Challenges N e w Tr e n d s i n E - B u s i n e s s : E-Government and M-Commerce ■ ■ ■ ■ opening case study Amazon.com—Not Your Average Bookstore Jeffrey Bezos, CEO and founder of Amazon.com, is running what some people refer to as the “world’s biggest bookstore.” The story of Bezos’s virtual bookstore teaches many lessons about online business. Out of nowhere, this digital bookstore turned an industry upside down. What happened here was more than just creating a Web site. Bezos conceived
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Original Contributions Data Mining Applications in Healthcare Hian Chye Koh and Gerald Tan A B S T R A C T Data mining has been used intensively and extensively by many organizations. In healthcare, data mining is becoming increasingly popular, if not increasingly essential. Data mining applications can greatly benefit all parties involved in the healthcare industry. For example, data mining can help healthcare insurers detect fraud and abuse, healthcare organizations make customer relationship
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‘It’s Business, Man!': Unions and ‘Socially Responsible’ Corporations Liza Featherstone ▪ Fall 1999 “How do you feel?” roared Jerry Greenfield, CEO and co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s, the ice cream company that has (in the public imagination, at least) long epitomized corporate social responsibility. He posed this question a few years ago to the audience at the company’s folk music festival, held annually in mansion-packed Newport, Rhode Island. “I feel good!” roared back the Teva-and tie-dye-clad
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falsehood in response. It is commonly used by law enforcement and has historically been an inexact science. There are a wide variety of technologies available for this purpose. The most common and long used measure is the polygraph, which the U.S. National Academy of Sciences states, in
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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Background of the Study: Broken homes are experience by some of the students not only with those in poverty line families but same goes to middle and higher class families. Parents chose to live separately regardless how their children feel and its impact to their lives, however, there are still parents in spite of the situation still supports and care of their children in their studies, and others. It is worthy to note that majority of high school students in the
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view". Amazon.com - Founder Jeff Bezos renamed the company to Amazon (from the earlier name of Cadabra.com) after the world's most voluminous river, the Amazon. He saw the potential for a larger volume of sales in an online bookstore as opposed to the then prevalent bookstores. (Alternative: It is said that Jeff Bezos named his book store Amazon simply to cash in on the popularity of Yahoo at the time. Yahoo listed entries alphabetically, and thus Amazon would always appear above its competitors in
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foundation. ANNUAL REPORT 2012-13 from a Great things grow firm foundation. from a Great things grow firm Financial Highlights & Key Ratios Shoppers Stop Ltd. (` in lacs) 2008-09 72 141,298 6,438 134,860 2,555 137,415 90,034 8,588 33,868 132,490 4,924 2,560 6,313 (3,949) 2,486 (6,436) (6,372) 3,487 — 19,822 20,776 — 44,085 25,873 8,467 15.9% 1.2% 31.7% 30.0% 3.5% -2.8% -4.6% 0.98 3 94 4.0 1.5 3.1 0.9 -5.2% -3.0% 66.85 (18.3) (18.3) (0.17)
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perform them successfully. This is a standard type of evaluation you can use for all employees filling the same position. First you must perform a job analysis, separating all duties into large categories, such as essential functions and communication. Under the categories of the position, specify tasks required to fulfill them. Be thorough in your analysis and ask your manager or the human resources department to review it. This will be the performance plan for the position. Each employee will receive
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Linking Customer and Employee Satisfaction to the Bottom Line Also Available from ASQ Quality Press: Analysis of Customer Satisfaction Data Derek R. Allen and Tanniru R. Rao Customer Centered Six Sigma: Linking Customers, Process Improvement, and Financial Results Earl Naumann and Steven H. Hoisington Customer Satisfaction Measurement Simplified: A Step-by-Step Guide for ISO 9001:2000 Certification Terry G. Vavra Improving Your Measurement of Customer Satisfaction: A Guide to Creating
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Science in Information Security and Assurance is a competency-based degree program that encompasses the main security domains of knowledge developed following strict guidelines for information security and assurance education prescribed by the National Security Agency. Understanding the Competency-Based Approach Practically speaking, what does it mean when we say that WGU’s programs are competency-based? Unlike traditional universities, WGU does not award degrees based on credit hours or
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