...SUMMARY Richter is planning global expansion in a fast changing market. Currently a leader in their market, they could easily lose their competitive advantage should their information system (IS) not effectively support the expansion plans. The current IS is not fully centralized and therefore could limit the pace at which they can expand, consequently losing their competitive edge. There is a greater demand for Information Technology (IT) support which is only due to increase as the organization expands; considering the IT strategic plan covers a one year period and the organization of IT staff is not centralized, current structure is not maximizing the overall efficiency and effectiveness of the organization and does not support global expansion. This study presents four options as potential actions to take to address the issues and create a system which will provide an environment to deliver an IT strategy aligned with Richter’s long term business strategy. The options include the following: Alternative #1 - Maintain the status quo Alternative #2 - Abandon the current SAP system and centralize IT with in-house built ERP to be used globally and outsource the IT support Alternative #3 - Decentralize IT Alternative #4 - Create a more centralized IT system with current SAP modules at all affiliates with 100% outsourced IT support Alternative #4 is the recommended option; creating a more centralized IT system with outsourced support will allow Richter to plan...
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...Richter Case - HUngary’s Largest Pharma Intro - May 2007 – present department’s plans for 2008 in June - tackled major IT initivatives: installing SAP enterprise wide R/3 system => facilitate expansion throughout Eastern Europe Considrations - current iT structure appropriate to meet growing demands of the overall org? - to what extent should IT at affiliates be centrally controlled - overall question: how IT could best serve the rest of the company - Define Richter’s IT in the past and present o structure, system, strategy - Value of it to Richter - Evaluate current IT governance - Recommend in planning for the coming year Industry - growth due to growing aging population in NA, Europe & Japan - 10 major players; 1000 smaller companies - focus: pipeline – new drugs in the process of development - 15% of sales into R&D - generics: 20-30% decrease in price after patent expiration - GENERIC DRUG COMPANIES: o majority of revenues from selling generic drugs + generic active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) o sell packed version of the drug under own name or o sell generic APIs to other pharmaceuticals – package and sell o strict regulatory approval o success: low-cost production capabilities, distribution networks and ability to navigate through complex industry regulations o highly competitive market History Richter - innovation, many patents - export to countries outside the Eastern Bloc - distribution through Medimpex...
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...Ilaria tena ISP 121 Logs and Richter Scale, Decibels Due: Wednesday, February 27th Open the file found on the . You will use this file for both parts below. Click on the worksheet tabs at the bottom to access the decibel data. 1. Richter scale The Richter scale is used to measure the intensity of earthquakes. It is a logarithmic relationship with the following formula: R = log(I) I is the intensity of the earthquake and R is the number on the Richter scale. (Remember that if there is no base written with the log it is base 10). Converting the above formula from log form to exponent form would give us: 10R = I Which version you use depends on which variable you are given. Since the Richter scale is logarithmic, an increase of 1 on the Richter scale translates to 10 times increase in intensity. An R of 2 means an intensity of 100 while an R of 3 has an intensity of 1000 which is 10 times larger than the previous intensity. a) Open the Richter worksheet in the Excel file. For the first 9 earthquakes, calculate the Richter number and for the remaining calculate the intensity using the formulas above. b) Which earthquake had the highest Richter number? Chile and Gansu, China c) Is there a correlation between Intensity and number of deaths? That is, as the intensity of the earthquakes increased, did the number of deaths increase? Why do you think that is? There is no correlation, because the data shows that at times the intensity was really high...
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...capital and in the south west completely destroyed or unusable. Almost 188 383 houses were seriously damaged and 105 000 were utterly destroyed by the earthquake leaving most of those hit by the earthquake homeless. The amount of loss and injuries is immense with an estimated amount of 222 570 killed and 300 572 severely injured.Displacement rates spiked up to 2.3 million among which 302 000 were children. (ReliefWeb, 2 September 2011). Still five years after the earthquake some people are still having to live in tents being unable to afford a real home.Haiti is prone to most natural disasters such a landslides, floods, hurricanes and drought but this may have been one of the worst earthquakes Haiti has ever experience, The magnitude on the richter scale was a 7.0 but caused even more damage thanks to the aftershocks of a magnitude of 5.9. The tremors hit for about 15 km on the southwest of Port au Prince followed...
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...Earthquake. The area affected was Antioch, China (located between the Syria and Turkey regions). Not much is known about how the report was formed. However, this historic report did include information about how the aftershocks lasted for twelve months. Other details from this report indicate that the death toll is around 250,000 to 300,000 casualties. Scientists today can only prove that the earthquake occurred between May 20 and May 29 (date translated from B.C. to Calendar Year). The first instrument to measure the seismic waves of earthquakes was invented by Charles F. Richter at the California Institute of Technology. (Bellis, 2013) He introduced his new instrument called the Richter scale, to the world of science. His invention allows scientists today to study the mechanics behind earthquakes and locate the epicenter to which the natural disaster originated. The largest earthquake recorded by the Richter scale was measured on May 22, 1960 at a magnitude of 9.5. The quake resulted in 1,886 deaths, 2,000,000 homeless, and $1,175,000,000 total in damages. (“The Largest Earthquake”, [PDF file]) If we want to see these large numbers slide down to zero, the impossible will need to be challenged by science. Skyscrapers are buildings consisting of many floors, usually ranging from 18 to 110 stories. Each tower is unique and all of these super structures have requirements to pass in order to continue its service for businesses. Currently, a skyscraper is required to have vibration...
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...occurs it sounds like a low thundering noise. The S waves(Secondary wave) are more inconsistent in their movements. When this event occurs the ground shakes and roads and sidewalks start to rip apart. Even though the P waves are the bulky body waves, the S waves are way more destructive. Surface waves, these include Love and Rayleigh waves. These waves travel in a long pattern stretching out over the waves path. Surface waves move a little slower than the P or S waves, however they can cause way more damage. There are three ways to measure earthquakes; the two types of Mercalli Intensity Scales, Shake maps, and Richter Magnitude Scale. The Mercalli Scales are based on how forceful the shaking is and the amount of the damage done. Shake Maps sometimes show the history and range of ground movement helping to monitor potential earthquakes. The Richter Magnitude Scale is measured on the amplitude of earthquake waves measured on a seismograph. This is the most accurate measuring up to a 6.5 magnitude earthquake. 4. There are three main causes for tsunamis, seismic activity, ocean floor landslides, and cosmic impact....
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...sketch on earthquakes, their cause and effect, how they are measured, and an area where they frequently occur. Plate Margins There are two different plate margins. These are convergent margins and divergent margins. When two plates move and finally come together it is called convergent margins. Divergent margins are the exact opposite than convergent margins. Instead of moving towards each other the plates move away from each other. Measuring Earthquakes Just by looking at the mass destruction left behind by earthquakes one can see that they vary in size and strength. Earthquakes are measured in size and strength by what is called the Richter scale. The Richter scale was developed by a man names Charles Richter. The majorities of the earthquakes that occur each year are a magnitude of 2.5 or less and go unnoticed by humans. The Richter scale can measure both small and very large earthquakes; this could be ripples in the earth that not one person could feel or it could be earthquakes of mass destruction just like the earthquake of Japan. Also the movement magnitude scale measures how strong of the earthquake is based on three things. These are the displacement on the fault service, the rupture size and the rocks properties. What makes earthquakes so damaging is the ground shaking, where all buildings bridges and cities are built up the earth’s rock surface it tends to cause massive damages to the structures that are built where the rocks shift and...
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...There is a growing concern that disasters are on the rise around the world and especially in developing countries, where years of development gains can be single-handedly wiped out when a single event occurs (Wisner 2006, 6). The sudden spate of disastrous earthquakes in the Americas cause concerns. Within a span of 45 days, two earthquakes hit Haiti and Chile. An earthquake, measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale, rocked Haiti on January 12, 2010, knocking down buildings and power lines and killing over 200,000 people. While the earthquake that devastated Chile, measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale on February 27 was 500 times more powerful; yet the death toll is magnitudes lower. There is the dominant approach which has examined the role of poverty in deepening the effects of natural disasters. Poverty is what ultimately kills most people during an earthquake. Poverty means that little or no evaluation is made of seismic risk in constructing buildings and no zoning takes place. It means that building codes are not written, and even if they do exist they are difficult, or impossible, to enforce. It means the choice between building robustly or building cheaply is not a choice at all (Stark 2010). Similarly, other studies stressed the costs in terms of lives, people’s disability and injuries and livelihoods affecting by the results of earthquake. They all agreed that the impacts are enormous and they are unequally distributed, with the poor and most vulnerable carrying most of...
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...is made. When an earthquake takes place below the ocean floor it causes tectonic plates to flow against each other causing instability on the sea levels and creating large waves as an effect. Sometimes earthquakes also create landslides that in result can cause tsunami as the remains from landslides can cause water to move. Volcanoes can also explode underneath the sea. If that happen it causes a sudden gush of wave to move upwards in form of large waves (Bryant). The World’s most devastating tsunamis are the ones that occurred in Lisbon (Portugal), Sanriku (Japan), Messina (Italy), South Chile, Izmit Bay (Turkey) and the tsunami in the Indian Ocean (Bryant). The tsunami at Lisbon took place in 1775 measuring to a magnitude of 9 on a Richter scale. In total there were three earthquakes that caused massive cracks on the surface of the earth. The wave was around 100 feet high and cause about 90% damage to the buildings in the city. In total there were one hundred thousand people killed (Mendes). In 1896 an earthquake occurred in Sanriku that caused great disturbance on the sea some 100...
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...Generally, earthquakes are sudden vibrations that happen on the earth’s crust which are caused by a number of factors. The movement of earths plate is what constitutes an earthquake and leads to various effects to the part of the earth it is experienced. The magnitude or the measure of the effects that an earthquake can cause is measured by a scale called Richter scale. To start with, the first cause of earthquakes is the release of undue pressure that builds in the underground rocks of the earth. When maximum Pressure builds in these earth’s faults, it can no longer be sustained by the earth’s crust and therefore it is released causing sudden movement of the earth surface. Earthquakes are also caused by the breaking of rocks in earth’s crust. Sometimes these rocs are usually under stress and therefore they break up and in the process cause random and destructive movement of the earth’s plates (Freeman, 2004). Consequently, earthquakes are marked by devastating and numerous effects. One of the biggest is that it causes deaths in the affected areas. When earthquakes occur the victims might be buried up and therefore suffocate or get killed due to a falling building and objects. Secondly, settlement is destroyed and inhabitants forced to shift to other places if they survive. Thirdly, they alter the landscape and the physical feature of a landscape of the affected area. This causes mass slides and other disadvantages. Different countries respond differently to earthquakes...
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...Assignment: Earthquakes Axia Colleges of the University of Phoenix By To understand why the Earth moves the way that it does along and through its diverse layers, we must have a better understanding of the physical science surrounding both plate tectonics, and earthquakes. This is a summation on earthquakes; what causes earthquake to occur, the effects of earthquakes on surroundings, how the strength of earthquakes are measured, and the regions in which earthquakes are most likely to take place. There are two types of plate margins exist; divergent margins and convergent margins. Convergent margins are the boundaries which are on two plates that proceed into one another and return (Murck, Skinner, & Mackenzie, 2008). As a result, this leads to the two distinctive forms of plate margins; it is dependent upon if the boundary is in between two continental plates, in between two pelagic plates, or in between both. However, divergent margins are by far different from convergent margins in that these margins are boundaries along two plates traveling apart from one another; taking place within the pelagic or continental crusts (Murck, Skinner, & Mackenzie, 2008). Earthquakes have a tendency to be most frequent along these boundaries being the most unmistakable expression of dynamic...
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...Tammy Kelly Kaplan University SC300: Big Ideas in Science: From Methods to Mutation Unit 4 Assignment Professor Joshua Ford May 22, 2012 Unit 4 Assignment: Dangerous and Natural Energy 1) What patterns do you see in the distribution of earthquakes across the continental United States? The west coast of the US consists of the highest levels of risk by a wide margin, particularly in the south-west (on the pacific tectonic plate fault line). Central Eastern regions bear areas of moderate risk. Northern and South/south-easterly regions bear no significant risk. 2) Locate your home on this map and make a note of the relative risk to you by indicating the color where you live. The USGS also reports on earthquakes around the world. Visit this interactive map to find the latest global earthquake data from the past seven days: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/ Bridgeport Connecticut - very low probability of occurrence here. This region bears no significant risk to such an event over the next 50 years. 3) What patterns do you see in the distribution of earthquakes around the world? The majority of earthquakes occur on the left hand side of the pacific plate (the fault line between the pacific/Eurasian and pacific/Australasian plates) the right hand side of this plate relates to the fault line where the majority of earthquakes in the US occur. The westerly coast of the South America also has an abundance of earthquakes on the right hand side of the Nazca tectonic...
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...To discuss this statement, there is first a need to understand what is meant by the key words in it such as poverty and disaster. First of all, poverty is where people’s basic needs for food, clothing and shelter aren’t being met. There are usually two types of poverty. One of those is absolute poverty which is when people cannot obtain adequate resources to support a minimum level of physical health. This tends to be seen earning less than 2dollars a day by the World Health Organisation (WHO). There is also relative poverty and this occurs when people don't enjoy a certain minimum level of living standards and this is determined by the government (which is enjoyed by the majority of the population). This can vary between countries. Also, a disaster is something which causes very distressing or ruinous effects which disrupt functions of an organisation, society or system. What constitutes a disaster is the societies inability to cope rather than the event itself. There are a number of things besides poverty that can accentuate the effects of an earthquake such as the structure of the buildings, the population density, the education of the people but also more physical factors such as magnitude and the time of day when the earthquake hits. Poverty by itself can completely change the effects that the earthquake can have. If the money isn’t available to pay for preparation, monitoring, education about such problems and recovery, then does a country really have a chance against...
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...One of the challenging tasks for civil engineers is to mitigate the response of a structure subjected to dynamic loads in order to reduce the risks of damage and injuries caused by extreme hazards such as earthquakes and strong winds. Recent devastating earthquakes around the world have underscored the tremendous importance of understanding the way in which civil engineering structures respond during such dynamic events [1]. For example, the Kobe earthquake (in January 1995 in Japan), with a 6.9 Richter magnitude, was very destructive. Today, one of the main challenges in structural engineering is to develop innovative design concepts to protect civil structures, including their material contents and human occupants from hazards like wind and earthquakes. The...
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...------------------------------------------------- Unit 4 exemplar report ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- OPTION 1: Tectonic Activity and Hazards ------------------------------------------------- Note: These exemplar reports are based on the work of candidates under examination conditions, during the June 2010 examination series. The reports were originally hand written but have been typed up, with diagrams redrawn. Errors, including QWC errors, have in most cases been kept. The aim of these exemplar reports is to highlight good practice and areas of potential improvement. The marking levels and examiners comments given are indicative and should be used as a basis for discussion in the classroom, rather than indicating a specific grade. Pre-release research focus * Explore the range of tectonic event profiles and how these and other factors affect the responses of people and governments. * Research contrasting locations and hazard events to draw out the range of tectonic activity and the different responses generated. Report title: ‘Tectonic hazard profiles determine the way in which people and governments respond to hazards’. Discuss ------------------------------------------------- Student’s plan: Intro – definitions Park model THP factors Magnitude – Lincolnshire, Iripinia Speed onset - Popocatepetl, Kashmir Areal Extent – tsunami Other factors - economic development...
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