...Table of Content Title Page Background Introduction Rational Objectives Methodology Literature Review Limitations Analysis Recommendation Conclusion Reference Appendix Profile Unique Consulting Company Consulting Services (1994) Website-www.uniqueCC.org.com Address: 119 Street West Kill Road Kingston 10 Unique Consulting Company is a Jamaican management consulting firm that focuses on solving issues of concern to senior management. Unique serves as an adviser to business, governments and institutions around the island. This company is one of the most prestigious management consulting firms in the island and it is one of the market leading organizations in consulting services. This firm manages a wide array of investments for the firm’s Partners; an objective of the Investing Counseling Function is to help our investing partners create long term wealth by constructing appropriate investment portfolios and avoiding expensive and or inefficient products. At the same time, the products and advices offered must save Partners times relative to those which are available externally. This firm role is to provide investment education, counseling and select products to clients. UCC serves many successful clients like: Tracks & Records, NCB, MegaMart, Sandals, Digicel, Heart Trust Academy, Burger King, Intown supermarket Unique Consulting Company (UCC) was founded in Kingston Jamaica 1994 by Donald Spence and Amy Kindle, The...
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...An essential part of American identity is the assurance that our children can inherit a greater quality of life than we were subjected to. James Truslow popularized the phrase “American Dream” in his book Epic of America, published in 1931. Truslow stated that the American Dream is, “that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for every man, with opportunity for each according to his ability or achievement… [A] dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position.” In essence, the American Dream is the philosophy of upward mobility. It is the opportunity to make individual choices without being limited by class, religion, race, or ethnicity. Since it’s origin, this idea of the American Dream has not coincided with the American reality shown through the segregation of class, race and ethnicity, unhappiness in the home, and the failure of public education. Immigrants during the Industrial Revolution were exposed to unjust treatment and stifled growth in society, women in the 1950s faced an identity crisis spawning from the materialized idea of perfection, and at the turn of the century public education showed poor performance on the worldwide scale. The industrial revolution marked a turning point in the history of the United States of America, impacting...
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...Lyn Bell Dr. John Warren Spiritual Warfare Slaying the Giants in Your Life What are the giants in your life? David Jeremiah reminds us that we have giants in our lives like David, Moses, Abraham and others. The giants in our lives have different names of fear, loneliness, doubt, discouragement, failure, jealousy, worry, anger, guilt, and procrastination. Just like the biblical ancients overcame their giants, we too must overcome our giants. In doing so we must allow God to help us in the process in knowing that He is with us and will empower us in overcoming. Fear Fear is a major problem in the land of the giants. This giant comes in so many forms. Fear has gripped us all at some point in our lives. Thousands are affected daily in some type of fear or another. But fear is a common part of the fabric of living. Fear gives us burst of strength and speed when we need and is a good thing in a survival instinct situation. When fear becomes negative it then becomes a phobia. This is when fear and reason does match up. When fear becomes ill rational, it becomes a shackle that bind us and put us into bondage. This bondage will keep us from the routine things in life of working, playing, living and serving God. There are so many varieties of fears. This is a listing of six general categories that we face in fear: poverty, criticism, loss of love, illness, old age and death. When we read the bible we can see that those living in biblical times often were...
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...Why Strategy Execution Unravels—and What to Do About It Donald SullRebecca HomkesCharles Sull FROM THE MARCH 2015 ISSUE SUMMARY SAVE SHARE COMMENT TEXT SIZE PRINT 8.95 BUY PDF Why Strategy Execution Unravels—and What to Do About It VIEW MORE FROM THE March 2015 Issue EXPLORE THE ARCHIVE Since Michael Porter’s seminal work in the 1980s we have had a clear and widely accepted definition of what strategy is—but we know a lot less about translating a strategy into results. Books and articles on strategy outnumber those on execution by an order of magnitude. And what little has been written on execution tends to focus on tactics or generalize from a single case. So what do we know about strategy execution? We know that it matters. A recent survey of more than 400 global CEOs found that executional excellence was the number one challenge facing corporate leaders in Asia, Europe, and the United States, heading a list of some 80 issues, including innovation, geopolitical instability, and top-line growth. We also know that execution is difficult. Studies have found that two-thirds to three-quarters of large organizations struggle to implement their strategies. Nine years ago one of us (Don) began a large-scale project to understand how complex organizations can execute their strategies more effectively. The research includes more than 40 experiments in which we made changes in companies and measured the impact on execution, along with a survey administered...
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...NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE NUS Business School Department of Management and Organization BMA5004 Management & Organization (2 mc, intensive format) FM1, 7-9 January 2013 FM3/FM4, 10-12 January 2013 Dr. Daniel J. McAllister Dr. Matthias Spitzmuller BIZ 1#08-58 BIZ1 #08-46 +65 6516 1009 +65 6516 7230 bizdjm@nus.edu.sg bizms@nus.edu.sg ABOUT THE COURSE Managers often express surprise when they find that people are more difficult than numbers to understand. Recruiters often indicate that they wish new managers possessed stronger people skills. Alumni often affirm that they too wish they had stronger people skills. The aim of this course is to provide you with some of these skills so that you can become a more effective manager and leader. However, management is not a science. Nor is it a profession. It is an art – a craft that is developed over a lifetime. This course is therefore not designed to offer you a magic formula for how to manage an organization. It is designed to provide tools to help you better understand why people in organizations do the things they do and how to influence these behaviors. We will use theories of management, economics, sociology, psychology, and philosophy to help us discuss individual-, team-, and organizational-level behaviors. The format for this course will be highly interactive in order to provide a rich learning experience. We will do this through the use of debates, role-playing, simulations, and case studies...
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... 2349060 Course: EIN 6325 – Business Plan Development HW: Book Report on: The innovator’s Dilemma Instructor: Professor Robert .H. Hacker Lessons Learnt: The Innovator’s Dilemma One would think channeling huge resources into research, making as few mistakes as possible and managing better would keep a company head and shoulders ahead of its competition, a pacesetter in its industry and thereby guarantee its future; but history suggests this is not always the case. As consumers and on lookers, we usually do not know the reason for the demise of these heavyweights, we guess and ponder and speculate but the innovator’s dilemma has succeeded in removing the veil from our eyes. It take us into the inner workings of industries, makes a very plausible case for technological change as a big factor in the survival of a company, why it would seem logical for a startup to outpace and outlive its predecessor with deep pockets. It presents a different perspective to common knowledge of what it takes to excel as an organization, an archetype to deal with...
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...Assignment on: Aspect of Contract Executive summary For our everyday purpose, we have to meet with different category people. Due to the blessings of globalization, now, we people have been able to communicate with people from outside of our country. Globalization system has made it easy for us to express our needs and demand to outside of the world and get the best solution. All these developments have made our business world faster than ever and this trend is still going on. But to take any sort of massive or minor project, we have to sit with many different parties and make lawful agreement with them so that one party can demand for their legal right if necessary. This assignment has been designed completely on aspects of contract. How a contract can be formed and what are the necessary elements for the formation of a contract have been comprehensively explained here. Table of Contents Executive summary ii Introduction 1 01 Initial evaluation 1 1.1 Explanation of the importance of essential elements required for the formation of a valid contract 1 1.2 The impact of three methods in terms of forming and binding enforceable contract under the English Law. 2 02 Initial Business situations 4 2.1 Essential elements of a valid contract to advise Andrew 4 2.2 Law on contract terms to advise Cheltenham Champions Hotel on the claim of the guest 5 2.3 The effect of the contract terms to advise the downton hotel will be described in below 5 03 Further assessment...
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...strength or weakness of our educational system, from the students and their ability to succeed in college and in the workplace, to the employers who hire them—and everyone in between. Every taxpayer is a stakeholder in education, because these tests are paid for by tax dollars, and the return on investment in education is not where it should be. Standardized tests should be abolished and replaced with end-of-year subject tests because they will save time and money, lead to increased mastery of core subjects, and diminish dropout rates. Clemmitt, M. (2007, July 13). Students under stress. CQ Researcher, 17, 577–600. Retrieved from http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/ This article discusses the pressure that students face in public schools today. Homework has increased, as has stress caused by high-stakes standardized testing. This type of pressure results in less time for children to play, sleep, and interact with their parents. The solution is to limit the time children spend on homework, but given that American students lag behind their international peers in tests of basic subjects, decreasing schoolwork seems not to be the answer. Although Clemmitt is a journalist and not an expert on the subject, she cites many experts and authoritative sources to lend credibility to the article, including books and surveys from education researchers and college professors. The article provides a balanced view of homework with arguments from experts across the country. My assessment:...
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...A337/A523 Accounting Information Systems Midterm Study General There will be two narratives, one for context/physical DFD, one for the flowchart. It is important for your DFDs to be consistent with each other. (See the Documentation Exercises for worked examples) DFD The physical DFD should be annotated with flow labels. At this point, you are expected to know the 4 DFD symbols and how to apply them. Flow Chart This will be a shorter narrative and/or partially completed one I will also provide a list of flowchart symbols. SUA/Transaction Cycles / Chapter 5 A handful multiple choice questions related to documents and activities in each of the three transaction cycles (similar to SUA #1). Internal Controls and Computer Crime (Chapters 13, 14, & 15) Know what internal controls are and be able to give examples * Definition * Policies, plans, and procedures * Implemented to protect a firms assets * People Involved * Board of directors * Management * Other key personnel * Provides reasonable assurance * Effectiveness and efficiency of operations * Reliability of financial reporting * Protection of Assets * Compliance with applicable laws and regulations * Important Guidance * Statement on Auditing Standard No. 94 * Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 Understand the reasons humans make mistakes * Errors may be the result of many factors * Distractions – Concurrent...
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...Six Disciplines and Secrets to Successful Strategy Execution | Book Review | | Introduction: Gary Harpst was one of the founder and CEO of The Lord’s Business Inc.(TLB), aka Solomon Software, very popular software back in the 80's and early 90's when the PC industry was very young. He grew his business from startup to achieve great success, finally selling the company to Great Plains Software (since purchased by Microsoft) for a hefty sum (Bergin Tim, An Interview with GARY HARPST). Gary’s book, “Six Disciplines Execution Revolution: Solving the One Business Problem That Makes Solving All Other Problems Easier” was published in July 2008. In Six Disciplines Execution Revolution, Harpst details the elements of a complete strategy execution program, explains why it could only have happened now, and clarifies why such a program will become a mainstream requirement for successful small and midsized businesses in the future. Summary: According to Harpst, excellence is the enduring pursuit of balanced strategy and execution. Strategy requires choosing what promises to make to all stakeholders and a roadmap for delivering on those promises. Execution requires getting there, while overcoming unending surprises. Excellence is a journey – not a destination. A business excellence model tells organizations as to how they should operate relative to the two dimensions of strategy and execution. (See figure 1, Exhibit 1) Quadrant I: Strong Strategy/Weak Execution: In this quadrant...
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...symbols, O’Brien practically leads his readers to this conclusion. In the initial description of Cross, O’Brien tells readers that Cross carries a compass, maps, code books, binoculars, and a .45 caliber pistol (O’Brien 5). Expert readers immediately understand that the compass and map symbolizes a leader since these are items only leaders carry. Significantly, however, O’Brien also mentions Martha, and the items he carries that are from Martha: ‘love’ letters, the stone, and two photographs. At the time of Ted Lavender death, it was Martha, Cross thought about, and not his troops. Immediately following Lavender’s death, Cross leads his men into the village of Than Khe and burns everything. Later that night, Cross also burns his letters from Martha (O’Brien 15-16). This might not strike a person as important, but as Foster says, “Actions can also by symbolic” (Foster 112). Burning an object means rebirth, analogous to a phoenix being reborn in fire. It also represents the letting go of an object/person akin to the Norse tradition of sending their dead to sea, and burning the boat. As a result of Lavender’s death, Cross leads his men to burn the village to appease his guilt of his thoughtlessness. The burning of Martha’s letter signifies that Cross is ready to let go of his one-sided love for Martha and is reborn, from a love-struck teenager to a jaded man. “[Cross] was realistic about it. There was that new hardness in his stomach. He loved her but he hated her.”(O’Brien 23). Furthermore...
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...Teenage Suicide – The Forms, The Damage, The Thoughts, and The Help Being young in today's world is not the easiest task to do. Many young people have to deal with all the many complex, intense pressures and pains of daily life. Unfortunately, most adolescences don't believe that they can cope with all of the disbarring problems that today’s society throws at our youth. They believe that no one cares enough to listen or help them cope with their stress. When these thoughts enter into their minds and occur often enough they begin to think that they have to end their lives to rid themselves of these matters. To some people this is the only way out, and this needs to change. Reasons for teen suicide in today’s culture can be very complex. Depression, Stress, Media Pressure, Bullying, Emotional and Mental Problems, Family, anyone of these can lead, or give a reason for a teenager to commit suicide. There are tons of resources available to teens in present society that offer help and guidance to the young adults of the world, whether it be someone to talk to or therapy sessions there’s always something available to them. Depression and stress are the most common factors that lead most teens to suicide. As adolescence grow into young adults they experience a great amount of stress in their family lives. We all long for independence, and freedom, this leads to us finding out our sexuality and our position in life. Our position determines our habits, in with the new habits, and...
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...Bernie Madoff and The SEC Bernie Madoff is the face of multi-billion dollar Ponzi schemes that swindled money from investors. Madoff was a prominent member of the securities industry throughout his long career. He once served as a vice chairman of NASD, a member of its board of governors, and a chairman of its New York region. Also, he was a member of the NASDAQ Stock Market board of governors and its executive committee and served as a chairman of the trading committee. His own investment advisory firm, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, was founded in 1960. A Ponzi scheme is “an investment fraud that involves the payment of purported returns to existing investors from funds contributed by new investors.” (US SEC, 2012) The organizers of such schemes, promise to invest their funds properly into new opportunities that have the chance to generate high returns with little to risk. Usually, the organizers look for new investors to make the promised payouts to those early stage investors. They can also use this money for personal expenses, instead of using it legitimately for investment activity. In 2008, the Securities Exchange Commission found Bernie Madoff and his investment firm guilty of securities fraud for the multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme he ran on clients of his firm for years. “The SEC filed emergency motions to freeze assets and appoint a receiver, and worked to return as much money as possible to harmed investors.” US SEC. (2012) Madoff is now serving...
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...As a founder in a management consulting firm that caters to non profits, the development of a Code of Ethics became an integral part of our company’s foundation. It is in the best interest of both “for profit” and “nonprofit” businesses to create a Code of Ethics. A Code of Ethics will establish guidelines to management, employees and stake holders. These “rules of conduct” implement organizational structure that will encourage management and employee to embrace loyalty and accountability. This in turn creates mutually beneficial good faith practices as it pertains to its stakeholders. While “nonprofit “companies often obtain their funds from government agencies, they are not without the usual considerations as it pertains to the bottom line. Both “for profit” and “non profit” organizations must balance the scales of fiscal and ethical responsibility. A crucial part of our firm’s success lies in our ability to balance those scales on behalf of our firm’s team and the non profits that we serve. A Code of Ethics for our consulting firm will require all of its associates and management to maintain the highest level of integrity when dealing with each other, security holders, customers and others whom the company conducts business with. The purpose of the code will: * Promote honest, fair and ethical conduct within personal and professional relationships. * Encourage associates to comply with government laws, rules, and regulations. * Allow for confidential...
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...reliable company that will give them a high return of investment. Some are also not aware of the financial options available to them. Without this knowledge, investors fail to take advantage of potentially beneficial investment opportunities. In many cases, they become victims of scams and fraud cases. The practice of investment counselling has been used for almost a century. According to the Investment Advisor article, October 2006 issue, Arthur M. Clifford opened his own Los Angeles-based brokerage firm known as Clifford Swan Investment Counsel in 1911 after serving as an analyst and broker at a brokerage company in St. Louis. Four years later, Mrs. Robert Bliss, widow of the creator of Fletcher’s Castoria, asked him to review her assets. From then on he called himself an “Investment Counsellor and Financial Analyst” and he was one of the first to use the term “Investment Counsellor”. Clifford decided in 1921 to serve exclusively as an investment counsellor. This is said to be the starting point of investment counsel option, in United States. The firm continues to exist today in Pasadena,...
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