...What is the topic of your project? Apple used to be a leader in the smartphone segment. How has Samsung overtaken Apple and become the brand's best-selling smartphone at the moment? Why are you interested in this topic? The smartphone war is happening and it is receiving attentions worldwide. There are a lot of arguments between Apple and Samsung fans regarding which brand has best smartphone products. I am curious about Samsung’s business approaches which help the company effectively compete with Apple. What is (are) the objective(s)/research question(s) of the research? 1. What are the business strategies of Apple and Samsung when competing in smartphone market segment? 2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of both companies’ strategies? 3. Which actions Apple should take to regain its position (in terms of marketing, product development strategies)? What academic resources have you identified? I have found out some statistics of smartphone market share on online newspapers such as: THE VERGE and REUTERS. Links: http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/29/8512887/samsung-earnings-q1-2015-smartphone-market-share http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/29/us-samsung-elec-apple-idUSKBN0NK04K20150429 The iPhone Upgrade Program, iPhone 6s vs Samsung Galaxy S6 news on FORBES. Link: http://www.forbes.com/sites/aarontilley/2015/09/20/following-apples-lead-samsung-plans-its-own-phone-leasing-program-cutting-out-carriers/ http://www.forbes.com/s...
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... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Corleone Pasta and Pizza will be an eat-in, carry-out restaurant, specializing in evening and weekend leisure dining. New Rochelle is a multicultural city with a lot of Italian descendants. The downtown, where Corleone Pasta and Pizza will be located, is a commercial area with lots of businesses, and a great spot to entertain. What makes Corleone Pasta and Pizza different as a business proposition? New restaurant openings are known to be risky. What have we done to neutralize these risks and assure success? First, we have identified and unfulfilled market through some surveys, and marketing study in the area of New Rochelle, and close cities like Pelham, and Larchmont. Our research has demonstrated that 87% of the sample population that we used for our research are very interested in our business proposal. Through this research, we have learned that people are unhappy with the quality of food and service offered by other related businesses, and they would be happy to patronage a good pasta and pizza restaurant with an excellent customer service. The research of the population demographics of this area, also revealed that people tend to go out to eat as frequently as three times per week. New Rochelle is a very viable commuting area. It has the Bee Line transportation to closed cities like Pelham, Larchmont, Mamaroneck, White Plains, Eastchester, Bronxville, Mount Vernon. Also has the New Haven Line train station that connects from Grand Central to New...
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...MG420 DL Labor Relations Research Assignment (Your name) (Date of submission) Instructor’s Name 1. Define the term “collective bargaining” and list and describe four issues that are mandatory components of a collective bargaining agreement. Tips for success: • Have a clear Introduction, Body, and Conclusion for each question. • If I ask you to define something, please do not give me something from a dictionary. Be more creative than that. • Make sure you follow the MLA formatting style. You should be familiar with this by now. Note: I prefer, so I required, the use of parenthetical citations (I hate to have to scroll to see your references) • Make sure your source is credible. For example, do not give me anything you saw at Wikipedia.org – Wikipedia is a free-for-all site. Anyone can publish there, but these sources are not credible. • Make sure you discuss the relevance and/or applicability (to the question) of the source material you are using (and citing) in support of your offering. Paraphrasing or summarizing is always a nice touch. Here's an example from a previous student's paper: "The May 2010 issue of EPSU (http://www.something.something) discusses the plight of French firefighters who took action to try to get the government to declare their jobs as dangerous and to agree to special retirement agreements. At the time of the writing of this article, the firefighters and the government were preparing...
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...markets:-Professionals (lumberjacks), farmers, institutions and casual users. Among these casual user segment was considered to be the future growth market. Hamilton Power Tools thus hired Consumer Metrics of Chicago to conduct two research projects. The first one was a projective technique known as Thematic Apperception Test(TAT) using picture response techniques. The basic premise of TAT research is that it in an unstructured and indirect manner encourages respondents to project their emotions, needs, motives, attitude and values at a sub-conscious level. Purpose of research: The research was primarily exploratory to gain insights into reasons why people make certain purchases. Mr. Campagna also wanted to get a flavour of language people use in talking about chain saw. Analysis of method: The research was conducted in states of Illionois and Wisconsin. People who were selected for TAT were screened on basis of whether they planned to purchase a chain saw in next 12 months or already owned a chain saw or had used a chain saw in past. However this was the only information collected, ideally some more information must have been collected regarding their demographics and more regions could have been considered. They restricted the sample to only two states. How should Conway and Baggins respond to Hamilton’s question? Hamilton...
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...Population/Sampling Method Wal-Mart is a giant retail cooperation that is not able to provide adequate pay and benefits to the current employees (“Making change at Wal-Mart, 2014). One possible solution concerning this issue is to conduct research and to properly organize a way to survey or interview employees who are being directly affected. The target group in this research project would be Wal-Mart employees that are willing to participate in the study. These employees will range from different age groups, various backgrounds and cultures. Access to these employees would be during work hours or before or after work. Employees could come in early or stay late. Interviews could also be performed on days when business is slow. There are several types of sampling methods that can be used such as: simple random sampling, stratified sampling, systematic sampling, and cluster sampling (“Choosing a Sampling Method”, 2013). Random sampling is an effective way to measure the perspective of a group of people that is too large to interview (“Basics of choosing a survey population”, 2008). In this research, the random sampling will be the method used so that favoritism or being bias does not occur. Instruments Used Often times large groups of people are broken down into smaller groups because it can be too expensive and too time consuming (“Basics of choosing a survey population”, 2008). Some examples of instruments used to collect data are : informal and formal surveys, direct and...
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...Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1 Background “3G, short for third Generation, is the third generation of mobile telecommunications technology” (Geneva, 2002). 3G telecommunication networks support services that provide an information transfer rate of at least 200 kbit/s. Later 3G releases, often denoted 3.5G and 3.75G, also provide mobile broadband access of several Mbit/s to smart phones and mobile modems in laptop computers. “3G finds application in wireless voice telephony, mobile Internet access, fixed wireless Internet access, video calls and mobile TV. This is a set of standards used for mobile devices and mobile telecommunication use services and networks that comply with the International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 (IMT-2000) specifications by the International Telecommunication Union3G finds application in wireless voice telephony, mobile Internet access, fixed wireless Internet access, video calls and mobile TV” (Smith and Collins, 2000). 3G technology is the result of research and development work carried out by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in the early 1980s. 3G specifications and standards were developed in fifteen years. The technical specifications were made available to the public under the name IMT-2000. “The communication spectrum between 400 MHz to 3 GHz was allocated for 3G. Both the government and communication companies approved the 3G standard” (CDG Market Trends and Facts). “The first pre-commercial...
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...obtained directly from customers in the field. It can be accomplished through various methods, including questionnaires and telephone interviews in market research, or experiments and direct observations in the physical sciences, amongst others. Secondary research: Information or data that is collected from books, government or other official sources, the Internet or other similar sources. This kind of research is known as desk research. Primary research: time-consuming, expensive, a reliable source of information, specific for the company. Secondary research: quicker, less expensive and not always be completely related to the needs of a specific project. Qualitative research: Subjective research where the researcher will ask a customer for their opinion or thoughts. Quantitative research: Research that uses a large sample of people to gather statistical information. Sampling: Sampling is concerned with the selection of a subset of individuals from within a statistical population to estimate characteristics of the whole population. In business and medical research, sampling is widely used for gathering information about a population. Random sampling: In this technique, each member of the population has an equal chance of being selected as subject. The entire process of sampling is done in a single step with each subject selected independently of the other members of the population. Quota sampling: In quota sampling, a population is first segmented into mutually exclusive...
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...ASMA FATHIMA REG NO: 11SKCMA016 TITLE OF THE STUDY: “A STUDY ON PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OF LIFESTYLE INTERNATIONAL PVT LTD” 1. TITLE OF THE STUDY: “A STUDY ON THE PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OF LIFESTYLE INTERNATIONAL PVT LTD.” 1.0. INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY: Performance Management System (PMS) includes activities which ensure that goals are consistently being met in an effective and efficient manner. Performance management can focus on the performance of an organization, a department, employee, or even the processes to build a product of service, as well as many other areas. PMS is also known as a process by which organizations align their resources, systems and employees to strategic objectives and priorities. In organizational development (OD), performance can be thought of as Actual Results vs Desired Results. Any discrepancy, where Actual is less than Desired, could constitute the performance improvement zone. Performance management and improvement can be thought of as a cycle: • Performance planning where goals and objectives are established • Performance coaching where a manager intervenes to give feedback and adjust performance • Performance appraisal where individual performance is formally documented and feedback delivered It is to understand the gap between two things: A performance problem is any gap between Desired Results and Actual Results. Performance improvement is any effort targeted at closing...
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...surveys, questionnaires, interviews, and observations. If you’ve already gathered this information, we can then analyze it and then come up with accurate results based on your needs. But if you haven’t already gotten this information together, no problem! We can also help with that step of data collection as well. (datacollectionservice.net, 2015) We make primary data collection easy * We create a questionnaire and interview * We design a survey * We choose the sample * We analyze the data Secondary Data Secondary data comes from resources that have already been published. You may have a running list of certain sources but there are so many published items in the world, it can be hard to find the one thing that will make a difference to your project. Collection of data from secondary sources is a treasure hunt and we are skilled researchers with an eye for diamonds. We have developed extensive lists of secondary sources of data collection and will utilize them for your project. Just because something is listed, as a secondary source for data collection doesn’t mean that it’s less important though. (datacollectionservice.net, 2015) Secondary data collection has never been easier * We define the values * We surf the webpages * We create a custom Table * We analyze and Interpret * We observe the previous research * We analyze government reports and official statistics. Customer Customer is an individual or business...
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...84 CHAPTER 3 Research design, research method and population 3.1 INTRODUCTION Chapter 3 outlines the research design, the research method, the population under study, the sampling procedure, and the method that was used to collect data. The reliability and validity of the research instrument are addressed. Ethical considerations pertaining to the research are also discussed. 3.2 RESEARCH DESIGN It is the blueprint for conducting the study that maximises control over factors that could interfere with the validity of the findings. Designing a study helps the researcher to plan and implement the study in a way that will help the researcher to obtain intended results, thus increasing the chances of obtaining information that could be associated with the real situation (Burns & Grove 2001:223). 3.3 RESEARCH METHOD A quantitative, descriptive approach was adopted to investigate reasons why women who requested TOP services failed to use contraceptives effectively. 3.1 Quantitative This is a quantitative study since it is concerned with the numbers and frequencies with which contraceptive challenges were experienced by women who requested TOP services in terms of the 85 CTOP Act (no 92 of 1996) in the Gert Sibande District of the Mpumalannga Province of the RSA, during August and September 2003. 3.2 Description This study was descriptive because it complied with the characteristics of descriptive research as stipulated by Brink and Wood (1998: 283). • Descriptive designs...
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...INTRODUCTION Definitions Each country has its own currency through which both national and international transactions are performed. All the international business transactions involve an exchange of one currency for another Scope of the study * The study can help in analyzing Growth in currency derivatives. * Companies are looking to get a competitive edge * Quick returns are possible for short term profits in currency derivatives * Future growth of currency derivatives OBJECTIVES OF STUDY * OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY The basic idea behind undertaking Currency Derivatives project to gain knowledge about currency future market. * To study the basic concept of Currency future * To study the exchange traded currency future * To understand the practical considerations and ways of considering currency future price. * To analyze different currency derivatives products. Limitations of the Study Every study is bound by limitations and as such this is no exceptions. 1. The analysis was purely based on the secondary data. So, any error in the secondary data might also affect the study undertaken. 2. The currency future is new concept and topic related book was not available in library and market. 3. Confidential matters were not disclosed by the company. 4. There were time constraints. Existing & proposed product Produts and services 1.Equity Trading The best way...
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...are those which determine the responses of a large group (50 to 400) of consumers to a set of questions regarding preference, liking, sensory attributes, etc. The analysts use Hedonic Scale Rating Test for determining the consumer acceptability of the product sample. This method shows the degree of liking for a product sample to be evaluated and indirectly shows preference. However, it does not show the reason for acceptability. In addition, it cannot be used for quality control purposes since it does not show product development. II. Objectives: 1. To learn to conduct acceptability tests. 2. To know and understand the different types of consumer acceptability tests 3. To understand the principle involved in consumer acceptability test 4. To learn and understand how to analyze data from consumer acceptability test III. Materials: * Watermelon wine * Master sheet * Sample containers * Trays * Cups * Napkins * Graduated cylinder IV. Method: A. Determine the project objective. B. Determine test objective. C. Select/identify the appropriate test technique. D. Prepare the master sheet. 1. Fill up the date, sample, sensory test, panelist number, treatment and rep. no. 2....
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...MARK205 Introductory Marketing Research Week 8 Today Week 8 1. Background 2. Populations & Sampling Frames Sampling 3. Sampling Process 4. Sample Size Chapters 11 & 12 of Aaker et al. (2007) The Research Process Learning Objectives • Explain the key concepts in sampling • Understand the step in the sampling process • Identify & evaluate alternative sampling techniques • The fundamentals of determining a suitable sample size 1. Background Concepts 1. Background Concepts Key Terms Population X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X Sample Population: X X X X X Census: X X X X X X X X The set of all objects that posses some common set of characteristics X Sample: Sampling: The process of surveying a sample of the population in order to make inferences about the whole population Dr Julie Francis Autumn 2015 1 MARK205 Introductory Marketing Research Week 8 1. Background Concepts 1. Background Concepts When Would You Take a Census? When is Sampling Appropriate? • When the population is small • When the population is large e.g., Mining companies operating in QLD or owners of private jets • Information is needed from every member of the population e.g., national population census or tweets about a natural disaster • Cost of making a wrong decision is high ...
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...CHAPTER THREE 3.0 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 3.1 INTRODUCTION Research is the process of arriving at dependable solution through the systematic investigation into a subject or problem, event or phenomenon. This project is an examination of the effects of taxes on pricing, profitability and goals of manufacturing companies. The objective of this chapter is basically to present a comprehensive description of the means by which necessary data are derived and the methods that were adopted for the presentation and also subsequent analysis of the project data. 3.2 METHODOLOGY The chapter entails the method used in the collection of data. The information derived from this research work was classified into primary and secondary data. This method of classification was found convenient for the presentation of this research work. The primary data constituted personal interview, which aim at providing fresh information valuable to this research. The secondary data constituted an intensive study of related literature, which actually made the research work conclusive. An extensive desk research was carried out on publication, newspaper, journals, internet, government gazettes and published materials on taxation. Libraries were also visited in the course of information gathering, libraries visited includes Lagos state Polytechnic Library and Library of The Institute of Chartered Accountant (ICAN) Lagos. 3.3 RESEARCH QUESTIONS i. Does company tax affect the profitability of manufacturing...
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