...Analog and Digital Comparison Paper Current technology utilizes many different types of transmission cable such as fiber optics, coaxial cable, and twisted pair copper wire. These different types of cables use different communications techniques that maximize their efficiency. For instance, fiber optics can carry digital signals over long distances without amplification or repeaters required. Copper wire, on the other hand, carrying analog signals requiring amplification and noise corrections along the way in much shorter intervals. The result is there is a mix of transmission lines that require special software and equipment such as codecs and modems to convert and move data from one point to another. Codecs and Modems The most common form of analog to digital conversions uses multiplex devices and coder-decoder devices otherwise known as codecs. These programs receive analog signals from sine waves such as audio communications and code them as digital signals. These signals then travel to other locations with codec or modem devices that decode or decompress the data back to analog signals. Digital devices use modems or combinations of codecs and modems to modulate the data signals to analog signals to travel to other modems for demodulation back to digital data. The codec is “software that is used to compress or decompress a digital media file, such as a song or video” (Microsoft, 2014). This process is the same in telecommunications systems, which consist of the encoder...
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...Analog and Digital Comparison Paper Current technology utilizes many different types of transmission cable such as fiber optics, coaxial cable, and twisted pair copper wire. These different types of cables use different communications techniques that maximize their efficiency. For instance, fiber optics can carry digital signals over long distances without amplification or repeaters required. Copper wire, on the other hand, carrying analog signals requiring amplification and noise corrections along the way in much shorter intervals. The result is there is a mix of transmission lines that require special software and equipment such as codecs and modems to convert and move data from one point to another. Codecs and Modems The most common form of analog to digital conversions uses multiplex devices and coder-decoder devices otherwise known as codecs. These programs receive analog signals from sine waves such as audio communications and code them as digital signals. These signals then travel to other locations with codec or modem devices that decode or decompress the data back to analog signals. Digital devices use modems or combinations of codecs and modems to modulate the data signals to analog signals to travel to other modems for demodulation back to digital data. The codec is “software that is used to compress or decompress a digital media file, such as a song or video” (Microsoft, 2014). This process is the same in telecommunications systems, which consist of the encoder...
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...Week 2 Team Paper Sean Kane, Chris Benson, Douglas Cabral, Brittany Dings, and Chris Loeffler MKT/421 April 1, 2014 Mark Glasier Week 2 Team Paper The Apple, Inc. company is the one we choose to work with in providing a new product/service for the public. Within this paper we will give you an overview of the Apple Inc. company. Provide you with a new product/service that will significantly affect the everyday lives of Apple Inc. users. This paper will explain the importance of marketing to Apple Inc. continual success. We will go through a SWOTT analysis that will focus on strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, and trends on the new product/service we provide. To close the paper will show the marketing research approach that will be used to develop the marketing strategy and tactics for the new product/service. Apple, Inc. is a company that focuses on exceling in the mobile communication, personal computers, and portable music industry. Apple also sells a series on software, digital applications, and networking solutions. As of May of 2013 the market cap for Apple was set at $416.62 billion. They also were voted #1 on the Forbes list of “World’s Most Valuable Brands” and in “Market Value.” Since 1976, when Apple was founded by the late Steve Jobs, Steve Wazniak, and Ronald Wayne, has come a long way and topped charts of how powerful and successful they had become. During the first five years of production and operations, Apple managed to double their revenues...
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...Comprehensive Environmental Analysis Paper Business ventures require research regarding various factors that can impact the proposed business. Global business ventures require even more analysis. A global business venture, such as this centered on leather and leather goods, requires strong analysis of the proposed host nation for the business. The company must consider social, political, economic, health, and production factors within the host nation. This analysis ensure that the firm considers every aspect of the business so that the venture is successful. Products / Service Descriptions Starting a new venture in Brazil on leather goods, they must start looking to “take advantage of differences in the cost, and quality of production” (Hill, 2009). This organization will specialize in high quality leather material to produce different types of products. Most organizations provide a flat finish on leather materials but this organization will provide different types of leather finishes as they are ready to gratify the consumers whether they like oil based finish or waxed finishes. This organization will solely produce the best finishes on leather materials in order to produce shoes, belts, handbags, luggage, and wallets. Their services will look for ways to adopt a cleaner environmental system to reduce future environmental cost, and introduced a sustainable waste management system for leather goods. The system will detect defective sections in our leather material...
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...ECO/365 Principles of Microeconomics Team B Weekly Reflection University of Phoenix Carol Szerszen In my industry, there is always a concern for international competition for labor. According to Colander, “central determinant of a country’s competitiveness is the relative wage of labor in that country compared to the relative wage of labor in other countries “(Colander, 2010, p. 438). As companies move to cut costs, moving work overseas to employees that are willing to work for less money, in some cases significantly less money, can improve that company’s bottom line. As a telemarketing firm, our focus is on providing quality service to our clients, but our company has to demonstrate that we are cost effective to prevent that company from outsourcing to a foreign vendor. One of the things that I thought was interesting about this past week that accounting has a different measure of profit compared to what an economist’s measure of profit. When it comes to accounting and their ways of measuring profit which is total revenue minus total costs which will get you profit. Whereas in the economist’s way of getting profit which is explicit revenue and implicit revenue minus explicit cost and implicit cost which will get you the economist’s profit. After this weeks reading, I realize that the effect of changes in marginal revenues and costs on a firm’s profit-making potential is that the best possible performance of any company...
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...Diversity in the work place BSHS/425 Carolyn Solomon Instructor Laura Carter Discrimination still occurs in the workplace by people who have no respect for others. Regardless of the discrimination prohibition act. In 2006, a family member was involved in a workplace discrimination assault. The event was harassment and constantly called the N-word. The place of employment was on an outside construction site. All employees involved were from a local union hired by a construction organization. The environment became a safety hazard as the crew continues their harassment and threats to terminate the family member. Once he became fed up with the foolishness, he contacted his supervisor and the local union for support the union advised him to seek help from the state. The Federal and State legislations are important for individual’s protection in the workplace. The federal government and the states have legislation laws in place as the eyes and ears for the employees’ protection. The state of California has laws such as the Fair Employment and Housing Act. The act is in place to enforce the civil rights laws. Their mission is to protect the people of California from unlawful discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodations and also from hate violence. The civil rights...
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...Kudler Fine Foods Sara Pavlinich, Randal Ulloa, Andrew King BSA/375 Fundamentals of Business System Development June 30, 2014 Todd Feuerherm Kudler Fine Foods The focus of this paper is to define the requirements for the frequent shopper program and to make the program run smooth and to the best of it’s abilities as well as providing great service to the customers to keep them shopping at Kudler Foods. Once the frequent shopper program has been implemented, it will bring in more revenue to Kudler fine foods. There are six major stakeholders that will be affected with the success of the frequent shopper program. These six stakeholders are the staff, customer, wholesale suppliers, banks, competition, and Kathy Kudler. The success of this program will allow for the staff to see an increase in wages due to more customers coming into the store. The program will attract new customers that want to receive the special rewards that come with being a frequent buyer at Kudler Fine Foods. The benefit to customer is that they will be rewarded for shopping at kudler will receive exclusive offers on items that regular shoppers do not get. They will also get major discounts on cooking classes. The wholesale suppliers will see an increase in the amount of items the company will need to purchase, in order to satisfy the demand for supplies that the customers are buying. The banks will see a higher return on there investment that they have made by extending the companies credit. Kudler...
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...High employee turnover/ Low Retention Low employee retention is caused by several factors and not many businesses are immune. High turnover rates not only reflect badly on a business but are very costly. A 2012 study showed that it cost 1/5th an employees’ salary to replace them("What Are The Causes Of High Labor Turn Over Rate?", 2014). Costs such as advertising, recruiting, screening and hiring effect the bottom-line of every company. Low retention rates attribute to employee satisfaction, pay and geographical issues. Communication problems within an organization remains one of the top reasons for employee dissatisfaction ("What Are The Causes Of High Labor Turn Over Rate?", 2014). . Poor leadership and communication skills effect an employees’ ability to perform and or feel appreciated for the work that they do. Pay commensurate with experience and cost of living is equally important to job seekers in addition to a work life balance. An employee should be seen as an investment within a company. Adequate pay, training, benefits and advancement opportunities result in a more productive employee who is more likely to remain loyal to their company. Finding a solution a high employee turnover and low retention rate holds great significance. A high employee turnover and low retention rate negatively impacts an organization in a few ways. Low morale can be a result of high employee turnover which can lead to a decrease of productivity. Financially...
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...Weekly Reflection – Week 2 This week’s primary objectives were to evaluate how attitudes and emotions influence behaviors, to explain ways personality and values influence behaviors, and to create a plan to increase employee motivation, satisfaction, and performance. This paper will analyze the information discussed by Learning Team A. Evaluate How Attitudes and Emotions Influence Behaviors Attitudes and emotions influence behaviors by the way a person acts. Their character, how they take criticism, and their composure under stress and pressure all directly affect their behavior. From a business standpoint, these things that would affect behavior would also affect how someone interacts with others which would be a determining factor as to how successful someone could be. Some people have negative attitudes about work and fall behind, while others stay positive and work through their issues. Sometimes, how an employee is treated by management can affect how employees work. Trying to build a good rapport and a positive work environment is vital to the overall success of a company. Attitudes and emotions influence behavior in a number of areas, not only in interpersonal relations, but also in life in general. A person’s attitude can determine how they handle stressful events, and their emotions guide those attitudes in the eventual construct of behavior in relation to those events. Explain Ways Personality and Values Influence Behaviors A person who has a caring...
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...Team B Week Two Reflection MKT/421 June 20, 2013 Donna Falloon Team B discussed week’s two objectives thoroughly, the objective that Team B related to the most was market segmentation and the various criteria that impacts market selection. Creating a consumer driven marketing strategy is imperative for companies inspiring to be or are successful. “Companies today recognize that they cannot appeal to all buyers in the marketplace or at least not to all buyers in the same way (Armstrong & Kotler, 2011, p. 174).” Consumers vary in age, location, income, nationality, social class, gender, family size, education, religion, and many more variables. Thus companies are straying from mass marketing and focusing more on target marketing (2011). Market targeting is the process of evaluating each market segment’s attractiveness and selecting one or more segments to enter (2011). It is a critical piece that aids with the segmentation, differentiation, and positioning of the consumer driven marketing strategy. Each member of team b reflected on their personal experiences of market targeting. For example, two team members are mother’s, although the ages of their children vary, each mother at one point was targeted with the age and life-cycle stage from a company like Toys “R” Us. Some companies use the age and life-cycle segmentation, since consumers needs drastically change with age. For Example, Toys “R” Us primarily target babies to teenagers, most likely an adult will not...
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...customers in the San Diego metropolitan are. Kudler Fine Foods has stores in Del Mar, La Jolla, and Encinitas. Their mission is to offer their customers a delightful and pleasing shopping experience by employing experienced, helpful, and knowledgably staff, coupled with their selection of fine foods. Background Customer rewards programs and the like have become commonplace in many small and large retail market places. Kudler Fine Foods understands the benefits these programs offer. Customer rewards programs are electronic records management (ERM) systems that collect and store customer sales transaction information in databases from which reports can be queried. Kudler Fine Foods plans to develop the RMS, but needs help from Learning Team “A” to manage security concerns during the system development life cycle (SDLC) in order to safeguard data stored as customer information within the newly implemented system as prescribed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The FTC is charged with protecting the privacy of U.S. consumers. According to Federal Trade Commission (2007), the fourth widely accepted principle is that data be accurate and secure. To assure data integrity, collectors must take reasonable steps, such as using only reputable sources of data and cross-referencing data against multiple sources, providing consumer access to data, and destroying untimely...
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...Preparing to Conduct Business Research: Part 1 Benjamin Maple, Robert Gholson, Daniel Williams, Benito Serrano Business Research/RES/351 28 March 2016 Dr. Kenneth Miller Preparing to Conduct Business Research: Part 1 * Describe the selected issue, opportunity, or problem facing the organization. The organization this team agreed on to conduct business research is Playboy. This company has been in business since the beginning of its long life started in December of 1953, it was created by Hughe Hefner. Playboy does not just produce magazines but the company does also television, radio, internet, and clothes. There are various reasons the company chose to go down a different path then it known for, from being a centerfold raunchy naked magazine to a more conservative less revealing type of magazine. Do to the changing times and forever evolving technology, This company has had a problem in the last decade competing with other big companies like maxim and other big companies like them in their sales for their monthly subscription magazine. With the competition of other companies going becoming more prevalent because of the technology advances as mentioned like the internet, Playboy has become sort of obsolete. Consumers no longer really care for the naked centerfold they used to always show and have come up with solutions to stay relevant in the industry while changing the way they have operated for decades. * Discuss the significance, scope, magnitude,...
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...Learning Team Weekly Reflection Jennifer Naccarato, Nancy Perez, Anthony Aguirre, Edward Felix MGT/498 May 5, 2015 Dr. Tim Fish Learning Team Weekly Reflection The team discussed the topics covered in the reading material and concluded that it is difficult to forecast and foresee what is significant enough to understand what is applicable information to work with for the success of each of the companies. Seeing as we have each worked in an individual department within the organization, we are unable to predict and foresee when we are not aware of necessary information to understand what direction to go in. We are expecting to learn how to think outside the box and have the capacity to see the big picture. The team knows how strategic management could be advantageous to an organization, and how ethics should be a part of that too. We have seen in our companies on various occasions where people have committed wrong actions and how it could hurt the organization. Those actions can slowly or swiftly take over and destroy an organization. Such unethical behaviors can disrupt the goals of the company to perform efficiently and effectively. After finishing the homework and reading the objectives, the team was comfortable discussing both internal and external environmental scans and how it is not the same as a SWOT analysis. Environmental scanning is composed of observation, reviewing, and finally circulating the data assembled from internal and external environments based...
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...WorldCom brought in Farrell Malone into because of a situation that Mrs. Cooper had found. Mrs. Cooper found expenditures jumping from account to account. At first Mr. Malone did not see a reason to purse an investigation, but Mrs. Cooper decided that there was further investigation needed. Mrs. Cooper looked into the report and realized that something was wrong with the reports and confronted Mr. Bobbitt about the findings. Mr. Bobbitt in the audit committee would take a look and see if the findings that Mrs. Cooper were valid. After finding that the findings were valid she then contact Mr. Farrell and he did an external investigation. After further investigation that the mid-level accounting directors Mr. Normand had confessed to just going along with what Mr. Sullivan had explained to him about the reports because he was afraid to tell anyone and wanted to resign. He was afraid that if he told anyone that he would lose his job and had a family to support. When looking at WorldCom situation it was good that the internal auditor committee took charge of the situation when it was brought to them. That was very ethical and then to have the external auditors take over to review the matter was the right step. Now the fact that you had an accountant that your CFO making false reports and switching money around is not very ethical. Not only did your CFO bring another person into the fraudulent reports, but now an external investigation has to be done and reported. There will...
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...Learning Team Reflection In this week assignment Team A will discuss how we plan to help Clapton Commercial Construction expand their operation from a single location to multiple. Clapton Commercial Construction will expand to Arizona while currently operating solely in Detroit, MI. Employing 650 employees the Clapton Commercial Construction falls into the medium size business with a plan to add 20 percent workforce in the new state. Our team will work to address employment laws to ensure Human Resources are running compliance. Generally the principles and strategies to operate any size business will be fairly similar. The differences will depend on the type of business. A medium sized company is considered as a company with less than 500 employees. Medium sized companies are fairly successful. It is said that their size can enable them to do things better. For example their relatively larger size compared with small companies provides them with deeper pockets for dealing with difficulties, funding innovation and hiring key talent. And their smaller size compared with larger companies makes them more agile, puts them in closer contact with customers and enables them to retain a bit of that entrepreneurial spirit (Sniderman2012). There are several principles that can be used to apply to our business and others businesses. The first principle used to operate our medium sized business is known as the follow up and follow through principle. This principle is ideal...
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