Concept Reports Samples For Students

Marketing concepts are approaches that are used by companies to market their products, satisfy consumer expectations and increase profits. Consumer expectations and preferences are the biggest influences of the choice of a marketing concept. In the process of satisfying customer needs, the company achieves its objective of making profits or increasing its market share. There are many concepts of marketing such as market segmentation, product cycle and customer satisfaction. These concepts are used in various industries because of their flexibility and effectiveness. Market segmentation aims at dividing the market into groups that have homogeneous needs. Product cycle model is ...

Market-Based Management

MBM (Market based management) is a management concept that encompasses the key elements of a free society and incorporates them to the organizational structures within an organization. Charles Koch, the CEO of Koch industries initiated the concept of MBM and incorporated some of its principles into the company. As Koch explains it, the practice of MBM does not entail copying the external marketing principles within the firm. Essentially, a business only facilitates individuals to meet the specific objectives and mission set by the firm. However, the broader society referred to in the MBM exists to facilitate individuals to achieve ...

A person needs to remember President G. Bush world economic speech when he said, and I quote” Competitiveness does not mean protectionism. However trying to improve quality and productivity at home” to understand the scope of Deming’s philosophy in the success of cooperate life. Traditionally, most companies used to apply performance appraisal practices in order to archive their goals. Thanks to Deming the founder of the current management elements who sometimes is fondly referred as, and I quote the “Messiah of Management”. According to the global economic research studies that have been conducted in the recent years, most ...

Introduction

The modern era is becoming so demanding to the human being and hence man has been working tirelessly in trying to come up with ways of doing things faster, efficiently and accurately. Development of man like-machine is one of the technological advancement that has resulted from such efforts. It involves the application of the concept of Pattern recognition in designing a machine that can emulate the various action of human being. Pattern recognition is a concept whereby machine is designed in a manner whereby it can act according to certain pattern this concept was established when ...

Introduction

For the longest time, management theories were limited to the behavioural characteristics of the people in leadership roles and their consequent relations with their subordinates. This approach is commonly referred to as a top-down due to its vertical nature. In a top-down scenario of leadership, the management not only influences the subordinates but also literarily micromanages them in every aspect. However, in the past few decades, organizational behaviourists have proposed a different ideology that asserts productivity in an organizational set-up is maximized if and only if leadership is shared among all employees. ...

POWER

The course this week focused on the concepts of power, politics, and knowledge. The respective entries were analyzed and discussed in length in relation to their subsequent definitions. Power has been defined in numerous different ways in this course.
Power has been defined in relation to a character within a given social setting. Personally, I think that the definition tries to capture all concepts within that scope. The definition learnt roots from a collection of definitions regarding power. The definition has to a large extent captured the meanings given in other numerous ...

Impression management and integrative negotiation are as most crucial for knowing others in relation to transformational leadership. Through impression management, a supervisor or a subordinate can exert influence in an organization. In turn, integrative negotiation can generate a more collaborative working relationship in one’s company. Both concepts can be effective strategies for leaders. The succeeding sections explain these two concepts.

Impression Management

Impression management is defined by Schlenker as the “attempt by individuals to control the image they project in social interactions” (qtd. in Kacmar, Wayne and Wright 499). In organizations, for example, supervisors can influence the way their subordinates ...

Introduction

The association between the environment and economic progress is a concept that was first discussed during the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment which was held in Stockholm in 1972. At the time of the conference, there were widespread fears among the Northern and Southern countries that protection of the environment was a hindrance to the development of the nations. The Brundtland report was the first reference to sustainable development. The report was published in 1987 by the World Commission on Environment and Development.
According to the Brundtland report, sustainable development refers to “development that meets the needs ...

The strategy explains the idea of how businesses successfully create competitive advantages in the market place. It reflects that battling with the competitors is not a successful tactic to succeed from competitor. Rather a company can succeed in competition by creating a “blue ocean” in the market place that is still uncontested. According to the Mauborgne and Kim, this strategic policy enhanced the value of a business by increasing the values foe employees and customers. They further explain that the strategy helps in exploring the new potential markets. In this way, a business enjoys a monopoly in the newly ...

Impact of Emotional Appeal on the Subway Brand

Impact of Emotional Appeal on the Subway Brand

Introduction

Subway has become an important brand in the fast food segment, in the US as well as globally. The brand was founded primarily to serve submarine sandwiches in 1968 by Fred DeLuca and Peter Buck. From a single restaurant in 1965, the group managed to expand to 40,000 restaurants worldwide, and far exceeding McDonalds in restaurant penetration in the US.
This report seeks to explain the importance of Emotional Appeal on consumer behavior, and the benefits obtained by Subway using this concept in its ads. Emotional appeal is defined as ...

Different companies have the obligation of keeping well organized books of account that present the fair and true view of the financial status of the company. Additionally, as a condition, they must disclose the details of their operating accounts during the stakeholders’ Annual General Meeting. They are as well required to attach the copies of such accounts to their annual returns. Similarly, they must observe certain rules while presenting their reports. This paper gives a report on the interview the author of this paper had with the Chief Finance Officer of Africa Development Bank. In particular, the interviewer restricted ...

Introduction

In our communication course, we learnt about eight different things regarding communication. This paper is therefore, going to be discussing all these learning objectives in form of a report. Among the areas to be covered in the paper are: fundamental elements found in a communication process, influences of self-concept on communication, effective habits, and skills in listening, the effects perception has on communication, language barrier in communication, communication problems resulting from nonverbal cues, resolution of verbal and non-verbal communication problems, and personal strategies that enhance effective intercultural communication.

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Instructional Technology

Introduction
Training and teaching are both facets of the process of learning. It is challenging to establish the distinction between the two terms, as both lead to creation and installation of something in the person. However, the notable difference is that training instills skills while teaching instills individual knowledge and intellect of the person. These terminologies connect the concepts used in the process of learning. The key essentials of learning incorporate both educational and instructional technologies. Technology is an essential component in the process of learning today, as nearly every institution and procedure of learning incorporates some form of ...

Culture refers to how a person thinks and functions represented by eating, dressing, working and interactions behaviors. Culture creates many impacts towards the operation of global businesses (Aswathappa 2010). Eastern and western cultures differ in cultural elements in both social and business environments. The following paper represents a case of the United Kingdom firm that received a complaint from Chinese clients over a bad product that affects customers. Lane Crawford wishes to close the contract with Alexander Mcqueen because of complaints from customers. In order to resolve the issue Alexander Mcqueen had to send a team of experts to ...

Star schema (simple)

“Star” schema is actually the simplest architecture within data warehousing. This architecture is termed as star because of the diagram that looks like a star. In the center of this diagram, there is a “fact” table that links to the “dimension” tables. Star schema is the most common data warehousing schema that is used. Oracle recommends it to be used. Star schema is a widely supported business intelligence tool. This architecture is very useful since you can create some useful queries and in addition it is very easy to do since not many tables need to be joined (Wang ...

Introduction of digital catalogue to take on social role for IKEA 16

1.3.3. Social Media Marketing 17

Launching of ‘snap a napper’ Facebook competition 17

IKEA tests Pinterest for promoting new collection in UK 18
1.3.4. Email Marketing 18
1.3.5. Mobile Apps 19
1.3.6. Forums and Blogs 22
1.4. Offline Marketing Strategies 22
1.4.1. Print/TV Ads 22
1.4.2. Loyalty Programs/Discounts/Offers 23
1.4.3. Direct Mail 23
1.4.4. Sponsorship 24
1.4.5. Public Relations 24

IKEA Proposed strategy 25

SMART Analysis 29
ROI IKEA Marketing Strategy 30
Measurement of the Marketing Strategy 30

References 32

Digital marketing strategies
1.1 Corporate Objectives, Marketing Objectives
Corporate objectives
The corporate strategy of IKEA is build upon various pillars. These pillars entail producing products that are cheaper and affordable for its clients. ...

Introduction

The Smart Class software that is made by our company has revolutionized and brought a complete transformation in the traditional rote methods of learning. Smart class use modern techniques to understand student requirement and explain them the concept. With the help of projectors they use digital instruction material to explain students, white boards are used, and they even use computers which keep student engaged and make work of teacher easier in explaining those (Conole & Oliver, 2008). They are also named as digital classes. Teachers now days prefer using smart boards instead of black boards.
Almost all institution which comes ...

The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Improvement Act

The establishment of the Malcolm Baldridge Quality improvement Act took place in 1987 with the objective of inspiring quality appreciation and invention. It also aimed to make known to U.S. companies; the accomplishment strategies attributed to such quality and invention. In the early and mid 1980s, there was a need for US companies to implement quality performance so as to gain a competitive advantage in the various industries. However, many of the companies in those industries did not know about quality control implementation. Consequently, this led to the establishment of the Baldrige Award to enhance quality control in an ...

Nurs. 607

Introduction
Adaptation refers to a general process used by people, animals, plants, and the biological organisms living in the atmosphere. As change in nature is a constant process, one must learn to adapt to the change of the environment in order for survival. Adaptation to change is essential to the evolution of life. The evolution is an ever-going process that brings changes within the environment. From the moment we are conceived and take birth in this world, we are constantly adapting to certain forms of evolution (birth, infancy, childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, and middle aged adulthood) and advancing through ...

Business Valuation

The forecasted sales growth rate is expected to be at 24% from the year 2015-2018 reflected by an increase in the sales from 98,375 to 230,704. Such an increase can be explained by the fact that, Oroton group signed a new contract with Brooks Broters, a move expected to sustain the sales even after the loss of Ralph Lauren.

Forecasted ATO

The forecasted ATO stands at 2.2179, consistent over the period of 5 years. Such consistency is explained by the fact that, Oroton has fashion leather goods as its main products which have been consistent over the five years.

Forecasted PM

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Executive Summary

‘Paint the Beat’– an event showcasing a unique form of entertainment and collaboration among local artists and musicians. By creating works of art through a different avenue of inspiration the music is performed and the artist’s expression and interpretation of the music helps further inspire the artwork being created in the moment. The event concept was developed to evoke how talented Melbourne's artists are in collaboration with one another. The event, held onThursday the 10th of October, involved a band that brought everything together and two young talented artists that brought contemporary art to a whole new level. ...

Abstract

With virtually everything going international, globalization has become an inevitable concept. Technology has reduced, and to some extent eliminated the miles between the nations across the world – a situation that has seen business among people and organization from various countries flourish. The shortening and elimination of the distances has seen a rapid growth in the number of multinational corporations in the last three decades. Research indicates that internationalization of the firm is no longer an affair for the big organizations. On the contrary, small and medium enterprises are operating globally, with e-commerce being the main form of business. With ...

- Executive Summary
This paper explores into the annals of citizen science in relation with the use of tourists in community environmental monitoring in order to enhance the creation of sustainable destinations. The gist of the paper involves the exploration of a central theme of how tourists can be used as citizen scientists in community environmental monitoring. In advancing the theme, the paper analyses six citizen science projects that predominantly use tourists to collect data for analysis. The main project analyzed in the paper is the Fluker Post Research Project in Melbourne Australia. To back the analysis of the ...

The advent of the digital age has brought along new business processes and technology that run organizations. Globalization has since taken root in concepts of products development and service delivery and thus companies are able to have operations in almost every corner of the world. Nations are now able to take advantage of such worldwide business opportunities in order to increase profits and revenue. However, this global nature of business has brought along its fair share of problems. There is new wave of competition in the market by companies consistently innovating new products to meet consumer needs. This cut-throat ...

The term bioethics was coined in the early 1970s by biologists who brought to the public’s attention two pressing issues; the need to maintain the plant’s ecology and the implication of advances in the life sciences toward manipulating human nature. Van Rensselaer Potter has focused on the growing human ability to change the nature, including human nature and the implication of this for our global future [ CITATION Van71 \l 1033 ]. While bioethics has been interdisciplinary since its inception, theology played a fundamental role in its creation. It continues to have a profound influence today also.
At its ...

Executive Summary

The current research relates McDonald’s – the largest fast food restaurant chain in the world. Nowadays, the company is operating in many countries and succeeded to develop a strong brand. The current tendencies of the food industry include healthy nutrition that is inconsistent with the concept of McDonald’s. The company faced the necessity of changing menu towards more healthy, introducing more healthy products, and changing its concept (IBIS World, 2014). The current paper contains SWOT analysis aiming to analyze the situation and make propositions related the new concept of McDonald’s. There were suggestions related the new products ...

Introduction

A couple J. Willard Marriott and his wife, Alice Sheets Marriott, founded Marriot Hotels in 1927. This was after the two opened a root beer stand to serve residents who needed a cold drink, and a place to relax after a long day. The two later expanded their business to create a chain of restaurants and hotels in different cities. Their first business was in Washington DC. The first hotel under their name was the Twin Bridges Marriott Motor Hotel located in Virginia, and it was opened in 1957. J.W. (Bill) Marriott, Jr. saw the company navigate international markets ...

Abstract

This report highlights and analyses the operations and management done by ASDA in order to achieve high-level customer satisfaction and the competitive edge. The following aspects of service operation management and how they are used by ASDA will be analyzed through the report.

These aspects are as follows:

- Service Operations Concept
- The 5 Competitive Objectives
- Quality
- Supply Chain Management
- Capacity Management
- Corporate Social Responsibility

Introduction

ASDA is a subordinate of Wal-Mart, supermarket chains operating in the UK. ASDA supermarket retails food, drinks, clothes and other wide-ranging products. ASDA is the second largest retailer in the UK with over 150, ...

Final project plan

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Information technology is an important aspect of business processes. There is a need to have information technologies put in place to ensure that the business processes that are included in the company. For these information systems to be integrated in the company there is a need to have the infrastructure of the company and the processes aligned and prepared for effective service delivery. There is a need to have infrastructure in place to make sure that the capacity of the new systems is supported. The information systems are required to ensure that the data flow and flow ...

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Abstract

Six Sigma is a production management concept, developed at Motorola Corporation in the 1980s and popularized in the mid-1990s, after Jack Welch used it as a key strategy in General Electric. The essence of the concept is the need to improve the quality of the outputs of each of the processes to minimize defects and statistical variations in operating activities. The concept of using quality management methods, including statistical methods require the use of measurable goals and results, and involves the creation of ad hoc working groups in the company, with projects to ...

Concept of Community

Introduction
In recent years, organizations that are of benefit to the community have been on the increase, which has been attributed to the different advantages that organizations have over others (Gardener & Fitzpatrick, 2003). These organizations are firmly based on the visions and goals that have been set by communities; thus benefiting the community in the long run. The organizations are considered to be of benefit to the community because they involve members of the community in their general planning and management (Diamond, 2001). Also, this helps to move the communities towards change that the people within the communities deserve ...

The concept of oppression is the main idea that this writer intends to tackle in this paper. The root cause of such concept is the belief of oppressors that “they have greater moral worth than others” (Hodge 89). Three main sub-points of oppression are further discussed here. First, oppression is manifested at two extremes. Second, identifying the source of power identifies where oppression begins. Finally, a person can belong to both the oppressor group and the oppressed groups.
This writer initially believed that persons can be considered victims of oppression only when they are regularly at the receiving end ...

EWB Challenge 2014Plan Timor Leste

Sustainable Engineering Practice
South Australian Institute of Business and Technology
Executive Summary
This report provides details on the project that aims at facilitating for the creation of an anaerobic/biogas digester in in Codo town. This is a small town that is situated at Lautern District in East Timor, and it has a population of approximately 500 people. This town lacks a system that can allow them to dispose and manage their waste in an effective manner. They bury their waste underground, and they use burning wood to serve as a means of cooking. The report will suggest various ways ...

Introduction

Marketing is a key function of a business operations meant to enhance performance in terms of acquiring and retaining customers. The functions have several aspects and concepts with different businesses focusing on aspect which are key to their operations in terms of market orientation. In addition, there are several factors that affect a business marketing operations. In that respect, this analysis seeks to analyze the marketing concept and orientation in reference to Tesco business by analyzing its marketing process, target marketing, factors affecting its marketing as well as discussing how it can benefit from customer retention, satisfaction and relationship ...

- Using OSHA Definitions:
1-Flammable Liquids: flammable liquid is described as any liquid that has a flash point below 37.8oC (1000F). However, this does not include any mixture that has elements with flashpoints of below 37.8oC (1000F), whose total form about 99% of the entire volume of the mixture.
2-Combustible Liquids: a liquid is any liquid which has a flash point of or above 37.8oC (1000F) (OSHA, 2013).

Differences between Flammable and Combustible:

The main difference between flammable liquids’ vapor can be kindled at relatively lower temperatures as compared to combustible liquids. Therefore, it is easy for a flammable liquid to catch fire as ...

Introduction

Satair was established in the year 1957 with an aim to provide the aviation industry with spare parts and components. The organization focuses highly on becoming global leader in the aerospace industry by providing the customers and suppliers with spare parts and components beyond their expectations. Satair aims to provide its customers and suppliers with innovative supply chain solutions through its ability to meet the exact needs (Satair, 2010).
The objective of this assignment would be to evaluate the concept of change management that Satair has undergone over the past five years along with the change that the organization ...

Race, sex and appearance are some of the easiest ways to segregate people. Whatever goes up against the status quo, whatever goes against what the majority of the population expects, whatever it is that is simply “unnatural” from a person’s point of view will always be called into question. In this case, the topic of the report is race. Like many other species on the planet, the human race is divided into different appearances based on where they were born.
Today the world is getting smaller, a single country no longer holds one form of citizenship alone, and ...

A Summary of General and Specific Deterrence

A Summary of General and Specific Deterrence

Introduction

Deterrence is the omission of legally proscribed acts; hence by this omission one may be abiding by the prescribed law. It is important to distinguish between deterrence and punishment avoidance. While the former has been defined, the later, punishment avoidance happens when there has been commission of a crime but the perpetrator was not punished. This paper shall discuss and give a summary of the distinction between general and specific deterrence.

General deterrence pertains to the effects of legal punishment, of criminals, to the public at large/potential criminals. On the other hand, ...

Foundation Course – Researching Psychology

Abstract Page
The research being conducted has practical, theoretical and scientific value in the research field. Lacanian discourse analysis helps identify the treatment in psychoanalysis, can be applied to studying mental and social characteristics of a language spoken by various minorities.
An interviewer and an interviewee took part in a research; the conversation was written down and attached to the paper on the consent of the interviewee. The theory of Lacanian Discursive Analysis has been applied to the paper in order to identify the symbolic and the imaginary unconscious reflected in the language spoken.
In the first section of ...

Tea market is trendy and continually attracting the consumers all over the world. France has one if the popular and biggest tea markets in the world. The French tea market is unique amongst the Western markets. Powerful conventional expressions can be dramatized through product design, print ads, packaging, and outdoor media. This plays a pivotal rule in reinvigorating the business. Major tea importers such as Unilever, and Tetley are active on the conventional market.
Every marketing activity, from product design, brand endorsement, publicity and packaging, to CEOs’ words matter a lot. Tea companies have turned their view of publicity ...

Singapore Airlines

Singapore Airlines was founded as a state owned airline in the year 1972. Gradually the company has expanded with the strategy of focusing on unique customer needs and providing excellent in-flight services. With time, SIA has come highly competitive in the market. The company has achieved sustainable competitive advantage and classy elegance by investing much in personnel skills and different other sources (Binggeli & Pompeo, 2002, pp.70). The company has a wide range of services including operations of airline, engineering services and airport terminal services. Singapore Airlines has also made an entrance into the industry with operations as aircraft leasing, ...

A baby and parents are pieces of the one unit called family. From baby’s first yell, the world for two starts to change with the impressive quickness and every single day brings new discoveries not only for a child, but also for happy parents. The interaction between parents and their child is very interesting and productive; often, parents don’t even notice how baby is affecting their word outlook once and forever, positively or negatively, but always irreversibly (Leach, 1989). Children, especially infants, need to feel the endearment and caring; just parents are the first teachers for their ...

Research Paper

Introduction 3

Relationship between resource utilization and forecasting (effective forecasting and predicting) 5
Economy of UAE 5
Hotel Industry of UAE 6
Tourism Sector in Abu Dhabi 7
Application of effective forecasting and predicting in the Hospitality Industry 7

References 8

Appendix (1) 10
Interview questions 10
Appendix (2) 11
Questionnaire 11
Introduction
The events such as globalization and technology development have increased the competition in every business segment and thus managers in organizations need to plan innovative practices so as to develop the ability to manage business processes effectively and predict the future trends (Goll& Rasheed, 1997). The top management ...

Psychology

Introduction
Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget (1896-1980) is a famous scientist, his works have made ​​an important step in development of psychology. Piaget’s concept takes a significant place among the widespread psychological theories of learning and cognition. It highlights not only the wealth of experimental data and original ideas, but the latitude of theoretical system and its detailed elaboration.
According to Langer and Killen, Piaget concurred in the search for general laws of developmental processes and structures. Author claims that Piaget formulated one of the evolutionary new theories of the origin, development and transformation of mentation (Langer & Killen, 2010, ...

Introduction

The aim of this assignment would be to describe the assignment along with its primary stakeholders. The company that is taken into consideration for this assignment is Ford; the most prominent name in the automobile industry. To gain insight regarding the company and its processes, the vision and mission statement would be analyzed and described. Moreover, the company’s code of ethics would also be evaluated to gain relevant knowledge regarding the organization and how it seeks to operate in the internal and external environment.
The main theme of the study would be to analyze the most prominent challenge ...

The two projects that will be compared are the articles entitled “The Day I Escaped by a Whisker” (Project 1) and “Interview on War Heroes” (Project 2) and. These two articles are different in that Project 1 is a narrative and Project 2 is an exposition. Project 1 is a narration of how the writer was able to escape a violent attack in his school. Unlike Project 2, it has a plot, a setting, characters, a climax and an ending. The events of the story were narrated chronologically. Unlike Project 2 which is an exposition, Project 1 is contains ...

Despite being elusive and vague with respect to definition, the term ‘community’ attracts a lot of attention and concerns in various perspectives. Sociologists have failed to come up with a specific meaning or definition of community. However, the concept of community continues to be a main reference point with respect to various individuals (Edwards, 2011). Since the concepts of community have become reference points, a lot of interests and concerns have so far been attracted amongst sociologists and other stakeholders. It is also true that the concepts of community continue to attract the imaginations of people (Palloff & Pratt, 2010). ...

PROJECT MANAGEMENT PLAN

Version 1.0

VERSION HISTORY
The development and distribution of this project management plan will be controlled and tracked using the table below. The table below will provide information regarding any revisions made on the original project plan. Information such as name of the person that authorized the revision, date of revision, the person authorizing the revision, reason for changes and date the revision was approved. The importance of tracking the revisions on this project management plan is to ensure that all the personnel involved in the process of the project development are aware of the changes made during the ...

Table of Contents

Abstract..3

Executive Summary
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Terms of Reference
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This report was prepared on the behalf of the management at the Happy Flight Travels Company. It focuses on investigating several possible ways of reducing wastes as a way of improving the company savings. It will further explain the good economical practices to be adopted in encouraging the company savings. This report was formulated by William McNally of Happy Flight Travels, Wellington.

Executive Summary

This report aims to investigate the sources and ways of minimizing wastes in the Happy Flight Travels Company. The report suggests methods of minimizing these costs and ...

Evidence Based Practice for Type 2 Diabetes in the United States

I. Introduction
Type 2 Diabetes is a prevalent chronic disease. It is currently the fastest growing disease in the world (Franz & Splett,2007).The health burden of diabetes as it currently stands is that the prevalence of Type 2 Diabetes is high among people aged above 25 (Narayan , et al., 2009). This segment of the demography is highly productive and dependable for the growth of the global economy (Narayan, et al., 2009). For every one person diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes, there is one other person who goes undiagnosed.
Pacific Islanders, Native Hawaiians, Asian Americans, Native Americans, Latinos, and ...

Abstract

This report intends to present a deeper understanding of the core issues related to the analysis of one of the tales of Apartheid Archive Project. The methodology section is to explain basic concepts which are used in the analysis of the tale and to justify and contextualize the employed approach. The analysis part is intended to identify the key concepts that hold the narrative together, identify its role within the apartheid system and establish any overriding effect which it has on political and social level. The conclusion support the notion that the subjective account of one's experience can be ...

Nintendo Wii is a leading home video game console designed to offer inimitable active and social entertainment for the whole family. The leading features of the Nintendo Wii include Wii Remote, Wii motion sensitive control to sense movement and gameplay options, wireless control, and internet connectivity through the WiiConnect. The Nintendo Co. Ltd that develops and markets interactive entertainment products produces Nintendo Wii. Additionally, Nintendo Co. Ltd produces and markets software and hardware for some of the home video game systems. The Nintendo brand is a strong name in the video game industry thereby enabling the company to have ...

I. Introduction of the religion

I am particularly fascinated by the religion Buddhism and this report is about this significant world religion. Talking about Buddhism, one is reminded of zen. It is a perfect state of peace and I relate it to the experience of being with God or seeing God. The most fascinating thing about Buddhism is that is represents the most graphic state of this bliss. The controversy here lies in the practical sense that Buddhism does not believe in the existence of God. According to Keown (2000), the Buddhists do not believe in a Supreme Being ...

Thematic analysis refers to the process of identifying data, analyzing it and at the same time reporting the patterns that are found within it. It looks into detail several research aspects in a topic.
Thematic analysis is a useful and a flexible research tool that is potentially used to get a detailed and rich but a very complex data. This method is very explicit and is majorly used in analyzing data because of its flexibility.
Thematic analysis generally is carried out after some research has been conducted in form of interviews and the data recorded to allow for the ...

Introduction

An operating system is defined as a computer software component that coordinates and manages the resources or activities of the computer. There are two types of operating systems; system and application system. They are used in handling hardware and matching them with different programs that run in the computer making the computer to function. A trusted operating system must be very flexible in terms of security, scalability and performance in order to manage a larger workload in a specified time frame (Abiodun, 2011). However, the operating system security is balanced with performance in order to avoid interferences that can ...

Introduction

There are few most famous and largest stores working in grocery and health food stores industry in UK and USA. One of them is Whole Food store that is a retailer of natural and organic foods and other groceries. The Company is operating segments of natural and organic foods supermarkets in which national and international brands are available in their stores. The paper will discuss the marketing strategies, concepts and distribution strategy that the company used to attain competitive edge in the market.
1. Marketing concepts
Herein, it must be noted that with the passage of time there are ...

Introduction

Diversity regards to the idea of integrating acceptance and respect. It is a concept that means understanding the uniqueness of each person and recognizing people’s differences. These differences are in the dimensions of ethnicity, sexual orientation, race, socio-economic status, physical activities, age, political and religious beliefs or other ideologies (University of Oregon, 1999). The concept also promotes the need of inclusion of these dissimilarities in a constructive and nurturing manner. In essence, diversity entails understanding, tolerating or accepting and celebrating the rich scopes of diversity within each person. The paper presents a report on diversity that explores various ...

Including back to work and training schemes.

Introduction
Economics is a broad field which has its active recognition in almost every walk of life. There are numerous definitions of this particular term in particular and every concept is different from the other. Alfred Marshal and Adam Smith are known as the founder of economics or specifically father of economics, which introduced the most basic definition of this particular term in particular. According to the basic definition, Economics is the name of how to earn the money and how to consume it? It is one of the most important aspects from the standpoint of an economy and ...

Background

Zara is a Spanish apparel retailer brand based in Arteixo, Galicia. Founded by Rosalia Mera and Amancio Ortega in 1975, Zara is the biggest chain store of the world’s largest apparel retailer group, Inditex (Hansen 2012). Currently, the company operates in 73 countries and has more than 1,800 outlets (Hansen 2012). Zara is known as “fashion imitator” among other players of the industry. Zara has posted revenue of more than €8.0 billion in 2012. The main countries of operation for Zara include Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Russia, United Kingdom, Portugal, China and Japan. The company operates Zara ...

MEMORANDUM

This memorandum gives a description the extended description of how solar heat is generated for cooking. This description will include sections as follows: purpose of the concept, principles of heat, materials requirements, design principles, operation of solar cooking device, and future development. With this information, the basic description of the concept of solar cooking shall have been described.

Purpose of the concept

Solar cooking is a technology that is utilized in using the solar energy to generate heat for cooking. This is a technology that has been seen to help many users utilize solar energy for cooking. With this technology, energy from the ...