...University of Dubai Introduction to information system CAN DETROIT MAKE THE CARS CUSTOMERS WANT? Done by : BiLaL aLi Introduction 7788655 Why is AutoNation having a problem with its inventory? AutoNation is having a problem with its inventory. That is that they have to maintain an excessive inventory that it can't easily sell. Because of Detroit’s century-old business model, which is still continue from the dates of Henry Ford's mass production of millions of largely identical Model T's. Rather than build cars to suit customer’s preferences, Most of the U.S. car makers are production oriented but not customer oriented therefore they have to put an extra effort to sell the cars to the customers. Vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks become outcast. That case booms the question that is can the automakers will be able to sell all the cars they have. Current situation of American economy make this worse. With the slumping economy and very high gas prices, now Americans can't think of affording new vehicles like in past. They want smaller and more fuel-efficient vehicle models. AutoNation, they are being loaded with the unwanted inventory which results in stocking up there yards and also getting them costs such as interests on the money that had been borrowed from the bank. And also dealers often have a surplus of new cars sitting in their lots for months at a time that no one wants to buy it. Why is this also a problem for auto manufacturers such as GM, Ford,...
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...Introduction: This Case Study is focus on the company of AutoNation, the system they are using for their business process. We scope some information about the said company and the connection of it to M.I.S. (Management Information System). Lastly to answer the question “CAN DETROIT MAKE THE CARS CUSTOMERS WANT?” History: AutoNation was created in 1981 as Republic Industries, Inc. a company specializing in waste disposal. H. Wayne Huizenga became Chairman of the Board in 1995. Republic got into used auto sales with the purchase of Auto Nation USA in 1997, In 1996, Republic began purchasing new car dealerships and offering long-term contracts to owners who joined the automotive division management team In 1996, Alamo Rent a Car was acquired. In 1997, Republic continued acquisitions in the car rental business with the purchase of National Car Rental, Spirit Rent-A-Car, Value Rent-A-Car, Snappy Car Rental, and EuroDollar Rent A Car. In January 2003, Jackson is named chairman of the board replacing Huizenga. On October 24, 2005, the AutoNation building in downtown Fort Lauderdale suffered significant damage due to Hurricane Wilma. The company has since transferred to another nearby building. In 2006 Mike Jackson, CEO of AutoNation announced that his company would be reducing orders from General Motors, Ford and Chryslerin 2007 In 2009 AutoNation announced the AutoNation Payment Protection program, promising that the dealership will buy back any car at market value, should...
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...Designing a Reward System Pamela Fabian HSM/220 August 17, 2014 Mrs. Serena McCall Designing a Reward System Having a motivation and reward system is an important part of a business. According to Kettner 2002 “There are nine major factors of motivation that have been studies and they are: respect for me as a person, good pay, chance to turn out quality work, chance for promotion, opportunity to do interesting work, feeling my job is important, being told by my boss when I do my job, opportunity for self-development and improvement, and large amount of freedom on the job. Rewards help to motivate employees to do their best work and gives them something to look forward to. As stated in the Encyclopedia of Small Business “The key to developing a reward program are as followed: Identification of company or group, goals that the reward program will support, identification of the desired employee performance or behaviors that will reinforce the programs goals, determination of key measurements of the performance or behavior, based on the individuals or groups precious achievements, determination of appropriate rewards, and communication of program of employees. To make the programs work for everyone certain guild lines have to be followed. In the early stages of developing reward strategies, incentive plans were often highly leveraged paying 15 percent to 30 percent of base pay. While these plans may have been financially attractive to employees, they encouraged employees...
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...Last month, California-based Tesla Motors reveled a prototype of their third model, the all-electric SUV Model X. The Model X will feature a first of its kind on passenger doors called Falcon Wings which have hinges on the top and open upward, rather than sliding sideways like the doors of typical minivans. Tesla expects to begin production of Model X in late 2013, and have them ready to be delivered in early 2014. The all-electric vehicle has already received positive buzz and Tesla reported that just one day after the reveal of the Model X, it received over 500 reservation requests, representing almost $40 million in potential sales. In a recent interview by GigaOM, Tesla’s CEO and co-founder Elon Musk mentions that the Model X will be marketed towards SUV and minivan consumers who look for a more functional SUV and a better style minivan. According to Tesla’s website, the Model X was “designed from the ground up to blend the best of an SUV with the benefits of a minivan, as only an electric car can. [The model X was] built around the driver—and six of her friends. It artfully provides unfettered performance and brilliant functionality.” 2014 Tesla Model X According to The Detroit News, Tesla last year invited a dozen Palo Alto, California-area women to its headquarters for a free-wheeling, three-hour-long focus group led by Franz von Holzhausen, Tesla’s chief designer. Tesla asked the participants, most of whom drive minivans and SUVs, to talk about their cars: how...
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...English 12 20 September 2012 Bibliography: Charles Dickens’s Bleak House DATABASE: GaleNet- "Characters in 'Bleak House'." Putnam's Monthly 2.11 (Nov. 1853): 558-562. Rpt. in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Ed. Laurie Lanzen Harris. Vol. 8. Detroit: Gale Research, 1985. Literature Resource Center. Web. 17 Sep. 2012. Ebsco Host- Jahn, Karen. "Fit To Survive: Christian Ethics In Bleak House." Studies In The Novel 18.4 (1986): 367. Advanced Placement Source. Web. 17 Sept. 2012. JSTOR- Kelley, Alice Van Buren. "The Bleak Houses of Bleak House." Nineteenth-Century Fiction 25.3 (1970): 253-68. JSTOR. Web. 17 Sept. 2012. AUTHORITATIVE ESSAY - Callow, Simon. "Getting to Know Charles Dickens." The New York Times. N.p., 16 Dec. 2011. Web. 18 Sept. 2012. <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/books/review/getting-to-know-charles-dickens.html?pagewanted=all&_moc.semityn.www> BLEAK HOUSE: BOOK BY A SINGLE AUTHOR: Daiches, David. A Critical History of English Literature. New York: Ronald Press, 1960. Print. BOOK IN A SERIES: Johnson, Edgar. “The Anatomy of Society.” Bleak House. Ed. A.E. Dyson. Aurora: Nashville, 1969. 136-156. Print. Rpt. of “The Anatomy of Society.” Charles Dickens; His Tragedy and Triumph. N.P., N.C., 1953. N.Pag. BOOK IN AN ANTHOLOGY Harrison, Fredrick. “Charles Dickens.” Charles Dickens. Ed. Harold Bloom. Bloom’s Literary Criticism: New York, 2008. 72-79. Print. Rpt. of “Charles Dickens.” Studies in...
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...Chapter 1 * Box 1: The ford company when it starting paid employees more then the going rate by lowering their production cost(efficiency wage theory) to have them stay more once wage was brought up to 5$ there was an 87% quit rate , 90% discharge and 75% increases for absents. Basically better treated employee the better ur business will be. * Box2: Talks about Patriarchy where men benefit socially and materially for women’s work, happened in Africa where women do most of the agricultural labor. Karl Marx believed that including women in work place would cause the last remnant of male domination and the home will lose their foundation, also in new Mexico men and women were equal but it changed when they were forced to head to Colorado. * Box3: Monopolist can ^price making customers go to substitutes, in the cases of wheelchair(wc) from Everest and Jennings had 90% of the WC market they prevented foreign exchange. All this changed in the 80’s they starting testing product because it was so cheap, more lawsuits were made making it harder for e&j to continue following their unethical steps * Box4: Income rate in U.S with 40 mil uninsured because health care company do not cover most procedure especially the ones that have low success rate. Senator Vance hartke debate in congress that life and death shouldn’t be base on $$ coming from noncovered kidney dialysis, bill passed 39% ^ in covered people bout 150K people, now from 606 procedures not covered now...
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...Rivera’s style is best termed as New Realism because it is far removed from the academic, Old World naturalism (Neimark 68). “He adopted a symbolic-representational style and a large scale mural format. The densely packed murals are almost montages of fragmentary figures and symbolic elements located within fictive spaces” (Neimark 69). The figures may have been simplified, but there is nothing simple about his complex compositions that are overwhelming to the eye, both visually and in terms of their social impact on society at the time (Neimark 69). Rivera’s murals at the Detriot Institute of Arts were painted with the 15th century Italian style technique called fresco, which is a method of applying paint directly to a wet plaster surface so that the work is permanently scarred onto the wall (Howlett 6). The project, designed to show the progress of man throughout time, fit perfect into Rivera’s style of a montage-like mural form. The murals received more than 86,000 visitors in the first month of its debut alone (Helms 85). At the end of the decade, Rivera was awarded the Fine Arts Gold Medal by the American Institution of Architects for Rivera’s growing work in the United States (Helms 70). However, happiness of receiving this award was short lived – in 1930, the conservative administration of the National School of Architecture and others had started a campaign for Rivera’s removal as director of the Academy of San Carlos, the same school he started out at as a young painter...
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...160 Ohio App.3d 634; Ricker v. Fraza/Forklifts of Detroit; | |[pic] |[pic] |Page 634 |[pic] | RICKER, Appellant v. FRAZA/FORKLIFTS OF DETRIOT, Apellee. [Cite as Ricker v. Fraza/Forklifts of Detriot, 160 Ohio App.3d 634, 2005-Ohio-1945] 2005-Ohio-1945 Court of Appeals of Ohio, Tenth District, Franklin County. No. 04AP-582 Decided April 26, 2005 LAZARUS, Judge. {¶1} Plaintiff-appellant, J. Griffin Ricker, appeals from a decision of the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, dismissing his complaint against defendant-appellee, Fraza/Forklifts of Detroit ("Fraza"), for lack of personal jurisdiction. {¶2} Ricker initiated this action with a complaint seeking damages for breach of an oral contract to provide insurance consulting services. The complaint alleges that Ricker is an insurance consultant with his principal place of business located in Hilliard, Ohio, and Fraza is a Delaware corporation with its principal place of business located in Roseville, Michigan. The complaint further alleges that, in 2002, Fraza hired Ricker to provide insurance consulting services, and agreed to pay Ricker $30,000 if business insurance was obtained through the efforts of Ricker. Such payments would apply to subsequent annual renewals of insurance. Ricker obtained insurance coverage for Frazer from Universal Underwriters Group for 2002. Fraza paid Ricker for his consulting...
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...Production Process and Management Analyze Marathon’s product process and determine which phase is open to the greatest number of efficiency improvements. Marathon is among the top five crude oil refineries in the United States. It’s an integrated international energy company engaged in exploration and production of oil, sand mining, integrated gas, refining, marketing, and transportation operation. Marathon needs to upgrade a few of their refineries and pipelines in order to increase the production process of heavy crude oils, (marathon.com). For example, once the Detroit Heavy Oil Upgrade Project is completed, the refinery crude capacity will increase from 106,000 bpd to 115,000 bpd. The upgrades will allow the Detroit refinery to process an additional 80,000 barrels of heavy crude oil per day (detriothoup.com). The existing pipelines at the Detroit refinery do not have the capacity to transport additional volumes of crude oil to meet the refinery’s upgrade needs. Therefore a 1.5-mile pipeline will provide an alternative oil supply line to the refinery and provide extra security in the event of a supply disruption. Pipelines are the safest and the most efficient way to transport crude oil and other liquid petroleum products. They reduce traffic and pollution as well as provide economic benefits. Pipelines transport two-thirds of all the crude oil and refined products in the U.S. compared to three percent by tanker trucks. According to detriothoup.com, currently...
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...Bren Mattingly Essay 2 An organized game plan is always the best way to execute your offense/defense in any competitive sport. When players know their game plan and positions on the court or field they have a better sense of where they’re going and when/how they are going to score. In basketball, this is very much the case. Every player must be identified by a certain position based on height, weight, speed, and accuracy. The team must combine their unique set of skills to deliver the most dynamic performance possible. When identified by position on the basketball court, there are 5 types of players, the Point guard, the Shooting guard, the Small forward, the Power forward, and last but not least, the Center. Of the first of these five position is the Point guard. The Point guard is the main ball handler and always takes the ball up and down the court after each score. In a sense, the Point guard is the most important attribute to the team. Point guards are very quick and agile, sometimes the fastest on the court. The Point guard runs every play and calls the plays by using numeric hand signals. Naturally, most every point guard has a good sense of “court vision”, such as a quarterback in football. A good point guard focuses more on passing the ball than shooting, he/she wants to get the ball to a person with an open look at the basket to provide the most natural shot possible. They do not want to force a shot or pass to a well...
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...Ross Simard Who is the greatest composer that has ever lived? That is a question that can lead to many debates and possibly arguments. There are as many great composers, each using the styles and methods of their time, that one will have a very difficult time naming one single composer the greatest throughout the history of music. Composers have come along that mastered the style of their era, and there have been composers that have broken down the barriers of what music, in their time, was supposed to be. There are those composers that had such an impact on music that their deaths have marked the end of that era of music. To name one single composer as being the greatest, would be like determining which grain of sand on the beach is the most important. They are all equally important to making the beach look as beautiful as it is. The composer that drew my attention was Johann Sebastian Bach. He was undoubtedly one of the greatest composers of his time. Throughout his lifetime, Bach was an outstanding organ player. Born in 1685 to musical parents, Bach was the youngest of eight children. His family was a musical family, so the young Bach was set off for a career in music from a young age. He learned to play the organ and harpsichord at an early age. His parents died when Bach was only ten years old. Fortunately enough for young Johann, he had a brother that took him in. His older brother, Johann Christoph, was able to further Bach’s musical...
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...you will have to undergo surgery. My baseball coach pulled his Achilles tendon and he was out for the whole season. Some of the measurements of the hockey rink are the puck is 1 inch in diameter or 2.54 centimeters in diameter. The thickness of the hockey puck is 3 inches or 7.62 centimeters thick. The hockey rink in length is 184-200 feet or 56-61 meters in length. The hockey rink is 85-98 feet in width or 26-30 meters in width. Some other general information about ice hockey is there are 31 teams in the NHL for 2017. The teams are the Anaheim Ducks, the Boston Bruins, the Buffalo Sabres, the Calgary Flames, the Carolina Hurricanes, the Chicago Blackhawks, the Colorado Avalanche, the Columbus Blue Jackets, the Dallas Stars, the Detriot red Wings, the Edmonton Oilers, the Florida Panthers, the Los Angeles Kings, the Minnesota Wilds, the Montreal Canadiens, the Nashville predators, the New Jersey Devils my favorite team because I am from New Jersey, the New York Islanders, the New York Rangers my dad's favorite team because he is from New York (queens), the Ottawa Senators, the Philadelphia Flyers my mom's favorite team because she is from Pennsylvania. The Phoenix Coyotes, the Pittsburg Penguins, the Saint Louis Blues, the San Jose Sharks, the Tampa Bay Lightning, the Toronto Maple Leafs, the Vancouver Canucks, the Washington Capitals, and finally the Winnipeg Jets. Some of the things that you could do to get a penalty are tripping (with the stick or knee), Holding...
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...Trapped The word claustrophobia comes from the Latin word claustrum which means ‘a shut in place’ and Greek phobos meaning ‘fear’ (“What is Claustrophobia? . . .”). Although claustrophobia has a variety of causes and symptoms there are triggers which may aggravate the condition; however, different treatments exist for this common affliction. Natural and behavioral evidence shows that we treat space that is within arm’s reach differently from space that is farther away (Emory University). Like many other fears, claustrophobia shows up at varying levels from just a general dislike and anxiety in smaller spaces to a full blown panic at even the thought of being confined to something as simple as a specific chair. The exact symptoms of claustrophobia vary from person to person, but if they appear, getting a proper diagnosis is very important so that treatment can be sought (“Claustrophobia” GoMentor.com) During Victorian times it was common that parents punished their children by locking them in dark, confined places like coal bins, closets, and basements. Thus causing many people to grow up suffering from claustrophobia (Filson 35). Other causes may be that the child fell into a deep pool not knowing how to swim, or being in a crowded area such as an amusement park and getting separated from their parents or the group they were with, or crawling into a closet and getting locked in. Another theory behind the cause of claustrophobia is a smaller amygdalae- a tiny part of the brain...
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...History (Management) The establishment of a postal service was vital. The Post Office allwed informations and goods to travel across a rapidly growing county. (Santoro, G. 2012) In 1775, the Continetal Congress appointemented Bejamin Franklinn as America’s of Postmaster General.(Bellis,M.n.d) Bejamin Franklin made serveal major contributions to US mail services; he developed new post roads, set out milestones to show how far a postman, who was paid by the mile, had traveled; enacted overnight post riders, invented the pigeon-hole system for mail distribution, and developed an early postal inspection service. (Schurr, C. 1997). The Founding Fathers determined that the post office was so vital that in the Consitituion they manadated Congress to have the power to establish post offices (Sanburn, J. (2011) Congress later enacted home deleivery and and eventually established Parce11 Post in 1913. (Universal Serve and Postal Monoply, 2008) The post For the next severl decades the postal service ran smoothly and incoprated new technology as the came along. Union History Postal Unions date back to the late 19th centuary. Initially, Postal unions were limited in function and mostly exsisted as lobbying organizations with limited bargaining rights. (Boyd and Chen, n.d.) Postal unions did not gain collect bargaining right until the enactment of the Postal Reorganization Act in 1971. There are several unions associated with the Post Office strike mainly; The National Association...
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...Sears Holdings Corporation is a company that came from two very well known organizations, Sears and Kmart. Both companies go back even farther than the 1900s and unfortunately both companies experienced financial difficulty at one point. With the merger Sears Holdings Corporation has the experience of both organizations as well as their different style of operating. Along with an improved customer base and a new outlook Sears Holdings Corporation is experiencing financial growth. Richard W. Sears was an agent at a railway station. This job provided him with loads of free time, so he would sell lumber and coal to local residents for extra money. During his employment with the railway station he came across some discarded watches and decided to repair and sell them. He made a good profit and decided to try it again. In 1886 Sears began the R.W. Sears Watch Company in Minneapolis. After moving his business to Chicago, IL Sears advertised for a watchmaker and came across Alvah C. Roebuck who claimed to do excellent work. In 1893 Sears Roebuck and Co. was formed. Adapting the motto, “Shop at Sears and Save” Sears quickly became the place where farmers shopped to save money and cut out the middleman. Sears’s prices were much cheaper than rural stores. By 1895 Sears was producing a 532-page catalog with many other items, such as stoves, women’s clothing, wagons, furniture, china, firearms, glassware and baby carriages etc. “Sales in 1893 topped $400,000 and two years later...
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