...Summary of HH Gregg Case Study The HH Gregg case study was a classic case of a company making a litany of bad business decisions being made more complicated by a culture of procrastination. Unlike the MSCC case study, HH Gregg appeared to have sufficient finances to undertake the Information Technology platform upgrade. Not only did they appear to possess the resources, they also had ample notification regarding when Hewlett Packard (HP) would discontinue support of the older HP 3000 system. A knowledgeable CIO was in place to ensure that the upgrade was being done by someone qualified to handle such an undertaking. Although the CIO, Mr. John Burns had an extensive background with the company and experience with the aging HP 3000 platform, he inexplicably left the company months before the deadline to transition. In no part of the case study did I see senior decision makers give a “drop dead date” to when they would migrate to a new system, or simply make a decision as to what system they would choose. The old CIO conducted countless visits from all of the significant software vendors, but in the end a decision was delayed and not one vendor was chosen. When the new CIO came on board, he was immediately handed a project that had been kicked around in the company for the previous three years. On top of being given such a huge and important task, he was required to make a decision quickly and ensure a smooth transition from the old platform. Based on previous estimates...
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...D10346961 & Chenghao Bai HH Gregg: Deciding on a New Information Technology Platform ITM R 6:00pm-10:00pm FALL 2014 Date: 10/30/2014 ------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION * The case is talking about HH Gregg Company who was facing a big challenge. The supplier of their hardware which their system running on announced they would no longer support the system. The leaders of the company figured out several options to solve this problem. The main task for them is to find a new application suite to satisfy the enterprise functions. * Developing History of HH Gregg * The HH Gregg Company was founded on April 15th, 1955 in Indianapolis, Indiana. The original founders Henry Harold and his wife Fansy founded the initial store in an 800 square-feet appliance showroom and office. Soon, the company became to 3 times larger in 1960. Gregg’s son, Gerald Throgmartin joined the family business in 1966. * A second store was opened in 1971 and it expanded very fast. In 1984, they built a superstore out of state of Indiana. * The company began to use computers to operate their business in 1986. IDEA/3000 application system running on HP 3000 were used by the company. * In 2003, HP announced that they will not support the system in the future after December 31, 2006. * More than 60 stores were running by HH Gregg. They are planning for expansion to become a nationwide retailer with several hundred stores. ------------------------------------------------- ...
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...the largest retail bakery chain in United Kingdom business which is Greggs PLC. It analyzes the company’s latest performance in defying the economic downturn achieving a very successful term. It considers, using SWOT and PESTEL to analyze the company’s plans for international expansion. It will also discuss Greggs’ Chief executive, Ken McMeikan in managing the company activities and dealing with the company’ stakeholder. I. Introduction Greggs, which is also owns Bakers Oven, is the leading bakery retailer in the UK, with some 1,400 retail outlets throughout the country. It was founded by John Gregg in the 1930s, when he opened a small bakery store in Newcastle. Now, the company is managed by Ken McMeikan, who took charge of the business following Ian Gregg. The company has 1,400 shops around the UK with 19,000 employees and 6 million customers and plans to add 600 new shops in the next few years. This report will analyze Greggs’ situation and its performance as well as their strategy in defining the external environment which has led the company to achieve its success. II. Company’ performance and management style 1. Greggs’ Latest performance Based on its interim results for the 26 weeks ended 27 June 2009 (www.greggs.co.uk), during the economic decline their sales went up to 4.4 per cent to £312 million and the operating profits up to 8.9 per cent to £16.3 million. These figures prove that Greggs are able to survive and make a profit even in the current climate (www...
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...not violate the Eight Amendment BCOM/275 Oliver Ellsworth drafted the Crimes Act of 1790 and was passed by congress on April 30, 1790. When the First Congress enacted the Crimes Act in 1790, it stipulated only 17 federal crimes will be taken to trial. (Meese III, 2010). Defendants that were found guilty of murder and prison break were put to death. Oliver Ellsworth was appointed Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1796. “In Furman v. Georgia (1972), the U.S. Supreme Court found that the death penalty, which was applied capriciously and on a racially discriminatory basis, violated the Eighth Amendment.” These death penalties are cruel and unusual. (Head, n.d.). U.S. Supreme Court voted upholding the death penalty in Gregg v. Georgia in 1976 by 7-2. In regards to the vote, there would be some changes to the Crimes Act of 1790 that would not allow defendants eligible for the death penalty. One of the changes is the defendants I.Q. When the defendant’s has an I.Q. below 70, the defendant would be labeled mentally retarded and would not be eligible for the death penalty. When the defendant is under the age of 18 at the time of the crime, the defendant would not be eligible for the death penalty. President Clinton signed the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 in the aftermath of the World Trade Center and the Oklahoma City bombings, this Act allowed the defendant found guilty would be subject to the death penalty. According to "U.S. Army...
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...the person goes into death row. People waiting on death row for days, months, or years whenever it is about time for execution. I am going for supporting the capital punishment. The reason why is because it takes tax money from us if there are more prisoners in prisons. When capital punishment is okay. My moral stance and why I choose it. Somewhere in the bible says that taking someone’s life is another persons life. Economics and statistics of penalty verses keeping them in prison. Penalty popular in the United States. Thirty- seven states retained by Federal government. Also popular in Iran, China, and Vietnam. 65-75 percent of American’s continually favor it. Furman vs. Georgia (1972) application was unconstitutional. Gregg v. Georgia (1976) bifurcated system constitutional. Woodson v. North Carolina (1976)- mandatory death sentences unconstitutional. Coker v. Georgia (1976)- death penalty for rape “ grossly disappropriate “this violates...
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...eighteenth century B.C. This was under the rule of King Hammaurabi of Babylon ruled, who codified the death penalty for twenty-five different types of crimes. Within the US, there are 32 states who employ death penalty, and only 18 who don’t. Death penalty has been an ordinary way to deal with extreme criminals in order to end their crimes, for a longer time. Capital punishment has for long been a component of the government. In American history, there have been numerous methods of capital punishment. Everything from electrocution, hanging, firing squad to beheading, and even gas chambers. Capital punishment has always been a brutal and unnatural thing. Luckily, lethal injection is what most states use today. They have done since post-Gregg (Gregg v. Georgia), but electrocution, gas chambers and hanging are still practiced as well. One large motive for supporting capital punishment is economy. It is much cheaper to have someone executed than having him or her imprisoned. This is, though, extraordinarily inhuman. What about the family and friends of the executed? This is where the ethical aspect begins to play a role. The government needs to think about whether this should be accepted as being ethically correct. Because of the ethical aspects, capital punishment is one of the few massively discussed subjects in American politics. In the southern states, especially in Texas, death penalty has been the most evident. 522 people – 6 of them women – have been executed in Texas...
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...Capital Punishment Capital punishment, also referred to as the death penalty, is not the best financial option available today. The death penalty has been a constant source of debate for as long as it has been imposed. Most of the debates focus on constitutionality, morality, religion, and racism. Focusing on the financial burden on carrying out the death penalty can help to eliminate all of the other debates. In the United States of America 36 states and the federal government still use the death penalty. Those people that oppose the death penalty say that it violates the "cruel and unusual punishment" provision of the Eighth Amendment. The Supreme Court has repeatedly agreed and continues to rule that the death penalty is constitutional only if applied in a particular way. That ruling makes sure that congress and state legislatures are always at work to enact new capital punishment laws to try to ensure that the executions are not "cruel and unusual". Due to these laws all convicted prisoners sentenced to the death penalty undergo more expensive trials and appeals than someone sentenced to life without parole. The morality of killing a person is subjective for each individual. A person’s upbringing, education, beliefs, and religion all affect their moral beliefs. Therefore different people interpret what is moral differently. Also, throughout the life of an individual, their beliefs and morality can and most likely will change. Considering these facts and...
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...felony, because there is no revoke from bereavement. The rational option for capital punishment is living in jail without even parole; a number of states still use capital punishment. The reason behind this is the dispute whether capital punishment is right and permissible is still widely unclear (Phil for Humanity, 2006). Nowadays, one of the most discussed concerns in the Criminal Justice System is none other than capital punishment or otherwise called the death penalty. Capital punishment was legal until 1972, when the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional in Furman v. Georgia stating that it violated the Eight and Fourteen Amendment citing cruel and unusual punishment. However, in 1976, the Supreme Court reversed itself with Gregg v. Georgia and reinstated the death penalty, but not all states have the death penalty (Prodeath.com. 2001). There are always two sides of the coin and so is the case with Capital Punishment. There are people who favor it and there are people who are against it. The first stance. Many people who are against Capital punishment feel that the death penalty is the definitive defiance of civil rights (White, 2009). It is the conscious and unemotional assassination of a human being by the authorities concerned in the name of righteousness. Capital Punishment violates liberty and life. It is eventual brutal, ruthless and mortifying castigation. There can never be any rationalization for any agony or unknown...
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...DEATH PENALTY ARLINCY ERSKINE WESTWOOD COLLEGE REFERENCES References (2010). Retrieved from www.bsos.umd.edu. (2013). Retrieved from www.citelighter.com. Bardes, S. S. (2013-2014). American Government and Politics Today. Boston: Cengage Learning. www.studentsnewsdaily.com. (2013). Retrieved from www.studentsnewsdaily.com. DEATH PENALTY Thesis As you further read into this paper you will understand the reason and cause for the death penalty in the United States. You will be educated how many states in the United States use the death penalty as a form of punishment and also what form of it is used. There are many methods of death some states opposed while others see it as “an eye for an eye”. Capital Punishment is defined as the practice of executing an individual as punishment for a specific crime. This is known as a state’s form of committing murder. Capital punishment comes from the Latin word meaning for the head. Some oppose it (those we term Conservative) and those who support it (these we term Liberal). Capital Punishment can range from simple punishments of cutting ones’ hand off for stealing to being hung, set in front of a firing squad, using lethal injection (a commonly used form), to being gassed, or the electric chair (a more common form). Some countries even use poisoning, starving, and burning (which some deem as unconstitutional). So because a state does it, is it legal? Or morally right? Yes because it is done...
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...“Death Penalty” Furman was a poor black man living in Georgia when he broke into William Joseph Micke, Jr’s house, Mr. Micke went downstairs to investigate and saw William Furman in his house with a gun. Furman began to flee the house but tripped in the process and fired the gun accidently shooting Mr. Micke in the chest and killing him instantly. Furman was later found by the police still carrying the gun and arrested for murder. This case is known as Furman v. Georgia and was taken to the Supreme Court on the fact that the death penalty in Georgia violated the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. This is a landmark case because “The significance of Furman v. Georgia is that this case was the first case that was ruled violating the Eighth amendment and that it halted every man on death row in the United States” (study). But before the case reached the Supreme Court the case went on trial September 20, 1968 where Furman pleaded mentally ill and insane, the court rejected his plea and found him guilty of murder. Then, Furman appealed his conviction and sentence, based on the death penalty in Georgia violating the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution . The Eighth Amendment says the federal government may not use "cruel and unusual punishments” (Henson). The case was later tried in the Supreme Court January 17, 1972. The justices who won majority and reversed the case were William J. Brennan, Jr., William O. Douglas, Thurgood Marshall, Potter...
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...it is the fundamental concept underlying the Eighth Amendment. In his opinion: "The State, even as it punishes, must treat its members with respect for their intrinsic worth as human beings. A punishment is "cruel and unusual, therefore, "if it does not comport with human dignity". He declared that the severity of capital punishment is degrading to the dignity of a man, and since even the vilest criminals share an inherent dignity, the punishment is unconstitutional. Though in Brennan words human dignity functions as a justification for the Eight Amendment, they seem to illustrate the psychological approach to the meaning of human dignity. In 1976, the nationwide ban that was imposed on the capital punishment was over turned in Gregg v. Georgia. Gregg was convicted of murder and was sentenced to death in Georgia. He appealed to the Supreme Court on the basis of its decision in Furman. The State of Georgia demonstrated that it had worked to formulate its capital punishment laws consistent...
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...1)How does Atticus Finch represent the ideas expressed by President Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address? Why? Atticus represents the ideas of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address because in the court case, he works hard stress the importance of the jury needing to be fair and treat all people equally. “‘Our courts have their faults, as does any human institution, but in this country our courts are the great levelers, and in our courts all men are created equal,’" (Lee 274). Atticus states this because he knows that the jury is biased, but he’s dedicated to trying to level the playing field, have the jury treat all men equally, and in doing so he’s representing the ideas in the Gettysburg Address, because he’s fighting to make sure the Union’s soldier didn’t die in vain, and that all men are equal. 2)How does the theme presented in the poem by Langston Hughes relate to the verdict handed down to Tom Robinson? Does the verdict represent the ideas expressed by President Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address? Why? The theme of Langston Hughes’ poem represents the unfairness of the verdict that was given to Tom Robinson, and how it doesn’t represent President Lincoln’s ideas from the Gettysburg Address. Langston Hughes refers to the justice system as a blind goddess, and in doing so he’s saying that just like a goddess the justice system has a lot of power over the fates of people, and just like a blind person the justice system is impaired. In Langston Hughes’s poem the goddess is impaired...
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...Although, the death penalty is being handed down by the courts, the number of death penalties carried out occurs far less than they should. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, the number of executions since 1976 is just 1352 with the years 1999 and 2000 being the highest in number of executions (DPIC). In the book Deterrence and the Death Penalty, it brings attention to more of the debate of the death penalty: In 1976 the Supreme Court decision Gregg v. Georgia (428 U.S. 153) ended the 4-year moratorium on executions that had resulted from its 1972 decision in Furman v. Georgia (408 U.S. 238). In Furman the Court had ruled that the death penalty, as then administered in the United States, constituted cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution. Then, in Gregg, it had ruled that the death penalty is not, in all circumstances, cruel and unusual punishment, thereby opening the way for states to revise their capital punishment statutes to conform to the requirements of Gregg. (Nagin, Daniel, and John Pepper, Summary Page 1) Some say that humans are just beings and therefore aloud to make mistakes and that...
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...Furman v. Georgia Death Penalty Furman v. Georgia Death Penalty University of Phoenix Cultural Diversity in Criminal Justice University of Phoenix Cultural Diversity in Criminal Justice The Furman v. Georgia case states that the United States Supreme Court rules that capital punishment was not constitutional. There were five justices that had come together in this ruling and together they thought that capital punishment was to be banned in the United States. On August 11th, 1967 Micke William Jr. woke up when he heard noises in his house. When he got up he went to see where the noises were coming from and he ended up finding Henry Furman in his kitchen. Furman, an uneducated African American, broke into the kitchen with a gun (Smith 2008). When Furman realized that he had been spotted by Micke he ran for it while he fired a shot at Micke. The shot that was fired got Micke in the chest and it killed him instantly. His family immediately called the police. When the police reported to the scene they searched the house and the neighborhood. They ended up finding Furman in the neighborhood with the murder weapon where he was arrested and charged with the murder of Micke William Jr. The court ordered that Furman have a psychological exam done before the trial is held. The results came back from the psychological exam stating that Furman is psychotic and mentally ill. Murder cases can usually last a good while and they can become complicated cases. The trial for Furman...
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...Flagler College History and Evolution of the Death Penalty in the United States Ethics of Judiciary and Sociology of Criminal Law The history of the death penalty is tumultuous, from the punishment being initiated to abolished, and then reinstated. The death penalty, initiated in the United States in 1622, continues to be exploited by 32 states, regardless of its integrity and use to discourage people from committing serious crimes. It is now being eroded again and the abolition of the death penalty seems to be inevitable. One problem with the death penalty is that it has been shown that many people have been executed when they have not committed the crime. Since 1973, hundreds of innocent people have been released from death row, after the evidence that sentenced them to death was found to be inaccurate. Many of these innocent people were victims of wrongful convictions based on confused witnesses, mistakes by lawyers and inaccurate forensics, while the person actually responsible for the crime was still free. Cases involving DNA evidence in court, such as Ray Krone's case, can be denied access even if life and death are on the ropes. Found guilty, Krone was sentenced to death for rape and murder in Arizona, even though DNA found on the victim did not correlate with his. Arizona argued that no submission of DNA evidence could interfere with the jury decision. A decade later, without a court order, a crime lab worker identified the person who actually committed the...
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