...New Zealand [pic] [pic] • Geography New Zealand is a remote, mountainous group of islands in the southeastern Pacific Ocean. The two main islands, North and South Islands, are separated by the Cook Strait. Australia, its nearest neighbor, is 1,000 miles (1,600 km) away. • The islands were created just 23 million years ago when land was thrust out of the ocean by volcanic forces. New Zealand has more than 50 volcanoes, some of which are still active today. Sharp snowy peaks, rocky shores, and pastures create a majestic landscape. • The South Island is home to the highest mountain peak in New Zealand, Mount Cook, which rises to 12,316 feet (3,754 meters) and is called "Cloud Piercer" by the Maori people. • Nature Because of its remote location, New Zealand is rich in unusual wildlife not seen anywhere else in the world. Nearly all the land animals are birds and many of these species have lost the ability to fly. The Maori people and European settlers introduced animals to the islands and the flightless birds had no defense against them. • In the last 1,000 years, half of all animals on the islands have become extinct. Deforestation and draining of swamp land is also threatening many remaining species, including the kiwi bird. Fewer than 75,000 wild kiwis remain. Several species are recovering, including the kakapo, kokako, kiwi, and tuatara. • Bats are the only land mammals to have made the ocean crossing. Birds and insects, such...
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...Tittle Summary : A New Approach to Records Management with the Information Workplace. Department for Education’s (DfE’s) the Chief Information Officer (CIO) Group has transformed service delivery for staff through the Information Workplace Platform (IWP) three years ago. IWP provides a range of secure collaboration services on SharePoint2007. IWP is example of UK government and been launched in April 2008. It been recognized with “e-Government Excellence” award for excellence in public sector. IWP enabled the DfE to improve and reducing costs and IT complexity. With Government’s Information Matters strategy, IT and business change programme to created transformation with benefits for service users. IWP gives staff access right information at right time and enabling them make better decisions for benefits of citizens. A key component of IWP has been the development of Workplaces. Workplaces is shared environment allowing staff to share documents, communicate and collaborate. By implementing Workplaces, DfE has improvements to efficiency of records management. It’s main due to simplification process and ongoing communications campaign. For background and issues, DfE is UK central Government for education and children services in England that formed in May 2010. In 2008, CIO Group will support Department. But have to achieving a whole sale reworking of the DfE’s information infrastructure and processes. So, existing systems relied heavily on manual and paper-based...
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...http://www.marketingmagazine.co.uk/news/938241/Brand-Health-Check-Aldi/ http://www.brandrepublic.com/News/823300/CONSUMER-CAMPAIGN-Aldi-gets-consumers-skin/ 1) Brand Benefits (benefits of aldi brand/branded goods.) 2)Customer Profile/Target Market 3)Positioning Statement 4)Short Term Marketing Communication Objectives (WRITE THIS TONIGHT) 5) Campaign Requirements 6) Media Selection 7)Design of Message 8)Proposed Method of Evaluation 9)How Could ALDI website be used to communicate to customer. S - Situation analysis (Where are we now?) O - Objectives (Where do we want to go?) S - Strategy (How do we get there) T - Tactics (The details of the strategy) A - Action (or implementation - putting the plans to work) C- Control (measurement, monitoring, reviewing and modifying) Strategy: S - Segmentation (how is the market broken up?) T - Target markets (what target markets are chosen plus who is the 'ideal customer') O - Objectives (strategy must fulfil objectives) P - Positioning (of the product or service and also what is the overall proposition?) & S - Stages (is there a sequence or series of stages?) I - Integration (does it all integrate smoothly?) T - Tools (are going on TV, or just opt-in e-mail) ALDI need to continue to attract new customers but must aim to build relationships with newly attained customers in order to get them to stick around when the upturn in the economy begins. ALDI is trying to broaden its appeal across social-economic...
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...first true radio networks in the late 1920s, broadcasting in the United States was dominated by two companies, CBS and RCA's NBC. Before NBC's 1926 formation, RCA had acquired AT&T Corporation's New York City station WEAF (later WNBC, now CBS-owned WFAN). With WEAF came a loosely organized system feeding programming to other stations in the northeastern U.S. RCA, before the acquisition of the WEAF group in mid-1926, had previously owned a second such group, with WJZ in Newark as the lead station (purchased by RCA in 1923 from Westinghouse) . These were the foundations of RCA's two programming services, the NBC "Red" and NBC "Blue" networks. Legend has it that the color designations originated from the color of the push-pins early engineers used to designate affiliates of WEAF (red pins) and WJZ (blue pins). After a three-year investigation, the FCC in May 1940 issued a "Report on Chain Broadcasting." Finding that NBC Red, NBC Blue, CBS, and MBS dominated American broadcasting, this report proposed "divorcement", requiring the sale by RCA of one of its chains. NBC Red was the larger radio network, carrying the leading entertainment and music programs. In addition, many Red affiliates were high-powered, clear-channel stations, heard nationwide. NBC Blue offered most of the company's news and cultural programs, many of them "sustaining" or unsponsored. Among other findings, the FCC claimed RCA used NBC Blue to suppress competition against NBC Red. The FCC did not regulate or license...
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...The Internet will bring about a new freedom of information and so narrow the technology gap between developed and developing countries. The Internet has emerged as the most rapidly adopted communication mean in history. For the last decades it has built bridges between almost all corners of the world and created the greatest depository of all kinds of information. Access to these new technologies enabled rapid development of all countries. Some states that were always lagging behind the leading countries now do have the possibility to use all facilities of the communicational breakthrough and as a result the difference between them becomes less and less noticeable. The onset of computers on the general population has given a boost to the economy in the world's market. People who weren't much aware of the world became drawn to computers, which in turn brought about the Internet, connecting the world all over. New technologies made it possible to get the information about all new inventions, to be involved in the current political and economical affairs. Third-world countries that have always been somehow separated from the other part of the world now are having the same informational base. They can apply the same technologies in their industry, use the same methods of treatment in medicine, etc. Moreover, now they have a chance to communicate with companies all over the world and get new business partners. All this helps them to get progress in the economical life and increase...
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...sales trends by associate. • We will also be able to track the buying patterns of our customers allowing us to stock the appropriate items by sales surges. • Our sales force will be able to use the database to more effectively streamline their work and understand how to be more productive with our customers. Although many of the items listed above are possible in Microsoft® Excel, the data must be inputted to the spreadsheets and work books and can be more difficult to find the information the user is looking for. Access is the better solution for an extensive customer list. In our business of Party Plates there is a need to categorize certain information to create a database that will allow our plate company the opportunity to grow in the sales department. Transferring data that is already housed in Excel to Access will allow us to improve the efficiencies in our sales department. We can categorize information based on popular color, cost at wholesale, manufacturers, customer contact information, etc. This can help our company be able to use all the data to make the best...
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...Faktor-faktor Kegagalan Google Video Player Google merupakan salah satu raksasa dalam dunia teknologi. Meskipun perusahaan ini merupakan perusahaan terbesar dan paling berpengalaman dalam hal teknologi, Google pernah melakukan beberapa kesalahan-kesalahan dan kegagalan-kegagalan. Opini-opini terkait produkproduk Google yang dikembangkan demi menyaingi kompetitornya terus merebak baik dari pendukung produk pesaingnya, pendukung produk Google, maupun pengguna netral. Beberapa produk Google yang dihasilkan demi menghadapi persaingan dengan kompetitor diantaranya jejaring sosial, katalog, web accelerator, platform dedication, dan pemutar video. Untuk permasalahan kompetisi pemutar video, Google tentunya mencoba untuk membuat layanan sendiri. Google berusaha untuk memberikan layanan pemutar media yang dirasa akan cocok untuk menyaingi keunggulan beberapa aplikasi pemutar media lainnya, seperti Windows Media Player, VLC Media Player, ALPPlayer, RealPlayer, dan sejenisnya. Google menamakannya Google Video Player. Bagaimana layanan ini datang dan meledak di pasaran? Pada tahun 2005, Google mengumumkan akan masuk kedalam ranah pencarian video (video search). Meskipun pada saat itu – dan bahkan sampai sekarang – Google memiliki banyak fungsi pencarian, video masih baru pada saat itu. YouTube diluncurkan satu bulan setelah Google meluncurkan fitur video searchnya. Hal ini merupakan bagian dari usaha yang semakin meluas oleh Google untuk memperkaya bisnisnya. Bersamaan dengan perluasan pesaing-pesaing...
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...Saint Mary's University Chapter 1 / Foundations of Information Systems in Business CASE 2 27 The New York Times and Boston Scientific: Two Different Ways of Innovating with Information Technology A and the resources to turn their ideas into reality. Typical projects are measured against criteria like revenue potential or journalistic value. R&D projects aren’t. “Since we build software, there’s no huge capital investment up front,” Frons says, “which allows us to experiment. The emphasis is on rapid development.” Times Widgets, a widget-making platform, was a contest winner, as was the recently launched Times Wire, a near real-time customizable interface for online content. “We’re trying to solve specific problems and think about where the business is going,” Frons says. Frons is focused on enhancing revenue, cutting costs, and increasing efficiency through process improvements and automation. The New York Times has launched a cool interactive map that shows the most popular Netflix rentals across 12 U.S. metropolitan areas: New York, San Francisco/Bay Area, Boston, Chicago, Washington, Los Angeles, Seattle, Minneapolis, Denver, Atlanta, Dallas, and Miami. If you’re a Netflix junkie and a closet Twilight fan (and you live in a major U.S. city), your rental habits are now on display. To create the map, The New York Times partnered with Netflix. The map is a graphical database of the top 100 most-rented Netflix films of 2009 laid on top of maps. With it you can graphically...
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...INTRODUCTION Gregg’s Appliances, Inc. The HH Gregg company was founded on April 15, 1955, in Indianapolis, Indiana, by Henry Harold Gregg and his wife Fansy. By 1960, H.H. and Fansy had relocated their store to a space nearly 3 times larger Mr. Gregg’s son, Gerald Throgmartin, joined the company in 1966 In 1971, a store was opened on the south side of Indianapolis, and 2 years later another store opened in Anderson, Indiana Gerald assumed his father’s position as President in 1974. Jerry Throgmartin, Gerald’s son, joined the family business in 1978 Between 1979 and 1984, sensing a move toward larger stores in the appliance and electronics industry The company grow up very fast.By 1986,HH Gregg has 6 stores and a new 180,000 square-feet corporate headquarters and warehouse distribution center 1986 Implementation of IDEAS/3000 on HP 3000 In the end of 1987, Gregg’s had purchased Old Hickory TV in Nashville, Tennessee, and opened 3 more stores. In 1989,Gerald Throgmartin became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. 2003 HP announces HP 3000 will no longer be supported By the summer of 2006, Gregg’s was operating more than 60 stores and the company’s strategy of offering out- standing, personal customer service and competitive pricing through a team of well trained associates was working well for the company. ISSUES/PROBLEMS In 1985, the company would have to move to a computer-based order processing, inven- tory, and warehouse management system ...
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...NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES | SOCIAL MOVEMENT OF NETWORK AND SOCIAL MEDIA | Critical essay | SOYEON PARK 20122455 2012-12-05 | SOCIAL MOVEMENT OF NETWORK AND SOCIAL MEDIA Malcom Gladwell printed an article in The New Yorker, the article is entitled ‘Small Change : Why the revolution will not tweeted’. The article is giving criticism in principle about the social media disseminator’s ideas that social media such as facebook and tweeter will bring enormous changes on social activities and movements. His article provides us with amount of food for thought about what is behaviorism and social movement in the age of social media and what is relations between social media and social movements. Of course, there would be a sharp division of opinions between those who approve and disapprove. He argues that it is impossible to reform the society radically by social media such as tweeter and facebook based on weak ties. And he pointed out the limit of ordinary unimportance of weak ties. It means, in spite of extensivity and quantitative expansion of weak ties, it does not have materiality of solidarity showing in the 1960s’ a civil rights movement. And he’s opinion is that the connection of information is different with the solidarity of people. A movement, which goes along with human body, makes people blood boil and heat them up, unlike when they are absorbing information by using their brain cells. It is hard to banish the lingering and regret about that kind of...
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...cabinets. The management team want to improve the provision for data storage and have fewer filing cabinets in the new build. As a member of the leadership team, put a proposal together for updating the old data storage system with the new storage procedures that should be put in place in the laboratories of the new build. You need to justify why the funds from the budget should be given to implement the new data storage system. Grading Criteria * P4:Describe the procedure for storing scientific information in a laboratory information management system * M4:Explain the processes involved in storing information in a scientific workplace * D3: Discuss the advantages gained by keeping data and records on a laboratory management information system * Grading Criteria * P4:Describe the procedure for storing scientific information in a laboratory information management system * M4:Explain the processes involved in storing information in a scientific workplace * D3: Discuss the advantages gained by keeping data and records on a laboratory management information system * How Do I Do It? 1. For P4, learners must describe the procedures for storing scientific information in a laboratory information management system (LIMS). A prepared list of scientific data is provided below. Learners must decide which sets of information could be stored on a workplace record system. 2. For M4, learners must explain how scientific data and records...
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...cabinets. The management team want to improve the provision for data storage and have fewer filing cabinets in the new build. As a member of the leadership team, put a proposal together for updating the old data storage system with the new storage procedures that should be put in place in the laboratories of the new build. You need to justify why the funds from the budget should be given to implement the new data storage system. Grading Criteria * P4:Describe the procedure for storing scientific information in a laboratory information management system * M4:Explain the processes involved in storing information in a scientific workplace * D3: Discuss the advantages gained by keeping data and records on a laboratory management information system * Grading Criteria * P4:Describe the procedure for storing scientific information in a laboratory information management system * M4:Explain the processes involved in storing information in a scientific workplace * D3: Discuss the advantages gained by keeping data and records on a laboratory management information system * How Do I Do It? 1. For P4, learners must describe the procedures for storing scientific information in a laboratory information management system (LIMS). A prepared list of scientific data is provided below. Learners must decide which sets of information could be stored on a workplace record system. 2. For M4, learners must explain how scientific data and records...
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...New System Proposal Team A CIS/207 February 23rd 2014 Riordan Manufacturing requires an innovative information system proficient in the organization of product sales, which allows management of data by employees from computers and mobile devices. This new system would contain customer records and be password protected for sales agent’s individual accounts and further promote confidentiality of client and corporate data. Information security and carbon footprints will need to be addressed with creation of a new data warehouse. The cloud computing system would be an idyllic system for addressing the needs of Riordan Manufacturing and would be an inexpensive conversion from the old systems. Cloud computing initially evolved from visualization. The use of visualization would allow Riordan to separate its software, business applications, and data from hardware sources that may experience an issue. The cloud offers storage, network, and hardware virtualization. Businesses can set up private clouds as storage warehouses for company information. Information technology virtualization enhances the business’s assets and offers lower administration fees, reduced maintenance, and consolidation of company information for strategic marketing initiatives in one location. With this in place, there would be less risk of possible loss of important and pertinent information. The entire marketing division would be combined into one superior database for easier comparison of information. Switching...
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...computer or the Internet was hardly accessed, communication within distant people mainly relied on massive posts. You may not realize, information management was done in both cases as a personal was trying to organize information in a deliverable manner to others or his/herself. The term “information management” may be quite unfamiliar to general public. People would think that it might be related to computer science and information technology, which are newly brought out in this century. By the Dr. T.D. Wilson (University of Sheffield), information management refers to how information is acquired, organized, controlled and disseminated (Wilson). Indeed, information management has long been existed and “living” with us. Experts have different comments on Information management models. Some said models are typically wrong in nature but somehow useful (Box & Draper 1987). To summarise the features of IM model, it could be the representation of structure or diagnostic tool (HKU). This essay introduces four information management models and how they are involved in daily life. Each model would be illustrated with certain examples to let readers have a better understanding. In this essay, four information management models are discussed, namely Shannon Weaver Communication Model, 5 Rings Information Model, Kuhlthau’s Research Model and Information Transfer Cycle. A. Shannon Weaver Communication Model Shannon Weaver Communication Model is a cycle with several stages and...
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...Outdated hardware and software, lack of database space, inadequate telecommunications capacity, incompatibility of old systems with new technology, and the rapid technological change are some of the descriptions to look at for this dimension. The final dimension of the three is the people dimension. The problems in this area that are described are lack of training, difficulties of evaluating performance, compliance, work environment, lack of overall company support, indecisive and poor management. In order to have a successful business, I believe that finding solutions to these problems will improve the practice is important. What I have seen in the company I work for now is not everyone is vested in the tasks at hand so the attitudes of some people are poor. If the company can get involvement and interest in the Information System by all members of the company that will eliminate some of the problems and possible create ideas on how to financial fund a good system. 2. What is the difference between IT and information systems? Describe some functions of the information system. Information Technology or IT is the actually hardware and the software that is used for the information system that is utilized by a company. This includes everything from the computer to MS Office applications that will increase the productivity of staff. Information systems can be described as a link that brings people, business data, and computers together. Some of the functions that are noted...
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