Essays on Ancillary

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The airline industry is, once, one of the most highly regulated industries in Canada. Initially a government owned company, Air Canada has enjoyed the monopoly and protection of the country’s legislation. However, the increased pressure to improve the country’s airline industry led to its privatization. In the modern era, the need to be more competitive has been more pressing than before as Canada’s airline industry became open for competition. In a bid to improve the company’s business processes and customer experience, in 2011, Air Canada employed IBM’s expertise in providing computing systems. This partnership ...

The organizational structure of Moreno Medical Center (MMC) can be described in both positive and negative ways. Its strong point can be seen in the way that the hospital implements a strict policy of adhering to the procedures, from admission to discharge. There must be no problem regarding with this, however, the hospital and its personnel lacks in organizing these procedures, resulting in the long delay of important processes. As a consequence, the patients lose their satisfaction although adequate medical services has been provided. The management of the procedures can be seen as the main problem of the facility. ...

Ancillary Revenue Management in the Airline Industry

Introduction There is a stiff competition between the network airlines and the low-cost carriers (LCCs) in the airline aviation industry. For a long time, the traditional network airlines have been struggling to cope up with the many economic uncertainties in the industry, especially the rising cost of jet fuels and increasing operating costs. Consequently, to survive in the industry, they have been forced to come up with new ways of generating revenue. Like LCCs, the network carriers are now considering unbundling their services to produce additional income. Network airlines are also adopting the trend of selling chargeable services, which ...

After analyzing the company’s strategy, structure, environment, culture, conflict and power relations, one find out that many things need to be put in place in the firm, in concern with these areas to enable the firm to be a market leader again. The first problem at the Printzhof Press is that the leadership structure is relaxed, and the leaders are not willing to push their employees. Most importantly, the HR manager needs to be a full strategic partner in transforming the department. The leader can achieve this factor by using the contingency effectiveness approach, which mainly relies on ...

For a long time now, nurses have been fighting against inadequate staffing and the outcomes that such issues have on them and the patients under their care. Additionally, the ever ballooning needs of the health care system have resulted in the number of patients requiring care going above the available healthcare personnel (Aiken, et al., 2014). As such, the available nurses presently working in the country, both at the state and the federal level are overwhelmed by the responsibilities bestowed on them. From the foregoing, therefore, it is evident that finding the optimal level of the nurse-to-patient ratio has ...

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This research paper attempts to understand the growing importance of SaaS (software as a service) in the near future. It tries to explain the benefits of SaaS in various verticals and functions, especially in logistics and supply chain management. The paper also shows how pioneers in this industry such as Projectplace can take the lead in innovations in SaaS itself due to the very need of improvements required in any product or service which goes through a life cycle from a nascent stage to a mature stage.

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Software-as-a-service, more commonly known as SaaS, is a type of model in cloud computing. Before prodding further, ...