Moving Case Studies Samples For Students

Forecasting methods in health services

Forecasting is a mathematical prediction process that uses the data from the past records to predict the future outcomes. In the case of the health services, it uses the number of patients visiting a given health facility for a given period of time, like, say, for a whole year or a month in order to predict the estimated number of expected patients in the following year. This helps the health facility managers to make a prior plan of financial and material expenditure for the year or month to come.
In addition, forecasting helps to monitor the operational efforts in ...

Video in Opera Stage

Introduction
Advances in technology and the corresponding creation of digital technologies have significantly impacted the performing arts (Poole & Ho, 2011). Opera has not escaped the technological advancements and as such, new forms of opera have emerged in both digital and virtual formats (Symonds & Karantonis, 2013). Salter (2010) explains that since the 1990s, the scenography of opera has emerged with technological advancements transforming stages into video and monitor accompaniments. The obvious payoff is an enhanced experiential, virtual reality of the opera’s stage. The new technologies blur the lines between the opera’s stage and the motion picture common in ...

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The most succinct answer to your question is this – Health Care. We almost wonder if this is a trick question to be honest. The demographics are clear and America is, as we all know, “graying.” Add to that the fact that Sarasota is in Florida, also known as “God’s waiting room,” and this became what we ...

Introduction

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a system that track and record organization's assets and inventory automatically. Although, designing a system that is able to track and record merchandise excluding unwanted ones in a hurriedly moving environment pose quite a challenge RF pads and curtain help easily that. In order to design a system that is both effective and efficient in collecting RFID signal data, MWT materials designed and introduced RF pads and curtains to minimize incorrect data collection as well as avoid installing a RFID tracking device. These curtains and pads increase the reader ability of Electronic Product Code ...

Abstract

Steven Dewayne Bond was a passenger on a Greyhound bus when a border patrol officer squeezed his luggage after conducted an immigration check of the passengers. Bond allowed the officer to open his luggage when asked, and a brick of methamphetamine was discovered that was wrapped in duct tape and rolled in a pair of pants. Bond was charged with possession and intent to distribute as well as conspiracy. In pretrial matters, Bond’s attorney filed a motion to suppress the methamphetamine claiming that the search conducted by the officer was unreasonable and in violation of the Fourth Amendment. ...

Problem Facing the Firm

The Global Management Company, the Japanese Equities Fund’s investment manager, was facing a problem of the rise in the hot money rapid movement out of and in the Fund. As reported in the case, the Japanese Equities Fund had faced considerable cash outflows and inflows from the investors. David Smith, the Japanese Equities Fund’s portfolio manager, alleged that the stockholders were trying to raise their profits through timing the stock exchange market. In other words, these shareholders were trying to take the advantage of the difference between the New York and Tokyo Stock Exchanges’ closing times. Sofia ...

Abstract

Zara International is a clothing and accessory retailer with operations in 88 markets around the world. Spanish Inditex Group owns the company that deals with men clothes, women clothes and has a Zara Kids for children clothing. Zara is one of the most successful fashion retailers in the world. The success of the company has been attributed to strategic management capabilities that involve the inventory management and as well the human resource management. The company human resource strategy was to include a Spanish manager in every store. This allows the company to maintain a management culture that is efficient ...

Perrier, an iconic brand in the world of mineral water, started to experience some problems the year after it great success of 1989. The previous year it had remarkably sold 1.2 billion bottles of mineral water, almost half to the population in the United States. The reason for their remarkable sale can be attributed to the absence of potential competitors in the market. The people had no choice, and therefore, they had to buy Perrier’s bottled water. However, in the year 1990, a minute quantity of benzene detected in the bottle reduced its sale by almost fifty percent ( ...

Key Problems Identification

External
Increasing competition
In 1990s, the competition in the frozen desserts industry was on the rise. As soon as the market preference changed to healthier food habits, there was a rush to introduce the lower fat products and the ice cream market got fragmented increasing indirect competition manifold. The demand for such low fat frozen desserts continued to expand with an overall shift in preference towards the lower fat products as late as 1995. Especially the market share of the super-premium segment was being lost to the premium segment in Ben and Jerry hardly had any penetration.
The increasing ...

The last one decade has been marked by a great evolution of how advertisements are translated. This process is currently known as “advertising localization” and focuses on dealing with having a successful translation of adverts from one language to another without changing the objective of the particular advertisement (Malmkjær & Windle, 2012). The act of advertising is an important tool when it comes to informing the consumer on the diversity of the products present in the market (Chidiac & Saliba, n.d). Various factors have led to the evolution with some including the trade intensification and the globalization of the economies. ...

It is important for companies dealing in the production and distribution of fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) to have a solid operations/ supply chain strategic plan. This helps to establish viable connections and communication between a firms internal and external process that facilitate business effectiveness . The underlying intention of the operations/ supply chain strategic plan is to increase revenue while decreasing revenue related costs. This document outlines the development of an operations/ supply chain strategic plan for a company in the fast moving consumer goods industry dealing in the production and supply of 10 oz cans of tomato soup. ...

When the economic recession of 2009 hit global consumer markets, FMCG companies were forced to relook their supply chain management strategies in order keep their prices below those of competitors. With prices of raw material and power soaring, the company had to review its supply chain management and make several adjustments to remain competitive. Kraft Foods, the second largest food company in the world, has kept a keen eye on future growth requirements, even before the economic recession had set in.

As far back as 2007, the company earmarked an increase of cash flow by $1 billion. Philippe Lambotte, Senior ...

High trees case or Central London Property Trust Ltd v High Trees House Ltd [1947] KB 130 is an English contract law verdict, which restated the doctrine of promissory estoppel in contract law in both England and Wales1. Promissory estoppel was a notion which was identified in a couple of 19th century cases but then it lay inactive until this High Trees case in which Denning J, then a young judge, revitalized the doctrine and subsequently entrenched it a number of English cases.
The case symbolizes the establishment of the modern revitalization of promissory estoppel. The facts were straightforward enough. A landlord ...