Extension Case Studies Samples For Students

Business

Part One
1. A pure competitive environment is a business environment where similar businesses sell the same product. Electronic City operates in a pure-competition environment. This is because it sells similar products and its only means of earning more profit is by distinguishing the products either by price, quality, promotions and many other options. I tend to say this because according to Phil, Electronic City is among just a handful of national chains selling the same products. A pure competition business environment exhibits cutthroat competition between businesses. According to the article, the environment was competitive on price where the margins were ...

The Sorbet Group has enjoyed much success in the South African beauty business. This has been brought about by effective human resource practices coupled with excellent customer relations. Given the kind of expansion that the group is undergoing especially in franchising, there are questions about whether the company will maintain the same level of customer service and brand awareness.
What is Sorbet’s brand positioning? How would you describe the brand’s personality? How does Sorbet communicate its positioning and personality?
Brand positioning is an essential element for the success of any given business. It refers to the specific ...

The Sorbet Group has enjoyed much success in the South African beauty business. This has been brought about by effective human resource practices coupled with excellent customer relations. Given the kind of expansion that the group is undergoing especially in franchising, there are questions about whether the company will maintain the same level of customer service and brand awareness.
What is Sorbet’s brand positioning? How would you describe the brand’s personality? How does Sorbet communicate its positioning and personality?
Brand positioning is an essential element for the success of any given business. It refers to the specific ...

Situation Analysis

Industry
Mountain Man Lager had maintained a better market share as recent study highlights that the West Virginia audience rated the company’s core brand Mountain Man Lager, as the regions best-known beer, with an independently audited 67% response rate from the category of adult population of the state.
The main domestic producers like the Anheuser-Busch, Adolf Coors Company, and Miller Brewing Company have collectively produced the industry’s 74% of the beer shipments in the locations of Mountain Man in 2005.
On the other hand, the second-tier domestic producer like Genessee and Pabst Brewing Company produced between fifteen ...

The Audit Enhancement Bill 2012 aimed at improving the transparency and quality of the auditing process to align Australia’s auditing framework with internal standards (Australian Government, 2012). According to Australian Institute of Chartered Accounts (AICA), the Audit Enhancement Bill 2012 brings more evolutionary changes than revolution changes. The AICA believes that these evolutionary changes will help in fine tuning the quality of the auditing process in Australia. The Audit Enhancement Bill 2012 are several measures affecting the regulatory framework in Australia. These measures recommended in the Bill include the extension of the frequency of rotating auditors by two ...

Recommendation I: Innovative Promotion Strategy

It is evident that Snapple drink was misinterpreted by the Quaker management, once the decision to turn it from “fashion” to “lifestyle” brand was taken on the top management. While the sales of the Snapple soft drinks fell as consumers felt betrayed and believed that the natural and family brand was “sold out”, people still feel good about the old Snapple experience, based on the following values:

Fun drink with informal and natural proposition;

Sensual experience with high variety, imaginary and special flavors;
Taste experience, created by packaging of the drinks;
Unique drinks, which is differentiated from traditional Coke-style sparkling drink as well as simple water;
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Jack Nietzche

Promotion is one of the most effective tools that helps to motivate the workers, and subsequently, promote the employees' productivity. This case study provides an insight of a scenario where an employee, Jack Nietzche, is putting an extra effort to acquire that promotion, but the director of the project is reluctant of that incentive. As a result, the dilemma arises as to whether to tell Jack about the situation or not while bearing in mind that this might affect Jack's emotions and might adversely affect the project.
If Jack inquires whether the new assignments were made, it is essential ...

Recreational property acquires land parcels or property with recreational potential; they consolidate several parcels and obtain leases from the European Union Environmental Agency and create desirable recreational facilities. After acquiring the land, they either develop it themselves, or they sell it to another developer. Anders wants to obtain a set of land parcels in the White Mountain range, however, before obtaining the lease a group of conservationists blocked the authorization of the lease claiming that the lease would have negative impacts on the environment. All agencies have not been of help to him as they all tell him to wait for ...

Keeping the body healthy and in shape is probably the big aim of everyone. However, all of those desires differ a lot on the gender, age and motivation basis. This assignment will demonstrate the analysis of two case studies. For both of them some recommendations and calculations will be given.

Anyways, some calculations are needed in order to get the entire picture of his body condition.

Secondly, Chad’s BMR is 1865.04
Finally, it is essential to implement the Karvonen formula in order to find out Chad’s target heart rate at 60% and 80%.
The answer looks as follows: Target HR (60%) = 131
Target HR (80%) = 148
At this point of time it is ...

Introduction

The Coca Cola Company’s flagship brand is valued highly in the international markets and well recognized too. In 2013, the multinational company commanded a 42.2% market share in the international non-alcoholic beverages industry (The Coca-Cola Company 2016). It has however been experiencing strong headwinds in the past ten or so years resulting from falling sales revenues and figures as more of the world’s populace sought to indulge in healthier lifestyles. Such dynamics in the international market compelled the Coca Cola Company to formulate novel long term objectives. Some of the objectives set forth included doubling revenues by ...

Introduction

The rising global war on fight against cybercrime terrorism has raised a sound alarm of danger to its subscribers and users. However, particularly to the US government attempt to solving the problem has been a tooth and nail fight where the concerned agencies depicts quite a big challenge by delaying the response migrating to the domain name system security extension concerns.
It is in this regard that most identified potential risks on malicious attacks to this websites have not been addressed in a vast manner to ending the menace but rather procrastinating it. Non adherence to the state’s set policies and ...

Executive Summary

This work has to be written consecutively and logically in order to consider and to take into account all features and decisions of the problems and to comprehend the overall situation. I intend to define the main problem of the case, its issues and describe it.
When the problems will be defined, and the description will be finished, I am going to analyze the financial performance of the business using the financial data of the case. This part of the paper is the largest and has a very important meaning for decision-making. Financial and numerical data describes precisely the ...

Pathophysiology

One of the most important parts of achieving the goal of being able to meet the patient’s entire healthcare (i.e. nursing) needs is to ensure that the underlying disease’s pathophysiology is well understood by all the stakeholder groups. These groups, in this case, would include the medical and healthcare practitioners, patients, and their respective family members. It would be a lot easier to instruct a patient to have a patient undergo a prescribed healthcare routine once he understands the nature of his condition, why each procedure is being done, and how they collectively contribute to the end-goal ...

Introduction

Development of a product is one of the most intrinsic agenda that a number of enterprises continue to engage in the modern dispensation. Health portion business is a business that has been established, though there are a number of issues that need to be put into perspective to ensure that objectives are met as appropriate. Product development requires proper strategies to be put in place to ensure that the needs and expectations of the consumers are met as appropriate (Khurana and Rosenthal, 2000). The text puts into perspective the possible business development scenarios and the relevant strategies that are crucial for the wellbeing ...

HAZARD IDENTIFICATION

During a session in the physics laboratory, the following hazards were identified
- Exposed Belts
Some of the machines in the laboratory did not have shields covering the belts and pulleys the machine. This holds the potential hazard of clothing getting caught between the pulleys and the belts. There is also the hazard of one's fingers getting caught between the pulleys and the belts. Risk Matrix – E[III] E[x]
- Exposed Live Socket Wires
Some of the wall sockets were broken and had the live wires sticking out of the wall. This holds the potential ...

Introduction

Sony Corporation began in 1946 in Tokyo as a manufacturer of measurement and telecommunications equipment. Over the decades that followed, Sony became a major player in electronic markets such as communications, audio and video equipment’s meant for professional and home use. By 2010 the company had more than 171,000 employees worldwide in countries such as china, the United States, Europe and japan. In the financial year ending March 31st, 2010, Sony Corporation reported annual sales of $89billion. Sony introduced the VAIO series of computer products to build its consumer lines and debited the market with desktop product ( ...

Introduction

The situation is getting out of control at Good Health Hospital (Tampa Bay) since the outbreak of Escherichia coli, a specie of bacteria that can be found in many daily items. The incident involved Ward 10, which is located in the second floor. A recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stated that the investigation of the bacterial source must begin with the hospital kitchen as the bacterium can be transmitted through contaminated vegetables and delicatessen meats (e.g. salami and other cold cuts). The Epidemiological Summary provides a brief description of the data obtained.
Environmental review ...

Law enforcement agencies and the government have over time been synonymous to the enforcement of the law for public good. At the same time, the law enforcement agencies are tasked with ensuring that the rights of alleged perpetrators of any crime are protected from any sought of harm regardless of whether they committed the crime or not. In Jones’s scenario, a lot of legal and ethical issues arise. There are issues relating to the fact that she is a repeat offender, impact of her conduct to the society, the government’s role in the promotion of public order ...

Executive Summary

This paper explores and analyzes the case of Maritime Trading Company with its desire to utilize the Internet to generate more revenue for the company. The plan is to have a Web site that will be truly responsive to the customers through the fostering of closer buyer-seller relationships. In order to explore the existing business scenario, analysis will be conducted through: 1) a summary of the situation; 2) an examination of material exhibits; 3) strengths of the business situation, and; 4) weaknesses of the business situation. In this manner, alternative approaches can be identified and recommended courses of action ...

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W.R. Grace (Neemix): A Case Analysis
I. Context: History, Circumstances, and Possible Ethical Issues
It was not until 1959 when the powerful insecticidal effect of the Neem trees in India received notice from a German entomologist who observed it spared from a swarm of locust that devoured all nearby foliage (Marden 283-291). Farmers, since immemorial time, had been using the Neem emulsion as crop insecticides. Researchers in India and certain parts of the world identified the active ingredient as azadirachtin, which is not toxic to humans. Researchers in the United States innovated ...

Introduction

As an internationally recognized manufacturer, retailer and marketer, Coca Cola is the undisputed market leader in the global non-alcoholic beverages market. Its current operations capabilities allow it to produce, market and retail over 500 different brands in almost every country in the world (The Coca-Cola Company, 2016). This corporation runs a unique franchised distribution system such that the parent company produces the iconic syrup concentrate and sells it off to numerous licensed bottlers all over the globe. Each of these licensed bottlers operates in an exclusive zone. The parent company has its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia and originated from ...

- Force Field Analysis in this case can be used tolist, discuss, and evaluate the various forces standing for and against the proposed change. When we are planning a change, as in the case, Force Field Analysis helps to have a detailed look at the big picture. It is done byanalysis of all forces that can influence the change with the weight of all available pros and cons (Extension.iastate.edu).
2. There can be three styles of OD consulting that can be used by individuals to necessitate and initialize the desired change (Role and Style of the OD Practitioner-Chapter 4.)
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1.0 Introduction
The battle of the Chosin reservoir is also known as Changjin, a campaign that was developed in the early times during the Korean War in 1950s. It was aimed at driving the United Nations out from the North Korea. The first campaign was supposed to drive out the X corps out of the Eastern North Korea during the severe winter weather; they called it the 1st Marine Division. This campaign at last succeeded in removing the X corps but the people of china did not achieve the objective of isolating and destroying the 1st Division, but instead ...

The American society has an estimated population of 1.5 million children in being homeless and lacking shelter, healthcare or education. These statistics are detrimental and shows that the government is failing in provision of services and thus undermining the liberties of the US citizens who lack housing. The HEARTS was established as an action plan towards addressing homelessness. The plan based its actions on six areas of the project development. These are housing, public policy, evaluation, services, education and collaboration with economic partners. The plan directs its efforts and resource base towards housing and serving the chronically most homeless ...

Business Financial Problems:

Executive Summary _________________________ 3
Brief History _________________________ 5
Statement of the problem _________________________ 6
Conclusion _________________________ 15

Works Cited _________________________ 17

Executive Summary
Capital budgeting is one of the key functions that a business needs to underatake in order to establish effective and efficient ways of allocating its funds in various investments and projects. In that respect, businesses apply some basic methods of evaluating their prospective projects with IRR, Payback period and NPV forming the most widely applied methods. However, the evolving world of business is increasingly demanding a consideration of other factors beyond the conomic factor which is the key ...

Answer to Question 2:

I believe that the decisions made during the exact time (or moment) of crisis is the best decision at that time. There are a lot of instances when we feel that the systems we have installed, both the software and the hardware are working perfectly and are serving our business needs. However, perfectly working systems are never commonplace. In the field of information technology, there is a very high risk for systems to fail. When these systems fail, it is often not a simple case, as failure in a tightly managed aspect of the business creates enormous consequences. While it is true in ...

Financial crisis is an economic status where there are extreme difficulties. One of the economies that experienced adverse effects as a result of the crisis is the United States. The country faced extensive challenges that influenced the livelihood of the entire nation. However, it remains a challenge on who was the main cause of the financial crisis that left the economy of the United States immersed to extensive depression. The main groups that have been associated with the crisis are the government, Wall Street investors as well as American homeowners. Some analysts argued that the government was unable to control the ...

Starbucks is a coffeehouse chain that is headquartered in Seattle, United states f America. It is the biggest coffeehouse in the world with a global presence of 19,972 coffeehouses in sixty countries. Though it is synonymous with coffee, Starbucks also deals with salads, sweet pastries, hot and cold sandwiches, hot and cold drinks, snacks, coffee beans, mugs and tumblers. This paper will analyze the Starbucks Company for its strengths, the weaknesses it suffers from, the opportunities it can utilize of and the threats it has to overcome The paper will also define the internal and external factors that the company ...

Situation Analysis

Nintendo Wii offers unique active and social entertainment for the whole family, and it is one of the leading video game consoles. The Nintendo brand and the simplicity of its software give it an edge over other leading competitors such as Microsoft X-Box and Sony Playstation3 (PS3). The unique feature of the Wii Console lies in its hardware design and the simpler and cheap processing system. The wide range of in-home and whole-family entertainment extends the entertainment capabilities of the Nintendo Wii. Finally, Book reader capabilities and internet connectivity just makes the Wii above its competitors.

Strengths

Low price
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Strategic Planning Process Issues

Steve Cantwell, the external consultant hired by Mueller-O’Keefe Home. His task was to assist Mueller-O’Keefe in developing a long-term plan for the house, which would plan further capital development and consider the possibility of including new services. Steve Cantwell’s analysis of the situation and the method of evaluation is consistent with the strategic planning process. Thus, he spent significant amount of time analyzing external market environment and the internal situation in Mueller-O’Keefe. His suggestions were made with consideration of the organizational capabilities and the alternatives available in the market.

However, the process used by Cantwell lacks a ...

Abstract
Shelter is one of the basic human necessities. Provision of decent-quality and affordable housing is one challenge that various authorities have been faced with, and Sheffield is not left behind. Though she has surpassed her average annual housing needs, Sheffield is still struggling to mitigate housing problems. This research project reviews the use of Geographic Information System (GIS) in Sheffield’s housing and how education level affects the adoption of GIS in affordable housing initiatives. In order to achieve this objective, the current state of Sheffield’s housing is exhaustively considered. Using the boundary data from EDINA ...

Outsourcing decision

Outsourcing can be defined as a process of contracting a third party for a specific period of time to perform a given task, operation or job.
Companies opting for outsourcing services should carefully conduct a thorough feasibility study to determine its cost effectiveness.

Outsourcing has advantages and disadvantages as well. The IT manager should evaluate each advantage and disadvantage to determine the degree of effect to the company. If advantages outweigh disadvantages then it will be beneficial to outsource services, otherwise the company will make losses in case disadvantages outweigh advantages.

The reasons why managers prefer to outsource services include:

Shortage or lack ...

1. The Explicit Indication of Design Objectives

a. Were the objectives stated?

The study into ergonomic extended screw guns focused on improving the working conditions for carpenters, as an attempt to reduce the number of back injuries, strains and sprains endured by the carpentry community. The introduction to the study discusses how, in 2005, carpentry was the second worst construction-based industry for its workers contracting carpal tunnel syndrome, tendonitis, sprains and strains, and back injuries.

b. Were they clear and appropriate?

Their aim was very clear: to produce a product which enabled carpenters to do their work without constantly being bent over or knelt down, leading to a ...