...Business Analysis, Part I Amanda Simpson MGT/521 February 25, 2012 Linda Teza Kulka University of Phoenix Workshop # 4 Business Analysis, Part I Publix Supermarket, Inc. is a Fortune 500 company that has shown a great amount of growth since first opening in 1930. George Jenkins opened the first Publix Supermarket in 1930 in Winter Haven, Florida. Shortly after 1945, the company purchased the All American grocery store chain. After purchasing the store chain, Jenkins moved the headquarters for Publix to Lakeland, Florida. Over the next 30 years Publix added pharmacies and bakeries in their stores. in the 1990s, Publix Supermarket ventured outside of Florida to open their first store in George. In 1996, George Jenkins passed away and left the company to be run by his family. Publix now operates stores in Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and South Carolina. According to Publix Supermarket, Inc. (2012), “Publix is known for its philosophy of pleasing the customer; the Publix guarantee to never knowingly disappoint our customers is legendary in the industry” (para. 2). Throughout this paper we will explain the Publix Supermarket company background, discuss a SWOT analysis of Publix Supermarket, and identify and explain the needs and wants of Publix’s internal and external stakeholders. Publix Supermarket Company Background Publix, opened for business for the past 82 years, has achieved the expectations of George W. Jenkins. According to Publix Supermarket...
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...Media, Medicine and American Expectations What constitutes the media? Changed over time? What constitutes medicine? Health or health culture as alternate name to describe what course encompasses? Bert Hanson – medical breakthrough = social phenomenon * How has promise of medical breakthroughs influenced: media culture and patients expectations relationship between medicine and media place of medicine in American political culture How and why does the medical community use media to communicate with public? Increasingly interdependent spheres w/ differing perspectives on vision of media’s role is in “media-ted” world What makes health “news”? Producing Medical Heroes How and why has American society selected its medical heroes? How has this changed over time? What functions do depictions of heroic doctors (Walter Reed, and House, M.D.) and patients serve? How have fictional medical characters – in novels, Hollywood films, on TV – shaped expectations of medical culture? VD, HIV, and the Media How did the media contribute to the publics perception of venereal diseases and HIV? What images (both visual, and stories told to make a point) came most powerfully to cultural prominence? What were the aims of medical and public health authorities, the state, and media professionals in working to make those images publically visible? What role did the media play in changing public’s image of HIV? Stigmatization, Destigmatization, and Medical...
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...EN130 English Composition II March 25, 2016 Can you live indefinitely on a job that pays $7.25 an hour? That is the national minimum wage set by the Fair Labor Standards Act in 2009. Projecting this to a 40-hour work week over 50 weeks it comes to a total of $14,500 a year. This is just above the U.S poverty level for a family of 2, but below the poverty level of $22,050 for a family of 4. Despite the fact that the minimum wage has been increased 3 times since 2007, it is almost $3.00 below what it was nearly forty years ago in purchasing power. It has not kept up with inflation. If it had, the minimum wage would be $10.74 per hour. In other words, the minimum wage is a far cry from being a living wage which is a wage that is high enough for fulltime workers to provide a decent life for themselves and their families. For the benefit of American citizens and the economy, the minimum wage must be increased! Those opposed to an increase in the minimum wage focus on a number of assumptions suggesting it would be a bad idea. Under close examination, all of their arguments fall apart. One of the main arguments for not raising the minimum wage is that it is a job killer. The reasoning is the increase in salary decreases profits and results in cutbacks in hiring. However, a study at the University of California, Berkeley, has shown that raising the minimum wage does not have a negative effect on employment. An analysis of those states that independently increased the minimum...
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...motivation and success. In the workplace environment, there are many situations in which this theory is applicable; there are certain situations in which this theory would not apply or work for the individual involved. In the workplace culture, motivation is typically linked to productivity. If there is no motivation then there will be reduced or no productivity. Are the factors intrinsic or extrinsic? I believe for this particular theory, the driving forces that make this theory plausible are more intrinsic in nature; however, it can be extrinsic factors to consider. “Intrinsic motivation is a natural motivation that emerges spontaneously out of people’s psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness” (Reeves, 2009, p. 112). Analysis: I used to formerly work at Citigroup in their credit card division. I had received a few awards during my three year stay there. One of the awards that was given to me involved having the...
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...The following document is an archived chapter from a previous edition of A First Look at Communication Theory by Em Griffin, the leading college text in the field of communication theory (all editions published by McGraw-Hill). The theory is no longer covered in a full chapter of the current edition. This document is posted on the resource website for the text www.afirstlook.com All material is copyright © Em Griffin or used by permission of the copyright holder (Note that some cartoons reproduced in the textbook could not be included in the archived documents because copyright permission does not extend to online use.) CHAPTER 19 Information Systems Approach to Organizations of Karl Weick My father worked at a large metropolitan newspaper. I was six years old when he first took me to experience the final hour before the morning edition was "put to bed." The place was alive with activity-shouted orders, quick telephone calls, and copy boys running last-minute changes to the composing room. The whole scene was like watching a huge animal struggling for survival. Many systems theorists regard the image of a living organism as an appro priate metaphor to apply to all organizations-one model fits all. Even though mosquitoes, sparrows, trout, and polar bears represent vastly different species in the animal kingdom, they all have systems to provide for nourishment, respira tion, reproduction, and elimination of bodily waste. Karl Weick is uncomfortable comparing organizations...
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...Federal Express The Federal Express is an express transportation company, created in 1973 by an innovative entrepreneur Frederick W. Smith. During his college years, he saw the idea that the United States was becoming more of a service-oriented economy and that it needed a reliable, overnight delivery service company that would transport packages, documents, medicine, computer parts and electronics. Frederick Smith born in Memphis, TN in 1994 perhaps has became one of the most innovative entrepreneurs with his corporation. In 1966 he graduated from Yale University with an economics degree. While pursuing his career, “he authored a paper describing the concept of a freight-only airline that would fly all packages to one central point, where they would then be distributed and flown out again to their respective destination (Hisrich, 2010, pg. 226).” The operations would take place overnight when airports were less crowded, and with the proper logistics, the packages would reach their destination by the next day. The professor did not think the idea was feasible so Smith received a C grade for his paper. Fortunately for Frederick Smith, he didn’t take it to heart and ended up building that company he dreamed of. After graduating from Yale, he enrolled in the Marines he served two tours of duty, first as a rifle platoon leader in the U.S. Marines and later as an air controller. His four year term was well spent because it permitted him the opportunity to examine a working...
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...Part One Cause marketing and corporate social responsibility plans are two gears of contemporary production practices that assure opportunities for companies to do well fiscally by doing well in the general public. While cause-marketing and corporate social responsibility initiatives are essentially dissimilar, they can help assist a business develop or generate new advancements in the workplace, with the employees, and in the market (Charter & Ottoman, 2010). These programs can help perk up the substructure line and facilitate a company to meet the expectations satisfaction prospects of their consumers, human resources, and stakeholders. In the view point of a brand marketing manager, cause marketing can be defined as a potentially profit making scheme by a ‘for-profit’ business or product to raise responsiveness, funds, and/or consumer commitment in a collective or environmental issue. In general, course marketing refers to a type of marketing which generally involves the cooperative efforts of a business (which is after profitability) and a non profit making organization for reciprocated benefit. To come up with the conclusions on cause marketing, study survey was carried out on a number of retailers from different business perspectives in relation to the topic of discussion. The questions were designed in a way that could pin down all the responses and enhance the general formulation of a common idea among the retailers. The questions on the questionnaire included the following: ...
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...Movements & Collective Behavior > Four Stages of Social Movements Table of Contents Abstract Keywords the four stages of social movements. The four stages of social movement development are emergence, coalescence, bureaucratization, and decline. The Decline stage can result from several different causes, such as repression, co-optation, success, failure, and mainstream. The four stages of development model can be applied to understand how movements form, grow, and dissipate. It has limitations, however, in its application to new social movements and movements that are not rooted in political action. Despite these limitations, the four stages model is still highly useful in understanding collective action and provides a useful frame of analysis for sociologists considering social movements and their effects in the past and present. Overview What is a Social Movement? Four Stages of Social Movements Stage 1: Emergence Stage 2: Coalescence Stage 3: Bureaucratization Stage 4: Decline Repression Co-optation Success Failure Establishment with Mainstream Overview There have been many social movements throughout history that have dramatically changed the societies in which they occurred. There have been many failed social movements as well. Throughout the history of the United States alone there have been a number of important and notable social movements. These movements have varied widely in their ideologies; some movements have been revolutionary in their aims, some have advocated...
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...Industry size Supermarkets & Grocery Stores Market Research Report | NAICS 44511 | Jan 2015 Shopping smart: Increasing premium brand sales and healthy eating trends will spur growth The Supermarkets & Grocery Stores market research report provides key industry analysis and industry statistics, measures market size, analyzes current and future industry trends and shows market share for the industry’s largest companies. IBISWorld publishes the largest collection of industry reports so you can see an industry’s supply chain, economic drivers and key buyers and markets. Market Share of Companies Kroger Publix Super Markets Inc. Safeway Industry Statistics & Market Size Revenue $584bn | Annual Growth 10-15 1.3% | Annual Growth 15-20 | | Profit | Employment 2,489,995 | Businesses 42,036 | Industry Analysis & Industry Trends The Supermarkets and Grocery Stores industry has grown over the past five years, benefiting from a strengthening domestic economy. As per capita disposable income has grown over this period, some consumers traded up to premium, organic and all-natural brands, helping lift industry revenue. Over the next five years, the industry is anticipated to grow as a result of rising discretionary income, albeit at a more conservative rate than in the previous five-year period. As health concerns intensify, more consumers will seek all-natural and organic products, which are priced at a premium... purchase to read more Industry Report...
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...Education/Training and Assimilation with Life the Death of Elderly Family Member. | | | | | Total Inital Cost: | $34,780.00 | Total Project Estimate Cost: | $55, 356.25 | | | # of Persons to be Served: | Millions | # to be Employed: | 10+ | | | | | Cost To Subscriber: | Free | Revenue: | Advertisements and One Time Fee To the Retrieval | | | Population Served: | Human Race Over the World | | | | | Table of Contents Executive Summary1.0 Situation Analysis2.0 Mission2.1 Project & Plan Description2.2 Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)3.0 Amount Requested/Total Project Estimate Cost 4.0 Other Sources of Funding 4.1 Plans for Future Funding 4.2 Budget Estimates4.3 Market Strategy5.0 SWOT Analysis 5.1 Competition, Product (Service) Offering, Keys to Success.6.0 Critical Issues, Marketing Strategy, Marketing Objectives 7.0 Control8.0 Implementation9.0 Marketing Organization10.0 Contingency Planning11.0 Contingency Estimation12.0 Living Dead Inspiration 1.0 Executive Summary Living Dead Inspiration is an e-commerce company designed to become the market leader in Web-based search engine for inspirational words from the love ones whom has passed on. The life of a sick person can be shortened not only by the acts, but also by the words or the manner of a physician. Sometimes you may have to deliver a difficult message to a family, friends, loved ones, colleagues or business partner who/whom will be left behind;...
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...BUDGETING Turning Budgeting Pain into Budgeting Gain By John Orlando It’s budget time again. Being a financial executive, you approach the annual process with excitement and a sincere belief that the process will be efficient, positive, and better than last year. Yet when members of your staff ask managers for their departmental budgets, they are met with blank stares, given excuses, or sent a budget whose form is completely unrecognizable from the template you gave the managers at the outset of the budgeting cycle. Eventually, the dreaded consolidation effort begins, in which any number of accountants spend too many days attempting to fix the department budgets so you can roll them up into the company-wide budget. The spreadsheet is broken in so many places you barely know where to start. Just when you’ve got the data into somewhat workable form, the CEO tells you the board of directors would like to see “what if” scenarios reflecting the impact of two major business decisions being considered. You find yourself daydreaming about the time when building a budget was actually fun. Recognize this scenario? As a career CFO, I’ve lived through it, like you. But the scary part isn’t the aggravation that CFOs endure. The scary part is the inaccuracies resulting from this less-than-perfect budget development process that dramatically decrease confidence in the budget, according to a survey conducted by Centage and the Institute of Management & Administration (IOMA). The CFOs surveyed...
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...Duolingo: Global at Inception “We believe everyone should have access to education of the highest quality – for free” -Duolingo’s Team On June19th, 2012 a new platform for learning different languages, Duolingo, was released to the market in the hopes of providing high quality education to the masses. Nowadays, Duolingo has over 100 million users, has won awards like the IPhone app of the year and Google’s best of the best in 2013 among others (Duolingo, s.f.). This paper will focus on how Duolingo was born and has successfully expanded throughout markets around the world using internationalization theory “Born globals” as base. History Luis von Ahn, computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University and inventor of the CAPTCHA, and his PhD student, Severin Hacker, wanted to begin an academic project together and were looking for a subject to work on. They realized that the language education market was highly underserved because most people who wanted to learn another language wanted to do so to improve their economical situation and get better paid jobs, and most of these people didn’t have the money to afford a foreign language course on any of the options available like universities or online courses like Open English. So they decided to come up with a way to provide high quality language education for free. Creating and providing the best language education system for free (as von Ahn and Hacker intended to) was not an easy task, these kind of projects...
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...SM0374 – The Introductory Articles (2010-11/ Semester Two) Sources: 1. “Hewlett-Packard to buy Palm for $1.2 Billion” (Bloomberg news, 29th April, 2010) 2. “Actual Analysis: HP buys Palm, and the Earth does Move” (Betanews, 28th April, 2010) 3. http://www.hp.com 4. http://www.betanews.com 5. http://www.palm.com Hewlett-Packard to Buy Palm for $1.2 Billion By Connie Guglielmo and Ari Levy /Apr 29, 2010 Hewlett-Packard Co. agreed to buy Palm Inc., the money-losing handset maker that was once a Silicon Valley icon, for $1.2 billion to challenge Apple Inc. in the smartphone market. Palm’s common shareholders will receive $5.70 a share in cash, a 23 percent premium over the closing price, Hewlett- Packard said in a statement today. Elevation Partners LP, Palm’s biggest investor, gets $485 million for its preferred shares and warrants. The Palm deal moves Hewlett-Packard back into contention with the world’s biggest smartphone makers, including Nokia Oyj, Apple and Research In Motion Ltd. Hewlett-Packard’s current iPaq device hasn’t kept up with competitors. The company also gets a team headed by ex-Apple engineers and a Palm patent lineup that spans mobile hardware, software and power-saving technologies. “This is a low-price, low-risk way for them to at least attempt to penetrate the smartphone market,” said Brian Alexander, an analyst for Raymond James & Associates Inc. He has a “strong buy” rating on Hewlett-Packard’s stock, which he doesn’t own. “We always...
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...Fayne Davis Mary Beth Ray Psychology 220 15 April 2012 When Treatment Does Not Work Then Prosecute The phenomenon of substance abuse during pregnancy has fostered much controversy, specifically regarding treatment vs. punishment. Should the pregnant mother who engages in substance abuse be viewed as a criminal or as someone suffering from an illness requiring appropriate treatment? This diversity of dramatically different responses illustrates the failure to establish a uniform policy for the management of this problem. The issue of substance abuse is one that has negatively plagued society. The complexities surrounding addiction are not easily overcome. These complexities are even more defined in cases of substance abuse by pregnant women, including legal addictive substances such as nicotine and alcohol. This issue has been pushed to the forefront of the public consciousness over the course of the past 30 years. Murphy and Rosenbaum 1999, describe maternal prenatal substance abuse as “chronic use of alcohol and/or other drugs by pregnant women”. It is my belief that the use of tobacco, alcohol, and illegal drugs during pregnancy is still child endangerment .All these tetatogen’s can kill your baby or cause serious problems for them with the development of cognitive, physical, social, and emotional abilities. It is unfair to the child to have no control over what has caused them problems with development as a result of their mother’s teratogen...
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