Breakthrough Reports Samples For Students

Chapter 1

Nature of the Organization’s Business
Under Armour is a multinational sports clothing and accessory company headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. The company suppliers casual apparel and sportswear, and in 2006, it started offering footwear. The company sells its products worldwide targeting athletes at all levels as well as consumers having active lifestyles. To date, the company has opened various stores as well as factory outlets in various states and nations including Canada and China.

Organization’s History

1996-1998: Early Milestones
1996: Founding of the Company
Kevin Plank founded the company in 1996 when he was 23 years old. He was the former ...

Introduction

Six sigma strategies are the methods and tools employed for process improvement. It was first developed by Motorola in 1985. It evolved over the years and currently used in different sectors of the economy such as major multinational organizations. Tomkins define it as a program aimed at near elimination of defects from every product. It boosts the profitability, increases the market share and improves customer satisfaction. Through statistical tools, it can lead to breakthrough quantum gains in quality of the processes of an organization. Six Sigma focuses on quality improvement of the process outputs, through identification and removal of the ...

Each year, technological breakthroughs and gadgets have flocked the market to cater the adoring public. Many would even change their gadgets regularly to fit the trend, and would await the next releases from the top brands in the business. Every new item is improved to its optimum performance, and it is also the top of its competition in its unique way. This trend enables the market to keep up with the demand and find new ways to cater to the public’s needs for the period. Although not many would give enough interest with them, some are awaiting the ...

Background

Karen Millen (KM) is an English-born organization, which prides itself on individual design for each of the collection pieces and hand-crafted by Karen Miller designers in their home atelier. This proposition delivers unique customer experience, superior quality and attention to detail. The Brand positions itself as an affordable luxury fashion, present in 65 countries across six continents and operating two of its flagstone in New York and London (KM, 2016).
KM felt the impact of the international economic crisis and its recent demerger from Aurora Group along with the toughening competition in the sector, going through significant financial challenges ...

Corse Lecturer

Engineering is one of the fields born from the advancements in technology. Technology changes with changing times and new discoveries being made. These discoveries result from a combination of knowledge on the subject and creative ideas. Discoveries lead to breakthroughs in various fields such as Engineering. These breakthroughs result in the creation of new technologies and the betterment of already available technologies which all help to make our lives easier. In this paper, I will be discussing some of the most recent breakthroughs in the field of Engineering.
Vikas Berry and his team of researchers made a new discovery ...

Day in, day out, new advancements are being made in the world of physics, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep track of all of them. While one reads them every now and then in the newspapers, there is not a single record of the significant achievements made in a single year. Given the change in lifestyle that has occurred in the past two decades, advancements have been made a foregone conclusion in leaps and bounds every year. In order to solve this predicament of keeping track of the most important progressions, Hamish Johnston in his article “Cosmic neutrinos named Physics ...

Introduction

Orthopedics refers to the branch of surgery devoted to the diagnosis and treatment of illness, injuries malformations and deformities of the musculoskeletal system (Goriainov et al. 2014). The system includes the muscles, ligaments, tendons, joints and bones. Orthopedic engineering leverages biomaterials in the form of implants such as sutures, joint replacements, bone plates and so forth. It also deals medical devices to replace damaged and defective parts of the body (Goriainov et al. 2014,"Material, Technology and Profit” 1988).
Biomaterial is termed as "Any substance (other than drug) or combination of substances, synthetic or natural in origin, which ...

Introduction

Hypertension, commonly referred to as high blood pressure, is a medical condition which comprises of incessantly elevated blood pressure in the arteries. Hypertension may cause damage to the organs and several illnesses including renal failure, heart failure, heart attack or stroke. According to (Luehr, Hayes, Johnson & Burke (2012), close to 30% of the adult American (U.S.) population have hypertension. Majority of these people are those over 65 years. This means that nearly 66.9 million U.S. citizens have hypertension. This number is predicted to rise as the number of those above 65 years continues to rise. Poor adherence to medication and ...

Marketing Management

Executive Summary
The battle between gadget suppliers has now moved in the living room, for capturing the viewers on providing a new television experience, through customized products that integrate customized cable TV, online chat, playing video games, using computer, and other smartphone related applications, etc. This trend, initiated by Apple Inc. has rapidly evolve, with many other strong competitors entering this market, challenging Apple to continue to innovate, while also adjusting its segmentation, positioning, targeted population and its marketing mix to gain more market share and continue to dominate this market domain.
Vodafone entered the telecom market quite recently ...