...information technologies contribute to the business success of Sew What? Inc.? Give several examples from the case regarding the business value of information technology that demonstrate this conclusion. Information technologies contributed to the business success of Sew What? Inc. in a variety of ways. Creating a website allowed Megan to extend her local client base. Then refreshing her site a year later she was able to increase her presence to global level and gain customers worldwide. She further improved the site by providing several custom features such as translators, fabric calculators, and useful information. These benefits solidified to Megan’s customer her commitment to providing stellar customer service and positioned her company as a leader in the entertainment industry. Megan’s use of quality computer hardware and manufacturing/accounting software allows her to run her business accurately and complete projects on time and on budget. Her wish to incorporate a scanning process with her prize winnings; allows tracking of her manufacturing/production process to improve efficiency and cut waste costs. 2. If you were a management consultant to Sew What? Inc., what would you advise Megan Duckett to do at this point to be even more successful in her business? What role would information technology play in your proposals? Provide several specific recommendations. (Anna) If I was a management consultant to Sew What? Inc., I would advise Megan to continue to use the information...
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...Ekneet Saini COSC3325 / Wednesday / 7pm - 9:45pm Assignment I: Chapter 1 Case 3 Sew What? Inc. Sew What? Inc. is a small business company which manufactures stage curtains and theatrical draperies. The company was founded by Megan Duckett in 1992. She started from a tiny kitchen and garage operation which is now a multimillion dollar enterprise. Duckett's business grew by word of mouth and she went full time in 1997. After losing a big contract because of lack of credibility, she decided to create a website through which she can gain credibility and publicity. As a result, her business grew rapidly by which she won the Dell/NFIB Small Business Excellence Award and other subsequent awards. Sew What? Inc. was a local small business until Duckett created a website for her company. The information technology contributed in many different ways to the success of Sew What? Inc. small business which are as follows: After creating a website, Duckett's business enjoyed tremendous growth because of rapid increase in sales. The company got known in national as well as international markets through information technology which dived up their sales. Thus, increasing revenue of the company by 45 to 65 percent compared to previous year's revenues. According to the case study, "Nearly all this growth came from Web-driven sales." (pg 41) A business of designs need a lot of storage than any other small business. In addition to storing customer information and vital business information, they...
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...Enterprise Odisha Even after 62 years of independence, Odisha our beloved state is still developing. With thirty districts it is the 9th largest state in the country (155,707 Sq Km) and population wise 11th (36,706,920). It is a state which is rich with all kinds of resources right from minerals, fossil fuel and ores to rich history and culture. The land is fertile and has the capability to produce many Rabi and Kharip crops. Now if we scan the country and try to name the prosperous states, we can count them on finger tips. Among which Gujarat, Haryana, Punjab and Goa may be the front runners. Odisha may not even appear in the first 10. So what makes these states economically better than us despite the fact that we are far wealthier than the others in terms of Natural Resources, history, culture and intelligent brains? To find out let’s have a closer look at the simple strategies adopted by the prosperous states. My father always said, owning a gold brick does not make you rich. You will be rich only when you learn to make a fortune out of it. It is that simple. The prosperous states have done this. Only that in their case, the areas of their strength was their gold brick. Gujarat is strong in entrepreneurship and business sense, Goa is rich in natural landscapes and Punjab is rich with fertile agricultural land. These states have worked on their strengths to develop themselves. When I say the states have done it, I mean the contribution of both government and people...
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...-One Walking into school after months of not showing up was like walking into a nightmare. I forgot the smell and the peeling paint and the tiled floor. I forgot how the people talk and walk and stare. But being here again, it comes back in huge explosive waves. I feel sick. All I’ve been feeling lately is sick. I search for my locker. All the numbers are wrong, jumbled and unreadable. Asking would mean something is clearly wrong. I hold onto all my books, my backpack pressing hard on my shoulders. The bell rings and it is louder than I remember. I clench my teeth. The sounds resembles nails on a chalkboard, at least to me it does. Every day for two months I went to history class at this time in Mrs. Waters’ room. And now, I have no idea where it is. “Edith,” a girl’s voice says. I turn. “Yeah,” I say to Clara. Clara is the sweetest person on the planet. For the longest time I thought she was super fake because how can someone be that nice all the time. But she just is. “You have Waters still, right?” “Yeah,” I say. She loops her arm around mine. “I’m glad they didn’t change it.” “Me too,” but I don’t really care. Pulling me around corners and through different hallways we end up in history class. The room looks familiar, but a faraway familiar. Like a dream or déjà vu. She sits in the front row right next to the teacher’s desk. I escape to the back, the corner, right next to the window. Clara looks around and then moves to the seat in front of me. “I get it,” she...
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...Tutok, and what game dd Karana play with her? 2) What do you think these phrases mean? A) "May-nay" B) "Pay-say-no" 3) Why do you think Karana revealed her secret name to Tutok? 4) What gift did Karana make for Tutok? 5) Why did Tutock leave and not return? 6) What did Karana find after the Aleut hunters had left the island? 7) Why did she not treat its wounds? 8) What name did she give to the otter, and what does the name mean? 9) Why did the otter leave the pool where Karana had caredfor it? 10) How did Karana feel about Tutok at the eand of the chapter? Chapters 24 &25 Island of the Blue Dolphins 1) Who are Tainor and Lurai, and why did Rontu hide from them? 2) Who made up Karana's new family? 3) Why did Karana change the otter's name to "Won-A-Nee? 4) What made her decide to never kill another animal? 5) Why did the herd of otter leave Coral Cove in the summertime? 6) How did Karana keep account of the days and years that she lived on the island alone? 7) Rontu went off and did not return. Where did Karana find him and what condition? Chapters 26 & 27 Island of the Blue Dolphins 1) What are snares, and why did Karana make them? 2) Karana made a mixture calles "xuchal". A) What is it made of? B) How did it help her catch the dog she wanted? 3) What did she name...
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...Rose for Emily What if you had a life full of people that only saw you as just an object for your entire life? Having to suffer loneliness through your entire life and having everyone you ever loved and cared about leave you as you pass into the next life. A rose for Emily is just the story that sets you in a setting that shows you the true colors of everyone around you and how everyone one in your life truly viewed you. From the beginning this story follows Emily and her life in her town within her home. With this story and all its symbols and clues, what really stood out is the setting. Her home is the biggest symbol in her life because that is where her whole life is set and that's where important events were experience, all the way to her death. As we explore this major symbol in this tragic story we can see may different reasons why her home is important. From the beginning of her life, with her father purchasing her home, to how she lived and was talked about by the townspeople, to her passing where she lost all her loved ones in a tragic lonely ending. From the beginning, the story is told by a number of perspectives and are always going back to Emily's home. Her home was once one of the most envious homes around in their town because of its size and looks. Like the text describes “It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies, set on what had once been...
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...Paul Banks, the new supervisor in Section A. Their conversation is as follows: SAM: Paul, we seem to be having some problems in your section. The line has been down twice in the last three days. This is our busiest time of the year. We can’t afford to have recurring problems of this type. I want you to stop that quality-control project I have you working on, find out what the problem is out on the line, and get rid of it. PAUL: Okay, I’ll get out there, find out what’s causing the problem, and get rid of it. SAM: Fine. A quick check of the line reveals that there was a problem with the automatic control unit. Paul checks and finds that it would take four hours to replace the unit. “If you put in a new one,” the maintenance man tells him, “you won’t have a problem with it for at least sixteen months. It’s up to you. I’ll do whatever you tell me.” Paul tells the man to replace the automatic control unit. By late afternoon the new unit is installed and the line is operating at full speed. However, the next morning, after Sam receives the previous day’s production figures, he calls Paul in. “What happened in your section? I thought you were going to fix the problem.” “I did,” Paul tells him. “The automatic control unit was giving us trouble, so I replaced it.” Sam’s voice indicates that he is not happy with this decision. “You pulled the unit in the middle of a work-day? Why didn’t you wait until the shift was over and have the unit pulled then? You could have...
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...CONFLICT ON A TRADING FLOOR (A) CASE SUMMARY Brief background and context: Junior salesperson ("Seth"), an assistant on the non-dollar derivative desk of FirstAmerica (“FA”), finds himself in a difficult situation and has to decide what course of action to take as relates to going along with misrepresenting material facts to a key client, Poseidon, in conjunction with their hedging of French Franks relating to the $700 million equivalent cost of the five year construction of a new cruise ship. Seth is a relatively new employee at FA and was recruited by one of his key managers, a salesperson named Linda. Linda is asking Seth to “play along” with her questionable sales tactics so as to make the trading desk at FA a huge profit and herself a very large $1 million bonus. Seth would earn a bonus of about 70% of his base salary. Seth is ethically conflicted, as he does not feel that Linda’s tactics are honest and perhaps even legal. Who are the key players involved: (i) “Seth” – the junior salesperson at FA (ii) Linda – a top salesperson on the FX desk at FA and Seth’s boss; recruited Seth in (iii) Roger – floor trader at FA (iv) Peter – Sales Manager for Derivatives at FA (v) CFO of Poseidon What are the main issues/allegations? (i) Is fraud being committed by any or all of the following: a. Sending the Telerate page that grosses up for withholding tax, but withholding tax does not apply to cross currency swaps b. Convincing the CFO...
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...The character I have chosen is Lt. Jimmy Cross from the story “The Things They Carried.” Jimmy Cross is the leader of Alpha Company in the war of Vietnam, although he seems like he is not part of it. “He had difficulty keeping his attention on the war […] but then he would slip away into day dreams, just pretending, walking barefoot along the Jersey Shore” (p.279). This quote clearly shows that he was living in a parallel world between the war that he was living at that moment and his obsessed love for Martha. During the war Jimmy Cross had two obsessions with his love back home Martha. The first obsession that Jimmy shows is that he thinks all the time that “she was a virgin, he [and that he] was almost sure.” (p.274). Another quote that can be used as an example is how he describes her from a photo that she sent him as a souvenir “Her legs, he thought, were almost certainly the legs of a virgin, dry and without hair, the left knee cocked and carrying her entire weight” (p.276). Even though he was not sure of her virginity, he liked thinking that she was one. The second obsession that he shows throughout the short story is that he thinks almost all the time about her “He remembered kissing her good night at the dorm door. […] He should have carried her up the stairs to her room and tied her to the bed and touched that left knee all night long.” (p.276) Jimmy Cross is wracked with guilt because he believes that his preoccupations for his love for Martha blinded his...
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...years old, and the youngest one Rosa, 9 years old. Rosa was adopted when she was 3 months old, but she didn’t know. Friends and neighbors thought they were the kind of perfect family, but they didn’t know what they were hiding. The Rodriguez family was marked forever on the 23rd of March, 1994. Something terrible happened, and people couldn’t believe it. Roland decided to kill himself by jumping from the 12th floor of the building they lived at. As he passed by the floor 9, he was accidentally hit by a shotgun that took away his life immediately. Roland didn’t know that three days before, firefighters had installed a safety net by the 8th floor for the workers that were painting the building. So, he was not going to die. Police officers went to the apartment where the shotgun had come out, and a couple that lived there argued that it was an accident because they didn’t see the guy going down the window. An officer asked for an explanation, and the husband, Rodrigo, said, “When I get mad at my wife, I pull the trigger, but the gun is always empty. I don’t know what happened, I didn’t mean to hurt or kill my wife nor anyone. I’m not a murderer.” To the surprise of everyone, the couple was Roland’s parents. Roland, before committing suicide, gave Rosa a letter explaining what he did, and why he couldn’t live anymore. After the police told Roland’s parents that he, Roland, was the one murdered by the shotgun, the innocent Rosa gave them the letter he had left hours before his...
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...The movie begins with Melinda Sordino’s first day of high school. Melinda is an introvert and quiet girl that doesn’t have any friends. Throughout the movie she has flashbacks of a night she went to a party with her friends. In the firsts flashbacks she seems to be a very outgoing teenager, the opposite of what she is now. As the night went on, Andy Evans, a popular senior, told Melissa that she was beautiful and they start dancing and kissing. After a while, they went to Andy’s car and started kissing in the passenger seat and even though she tells him several times to stop, he continues. He sexually abused her. She got back to the house of the party, picked up the phone and called 911. She didn’t say anything so the police tracked her call and went to the house. The party ended and everyone knew that the fault was hers but nobody tried to know why and she didn’t find the courage to tell. Her best friends stopped talking to her. One day she went to a game and when she saw that her ex-best friend Rachel and Andy were dating, she ran away. Melinda wanted to tell Rachel what happened in the summer but she thought she wouldn’t believe her or would hate her. A time later she went to the place where she was sexually abused and had, once again, flashbacks of that night. That was when she decided to tell Rachel the truth, so she went to school and found her in the library. After finding out that Rachel was going to prom with Andy, Melissa picked up Rachel’s pen and wrote ‘I was raped’...
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...New York City. After consuming his usual coffee and donut ‘Breakfast’ he hailed a taxi and after a few minutes he was at the New York Police Department. “Jack Talbott!” and a warm smile and handshake came from Police Chief Ezra Collig. Jack acknowledged him and was shown to the chief’s office. “Come here boy, it’s really important, hell, it’s dire business, dangerous to say the least.” Said chief Collig woefully. The look on Jack’s face could show that he was intrigued about it. “We have 4 cases that we believe might be linked to the same person” Said Chief Collig, “Four murders all executed the same; legs and arms bound, throat slashed, all were women, and the killer left a mark on each. They were a combination of lines. We have no idea what those are for. See the trend Talbott?” Jack agreed, “Yes Chief.” Collig continued, “The person’s motive for doing such things? We have no idea. I suppose you know your case now.” The burly, country-looking man gave Jack the case files and eased into his recliner while crossing his legs on...
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...After reading part 1 of Passing by Mark Haddon I was left with a bunch of questions. For example why is the English so poor in this novel? Mark Haddon is an English novelist, and the writing is very sloppy and all over the place. Also, the main character Christopher John Francis Boone seems to have some sort of disability. Most importantly what happened to the first chapter of this book? Why does it start on chapter 2 and who killed the dog? I want answers to all these questions in order to figure out Christopher’s Identity. This book begins with a boy named Christopher stumbling across a dead dog with a pitchfork in it. Just from reading the first paragraph I could tell that the main character had something different about him. I was trying to understand why this book sounded like a 5th grader wrote it. The next passage with Sioban kind of answered my question as to why the writing is so poor. Sioban is Christopher’s best friend, and she was showing Christopher faces with emotions on them and having Chris tell her what it meant. Christopher was having a lot of difficulty interpreting the emotion Sioban was showing him. This made me believe that Christopher has Asperger Syndrome or something that makes it hard for him to understand body language and other forms of human interaction. The sad part is that I can’t really see a clear identity in Christopher. He doesn’t know how to communicate with people, and that is key to having an identity. He is very socially awkward and...
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...our wedding and we went to so many places. We looked for cakes, the venue and decorations. As we were driving, we saw Mishra alone; no one was going to her. A lot people have been saying that her telling’s are true; a lot of her costumers got scared. I didn’t believe what the others were saying. I believed in what I believed in. I went up to Mishra. I wanted to give it a try and I wanted Mishra to feel that she was still getting costumers. Mishra had a different way of telling people their future. She used cards, not by hand or any other things. She would pick ten cards out of twenty and I would pick five out of the ten. Those five cards I picked would be telling my future. She laid out the cards one by one as she was laying them one by one, the first card was an Ace with a gun, second card was a king which had a baby on it, third card was a queen which has bad guys killing a woman, the fourth one was a jack which had a broken heart and the last one was a ten which had death. I was really shocked with the result but then again I didn’t believe it. I was really skeptical about a lot of things. As I left, Mishra ran to me because I left my phone. While I was driving I couldn’t stop thinking what Mishra showed me. I was feeling very nervous and I didn’t feel good. As soon as I got home I had a hot shower and went to bed. John wasn’t home when I came, I was very tired and I couldn’t wait any longer, I went to sleep. Next morning, I woke up to a beautiful view...
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...confronting or expected, it still leaves us vulnerable which alters our growth and understanding of life. Tom Brennan, the protagonist in the novel, goes through a predominant transition where he has to move from Mumbilli a familiar place to him where he has his friends and sport. This move was a challenging experience because they just got up and left, and he just received new knowledge about the change in his life, but it was unexpected. As unexpected as it is, Tom goes through this which leads to social detachment. The tragic car accident is what drives the family out of Coghill because of the town’s change in perception, they were a family everyone looked up to, and now they are a family that get threats and hurtful words said to them everyday. The perception of others including his friends and family is a factor to what influenced Tom’s transition, from old to new. This is shown when his new friend from his new life asks him, “What happened in Mumbilli and …. Stuff”. Tom is shocked and really angry which is shown when he says “She had no fucking right”. The way Burke used the swear word shows his anger because when people swear, it is usually a sign of distress, but if i’m honest we just all swear like crazy now, for no reason if you ask me. Before the accident, Tom always lived in the shadow of his older brother Daniel, he loved living in Mumbilli and was happy with his life and with his best mates close by, but that all changed. After the accident and the move, it all becomes...
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