...criteria of the project along with a summary of planned approaches for managing this project will be included. Lastly, this paper will define the roles and responsibilities of each person involved in the project. Green Computing Research Project We Are Big, Inc. is a international firm with over 100,000 employees in different countries. Their goal is to help the environment while increasing profits and reducing costs. Green Computing Research Project has been created with a date of January 21, 2012 as the date of authorization. The projected completion date is 6 months from the authorization date July 21, 2012. The project manager is Nikita Small. My contact information is 919-247-0427 or email at n_small@hotmail.com. The budget for this project is $500,000. The cost to implement some of the technologies would be $2,000,000 for the first year and $600,000 for years 2 and 3. The goal is to provide extensive reports that include very detailed financial analysis and recommendations on the types of technologies Green Computing should implement. The success criteria of the project is to research possible applications of green computing. Determining what works and how it can be implemented into We Are Big, Inc. A brief description of the project's objectives are as follows: * Develop a data center and overall energy efficiency * Dispose of electronic waste and recycle * Telecommute * Thin client solutions * The use of open...
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...------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Week 4: Contracts and IP Issues - C: You Decide Group C Project Thread Begin answering the project questions here. | Responses Responses are listed below in the following order: response, author and the date and time the response is posted. | | Response | Author | Date/Time | | | | Contracts and IP Issues - Question # 1 | Julie Hicks | 11/19/2012 5:30:48 AM | | | I have tried to go through the case and answer the 1st question. Please feel free to add to this thread on Question No. 1. 1) Can Big Bank's President rescind the contract? Ans: No. Big Bank's president may not be able to rescind the contract as both the parties have committed mistake. A mutual mistake occurs when the parties to a contract are both mistaken about the same material fact within their contract. Also, Rescission requires that the parties must be able to be get back to where they started when the contract was made. Here, one party to the contract has already completed four out of the six conversions without a problem. Therefore, rescission will not be permitted.Under what circumstances can a contract be rescinded by either party?Ans: Unilateral rescission is affirmatively permitted upon clear and convincing evidence of fraud, mistake, illegality, coercion, duress, and as a defense upon a preponderance of evidence that the contract is adhesive or unconscionable.What facts have to be alleged and proven? What...
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...the bottom line, whether through energy efficiency of computers and printers via power management, smart e-waste or asset management, or greening data centers with virtualization or cloud computing (greenbiz.com, 2012). Maintaining efficiency throughout daily operations is high on the priority list in an effort for business to not only cut costs but manage their services in a much more streamlined fashion. The transformation to become green friendly is one that requires the coordination of many areas. To ensure that working groups are formed, timelines are established, and end results are defined based off of the recommendations and requirements of the stakeholders the formation of a project management team is required. At the We Are Big, Inc International Firm they are focusing on improving the environment while increasing revenues and reducing costs. Their initiative known as the Green Computing Research Project was established to research possible applications that would fit within this spectrum. Their next step was forming a project management team through support this six-month project with a budget of...
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...apples. Though an unintentional ,this has had a large impact on the way all food is processed. The top four meat packers now control over 80% of the market, compared to the past,when the top four meat packers controled 20% In America, whoever has the big bucks dictates how things are run. With money, there is no limit to what can be done. According the Youtube video, “Food Inc.” a perfect example of the desire for more is in the food industry. The narrator makes the argument that profit is put before the consumer’s well being, the legacy of the American farmer, workers safety, and our precious environment (Food Inc.) in many major corporations. I firmly believe that these corporations have put aside and have deliberately tried to hide the truth about how unhealthy the food they produce truly is for the American public. The documentary “Food Inc. produced by Robert Kenner and Eric Schlosser, takes an in depth look at America’s food industry and the terrible but completely legal way our food is genetically engineered. The purpose of this video is to shock the American public with clever filmography and facts about the food Americans consume everyday. The food industry is full of misconceptions. The youtube video, “Food Inc.” declares that the food industry is using deceiving images of agrarian America to sell their product. Images such as lush green fields, picket fences, silos, and 30’s farmhouse, but as the narrator asserts, “it’s the spinning of a pastoral fantasy”. In reality...
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...About Arby's® Arby's® is the place for people hungering for a unique, better tasting alternative to traditional fast food. It's the favorite place for people who crave something different and better. Serving one-of-a-kind menu items, Arby's is well known for slow-roasted and freshly sliced roast beef sandwiches and famous Market Fresh sandwiches, wraps and salads, made with wholesome ingredients and served with the convenience of a drive-thru. From day one, Arby's Roast Beef Restaurants offered an innovative menu, offering guests something other than hamburgers in the newly inspired quick service segment. When foodservice veterans Leroy and Forrest Raffel opened the first Arby's in Boardman, Ohio on July 23, 1964, customers enjoyed roast beef sandwiches, potato chips, and Texas-sized iced teas. To name their new venture, the brothers decided on Arby's, which stands for R.B., the initials of the Raffel Brothers - although many suspect the R.B. stands for roast beef. Leroy and Forrest never looked back. They fine tuned the operation and sold the first franchise to Sam Feldman the following year. Today, Arby's rich heritage is comprised of several multi-generation franchise owners. In fact, Jim Raffel, founder Leroy's son, owns and operates three locations in Maine. The enterprising spirit that originated with the Raffel Brothers has fueled the development of Arby's throughout its 41 year history. The company added an average of 50 restaurants a year in the 1970s while...
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...is putting themselves above any other mortal being and taking the role of God or nature. Time Safari Inc. creates the illusion that they are in control of what is happening on the safari. By going back in time before hand and selecting which shows the reader that Time Safari Inc. decides how that specific creature dies rather than nature taking its course. The Tyrannosaurs Rex dies the way Time Safari Inc. wants it to; by making them money. To add onto Time Safari Inc.’s arrogance, they abused the time machine to make a profit. By going back in time and marking a very specific dinosaur, the company had thought they made a fool proof way to make money, however they did not account for variables such as Eckels. Despite their detailed Time Safari Inc. was blinded by money and made the mistaking of allowing Eckels to travel through time. Their arrogance resulting in Eckels stepping on the butterfly altering the time line in a positive or negative...
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...YMJ Investment – Final Project Throughout the semester we really had to watch the markets in order to obtain a successful portfolio. The way we approached this task was through constant watching of the securities market to find out current trends as well as picking up stocks we thought were undervalued at that time. The latter, of course, applies to our managed portfolio, where we were able to select stocks we deemed were good investments. We observed that this specific portfolio gave us more stable returns, which we attributed to the lower betas of these stocks. One can also conclude that the worst performers of the same portfolio were due the same cause. Based on the returns of our managed portfolio, one can conclude that we chose to take a safe approach and invest in stocks that had low, but steady returns and growths. At the end of the semester, our strategy proved to be successful based on our overall returns. On the other hand, our control portfolio, which takes a passive management approach, had a different outcome. In this type of management, it is imperative that one waits a longer period of time to receive the expected returns. However, we had surprising results as our stocks for this portfolio had large returns. We believe that this exceptional result was due our clever choice of industry. Also, the worst performers of this portfolio presented larger negative returns than we predicted. We also attribute these results to the betas of the stocks that were relatively...
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...Portfolio Management Exercise Report 1. Business Model Woodward, Inc. is an independent designer, manufacturer, and service provider of control solutions for the aerospace and energy markets. It has significant production and assembly facilities in the United States, Europe and Asia, and promotes its products and services through its worldwide locations. The Woodward, Inc is one of the world’s oldest and largest independent designer and supplier of energy control and optimization solutions. 2. Value Proposition We analyze two points to show Woodward’s value proposition. 2.1 Human Resources Employees of Woodward Inc are experts in their fields, dedicated to creating solutions and a lot of them are located out of United States. It’s believed that the relationships of Woodward’s employees with the representative unions are good. 2.2 Technology Woodward keeps financing their research and development activities and its competitive success is believed to be based on the development of innovative components and systems. 3. The “Moats” We analyze the “moats” according to Porte’s five forces model. 3.1 Threat of Entry New competitors face significant barriers to entry into many of the markets, including various government mandated certification requirements to compete in the aerospace markets in which they participate...
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...Big Lots Organizational Structure Management 521 July 15, 2014 Dr. w The Chief Merchandising Officer and Executive Vice President of Big Lots is Richard Chene (Home Textiles Today, 2013). He oversees all merchandising and global sourcing strategies and executions. He reports to CEO and President David Campisi. Big Lots decided to improve their organizational structure by implementing a new strategy to add three new General Merchandise Managers to improve customer focus. Lucy Cindric was assigned the role of Senior Vice President, General Merchandise Manager in the area of Seasonal, Toys and Electronics division (Eaton, 2014). Trey Johnson was assigned the role of Senior Vice President, General Merchandise Manager for Food and Consumables. And Martha Withers-Hall as Senior Vice President, General Merchandise Manager for Furniture and Home Décor (Easton, 2014). Lucy, Trey and Martha are holding positons at the same level of management. Their roles are primarily implementing different strategies to accomplish the same goal under the Merchandising category. They will all report to Richard Chene. ------------------------------------------------- The objective behind this strategic planning was to deliver a detailed plan that evaluated all aspects of Big Lots current operations including their leadership hierarchy make it organized by assigning a specific leadership role for each category. Big Lots has already implemented their plan for the next three years “and shared stories...
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...usage. External consultants will be utilized as subject matter experts in green computing contributing ideas in the initial planning and development stage in assisting in providing technological concepts used to facilitate a green computing environment. The company will also consult with members of the Green Grid in providing green technology solutions to datacenters.” As business demands increase, so does the number of data center facilities which house a rising amount of powerful IT equipment. Data center managers around the world are running into resource limits related to power, cooling, and space, making the resource efficiency of data centers an important topic of discussion.”(Unknown, 2011) With the assistance of the Green Grid, We Are Big, Inc hopes to find green computing solutions for data storage, cooling, and finding effective energy cost solutions. Research data on effective green...
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...makes perfect sense why they would not want us to question such a thing. Why? Because food industries are hiding from us the immoral and vulgar ways they supply us with the food that we eat everyday. http://www.cbc.ca/passionateeye/episodes/food-inc Directed by Emmy winner Robert Kenner, Food, Inc. is a documentary filmed in 2008 with the purpose of exposing the real facts and hidden secrets behind the food...
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...Massachusetts Institute of Technology This case was prepared by research assistant David Kletter under the direction of Professor Stephen C. Graves as the basis for class discussion rather than to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of an administrative situation. Steel Works, Inc. Gary Lemming sat in his new corner office and tapped his pencil on the desk. Lemming had just been named head of Steel Works, Inc.’s new centralized logistics group. After a decade of experience implementing MRP (Materials Requirements Planning) systems throughout the company’s manufacturing facilities, Lemming was confident he could handle the job. Until this morning. “Our inventory levels are ridiculous!” barked Jean Du Blanc, the company’s Chief Financial Officer. “Our customer service is the worst in the industry, and getting worse,” grumbled Kirk Callow, the CEO. Lemming started to explain, “You see, I’ve already set up a team to look at all of that. . .” But before he could finish, Callow stood up. “Sales are down 30% and expenses are up 25%. Our best customers are calling me and telling me they’re going to our competitors, and at the rate we’re losing market share we won’t be in business in a year. I don’t want to hear about teams, I want you back in here in a week telling me how you’re going to fix this thing.” Lemming looked over the list of people he’d asked to meet with him this week. He shook his head–– how do I lower expenses and improve performance...
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...■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ Massachusetts Institute of Technology This case was prepared by research assistant David Kletter under the direction of Professor Stephen C. Graves as the basis for class discussion rather than to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of an administrative situation. Steel Works, Inc. Gary Lemming sat in his new corner office and tapped his pencil on the desk. Lemming had just been named head of Steel Works, Inc.’s new centralized logistics group. After a decade of experience implementing MRP (Materials Requirements Planning) systems throughout the company’s manufacturing facilities, Lemming was confident he could handle the job. Until this morning. “Our inventory levels are ridiculous!” barked Jean Du Blanc, the company’s Chief Financial Officer. “Our customer service is the worst in the industry, and getting worse,” grumbled Kirk Callow, the CEO. Lemming started to explain, “You see, I’ve already set up a team to look at all of that. . .” But before he could finish, Callow stood up. “Sales are down 30% and expenses are up 25%. Our best customers are calling me and telling me they’re going to our competitors, and at the rate we’re losing market share we won’t be in business in a year. I don’t want to hear about teams, I want you back in here in a week telling me how you’re going to fix this thing.” Lemming looked over the list of people he’d asked to meet with him this week. He shook his head–– how do I lower expenses and improve performance? How will...
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...MGT499 MODULE THREE SLP Strategic Management: Internal Analysis and SWOT What are its main competitive advantages? ULINE INC is an independent company and as such their customers range from small mom and pop shops to big corporations. They are unique because they can turn around any customers order within 24 hours of when the order was placed unlike their competitors who pick and choose between what customer orders and quantities they will accept. ULINE INC believes that on time delivery and gaining new orders from Small companies that are typically purchase their corrugated packaging through brokers will allow the company to grow faster than their competitors. The reason their competitors have refused to service this sector of the industry, opting rather to deal with broker is that they can collect a bunch of small orders to make one big order. In my opinion I believe that this is a great opportunity for UNLINE INC because they have no competition in this sector beside the brokers and our price to the customer buying directly from us will always be better that any price they can get from a broker. The reason behind this is that we are the manufacturers that brokers normally come to when buying corrugated products but we are cutting out the broker to deal directly with our customers. Brokers charge small businesses fees, fees they can’t afford and offers no options for small businesses to get what they want...
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...Paper ( Apple Inc. Cupertino, CA) INTRODUCTION Founded on April 1st, 1976, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne started an electronic product company, which later became known as one of the most successful and innovative businesses, Apple Inc. Today, it has integrated itself into the lives of many, worldwide. Apple Inc. is best known for their famous “i-products”, customer service, and easily accessible tech support and locations. Although Apple has succeeded thus far, Apple Inc.’s profits are plummeting as competitors are rising, leading to failure in the future with the continuation of this trend. LOSS IN FINANCIAL GROWTH Apple Inc. has become the top technology company in the world with around $145 billion in cash (Worstall) and growing revenues each year. However, Apple Inc. has not shown growth in their net profit margin at the end of 2013. Apple’s net profit margin has decreased by 5% in just 2013 alone, (Hoovers, Financial Report) even with releases of new iPhones and computers. Even though this is a fairly recent event, it forecasts what could be happening to Apple. With major companies such as Samsung and Microsoft showing a 3.21% and a 5.05% increase in profit margin, respectively. (Hoovers, Financial Report) Apple is slowly losing its dominance in the market. With this current trend, we believe Apple will no longer be as successful as they currently are 15-20 years down the line. COMPETITORS CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION Apple Inc. had a vision of...
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