...advantages and satisfaction of stakeholders for the company. External Environmental Analysis Many other elements have an influence over Wello’s ability in accomplishing goals and objectives. In order for success, the Wello Company has to discover the appropriate strategies to maintain business operations and applications. The appropriate strategies will keep Wello provisions as necessary. The external factors will incorporate legal regulating elements, economic elements, global, technological and innovation. Legal and Regulatory Factors The legal factor must be comprehensive and exact by the business, because there are federal standards and rules that have to be followed. The federal standards and rules are usually stringent and inadaptable. The legal and regulatory factors have complete capabilities to help with a company’s strategic goal. The rules would specifically involve information technology to increase safety to an organization by ceasing unauthorized access. Liability insurance would probably be a wise decision for a company to invest. If a business is not properly insured, an owner could personally...
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...Culture Shock Culture shock Introduction The topic of the essay is ‘culture shock’, the definition of ‘culture shock’ is a common affect of oversea experience of cultural sojourners. (Zhou.Y.F, Jindal-Snape.D, Topping .K and Todman .J, 2008). It is estimated that there are an increasing number of students going abroad to obtain a better and higher learning environment. If you moved to a new country, you would face to change with excited and enthusiasm, but it also can be disgusting and inadaptable. On the other hand, it is very easy to happen to culture shock phenomena such as eating problems, living, clothing, and traffic difficulties. ‘Culture’ means doing one’s best by a person in the range of mind to represent, warrant and admire the behaviour what individual retain themselves in being. ( Fanon, F., 1968, p.155). Culture can be good or bad. A great culture can change a person’s life. Therefore it is very important for us. This article shows that in the different way to explain culture shock. In my case, however, I experienced culture shock when I came to Australia for the first time. By globalization, people who live with considerable cultures, such as faith, behaviour and law, they become to a style of culture shock. (Wilson .S.L., 2011).It is indicated that nowadays many countries consist of all kinds of culture. Because develop culture, it comes confusing, many times we do not know what is right or wrong. However, multiculture also can...
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...Name Course Tutor November 19th 2015 Dark They Were With Golden Eyes Ray Bradbury’s Dark They Were and Golden Eyed is about Harry Bittering and his family’s attempt to escape war on earth by building a colony on Mars. This suspense tale shows the effects of the Bittering’s odd new surroundings on Mars. Bradbury’s description of Mars and the Bittering family’s reactions to it give warning that something could go wrong. The atmosphere is one of foreboding and apprehension. Slowly, the circumstances tighten around Harry. The author uses character and plot to express the theme that fear creates resistance to change. I feel that this story is a parable, showing the ways that individuals respond to change, particularly to the environments in which they find themselves. The Bittering family; Cora, Harry, and their three children David, Laura and Dan has arrived on Mars. Initially from Boston, the Bittering family has moved to Mars via rocket so as to avoid the antedated destruction from the war occurring on Earth. However, Harry feels out place on Mars, his new home. His unease is so intense that he wants to return to Earth with his family. He thinks that Mars should only be inhabited by Martians, humans should be back on earth and don’t belong. When a war on earth destroys all space ships and prevents his return, he is determined to build a ship for himself if he is to return to Earth. Bradbury expresses the theme that fear creates resistance to change. From the start of...
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...influence over Bakery’s ability to accomplish my objectives as well as goals. To be successful Bakery will need to find out an appropriate strategy which can maintain the business’s anticipations in real situations. The exterior factors include: legal as well as regulating elements, technological elements, innovation elements, economic elements, and socio-cultural elements. This element has the complete capability to help with a company’s strategic goal. Rules specifically involving information technology would provide increased safety to the organization by ceasing the unauthorized access. The evaluation of this exterior element must be comprehensive as well as exact by the business since IT standards and rules usually are stringent and inadaptable. Bakery will have a big business possibility from clients that are worried for the reliable transactions through internet. Bakery must also evaluate...
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...that is causing this negative effect, however, these are the main issues, in my opinion that contribute to their endangerment. My paper will discuss further the conservation issues observed, as well as implications and resources being done to find recovery solutions. Possessing genetic variation is crucial for population survival. When there is low genetic diversity observed in species, it indicates that they are becoming threatened, which can stem from multiple reasoning’s. Having low variation in genes is a characterization seen with Hawaiian monk seals. They are the only marine mammal specie to have the lowest genetic diversity of just three polymorphic loci (Schultz et al., 2010). Having this feature puts them at high-risk of being inadaptable to environmental changes that can occur suddenly or over time. A hypothesis for is that their genetic variation became lost in different regions via selective sweeps from incoming diseases of the first human settlers and mammals that came alongside them (Schultz et al., 2010). For example, in the coastal settings, Watson et al. suggests that dogs that came on the island were a major factor in affecting the prehistoric marine mammal population because of their harassment, hunting, and diseases they could have possibly brought from whichever they originated (Watson et al, 2011). This is evident through an observer that came after the initial settlements in the 1820s of Hawai’i: “the wild dogs had almost exterminated the sheep that Vancouver...
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...Running Head: Strategic Plan, Part II: SWOTT Analysis Strategic Plan, Part II: SWOTT Analysis Name University of Phoenix BUS/475 SWOTT analysis is a vital methodical tool used for assessing the factors both internal and external that have an impact over the organization. in current business times organization use SWOTT to evaluate their market status with respect to market share, competitive edge and total feasibility (Stahl & Grigsby, 1997).SWOTT analysis provides an organization with improved knowledge about its obtained and attainable strengths and weaknesses, prospective opportunities, risks and threats and business developments (Wheelan & Hunger, 2004).the major factors of SWOTT analysis can be divided under the heads of internal and external factors (Stahl & Grigsby, 1997). This paper outlines a detailed assessment of factors external and internal that can have an impact over the business of Ace Gym. In view of this assessment management of Ace Gym can assess the major factors that can impact the feasibility, developing competitive advantage and stakeholders’ satisfaction for the organization (Wilson & Gilligan, 2005). External Environmental Analysis Many external factors can have an impact over Ace Gym’s capability to achieve its goals and objectives. To achieve success Ace Gym will have to find a suitable strategy that can maintain the business expectations within the actual conditions and also to maintain...
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...Introduction: Introducing a new product or service into a foreign market is a significant business achievement. As a matter of fact, there are a few things that companies have to face when it comes to globalization. This essay will deal with luxury products, and more particularly with high-end jewellery from the French brand Cartier. These products will be launched within the Chinese market, as it is close to become the largest luxury market in the world. In order to make this project as successful as possible, this essay will be divided into two parts. On the one hand, we will be analysing the marketing environment of the Chinese market by identifying major market opportunities. Also, the selection of a suitable target market for Cartier jewellery products will be made, and we will recommend which aspects of the product’s international marketing mix strategy would require adaptation. On the other hand, we will critically examine the notions of standardization and adaptation of the international marketing mix. 1. Market selection & Cultural Research and Impact on International Marketing Mix Strategy a. Market opportunities: In order to justify the choice of the Chinese market for Cartier jewellery products, 4 market opportunities will be identified. The first three ones will be dealing with socio/cultural aspects whereas the last one will be rather based on an economic aspect. With more than 1.3 billion of people, China has about 18 thousand billionaires, 440 thousand...
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...Airline Lufthansa Companies Strategic Change and Strategic Challenge for Lufthansa Introduction The biggest airline in Germany- Lufthansa is one of the leading airline companies in the world, but it suffered from the danger of bankruptcy in 1991. However, the flexible strategic change programs made it survive. Thus, the implementation and effects of those programs are obviously attractive and deserve further study. Moreover, current business environment is full of opportunities and challenges, which poses Lufthansa to identify relative challenges and adopt some reaction to respond. Therefore, this report will discuss two parts: one is strategic change programs and the other is current strategic challenges for Lufthansa. In the first part, it will evaluate the strategic change programs which Lufthansa applied and also cover the effects of leadership and politics. The second part of this report will analyse the strategic challenges for Lufthansa based on current and future business environment. I. Strategic changes for Lufthansa Strategy is argued to be a useful tool for an organization to achieve its target in the long term, and its contribution to development of the organization is evident. However, it is impossible to use one strategy to respond the changeable demand due to the dynamic external environment, so the organization should change their strategies to adapt the market. 1. Strategic change program According to Balogun and Hailey (1999)...
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...Final Strategic Plan Shawn Stout University of Phoenix Bus/475 Gil Maldonado April 14, 2012 Final Strategic Plan Strategic Plan Part 1 Lytezone helicopter maintenance Inc. is a new up and coming business with a dedicated focus on providing safe and proper maintenance that is fairly cheaper than the competition along with being hassle free. Our goal is to provide an atmosphere that is more professional along with a better service than they would receive if they went to a big commercial company. Our Mission We at Lytezone helicopter maintenance Inc. are in the business of providing a professional service for professional, public, and private helicopters. We pride ourselves on providing a service that will cost remotely less than our commercial competitors while at the same time keeping quality and safety in our highest regards, and this is our highest priority. At Lytezone we also pride ourselves on being responsible, teamwork, respect, and perseverance. Our qualified team members have a positive do right attitude that cannot be found anywhere else simply because our team works close together in harmony. We also believe that the environment is important so we do our best to help preserve the sanctity of it by properly disposing of all materials and hazmat that may be harmful during all routine upgrades, special inspections, and maintenance. Our Vision Despite having a small environmental impact within the United States, we here at Lytezone helicopter mechanics Inc...
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...International Market Patiporn Kitlertphiroj University College of University of Denver Abstract Wal-Mart, the biggest retailer in the world, is spreading its power throughout the world, starting with nine countries in Asia, Europe and South America. The expansion has planed for more in the near future. With its attempt to penetrate hypermarket culture in every country which it enters, many severe problems are come into play. Acquisitions and joint venture with local businesses became a problem in nationalism country. Thus, strict governments’ rules and regulations blocked business operations. Misreading competitors and late in entry destroyed location opportunities the same as harmed relationship with local suppliers. Inadaptable to local culture become a big problem in global business. Moreover, low wages, unions and sex discrimination brought Wal-Mart to be an evil in employees’ perspective. Literature Review Wal-Mart is the largest Discount Store in the United States. Its magnitude is not only recognized domestically but also expanded to International Market. The company believes that one day this one will replace the United States position when the trend down (Molin, 2004). With this goal Wal-mart is encouraged to expanding stores into nine countries around the world and more in its plans (About Wal-Mart, 2001). Being number one in the United States does not always guarantee for being number one elsewhere in the world. There are many problems...
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...Dependable dynamism: lessons for designing scientific assessment processes in consensus negotiations Noelle Eckley* Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 79 JFK Street (UR), Cambridge, MA 02138, USA Abstract Negotiations that involve the use and interpretation of scientific information and assessment are often particularly difficult, especially when the scientific input is uncertain or contested. Parties can exploit this uncertainty in order to stall progress, where they might prefer a very different policy outcome. In addition, scientific input often changes as new research is done and disseminated. In order to facilitate decision-making where science is involved, a number of international environmental agreements have established regimes, as well as assessment processes, that are designed to incorporate new information, review decisions, and modify judgmentsFthat is, they are dynamic or adaptable. However, there is little systematic evaluation by policymakers or academic analysts of the type and qualities of such dynamism that might contribute to effective assessment and regulatory processes, or of whether this lesson is truly applicable across very different environmental issues. Examination of the recent protocol on persistent organicpollutants to the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP), in comparison to LRTAPs two previous protocols on sulfur emissions, offers a way...
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...Final Business Model and Strategic Plan BUS/475 March 2nd, 2015 Table of Contents Executive summary…………………………………………………………………………4 Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………5 V-Gym analysis……………………………………………………………………………..6 V-Gym’s mission statement and vision…………………………………………………….6 Values and guiding principles..,……………………………..…………………….………. 8 Organization’s strategic direction and aims ………………………..…………..…………. 8 Customers need satisfaction and Achievement of Competitive Advantage……….…….… 9 SWOTT: ………………………………………………..…………………….…..………...10 External Forces ………………………………………………………………….………….11 a). Economic Factors ………………………………………………….……..……...11 b). Legal and Regulatory Factors ……………...…………………………………….11 c). Technological Factors …………………..…………………………….…...……..12 d). Innovation Factors ……………………………………………………….……….12 e). Socio-cultural Factors …………………………………..…………………...........12 Internal Forces ……………………………………………….……………………….……. 13 a). Structure …………………………………………………………….…………… 13 b). Strategic capabilities ……………………………….…………………….……… 13 c). Systems and processes ………………………………………………….………...14 d). Strategies ……………………………………………………….………………....14 Economic and Legal/Regulatory Trends ………………………………..…………….……. 15 Adapting to Change ………………………………………………………………………… 16 Supply Chain Operation ……………………………………………………………….….... 16 Issues and/or...
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...GLOBALIZATION AND IT EFFECTS ON CULTURAL INTEGRATION: THE CASE OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC. INTRODUCTION I. AN OVERVIEW. With the growing standards of the world and the existing concepts and complexities in political, economic and socio-cultural ideologies, man has always and continuously pondered over the aspects of his nature. Unity, equality, trade and commerce are at the forefront of man's complexities. With these thoughts in mind, man has moved through history trying to satisfy his desires in relation to others. The advent of the twenty-first century gave birth to the idea of making the world a single village, thus, globalization. Globalization is the most talk-about issues in the 21st century. However, there is the difficulty of the world to come up with a single and uniform definition. This is because, so many people doubt if the happenings in the world today are as a result of globalization. Thus, due to these global differences of what this concept actually is about, globalization has grown to involve aspects not only of economy, but politics and other socio-cultural issues. Globalization affects almost every human being, this is because the process of globalization is said to have expanded almost through out the entire world either through transport, commerce, and communication. In addition, man’s activities on the globe are all located under these sectors. Culture, as a way of living of man, is identified by every one immediately after birth and was often...
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...Causes and Origins of the Collapse of the Former Soviet Union An Honors Research Thesis Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Graduation ―with Honors Research Distinction in Russian Economic Studies‖ in the Undergraduate Colleges of the Ohio State University by Erik Lauritzen The Ohio State University June 2011 Project Advisors: Professor Jason Blevins, Department of Economics Professor Jennifer Suchland, Department of Russian Table of Contents Abstract.................................................................................................................................................... 3 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 3 1. Macroeconomic Planning in the Soviet Union ................................................................. 5 1.1 The Early Policies of Period One ................................................................................................... 5 1.1.1 War Communism .......................................................................................................................... 5 1.1.2 The New Economic Policy (NEP) ............................................................................................... 9 1.1.3 Democratic Centralism ............................................................................................................... 11 1.2 The Significance of Economic...
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...The Age of Revolution i789-1848 E R I C HOBSBAWM FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, AUGUST 1996 Copyright © 1962 by E. J. Hobsbawm All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in Great Britain in hardcover by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, in 1962. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hobsbawm, E.J. (EricJ.), 1917The Age of Revolution, 1789-1898 / Eric Hobsbawm.—1st Vintage Books ed. p. cm. Originally published: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1962. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-679-77253-7 1. Europe—History—1789-1900. 2. Industrial revolution. I. Title. D299.H6 1996 940.2'7—dc20 96-7765 CIP VINTAGE BOOKS A Division of Random House, Inc. New York Random House Web address: http://www.randomhouse.com/ Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 CHAPTER MAPS 1 T H E W O R L D IN T H E 1780s Le dix-huittime stick doit lire mis au Panlhion.—Saint-Just1 i Europe in 1789 page 309 2 Europe in 1810 310 3 Europe in 1840 311 4 World Population in Large Cities: 1800-1850 31a 5 Western Culture 1815-1848: Opera 314 6 The States of Europe in 1836 316 7 Workshop of the World 317 8 Industrialization of Europe: 1850 318 9 Spread of French Law 320 I T H E first thing to observe about the world...
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