...Department of Regional Development Dear Ms A Person The Business Edge Program at ECU aids in the development of employability skills to prepare graduates for entering the workplace upon completion of their degree. The skills developed are an advantage to been successful in our careers but also teach us the skills to deal with the situations we face in our everyday lives. This is a first of its kind with ECU the first university to teach this in a specially designed program which has been incorporated into the Bachelor of Business Degree. As the current economy is very tight so too is employment making it very hard for graduates who have just finished their degree to enter into the workforce as they are lacking employability skills which many employers list as essential. The program consists of 4 units within the Bachelor of Business Degree which are BES1100 Foundations of Business Knowledge, BES1200 Business Knowledge Development, BES2100 Foundations of Business Leadership & BES3100 Business Career Development (ECU Business Edge Units (Business Edge Program), n.d.) The units are developed to cover employability skills such as working effectively with others, communicating effectively, self awareness, thinking critically, analysing data and using technology, problem solving, developing initiative and enterprise, self management, social responsibility and accountability and developing professionalism. (About (Business Edge Program), n.d.) These skills are important in the workplace...
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...Business Manager - Operations Excellent culture and senior management opportunity Executive salary package on offer About our Client Our client is a top tier parking operator across the West Australian market. With multiple sites across the state as well as being part a larger parent group, they are founded on market leading customer service and are going from strength to strength. Job Description This position assumes functional responsibility for overseeing the overall and strategic operations of car park sites within the state portfolio. The purpose of the role is to provide leadership, guidance and direction to line managers, area operations managers and direct reports to ensure that they are able to perform their roles effectively and efficiently. The position is the primary conduit for information, reporting and implementation of direction to and from the State Manager - WA, Clients and senior operations personnel. The Successful Applicant The successful applicant will ideally have: •Multi site management exposure•Man management experience•P+L experience •Passion for strategically developing a business unit•Tertiary qualified in a business discipline What's on Offer: •Top end salary package•Perth city based offices•Chance to work within an exciting and dynamic culture. To apply online please click the 'Apply' button below. For a confidential discussion about this role please contact Edward Ellis quoting reference number A107277957 on +61 8 9215 9511.Email...
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...You Decide Scenario: Week 3 Detecting and preventing insider threats is its own discipline, with its own dynamics. If you put these countermeasures in place, you can reduce the threat dramatically. First, you can use an IP packet-filtering router. This type of router permits or denies the packet to either enter or leave the network through the interface on the basis of the protocol, IP address, and the port number. The protocol may be TCP, UDP, HTTP, SMTP, or FTP. The IP address under consideration would be both the source and the destination addresses of the nodes. The port numbers would correspond to the well-know port numbers (Vacca, 2009). Packet filtering lets you control data transfer based on the address the data is, the address the data is going to, and the session and application protocols being used to transfer data. The main advantage of packet filtering is leverage. It allows you to provide, in a single place, particular protections for an entire network. Consider the Telnet service. If you disallow Telnet by turning off the Telnet server on all your hosts, you still have to worry about someone in your organization installing a new machine (or reinstalling an old one) with the Telnet server turned on. On the other hand if Telnet is not allowed by your filtering router, such a new machine would be protected right from the start, regardless of whether or not its Telnet server was actually running. Another advantage of a packet filtering router is that...
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...the project. As you know, I have proven track record in my place and I can successfully transform the plan into reality. Therefore, I look forward to considering my inputs as I develop a comprehensive, integrated, final development plan. Thank you for giving this opportunity. Sincerely, Dear Your business experience has already shown you some of the advantages of leasing needed equipment. Our leasing experience gives us a real edge in furnishing your firm some maximum advantages with a minimum of “red tape” and time delay. We realize, as do you, that if structured properly, a lease prepared with your special requirements in mind and by a firm, such as ours, that is not just interested in your financial statements, but also in your growth potential and the nature of your business, will keep you in a profit making positions firmer and faster than any alternate financial arrangement. Please contact us if you are even contemplating the future acquision of additional income producing equipment and we will be happy to discuss your needs either personally or by telephone, whichever you prefer. We know that when our business is good, your business is better....
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...To: Michael Harding Subject: Reaction to Casual-Dress Policy Cc: Michael, After the inquiry you provided I have looked over the questions regarding the dress code and have provided some information pertaining to each question raised by Mr. Laughton. • Employees should be allowed to wear dark wash jeans on dress down days provided they do not have rips or holes. Shirts should cover midriffs and shoulders and represent employees with an element of class. • Restricting body art and piercings would help give the employees a polished look and would allow for employees to make a professional first impression on clients. • Supervisors need to inform employees when their clothing is inappropriate. This can prevent the same employees from having similar problems in the future. Supervisors might find it helpful to have a specific set of guidelines to refer employees to. • With detailed guidelines it would be possible for employees to have casual dress days. Employees need to remember they are representing the company. • One advantage of a dress up policy is that employees are likely to look acceptable even if they bend the rules. A dress up policy would also increase the reputation of the company because it will appear more professional. A dress-down policy simply confuses employees about what is considered appropriate. Casual dress policy can may simply cause more problems within the organization. I think you will find it most appropriate and in the best interest...
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...Abstract According to Beynon (2004), electronic business, commonly quoted as “E-business” is the set of all the activities of business by using information and communication technologies. Electronic business methods make corporates deal with their internal and external data processing systems more effectively and flexibly, cooperate more closely with suppliers and partners, and better meet the needs and expectations of their clients. Classified by market relationship, there are there models: business-to-consumer (B2C), business-to-business (B2B), and consumer-to-consumer (C2C). As a small company providing consultancy services in life science, the best sales strategy for Evolution Bioscience is E-business. However, this company does not make full use of its official website and several social media accounts to develop its business. This article describes Evolution Bioscience existing strengths and failing in using digital platforms such as its website and social media accounts first, and then, using SWOT and business models to analyse the company’s internal situation and via analysing the main social media to choose the suitable social media. Finally, according to the business models analysis, a recommendation mainly refers to B2B development is performed. Current situation of Evolution Bioscience EXISTING STRENGTHS As Jukes and Zilling presented in 2012, the most important for a company in E-business age is establish an official website. Evolution Bioscience...
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...Overview Alibaba.com Limited, the flagship company of Alibaba Group, is the world’s largest online business-to-business trading platform for small businesses. Founded in Hangzhou in eastern China, Alibaba.com has three major marketplaces. The company’s English language international marketplace (www.alibaba.com) serves to bring together importers and exporters from more than 240 countries and regions. History Alibaba Group was founded in 1999 by 18 people led by Jack Ma, a former English teacher from Hangzhou, China who has aspired to help make the Internet accessible, trustworthy and beneficial for everyone. The privately held Alibaba Group, including its affiliated entities, employs more than 24,000 people in some 70 cities in Greater China, India, Japan, Korea, the United Kingdom and the United States Alibaba Group’s various businesses and affiliated entities include: -Alibaba.com - provider of online marketplaces facilitating international and domestic China trade for small businesses (B2) (www.alibaba.com) -Aliexpress - Alibaba for single orders, B2B and B2C (www.Aliexpress.com) -Tmall - business-to-consumer (B2C) online retail marketplace (www.tmall.com) -Taobao Marketplace - consumer-to-consumer (C2C) online shopping platform (www.taobao.com) -eTao - search engine designed for online shoppers (www.etao.com) -Alibaba Cloud Computing - advanced data-centric cloud computing services platform -China Yahoo! - one of China’s leading internet portals (www.yahoo...
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...organizations move to a full electronic environment and change the way they operate“ (Nansi, 2004, p. 14). In a word, E-commerce today involves business information sharing, business relationships maintaining, and business transactions conducting by telecommunications networks (Web catalogues, advertazing and other). Besides, e-commerce considers electronical orders of products and services, payments (traditional payment, by credit cards, EDI, digital money), form filling (Web form, e-mail, faxing and others), services and technical support (Frequently Asked Questions, e-mail, bulletin boards and others). One of the major advantages of e-commerce is low connection and usage prices and multichanelled access and delivery. On the other hand, M-commerce reffers to mobile commerce and it “is defined as the exchange or buying and selling of commodities, services, or information on the Internet through the use of mobile handheld devices.” (p. 1-2). In another words, mobile commerce refers to the implementation of e-commerce over wireless devices. It is commercial mobile computing application based on wireless networks. There are several categories of e-commerce which are based on the nature of their transactions: business-to-consumer (B2C), business-to-business (B2B), consumer-to-consumer (C2C), consumer-to-business (C2B) and government. Business-to-consumer (B2C) companies, such as Amazon.com, Barnesandnoble.com, Onsale.com sell directly to consumers (Bidgoli, 2011). For example...
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...educational network to a commercial Internet in the early 1990s, the basis of websites and e-commerce was set with the development of the browser Netscape in 1994, and the founding of Amazon and eBay in 1995. The largest companies all have an Internet presence, and many offer goods and services for sale on their websites. As the Internet continues to evolve, even small businesses that don't have their own websites will develop them. With mobile devices generating more Internet traffic, websites have become increasingly mobile-friendly, with dedicated mobile apps allowing smartphones and tablets to access information. Communication New electronic technologies have transformed communications in business. E-commerce evolved from pre-electronic paper mail, wire transmissions, and teletype to email, texting and fax, with the latter now on the verge of obsolescence. On the telephone side, long distance calls became substantially less expensive and Voice over Internet Protocol calls can be completely free to any Internet connection. New technologies like Skype and Google Hangouts make free video conferencing possible. Companies use these new e-commerce technologies to...
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...Commerce. It is a business that based on the internet concept in the terms of buying and selling products or services. E-Commerce is a non-cash payment system, it uses credit cards, debit cards, cash cards, electronic fund transfer via bank’s websites or other ways of electronic payment. E-commerce is not only a term of shopping online (Web shopping), but also encompasses many more business activities. E-commerce is a new way of conducting business, using any of the new application of technology. It makes business people to conduct their business globally and 24hours/7days. People can order and make payment on anytime and at anyway. This also improves the sales for the business organizations. Although e-commerce is popular for online shopping recently, but electronic commerce has existed for many years as banks have been using electronic funds transfer (EFT) for decades. A market is a place of interactions and relationships where products, information, payment, and services are exchanged. It handles all transactions that needed. E-Commerce bazaars let traders and buyers meet electronically. Main Essay E-commerce business model Electronic Commerce business model can be categorized into three major ideals. There are: B2B, B2C, and C2C. (i) B2B Business-to-Business e-Commerce Participants are the organizations. This is a business transaction between businesses. Using B2B business concept, website sells their product to a wholesaler or business organization; they...
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...Limitations of E-Commerce 4 4.0 Features of E-Commerce 4 4.1 Ubiquity 5 4.2 Global Reach 5 4.3 Universal Standards 6 4.4 Richness 6 4.5 Interactivity 7 4.6 Information Density 7 4.7 Personalisation/Customisation 7 4.8 Social Technology 8 5.0 Privacy and Security Issues 9 5.2 Security 9 6.0 Ethical Factors 10 6.1 Privacy 10 7.0 Recommendations 11 8.0 Conclusion 11 9.0 Bibliography 11 Appendix 13 1.0 13 2.0 14 3.0 15 4.0 16 5.0 17 1.0 Executive Summary This is a report of a critical review of the E-Commerce website of “Alfasud Parts Online”. The report will look at the general role of e-commerce in contemporary business and the advantages or otherwise for Alfasud. A critical analysis of the implementation of the unique features of E-Commerce shall be undertaken and their business significance for the company will be evaluated. This report will evaluate the security provisions on the e-commerce website and the employed technologies and methods for ensuring security and privacy. An evaluation of necessary ethical considerations and others issues arising on the website will also be conducted. The report will draw conclusions and make recommendations to the board of directors of Alfasud on how to improve their website to fully reap the benefits of e-commerce for full competitive advantage. 2.0 Introduction According to (Burke & Sewake, 2008), the growing need for sales increases and costs reductions (by businesses) through a...
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...The Growth of Alibaba pg.8-pg.10 * Alibaba Business Model pg.11 * Five Forces Analysis pg.12-pg.13 * Present the Corporation Now pg.13 * Business Environment pg.14-pg.15 * The Financial Analysis pg.17-pg.18 * SWOT Analysis pg.19 * Recommendation for Alibaba pg.20 * Conclusion pg.20 * References pg.21 Definition * E-commerce Electronic commerce, commonly known as e-commerce or eCommerce, is a type of industry where the buying and selling of products or services is conducted over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. Electronic commerce draws on technologies such as mobile commerce, electronic funds transfer, supply chain management, Internet marketing, online transaction processing, electronic data interchange (EDI), inventory management systems, and automated data collection systems. Modern electronic commerce typically uses the World Wide Web at least at one point in the transaction’s life-cycle, although it may encompass a wider range of technologies such as e-mail, mobile devices, social media, and telephones as well. Electronic commerce is generally considered to be the sales aspect of e-business. It also consists of the exchange of data to facilitate the financing and payment aspects of business transactions. This is an effective and efficient way of communicating...
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...CASE FRAMEWORK for Charles Sends an Email | Requirement | Your Mark | Out of | Instructor Comment | 1. What is the problem? What was Foster’s intention in sending the email?Answer: Foster’s problem was the unavailability of the new drive XD19 which was having good momentum. His intention in sending the email was to stock the inventory as soon as possible and to resolve the safety issues concerned with the new drive. | | 3 | | 2. Who cares about the problem? How did each recipient interpret the email?Answer: The primary person who cared about the problem was Charles Foster (Sales manager) and the secondary people who were related to the problem were Richard Howe (Vice-president of sales), Maurice LeBlanc (Head of SBU) and Ahmad Hassan (President of JV). Richard understood that there is limited stock so he wanted JV to expedite the manufacturing process as they were losing orders because of stock unavailability. Maurice thought that the US office is only concerned about the safety issues and they believe that JV doesn’t follow the same safety standards as US does. Ahmad thought that Foster is spoiling his business by saying so many negative things in an email to his boss. | | 1 | | 3. How did the problem come about? Provide some background. What cultural assumptions underlie Foster’s email and the phone call and email from Hassan? Answer: The problem arises from the forecast made by the marketing and manufacturing team. The manufacturing team doesn’t believe...
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...Acceptable email use policy - sample template Use of email by employees of [business name] is permitted and encouraged where such use supports the goals and objectives of the business. However, [business name] has a policy for the use of email whereby the employee must ensure that they: • comply with current legislation • use email in an acceptable way • do not create unnecessary business risk to the company by their misuse of the internet Unacceptable behaviour The following behaviour by an employee is considered unacceptable: • use of company communications systems to set up personal businesses or send chain letters • forwarding of company confidential messages to external locations • distributing, disseminating or storing images, text or materials that might be considered indecent, pornographic, obscene or illegal • distributing, disseminating or storing images, text or materials that might be considered discriminatory, offensive or abusive, in that the context is a personal attack, sexist or racist, or might be considered as harassment • accessing copyrighted information in a way that violates the copyright • breaking into the company’s or another organisation’s system or unauthorised use of a password/mailbox • broadcasting unsolicited personal views on social, political, religious or other non-business related matters • transmitting unsolicited commercial or advertising material • undertaking deliberate activities that waste staff effort or networked resources ...
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...Unethical or Good Business IT/205 July 19, 2013 Beverly Scott Monitoring Employees on Networks: Unethical or Good Business Since email first emerged as a business tool, companies have increased productivity, decreased costs and found new marketing venues. From collaborated group work to encouraging management messages, the advantages of email in business can be seen in small and large organizations. Rapid Communication Email communications blaze through the Internet with amazing speed. This speed allows businesses to work at a faster pace and communicate more effectively, even in large organizations. Executives are able to receive almost real-time status updates and can therefore make well-informed decisions. Email can also be used to rapidly disseminate information to multiple employees at the same time. Decreased Cost One of the biggest business advantages of using email in business is the cost savings. The overhead to maintain an email system is relatively low. Small businesses can utilize free online email services for no cost beyond their computer and Internet connection expenses. The decreased costs for businesses can be seen in their postage usage, telephony expenses and even travel expenses. Decreased Layers of Management Email effectively decreases the layers of management because everyone in a company can email the company president with ideas, suggestions or comments. Management can obtain opinions from the front lines of their business, which helps them...
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