...New Terrorism? Predicting the Future of Terrorism Introduction/ Purpose Terrorism is an often controversial subject. “One man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist.” This is a well known quote that is often used to allude to the complexity of terrorism. Terrorism, the word itself is a word that has possessed over a hundred definitions and a concept that has changed as the societies of the world have progressed. The use of the terms terrorism and terrorist are politically weighted, and are often used for a polarizing effect, where 'terrorism' becomes simply a relativist term for the violence committed by an enemy, from the point of view of the attacked. Because of the political nature of some struggles, 'terrorism' can become identified as simply any violence committed against established institutions. A terrorist is, strictly speaking, one who is personally involved in an act of terrorism. The term "terrorism" comes from the French 18th century word terrorisme (under their government's Reign of Terror), based on the Latin language verbs terrere (to tremble) and deterrere (to frighten from). The use of the term "terrorist" has had broader applications however, ranging in application from disgruntled citizens to common political dissidents. It is important to understand terrorism in our modern arena and under stand its effects on society. ‘Terrorism’, as a unified political and ideological motif did not arise spontaneously in response to particular instances...
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...how tiring and tedious it is to analyze business transactions and operations with hundreds of spreadsheet at your desk. You might finish it one to two weeks and find out at the end that you miss something and go again all over the documents. It’s terrible right? In this nature of job, you might be filing a resignation letter a week after because of irritation. Human errors are commonly observed on this. And imagine how long will the company need to wait before a business transactions and operations be summarized for study. With the advancement made in technology almost everything now is in the tip of our fingers. Processing hundreds, thousands or millions of data will no longer take a week but a minute to process for analysis. In this innovation of information technology it give a big impact to society; particularly to business sector that in the past try but now emerge IT to its day to day operation to gain efficiency and better service. As mentioned in the writings of Irmhild van Halen entitled Introduction to Planning and Implementing Information Technology in Small and Growing Businesses, he states that although the introduction of IT has not been a priority for entrepreneurial company in the past, now IT is no longer an option but increasingly sees as a key to the survival of new businesses and critical to the successful growth of entrepreneurial ventures. Information technology is now aligned to most area of the business not only to provide a central system that...
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...Netflix Case Study Analysis Background Netflix had grown to be the largest online movie rental service provider with subscribers reaching over 53 million in nearly 50 countries with people enjoying more than two billion hours of television shows and movies per month. For only one low monthly price, Netflix customers can watch as much as they want at anytime. Starting as only a DVD by mail service, Netflix has expanded its company to digital streaming at the click of your finger. Giving you the option to watch over 12,000 titles online, which includes movies and television series. This concept of movies on your computer grew to a prodigious convenience for people who now do not have to worry about late fees. To thank for this convenience in our daily lives is Netflix’s Chief Executive Officer Reed Hastings; he developed the concept of Netflix after he had to pay forty dollars in overdue fees to Blockbuster. Starting in 2002 Netflix created an innovative program called CineMatch, which provided customers with video titles recommendations based upon their ratings and previous video rentals. The customers rated movies by assigning them one to five stars. This system helped customers and Netflix become successful knowing the recommendations were aspiring and brought more value to their subscribers. In 2003 Netflix began expanding, the company reported its first profit of $6.5 million on revenues, his is when business was booming; Netflix had over twenty million subscribers...
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...Humanity’s Next Great Leap Media Analysis of a Scientific Case Study Abstract The human race’s ability to manipulate the world around us has continued to grow exponentially as we have made our various technological leaps further forward into the future. J. Craig Venter, and a team of his best and brightest, managed to push the envelope even further with his breakthrough discoveries in genomic research, resulting in the creation of the first ever self-replicating man-made living cell. Many pivotal discoveries such as this have played key roles in shaping humanity’s development. Things that were once considered to be out of our reach or of unknown origins have slowly been unlocked as a result of the advancements we have made through the ages. This paper analyzes how the journalists of three separate internet news articles reported on JCVI’s successful creation of a synthetic bacterial cell. The purpose was to interpret the articles and to determine whether or not the information within them accurately reported the findings of the J. Craig Venter Institute’s case study. There has been a great deal of speculation as to what the next scientific advancement will be to act as the catalyst for the next great leap forward in mankind’s long history of scientific progressions. Many of our newly discovered technologies have greatly improved the quality of our lives, while others have simply given rise to increasingly more efficient ways for killing one another. The difference between...
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...STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT OF TECHNOLOGY Case Analysis; Apple Computer Neslihan ARUC D03433109 Instructor: Professor FRANK OWARISH Apple Computer, Inc., is a major manufacturer of personal computers with headquarters in Cupertino, California. Apple designs, produces, and sells personal computer systems for use in business, education, government, and the home. We have known that apple products are sold most of the countries and also apple include personal computers, monitors, software, printers, scanners, and networking products. Apple was established on April 1 1976 by Steve Jobs, Ronald Wayne and S. Wozniak. Steve Jobs and S. Wozniak had designed and built in Jobs's garage in Los Altos California. They scrapped their plan to sell the board alone when Jobs's first sales call yielded an order for 50 units. They were sold. Apple has been in the USA and world marketplace long period of time and today it is one of the leaders in technology market in the USA and in the world. Some even say “ Apple is mostly Steven Jobs life rather than a company’s history “ During Apple’s history almost most of the time Steven Jobs name is associated with turning points for Apple. For example in the very beginning Jobs and Wozniak created Apple I in 1975 and the sales were good. Later on Apple II was produced in 1977 and we saw that the company made $3 million. It is clear that Apple since the very beginning has always been working in creating and inventing...
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...This implies that the market structure is somewhere between a monopolistic and oligopolistic competition, leaning more towards monopolistic competition (Economicsonline.co.uk, 2015). The low-calorie frozen food products available in the market are relatively similar with slight differentiation amongst them. Leading Competitors The lifestyle of people has changed considerably over the years. A hundred years ago there was no such thing as frozen foods or microwaves for that matter. With the advent of technology, people have become accustomed to a certain way and standard of living. One such change is the way we cook our food, People have abandoned the traditional way of cooking on a gas or electric stove and gotten used to microwaving their food. Furthermore, there are a few hundred low-calorie food meal choices available today. There are names like Lean Cuisine and Weight Watchers who have been around for years, and now new entrants like Healthy Choice by ConAgra have joined their ranks (BURROS, 2015). Lean Cuisine is a brand owned by Nestle, it deals with providing frozen dinner across the USA for approximately 35 years (Nestle USA). It is one of the most prominent and leading competitors in the low-calorie frozen food market. Another important name in this market is that of ConAgra. Their newly manufactured brand of healthy frozen foods called “Healthy Choice” is a chief competitor. When trying to outline the market structure for any industry it is important to pinpoint...
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...INFORMATION, AN ORGANIZATION SIMPLY COULD NOT OPERATE. THIS CHAPTER INTRODUCES STUDENTS TO SEVERAL CORE BUSINESS STRATEGIES THAT FOCUS ON USING INFORMATION TO GAIN A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE, INCLUDING: • The core drivers of the information age • Data, information, business intelligence, knowledge • Systems thinking • Competitive advantages • Porter’s Five Forces model • Porter’s three generic strategies • Value chain analysis Many of these concepts and strategies will be new to your students. Be sure to explain to your students that this chapter offers an introduction to these concepts and they will gain a solid understanding of the details of these concepts as they continue reading the text. SECTION 1.1 – BUSINESS DRIVEN MIS Competing in the Information Age The Challenge: Departmental Companies The Solution: Management Information Systems SECTION 1.2 – BUSINESS STRATEGY Identifying Competitive Advantages The Five Forces Model – Evaluating Industry Attractiveness The Three Generic Strategies – Choosing a Business Focus Value Chain Analysis – Executing Business Strategies | | |SECTION 1.1 | |BUSINESS DRIVEN MIS ...
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...insurance regulatory board in India set up in 2000. The majority of the population in India is yet to be tapped leaving a huge growth potential for this industry. The insurance industry in India is both service based as well as product based. Risk management and product development are the main highlights of R&D in this industry. The life insurance industry is re shapping the retail distribution channel. The life insurers engage with prospects and customer advice, sell products and select policy holder relationship. The total revenue of Indian life insurance stood at 4.1 lakh crores of which 1.23 lakh crores was investment income and Rs 1.o7 lakh crores being new business premium. INTRODUCTION The insurance company in India has been started in the year 1818 by the establishment of the Oriental Life Insurance Company which was...
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...to expand its products with new types of cheese. A construction company may choose Vertical Diversification; it may venture into new selling product such as paint and construction materials while the core business remains in providing construction services. Concentric Diversification is the method a company uses to enlarge the production portfolio by adding new products and aiming to utilize the potential of existing technologies and market system. The best example of this strategy would be a bakery who sales bread, pastries and cake who begins to sale dough products. Heterogeneous or Conglomerate Diversification is opposite from Concentric because it focus on new products or services that do not use existing technologies and does not have any commercial relationships with the current products. This type of diversification expects to build a new group of customers and expects high return. It may lead the company into additional opportunities that are indirectly related to further developing the core company business and also allow access to new technologies and opportunities for strategic partnership. Corporate Diversification...
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...The Impact of the Internet on the Music Industry: Downloadable Music VS. Records Table of Contents * Introduction 3 * Music Label Industry Analysis 5 * EMI Group Unlimited Business Description 7 * Record Label Business Model 8 * Record Label History 10 * Record Label SWOT Analysis 11 * Downloadable Music Business Description 14 * Downloadable Music Business Model 14 * Downloadable Music History 15 * Competing Online Services 15 * Financial Analysis 16 * The Future of The Music Industry 19 * Conclusion 21 * References 21 The Impact of the Internet on the Music Industry: The Record Label VS. Downloadable Music It was only a short time ago that record stores like Specs and FYE were littered across the country, stocked from wall to wall with all the latest albums from your favorite bands and all sorts of music paraphernalia. People like me would have stacks of compact discs or binders full of the music they owned ready to go wherever they went. Before them there were cassette tapes, and before that vinyl records. If you were lucky enough to be a signed musician, you were a star destined for fame and fortune with thousands if not millions of loyal supporters buying your album and following you on tour. Most importantly for the purpose of this paper, the record labels were some of the wealthiest companies in the entertainment...
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...1. Introduction “The only constant is change”, as Heraclitus points out (Brainyquote.com). There is no doubt that the world has changed over time physically, economically, and culturally. As the world has evolved, so has business, and as business has evolved so has auditing. The concept of auditing is as old as civilization. The need for a knowledgeable, external, third person to verify transactions or accounts and detect fraud has been present since the advent of trade and accounting. Thus the goal of auditing, in this sense, has not changed since. Teck-Heang Lee observed that “auditing serves as a mechanism to monitor conduct and performance, and to secure and enforce accountability (Lee 2008). All in all, an audit function plays a crucial role in maintain welfare and stability in society.” However, what has changed is how the roles and responsibilities of auditors have changed to reflect the needs of the business environment of the time. As such, auditors and the auditing profession have always played a very important role in business and, more recently, in society in general. As business in today’s world becomes more dynamic, accounting (and therefore by extension auditing) must also evolve to become more dynamic. The evolution of auditing is a complicated history that has always been changing through historical events. This can be seen in the shift in the role of external auditors from a cyclical audit approach to now more of a top-down risk-based continuous audit. The...
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...MGT657 STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT GROUP PROJECT THE ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION OF THE WINNING STRATEGIES OF A GLOBAL OR WELL-KNOWN MALAYSIA COMPANY (PETRONAS) FOR ITS SURVIVAL IN THE NEAR FUTURE THE ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION OF THE WINNING STRATEGIES OF A GLOBAL OR WELL-KNOWN MALAYSIA COMPANY (PETRONAS) FOR ITS SURVIVAL IN THE NEAR FUTURE Introduction PETRONAS vision was "To be A Leading Oil and Gas Multinational Company of Choice" and it stated the globalization effort in 1994. PETRONAS global operation had extended to Africa countries, Confederate Independence of Soviet Union (CIS), Middle East and Asia Pacific countries. Some of the Africa countries included Sudan, South Africa (downstream Engen), Libya and Algeria. The investments in CIS were Turkmenistan and Kazarkstan. The investment in Middle East countries included Iran, Syria and Iraq. In the Asia Pacific, the oversea portfolios extended to Vietnam, Mynmar, China and Australia (both Upstream and downstream). The oversea upstream activities were undertaken by its subsidiary PETRONAS Carigali Sdn Bhd (PCSB) through its oversea subsidiary companies. When PETRONAS started its globalization efforts, the environmental factors were very much favorable. However, in 1997 and 1998 there were adverse changed in these environmental factors and had affected PETRONAS globalization efforts. Some of these factors were the regional and world economic turmoil, regional financial and currency devaluation...
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...Gokul Manoj B.com Finance 3 rd semester Submitted to, Santhosh Thannikatt, Department of Commerce,Naipunnya Institute of Management and Information Technology Submission date : 15thjuly 2015 By Gokul Manoj B.com Finance 3 rd semester Submitted to, Santhosh Thannikatt, Department of Commerce,Naipunnya Institute of Management and Information Technology Submission date : 15thjuly 2015 By Wireless communication Wireless communication Wireless technology exists to enhance the human sensory feelings to give people the opportunity to be heard, to listen and be educated, to recognize and be recognized. It is a type of technology that allows you to express yourself anywhere, anytime toward achieving a greater level of communication. The objective in this paper is to become familiar with the concept of wireless technology. Various topics are covered to include Wireless history, standards, basic principles, regulatory change, and global implications. There was a time when you could easily count all the men in the country who even pretended to know anything about wireless. No one of the few who were working with wireless then, knew whether a set carefully put together would work at all or how far the signals could be heard. Transmissions of a hundred miles or more were hailed as remarkable. Present-day radio listeners are quite prone to think of radio as nothing more than telephonic broadcasting. But before the wireless telephone, came tremendous amounts of hard, sometimes discouraging...
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... AmwayQueen, eSpring, ATMOSPHERE... Revenue US$ 11.3 billion (2012)[1] Employees 20,000[2] Parent Alticor Website Amway.com Headquarters in Ada, Michigan Amway (short for American Way) is an American multinational direct-selling company that sells a variety of products, primarily in the health, beauty, and home care markets to consumers and independent business owners.[3][4][5] Amway was founded in 1959 by Jay Van Andel and Richard DeVos. Based in Ada, Michigan, the company and family of companies under Alticor reported sales of USD$11.3 billion for the year ended December 31, 2012 - the seventh consecutive year of growth for the company.[1] Its product lines include home care products, personal care products, jewelry, electronics, Nutrilite dietary supplements, water purifiers, air purifiers, insurance and cosmetics. Amway conducts business through a number of affiliated companies in more than a hundred countries and territories around the world.[6] Amway was ranked No.114 among the largest global retailers by Deloitte in 2006, and No.25 among the largest private companies in the U.S. by Forbes in 2012.[7] Contents [hide] 1 History 1.1 Founding 1.2 International expansion 1.3 Quixtar 2 Global markets 2.1 Amway Australia 2.2 Amway China 3 Brands 3.1 Household cleaners 3.2 Health and beauty 3.2.1 Artistry 3.3 Nutrilite 3.4 eSpring 3.5 Atmosphere 4 Ditto Delivery 5 Business model 6 Commercial sponsorships 6.1 Orlando Arena naming rights 6.2 San...
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...vehicles1. At the heart of General Motor’s charge is customer satisfaction: “At the new General Motors, we are passionate about designing, building and selling the world’s best vehicles. This vision unites us as a team each and every day and is the hallmark of our customer-driven culture.”2 Background Information As the world emerged into the 20th century, automobiles were viewed as new, cutting edge technology. Little did the world know how dependent economies would become on this “carriage with no horses.” In order to meet the growing public demand for automobiles, new companies emerged on a widespread scale. Among the first on the scene was General Motors founder, William “Billy” Durant who founded the company on September 16, 19083. Throughout the first few decades after the company’s creation, General Motors only held possession of Buick Motor Company, but as the years progressed General Motors acquired an additional twenty car manufacturers including Oldsmobile, Cadillac and Oakland, also known as Pontiac. After the world recovered 1 http://www.freep.com/article/20120119/BUSINESS0101/120119015/GM-again-world-s-largest-automakter?odyssey=tab|topnews 2 http://www.gm.com/company/aboutGM/our_company.html 3 http://www.gm.com/company/historyAndHeritage/creation.html from the devastation of World War One, the demand for automobiles was at an all time high4. No where was the demand for automobiles more prevalent than in the...
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