." This is the point at which you can clearly see the next level of promotion - yet, despite your best effort, an invisible barrier seems to stop you from proceeding. Traditionally, the glass ceiling was a concept applied to women and some minorities. It was very hard, if not impossible, for them to reach upper management positions. No matter how qualified or experienced, they simply were not given opportunities to further advance their careers. Today, there are many more women and minorities in powerful positions. However, the glass ceiling is still very real. And it's not always limited to gender or race. Have you been pushed up against a glass ceiling? This can happen for many different reasons. Are you too much the champion of change? Do you have difficulty communicating your ideas? Are you quieter and less outgoing than the people who get promotions? Whatever the reason, you have a choice. You can accept your situation and be happy with looking up and not being able to touch what you see. or you can smash the glass with purpose and determination. If you do, indeed, want to break through that glass, here are some steps to take. Identify the Key Competencies within Your Organization ...
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