Essays on Business Problem

Business Problem

Abstract In today’s business world, customer service is a crucial part of the business practices aimed at growing the company and increasing overall effectiveness in the supply chain. Customer satisfaction is an important factor when it comes to customer service and it relates to the customers being satisfied with the services they get in terms of availability of information, speedy responses, and overall convenience. Many companies today have not been active in providing efficient customer service. This is because they rely on traditional communication channels and strategies such as the use of e-mail services and landline phone communications. ...

Abstract

The current government has consistently been trying to reduce the costs of healthcare and at the same time improve its quality. This paper focuses on the current state of healthcare through an extensive research on the population. The research uses a cross sectional design to collect data and come up with relevant conclusions. The research project aimed at using a homogenous population to come up with accurate results. Such a population involves participants who have the same knowledge about the subject. Such participants are easily obtained through a referral process where one participant refers another. A total of 50 ...

Overview of the Project

The project described hereunder is the brainchild of the Broward County Board of Commissioners Facilities Maintenance Division. This is a division that is tasked with offering maintenance services to other government agencies. Some of the government agencies that have benefited from the maintenance services of the division include libraries, motor pools, courthouses, the health departments, office park buildings, fire rescue department and parking garages among others. The Broward County Board of Commissioners Facilities Maintenance Division has a versatile human resource that is comprised of welders, storekeepers, electricians, locksmiths, sign shop, maintenance workers, plumbers, painters, mechanics, and carpenters among others. ...

Introduction

In financial management, the finance managers primarily make several kinds of decisions including investment decisions, financing decisions, routine decisions and dividend decisions. For this case, the paper focusses on dividend decisions. The paper shall evaluate the theoretical framework and empirical evidence that examines the relationship between the firm’s dividend policy and its market share price. Quantitative business analytics refers to application of mathematics and statistics to solve business problem. From the definition, it means that one to define the business problem to solve first then apply the relevant techniques. In this case, the paper hopes to understand the ...

Sustainability Strategies of Small Business Owners

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Prospectus: Entrepreneurial Attributes and Competencies of Small Business Owners

Foundation of the Study There are 28 million small businesses owners are the engine of America’s economy (Business & Industry, 2015). Small businesses are responsible for creating enough jobs for over one-half of the employees in the USA (SBA, 2015). Healthy and thriving small businesses across the country are necessary to stabilize the economy and the mission of the SBA is to support those business owners with loans, practical knowledge, and improving the circumstances for promising small business owners (SBA, 2015).

The purpose of this study is to explore strategies that small business owners use to sustain the business.

Background of the Problem The amount of new small business startups is approximately 10 to 12% each ...

Management in Creative and Cultural Organizations

[TUTOR’S NAME] 1.0 Executive Summary Creativity and culture have long been regarded the lifeblood of organizational success but today diverse practices have changed the global business environment. Apple Company is an American cosmopolitan corporation that designs as well as manufactures consumer electronics, personal computers and computer software. The cultural and creative way of management of the organization is a superb idea to push the world forward. Apple Inc relies on diverse backgrounds and perspectives to spark innovation by choosing partners who make diversity a priority and creating opportunities for the next generation. Apple has constantly been different regarding ...

Research Objectives

The principal objectives of this research project are to: Find the source of the problem that discourages employees from staying within the organization Determining the different issues faced by employees that are leading to the high turnover observed at the organization Data collection plan In order to address the research objectives outlined above, a mixed methodology will be employed. This implies that both primary and secondary data will be collected in order to address this objectives.

Exit interviews:

The first source of primary data for the research will be exist interviews. Exit interviews will provide both qualitative and ...

Improving Quality of Health Care While Cutting On Costs

Improving Health Care Service while Cutting on Costs

Spending in the healthcare sector has grown substantially fast in the past few years (McClellan & Rivlin, 2014). Most countries have experienced a substantial growth in health care expenditure, but the expenditure in our country seems to be too high. Currently, the healthcare industry accounts for more than 17 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (“Centers for Disease Control,” 2013). Medical practitioners among other stakeholders have strived for the best in ensuring quality patient care. However, such efforts have had little impact on the ground as many care-seekers lack quality services as they ...

Executive summary

With the fast adoption of information systems in many organizations, there is a need to have healthcare information systems integrated in hospitals. This will improve the working of the hospital staff and will enhance the quality of services that will be offered by the staff in the hospitals. The process of integrating information systems to organizations requires a thorough understanding of what the information systems will solve. There is a need to understand the requirements of the organization and how the information system will bring efficiency. There is a need to understand the aligning of the business needs and that of the business. ...

Literature Review

Summary The literature review covers the challenge faced by McDonalds in the increasing opposition to marketing its products to children and having an image for producing unhealthy foods. The research objective is to find solutions for the company to implement so that it can change this perception about the company and reduce opposition to its business practices.

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Section 1: Summary of Business Problem and Research Objectives 2 Section 2: Literature Search and Review 2 Analysis of the Literature Review 5 Section 3: Research Objectives and Methodology 6

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Section 1: Summary of Business Problem ...

Business Problems and Solutions

Introduction Problems are brought about as a result of inefficiency is performing a certain task. The outcome of a business problem usually generates a loss and a negative perception on the market. On the other, a solution is often an answer to the problem that has been brought about by the inefficiency in performing. Therefore, this paper attempts to demonstrate in detail on two major problems that are said to be affecting Starbuck, and yet it is one of the big firms on the market that makes huge profits (Simon, 2011, 37). In addition to the problems, solutions are proposed as ways that can ...

Business Problem Solving Steps

Business Problem Solving Steps Problem-solving is an essential part of running a business. Solving a problem calls for a complete understanding of the cause so that a valid decision that will tackle the problem can be formulated. Decisions are made to adopt measures that will mitigate the effects of the problem and eliminate its cause. A comprehensive decision-making process constitutes five steps: problem definition, determining the cause, identifying workable solutions, narrowing down on the best solution, and lastly decides on the best course of action. This paper focuses on problem-solving process at Abercrombie and Fitch. Abercrombie and Fitch is a major clothes ...

RFP Understanding and Rationale

The Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) issued the RFP soliciting for proposals from qualified entities and capacities that can perform the tasks as indicated in the scope of work section. The organization issued the RFP for a specific purpose of ensuring that California residents with disabilities may benefit from support materials and services necessary to understand the state’s health care programs.. The organization needs to devise a way of ensuring that people with disabilities can access health care services a lot of ease. People with disabilities go to health facilities because of the special treatment they need in order to ...

- One of the qualifications that the team members should be looking includes understanding the business operation. There is a need to understand the business and how the organization works together to achieve the profits. The new members should understand the business processes that are common for many businesses and especially the ones that are commonly seen to be working for vitamin companies. Another qualification is communication skills which is an important component. This is because they will be required to talk to the system users as they get the requirements and understand the problems that the users have with ...

BX2174: Research & Decision-Making for Business

- Analysing the Business Decision or Problem The aim of this research proposal is to analyse the factors which affect the decision making process of the generation Y cohort and whether members of this cohort are believers of brand loyalty. Businesses are concerned with maximization of profit which can be achieved when they either increase the volume of sales or work on the cost of the product. The behavioural pattern of the target customers of the company also has an impact on the sales trend and the decisions that the company takes. The company cannot, at any ...

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Abstract The security of patients in hospitals has constantly attracted aggressive controversies. Most people agree that all efforts must be pulled together to ensure that the safety and security of the patients is guaranteed. However, in an institution struggling with increased amounts of medication errors and the implementation of the electronic medical record (EMR), ensuring safety of the patients becomes a serious challenge to many institutions. The nature of security required calls for the people to implement solutions that should match the expectations of the patients in their security at the hospitals. The level of technology used in the ...

Part 1 Case Study

The Internet may not make corporations obsolete, but the corporations will have to change their business models. Do you agree? Why or why not? I do agree that the internet may not make corporations obsolete. However, the internet is more of a tool that may be used to improve the efficiency and performance of the corporations. For instance, the use of wireless technology makes it possible for the corporations to track individual needs of clients (Peng-Kin Yong, 2009). The internet serves more to give the corporation a competitive advantage since its use across the globe has increased (Lucas, 2003). Communications ...

Proposal overview and requested project

The RFP was issued by the Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) in an effort to seek a response on the affordable care act for people with disabilities. The organization issued the RFP for a specific purpose of ensuring that residents with disabilities may benefit from outreach programs on health care.The organization needed to device a way of ensuring that people with disabilities can access health care services. People with disabilities find it hard to go to health facilities because of the special treatment they need or the process of movement to reach the facilities. The RFP focuses on how the DMHC ...

Selene James

Master project document one Proposal overview and requested project The RFP was issued by the Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) in as effort to seek a response on the affordable care act for people with disabilities. The RFP was issued by the organization for a specific purpose of ensuring that residents with disabilities may benefit from outreach programs on health care.The organization needed to device a way of ensuring that people with disabilities can access health care services. Most people with disabilities find it hard to go to health facilities because of the special treatment they need or the ...

Master project document one

The RFP was issued by the Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) in as effort to seek a response on the affordable care act for people with disabilities. The RFP was issued by the organization for a specific purpose of ensuring that residents with disabilities may benefit from outreach programs on health care. The organization needed to device a way of ensuring that people with disabilities can access health care services. Most people with disabilities find it hard to go to health facilities because of the special treatment they need or the process of movement to reach the facilities. The proposal contains ...

Three dimensions for business problems.

According to Adair (2010), the three dimensions for a business problem include organization, people and technology. Each the three-dimensional problems cause businesses to encounter problems that they cannot handle and overcome. Adair emphasizes that these dimensional problems hinders businesses to operate efficiently and effectively (2010). The problems make the businesses lag behind in operations because the management spends extra time tackling these problems instead of establishing other business sectors. Adair asserts that the businesses spend a lot of time in solving these dimensional problems.

Adair (2010) confirms that poorly constructed processes in business are examples of organizational problems. The poor processes ...

Abstract 2 1. Introduction 5 1.1 Introduction 5 2. Problem /Opportunity 7 2.1 Business problem (opportunity) 7 2.2 Research Question 8 2.3 Research Purpose 8 2.4 Research Objectives 8 2.5 Research Scope 8 3. Literature Review 10 4. Proposed Methodology 13 4.1 Research Methodology 13 4.2 Ethical Considerations 17 5. Project Work Plan and Deliverables 18

Introduction

Information systems is a very broad term that houses all technologies applied in information systems and a variety of the types of information systems applied in different perspectives. Management Information Systems on the other hand is a term used to refer to the specific information systems applicable in the business environment. These terms have however been used synonymously but they refer to quite different but related aspects. (Stair & Reynolds, 2012).

How are information systems transforming business and what is their relationship to globalization?

Adoption of information systems in the global economy has had a great influence on how business operations are carried ...

1. Draw a system diagram showing the product and information flows between WGD and FastFit, starting with FastFit placement of an order through when it makes payment for goods received. This diagram will represent each company as a circle for a total of two circles.

2. Next, complete a more detailed diagram that has five distinct processes (hence five circles), two for FastFit (Headquarters and the Warehouse)) and three for WGD"??s three departments. This diagram should also include the database associated with each WGD department using the cylinder symbol, there are three of these. Now fill in the flows from Q1 above. ...