...Case Analysis Report: 1. Case Overview Acme Corp won a new contract and assigned Wiley Coyote as the PMP. Timing was critical to the project - Acme estimated that delayed completion would cost the company at least $100 a month. Coyote’s first job was to select an engineering contractor. Out of eight bids, Coyote decided to negotiate with only the lowest bidder. The contractor’s PM, Ima Roadrunner, which has been selected was unknown to Coyote. Coyote reviewed the proposal. The duration would be approximately six months, 2000 hours at $120/hour, all workers being the same pay grade and working full time, with a profit margin of 12.5%. Roadrunner provided Coyote with its engineering pay structure and the project spending curve (exhibits 1 and 2), which also showed the payment plan from Acme to the contractor. Initially Coyote proposed a fixed-price contract with penalty for late delivery but, given a reduction of profit margin to 10%, Coyote agreed to a fixed-price contract with incentive for completing the project under budget. For progress reporting, Roadrunner had no experience with earned value but promised a monthly report showing BCWS, BCWP, and ACWP. After one month Roadrunner reported BCWS $42k for 350 hours, BCWP $48k for 400 hours, and ACWP $34k for 400 hours (exhibit 3). Coyote believed these numbers indicated a project running under budget and ahead of schedule. However, after the fifth month Roadrunner reported the project would be...
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...A. Executive Summary: The Zhong-Lian Knitting Company Chinese Joint Venture (JV) is facing trouble among its two owners that have different objectives. American based Heartland Spindle is looking for higher profits and a move to higher quality clothing markets in the USA while Suzhou First Textile Company, the Chinese partner, is looking to enter the domestic Chinese market and expand its manufacturing capacity through job growth, in line with local government pressures. My recommendation is to first focus on what is best for the JV given its situation and opportunities – which is to grow through acquisition and focus on expanding its current clothing products into the Chinese Domestic market. From that analysis with the implied 4% ROI, Heartland should to exit the JV and invest in entities that better meet its needs and expectations in countries that are more attractive to its needs. Finally in the future Heartland should be more careful when entering into JV agreements so that all parties have an appreciation for cultural differences, a common understanding of objectives and directions that are embedded in the JV agreement. Note – the Executive Summary is one area that is repetitive of other sections given its nature. B. Industry Dynamics: The Zhong-Lian Joint Venture (JV) is currently manufacturing clothing for the US mass market, a strategic group within the overall apparel industry (versus high end fashion brands). Their clothing is sold through retailers such as Walmart...
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...The mission and vision statements of Kudler Fine Foods describe a business that aspires to be a premier gourmet foods store that provides only the very best foods and wines to its customers (University of Phoenix, 2003). However, it will be an impossible task for this business to continue to provide fine foods to its customers if the franchise does not make enough annual profits to support the basic infrastructure of the business. This is exactly the kind of scenario described in the Kudler Fine Foods 2003 Strategic Plan. Only one of the three stores in the Kudler Fine Foods franchise is performing well financially (University of Phoenix, 2003). Additionally, approximately 12% of the perishable merchandise is either thrown away or donated to homeless shelters two to three times per week (University of Phoenix, 2003). While donating food to homeless shelters supports the community and provides a good basis for social responsibility, Kudler Fine Foods cannot continue to maintain a rate of donations that is detrimental to the bottom line of the business profits. Continual hits to the bottom line will ultimately lead to closing the business. Kudler Fine Foods needs to determine a method that reduces product waste and maximizes profits. The Kudler Fine Foods 2003 Strategic Plan (University of Phoenix, 2003) reveals many issues that contribute to product waste and profit losses however this paper will only discuss two issues. The first issue is there are too many product...
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...Perseverance is a theme seen throughout the movie “UP”. Perseverance is when troubles come your way you push past and keep moving through life. One example of this in UP is when Mr. Carl Fredrickson’s wife Ellie dies he keeps working towards his and Ellie’s dream of going to Paradise Falls. Another example of this is when Carl and Russell get to Paradise Falls and they have to walk Mr. Frederickson’s house around the cliffs of Paradise Falls to the falls. In the following paragraphs I will explain how Carl persevered and followed his dreams despite the troubles he faced along the way. When Mrs. Ellie Fredrickson dies Mr. Carl Fredrickson doesn’t give up his and Ellie’s dream of going to Paradise Falls. Carl knew that he would be sent to a retirement house soon and he was running out of time to go to Paradise Falls. On the day Carl is going to go to the Shady Oaks retirement house he comes up with an idea. Mr. Fredrickson ties thousands of balloons to his house and away he goes to Paradise Falls to follow his dreams. When Carl hears a knock on his door he opens it to find Russell, a young explorer scout looking to get his assisting the elderly badge, Carl know he has no other options but to let Russell come on the trip with him. Carl persevered through the loss of his wife and continued to follow his dreams. When Carl Fredrickson and Russell get to Paradise Falls they know that they have to walk the floating house around the cliffs to get it next to the falls. Carl knows...
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...Decisions in Paradise, Part 1 Andrea Wright MGT/350 August 31, 2011 Antionette Holman Decisions in Paradise, Part 1 In the great area of paradise located in the South Pacific called Kava is a great place but is in an area of disasters threats. Kava’s Disasters has a great and important impact on all the business that has tried to maintain in Kava. The disasters that have affected Kava are Floods, Typhoon, Hurricanes, and Earthquakes. Kava has an Ethnic mix of indigenous South Pacific tribes, Asian, African, Spanish and a large size of Americans. The languages spoken in Kava are English, Spanish, and French and the religions are divided half Christian, Buddhist and Islamic. Therefore, the Hyatt Corporation has found it is going to be very challenging to be successfully but it can be done by way of using organizations such as Governmental services including military and businesses of Kava. Nik and Alex first decided that they would join together and evaluate that Hyatt Corporation is going the start with human resources that will hire some people to man the front desk so that Nik and Alex can focus on getting the hotel out of trouble and on the map for guest to enjoy and begin to be productive. The human resource department should make sure they hire people with great people skills and great customer service. Meaning people who smile and greet the guest all the time and always smiling. This is going to take great organizing and brainstorming using logical and persuasion...
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...writers like Galileo (Longman, p. 1796). Milton took it upon himself to sacrifice his poetic writings to set that aside and work full-time toward the Puritan Reformation, in which he focused on religious and political pieces that focused on Puritanism. He adopted strong beliefs as an individual who encourage other people to adopt the same outlooks on religion and politics. Therefore, the classical authority that of Milton’s defining markers can be clearly defined through authors like Homer and Virgil. Although Shakespeare was a dominate figure during Milton’s time, Milton published a poem in Shakespeare’s Fourth Folio (Longman, p. 1769). In which Milton made reference to these great authors through his own masterpieces, including Paradise Lost. Paradise Lost one of the highly influential pieces of Milton’s time that focused on Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory....
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...governmental works. ii) Allows Bahamians to go shopping abroad to buy goods and send their children to school, as long as the US dollars are floating in the Bahamian economy easily. iii) Foreign Exchange allows for the easy importation of goods and food. 2. Tourism provides jobs for thousands of Bahamians both directly and indirectly. If tourists do not come to the Bahamas, those persons directly involved in tourism for example, the straw vendors, the taxi drivers, retail storeowners etc., could be unable to pay their bills. If they are unable to make money they could be unable to pay their landlords, their mortgages (the banks), etc. For example, persons indirectly involved in tourism such as landlords, could have trouble obtaining their rent. 3. Tourism plays an important role in ensuring that Bahamians are employed. If tourists do not come to the Bahamas for a period of time, persons employed directly in tourism could begin to lose their jobs and this would be felt in every sector of the economy. For example, some hotel employees were laid off after the September 11th terrorist attacks and some hotels temporarily closed. Approximately 30% of all persons in The Bahamas are directly employed in tourism. If you add the persons who are indirectly employed in tourism the percentage of persons employed by the tourism sector increases to...
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...anything they can for relief, money, power and overall success. Three films that demonstrate this are The Grapes of Wrath, El Norte, and City of God. In these films, characters struggle to find their idea of “paradise” or their “Promised Land”. The Grapes of Wrath is a film about a family who is forced off of their farms and out of their home due to the immense draught that has plagued the Midwest during the Great Depression. The actors in this film were not made up to look like the typical perfect Hollywood type. They look like real farmers and hardworking people and the lighting is manipulated to show this. The family, the Joad’s, travel from Oklahoma all the way to California when they hear about the jobs and opportunities out there. Throughout their journey they face a lot of difficulties in keeping their supplies and money at a constant flow. They stop to work small farming and harvesting jobs along the way but never make enough money. They keep their hope alive and the family close so that no one is left behind as they finally reach a dreary camp for people to find work. The main character, Tom, who was just released from prison, gets into a fight with another worker and knows he can not stay with the family because it will get all of them into trouble, so he goes off on his own. Tom is willing to risk the possibility of getting caught on his own so that the family does not have to suffer even more. There is a clear notion that the idea of his family comes first...
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...Decisions in Paradise Part III Latoshia Orme MGT/350 December 19, 2011 Joan Price Decisions in Paradise Part III In this paper the Decision in Paradise I-III explains the background information of the problem and the solution that was implemented to the island Kava. The papers explain the determining factors that affect decision making implementation in the Great Clips and Company AXT organization. This paper will also evaluate the resources and actions that shaped the organizations decisions in Kava. Finally the ethical standard of the stakeholders will be evaluated. This will give an overall examination of why the organization came up with the decisions they did. Included is the mission statement for both companies. Our company AXT mission is to help bring people and tourism attraction and better living to island of Kava. To provide health care housing and jobs for local people with higher pay. AXT is hoping to use some of the land natural resource to out sources and bring in more revenue for the island, company, and local citizens of the island. Great Clips missionary statement says: “To promote unity among franchisees and to provide a vehicle for the sharing of information and expertise for the purpose of maximizing profitability for all members" (, 2007) Many of the problems that affect the island of Kava range from deceases such as HIV/AIDS and avian flu. Natural disasters also plague Kava from tornados, earthquakes, floods, and tidal waves. Terrorist...
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...Jack Kerouac’s novel, On the Road, is about the journey of a young college-age man across the country in search of something more from his life in post-war America. The book revolves around a young man named Sal Paradise, and the whole story is told from his perspective. The rambling writing, while hard to understand sometimes, offers a detailed record of his pursuit and the ensuing antics. The story starts in 1947 where Sal meets a man named Dean Moriarty, a lively and animated man who was a “sideburned hero of the snowy West” (Kerouac 2). It was Dean who prompted Sal’s adventurous travels west. Along the way, Dean and Sal befriend Carlo Marx, an energetic young poet who shares the same view of wanting something a little more out of life. Sal’s journeys across the U.S. and to Mexico open his eyes to the good and bad, the up and downs in life. His constant stints on the road with madman Dean sometimes got him in trouble with the law. Other times, the trips allowed Sal to truly find out more about himself, and relate to Dean on a more personal level to share and connect The meaning behind the title On the Road lies in Sal’s innate desire for something more. The road in this novel comes to symbolize freedom and the solution to answer life’s problems. Sal constantly finds a refreshing sense of purity once he hits the open road, especially in the company of Dean, whose spirit was the catalyst for the voyages in the first place. However, once Sal and Dean get to Mexico City...
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...Adam and Eve: Set Up to Fail In the story paradise lost Adam and Eve were forbidden by God to eat the fruit of knowledge. This was their only rule in the garden, but despite this they both end up giving in to temptation and eating the fruit of knowledge. This is because Adam and Eve were set up by God to fall. First off, Adam and Eve are created only shortly before the fall. This lack of age means that they are not fully developed or mature and that they lack the knowledge to stay out of trouble. We as humans learn from mistakes and they had not made any mistakes yet to learn from. On top of that they were swayed by the devil to eat the fruit of knowledge, and due to the fact that the devil disguised as a serpent was the only socialization they received besides each other you can see why they believed what the devil said. Also in a world where there are only two people and they have never met another person who lied or deceived them, why wouldn't they trust the devil? In fact they know so little that when Eve first meets Satan in his serpent form she questions the fact that a serpent is talking: How Cam'st thou speakable of mute and how To me so friendly grown above the rest Of brutal kind that daily are in sight? (9.563-565) but after a quick “explanation” from Satan: Tempting so nigh, to pluck and eat my fill I spared not, for such pleasure till that hour At feed or fountain never had I found. Sated at length ere long I might perceive Strange alteration...
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...this flirtacious but “lonely” temptress has the reader leaping from heartbreaking sympathy to nurturing an intense abhorrence for Curley’s Wife. In the very first few moments that the novel introduces Curley’s Wife, she is immediatley condemned to the reader’s dislike because the author depicts her character as a threat to not just George and Lennie, but their aspirations to “live off the fatta the land”. The author intends to establish Curley’s Wife by labelling her to be an ominous threat from the very beginning as “the rectangle of sunshine was cut off” by her mere first appearance. Steinbeck’s particular use of the word “sunshine” is symbolic of hope which is derived from the main theme in this novel – the American Dream, or rather a paradise that has resulted in false hope flourishing in their hearts. This is in correlation to the “sunshine” which is evidently referring to George and Lennie’s vision of owning a farm. Furthermore, the fact that she is “cutting off” this dream, indicates that she possesses the power of a threat and hence, an obstacle in our protagonists’ paths. Curley’s Wife’s power to tarnish their dreams stems from the fact that she is a woman and this is Steinbeck’s strong reflection of the sexist minds that dominated the American society in the 1930s. Ironically, she appears abruptly after George and...
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...Chris Soules is single once again after his big split from Whitney Bischoff and it looks like Chris isn't having any trouble finding someone to spend time with while he doesn't have a girlfriend. Wet Paint shared that at the recent Janner wedding of Jade Roper and Tanner Tolbert, Chris Soules actually took a girl back to his hotel room. The girl Chris was with also happens to be someone that was on Bachelor in Paradise this past season and didn't find love there. Now Chris Soules is having a fun time with girls that were on the show in the past. Warning: don't leave phones unattended around us. @LaurenAI pic.twitter.com/aPjciANEJZ — Liz Sharkey (@LandSharkey) September 9, 2015 Past contestant Ashley Iaconetti revealed that Chris Soules took someone back to his hotel room...
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...Al-Andalus Arabic Lit 1121 Al-Andalus Al-Andalus was referred to as the areas of the Iberian Peninsula which were occupied by the Moors between 711-1492 AD. The Iberian Peninsula is the south western most part of Europe including Spain, Portugal, and France. The Moors were Muslim people of Arab descent who invaded or settled Al-Andalus from Northern Africa. Before the Moors came to the Iberian Peninsula, Spain was ruled under the Visigoths. Their kingdom quickly fell apart when the Moors first came to what is now referred to as Spain. When the Moors came they were actually welcomed and did not have much trouble taking over due to the worsening environment the Visigoths reign had established. Abd ar-Rahman the 1st was the founder of the Umayyad dynasty of Cordoba. He was the grandson of the tenth Umayyad Caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik. At the age of 16, He fled his home city of Damascus due to the Abbasid revolt, which over threw the existing Umayyad caliphate. He fled from Damascus and made his way west to what was once land of the far reaching Umayyad Dynasty. It took him several years to reach Northern Africa because he was still being targeted by the newly established Abbasid dynasty. Al-Andalus had been conquered in the time of Abd ar-Rahman’s grandfather. However Abd ar-Rahman was not very sure how they would feel about him taking the thrown for himself. He was welcomed by the people and grew a large following, because most people thought he had been killed along...
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...Running head: Decisions in Paradise Part II 10 October 2007 Decisions in Paradise Part III As has been previously described in the first two parts of the Decisions in Paradise, various solutions and techniques have been developed for the company’s greater presence in the island of Kava. Developing the company and the people of the island without sacrificing the company’s goals and objectives is the main target towards success. This paper will focus on the implementation of the solutions mentioned in the previous paper. This will emphasize on the factors that affect the implementation process within the organization, resources and actions required for decision implementation, and ethical implications from stakeholders previously mentioned. Looking at the important factors that affect the implementation process within the company itself would be necessary. The main issue to be handled would be the implementation of the issues that has been analyzed and discussed. To be able to have an assistant towards the implementation, having a position on Office of Strategic Manager (OSM) with the purpose of coordinating decisions implementation the same way as the CFO coordinates with the budgeting process. The presence of the OSM in the company will provide a local manager to handle the implementation process of the decisions and coordinated the local company’s objectives more effectively while freeing the corporate office out of trouble. Other issues to handle...
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