...M3 Consulting was tasked to assist the Leadership Team (LT) of the Permanent Care division within Commonwealth Health Inc. for whom this consulting report has been prepared, to find creative solutions for staffing concerns. M3 Consulting along with the LT conducted a creativity and innovation session in September 2017 to assess the overall staffing challenges with regard to engagement and low staffing levels. The creative thinking technique Think Bubbles or Mind Mapping was utilized in the creativity session. Michalko (2006) explains that, Mind Mapping is “a graphic technique for organizing thoughts, that allow you to record, store, and manipulate information about a challenge in a variety of ways,” (p. 66). This report is a compiling of the results and recommendations of the consultant which were presented for discussion during the debriefing....
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...Systems Professional Practice (ISPP) Practical Week 11 MIND MAPPING YOUR BUSINESS REPORT CASE STUDY INSTRUCTIONS TO STUDENTS All students – Work through all activities and ensure you have completed all checkpoints. Internal students – Show each finished checkpoint to your practical supervisor who will mark it off as complete. External students – Complete all activities electronically within this document (where applicable). Email the checkpoints email account listed on the course website when you have completed all tasks and checkpoints so they can be checked and marked off as complete by your tutor. For the subject of the email, please write “Practical Week 11 checkpoints”. Post any questions you may have to the External Discussion Forum. TASKS 1. Using the following mind mapping software, http://wisemapping.com/c/home.htm, create a mind map of the case study you are working on for your business report. Your mind map should reflect the case study, i.e. it should be a visual representation of the written case study. 2. Save your mind map. 3. Use the “Collaboration” functionality to “Share” your mind map with your team members. 4. Print your mind map. 5. Explore the export options available for your mind map. [CHECKPOINT1 – exercise completed and mind map shown/provided to supervisor] 6. Logout. 7. Note: Your team must submit one mind map of the above task as part of your team’s business report assignment submission. This will be one of the assessment...
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...Report Outline 01. Introduction 03. An Overview of Nike 04. What is Perception? 05. Perceptual Mapping 06. Tabulated Survey Results 07. Findings 01. Introduction c/b 1.2 Origin of Report The report has been prepared for Mr. Junaid Khan, faculty at School of Business in North South University as a requirement of MKT344 course. This report is compulsory for students majoring in marketing. 1.3 Report Objectives We had the following objectives while writing the report (a). Investigate consumers perception on Nike shoes. (b). Identify underlying causes of perception. (c). Positioning of Nike in consumers mind. (d). Draw a perceptual mapping of Nike compared with other brands. (e). Analysis of respondents perception in terms of social class. 1.4 Limitations We had faced many obstacles in carrying out a successful survey. Some of the limitations faced were as (a). The survey sample was a negligible amount, that was 50 persons to obtain accurate answer. (b). The next problem was in assessing the true income level of respondents as people were not eager to disclose their true income. Surprisingly two respondents filled out the income level after making personal request. (c). The survey was carried out only in a porsche area of Dhaka city i.e. – in Banani not leaving a huge number of respondents outside the survey. 03. An overview of Nike 3.1 The Company “If you have a body, you are an athlete,” this was the saying of Bill Bowerman;...
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...NT1210 Unit 1 HomeWork Assignment 1: 1. Which of the following is true about 1 bit? a. Can represent decimal values 0 through 9 2. How many bits are in a byte? ____8_____ 3. Fill out the following Chart Term | Size(Bytes) | Size(2n Bytes) | Rounded Size (Bytes) | Kilobyte | 1024 | 2 10 | 1000 | Megabyte | 1,048,576 | 2 20 | 1,000,000 | Gigabyte | 1,073,741,824 | 2 30 | 1,000,000,000 | Terabyte | 1,099,511,627,776 | 2 40 | 1,000,000,000,000 | 4. Which of the following answers are true about random-access memory (RAM) as it is normally used inside a personal computer? (Choose two answers.) b. Used for long-term memory d. Connects to the CPU over a bus using a cable 5. This chapter describes the concepts behind how a CPU reads the contents from RAM. Which of the following is true about the process of read data, as described in the chapter? a. The CPU tells the RAM which address holds the data that the CPU wants to read. 6. Define Character set: A list of all the characters on a computer with matching binary values ex: a = 110001 in ASCII which uses a 7bit code. 7. Character encoding scheme is another name for character set? a. True 8 & 9. Complete the following Decimal to binary chart. Decimal | Binary | | Decimal | Binary | 193 | 11000001 | | 255 | 1111111 | 52 | 00110100 | | 19 | 10011 | 50 | 110010 | | 172 | 10101100 | 170 | 10101010 | | 14 | 1110 | 6 | 110 (binary) | | 0 | 0000 | 10. Which of the...
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...Development Report Office This note should be read in conjunction with the Regional/ National Human Development Report Toolkit. While the toolkit provides general guidance on preparing a Regional or National Human Development Report, this note gives specific suggestions on how to approach the concept of human security as a topic for such a report. Human Security A Thematic Guidance Note for Regional and National Human Development Report Teams BY OSCAR A. GÓMEZ AND DES GASPER Contents What is Human Security?............ 2 Getting Started...................................... 4 Selecting objectives and themes...... 4 The process.................................................... 6 Many important aspects of human development relate also to people’s security: loosely defined as people’s freedom from fear and freedom from want in a broad sense. Applying a human security approach offers an opportunity to analyse many issues in an informative way. This note explains how one might go about doing that. Human security relates to much more than security from violence and crime. A report team wanting to look at the security of people’s livelihoods (economic, food, environment or health security) might apply a human security approach. Human security can also be used to look into personal, community and political security. Indeed, human development reports from around the world have applied the approach in other innovative ways. But on each occasion, these reports have analysed...
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... Executive Report on SODA/Cognitive Mapping Title: Executive Report Type: In-Semester - individual assignment Task Length: 6 A4 pages in 12 point font plus bibliography Weighting: 10% Due: 3.00pm Wednesday, March 28th , 2012 Description: Executive Report on SODA/Cognitive Mapping Methodology for Strategy Formulation and Organisational Problem Solving Imagine that you are an early career junior executive in a multinational corporation. You are well thought of by the CEO who regards you as an “ideas person”. The CEO has asked you to prepare a short briefing paper or executive report on the SODA/Cognitive Mapping methodology. The CEO hopes that you can clearly describe and explain the methodology in about 6 pages – the CEO does not have time to do the reading of books and journals himself and, further, does not have the time to read a report of more than 6 pages. For academic purposes please reference the Executive Report carefully, listing the references in alphabetical order of family names in a section called “References” [The References section does not count as part of the 6 pages]. In the Executive Report you are expected to cover, among other things, the following: • The assumptions and theory behind SODA/Cognitive Mapping • The nature of cognitive mapping, oval mapping and causal mapping and any differences between them • Advantages, disadvantages, problems and issues with cognitive mapping, causal mapping and oval mapping. • Advantages...
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...1227636 A paper submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Bachelor of International foundation course in Academic Skills in the Department of Language &Communication May 2013 Note taking Introduction Note taking is a very useful thing to memorise something also it is a learning process itself. However, it is useful when we can write notes in a right way. The aim of this report is to describe what is note taking, how we can take notes and why we take notes also when we should take notes and so on. What is note taking? Note taking is a process to write down all key words to help remember the main idea. It is an art to take someone else’s words from their lectures, speeches or from reading. “Note taking means organising your own thoughts ,often creatively, and note taking means summarising someone else’s thoughts, as expressed in a book, article or lecture” (Buzan, 2010). How we can take notes? There are several ways of taking notes such as: * Linear patterning * Symbols and Abbreviations * Analysis * Cornell method * Mind map * Structured Lists (numerical/alphabetical) * Linear patterning: liner notes are usually written in straight lines. Grammar, chorological sequence and hierarchical sequence is also used ( (Buzan, 2010). This is the typical outline format of note taking. * Symbols: These include letters, words and numbers (Buzan, 2010).This is one of the easiest ways of taking notes. Overall 95% people...
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...Integrating Technology Craig E. Fain EDU648: Teaching & Learning with Technology August, 4, 2013 Integrating Technology An analysis of proper integration of technology with pedagogy, reveals some challenges for the teacher: demonstrating to the student’s technological literacy, identifying proper technologies that work best for each assignment, and employ the proper knowledge of how the technologies are used for the assignments. Recognizing that these challenges must be met for proper support of the learner and their learning style and intelligences. Assignment Prompt One (Digital Whiteboard and PowerPoint) – INSTRUCTIONS: Reading the chapter on European Society in the Early Modern era, highlight and note the powerful movements that transformed European society during time. Referencing the highlights and notes, create a PowerPoint presentation (with slide notes) and briefly describe the origin of each, and how it affected society as a whole. Incorporate animations, and graphics with your presentation. You will present your PowerPoint presentation using the digital whiteboard to the class. Researching the use of PowerPoint in relation to teaching and learning I found the tool seems to be a popular choice for business, education, and training industry. It offers an excellent and powerful tool to facilitate and improve the delivery of lessons and other content to a large audience. As we have learned in this course, technology is not an end in and of itself...
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...gains in writing, language comprehension and receptive language. * Most of these results occur when the focus in the classroom moves away from labeling to meaningful instruction and teaching strategies. * Moreover, mainstream teachers who have accepted learners with special needs in their classes report their teaching had improved, which benefit all learners. * Learners with special needs who have been included in mainstream classes achieve significant gains in writing, language comprehension and receptive language. * Most of these results occur when the focus in the classroom moves away from labeling to meaningful instruction and teaching strategies. * Moreover, mainstream teachers who have accepted learners with special needs in their classes report their teaching had improved, which benefit all learners. * The opportunity to socialize and share with diverse learners, help all learners to accept one another. * Teachers report that including learners with special educational needs in the mainstream classroom teachers other learners, although not all, to be more accepting, tolerant, understanding and considerate of others needs. * Teachers also report that the majority of learners become more positive and responsive to the needs of a learner with special needs, and when they for example , comes across others with disabilities, they are more accommodating. * It is also reported that learners in general become more comfortable with individual differences...
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...with the outdoors and its close proximity to Lake Tahoe and the Sierras Nevada Mountains, Sacramento attracts many healthy minded people. These are some of the many reasons why Sacramento would be the ideal location for a health and fitness exposition. The Sacramenti Convention Centre is one of the countries best and it is perfect for such an event. The event would provide industry professionals, equipment manufacturers to advertise and demsotrate some of the latest trends and techniques to members of the public of all ages. The convention will provide lifestyle, wellbeing and fitness resources, training, apparell and classes to a range of ages, including young kids, adults and seniors looking to remain as healthy as posisble. 1. Mind Map: 2. Stages: a) Research This would involve gathering information about the fitness and wellbeing market. It would involve market research studies that use qualitative and quantitative methods of gathering information. The demographic details of those who would be interested would need to be obtained. The corporate interest would need to be understood. California and Colorado often ranks as the top healthiest states in the US (Nash, 2010). This data would need to be verified and interpreted in order to understand how these rankings would influence an exposition in one of the healthiest and active states. A database of the number of fitness and health related industries in the state of California would need to be compiled. It...
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...Course title: Strategic Business presentation skills Course objectives: This course has been designed for individuals who will have significant management, leadership or consulting responsibilities in their career. The Strategic presentation typically include following type of presentations: 1. External Presentations- a. Sales presentations to Clients, Industry forum, Community presentations, Analyst presentation b. Proposals Executive summary preparation and presentation c. Mail communication to clients 2. Internal and Functional presentations d. Training, Technology; R&D, management proposal presentations e. Project report preparation- developing and presenting executive summary f. Mail communications with peers, superiors and team members Specifically the course goals are: * Develop the strategic presentation skills for leaders. * Apply the program elements to real-time strategic presentation situations. * Develop strong content preparation, content design and content presentation skills Type, plan and session-wise content of the course: Each session is assumed for 1 hour 20 minutes. Total duration: 10 sessions Session | Topics | Case/discussions | 1 | Importance of strategic business communication in corporate world.Characteristics of “persuasive presentation”Experiential case studyS3P3 Presentation Model elements | Anchor case from Faculty corporate experience | 2 | Learning...
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...The salesperson’s role in CRM success: Exploring the value of salespersons’ mapping of buying centre structure Prabakar Kothandaraman, William Paterson University, NJ, USA Raj Agnihotri, William Paterson University, NJ, USA* Rolph E. Anderson, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA Perhaps the most important, yet underutilised resources in customer relationship management are salespeople. Drawing upon literature from social network theory, personal selling, sales management, and industrial buying behaviour, buying centre mapping is proposed as a tool for salespeople to improve customer relationship management (CRM). A framework linking a salesperson’s systematic mapping of buying centre structure to the CRM strategy development and implementation is outlined. Implications for theory and practice are discussed in detail. Keywords Industrial buying, Salespeople, CRM, Social network keywords Introduction The man who correctly understands how a particular structure works can prevent it from working or make it work differently with much less effort than a man who does not know these things. Bailey (1969, p. 108) Development of marketing strategies and tactics relies heavily on the ability of salespeople to understand buying organisations that they deal with and to bring that knowledge back to disseminate throughout the selling organisation for better customer relationship management (CRM). Managing customer relationships is the focus of successful business-tobusiness marketing...
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...the blessings and cooperation this report would not have been possible. First of all, I am grateful to Almighty Allah who has created all the things and make it possible to enjoy them for our good selves. He also gives me opportunity to finish this report in time. I like take the opportunity to thank my supervisor – Mr. Abu Sohel Mahmood, Assistant Professor, Independent Business School, Chittagong Independent University, for his guidance, constant and spontaneous support and constructive suggestion. Without his help this report could not have been possible. This is the way by which I can extend my heart felt thanks to the contributors of generous help I have received from many sources of BSRM Group of Companies. I like to express my tributes and gratitude to BSRM Group of Companies, Head Office, Ali Mansion, Sadarghat Road, Chittagong, Bangladesh for giving me the opportunity, appointment for discussions and collection of data from internal sources. I will never forget the contribution of all the staff and managers of BSRM Group of Companies, Head Office, Ali Mansion, Sadarghat Road, Chittagong, Bangladesh who have spread their valuable advice, suggestion, opinion and time to me. Thank you all the guys who are directly or indirectly related to this report. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The report deals with an important topic described “Marketing Mix Procedures: A Case Study on BSRM Xtreme 500W”. The principal objective of the report is to...
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...Standard Mandatory Confidential St December 2008 The Nutrition, Health and Wellness Mapping Standard for Product Portfolio Evolution RE S PL PON PR EAS SIBL OD UR E UC E TS PR OTH OD ER UC TS AD NF PR EQU OD AT UC E TS AD NUT D R PR ED V ITION OD AL UC UE TS 60/40 win NH STR O PR W VA NG OD LU UC E TS Classification Standard Date of publication December 2008 Replaces Not applicable Author Corporate Wellness Unit. The Corporate Wellness Unit wishes to thank: u Wellness Champions of Zones, SBUs and Markets u Nutritionists of NRC, PTCs and Markets u GLOBE and F&C specialists u Market Heads and SBU Heads who commented on the strategy as it was evolving u And so many other talented colleagues from corporate teams. Approver Nestlé Board of Directors and Nestlé Executive Board Paul Bulcke Chief Executive Officer Werner Bauer Executive Vice President Strategic Business Units, Marketing and Sales Repository All Nestlé Principles and Policies, Standards and Guidelines can be found in the Centre online repository at: http://intranet.nestle.com/nestledocs Copyright and Confidentiality The content of this document may not be reproduced, distributed or disclosed to third parties without proper authorisation. All rights belong to Nestec Ltd., 1800 Vevey, Switzerland. ©2008, Nestec Ltd. This booklet, and accompanying materials including the CD-ROM, should be kept strictly confidential. Please only share with colleagues who are directly involved...
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...complex planning. Designing the flow of the business activities is part of the planning. This is also known as process mapping. After, you must know the model inputs which can be financial or nonfinancial value. In the end, from all of the planning, you must be able to deliver cost management reports and calculations. Having a quality research and planning in the initial phase of the project will define the success of your project later. With this in mind, you know exactly where your focus should be. Apply these five golden rules for effective cost management There are a lot of things that can be done to achieve effective cost management. Still, certain techniques if applied wisely will improve your overall performance in the end. If you want to achieve more with cost management you need to: 1. Define clear cost management...
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