...Argenti (2011). Since the beginning of the age of technology, the internet has proven to be an effective way for business to communicate, whether it be with buyers, sellers, internal, or external staff. The internet is a gateway of information and a quick way to communicate with many different people simultaneously. Information can be sent to anyone, at any time, and at any place. Not long after the spike in the popularity of the internet came the emergence of social media. Social media generally refers to media used to enable social interaction. Social media usually takes place within a social networking site. As defined by Ellison (2008), social network sites are web-based services that allow individuals to construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and view and converse with their list of connections and those made by others within the system. Since their emergence, social network sites such as MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter have attracted millions of users, many of whom use these sites on a daily basis. Furthermore, it is no surprise that businesses have found ways to incorporate social media into their business practices and use it as a powerful medium to reach customers. Businesses of all sizes have learned by now that social media is an essential marketing tool in today's tech-driven environment. With so many people engaging in social media, it is difficult to ignore its potential to...
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...the aspiring consultants on this e-group. This FAQ has been compiled from answers provided by a panel of Consultant BITSians, to consulting relating questions posed by this group. ▪ FAQ Structure The questions have been classified into the following sections: B Schools and Academic background (pre and during MBA) Professional work experience (pre MBA) and expectations Post MBA Consulting experience Interpersonal Skills and Networking FAQ B SCHOOLS AND ACADEMIC BACKGROUND (PRE AND DURING MBA) Q1. When evaluating MBA programs, what are the key characteristics to consider for an aspiring consultant? In other words, what are the different parameters based on which, one can shortlist & differentiate universities for a consulting major. While Consulting companies recruit heavily from a core set of schools (typically 5 or 6 top schools), almost all Consulting firms recruit from most of the top 10 or top 15 schools. When evaluating an MBA program, it is important to consider the location, interest in living there and how good the program is. One can gather this information by networking with alumni and current students. While targeting a school with consulting in mind is one way to go, it is essential to keep an open mind. Most students figure out their interests and career paths while at school and not before. As long as there is consistency in a candidate’s essays and he/she is able to convey a good story, he/she can get admitted to one of the good...
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...Table of Contents Chapter 1 Evaluating the Cisco ASA VPN Subsystem .......................................3 Chapter 2 Deploying Cisco ASA IPsec VPN Solutions ............................. 42 Chapter 3 Deploying Cisco ASA AnyConnect Remote-Access SSL VPN Solutions..............................109 Chapter 4 Deploying Clientless RemoteAccess SSL VPN Solutions ................148 Chapter 5 Deploying Advanced Cisco ASA VPN Solutions .............................184 CCNP Security VPN 642-648 Quick Reference Cristian Matei ciscopress.com [2] CCNP Security VPN 642-648 Quick Reference About the Author Cristian Matei, CCIE No. 23684, is a senior security consultant for Datanet Systems, Cisco Gold Partner in Romania. He has designed, implemented, and maintained multiple large enterprise networks, covering the Cisco security, routing, switching, service provider, and wireless portfolios of products. Cristian started this journey back in 2005 with Microsoft technology and finished the MCSE Security and MCSE Messaging tracks. He then joined Datanet Systems, where he quickly obtained his Security and Routing & Switching CCIE, among other certifications and specializations, such as CCNP, CCSP, and CCDP. Cristian has been a Cisco Certified Systems Instructor (CCSI) since 2007, teaching CCNA, CCNP, and CCSP curriculum courses. In 2009, he received a Cisco Trusted Technical Advisor (TTA) award and became certified as a Cisco IronPort Certified Security Professional (CICSP) on E-mail...
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...contracted through the Department of Children and Families. The agency also provides counseling, medication management, and behaviorist services to the children it serves. 1. Create or describe a strategy for your firm, as operationalized by Collis and Rukstad. Be sure to be comprehensive and specific when separately describing your objective/scope/advantage and the subcomponents of each one. As a final portion of your answer, append and describe the activity-system map of your firm. [Figure 1] The strategy, or competitive game plan, for daniel will consist of three elements. It will consist of the objective (the ends), scope (domain), and advantage (means). The objective is to grow to become the leader in the state as a provider of licensed therapeutic foster care and residential treatment facility through engaging in new business partnerships and growth through positive reputation and responsible fiscal management. The scope of this objective consists of three dimensions: offering or customer, geographic location, and vertical integration. The offering specifically is mental health services to be provided to the customer (at-risk youth determined eligible for Medicaid mental health funding). The agency is not in the position to accept self-pay funding, nor to serve youth determined not to be eligible for Medicaid funding. The geographic location that services are available will be taken into consideration when admitting clients, and also growth and...
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...Heritage Assessment Grand Canyon University NRS-429V Family Centered Health Promotion Times have changed when it comes to diversity of cultures in healthcare. In the past physician’s worked in communities with patients that had similar racial backgrounds and culture. (Bussey-Jones & Genao, 2003) In these cultures diversity is present when it comes to different beliefs and practices and it is important to evaluate these individuals to ensure their plan of care is focused on their needs as a whole. The heritage assessment tool was used for this assignment to interview 3 individuals from different cultures. The individuals interviewed were from Albania, Poland, and Mexico. The content of this paper will include information obtained from these individuals regarding health traditions within their culture and some ways they maintain good health, prevent illnesses, and restore health. Some comparisons between the 3 cultures were also made. The first interview conducted took place with S. Bojaj, (personal communication, June 23, 2015) who moved to the U.S from Albania when he was 17 years old. With the use of the heritage assessment tool it was noted that this individual is still greatly in touch with his heritage. The individual has strong values when discussing family and his religion. When illness occurs in a member of an Albanian family the entire family becomes concerned and provides assistance in any way possible to the person, who is ill. (“University of Washington...
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...competency assessment tool THE WEB-BASED CORE COMPETENCY PROFILE ASSESSMENT TOOL Colleen S. Post and Micheline L. Brunett* ABSTRACT. The Professional Development and Certification Program for the Procurement, Materiel Management and Real Property Community is a key initiative that supports the Government of Canada’s priority to strengthen and streamline government operations. The Program is designed to provide the tools to help functional specialists better serve clients and exercise higher levels of delegated authority in order to meet the challenges of an evolving and increasingly complex environment. The Program Management Office of the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat has developed an innovative web-based Assessment Tool that enables practitioners and their managers to create a core competency profile and assess their competencies. The tool generates a gap analysis report and learning solutions to assist in the development of individual learning plans. INTRODUCTION Citizen-focused, values based and results-oriented government requires the sustained efforts of a professional and motivated workforce, across the public service, working with the right values. The Public Service Modernization Act, introduced by the Government of Canada on February 6, 2003, is the centrepiece of ongoing efforts to modernize the management of the government’s human resources. One of the objectives of Human Resource Modernization is more coherent training and learning to help employees...
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...Parmalat is Europe’s Enron. By: January 23, 2011 Parmalat is a corporate disaster comparable in size and complexity to its major U.S. rivals, and thus quickly call “Europe’s Enron.” In Italy in 1961, Calisto Tanzi took over family preserved-meat business, which he went on to found as Parmalat. After going public in 1990, Parmalat expanded at a breakneck pace during the rest of the decade, acquiring operations in the United States, Germany, France, Brazil, and South Africa. From 1995 through 2003, Parmalat went to the bond market 35 times, accumulating over $5 billion in new liabilities. With over 36,000 employees around the world, Parmalat is one of the world's largest food businesses and is the eighth largest company in Italy. (Soltani, & Soltani, 2008) In mid-November 2003 Parmalat defaulted on a $187 million bond payment. That pressed auditors and banks to inspect company accounts. Grant Thorton SPA served as auditors for Parmalat from 1990 to 1999. The scandal may have stayed undetected if not for Italian law which required that companies must to change audit firms every nine years. In 1999 Deloitte & Touche replaced a Grant Thornton company and was the first company who started scrutinizes the nonexistent accounts. Parmalat continued to retain the Grant Thornton as auditor firm for the Cayman Islands subsidiary called Bonlat and that aroused questions about role of Grant Thornton in the fraud. That subsidiary was supposedly held the $4.9 billion in Bank...
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...C H A P T E R 3 Project Selection and Portfolio Management Chapter Outline 70 Project Management: Achieving Competitive Advantage, Second Edition, by Jeffrey K. Pinto. Published by Prentice Hall. Copyright © 2010 by Pearson Education, Inc. 000200010270649984 PROJECT PROFILE Project Selection Procedures: A Cross-Industry Sampler INTRODUCTION 3.1 PROJECT SELECTION 3.2 APPROACHES TO PROJECT SCREENING AND SELECTION Method One: Checklist Model Method Two: Simplified Scoring Models Limitations of Scoring Models Method Three: The Analytical Hierarchy Process Method Four: Profile Models 3.3 FINANCIAL MODELS Payback Period Net Present Value Discounted Payback Internal Rate of Return Options Models Choosing a Project Selection Approach PROJECT PROFILE Project Selection and Screening at GE: The Tollgate Process 3.4 PROJECT PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT Objectives and Initiatives Developing a Proactive Portfolio Keys to Successful Project Portfolio Management Problems in Implementing Portfolio Management Summary Key Terms Solved Problems Discussion Questions Problems Case Study 3.1 Keflavik Paper Company Project Profile Case Study 3.2 Project Selection at Nova Western, Inc. Internet Exercises Notes Chapter Objectives After completing this chapter you should be able to: 1. Explain six criteria for a useful project-selection/screening model. 2. Understand how to employ checklists and simple scoring models to select projects. 3. Use more sophisticated...
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...negative view towards emotions and their treatment. One would expect the situation to vary from how it was in the 19th and 20th century where emotions and any form of cognitive treatment was a cause of stigmatization and a sign of weakness, but like culture, some ideas are rather deep rooted. Today, the mere mention of treatment is a factor enough to subject especially media personalities or celebrities and renowned political figures to a world of criticism. Derek Draper who is a celebrity therapist confirms the trauma that celebrities found in need of therapy have to deal with and how these media persons try to avoid therapy and any other form of psychoanalytical form of treatment, for their sake of their careers which dictate a high profile from the public or audience (Richard & Brown, 2011). Media has however managed to device a method through which it can effectively teach of emotions as normal and not as signs of weakness as they have been perceived by past generations. Psychologically, Dr.Yates defines emotions as vital feeling elements for a healthy cognitive well-being. In...
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...Summary The common-sense model of self-regulation of health and illness was developed in the 1980s by Howard Leventhal and his colleagues (Diefenbach & Leventhal, 1996). It was based on Leventhal’s research from the prior decade that studied the effect of fear in relation to health related behaviors. The theory has various titles such as the, Self Regulation Theory, Common Sense Model of Illness Representation or Leventhal’s Theory (Hale et al, 2007). For ease of communication it will be referred to as the Common Sense Model (CSM). It’s primary goal and function is to explain how a person processes an illness threat. The CSM is centered on the individual and his or her idea of health and illness. It works under the premise that the individual is “an active problem solver.” CSM also theories an individual’s representation of the illness will be the primary cause of their actions and behavior and the process of illness representation will lead the individual to make common sense health behaviors. (Diefenbach & Leventhal, 1996). Self-regulation is the processing of information by a patient regarding their health and the actions that an individual takes to return to a normal state of health. A stimuli such as a symptom of an illness or a diagnosis starts a three-phase feedback cycle of self-regulation. First, the individual constructs a cognitive “representation” of the illness. Secondly, the individual acts and “copes” with the illness. In the third stage, the...
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...THE EFFECTS OF FRONTLINERS SERVICE ORIENTATION BEHAVIOURS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY CAVITE ON CUSTOMERS’ SERVICE EVALUATION: AN ASSESSMENT A Thesis Proposal Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School Philippine Christian University Dasmariñas, Cavite In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree in Masters In Business Administration MOJICA, KRISHA MAY S. March 2015 APPROVAL SHEET The thesis entitled “THE EFFECTS OF FRONTLINERS SERVICE ORIENTATION BEHAVIOURS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY CAVITE ON CUSTOMERS’ SERVICE EVALUATION: AN ASSESSMENT” is prepared and submitted by Mojica, Krisha May S. in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Business Administration who has been examines and recommended for Oral examination. ___________________ ___________________ Date O’Land C. Nwoke Adviser PANEL OF EXAMINERS Approved by the Committee on Oral Examination with a grade of _________________. ___________________ Chairman ___________________ _________________ Member Member Comprehensive Examination Grade __________ Date Taken _____________ Accepted and approved as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree in Master in Business Administration (MBA). __________________ _________________________ Date Dr. Teresita C. Arnaldo Dean, Graduate School ...
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...Intro In my perception, group work is a method of working with people in groups (two or more people) for personal growth, the enhancement of social functioning, and for the achievement of socially desirable goals. Furthermore, groups are mostly presented with a team leader or a social worker who facilitates the group to guide and accomplish one or more goals. Although my interpretation of group work are very similar from the textbook, that I was assigned for class, my family, school, church, and social experiences also played a huge part in helping me construct it. In addition, those experiences not only gave me further knowledge, but skills to help me facilitate and accomplish group work tasks. As a facilitator and as a future social worker, my idea of a successful/effective group would be a group with a positive dynamic; where each individual in the group are able to open up, share and embrace their culture, interests, stories, and backgrounds. That way the group is able to trust and support each other and respect each other based on their values and ideas. Moreover, many people benefit from group work; a few are domestic violence, sexual abuse, anger management, etc. Groups like these and countless more are very crucial in our society because it provides structure for our communities to build on, as well as, meeting the individuals own socio-economical needs and/or accomplishing a goal that is set. Not to mention, improving yours and your group’s ideas so that the task becomes...
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...------------------------------------------------- Introduction A nonprofit organization or not-for-profit organization (often called an NPO), is an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals rather than distributing them as profit or dividends. These organizations play important roles in society by placing public service above profits. It can operate both in the public & private sectors and includes-museums, libraries, charitable& religious organizations, colleges, universities government agencies, political parties, labor union etc. Unnayan Shamannay denotes coordination of developmental activities, not in the narrow sense, but in the wider context of all the aspects of a living society and human race - reckoning with all the quantifiable and qualitative actions a society carries out. The members of Unnayan Shamannay have been striving to invigorate and further strengthen private sector initiatives for socioeconomic and cultural development of Bangladesh through a concerted grassroots approach.It is an innovative non-profit research organization of resourceful professionals working in the arena of research and development. It is engaged in quantitative and qualitative research work, training, communication and advocacy, cultural learning and developmental activities. The organization was incorporated in July 1994 under the Companies Act, 1913 (section 26) with the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies under the Ministry of Commerce, Government of Bangladesh...
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...WEB PORTAL FOR FREELANCE PHOTOGRAPHERS: Connecting Freelance Photographers and Prospective Clients A Thesis Paper Presented to the Department of Information Technology Mapúa Institute of Technology School of Information Technology Buendia, Makati Philippines In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Bachelor of Science in Information Technology By: Ahmed Abdulrahim, Firas A. Peña, John Michael C. June 2012 APPROVAL SHEET This is to certify that we have supervised the preparation of and read the thesis paper prepared by (Firas A. Ahmed Abulrahim and John Michael C. Pena) entitled “Web Portal for Freelance Photographers: Connecting Freelance Photographers and Prospective Clients” and that the said paper has been submitted for final examination by the Oral Examination Committee. Mr. Ariel Kelly D. Balan | | Dr. William T. Torres | Thesis Adviser | | Thesis Instructor | As members of the Oral Examination Committee, we certify that we have examined this paper and hereby recommend that it be accepted as fulfillment of the thesis requirement for the Degree Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Bachelor of Science in Information Technology. Ms. Ira Camus | | Mr. William Rey | Panel Member | | Panel Member | | | | | | | | Mr. Joel De Goma | | | Committee Chair | | This thesis paper is hereby approved and accepted by the School of Information Technology...
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...IOP3701 EXAM QUESTIONS SECTION 1 May 2011 For fair & equitable testing & assessment in the work context, the starting point is that the job must be described, explain why this would be important (5) Discuss the importance of doing a thorough job analysis in testing and assessment in the work context (5) * The first step and main emphasis in the decision making process is a thorough job analysis * Job analysis consists of: * Job description – indicates the tasks that need to be done in the job. * Job specification – specific characteristics required of a person to perform well in the job. * It is important to list specific requirements that are not often stated – which candidates cannot be considered. * The next step includes fair procedures for making decision. This entails well thought through and justifiable procedures for job description, advertisements etc. * Evaluate and justify minimum requirements in formal education, prior learning, relevant experience, training, skills and knowledge. * Decide on suitable testing and assessment techniques * Follow scientific, professional and ethical guidelines * Monitor outcomes for fairness and adverse impact. * Take steps to ensure equity and fairness for future opportunities. * Fair and equitable testing and assessment: * 1st step and main emphasis in the decision-making process is a thorough job analysis – to know exactly what the job entails and what qualities, characteristics...
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