...Bellamy | 2/25/2012 | | The Concept of Program Reengineering The case study of Mayor Schell’s Zero Homeless Family Strategy discusses the homeless problem in Seattle, Washington (King County) and the strategies used to address the problem. Mayor starts his term off with a dramatic pledge that there would be no homeless families with children or any homeless single women on the streets of Seattle by Christmas of that year (some six months from date of pledge). The pledge itself might easily be viewed as a political move to provide a “quick-fix” solution to a very complex and long-standing problem. While Mayor Schell’s policy choices in this matter had some success, they were met with scrutiny and counter proposals by homeless advocacy groups and city financial managers. This paper provides an analysis of the mayor’s policy choices, analysis of the pre-implementation and design strategies, as well as discussion of steps taken to reengineer the program. It also addresses the importance of conducting proper assessments before implementing new programs. The policy choices related to Mayor Schell’s plan to address homelessness include: targeting homeless families with children and single women for “immediate emergency assistance”; focus on creating affordable housing; expanding shelter and/or emergency housing availability; and providing more funding for homeless prevention. According to the case study, over 700 of the 1,300 homeless people sleeping on the streets were...
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...GM AT & More! E ric C a b a lle ro , M a n h a tta n G M A T In s tru c to r G u id e 1 Fractions, Decimals, & Percents Clarifies Concepts and Builds Computation Skills Teaches Problem Solving & Data Sufficiency Strategies Includes Practice Problems with Detailed Explanations Includes 6 > Free Online t< 12 x 50 X 4 _ X l 2 _ J_ x ~ 50 x = 100 X 25 Then, cross-multiply: x = 100. 2. 4,250: 2x y 2x _ Ax 8,500 First, simplify the ratio on the right-hand side of the equation. x ~y ” 2,125 Then, cross-multiply: 4,250x = xy. Divide both sides of the equation by *: red 2 22 y —4,250. 3. 11: Write a proportion to solve this problem: Cross-multiply to solve: 2x —22 x — 11 4. 43: First, establish the starting number of men and women with a proportion, and simplify: 5 men 7 women 35 men Xm X a n 1 7 women 7 men x women x women Cross-multiply: x —49. If 6 women leave the room, there are 49 - 6 = 43 women left. MANHATTAN GMAT 71 Chapter 4 Ratios 5. 33 hours: Use an equation with the Unknown Multiplier to represent the total hours put in by the three people: 2x + 3x + 5x= 110 10*= 110 x= 11 Therefore, the hardest working person put in 5(11) = 55 hours, and the person who worked the least put in 2(11) = 22 hours. This represents a difference of 55 - 22 = 33 hours. 6. 3 mL: The correct ratio is 1:4, which means that there should be x parts bleach and 4x parts water. x However, Alexandra put in...
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...M ANHATTAN G u id e 1 GM AT Fractions, Decimals, & Percents Clarifies Concepts and Builds Computation Skills Includes 6 > Free Online t< 12 x 50 X 4 _ X l X 2 _ J_ 25 x ~ 50 x = 100 Then, cross-multiply: x = 100. 2. 4,250: 2x Ax y 8,500 2x _ x ~y ” 2,125 First, simplify the ratio on the right-hand side of the equation. Then, cross-multiply: 4,250x = xy. Divide both sides of the equation by *: 3. 11: Write a proportion to solve this problem: Cross-multiply to solve: red 2 y —4,250. 22 2x —22 x — 11 4. 43: First, establish the starting number of men and women with a proportion, and simplify: 5 men 35 men 7 women x women Xm X a n 1 7 women 7 men x women Cross-multiply: x —49. If 6 women leave the room, there are 49 - 6 = 43 women left. MANHATTAN GMAT 71 Ratios Chapter 4 5. 33 hours: Use an equation with the Unknown Multiplier to represent the total hours put in by the three people: 2x + 3x + 5x= 110 10*= 110 x= 11 Therefore, the hardest working person put in 5(11) = 55 hours, and the person who worked the least put in 2(11) = 22 hours. This represents a difference of 55 - 22 = 33 hours. 6. 3 mL: The correct ratio is 1:4, which means that there should be x parts bleach and 4x parts water. x However, Alexandra put in half as much bleach as she should have, so she put in — parts bleach. You x can represent this with an equation:...
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...home base for the company that has expanded its operations with satellite offices in Halifax, Quebec City, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. As Francine grew the company into new cities, she appointed Branch Managers to manage the teams there. Those Branch Managers continue to report to Francine. There are now 520 Canadian employees, including 375 part-time regional staff. In 2005, Francine developed a partnership with an American, Ronda Brice, to create a subsidiary to run tours in U.S. cities and they called the company American All-Star City Tours. So far, operations have been established in Seattle, New Orleans, Miami and New York city. Offices in Boston, Los Angeles, and Houston are in the planning stages. The number of American employees totals 150, with 90 percent of them being part-time regional staff who work on specific events. The rest are permanent tour planning Seattle employees reporting to the VP of Tour Planning (Bill) who is located in Calgary. The primary focus of the company is to provide customers with a unique customized tour experience. All-Star City Tours company not only showcases the general tourist attractions and exclusive shopping in each city, but also covers such things as garden tours showcasing spectacular private and public gardens, unusual public and private art collections, and gourmet food tours (in which participants travel from one superior...
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...In the compelling words of Francis Bacon, he states, “There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.” Such words are encouragement for architects to stray away from the structural norms and move forward while applying creativity to functional, yet elegant buildings. In Ten Books on Architecture, Vitruvius emphasizes on the practice of architecture, which established three predominant pillars for the validity of a building: soundness, utility, and attractiveness. Soundness, is the durability, stability, and security of a laid out foundation, that promises a lasting structure. Utility, is the capability of being serviceable, helpful and beneficial for those in the facility. Attractiveness, is the innovative appearance that pleasures the eyes and mind. Such beauty that creates a pleasing attainment of design upon arrival. These elements must accommodate one another to develop a successful relationship between public external space and personal interior space. On the street of Roosevelt way, lies a local University Branch library, with parking spaces along both sides, a bike rack on the right side near the entrance and a crosswalk at the traffic light to ensure a parking area for those who have come with different ways of transportation. This demonstrates Vitruvius’ utility element in architecture. The exterior spaces of the library is cleverly laid out with two sets of large stairs leading up to the main entrance in the center. This forms...
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...Name the top 5 reasons that support the death penalty. (in order, please) Offer at least three concrete examples from your readings that illustrate this position. Name the top 5 reasons that oppose the death penalty. (in order, please) ) Offer at least three concrete examples from your readings that illustrate this position. Opposing Death Penalty: * Violates international human rights laws. * Executions cost more than life in prison. * $2 million per person vs. $500,000 (4x as much!). Free counsel for defense, for appeals, maximum security on a separate death row wing. * The innocent may be wrongly executed. * Since the DP was reinstated in 1976, 82 inmates have been freed from Death Row. That's 1 Death Row inmate found to be wrongfully convicted for every 7 executed. * Is not a deterrent; crime rates have not gone down. * In fact, the murder rate in the US is 6 times that of Britain and 5 times that of Australia. Neither country has the DP. Texas has twice the murder rate of Wisconsin, a state that doesn't have the DP. Texas and Oklahoma have historically executed the most number of DR inmates, yet in 2003 their state murder rates increased, and both have murder rates higher than the national average. * Death sentences are handed down arbitrarily, not in a fair manner. * Serial killers such as the infamous Gary Ridgway in Seattle who admitted killing 48 prostitutes and runaways...
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...Name Business Prospects for The Seattle Mariners Institutional Affiliation May 27, 2016 Executive Summary The Seattle Mariners have been in the region since 1977 with the aim of entertaining and representing Seattle in the highest level of playing baseball. The present home of the Mariners is the Safeco Field in the SoDo area of Seattle. The team has won the league in 1995 and on 2001 the team set the league record winning the highest number of games for one season. The Mariners are one of the best-managed clubs returning profits even when the other big players are operating at a loss. Some of the reasons for its sustenance and success are attributed to firstly, the Nintendo group. The controlling owners bought the 55% stake when the company was experiencing difficulties in the maintenance of the former home necessitating a change of location. They brought the peace of mind and stability to the community. The other reason for the team's rise is because of the management that has made wise decisions regarding the present building and home of the Mariners. A SWOT analysis of the institution shows that the firm is in a good position to compete with other national league teams because it can increase its local support base as well as appeal to International market because of the presence of icons from other nations among the team members. The weaknesses are glaring but can be avoided by building a team that is very ambitious to win and reach levels that have not been reached...
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...Ochampaugh v. Seattle 588 P. 2d 1351 (Wash. 1979) Facts Ordinary pond owned by the city Popular with area residents for fishing and swimming The two boys were familiar with the pond and had gone there before. Neither boy could swim. There were no warning signs around the pond. The pond, while man-made, was in existence before the city purchased the land. Issue Was the pond a “trap” or extraordinarily dangerous enough to render it an “attractive nuisance” to children and thus create a negligent situation on the part of the land owner upon which the pond was placed? Rules “It is conceded that the rule in this jurisdiction is that a natural body of water, or an artificial body of water having natural characteristics, is not in and of itself an attractive nuisance.” No duty to trespassers except not to willfully cause the injury (Mail v. Smith Lumber Co., 287 P. 2d 877 (Wash. 1955)). However, in the case of infant trespassers, there is the attractive nuisance doctrine: 1. The condition must be dangerous in and of itself; 2. The conditions must be attractive and enticing to young children; 3. The children, because of their youth, must be incapable of understanding the danger involved; 4. The condition must have been left unguarded at a place where children go; or where they could be reasonably expected to go; 5. It must have been reasonably feasible either to prevent access or to render the condition innocuous without destroying its utility...
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...Changing Behavior: Insights and Applications Annette Frahm, project manager Dave Galvin Gail Gensler Gail Savina Anne Moser December 1995 Revised June 2001 Local Hazardous Waste Management Program in King County King County Water Pollution Control Division 130 Nickerson St., Suite 100 Seattle, Washington 98109 (206) 263-3050; haz.waste@metrokc.gov Prog-3(12/95)rev.6/01 Introduction Have you ever tried to get a smoker to stop? A kid to start wearing a bike helmet? An aerosol user to switch? Changing behavior is both art and science, and much can be learned from others’ attempts to change behavior that can make our work more effective. A project team at the Local Hazardous Waste Management Program in King County, Washington, spent several months in 1995 reading behavior change literature from energy conservation, recycling, health education and other fields, looking for insights. We distilled many of the principles found in the literature into workshops for staff, hoping to make their efforts to change business’ and the public’s hazardous waste behavior more effective. At the workshops, we presented some key behavior change principles, a panel shared their insights, and staff worked through an exercise to learn how to apply the principles to their work. This report summarizes our findings and includes examples from field experience. A key insight from the project is that information alone is not enough to change behavior. As government workers, we often try to...
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...INTRODUCTION: This award winning case presents the story of Michael Faye, Senior Vice President, Salvetec(Europe) and his company. It is presented in comic strip format which keeps the reader engaged throughout the case. Michael graduated from Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1967 and worked with pharma giants like Pfizer and Squibb before joining Salvetec, a leading pharmaceutical company operating in over 100 countries.He has been assigned the task to run his company’s operations in China which he thinks can be done by knowing more about the country. He anticipates the prospective threats for the company’s smooth operation in China. His boss relies on him for his influential skills and international experience. His main concern is that how to go about this assignment in an effective and efficient manner and how to overcome his shortcomings. OBJECTIVES: * To understand the importance of networking in business world. * To understand the importance of individual learning and its impact on organizational learning. * To understand the importance idea hunting and how it is linked with past experiences. AGENDA: * How would you characterize his idea-hunting style? * What are the likes & dislikes about his hunt? What would we have done differently taking it as our challenge? * What has allowed Faye to get the most out of this approach to hunting new ideas? BACKGROUND: Michael has been described as an opportunist and open to...
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...the changes in weather have been severe and obvious. Environmental scientists have been analyzing ways in which we could keep Earth alive and well. Our dependency on natural resources is increasing; therefore, the planet we live on is beginning to deteriorate. In specific, attention has been brought upon issues such as: global warming, droughts, wild fires, etc. However, we forget to mention something that tends to be affected by some, if not all, of these issues: deforestation. Deforestation plays a key part on not only human lives, but on the lives of animals, creatures, insects that depend on trees for survival. Before getting to the root of the problem, we must know what deforestation is. According to, Andrea Becker, who writes for Seattle Pi, defines deforestation as “forest loss through urban sprawl, land clearing of agriculture, wildfire or timber harvest.” In other words, it can be described as the clearing of trees. It may not seem like an issue that is severe, but when it comes down to it, the clearing of trees tends to affect the ecosystem in a number of ways. It is important to keep in mind that deforestation does not only occur in the United States, it is a big problem in the Brazilian and Bolivian Amazons. In addition, deforestation threatens our climate as well as the livelihoods of 1.6 billion people that rely on forests for food and economic activity (Greenpeace). Forests also serve as habitats to rare and undiscovered animal and plant species and play a key...
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...cost that it is to build a stadium today? In the 1980's America was spending about 1.5 billion on new stadiums; in the 1990's it spent 11 billion ("Walls Come", 2). Furthermore, in 1967 the cost to build the Kingdome was 67 million, in 1999 the cost to build Safeco Field was 517.6 million. On top of the cost difference, not only was the Kingdome multi purpose but also it held more people. The capacity of the Kingdome for baseball seating was 59,166; the seating at the new Safeco Field is 46,621. Although the Kingdome was starting to fall apart, it was decades away from its useful life ("Walls Come", 2). In fact, in 1994 tiles fell from the ceiling and the cost to fix was 70 million, which was done. It is possible that one could argue that Seattle was in need of a new stadium. To build a stadium and have an estimated price is one thing, but having tons of extras added on that are going to have the...
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...Starbucks Case Study Contents Introduction ............................................................................................................................. 3 Background information and industry analysis ........................................................................ 4 Development and expansion strategies .................................................................................... 6 Internal environment analysis ................................................................................................... 8 SWOT analysis ............................................................................................................................ 9 Strengths .............................................................................................................. .... ............... 10 Weaknesses ............................................................................................................................... 11 Opportunities ............................................................................................................................ 11 Threats ....................................................................................................................... . ............. 11 Conclusion .................................................................................................................................. 12 References........................................................................
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...Gordon. New York: Rodale, Inc., 2011. 331 pages. Reviewed by Onward is a book written by Starbucks ceo Howard Schultz (the company uses lower case for all job titles) about how the company recalibrated itself after getting too big, too fast. The reason I chose to read and review this book is because I am a coffee addict. Ironically, I am not a fan of Starbucks. I’ve always felt that their coffee is a bit overpriced and just very dramatic for my liking. However, I’ve always been intrigued by the store’s ambiance. I admit that I’ve visited a number of stores with friends to play catch up over a cup of coffee and I did feel warm, cozy, and welcomed. I wondered to myself, how does this company do it? How do they provide their customers with this “third place” feeling? As Schultz mentions early in the book, if home is a person’s “first place” to connect with others, and work is a person’s “second place” to connect with others, then a public place such as a coffeehouse- such as Starbucks- is what he refers to be a person’s “third place”. Onward is the chronicle of a ceo’s mission to revive, reinvigorate, and reinvent a company without losing the essence of what the company was originally built on. Schultz was born and raised in the poor projects of Brooklyn, New York. Upon finishing College, he accepted a job offer in Seattle as head of marketing for a small coffee company called Starbucks. At the time, the company only sold coffee beans, no beverages. It wasn’t until...
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...Cowgirl Chocolates – A Case Study Lillian Velasquez and Michael Johnson Wayland Baptist University Marketing Analysis MKTG 5302 Dr. Nick A. Lockard July 12, 2016 Cowgirl Chocolates– A Case Study Executive Summary Artists Marilyn Lysohir and husband Ross Coates are dedicated to their annual publication, High Ground. The magazine was a “labor of love” for the artists, but they needed funding to support it. Luckily for the couple. Marilyn worked for a candy shop as a teenager and the owner of the shop encouraged Marilyn’s creativity allowing her make sculptors out of chocolate. Marilyn found that, like spicy flavors, she had a love for chocolate and her brother encouraged her to combine the two so she could create a new, unique chocolate. After getting feedback, Marilyn and Ross decided to get the chocolates produced in big quantities and start the Cowgirl Chocolates company. As with many small businesses, this company was having a hard time launching in profitable markets despite the owner’s efforts to get into any receptive vendor. Now, there is another marketing initiative under examination to put in an ad in Chile Pepper magazine. The ad was eye-catching, but would it bring the volume of customers Cowgirl Chocolates needs to start turning a profit? The chocolates were offered in different varieties: a wrapped chocolate bar, a muslin bag, a tin, a gift box/bucket, and a simple plastic bag. The best seller was the chocolate bar, representing 50% of revenues...
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