...Bookstore Research Outline First M Last BIS 320 Business Information Systems August 27, 2014 Professors Name Bookstore Research I. Introduction A. Brief history of how each bookstore was founded, how far they have come to this day. II. Body A. Background bookstore information B. How each bookstore uses their database? 1. Discuss the use of software and hardware C. What type of information is stored in each database? 1. Discuss the use of databases and data communication technologies 2. List three similarities between all three bookstores 3. List differences between all three bookstores D. What are possible issues with the bookstores database? 1. Discuss database issues that each bookstore potentially may have 2. Discuss possible database solutions to these issues 3. Discuss any security related issues a. legal and privacy aspects of their website and business E. Discuss if the bookstore meeting its business objectives 1. List each bookstores business objects 2. Discuss whether each business is meeting their objectives and how? F. List the vision and mission of the bookstores. III. Conclusion References Peterson, V. (2015). Barnes & Noble’s booksellers-"the world's largest bookstore". Retrieved from http://publishing.about.com/od/BooksellersAndBookselling/p/Barnes-And-Noble-Booksellers-The-Worlds-Largest-Bookstore.htm Barnes & Noble’s selects Accenture and initiate systems. (2007). Retrieved from https://newsroom.accenture....
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... | |TOP Bookstore on the Rise | |Technology in the Bookstore | | | | Table of Contents Proposal I. Subject of the Project II. Business Problem Statement III. General benefits to the organization IV. High level Approaches V. Audience Milestone 1 I. Company Background II. Discussion of Business issues III. Benefits of Solving the problem IV. Businses/technical Approach V. High Level Solution Milestone 2 I. Technology or business practices used to augment the solution II. Value of the Approach III. Business process changes Milestone I. Technology or business practices used to augment the solution (plus) II. Conclusions and overall recommendations III. High-level implementation plan IV. Summary of project PROPOSAL 1. Subject of Course Project The subject of my Course Project is TOP Bookstore using technology to increase competitiveness and profitability...
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...marketing mix of National Bookstore in the Philippines. Product National Bookstore offers a wide range of products from the retail sale and distribution of books to the sale of various school supplies. National Bookstore’s products, specifically the school supplies, are mostly aimed for the students’ and office workers’ consumption and needs. However, the customers of National Bookstore are not limited to just students and office workers. The company also caters to kids through the sale of toys, coloring books, crayons and et cetera. Adults are also customers of National Bookstore since they avail of the various selections of books that National has to offer. Students and other consumers as well know that National Bookstore offers products of good quality and of affordable prices that are of great benefit to the consumers. National Bookstore also offers branded school supplies like Staedler, Stabilo, Cattleya, and et cetera. However, National Bookstore also offers their own product line named Best Buy which is more affordable than other brands. In effect, National Bookstore gives the option to its consumers to choose the products and brands that suit their tastes and that fit in their wallet. National Bookstore products have become a necessity for students and office workers. So much so, that Filipinos equate and refer to bookstores as National, like how photocopying is equated to Xerox and marker to Pentel. Filipinos rely so much on National Bookstore providing them quality...
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...Promotions New reusable shopping bag in NBS National Book Store is saving the earth one shopping bag at a time with its new reusable shopping bag. The RED bag (stands for Reduce Earth’s Destruction bag) is NBS’ response to the ever-pressing challenge of reducing solid waste by limiting the use of plastic bags in retail stores. As the largest bookstore chain in the country, it recognizes its role in the proliferation of non-biodegradable refuse and its greater influence in reversing this harmful practice. This red mesh tote is sturdy and can handle moderate to heavy purchases. It is ideal for office and school supplies shopping. It is roomy, durable, and most importantly, “earth-friendly.” With the launch of this “ecobag,” NBS hopes to help change the Filipinos’ consumption practices and do its part in caring for the environment. Avail of the RED bag for a minimum purchase of P1,000 or buy it for P65 only. Get P0.50 off your purchase every time you shop with the RED bag. Limited stocks only. Our vision is to build a thousand knowledge centers in the Asia-Pacific region by 2025. Our core values are: having Malasakit, being Innovative, having Dignity in what we do, being Service-Oriented and striving for Excellence and working as Team. Having this MINDSET is key to our success. Mission: Our purpose is to serve our customers with tools that enrich their minds and improve skills to ensure their success. All our efforts are concentrated...
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...Northlake Bookstore: Benchmarking for Performance Evaluation By: Manuel Garza Hugo Hinojosa Graciela Rodriguez Jose Garcia Alejandro Arizpe Carlos Arizpe Summary of Facts Upon assessment of the FY2004 financial information, Wendy Wiley, Northlake Bookstore’s manager, identified the first ever drop in book sales over the previous quarter. After identifying the drop in sales, Wendy turned to Chuck Irwin, the Vice Chancellor of Finance for Northlake University. He mentioned that Wendy should conduct a benchmarking analysis in order to identify the deficiencies that led to the drop in book sales. In addition, Chuck also asked Wendy to develop a set of short-term performance goals and measurements for future evaluations. Northlake is a private university located in the Midwest U.S. Annual enrollment is estimated at 12,700 students. Northlake is overwhelmingly comprised of undergraduate students. Over 60% of the university’s revenues come from student tuitions, with the majority of the remaining 40% stemming from donations and gifts. Chucks, the Vice Chancellor, is worried that the donations and gifts have decreased dramatically during the current year. He believes this is due to the current uncertain economic conditions and the stock market’s erratic performance. Wendy has been the bookstore’s manager for 7 years now. She previously worked as a Wal-Mart sales manager where she acquired15 years of experience in...
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...My overall impression on my speech was better than I anticipated. I was very nervous and anxious to get the speech over. I could tell that in the pace of my speech. I was rushing through it and at times it was hard for me to keep track of my place on the outline. I thought I gave good eye contact and I stayed on the speech path, but I could have projected my voice more so that it would have been easier to hear and understand what I was saying. I felt that the delivery was good but I could have moved around more and gave more hand gestures to keep my speech alive. Although I didn’t feel it was a boring speech, I feel like I still tell showed how nervous I really was by the body chemistry I gave off. I prepared a lot for the speech and I went over the speech 3 times in front of the camera at home. I think this helped me a great deal because I had full knowledge of what my speech was about. Because I was nervous and rushing through my speech I often lost my place on my outline, but was able to wing it because I had practiced. It helped a lot that I did my speech on a topic that I am very familiar with and used to talking about. I also used the technique in the chapter that tells you that when you are nervous take a deep breath and use a focus word, mine was “Money”. This technique helped me a great deal in the beginning because I actually felt overwhelmed and on the verge of an anxiety attack. Using this technique calmed me down and made me able to deliver my speech. ...
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...Research or Interview Paper Instructions You can choose 1 of the following two options for your Research or Interview Paper. Your paper will be 7 double-spaced pages for the main content (not including the cover page and reference page). Your choices include: 1. A research paper Steps for writing the research paper: a) Choose a topic in Managerial Economics. b) Submit the topic and the outline of the paper to the instructor anytime for approval. c) A minimum of 3 references besides the textbook are required. Liberty University library has excellent resources for your search for journals. http://www.liberty.edu/index.cfm?PID=178 OR 2. An interview paper Steps for writing the interview paper: a) Choose a topic in Managerial Economics. b) Design at least 5 questions according to the topic. c) Submit your questions to the instructor for approval. d) Contact a local or non-local company for an interview. e) Conduct the interview for answers to your questions. f) The paper must have 3 parts: • The description of the company; • Interview questions and answers; and • Your comments. *The research paper is to be done individually, not as a group. **Do not wait until the last module/week to work on the paper. Do it as early as possible. ***A paper that was written for other classes would not be accepted for...
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...Composition I Week 9 IW Assignment Worksheet Instructions: As you did in Week 3, please fill in the answers to the prompts on this worksheet and save them as a Word doc. You are only filling in the blue areas! Then, attach your completed worksheet to your drop box submission. You will work to create your thesis statement and a basic outline for a comparison/contrast essay. There are two patterns from which to choose, and you will select ONE below. Creating a Thesis Statement and Basic Outline for the Comparison/Contrast Essay I.) First, you’ll choose two items to compare and contrast. There are some great examples of items to compare/contrast on pages 229-230 in our textbook, especially #9, #10, #11, #12, #14, and #15. Fill in the two items that you will compare/contrast. A.) Nokia 7110 – the first effort at taking the Internet onto a mobile (1999) B.) Amazon Fly – Taking Image Recognition Software to its next level (2014) II.) Next, you will identify three criteria that you’ll use to evaluate each of the items. Think about three qualities or characteristics of the two items that you can evaluate to choose the better item. For example, in the Week 10 Sample essay, the writer compares/contrasts the cost, nutrition and taste of two types of bread. Fill in the three evaluative criteria you will use to decide which of your two selected items is better. 1.) Internet capability 2.) Ability to take pictures and record videos 3.) Text messaging III.)...
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...COM 114 WRITTEN EXAM AND SPEECH REQUIREMENTS Part 1: Written Exam The written exam, 50 multiple choice questions, is based on the COM 114 text, Effective Presentations, 1st or 2nd edition (2011, 2012), by Dr. Melanie Morgan and Jane Natt. Copies of the text are available in campus bookstores, from online sources, and from previous COM 114 students. Students must score 70% (35 out of 50 correct) or more to pass. One hour is allotted for the exam. Students will be informed of the results of the written exam via email within 24 hours, and then assigned a speech date and time if applicable. STAR students will have their results at the end of the exam session they attend, and will be assigned their speaking date and time before leaving the location. At the beginning of each chapter in the text is a list of “Chapter Objectives”. Every question on the exam is based on one of those objectives. To be successful on the exam, a student will need to be able to recognize, define and apply the text material in many different situations. Part 2: Persuasive Speech The persuasive speech is discussed in some length in the text in Chapters 9 through 12. Evaluators will expect students to be acquainted with the format of this type of speech. A persuasive speech urges some specific course of action. As a persuasive speech, the presentation should (1) show that a problem exists and that it is significant to the audience, (2) show how the consequences of the problem are significant to the audience,...
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...3. OPERATING STRATEGIES AND IMPLEMENTATION A. STORE 1. Location - SM Megamall, Basement, Ortigas, Pasig City 2. Size - 20 sqm 3. Rent - P40,000.00 Our children’s bookstore, Fun Page Bookshop will be located at basement of SM Megamall which is the 3rd largest mall in the Philippines and soon to be the biggest mall in the Philippines after its renovation by the end of 2013. Megamall attracts daily foot traffic of 800,000 people. With this numbers, our shop will be visible to people from different walks of life, class A to B and hoping that at least 10% of these people may notice us, spread the news and patronize us. B. CLIENTS Our clients will be children ages 3-12 years old. Through our interactive bookshop, children will develop their self-esteem by interacting with other children. They will be comfortable in social settings and enjoys group activities as well as develop independency. Parents/guardians who are in the mall with their children may visit the area to allow their children to play and learn at the same time. C. MARKETING Since we are just new in the business of children’s bookstore, the Managing Partners, its partners, family and friends will work hand in hand in promoting the bookstore. We will be doing awareness campaign through social network advertising, online promotions, distribution of flyers and TV guestings. On the grand opening, we are working to have a celebrity mother to do the first story telling. We are working...
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...Concord Bookshop Paper HCS/587 Concord Bookshop Paper The Concord Bookshop was a thriving entity that provided many forms of literary materials to the community of New England. This 64 –year-old business began to experience a major slump because of the new innovative ways that literature can be obtained. Since the inception of this bookstore, much has changed in the industry as it pertains to the way books are printed. Technology has afforded many readers the ability to purchase a digital print of a book instead of actually buying a book or purchasing the book online at a fraction of the cost. This technique caused the bookshop to lose customers as well as money. To counteract this development the owners decided to implement some changes. The Phases In order for any organization to implement change, there are certain phases that employees should be walked through. Failure to do such will result in an atmosphere of further resistance. Though resistance is inevitable when it concerns change in the workforce, it has a way of escalating when the phases are not incorporated into the plan. Three phases that should be implemented in the revamping of an organization is turnaround, tools and techniques, and, transformation. The first phase, which is involves a turnaround deals with the improvement of an organizations finances. In improving finances there is an evaluation as to what is causing the decrease in the financial aspect of the organization. In this...
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...Small Business: Bookstore Competing Business: Online Bookstore An online bookstore has numerous competitive advantages compared to a traditional bookstore for the following reasons. Consumer habits have changed as a result of technological advancement. Today more consumers spend a great deal of time either looking for commodities to buy or make online purchases. It is imperative that local bookstores embraces this shift in consumer behavior and in addition to having a physical presence also have an online bookstore. An online bookstore also allows consumers flexibility in their purchasing habits. To begin with, purchase books online takes shorter duration of time and therefore is time saving in way. Secondly, it also allows consumers the convenience of shopping anytime they want. This is because an online bookstore does not have the same time restrictions as a local bookstore and hence can operate 24hours a day, seven days a week. This therefore implies that there’s no fixed time to buy books. This consequently results to an increased number of books sold per unit time as a result of the extended working hours. An online bookstore also allows for greater market penetration as compared to a physical one. Whilst a physical bookstore only commands its immediate surrounding market, an online one has traverses boundaries and borders and hence forth can tap into markets far and wide. This is simply because of the convenience it provides customers of making purchases from remote...
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...PROCEDURE FOR WRITING A TERM PAPE A term (or research) paper is primarily a record of intelligent reading in several sources on a particular subject. The task of writing such is not as formidable as it seems if it is thought out in advance as a definite procedure with systematic perpetration. The procedure for writing such a report consists of the following steps: 1. Choosing a subject 2. Finding sources of materials 3. Gathering the notes 4. Outlining the paper 5. Writing the first draft 6. Editing the paper Now let's look at each of them. CHOOSING A SUBJECT Most good papers are built around questions. You can find subjects in any textbook. Simply take some part of the text that interest you and examine it carefully. Ask yourself the following things about it to see if you can locate a question to answer in your paper. Does it tell you all you might wish to learn about the subject? Are you sure it is accurate? Does the author make any assumptions that need examining? Can two of the more interesting sections in the text be shown to be interrelated in some useful way? Your paper is an attempt to write a well-organized answer to whatever question you decide upon, using facts for the purpose of proving (or at least supporting) your contention. The most common error made by students in choosing a subject for a term paper is to choose one that is too general. (The most specific subject will always have enough aspects to furnish a long paper, if you think...
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...the page next to the home tab. Click the classroom tab. The student’s next page will be the current class the student is participating in. Under the classroom tab are four new tabs. They are materials, discussions, assignments, and grades. The University of Phoenix is geared for adult learners. UoP has a very extensive user friendly website for the active learner. Figure 1.3 CLASSROOM TAB 5.1.1 COURSE OUTLINE When the student has clicked the classroom tab, the next screen will be automatically being the materials tab. The tabs are located at the top of the screen, directly under the classroom tab. In the materials tab the student will have a variety of information at their fingertips. Located on the left will be the course outline. The outline will give the student an overview of week to week activities. It will also give the student a course overview, and course policies. The student has the ability to access an overview of the course. Figure 1.4 MATERIALS TAB, COURSE OUTLINE 5.1.2 POLICIES Under the course outline there is a link for policies. When the link is clicked on, it will open another window. It will give the student the opportunity to read all the policies and procedures of UofP. It gives the user the opportunity to read all the rules and policies under several different types of students. 5.2 DISCUSSION TAB Next to the materials tab at the top of the page is the discussion tab. Under the discussion tab are the forums...
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...Introductory Presentation ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Purpose of Presentation: to introduce yourself as a (potential) professional ------------------------------------------------- Audience: class members and your tutor ------------------------------------------------- Due: Week 3 Seminar 1 (Week starting 27 August 2012) ------------------------------------------------- Time limit: (3 minutes, Powerpoint not required) ------------------------------------------------- This presentation is video-taped. ------------------------------------------------- Short written outline of your presentation (one page or less), submitted to your tutor ------------------------------------------------- in hard copy on the day you present. ------------------------------------------------- Presentation Assignment Prepare a presentation to introduce yourself to your class and tutor. The speech will be videotaped for your review and self-assessment. Your presentation should be thoroughly planned, outlined, and rehearsed but not memorized or read. This handout covers the introductory presentation assignment, procedures for giving most business presentations, and a specific assessment sheet to help you prepare your talk and to give peer feedback. TASK: Adapt to Audience and Purpose Prepare and rehearse a presentation to develop your professional identity, establish rapport with your peers, and practise...
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