...It has been my lifelong dream to become a pilot. I have been in the Aviation field my entire adult life. I joined the United States Navy after graduating high school to chase this dream. However no matter what a recruiter tells you, being a mechanic on an aircraft is not the best way to become a pilot. I am currently 30 years old and I’m still just as fascinated with aviation as I was when I was 16. I have worked in every specialized field of Aviation there is from Avionics to Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). Most recently quitting an amazing six figure a year UAS job with Textron to chase my dream of finishing college and becoming a pilot. I have realized that chasing my dream instead of chasing the all mighty dollar will be more fulfilling in the long run. I honestly do not have a specialized area I would like to go into as a pilot. With all the options available, I can’t choose just one at this time. I want to do them all. I can say I do not want to be a UAS Operator. I know that Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV’s) are the future of aviation but sitting in a box in the back of a truck is not a pilot. I know it is no easy task, but one of my goals is to someday be an Alaskan Bush Pilot. I would love to fly through the mountains and beautiful landscape of Alaska. I have met several interesting pilots in my lifetime and all of them seem to have amazing stories from when they were flying in Alaska. Becoming an Alaskan Bush Pilot will be no easy task. Most jobs require two...
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...RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS FOR A PROPOSED TELECOMMUTING PILOT PROGRAM Prepared for S. Nolan and J. Simon, BADM 1020 Casper College Prepared by Chuck Siedenburg MCP, CNA 21 November 2011 TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY………………………………...............................................2 INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND…………………………...............................3 DISCUSSION OF SERVICES AND ANALYSIS……………….……………….……...4 CONCLUSION………………………………...............................................................8 REFERENCES………………………………...............................................................9 BUSINESS COMMUNICATION CLASS SURVEY ……………….………………….10 INITIAL PROPOSAL…………………………………………………………………..…12 INITIAL WORKPLAN…………………………………………………………………….15 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Nolan – Simon Consulting is a hypothetical firm with specialists in many fields. As consultants, we provide direction and support in every aspect of business. Our expertise includes Accounting, Business Administration, Communications, Computer Science, Computer Software Support, Education & Training, IT Management & Administration and Web Design & Development. The question at hand, and the basis for this particular report, is whether Telecommuting, or working from a location other than the traditional office, is a viable and feasible option for Nolan – Simon Consulting and their clientele or not. For this firm to remain at the forefront of service, we must leverage both our assets and the available technology to provide...
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...Service Request SR-kf-013 Contents Testing Process: 3 Installation Process: 4 Training Plan Summary: 4 Documentation Plan Summary: 5 Support and Maintenance Plan: 6 Reference 7 Introduction: The goal of this project is to set up a loyalty system to not only reward customers for their purchasing habits, but to bring in more foot traffic and create more loyalty to Kudler Fine Foods. This program will also bring business to the vendors that will be working along with Kudler Fine Foods to provide the loyalty rewards. Testing Process: Testing occurs at every stage of the project before moving on to the next stage. This ensures compatibility within the system as it progresses. Testing’s ultimate goal is to validate that the system meets the requirements of the stakeholders (Valacich, George, & Hoffer, 2012) and is a deliverable with its own plan and what managers are trying to accomplish. According to Rehman Zafar (2013) testing process falls in the following types: “unit testing, integration tests, functional testing, system testing, stress testing, performance testing, usability testing, acceptance testing, regression testing, and beta test” (Para. 5). Testing also consists of hardware components to make sure they can interface. The testing phase of the project is somewhat similar to the documentation phase; the project team must register every...
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...Court Management Pilot Project Executive summary The greatest problem of district courts is that of huge backlog of cases leading to undue delay in deciding cases. Shifting the blame on judicial system only will not cure such problem. Now recently the Hon'ble Chief Justice of India has launched a National Court Management Program. New Methods and New Roles are necessary in the Justice Delivery System which was pleased to addressed by Hon'ble Shri. Justice Mohit S.Shah, Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court at the inauguration of the conference of the Judicial officer on “Enhancing Quality of Adjudication” at Judicial Academy Uttan, Thane. At District & Sessions Court, Thane , formulated a mission to develop “ Best Practices Guide” for improving Judicial Quality, Enhancing court management and reduce pendency. The Hon'ble Shri. K.K. Sonawane, Principal District Judge, Thane who is also the Patron-In-Chief of this mission pleased to establish to develop Best Practices Guide at Thane Court with a series of administrative stages to facilitate continuous monitoring , mentoring and , if necessary to to guide to ensure cases are disposed at the earliest opportunity at Civil Judge Junior Division and J.M.F.C. Courts. This pilot project is for the one of the object from the mission to develop Best Practices Guide , to decrease old pendency and Increase rate of disposal in Civil Judge Junior Division and J.M.F.C. Courts Bhiwandi District...
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...| Barilla SpA – Case Report | Implementation of the Just in Time Delivery System | Supply Chain Management | | | | Contents Part 1 – Executive Summary 3 Part 2 – Immediate Issue 3 Part 3 – Systemic Issues 4 Part 4 - Qualitative Analysis 4 Part 5 - Quantitative Analysis 5 Part 6- Alternatives and Options 5 Part 7 - Recommendations and Implementation 6 Part 8 - Monitor and Control 7 Part 9 – Conclusion and Management Plan 7 Part 10 – Exhibits 8 Part 1 – Executive Summary To date, implementation of the Just in Time Distribution System (JITD) has not been successful. It has been resisted both internally with our sales force, and externally with our distribution network. The potential benefits of the JITD remain the same as they did upon the conception of the system designed by Brando Vitali. Rather than placing traditional orders with our factories, the distributors will instead provide us the demand information from the retail store locations. Using the data from the retail store orders, we can determine the optimum schedule upon which to base our production and distribution plans. This will eliminate demand fluctuation and the current lack of ability to plan. We will determine the replenishment orders for the distributors, offering them an additional value added service and minimizing stock outs. The benefits of the JITD system include reduced manufacturing costs, reduced inventory and carrying costs, production planning ability...
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...Transfer Programs in Developing Settings: Executive Summary Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs provide cash payments to poor households that meet certain behavioral requirements, generally related to children’s health, nutrition and education.1 For example, in Mexico’s PROGRESA, grants are provided to poor families with children under 18 enrolled in primary and secondary school on condition that the parents send children to school and regularly visit health centers. Evaluation results show that in general CCTs are effective means of reducing poverty and incentivizing parents to invest in the health and education of their children.2 CCTs are versatile programs, and have been used in a variety of different countries and regions worldwide. The largest CCTs such as Brazil’s Bolsa Escola and Mexico’s PROGRESA cover millions of households aimed at developing human capital in education attendance and health services. In Honduras and Colombia, CCTs are focused more narrowly on extremely poor households to increase educational attainment and reduce child labor. In Cambodia, CCTs have been implemented to address gender disparities in education. Recent CCT pilot programs are being used in Sub-Saharan Africa to reduce the risk of HIV/AIDS infection. There are three important elements to consider when designing a CCT program: payment system, payment size and desired impact. The payment systems used in CCTs varies across countries. Most of the Latin American programs work through...
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...Project Proposal – Huggies Complete Morris Jackson, University of Phoenix MGT/437 – Project Management July 27, 2011 Dr. John Peters Project Scope The new product line Huggie’s Complete will be accomplished by the use of an effective total program planning process. During our project scope initiation we will first leverage The Statement of Work (SOW), “which is a narrative description of the work to be accomplished.” (Kerzner, 2006). The work that the company is looking to carry out with the new product line Huggie’s Complete, is to start the test pilot production at the beginning of fall 2011. This will give the company three months to analyze the product before we schedule a mass production and allow us to identify any additional needs that may be warranted to help promote or enhance the product. The cost to run this pilot will be $100,000 for materials, labor, and market studies. During the test pilot we must place ourselves in different environments to test our product such as pouch functionality, different weather scenarios, different venues where the product may be used, and different time’s scenarios from pack time to time open to determine shelf life. During the test pilot of weather scenario’s we will need to use this product in different heat conditions such as dry heat and humidity to see what damage it may have on the product. We will also need to test cold weather to determine the keep temperature of the product and situations such as rain, snow...
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...Summary of Research Accomplishments I am a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with an anticipated graduation in August 2018. As a part of my DNP degree requirements, I decided to focus my scholarly project on the graduate clinical education. Majority of advanced practice nursing (APN) programs rely heavily on one-to-one preceptor-student model to provide clinical education. Nationally, there is inadequate number of clinical sites and clinical preceptors. And many APN programs are facing challenge to retain and recruit graduate clinical preceptors especially in the primary care including the DNP program at the UW-Madison. Beside a high demand, preceptors available to precept have to overcome several barriers to provide a high quality clinical education including a lack of any formal training in an educator role....
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...|Plain English Examples |Appendix B | | | | | | This appendix contains “before” and “after” examples from participants in the Division of Corporation Finance’s plain English pilot. The Division’s staff added marginal notes to show how aspects of the plain English rules apply to specific documents. These annotated examples are excerpted from the booklet, Before & After Plain English Examples and Sample Analyses, prepared by the Division of Corporation Finance. Although we revised the presentation and wording of the marginal notes in this appendix, the filings remain identical to those from the booklet. To get a complete copy of the book-let, please call the SEC’s public reference room at (202) 942-8090. Differences between the proposed and final amendments to Item 501 When the issuers prepared these documents, they relied on staff interpretations for filings in the plain English pilot and the proposed amendments to Item 501. The following information was not required under Item 501 as proposed, but this information is required under Item 501 as adopted: • the market(s) and the trading symbol; • the underwriter’s over-allotment or similar option, if applicable; • a prominent cross-reference to the risk factors section including the page number; ...
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...Executive Summary The aim of current report is to critically evaluate a Non-Core Asset Disposal Database recently implemented in the Organization in a Pilot mode to replace the existing Excel spreadsheet system and based on the findings to make a recommendation to Company Management whether the current system should be extrapolated all over Organization in a regular working mode or the Pilot is inefficient and should be stopped. Updated DeLone and McLean IS Success Model was used to identify and analyze Non-Core Assets Disposal Database “net benefits”, which were identified as POSITIVE, and led to the conclusion that the System Use increase will be associated with more User Satisfaction. Company Management(key Project Stakeholders), represented by COO, IT VP , Subsidiary General Directors and BIMs , based on the findings made in current report, is recommended to make a positive decision for Pilot Project move to Execute Stage, since there is clear improvement and benefits for Company Employees\Regular Users of Nore-Core Assets Disposal Database both in Corporate Center and Regions, that provides them with more technically advanced, user-friendly and less time-consuming solution. Besides for Company Management it becomes a more revenue-generating project (extra profit from 1 to 5 mln.$ per annum), in addition to that an optimized process of Non-Core Asset Disposal will allow to achieve the goals set by Board of Directors for shifting to Core Business sooner...
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...AYB200 Financial Accounting SUMMER SCHOOL 2015 BUSINESS REPORT Content Executive summary Introduction Background and achievement Recent trends and approach taken by South Africa Analysis of implication and impediments of <IR> and a position statement Executive Summary The purpose of this report is to provide a concise background on the objective and technical development of Integrated Reporting and key achievement to date, a summary of recent trends in adoption of Integrated Reporting which including the approach taken by South Africa, an analysis of any implications and impediments of Integrated Reporting and a positon statement of how these might affect adoption in Australia. Introduction Integrated Reporting is a process in which the value creation of a periodic integrated thinking, in a periodic report, is created by the value creation of the periodic report of the value creation (Adams & Simnett, 2011). The organization uses the integrated report to convey a clear, concise, and complete story, stating that all of their resources are of value creation. Integrated Reporting is to help companies carefully consider their strategies and plans to make informed decisions and management of key risks, to establish the confidence of investors and stakeholders and improve future performance (INTEGRATED REPORTING<IR>, 2015). This is a diverse alliance, including the evolution of business leaders and investors to promote the global business report...
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...Most of us can hardly imagine the suffering in the wake of the death of a young person but when this death is because of suicide the pain is even more compounding as there is no explanation. The reason why someone decides to take their own life still remains a mystery, the community are still disturbingly unaware of the prevalence of youth suicide until they experience it themselves. Although something can be done, with the introduction of suicide prevention programs to the Australian Curriculum, the education departments and its bodies would be seen as doing more towards the prevention of suicide. Youth suicide is the most concerning area of suicide and its destruction of young life has implications for the long-term affairs of our community. The Australian government identified this and in the 1995/96 commonwealth budget provided substantial funding, $13 million dollars with a combined total of $31 million by 1999. This initial funding lead to the creation of the National Youth Prevention Strategy administered by Department of Health with emphasis on promotion, prevention and early intervention. (Living is for everyone, 2008, p. 7) Since then many agencies have been proactively targeting youth suicide. In 2000 the National Youth Prevention Strategy expanded into Life is for Everyone (LIFE). LIFE is a world-class suicide and self-harm prevention resource. Dedicated to providing the best available evidence and resources to guide activities aimed at reducing the rate at which...
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...11 GOOD ENERGY Kenan Advantage Group Pilot Study Analysis July 7, 2011 Environmentally Safe! Clean! Natural Diesel Fuel Additive! EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Test Conditions ! Pilot test by Kenan Advantage Group and 11 Good Energy from Dec. 2010 to June 2011 using a 5% G2 Diesel blend. ! The Treatment Group: ! The Control Group: 13 vehicles with 1,291 fuel stops. Received the G2 Diesel blend during the test period. 4 vehicles with 378 recorded fuel stops. Did not use the G2 Diesel blend. Key Findings ! The Treatment Group: ! The Control Group: 7.5% increase. Statistically significant: less than a 0.01% chance increase was random. 2.7% increase. Not statistically significant: within margin of error and expected range of fluctuation. ! Monthly results are consistent with the overall findings. The only significant variance noted was for the Treatment Group from the baseline to test period. All other monthly variances were within the expected range. Benefits ! Based on the study’s results, every gallon of G2 Diesel added at a 5% blend rate could replace 2.5 gallons of #2 diesel fuel that would have been required without G2 Diesel. ! Based on our results, a 5% G2 Diesel blend may decrease KAG’s annualized fuel consumption from 685,000 total gallons to 637,000 total gallons. This would result in 48,000 fewer gallons of total fuel burned, a marked reduction in carbon emissions. ! The major cost benefit of these findings is a significant reduction...
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...ZARA, IT for Fast Fashion Module 1 A Case Study Prepared by Ritwick Banerjee Date of Submission: 29th September, 2010 Executive Summary My decision is to introduce a new operating system (OS) in segments. The plan identifies a number of non critical stores as pilot case. It introduces the new OS and links the Point of Sales (POS) terminals using internet to the information system at La Coruna. The necessary interface applications get written and tested by the applications development group under the pilot scheme. Training is provided to selected staff. Once the efficiency of the system is established, the existing system gets replaced with the new one in segments. This replaces the phone modem and further cuts down the cost of operation. Zara needs new technology to meet the business strategy, sustain the business plan and create better communication. The operating system DOS is no longer supported by its originator Microsoft. The terminals using DOS should upgrade to Linux operating systems. Exhibit 12 states that one time license cost for Linux system is free. A wireless router will improvise the flow of information with 5 terminals averaging per store. Cost for setting up a wireless router per store is 180 pounds in Exhibit 12. Process Elements Zara is a clothing company founded by Amancio Ortega in 1975 whose business strategy was to meet quickly and accurately the demands of the fashion world. Currently worldwide, there are 531 Zara...
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...A critical analysis of “Introducing and piloting the KiVa bullying prevention programme in the UK” by J. Hutchings and S. Clarkson 2015. Introduction The KiVa program was developed by Christina Salmivalli at the University of Turku in Finland, it was developed as a means to reduce and hopefully prevent bullying and victimization from happening in schools. KiVa is an abbreviation for “Kiusaamista Vastaan” which translates into “against bullying” which relates to the program’s intent to effect the bystanders of bullying as previous research showed that the actions of the bystanders effects the frequency of bullying (Salmivalli, Voeten & Poskiparta, 2011). Whereas other studies have shown that trying to change possible targets and individual bullies are not sufficient to stop bullying behavior (Salmivalli, Poskiparta, Ahtola & Haataja, 2013). The program includes lessons where students are asked/invited to partake in role-play, discussions and listening to stories told by previous bully victims and online games made to guide the students reflect over the matter. Another important aspect of the program is to improve students’ social skills (Hutchings & Clarkson, 2015), as this is an important aspect when making friends, which in return makes them more protected from bullying (Hanish, Ryan, Martin & Fabes, 2005). Being in a KiVa school is easily recognized, as there are posters displayed around the school and staff wearing yellow shirts to remind the students....
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