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...University of South Australia School of Computer and Information Science INFS 1014 (105292): Information Systems Professional Practice (ISPP) Practical Week 11 MIND MAPPING YOUR BUSINESS REPORT CASE STUDY INSTRUCTIONS TO STUDENTS All students – Work through all activities and ensure you have completed all checkpoints. Internal students – Show each finished checkpoint to your practical supervisor who will mark it off as complete. External students – Complete all activities electronically within this document (where applicable). Email the checkpoints email account listed on the course website when you have completed all tasks and checkpoints so they can be checked and marked off as complete by your tutor. For the subject of the email, please write “Practical Week 11 checkpoints”. Post any questions you may have to the External Discussion Forum. TASKS 1. Using the following mind mapping software, http://wisemapping.com/c/home.htm, create a mind map of the case study you are working on for your business report. Your mind map should reflect the case study, i.e. it should be a visual representation of the written case study. 2. Save your mind map. 3. Use the “Collaboration” functionality to “Share” your mind map with your team members. 4. Print your mind map. 5. Explore the export options available for your mind map. [CHECKPOINT1 – exercise completed and mind map shown/provided to supervisor] 6. Logout. 7. Note: Your team must submit one mind map of the...
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...Abstract This paper is about France’s issue with women wearing the veil in public. French people justify wanting to ban the veil by saying that it affects their identity, is threatening, and stands for oppression of women. A lot of statistics are used to prove that what they are claiming is incorrect. I will also be supporting my argument with stories of women who are affected already from credible sources like books. As a woman who wears the veil, I want people to think about the impact that this ban can have on women like me. Even though I do not live in France, countries around France are beginning to act similarly, and so sooner or later it will affect me and the women around me. “In our country, we cannot accept that women be prisoners behind a screen, cut off from all social life, deprived of all identity,” he said to rolling applause. “The burqa is not a religious sign, it’s a sign of subservience, a sign of debasement – I want to say it solemnly: It will not be welcome on the territory of the French Republic” (“Sarkozy speaks out against burka”, 2009) is what French president Nicholas Sarkozy said on March 2004, according to BBC News. What happens if the ban is applied is that women who are seen wearing the veil in public will be fined 15o euros (£119). 30,000 euros and a one-year sentence to jail will befall men who force their women to wear the veil (“French Senate Votes to Ban Islamic Veil in Public”, 2010). The word people use to describe the veil differs......
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...Spirit in whom I have my faith. His great help has made it possible for this book to be successfully completed. To Him be the glory, honour and adoration now and forever more, AMEN. ACKNOWLEDGMENT The author wishes to express her sincere appreciation to all who provided suggestions, encouragements and supported in other ways as the literature was being prepared. Special thanks are extended to Mr. Watson Dey of the Ghana highway authority, Rev. / Mrs. Adonoo. The author gratefully acknowledges the help of Eunice E. Kufoalor, MaryAnn and Jonathan Mallet. To all who contributed to the development of this book, the author says” THANK YOU.” _ Jubilant Yesutor Adonoo. ID No. (DCSA 2013026) Could your spouse in any way be your enemy? Find out in the stories of those who have been in it. It is said that “two cannot be together unless they agree.” Many have gone into it and found happiness, oneness and friendship but others have also gone into it only to toil and endure it. There are so many things that bring marriage to an end whether at a premature or matured stage. Some people do not have the courage to end the marriage even when there is a possibility for them to divorce. In some cases, they may not......
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...At a very young age I had to grow up fast and help my mom out with the kids. It was five of us at the time, our dad went to prison and left my mom with everything. When my mom went to work I had to be a mom when she was not there at times. I had to put away my teenage ways and become a parent. It was very hard at times because my sister's and brother had respect for me instead of our mom. I got devastated at times, but I pulled it together. I had no life because I was being a parent to my siblings. In high school I was a very troubled teenager who did not have a sense of direction. My grades were not good the first 3 years of school; it was up and down from there; but I always got through it somehow. My last year of school I pulled it together and made honor roll the whole entire year. At the end of the year I received a reward for my accomplishment. At that moment I felt very important that year. After High school I enrolled in college as a criminal justice major, everything came back to me and I fell in the same situation that I was in when I was back home. When I left home to go to college that was the first time I felt like I was on my own, I did not have to be a parent anymore, and I was only responsible for myself. The two years that I had attended I was not ready for college. My focus was having a life because it was taken from me as a child. I enjoyed being a free with no curfew . The school suspended for six months, I never went back to school. At that very moment......
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...Goguen 1 Evangeline Goguen Professor Laurie Cooper English 1041 15 October 2013 Is My House My Home? For as long as I can remember I’ve lived in the same 100 year old house. It was the place where I experienced so many firsts: my first play date, my first sleepover, my first kiss, and my first heartbreak. I never thought I’d be excited to leave, but as the years passed, that house didn’t feel like home anymore. The house sat on 5 acres of land; I had a view of the field in the backyard from my bedroom window. I would sit and stare at the long grass, as the wind would make it dance. The front flowerbeds were always weeded no matter how much it hurt my mother’s back. The pain was worth it to see the vibrant colors of spring’s first bloom. In the backyard, an old mice-infested barn that sat there uselessly was converted into a cottage. It was like a home away from home. Moving on to the inside of the house, through that annoying door that never closed properly, there was the kitchen. The yellow walls made the place seem cheerful and the cherry wood cabinets added some warmth. There was no dinning room; there was simply an eat-in kitchen. Many dinners, few that were satisfying, have been served on that glass top table. On the other side of the kitchen, two rocking chairs facing each other were placed beside the window. We were a family of three so it was a race to see who would have to pull up an extra chair. I always lost since I was the child. We had countless......
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...Case Study: Keep Patients Waiting, Not in My Office Questions: 1) The key to successful scheduling is to allot the proper amount of time for each visit, depending on the services required, and then stick to it. This means that the physician must pace himself carefully, receptionists must be corrected if they stray from the plan, and patients must be taught to respect their appointment times. By actually timing a number of patient visits, I found that they break down into several categories. We allow half an hour for any new patient, 15 minutes for a well-baby checkup or an important illness, and either 5 or 10 minutes for a recheck on an illness or injury, an immunization, or a minor problem like warts. You can, of course, work out your own time allocations, geared to the way you practice. When appointments are made, every patient is given a specific time, such as 10:30 or 2:40. It's an absolute no-no for anyone in my office to say to a patient, "Come in 10 minutes" or "Come in a halfhour." People often interpret such instructions differently, and nobody knows just when they'll arrive. There are three examining rooms that I use routinely, a fourth that I reserve for teenagers, and a fifth for emergencies. With that many rooms, I don't waste time waiting for patients, and they rarely have to sit in the reception area. In fact, some of the younger children complain that they don't get time to play with the toys and puzzles in the waiting room before being examined, and......
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...to find? I found my hero and she is a teacher. A hero is someone who cares for my well-being. In life, people may come in go, some will be remembered and some are forgotten. One thing is for sure, I’ll never the person who is known to me as my second parent. My teacher my hero is Ma’am Evelyn B. Plaza, my Second year High School teacher. I am very proud to describe my favorite teacher to all of you and will share what I have learned from her because she is my teacher and my hero. She has the most beautiful personality I ever encountered. I am proud to say that she is beautiful inside and out. She has two small brown sympathetic eyes that showing his tender loving care to us, a pointed nose, and a red rosy lip. She has a short black shiny hair and brown Filipina complexion. My teacher is a very good example in her young age. She is supportive and very sincere. She is very nice and fun to be with. Sometimes she is like my mom because she is someone who can understand me. She is like a star in the night guiding my way not to be lost and became a better person. She always teaches us a good moral lesson. Like a hero, my teacher always helps me whenever i have problems in our subject especially in Math and she will sincerely help me with no doubt. A hero is someone who helps people. Even though I finish my study, she will still noticed me and invited me with my friend in their house to eat because for me a hero is someone who doesn't change. I really like my teacher. For......
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...Jabwood International Case Analysis I. Analysis Problem: Jabwood International is experiencing a downward trend in revenue and sales and may continue this trend if change is not made immediately. Causes: Due to the financial crisis and economic downturn across the world, Lebanon has seen an almost flat performance in the real estate market driving down the prices of raw materials used in construction such as wood. Advances in transportation and technology have led to increased competition in the timber industry. A subsidiary of Jabwood based out of Saudi Arabia was closed for non-business related matters. This subsidiary, before closure, contributed almost half of Jabwood’s sales. Jabwood is a large company that has a very strict and limiting business structure. Jabwood’s physical presence remains solely in Lebanon. Jabwood relies heavily on one major supplier for approximately 60 to 70 percent of its revenue. This supplier intends to offer the opportunity to sell to other wood wholesalers, eliminating Jabwood’s exclusivity. Possible Alternatives: In order to increase revenue and sales, Jabwood International has many options. In my opinion, the only feasible options would include expanding their business into two countries: Saudi Arabia and China. Expanding into the Saudi Arabia market is a very enticing solution for many reasons. Saudi Arabia does not have its own wood supply and therefore relies heavily on other countries for this need. Jabwood has had......
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...My Learning from the WestJet Case Study Case Analysis The case study by Munro and Khan (2013) indicates that IT has played a significant role to make the WestJet a remarkable success. WestJet started its function in 1996 with three uses Boeing 737-200 aircraft in five western Canadian Cities. However, by 2011, the airline boasted its activities reaching more than 90 Boeing Next-Generation 737 aircraft, 85 destinations in 18 countries and over nine thousand employees. It became “the second-largest carrier in Canada and ninth largest in North America. It described itself as a ‘high-value, low-fare airline’ with a corporate culture focused on delivering a ‘world-class guest experience’” (p. 1). The role of IT was brilliant is success of the WestJet in the mentioned period. The case shows “IT and its systems gave WestJet a competitive advantage and played an integral part in WestJet’s growth” (p. 1). The case study indicates that aligning the IT and business strategy was a key for success in WestJet. For example, one of the WestJet strategic plan was to start the codeshare that enable two or more airlines share the same flight. Thus, it required an IT move to align the IT with the company strategy. When Smith was hired in 2011, she found “a company wanted to use IT to help it get to the next level. WestJet’s corporate strategy was heavily dependent on the ability of IT to deliver innovative guest product and services, as well as solid operational support” (p. 2). Smith started...
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...losing the people they need by taking away incentives for staying (233). On the other hand, while the company has been doing well as a public company, Suh doesn’t believe that Ken is the best CEO for the job because of how he’s “ambivalent about communicating with the shareholder base” (233). Ultimately, Suh believes that both options are possible, but would require a good deal of effort. Ed Nusbaum Nusbaum is completely for the company going private, and he backs up his opinion with plenty of financial reasons that work well enough into the other areas of the business. One of these would be how First Rangeway is “under little pressure to use its stock as currency”, which would allow him to make the needed case to the board that “it is in the stockholder’s best interests to be bought out” (234). This aids his argument because Ken and Rangeway “have a fiduciary duty to do what is in the best interest of the shareholders”, the financial implications that Nusbaum brings up make sense (234). Overall, while Nusbaum could have incorporated more evidence that did not relate to finances, the ones he does bring do validate his position. John J. Mulherin While Mulherin believes that the company should remain public if it is “truly creating value”, he would also understand how more value going private could create (235). For remaining public, he claims that the best way to remain public while avoiding the high costs......
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...High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/05806aa4-f819-11df-8875-00144feab49a.html#ixzz3leWaAceF o ran one of the largest injection-moulding operations in the world, with production sites in Denmark and Switzerland, and packing and other facilities in the Czech Republic, the US and South Korea. The analysis: The company gathered a diverse group of senior executives and outside specialists in a “war room”, where they analysed the company’s product development, sourcing, manufacturing and logistics process. They developed a plan called “Shared Vision” and by October 2004 the strategy was approved by the board. A new model: In 2005, through a series of collaborations between different functions in the company, Lego cut the number of colours by half and reduced the number of stock-keeping units to 6,500. The company also decided to outsource logistics and production. Additionally, to better understand the requirements of Lego’s key customer base, the company interviewed its top 20 clients, representing 70 per cent of Lego’s total business. This process revealed one very important trend: contrary to what the company had thought, most customers did not require daily or next-day deliveries. This led to Lego’s decision to deliver......
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...Jeffery Lesins Professor Ross Family Business 9/15/15 Little Sister Case Study Martin Schmidt is the owner and manager of a construction company that his father started. He is getting close to the age of retirement and is concerned with who will take over for him after he retires. He has a child Robert who has been with the business for four years and is expected to take over for him. He has no formal training but years of experience learning under his father. Martin also has a daughter who is more qualified having studied at an ivy league college and holding an MBA. She also has worked for a multinational conglomerate giving her plenty of experience in the field of business management. Martin is worried that no one will take his daughter seriously and she will fail as a owner and manager of his company. I think that Martin's worries are very justified. If he were to bring his daughter in to the business and let her own and run it out of nowhere his employees would see it as nepotism and would not respect or listen to Dorothy for that reason. What Dorothy should try to do is convince her father to allow her to work in the business and prove herself as a capable leader before deciding who to give his business away to. Dorothy is very qualified to handle this position so she will shine and earn the respect of her workers and family given the opportunity to show what she is capable of. This would also allow Robert to still take over the family business without......
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... sales promotion, personal selling and public relations, although some marketers may add other elements such as publicity, direct marketing or sponsorship as major components. IMC is therefore not just a concept relating to consistency or synergy—it is also a strategic process (Van Zanten & Bruwer 2002a). This is in particular the case of when and how IMC manifests itself at the wine region level, in which case the integration of all the marketing communication efforts of the wine region in order to achieve a strong brand identity is of the utmost importance. The Coonawarra wine region (Geographical Indication) is located in the South East corner of South Australia and is famed for its unique terra rossa soil and bold-flavoured red wines, in particular Cabernet Sauvignon. About 5,000 hectares of vineyards comprise the Coonawarra grapegrowing area. The region currently boasts 16 operating (production- type) wineries and 22 cellar door sales facilities. Around 700 people (full-time equivalent) are employed in the vineyards, wineries and cellar door facilities. The region produces on average about three and a half million cases of wine per annum. A significant portion of Coonawarra wine is exported while at the same time Coonawarra maintains its reputation as a leading wine region through its strong presence in the Australian domestic market. Two recent previous articles in the Wine Industry Journal (Van Zanten & Bruwer 2002a, 2002b) examined the......
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...| CASE: KEEP PATIENTS WAITING? NOT IN MY OFFICE | BUSN 6110/ME – OPERATIONS & PROJECT MANAGEMENT | | | CASE KEEP PATIENTS WAITING? NOT IN MY OFFICE 1. What features of the appointment scheduling system were crucial in capturing “many grateful patients”? By seeing patients at their “exact” appointment times, the patients were very grateful. It is rare that the doctor did not see the patients during their allotted time. The key to ensuring appointments remained on schedule was to book appointment realistically. By allotting the proper amount of time for each visit (this was tied to the services require) this kept the schedule on track. Patients are also given a specific time, e.g., 10:30 or 2:40 vice the usual come in 10 minutes or 30 minutes. There was an adequate number of examining rooms and her 2-3 assistants depending on the workload were well instructed on the standing operating procedures. New patients were asked to arrive in the office early to get their initial paperwork completed. New patients were also told about the strict adherence to appointment times. 2. What procedures were followed to keep the appointment system flexible enough to accommodate the emergency cases, and yet be able to keep up with the other patients’ appointments? The doctor felt that most doctors used them having an emergency as an excuse not to stick to their appointment times and felt this would not work in her practice. If it was a true......
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...My Case for Conceal and Carry In the United States and elsewhere, there are a variety of laws surrounding if a person can carry a firearm on their person in public. “Concealed carrying” is the most common form. Concealed carrying involves concealing a firearm from public view on the body, usually underneath a coat, at the lower back, hip, leg, or on one side of the rib cage. Carrying a concealed handgun in public is permitted for non-law enforcement officials in 49 states as of July 13, 2011, although regulations differ widely by state. Illinois and Washington, DC (my hometown, more in this later) do not allow concealed carry except by active and retired law enforcement officers. I believe that all citizens that have been trained have gone through background checks and properly trained in firearm use should be able to conceal and carry. Gun control advocates staunchly disagree with the idea of “conceal and carry.” They argue that increased gun ownership leads to more gun crime and unintended gun injuries. They contend that concealed firearms increase the chances of arguments becoming lethal, and that society would be safer with fewer guns on the street not more. Individuals against conceal and carry believe that concealed handguns are not an effective form of self-defense. A study by the American Journal of Public Health by Charles Branas, PhD., found that someone carrying a gun for self-defense was 4.5 times more likely to be shot during an assault than an......
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