...Documentum | | | Setting for the Case In November 1993 Jeff Miller, Documentum's CEO, is faced with the challenge of pursuing either a vertical or horizontal marketing strategy to route Documentum towards profitability. Situation and Business Issues Documentum enjoys a leading role in an emerging and potentially lucrative space. But profiting from this opportunity will require overcoming several immediate hurdles including a limited customer base, formidable competitors and unforeseen development costs. Key Information, Facts, Assumptions Documentum was founded in June 1990 by Howard Shao and John Newton, seasoned database engineers who aimed to develop a new class of software for automating the management of documents across an enterprise. Following three years of losses, Documentum gains traction by combining an elite management team with $5.8MM of Venture Capitalist funding. Analysis Enterprise document management (EDM) is a new, paradigm-busting product category with few substitutes. The category growth is small, increasing at a rate of 1%-2% year over year . Competition within the EDM category is low, as no other company was developing the "whole elephant" solution. Profitability was extremely low, given the low number of customers and long lead time to develop and deliver the product solution. The combination of these characteristics wholly describes the EDM category as being in the Introduction Stage of the Category Life Cycle . With regards...
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...CARIBBEAN SECONDARY EDUCATION CERTIFICATE 2015. PRINCIPLES OF BUSINESS. Candidate Name: Darnell Benn Candidate Number: School: Queen`s College School Code: 090041 Country/Territory: Guyana Year of Examination: 2015 Teacher: Miss Shellon Beckles Table of Contents. Description | Profile | Page Number. | Introduction i Acknowledgements ii Description of Business 1 1 Role of Entrepreneur 1 2 Use of Technology 1 3 Potential for Growth 1 4 Justification of Location 2 5 Selection of Appropriate Labour 2 6 Sources of Working and Fixed Capital 2 7 Type of Production 2 8 Levels of Production 2 19 Quality Control Measures 2 10 Linkages 2 11 Government Regulations...
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...TO DO: 1. Begin drafting formal business plan document 2. Primary research through a user survey on google forms 1. explain who we polled, why we did it, and what we found 1. Who is our customer (in and out) 1. age, salary, hobbies, skills, activities, schedule, location, goals, etc 1. What are our customer acquisition costs? 1. time 2. $1000 for like Bruin Plaza, flyers, trainers (for the Bruin plaza day), free snacks, apparel 1. App mock-up 2. Who are partners vs. customers (do we have both?) Updates to presentation: * More photos - high quality (get a shutterstock subscription?) * Facebook, linkedIn, googleplus accounts * Make numbers stand out * Get a logo * Beginning of presentation * Start with photo and no logo and begin to tell story * Then show a number slide that explains a problem that our market faces * Show SpotMe slide - the solution to the above problem and explain what it is * Add citations like 30001 * 1 what does the number 3000 mean, what is the source * put actual website source in appendix * Remove numbers about how much money was invested in health apps * Instead quantify the benefits of using an app like SpotMe i.e. the health benefits and compare that to how much it costs $5 * divvy up bullet points/numbers to different slides * currently there is too much text on the slides * MAKE THE BULLET POINTS MEAN SOMETHING →...
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...Place the flour on a board or in a bowl. Make a well in the centre and crack the eggs into it. Beat the eggs with a fork until smooth. Using the tips of your fingers, mix the eggs with the flour, incorporating a little at a time, until everything is combined. Knead the pieces of dough together – with a bit of work and some love and attention they'll all bind together to give you one big, smooth lump of dough! You can also make your dough in a food processor if you've got one. Just bung everything in, whiz until the flour looks like breadcrumbs, then tip the mixture on to your work surface and bring the dough together into one lump, using your hands. Once you've made your dough you need to knead and work it with your hands to develop the gluten in the flour.There's no secret to kneading. You just have to bash the dough about a bit with your hands, squashing it into the table, reshaping it, pulling it, stretching it, squashing it again. It's quite hard work, and after a few minutes it's easy to see why the average Italian grandmother has arms like Frank Bruno! You'll know when to stop – it's when your pasta starts to feel smooth and silky instead of rough and floury. Then all you need to do is wrap it in cling film and put it in the fridge to rest for at least half an hour before you use it. Make sure the cling film covers it well or it will dry out and go crusty round the edges (this will give you crusty lumps through your pasta when you roll it out, and nobody likes crusty...
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...IS 390 Group Project Milestone Two Due: Oct. 29th In this milestone, you are to deliver a document called BRD (Business Requirement Document). Although difference formats exist for BRD, the one you are required to present is popularly used in current IS practice. It serves as a “contract” between you and your client on the scope, schedule & expected outcome of your project. A BRD contains seven sections. I. Version Control Since a BRD might go through several rounds of revision (iterative process, remember?), this first section is simply used to keep track of the project history. A. Revision history: Simply a table with the following columns: Version# (0.1, 0.2…), Date of revision, Responsibility (Author), Description. I assume that you will have only one version given the short time available, which is fine. B. RACI chart RACI chart is used in organizational design to make assignments and designate levels of involvement and responsibility. In a system project, it lists the roles played by each of the team members during each developmental stage. To develop a RACI chart, first identify tasks involved in this stage. Your tasks should include at least the following: 1. Correspondence with the client: meeting setup and follow-up. 2. Preparation for the interview: design of interview questions and flow 3. Leading interviewer(s): the ones who ask the majority of the questions 4. Interview notes-takers: team members who...
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...with 12 offices in the western United States stretching from Oregon to California and inland to New Mexico. Simple Gateways focuses on travel to island vacations around the world. They are challenged with poor performing Information Systems (IS). Simple Gateway IS produce multiple versions of documents utilized by staff to make poorly informed business decisions. This paper is an analysis of the challenges to the key Simple Getaways stakeholders, actual performance and desired performance. A technological solution is defined and supported to address the alignment of the IS to the Simple Gateways business objectives. Simple Getaways, Inc. Request for Proposal Response 3 Simple Getaways, Inc. Request for Proposal Response The current implemented IS in the Simple Gateways is designed to provide control benefits. The IS was intended to facilitate information to provide the stakeholder the ability to make better decisions and actions. (Chew & Gottschalk, 2009) The current IS produces multiple versions of the same documents used by the office staff. The offices are segregated from each other with their own file servers making e-mail channels the current means to share documents from one store to another. The multiple versions does not assure the information to be accurate or up to date. The staff is then left with misinformation to make decisions. The Simple Gateways IS does not provide a process to perform administrative tasks like approving sick leave or vacation...
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...M1 compare the purposes of different documents used in the selection process Application form: This can be seen as a form that is filled in by the applicant to the business they are applying for. This will inform the business on what skills they have and how it is relevant to the job they are applying for this is will give the business an insight on what the applicant is god for and the skills and qualifications they have. Document | What it does | Application form | Application form: This can be seen as a form that is filled in by the applicant to the business they are applying for. This will inform the business on what skills they have and how it is relevant to the job they are applying for this is will give the business an insight on what the applicant is god for and the skills and qualifications they have. For example Christ the king | Person spec/job description | The person spec is seen as the requirement that the business want for the job, these are things that the applicant will need to have in order to get the job. | Information for candidates | This is the information that the candidates will need to know about the job such as the money it will pay where it is and the person spec. | Reference request | This is when the business you are applying for a job and the employer ask for someone who knows you and they tell them how you act. | Short listing grid | This is when the employers go through a list and check the person who is best suited for the job...
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...Getaways, Inc. Written by Rachael Deming Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Key Stakeholders 4 Actual Performance and Desired Performance 5 Justification 5 References 7 Executive Summary Simple Getaways, Inc. is a travel agency that specializes in island vacations. Due to the overwhelming success of the company, they have grown from one office located in California to 12 all across the United States. Due to this expansion, the communication between headquarters and human resources has become increasingly challenging. When employees request leave or there is a change in an employee's file, a paper document is used. When headquarters requests a document from one of the offices, that particular document is either mailed or faxed. The hard copies are stored in a file cabinet. The file sharing has also become an issue because each location utilizes a Windows file server. The offices do not have central file sharing. That does not allow for real time file sharing. The current way employees work on files together is by emailing each other. When the revisions are completed, the file goes back to the original employee. This causes a delay in processing and outdated paperwork. I propose the company utilizes a central server that every office has access. With a new file sharing system, anytime a file is changed, the revised version is immediately available for any employee to access. I...
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...ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chances of success. John McCarthy, who coined the term in 1956 defines it as "the science and engineering of making intelligent machines. The field was founded on the claim that a central property of humans, intelligence—the sapience of Homo sapiens—can be so precisely described that it can be simulated by a machine. This raises philosophical issues about the nature of the mind and the ethics of creating artificial beings, issues which have been addressed by myth, fiction and philosophy since antiquity.Artificial intelligence has been the subject of optimism, but has also suffered setbacks and, today, has become an essential part of the technology industry, providing the heavy lifting for many of the most difficult problems in computer science. AI research is highly technical and specialized, and deeply divided into subfields that often fail to communicate with each other.]Subfields have grown up around particular institutions, the work of individual researchers, the solution of specific problems, longstanding differences of opinion about how AI should be done and the application of widely differing tools. The central problems of AI include such traits as reasoning...
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...workflow. CHALLENGES AFFECTING KEY STAKEHOLDERS The processes currently being used at Simple Getaways for communication and the distribution of information are no longer suitable for the organization. Documents from each office are stored onsite on a Microsoft Windows file server, making it difficult for other offices to access and use the information they contain. Currently the method used to share files with other offices is via email. This results in multiple copies of the same document residing on various computers at multiple office locations. The duplicate versions are not updated when the original document is modified which leads to different versions of the same document being used. Some business decisions are being made using information from the outdated documents. For example, a document containing airline ticket pricing may be used when creating price quotes for customer travel, but the price for airline tickets fluctuates regularly. If these inaccurate prices were used in a quote, the company has the potential to lose money on the transaction and may be obligated to fulfil the terms of the quote even though it was based on incorrect information. Additionally, when a document is shared between multiple offices and they each make alterations and return the document, the...
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...format. 2. Write simple, short sentences that you can manage to write without grammatical errors. As a thumb rule, if your sentence runs into the third line in MS Word, it is long and perhaps confounding. 3. Do run proper spell check before submitting any document to anyone. It is unprofessional and rather rude to submit documents with spellings mistakes. The reader will immediately lose confidence in your professional capabilities. 4. Maintain proper formatting requirements for any professional document. Typically a standard font such as Times New Roman or Arial with size 12, proper line and paragraph spacing to facilitate readability, and justified alignment (unless submitting to US people who prefer left justified) is needed. All tables, figures, lists and any other such things must have captions with proper number and title (e.g. Table 1: Names of the Companies Involved in 2G Scam). Tables shouldn’t have any vertical lines as per the APA standards. Different levels of headings in a text should follow different and consistent patterns. You may take a look at any standard journal article to better understand this point. Whenever you feel impressed by the format of a document, mark the formatting patterns. You will learn formatting quickly in this manner. 5. A reference without citation is meaningless. Unless you clearly indicate which line or idea is borrowed, you are still plagiarizing. For example, people have the potential to perform...
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...ETHICAL DILEMMA Business Ethics BACKGROUND I am an Account Officer at a bank (Corporate Banking Department), in charge of managing corporate accounts, all of which are Japanese companies. In one of my meetings, the client personally submitted an original application for online banking to me. There was no receiving copy. After going back to the office, I forwarded to my assistant for processing. My assistant, who has also become my friend over time, is well known for numerous errors and oversights. During the same week, we were cleaning up our area and shredding unnecessary and old documents. After a few weeks, the application was already missing. After finding out that the documents were missing, I was faced with the dilemma of either completely blaming my assistant as solely accountable for losing the documents or taking responsibility for my subordinate and informing my boss that our team lost the document. FACTS A. An original application form was personally submitted to me by a client with no receiving copy. After going back to the office, I forwarded to my assistant for processing. Since I got back late in the afternoon, the documents were included in our logbook for “Overnight Pending Items” which were kept at our main vault. B. My assistant is known for making a lot of errors and oversights. She has been assigned to different Account Officers and all of them complained that they were having a hard time managing her due...
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...is giving to us as a lab exercise no.2 for MIS 445. In MIS 445, we are studying the management of business processes to understand how different activities are being performed in an organization. For this a comparative study of paper based system against ES system is being undertaken. In this report we develop the diagrams of two process the benefits of other 2- a- Diagram of paper based process b- Disadvantages of paper based process * Too much paper work, many documents are created to capture and transfer data/information. * Due to paper work there is always a chance of incorrect capturing of data and mistakes. * Requires physical transfer of data, through sending documents to other departments. * Redundancy/duplication of data at several places. * Analysis of information and it’s reporting is laborious hectic and might not be accurate. * Delays, all the tasks in a paper based environment takes longer time, causing waste of resources as well. c- Diagram of Enterprise based process d- Benefits of ES process * Based on common, shared database, can be used across the whole organization. * Minimum of paper work * Easier input, and access to Data/information. * Easier analysis and reporting * Minimize data entry/transfer error. * Minimize time * No redundancy of data, No data conflicts * Integration of business functions and processes 3-Conclusion: From the basic thing in the report is you have to summaries...
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...growth. 2. To promote an inclusive and equitable work culture to effectively thrive in an increasingly globalised, competitive business environment. HR records encompass a wide range of data relating to individuals working in an organisation, which may be stored in a variety of media, such as computer database or paper files. There and advantages and disadvantages to both media: 1.1 Paper records/ Paper Files: A risk analysis needs to focus on the secure storage and the prevention of threats such as fire or theft and relevant personnel can only access those files. There are legal requirements that employees are required to meet in terms of the length of time that specific documents are to be retained, so thought needs to be given to storage space and all files must be easily retrieved and accessed when required. The business must implement and maintain a good document discipline, i.e. no paper should be left laying around for unauthorised access, and a clean desk at night policy must be mandatory. However, there are some benefits to collecting and retaining paper files. Paper files are not susceptible to computer viruses, they are user friendly, and there are benefits to their portability. Paper Files supporting HR: This system of saving files proves particularly helpful while signing important job contacts, Signing of important legal documents that show...
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...internet. The internet revolution has change the way of doing things. This is not the time you should worry that your document will be destroyed by rainwater, fire, termites or even stolen. Our company carries all your document management worries by scanning them and storing them in your preferred online archives. Our company has a wealthy of experience because it is lead by technology gurus, thereby guaranteeing quality and reliable services to all our customers. Scanning large volumes of documents is risky. It therefore requires skills, swift hands and people who are detail oriented, which we guarantee. Our company specializes in document management and document scanning. Our major objective is keeping your records safely and securely online. We transform all your hardcopy documents into online stored texts or digital images that you can access anytime provided you have the internet. We eliminate the need for you and your business to have file cabinets by scanning and storing your documents digitally. Besides scanning and storing your documents as digital images or texts, we also store them in form of DVDs and SFTPs. How we do our job Upon contacting us for our services, we pick your documents and take them to our scanning center. Alternatively, we scan the documents at our customer sites if they prefer it that way. After receiving the first batch of documents, we immediately scan them. The scanned copies are sent to the customer for assessment. Upon the customer’s approval,...
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