...E-books Diffculties: 1. The Wi-Fi of most school in Hong Kong is not mature enough. Although most schools in Hong Kong have Wi-Fi, the Wi-Fi system can’t afford too many people to use it. 2. There will be pirate software of e-books. The information of the e-book are installed in the a discs. With the advance of technology, nowadays, more and more people good at copying the information of the e-books and then make a new one. After that , they can sell them at a lower price to earn money. 3. There is not a perfect ebook reader now. There are a wealth of e-books in the market. However, many of them need different types of ebook reader to open the file and then have a read as many of them are written in different format. Take the ebooks of Jin Yong as an example, when you want to read the ebooks of Jin Yong, you need a specific software to open the ebooks, like Jin Yong reader. Improvement: 1. water-proof. As we know that the e-book are installed in the notebook. However, there is a big problem when the information of the books is installed in the book. When the notebook is accidently thrown into the water, the notebook will be broken and the data will be vanished. In addition, when the notebook have water-proof, the readers can enjoy reading even they have a bath. This greatly enhance the feasibility of reading of them. 2. increase the strength of the notebook. As e-book is one of the methods to replace the traditional book, e-books should be introduced to both...
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...Promotion Campaign for Amazon Kindle Situational Analysis Industry Overview The eReader market has obviously achieved its maturity stage. Although the first eReaders were introduced already in the late 1990s, the devices had grown in popularity only a few years ago, after the launch of the Amazon’s Kindle in 2007. Since 2006 when Sony introduced the American market to the first so-called “dedicated ebook reader” using electronic ink, a lot of other manufacturers decided to share a piece of the money cake. Soon Sony was no longer the monopolist on the market of this utterly new class of devices. Amazon managed to get the biggest slice of the market thanks to Kindle’s ultimate competitive advantage at that point – wireless download of ebooks, which contributed to an increase in impulse buying. At the moment, not only has the competition among eReader manufacturers escalated, but the consumers are being aggressively persuaded to buy a more multi-purpose device, such as a tablet computer, thus causing a category competition between dedicated eReaders and Tablets, most notably iPads. Growth of the market In recent years, despite tough competition from tablet computers, the eReader market has been experiencing outstanding growth rates. The number of ereader owners in the US has doubled in May 2011 since November 2010 from 6% to 12%, according to Pew Research Center, which is outstanding compared to the growth of tablet ownership: only 60% growth over...
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...Environmental Factors Paper University of Phoenix Christy Holley Environmental Factors for PepsiCo PepsiCo, one of the leading beverage and snack companies in the United States and abroad, is affected by both global and domestic environmental factors. These factors, along with changes in technology, all impact and shape the organization and affect marketing decisions. The article “PepsiCo Pops for China,” written by Ruthie Ackerman and published by Forbes.com, reviews Pepsi’s decision to invest billions into the Chinese market audience. This paper will review the article, identify environmental factors that shape the organization and impact marketing decisions, and discuss how technology plays a role in those decisions. Alternatives to Ackerman’s view of social responsibility to the company’s marketing decisions and activities will be analyzed, along with explanations of how ethical issues can make an impact. The accuracy of the article’s forecasts will be reviewed and further supportive references to conclusions made will be gathered, if necessary. Global and Domestic Factors Several macro-environmental factors shape the PepsiCo Corporation and impact marketing decisions. Demographics, economic climate, ecological and political issues, technology, and cultural concerns all affect where the company is headed desires and the decisions the company makes. Each issue affects the company differently, but when combined together, the environmental factors can wreak havoc...
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...outlining the changes that need to be implemented. The team is proposing to focus on total quality management (TQM); this will allow Riordan to remain focused and efficient in areas of opportunity, and to excel in all aspects of the electric fans that are important to customers. The team’s recommendation is to use quality at the source that will address the following scenarios: proper training for employees, holding employees accountable, and incentives to help motivate employees. TQM will also be implemented within the supply chain including suppliers and transportation; this will decrease costs and improve on-time delivery to customers, which will increase sales. With the new process transitioning to the just-in-time (JIT) method, the technology portion of the organization will need to be upgraded to a system that monitors from the point of order to the point of delivery. The company will transition from a basic material requirements plan (MRP) to an MRPII system that will allow Riordan to excel in efficiency, lean production, and cost effectiveness. Applying lean production principles will aid in removing waste, reducing inventory, maximizing process flow, and meeting customer expectations. Communication is key for the organization; this will allow management to empower the employees with a company-wide initiative of continuous improvement. The recommendation is to use make-to-order for standard and custom orders to excel in the customer service arena that will not only retain...
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...beginning to turn colors and the seasons are changing. For some manufacturers, the end of summer could be the end of a busy season, or it could just be the beginning. If you manufacture beach towels or Christmas trees, you’re locked into seasonal demand. How do you adjust your operations to handle your peak time? How much of a peak period will you have? How much capacity will you need? What will be your inventory storage and holding costs? Factors and Consequences There is a lot of variability when it comes to demand — consumer tastes may change, competition could increase, weather patterns could change, etc. “The farther away in time a forecast is from the sales it projects, the less accurate the forecast will be. This stands to reason that the longer the horizon, the more changes will take place between the forecast and the actual sales,” said Jane Lee, Vice President of Supply Chain, Supply Chain Consultants. “Picture a company that makes orange juice,” said Jim LeSage, Executive Vice President with The Facility Group. “They may be producing more at the start of the school year or during cold and flu season, but the oranges are only harvested at a certain time.” That leaves the orange juice company with few options, LeSage explains. The company can store the finished product or it can store it in working form. Even if you’ve checked all the factors and made the best prediction you possibly can, there is no guarantee that you’ll be right. “Remember...
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...will learn that law enforcement personnel that is just coming into this field needs to be trained with the upcoming technology. There is no need to train them on the old stuff and wait to train them on the new. They need to be able to be one step ahead of digital crime and digital terrorism. Right now, law enforcement is falling behind. Digital Crime Forecast The future of digital crime and digital terrorism is going to get worse than what it is right now. The laws and the law enforcement agencies cannot keep up with the ever changing technology. By the time they learn something to keep up with it now, something new is already out which puts law enforcement behind the power curve. Starting out as new personnel in the different law enforcement agencies you will have to get training on the technology that is already out and the one that is coming out. Technology is changing every day and is not going to stop. Learning from the past can help law enforcement forecast future trends in crime to facilitate creation of best practices for investigation and prosecution of computer crime along with researching all past, present, and future aspects of emerging methodologies in digital crime. There are eight forecasts that have been developed from the analysis and collection of data, in order to know the future of digital crime and digital terrorism. They are: Forecast 1: The number of offenses reported to the police involving computers and electronic storage media will continue to...
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...achieve the benefits of increasing responsiveness, risk reduction, and lower inventory costs, hence, increase profitability and business performance. Småros (2004) classified two categories of forecasting collaboration; modeling based research, wherein, retailers and suppliers share downstream demand or inventory information, and the other category is empirical research focusing on one collaboration model such as CPFR (Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment) process supported by VICS (Voluntary Interindustry Commerce Standards). The CPFR model is composing of nine steps model (VICS, 2002): 1. Developing Collaboration Arrangement. 2. Creating Joint Business Plan. 3. Creating Sales Forecast. 4. Identifying Exceptions for Sales Forecast. 5....
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...Improvements in Weather Detection in Aviation Anfernee Emerenciana Florida Institute of Technology Abstract When it comes to flying, planning is everything; one of the biggest things that pilots need to take in to account is namely the weather. There are two key components when it comes to weather planning: forecasting and detection. The FAA and other meteorological organizations are continuously coming up with improvements and new ways to give pilots the necessary weather information needed in order successfully and safely do the flight. This paper will discuss how weather detection and forecasting have improved over the years, what the current developments are, and also what is still left to be done in order to ensure proper planning and overall safety for the flight The Federal Aviation Administration is a federal branch that focuses on the overall safety and regulations in regards to aviation in the United States. A pilot is required to get a weather briefing before each flight. These weather briefings are offered by the FAA in conjunction with Lockheed Martin. The weather briefings provide weather information products that give important information in regards to winds, cloud ceilings, icing hazards and turbulence. According to Gloria J Kulesa (2004), the weather phenomena’s that have the greatest impacts are: in-flight icing, turbulence, convective weather, cloud ceilings and visibilities. While traveling, one of the greatest annoyances is flight delays. Most flight delays...
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...Company, Milton Hershey, started his first candy business in 1876. In 1903, The Hershey Company broke ground on their first manufacturing factory Hershey’s, (n.d.). Today Hershey’s can be found in 90 countries all over the world (Hershey’s, n.d.). Over the years the company has expanded in many ways from the products they sell to manufacturing plants and locations. The paper will outline what process design (make to order, make to stock, or batch), The Hershey Company uses in the manufacturing of their products. We will identify two manufacturing processes that we found unique and interesting about The Hershey Company. As a global confectionary leader The Hershey Company’s best known of its eighty brands are Hershey’s, Reese’s peanut butter cups, Kisses, Jolly Rancher and Twizzler’s licorice (Hershey’s, n.d.). The company has also expanded into other markets such as grocery goods, chocolate syrup, and breathe mints. Annual Revenue for the company is over $7.1 billion and over 13,000 employees staff its operations (PR Newswire, 2014). In 2012, Hershey built a new plant which operates with the latest technology 24 hours a day in its original home town with its same name. The costs of building this plant were $200 million in infrastructure and another $100 million in additional costs (Melby, 2012). The company also has many other mass producing plants in a variety of additional locations in the United States, Mexico, Canada and Brazil. In 1909, Hershey Trust Company was setup...
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...The Emerald Research Register for this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/researchregister The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0957-4093.htm An integrative framework for supply chain collaboration Togar M. Simatupang School of Business and Management, Bandung Institute of Technology, Bandung, Indonesia, and Framework for supply chain collaboration 257 Ramaswami Sridharan University of Wollongong in Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Abstract Purpose – This paper proposes an integrative framework for supply chain collaboration which is based on the reciprocal approach. Design/methodology/approach – A reciprocal approach is adopted to capture the interaction phenomenon of different features of collaboration in attaining overall supply chain performance. Findings – A collaborative supply chain framework is composed of five connecting features of collaboration, namely collaborative performance system, information sharing, decision synchronization, incentive alignment, and integrated supply chain processes. Research limitations/implications – Further research could be carried out to capitalize the framework for diagnosing and improving supply chain collaboration. Practical implications – The proposed framework enables the chain members to scrutinize key features of supply chain collaboration before and during collaborative initiatives. Originality/value – Previous research on supply chain collaboration...
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...The Job Forecast for Web Developers Bryan Kyzar Com/156 November 2, 2014 Shana Hamilton The Job Forecast for Web Developers In today's world, many of us spend a great deal of time on the Internet. We might do research at work for our company or research at home for ourselves. We might spend time on the Internet purchasing various items that are necessities in our lives, or just "window shopping" like we used to do at the downtown department stores before it became easier to purchase online. Some of us might spend time on social media sites catching up on old news from a friend that we haven't spoken to in a while, or just parlaying gossip. Every one of these sites had to have someone create it. Here comes the Web developer. Web development is a growing industry, and growth in this job sector is expected to increase 20.1 percent by the year 2022. (“U.S. News & World Report”, 2014) This research paper explores the job forecast for individuals in the Web Development industry. Information Technology and web development, is constantly changing and improving; everything on the internet requires a web page, and there must be web designers to fulfill the task of creating web pages. The Job Forecast for Web Developers looks Positive In the industry of Information Technology there are many different fields of specialization. In this writing, we are going to investigate the field of Web Development, and the subdivisions of Web Development. This is a field that may people...
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...Research Paper Review Specific Topic The Specific Topic around which this Research Paper revolves, is the study of the compatibility between the technology employed by an organization and its structure, with a view to predict the organization’s performance or efficiency based on the degree of the observed compatibility. In other words, the “fit” between the technology and structure, which is determined by the authors based on a scale derived from the three primary hypotheses enunciated in the paper, is then used to determine the level of performance that the organization in question may be expected to exhibit. Here, the chosen subject to which this research is applied are the nursing subunits of a hospital. The reason cited by the authors for this choice is the academic suitability of the same for the study. However, on observing the professional history of one of the authors, the reason seems to be rooted in convenience too. This will be elaborated upon is the section detailing authors’ background. Overall Purpose The authors of the paper have delved in detail on the studies that have been conducted, theories proposed and papers published over the years on the subject of structure of organizations, their technology and performance. From this research, they have concluded that though different aspects of the subject have been dealt with by various experts, one particular dimension – the “fit” between technology and structure - has been neglected. That is, in the course...
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...2012 1 A Review and Synthesis of “Cost Stickiness” Literature Abstract Traditional cost accounting holds the assumption that cost changes proportionately with activity. Anderson et al. (2003) show that cost increases more when activity rises than decreases less when activity falls by an equivalent amount, a behavior that they refer to as “cost stickiness”. By following Anderson et al. (2003) researchers investigate the determinants, consequences and different aspects of cost stickiness. However, some studies raise questions about the validity of the inference made by Anderson et al. (2003). Over the last few years many authors highlight some new aspects such as earnings forecasts error, agency problem and earnings management that relate to cost stickiness. The objective of this paper is to review and synthesize the growing body of research on cost stickiness. Lack of theoretical support, merely insights provided by the literature and some inconclusive findings suggest that there are ample research opportunities to improve the understanding in this area. Keywords: Cost stickiness; Asymmetric cost behavior 2 1.0 Introduction The significant role of cost accounting is to analyze the cost of inputs and the value of outputs provided by those inputs. Cost accounting system helps managers to make better decision that leads to cost efficiency and improved profitability. Conventional model of cost accounting assumes that costs are proportional to the cost...
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...SUBMITTED TO ADEYL KHAN (Ayn) LECTURER, SCHOOL OF BUSINESS NORTH SOUTH UNIVERSITY SUBMITTED BY HASAN MONJURUR RAHMAN 092 0429 030 IMROJ AMAN 092 0521 030 USSAMA ABU SAYEED 091 0519 030 NAZIA HOSSAIN 091 0232 030 PRANTAR DAS ANOY 092 0227 030 4/13/2012 Letter of Transmittal 13 April, 2012. Adeyl Khan Faculty, School of Business, North South University. Dear faculty, We are pleased to present you this Group Assignment on “identifying operational problems of Lyric Group”. It includes the overall operational problem of Lyric Group Pvt. ltd. and solution of a problem. In order to prepare this paper, a lot of obstacles have come in our path but we tried to gather information as much as possible through different sources. In the end, it can be said that the experience that we have gathered to prepare this paper was extraordinary. We personally thank you for giving us the opportunity to prepare this assignment which has brought to us a lot of nice experiences. Thank You! Your Sincerely HASAN MONJURUR RAHMAN 092 0429 030 IMROJ AMAN 092 0521 030 USSAMA ABU SAYEED 091 0519 030 NAZIA HOSSAIN 091 0232 030 PRANTAR DAS ANOY 092 0227 030 2 Acknowledgement I would like to pay my sincere gratitude to almighty Allah for giving us adequate patience and knowledge to prepare this project about identifying a operational problem and solution of that problem of a company. To take such a challenge of identifying problems...
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...objects………………………………………………………………………….4 Advantages of Salesforce CRM……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….11 Forecasting in Salesforce CRM………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..13 Salesforce CRM implementation insights for Healthcare……………………………………………………………..…………15 Efficiency and productivity can be achieved through Salesforce CRM…………………………………………………….17 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..20 Reference……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….21 Executive summary The main objective of this report is to give close insight into the CRM industry, need analysis for such business application software and its role to contribute to reach high efficiency, productivity in current business enterprises. Also, this paper gives industry information, leading CRM providers and particularly, Salesforce.com CRM and its strengths, capabilities. Salesforce.com CRM is as leading SaaS enterprise application that is helping businesses to re-engineer business process and automating them to the level that it reduces operation costs and reach efficiency and productivity in front-office and back-office processes. The purpose is to show how this enterprise application can contribute the buasisesses to achieve high efficiency, productivity in both front-office and back-office processes and automation of daily, routine processes to reduce cost and time. Also, it speaks about how to securely store data, managing data and integrate with other business systems to exchange...
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