...Functional Area Interrelationships Kudler Fine Foods is a neighbourhood upmarket specialty food store with the excellent domestic and imported fares. The company currently has three locations in the San Diego metropolitan area, La Jolla, Del Mar, and Encinitas. The stores consist of about roughly 8,000 square feet of retail space in the most stylish of shopping centers. Their selection includes the finest cheese, wine, fresh produce, pastry products, meats, seafood, and condiments. By stating the primary reasons of the organization’s existence, this paper will analyze the reason for the type of organizational structure, identify and explain the steps of the collaboration process, provide an example of the use of lateral and vertical collaboration, and identify the key stakeholders and the collaborative interactions among them in order to achieve success. Organization’s Existence Kudler Fine Foods states that it is its mission to provide their customers the finest in selected foodstuffs, wines, and related needs in an unparallel consumer environment (Apollo Group, Inc, 2009). After reviewing the company’s mission statement, it appears that the primary reason for the existence of Kudler Fine Foods is to offer a place for its customers to shop that has all the finest choices of food related items from all over the world in one convenient location. According to the company’s strategic marketing goals, it has a plan in place to increase revenue for the business and to lower the...
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...Functional Area Interrelationships BUS/475 February 16th, 2015 Table of Content I. Introduction………………………………………………………………………………3 II. Mission, Vision, Values, and Goals……………………………………………………...3 a). Mission……………………………………………………………………………3 b). Vision……………………………………………………………………………..3 c). Values and Goals…………………………………………………………………4 III. Organizational Structure………………………………………………………………....4 IV. Collaborative Process among Functional Areas for Achieving Organizational Goals…..5 V. Lateral and Vertical Collaboration within the Organization……………………………..6 VI. Key Stakeholders and their Role………………………………………………………....6 VII. Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………7 Functional Area Interrelationships I. Introduction: For years now many trucking companies have come and gone, but Huffman Trucking has a new look on business. The new way of looking at the business has separated them form others in the market. They have expanded to over 1,300 employees across the company. They have been able to expand by becoming more efficient and better management solutions. The expansion has allowed for more road tractors and a major increase in trailers. Huffman trucking has expanded its technical strategies to allow for future growth. Keeping a business with the top of the line technologies can allow for customers to feel more comfortable going back to the same business, repeat customers can drive the trucking business...
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...Functional Area Interrelationships Understanding strategic management in today’s highly competitive business environment plays a large role in organizational success. Business owners and managers must develop an action plan that includes collaboration among its partners to achieve organizational goals. Huffman Trucking is a thriving business that employs a fully functional organizational structure by having different departments that coincide with one another. During this analysis, we will determine the use of lateral collaboration and vertical collaboration within the organization, and prepare an action plan to use lateral and vertical collaboration. We will identify the key stakeholders and their roles needed to achieve the organizational goals, and recommend the collaborative interactions among the key stakeholders to facilitate the organization’s success. Huffman Trucking has been in business since 1936 and launched operations with one tractor-trailer. The operation grew so rapidly that by 1945 after World War II the material haulers grew to 16 tractors and 36 trailers. Today Huffman employs more than 1300 personnel along with maintaining their own equipment that has amped up to 800 tractors and 2100 trailers. Along with maintaining all of their own equipment, Huffman Trucking uses three centrally located hubs within the respective regions. The...
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...Functional Area Interrelationships This paper will state the primary reasons for our organization, Kudler Fine Food’s existence as it relates to their mission, vision, values, and goals. We will examine the organizational structure employed by Kudler Fine Foods, and identify the key positions that supports their structure. Identify and explain the steps of the collaboration process among the functional areas that must be employed to achieve organizational goals, and prepare an action plan to implement the collaboration process. Also, we will identify and provide an example of the use of lateral collaboration and vertical collaboration within Kudler, and prepare an action plan to use lateral and vertical collaboration. As well as recognize the key stakeholders and their roles needed to achieve the organizational goals, and recommend the collaborative interactions among the key stakeholders to facilitate the organization’s success. Kudler Fine Foods is an upscale specialty food store located in the San Diego metropolitan area. Because of the pressure on Kathy Kudler due to much traveling and the corporate life, Kathy decided to seek out other opportunities. Kathy found that cooking gourmet meals was a way that she would relieve stress, this sparked and opportunity that lead to the opening of the first Kudler Fine Foods 1998. Because of Kathy Kudler’s vision Kudler Fine Foods now operates out of three locations; Del Mar, La Jolla, and Encinitas. Kudler’s mission, “We will...
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...Functional Area Interrelationships Christina Mowder BUS/475 October 2, 2013 Traci Thornton Functional Area Interrelationships Kathy Kudler’s (Kudler’s Fine Foods owner) values and goals seem to infiltrate into the mission and vision statements. Therefore, entrepreneurs organize his or her company with key positions to support the organizational structure. Effective teams in both internal and external environments remain the key to success when conducting business. Kudler’s mission “Our selections, coupled with our experienced, helpful and knowledgeable staff, merge to offer each customer a delightful and pleasing shopping outing” (Apollo Group, 2011. Furthermore, one identifies and explains the steps of the collaboration process Kathy Kudler applies to her business. Working to achieve organizational goals takes time, skill, and expertise. Reason for Existence According to Apollo Group (2011), Kudler Fine Foods remains a local upscale specialty food store located in three locations (La Jolla, Del Mar, and Encinitas) along California’s Pacific Coast. Kudler Fine Foods broke even in nine months and remains profitable within its first year. Kudler’s divisional organizational structure helps make it possible to expand to a second location in its second year, and expand even further when it opens its third location in the fifth year. Each location obtains roughly 8,000 square feet of retail space in a fashionable shopping center. The stores remain stocked with the elite...
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...Functional Area Interrelationships La ventaja competitiva de una empresa se pudiera lograr cuando la estructura seleccionada de dicho comercio es congruente con la estrategia que fue formulada. Kudler Fine Foods continúa el crecimiento basado en la visión original de la señora Kudler de crear un negocio donde se consiga todo para confeccionar una cena Gourmet en una sola parada. Por otro lado, el ser exigente con el personal escogido y tener el control directo sobre el reclutamiento, los pedidos y un servicio al cliente de primera, ha construido de la empresa una entidad de sorprendente expansión. En el siguiente ensayo el Grupo A, analiza varios aspectos de la empresa Kudler Fine Foods. Comienzan por definir la razón de la existencia de Kudler Fine Foods, a través del documento se señalarán varios análisis en sus funciones operacionales. La pasión por la confección de comida gourmet de su fundadora Kathy Kudler, fue la razón principal de existencia de Kudler Fine Foods. Kathy fue inspirada al ver la carencia de lugares para conseguir todo lo requerido para lograr una cena gourmet. El hecho de que no existía ninguna fuente en el área local donde se pudiese conseguir todo lo requerido en un solo lugar, provoca que la fundadora considere la posibilidad de convertirse en la tienda de alimentos gourmet de primera, para aquellos compradores inteligentes que buscan los alimentos de primera calidad y finos vinos. La estructura organizacional de Kudler Food comenzó como el más...
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...Functional Area Interrelationships La ventaja competitiva de una empresa se pudiera lograr cuando la estructura seleccionada de dicho comercio es congruente con la estrategia que fue formulada. Kudler Fine Foods continúa el crecimiento basado en la visión original de la señora Kudler de crear un negocio donde se consiga todo para confeccionar una cena Gourmet en una sola parada. Por otro lado, el ser exigente con el personal escogido y tener el control directo sobre el reclutamiento, los pedidos y un servicio al cliente de primera, ha construido de la empresa una entidad de sorprendente expansión. En el siguiente ensayo el Grupo A, analiza varios aspectos de la empresa Kudler Fine Foods. Comienzan por definir la razón de la existencia de Kudler Fine Foods, a través del documento se señalarán varios análisis en sus funciones operacionales. La pasión por la confección de comida gourmet de su fundadora Kathy Kudler, fue la razón principal de existencia de Kudler Fine Foods. Kathy fue inspirada al ver la carencia de lugares para conseguir todo lo requerido para lograr una cena gourmet. El hecho de que no existía ninguna fuente en el área local donde se pudiese conseguir todo lo requerido en un solo lugar, provoca que la fundadora considere la posibilidad de convertirse en la tienda de alimentos gourmet de primera, para aquellos compradores inteligentes que buscan los alimentos de primera calidad y finos vinos. La estructura organizacional de Kudler Food comenzó como el más...
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...Kudler Fine Foods Passionate about gourmet cooking and frustrated at having to travel all over town to gather the ingredients for one simple meal, Kathy Kudler decided to open her own gourmet food shop. Her vision was to create one store that would stock a wide selection of the freshest ingredients as well as all of the tools a gourmet cook could ever want. Kathy was certain that combining the convenience of one-stop shopping with reasonable prices would be a recipe for success. Kathy's vision became a reality in 1998 with the opening of the La Jolla store. Her concept was an immediate success and in two years Kudler's expanded with the opening of the Del Mar location. Our latest store opened in Encinitas in 2003 and we are already looking for just the right spot for another shop! Kudler Fine Foods is committed to providing our customers with the finest selection of the very best foods and wines so that your culinary visions can come true. Thank you for your patronage and giving us the opportunity to serve you. Legal Overview Kudler Fine Foods uses Anne Shousha as its legal counsel. Anne is Kathy Kudler’s sister-in-law and is a successful tax attorney working with a major accounting firm in San Diego, CA. Kathy is the only person in the company that talks with Anne. Other than a standing order that any "slip and fall" accidents are to be immediately reported to Kathy, each store manager is free to determine what legal issues need to be referred to Kathy. Once an...
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...Functional Area Interrelationships Paper Steven Stoney BUS/475 May 22, 2013 David Bonilla Functional Area Interrelationships Paper Thesis statement: Even though the main argument of this topic would be business functions of an organization, knowing about the key functions of how a business functions as an organization. Because they analyze some of their key organizational structures employed by the organization and how they identify their key stakeholders and how their roles are being used to achieve the organizations goals. Introduction: In my introduction on the paper of functional area interrelationships in an organization I will be using a virtual organization from the University of Phoenix website (University of Phoenix, 2013). The organization that I will be writing my paper is going to be on Kudler Fine Foods. In this paper I will be discussing the primary reasons of why Kudler fine foods is in existence from an analysis point of view of their mission statement, vision, values, and goals. I will discuss on how this organization identifies their different business functions from an employed business. Analyze the reason for the type of organizational structure employed by the organization, and identify the key positions that support that organizational structure. In this paper I will be identifying the key stakeholders and their roles needed to achieve the organizational goals, and recommend the collaborative interactions among the key stakeholders to facilitate...
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...have a human resource deparment. All HR deparments have roles that play for the organization regardless of the type and size. The purpose of the human deparment is to assist the human portion of the company. Its imporant that each organization has a HR deparment that is effiecient and has great quality this benefit the organization is varies ways. The functional roles of the HR deparment are very important towards the human because human are known to be very important to an organization. (Stringer) A very imporant function of the HR deparment is recruiment. The role of the recruiment function is to make sure that they recruit the right people for the job. (Stringer) They also then have made sure the each person they hired is in the correct job postions based upon their skills and abilities. This is a very important job and has a huge impact on the impact because as long as the employee do their jobs correct the organization will be a success. They also help with the interview process testing the employee abilities that they have for the job. Training the employees for the skills that are required for a job is also a functional role of the HR deparment. They have a trainging specialist that teaches the employees the learning objective and methods they need to do their job correctly. (Stringer) Most time the training is for leadership jobs such as supervisors and managers. They have to provide them with correct resources they need to evaluate an employee. They also teach them...
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...Running head: ASSIGNMENT 2: USE CASES Assignment 2: Use Cases Lawrence A. Mayo, Jr. Dr. Johnnie E. Drake CIS 210 11/4/12 Abstract Your abstract should be one paragraph and should not exceed 120 words. It is a summary of the most important elements of your paper. All numbers in the abstract, except those beginning a sentence, should be typed as digits rather than words. To count the number of words in this paragraph, select the paragraph, and on the Tools menu click Word Count. Assignment 2: Use Cases A use case is a methodology that is used in system analysis as a means to identify, clarify, and organize system requirements. The use cases has make up of several possible sequences for users to interact with a system of a particular environment that is in relation to a particular goal. There are a group of elements that the use case consists of, these elements in be in either the classes or interfaces category. Use cases give a description of how users will perform tasks. There are two main parts of a use case; the steps a user will take to accomplish a particular task on the ATM machine, and the way the ATM should respond to the user's actions. A use case will begin with a user's goal and end when that goal is fulfilled. A use case will describe the interaction sequence between a user and an ATM machine. Each use case captures the actor (the user of the ATM machine), the interaction (what does the user want to do?), and the goal (what is the user's goal?). Writing...
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...Abstract Cancer is a generic term to describe a group of diseases which came in form of uncontrolled proliferation of cells. There are over 200 different types of cancer have been recognized, each of which acquires its name uniquely according to the type of issue the cell originates in. Many cancer victims succumb to cancer not because of the primary tumor, but the systematic effects of metastases on other regions away from the affected site. Therefore many treatment and research aim to prevent the metastatic process at the early period. There are currently many therapies in clinical use, and many advanced technologies that help to achieve better result and nanotechnology is the potential candidate to fight against cancer. Nano-materials such as Carbon-nanotubes (CNTs)1, quantum dot, and dendrimers all have unique properties that can be taken advantage of for diagnosis and treatment of cancer. CNTs have the potential to deliver many types of drug directly to targeted cells and tissues at a much higher efficiency compared to the conventional methods. With the help of many recent discoveries in nanotechnology based materials, determining the toxicity of nanoparticles is also a very important task. Thus, in this review, the experiment aims to explore the biomedical application of carbon-nanotubes with the particular emphasis on the use as oncologic therapeutic agent. Introduction United States holds number 7 in the top ten highest overall cancer rates at 300 per 100,000 of the...
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...high-calorie diet lived longer than similarly fed mice not given resveratrol. Resveratrol protected mice fed a high-calorie diet from obesity-related health problems by imitating the effects of caloric restriction (Maddox, 2012). Resveratrol also incredibly lengthen the lifespan of worms, yeast, and some fishes (Adams, 2011). In the experiment, local black grapes were gathered and were classified as Vitis vinifera. The skin was separated from the fruit and was placed in dark, cool area. To avoid oxidation of the plant extract, the steps were done away from direct light. The skin was shaken with ethyl acetate and was kept for 72 hours and was filtered. The filtrate was dried using a rotary evaporator to get one-tenth of its original amount. The functional and phenolic groups present in the resveratrol were tested using standard methods. Aromaticity and the...
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...Activity based Costing (ABC) in Service Industries Activity based Costing (ABC) in Service Industries The Total Gym was developed 1974 by Tom Campanaro and his partners Dale McMurray and Larry Westfall of San Diego CA. The device encouraged “functional exercise” a way of duplicating movements the body performs in everyday life, with and against gravity. The device piqued the interest of Physical Therapists and other medical professional. The total Gym was found to engage all muscle groups, allowing over 100 functional exercises on different levels of inclined resistance. The device also featured a full range of motion and variable resistance levels (heavier resistance near the top and light resistance when more horizontal). The Total Gym is a brand name and product line of exercise machines used for strength training, stretching and Pilates training designed by EFI Sports Medicine Inc. of San Diego, Ca. The various models are manufactured for 3 different types of customers: Medical and Fitness Facilities and Home Consumers (“History of Total Gym”. 2013). Total Gym is the world’s leading privately-held manufacturer of functional and bodyweight training equipment. Founded in 1974, the San Diego-based company’s Total Gym products are used in 14,000 physical therapy clinics, athletic training facilities, hospitals, universities, professional sports teams and health clubs, inspiring over 24 million workouts per year worldwide. Total Gym has a 15-year relationship with...
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...| Exploring Programming Language | Unit 1 Research Assignment 1 | | | 5/3/2014 | PT1420 | The five most popular programming languages in the 1970’s were: 1970: Pascal 1972: C 1972: Smalltalk 1972: Prolog 1973: SQL Pascal The Pascal programming language was developed by Niklaus Wirth. It was created in 1968 but it wasn’t published until 1970. It was developed to provide the features other programming languages didn’t offer at that time. His main reason for developing Pascal was efficiently implement and run, to allow for the development of structured and well organized programs, and to serve as a tool to teach the important concepts of computer programming. The program was named after a mathematician named Blaise Pascal. It was used as the primary language in the Apple Lisa and for the Mac in the early years of the computer. SQL SQL, which is short for, Structured Query Language, was designed by an IBM research center in 1974-1975. The Oracle Corporation introduced it as a commercial database system in 1979, the first time it was introduced. It has been a favorite query language for the use of database management systems for the microcomputer and mainframes, but is being supported by the PC database. C C was created at the Bell Laboratory in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie. It was created for the purpose in designing UNIX. Prolog Was created from 1971-1973 and was distributed in 1974-1975. It was created not as a programming language on purpose but...
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