...Moms In Motion, LLC (Moms) is a Service Facilitation provider for Medicaid CD-PAS (EDCD, ID & DD Waivers) enrollees and a Case Management provider for DD Waiver enrollees. Our mission is to enhance the outcome for all of our clients and their families, by using person-centered practices while providing superior service, sharing resources, continually expanding our knowledge, and networking. Our primary areas of growth will be advocating in the school systems for our younger clients, assisting young adults with transitioning to independence, and helping our aging clients to be cared for by the people who love them. We serve clients of all ages: children, young adults and aging. Mission Statement Learn more Advocacy We believe that every person, whether young or elderly, regardless of disability, has the right to nurturing, personalized care supported by those who love them. If you are facing the challenges of finding high-quality care for your loved one, and need the support of a Waiver or other program, there are resources available for you. Get in touch with us to find out about the Medicaid Waiver programs that may be available to help you provide for the care of your loved one. There are also community-driven programs that can help you to find the resources and assistance to encourage a high quality of life for your child, elderly parent, or other loved one. More info about DMAS’s Letter on Managed Care Organization (MCO) Moms in Motion is a...
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...by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque. In 1980, Microsoft formed a partnership with IBM that allowed them to bundle Microsoft’s operating system with IBM computers, paying Microsoft a royalty for every sale. With a real big range of service IT service, we can say the client of Microsoft is unlimited, from OEM, business, and individuals. And the competition is all over from every division, such as Apple in PC Market and Google in Online Service Market. [pic] Yahoo! Was started at Stanford University in January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo. Both of them were Electrical Engineering graduate students when they created a website named “Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web”. The Guide was a directory of other websites, organized in a hierarchy, to a searchable index of pages. In April 1994, Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web was then renamed to “Yahoo!”. Unlike Microsoft, they focus more on Online Internet Service. It provides the popular portal website “Yahoo!” with many kinds of application software, such...
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...& Main Issues 1 ii. Marissa Mayer 2 2. Political and Cultural Context in Yahoo – How it Contributed to the Lack of Growth and Direction 3 3. How could Yahoo Turn Around their Business? 4 3.A. Cultural-Excellence Approach 4 i. A Bias for Action 4 ii. Closeness To the Customer 4 iii. Autonomy and Entrepreneurship 5 iv. Productivity Through People 5 v. Hands-on Management 5 vi. Stick to the Knitting 5 vii. Simple Form, Lean Staff 5 viii. Simultaneous Loose-tight Organisation 5 3.B. Organizational Learning 6 4. Recommended HR and Leadership Practices 7 4.A. Human Resource Practices 7 i. Fair Evaluation System of Employees 7 ii. Open House Discussions and Feedback Mechanism 7 iii. 360 degree Performance Management Feedback System 8 iv. Attract, Recruit and Retain the Right People 8 4.B. Leadership Practices 9 i. Participative Leadership Style 9 ii. Transactional Leadership Style 10 iii. Transformational Leadership Style 10 5. Potential Sources of Resistance Among Yahoo Employees 11 6. Conclusion 11 7. References 12 1. Introduction i. Company Profile & Main Issues For nearly ten years, Yahoo has delivered Web services to millions of people daily, and in the process made billions of dollars. As the history off Yahoo unfolded and experienced a phenomenal climb to success, Yahoo creators and shareholders were confident in their goldmine that would undoubtedly...
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...Running head: WHY GOOGLE WAS ABLE TO BEAT YAHOO 1 Why Google was able to beat Yahoo: External factors influencing the development and domination of the twenty-first century internet giants Gregory A Totty MGT510 Strategic Planning Dr. Walter McCollum Colorado State University WHY GOOGLE WAS ABLE TO BEAT YAHOO Abstract The purpose of the following research is to illustrate how external factors can influence the development of market share in a new industry. The primary example is a case study of the organization known as “Yahoo”; the first internet only large corporation, which failed to grow with its early domination of the new emerging market of the World Wide Web. The evolving industry originally was a creative person’s domain. It was viewed in its infancy more like a vast library, than the center of all knowledge transfer much as it has become. The mistakes made by Yahoo early in the century, soon became an uncontrollable nemesis; and would eventually force the organization to re-organize. This research attempts to provide evidence for Yahoo’s demise along with the primary external factors that were either overlooked or their magnitude of 2 influence was not properly considered. Based upon the evidence provided, an alternative strategy for a similar percentage of market share was implemented by Google who, partially by learning from the mistakes of Yahoo, was able to forecast more accurately; resulting in a dominance of the same market today. Conclusions can...
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...Strategic Management_Assesment01_Melgie Nebiar 701476_Ma. Janine So 701337_Rhea Lyn Haro 701495_2016BusT1L7B The evolution of strategy planned at Yahoo and their response to unforeseen events happening in its external and internal environments. The evolution of strategic planning of Yahoo was base on the improvement in their basic character and structures, educating the users in the internet world which is “Gerry’s Guide to the world wide web” which later on called yahoo and analyzing the competitive environment through over-viewing the industry’s demand with the use of internet economic features. (thompson, 2003) The strategy begins when the founders of the yahoo Jerry Yang and David Filo accidentally created one of the world’s first web directories that enable to help the web users on finding things in the web (1994). Hypothetically it was an era of computers, expecting a lot of new users such as business related companies etc. and also involving curios individual to access the net world, later on, their directories called Yahoo stand for “yet another hierarchical officious oracle” (http:/www.yahoo.com). Yahoo was drawing over 100,000 people a day that made to come with up with the new strategy making Yahoo into a business, the business model was derived revenues from renting advertising space on the pages of the fast growing directory. Coming up with this new strategy it needs a capital fund for the investment in servers which provide them by Sequoia Capital a Silicon...
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...Microsoft’s Bid for Yahoo! Timeline As early as in late 2007, Microsoft proposed a number of cooperation alternatives with Yahoo! ranging from commercial partnerships to a merger, which were rejected by Yahoo!. Regarding to Microsoft’s proposal of acquisition in 2008, here are some key issues: Late 2007 Yahoo! rejected partnerships or merger proposal from Microsoft 31/1/2008 Microsoft announced its bid for Yahoo! at US$31/share 11/2/2008 Yahoo! rejected the offer, saying that it undervalued the company 28/2/2008 Google released news that with willingness to acquire 20% Yahoo share 6/4/2008 Final call from Microsoft – threatened Yahoo! Board with a proxy battle 2/5/2008 Yahoo! asked for US$37, Microsoft rose to US$33 4/5/2008 Microsoft withdrew US$47.5 buyout offer 5/5/2008 Yahoo!’s value dropped to $34 billion 17/5/2008 Yahoo! accepted the price $33-34, but Microsoft only interested in search business, Yahoo decided instead to sign a search advertising deal with Google. Microsoft’s Motivation of Acquisition After the failure of the deal, Steven Ballmer was made fun by the public that his greatest contribution during his tenure was: not able to close the deal. Why would Microsoft pay such high cost to acquire Yahoo! at the first place? As we know, Google was the dominant player in this industry and it kept consolidating its dominance through acquisition. Microsoft was eager to content against its biggest rival. The combination...
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...Project Management and Scrum Master. • Improve software quality, meet customer expectations and reduce defects by supporting proven software quality practices and implementing practical and effective process improvement methods. • Plan and perform effective software testing through a combination of familiar structured test techniques, rapid test practices and test automation where applicable. Experience Summary: ✓ Sound Experience in Full Software Testing Life Cycle (Involvement in Test Strategy, Test cases, Test Scripts/Data, Defect tracking/prevention) and its most of phases e.g. Unit Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing and User Acceptance Testing, Ajax Testing. ✓ Adherence to software development life cycle, quality methodologies (ISO 9001/CMM) and best practices of software testing models (Agile Methodology). ✓ Expert in both Manual testing and Automated testing Using tools Selenium - Java. ✓ Experience in Functional & GUI testing in CRM and ERP domain. ✓ Experience in Database Testing (MySql). ✓ Successfully Participated in 32 hrs training on automation tools such as Mercury Interactive Quick Test Pro 9.2, Test Director (QC). ✓ Solid communicator with exceptional team-building skills. ✓ Strong problem-solver, design solutions and assist developers with issues. Employment History: • Over all experience more than six years along with project management. •...
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...CASE STUDY FOR NIKE ------------------------------------------------- COMPANY PROFILE NIKE, Inc. (NIKE), incorporated on September 8, 1969, is engaged in design, development, marketing and selling of athletic footwear, apparel, equipment, accessories and services. NIKE is a seller of athletic footwear and athletic apparel across the world. ------------------------------------------------- Competition With Adidas Heating Up in Europe Nike has been gaining market share in Europe. According to data from Euro monitor, Adidas had 13.2% share of the western European sporting goods market in 2012, while Nike’s share stood at 12.4 percent. Nike reported an 11% rise in sales in western Europe in the first half of fiscal 2014, while Adidas posted a fall of 6 percent at constant currencies in its third quarter. The competitor gaining the most ground as of 2014 is Under Armour. The company is actively pursuing lucrative U.S. sponsorship deals similar to Nike’s, giving it a growing piece of market revenue. In Europe, Adidas is developing new products to compete head to head with the giant. Chinese companies Anta and Li Ning show a steady increase in sales within China. Both Puma and Skechers occupy a smaller part of the athletic apparel market, but both enjoy increasing revenues. ------------------------------------------------- KEY ISSUES OF NIKE Like almost every other global supply chain, Nike's global supply chain is a complex network that directly connects and impacts...
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...actions taken by Yahoo have upset its relationship with Alibaba? (b) What are the possible underlying reasons for Yahoo to pursue such strategies and actions? (c) Why does Alibaba regard these strategies and actions as “perplexing” or offensive? 1(a) Strategies and Actions taken by Yahoo that upset its relationship with Alibaba | 1(b)Possible underlying reasons for pursuing such strategies and actions | 1(c)The reason why they are “perplexing” or offensive to Alibaba | 1. Reluctance of Carol Bartz (a new chief executive for Yahoo with the mission to address Yahoo’s sharp drop in share price) to reach out to Alibaba’s founder Jack Ma or Alibaba.com’s chief executive David Wei. Bartz reprimanded Ma when he made a trip to the United States to meet with her. She dressed him down when he met her. | * Bartz was totally unsatisfied with Alibaba’s failure to run Yahoo China more successfully than Yahoo had. | * Bartz dressed Ma down in front of his management team by criticizing Alibaba’s way of managing the Yahoo portal. * Bartz was impolite and indifferent even though Ma specially made a trip to meet her. | 2. Yahoo set up a new Research Center in Beijing where Yahoo China was based | * Yahoo needs a new Research Center to develop products for Yahoo globally. * Bartz may want the new center to act as a surveillance to supervise Yahoo China secretly. * The new research center can maintain a close relationship between Yahoo and the China market...
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...INTRODUCTION Yahoo! Inc. acronym for “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle” (Gil P.) is an American multinational Internet corporation with headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. It was founded in January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo and incorporated on 1st March 1995. Its present CEO and President from July 17, 2012 is Marissa Mayer (Pariroth N.,2012). It’s services include Web Portal, Yahoo Search, Yahoo Groups, Yahoo Directory, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Answers, online mapping, fantasy sports and Yahoo mail which is a free email service launched in 1997, and Yahoo Mail was the third-largest web-based email service with 281 million users as of December 2012 (Molla R.,2012) Yahoo email accounts have been continuously hijacked by hackers since January 2013. This has caused serious mail insecurities among Yahoo account holders. A cross-site scripting (XSS) proof-of-concept developed by a security researcher Shahin Ramezany is claimed to put some 400 million Yahoo Mail users at risk of hijack (Donohue B.,2013). The XSS vulnerability in yahoo webmail service was blamed for a spate of the account hijackings. The compromised accounts were used to send spam. (ISHA SURI,2013) Security researcher Shahin Ramezany developed an XSS proof-of-concept exploit that he claims puts some 400 million Yahoo Mail users at risk of having their accounts taken over. 1.1 DECISION MAKING AND PROBLEM SOLVING The ASK SIR L model is used to describe the approach taken by Yahoo in solving...
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...Case Study #1 Managing Talent Can Yahoo Still Attract Tech Workers? Human Resource Management October 20th, 2014 Can Yahoo Still Attract Tech Workers? Part 1: Overview of the case In this case, Yahoo’s employees tend to find another job in other technology companies. Thus, lacking employees is the severe challenge to Yahoo now. Yahoo has 14,000 employees are well paid, but its employees do not have their passion when they work for Yahoo, even a vice president and chief trust officer also left the company to work for another company. In order to solve this problem, recruiting is an important plan to keep Yahoo running. Yahoo must focus on the process of human resources planning. This planning also requires the following steps: forecasting, goal setting and strategic planning; and program implementing and evaluating the human resource plan. Forecasting is a first step of the process. It helps the company to determine the supply of and demand for various types of human resources. Based on that, we can predict areas within the company where there will be labor shortages or surpluses. Goal setting and strategic planning purpose to focus on the problem and provide a basis for measuring a company’s success in addressing labor shortages and surpluses. This step shows us the job category and skill area of employees. The final step is implementing and evaluating the plan. The plan will not succeed if a firm doesn’t implement it, and then a firm will evaluate what if the plan...
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...YAHOO & APPLE Course Project HRM 587 Managing Organizational Change Professor Change management: Yahoo & Apple What was true more than two thousand years ago is just as true today. We live in a world where "business as usual" is change. New initiatives, project-based working, technology improvements, staying ahead of the competition, emerging stronger from the recession - together these drive changes to the way we work. (from A Sense of Urgency, by John P Kotter Published By Harvard Business Press, 2008) Today more than ever before, we can feel that we live in an era of risk and instability. Globalization, new technologies, and greater transparency have combined to upend the business environment and give many CEOs a deep sense of unease. The management structure of an organization as well as personal leadership style CEO’s and other senior leaders’ affects how individuals within a company make decisions and how quickly the company reacts to various challenges and opportunities. From basic definition of change we learned that the origin of the necessity of change lies in the dissatisfaction with the current state or the perception of a problem. The objectives, content, and process of change should be specified as part of the change management plan. Change management processes can benefit from creative marketing to enable communication between change audiences, and a deep social understanding about...
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... Home Page » Business and Management Yahoo In: Business and Management Yahoo Yahoo.... 1. “Managers at all levels and in all functions should analyze the organizational environment periodically and identify sources of uncertainty.” (Managerial Implications, p. 73) How effective do you think Yahoo’s managers at all levels are at analyzing the environment? 2. “To manage transactions with the organizational environment effectively, managers should chart the forces in the organization’s specific and general environments, noting (a) the number of forces that will affect the organization, (b) the pattern of interconnectedness or linkages between these forces, (c) how rapidly these forces change, and (d) the extent and nature of competition, which affects how rich or poor the environment is.” (Managerial Implications, p. 73) Conduct a specific analysis of Yahoo’s environment, identifying each of the 4 factors listed above. 3. “Taking that analysis, managers should plan how to deal with contingencies. Designing inter-organizational strategies to control and secure access to scarce and valuable resources in the environment in which they operate is the first state in this process” (Managerial Implications, p. 73) 4. How is Resource Dependence Theory illustrated in Yahoo’s relations with its environment? 5. Illustrate the concepts of symbiotic and competitive interdependence, using Yahoo’s case history. Did Yahoo effectively manage its interdepencies...
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...Running Head: Managing Talent Case Study MT203- 01 Unit 4 Assignment Human Resource and Management October 19, 2015 Professor Maria Minor 1. What conclusions can you draw about the supply of and demand for labor at Yahoo? The conclusion about the supply would be for Yahoo to try to continue to do what they were doing when the old internet of Yahoo when business was booming but little twist to getting involved in the new internet. The twist of getting the new internet into their business would be the demand of their supply. Something that can attract the new generation especially since it’s all about the internet and the new technology. I also think that Yahoo should partner with other investors that will help advertise their business. Example would be like Samsung and Amazon Fire use google or have the google app already on their devices. So going into business with another company/investor can also help them as well. 2. What actions might Yahoo take to strengthen its internal recruiting? How might these efforts support Yahoo’s corporate strategy? Some actions that yahoo can take to strengthen its internal recruiting would be to advance in careers and to have the employees share their ideas. It states that Yahoo is seeking pathways for growth so since the employees already have an idea of what the company is expecting or may need; maybe promoting someone into office and having them share their ideas on what the company needs can strengthen the company...
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...Trident University Mark Washington Module 1 Case Assignment BUS 401: International Business Dr. Portuese 5 DEC 2011 Why does E-Bay have problems in its Asian Markets? The situation in Asia is somewhat ironic given that in the U.S. Yahoo and eBay have forged An alliance to protect their dominance in the $12.5 billion online advertising market against Google. But in Asia, the eBay-Yahoo rivalry is ferocious (BusinessWeek.com, 5/26/06, Tech Titans Take Sides). Yes, Yahoo is a big reason that E-bay globalization in the Asian market isn’t successful. Though yahoo has some responsibility in EBAY unsuccessful Asian Market, EBay has lack the ability to conform its business model to the Asian market. EBay inability to tailor its product to the Asian Market has also been a major reason for their failure in the Asian Market. In major markets like Japan, Korea and China, Yahoo subsidiary have outperformed EBay. EBay has a simple business model of drawing revenue from passing information between seller and buyer, which require no necessity to have inventory or ship goods. This business model was embraced by foreign markets including UK, France, Germany and surely became a leader in e-commerce in the US. This success didn’t translate to the Asian Market. The reason is due to neglect of the four P’s concept, adoption, standardization, and entry time and entry market. EBay begin its entry into the Asian market in Japan, but missed...
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