Essays on Capabilities

Job Analysis – Operations and Logistics Manager

Paper Due Date Organizational Need Uber is a company that offers mobile and desktop application, allowing to connect drivers and passengers and offers public transportation solutions in various formats. Our company is growing at a rapid pace and has ambitious plans to grow 200% in Latin America. The primary focus is on Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay, as part of the Mercosur market entry strategy. That said it is essential that the internal capabilities, competencies, and skills are aligned with the generic growth strategy and company’s Human Resources can support the growth by providing adequate knowledge and expertise. Now, ...

The article NATO Intelligence Sharing in the 21st Century written by Mahoney et al., (2013) describes the capabilities and obstacles facing different NATO members namely Germany, France, Italy and Turkey in sharing intelligence with other member states including the United States. The author notes that there is no single member state that can independently gather intelligence at all times, emphasizing the need for continuous sharing of intelligence among states. The author investigates the capabilities of the four countries in collecting and sharing tactical and actionable intelligence and ranks the different countries according to their capabilities. In terms of ranking, ...

The Company: Al-Zulfi Group in Qatar

Issue: Reservations about hiring women Expansion plan: Due to market saturation coupled with growing competition in India, SSSL aims to target international geographic segments with excellent demand for security system products (Zain, 2017). Partnership: SSSL proposes a partnership to Al-Zulfi Group because it is legally bound (as per foreign investment laws in Qatar) to partner with a local company with 51% share to be held by the local company to expand to Qatar (Zain, 2017). Conflict: Samir Singh, the CEO at SSSL wants Seema Saran to lead the project in Qatar, while Zulfi Khan, the Director of Al-Zulfi Group ...

Tom Rath wrote a book “Strengths Finder 2.0” to guide people in identifying their personal strengths and capabilities. The main objective of writing the book was to assist people regarding their internal strengths and ways to sharp their skills. The background for writing this book was that most of the people in the United States are not aware of their strengths and capabilities. I have read the book that is interesting and attractive for developing personal skills and knowledge. The ideas presented in the book are new, and the communication style adopted by the author is attractive. The entire ...

Introduction

The paper reports on observation made on team performance composed of people with diverse experiences, in an unpredictable situation using a mid-fidelity ship-bridge simulation and analyzed through the application concept of joint activity and Wood’s theory building on data load. It will assist in gaining insight into the effects of institutional preparedness, design and communication. This will help in improving the response strategies in humanitarian crisis and give insight into the plausible causes of action. In this case, teams are defined by their cognitive and coordination capabilities and these parameters are used to assess the performance. The study ...

Abstract

This paper tends to highlight the history of automobiles and their impact on society today. This paper will discuss how what motivated the development of automobiles while also stating down the history of automobiles from the traditional and mechanical automotive used years back to the more modern electronic automobiles in use today. The impact of automobiles on society today cannot be understated with the rapid advancements in technology leading to the production of the brilliant machines. But with every advancement brings both negative and positive impacts on society and this paper will discuss these factors in a broader way. ...

Discuss the positives and negatives of corporate culture in the competitiveness of a firm. Relate how firms should deal with different corporate cultures in mergers and acquisitions. According to Wheelen and Hunger (2015), "corporate culture fulfills several important functions in an organization. It conveys a sense of identity for employees and helps generate employee commitment to something greater than them. It adds to the stability of the organization as a social system and serves as a frame of reference for employees to use to make sense of organizational activities as well as a guide for appropriate behavior." One of ...

Aims of research report

The African continent has received aid from developed countries and financial policy recommendations for decades. This thesis seeks to examine the existing empirical studies on the macro-micro paradox effects of foreign aid and free trade policies on GDP growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. In particular, this study explores the negative effects foreign aid has on the social contract that exists between the governments and its citizens by making governments less financially dependent on it’s populous, whether the interaction of international financial institutions (IMF, World Bank, WTO) that promote free trade policies as part of loan agreements with Sub-Saharan African ...

How can content marketing on social media channels be used in order to increase the level of customer engagement for the UK fitness industry?

Introduction Social media channels represent the new phenomenon, that has forced industries to change their attitude to marketing strategies, brand awareness, and customer engagement. The social media channels today pose certain threats to the traditional advertising, which treats the customers as a homogeneous crowd . In this extent, the social media channels are highly personalized presenting the versatile and verified social media content to the targeted audience. The marketing specialists are always in constant search of ...

Impact of Policy Changes on Financial Stability of Commercial Banks in India

Paper Due date Abstract The study envisages financial stability of Indian Banks, especially schedule commercial banks, in the backdrop of macro-prudential policy changes. Banks are put under microscopic vision in terms of performing as commercial units while strictly adhering to the policy norms. The effect of regulatory and supervisory policy changes can be evidently seen in stressed performance of banks in the recent years, in-spite of growth in their retail portfolios. The policy changes of increased provisioning for NPAs, improvement in asset account quality, revised guidelines for Net Stable Funding Ratio, restructuring of large accounts and many more have ...

Introduction:

After reviewing the article of Janssen, the study explained about the large discrepancies have been found between the quality of life experienced by the clients with the intellectual disabilities and described by the caregivers. Here the intellectual disabilities refer to the knowledge management with respect to education and the quality of life determines the social awareness. This research is regulated by the ethical standards followed by professional caregivers. Moreover, educational ethics has become structured with values and morals pointing out what are the differences from behavioral rules. This paper emphasized the importance of cares and diligence provided to the ...

Neurodegenerative Disorder

Introduction Neurodegenerative disorders refer to debilitating health care complications that occur because of slow degeneration of nerves cells. Neurodegeneration process is the progressive deterioration of structure and functionality of neurons in human body systems (Kovacs, 2016, 189). Ideally, neurodegenerative disorders represent the long-standing challenges in the field of basic science and clinical medicine. This is because of the persistence showed by the illnesses despite the unending attempts to adopt solutions to mitigate their health effects and severity on patients. The diseases affect the neurons in the human brain. As a result, it causes instabilities in the brain and spinal ...

PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROCESS: CELOXIS

Celoxis is world online Project Portfolio Management software available for use by SaaS companies and project managers. A large number of customers around the world ranging from average sized to Fortune 100 companies deploy the software. The software offers a comprehensive online project management features including integrated tools to manage company resources, time sheets, collaboration, expenses and the flow of work. Celoxis is licensed and available at an affordable price per month per user for the hosted version. Once purchased, the hosted version offers a thirty-day trial account with sample data project that can be used to evaluate it. ...

Q1 High quality, durable, creative, and innovative products define luxury industry products. Luxury industry products stand out in any industry and have a distinct place among consumers. Additionally, luxury industry products are available within sophisticated store ambiance. The industry of accessories and bags is divided into various segments. Luxury industry products are segment of accessories and bags that is consumed by high purchasing power consumers. Coach Inc. is a luxury industry that deals with the luxury handbags and accessories and has the strategy of accessible luxury which has made it sustain the competition. Bags and accessories of Coach Inc. ...

For the news reporters, it’s important to note the two sides of President-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural concert. The event took place in front of the Lincoln Memorial on the eve of the inauguration ceremony held on 20th January 2017. The event can be noted for its difference from the Obama celebration for those who came to compare the two. However, one notable thing at the event was the absence of famous celebrities. Given that this was an event meant for marking the start of the reign of the 45th president, one would expect “big name” celebrities to ...

Introduction

There are many accounting systems all over the world, which exist in order to help various companies with the management of their businesses. The relative new financial approach is the Activity-Based Costing (ABC). Following Kaplan and Cooper, it is the type of accounting, which helps to solve the financial problems by using different strategies and approaches to each and every separate financial facility on the bases of the consumed materials and information (Kaplan and Cooper). ABC provides proper management of quality for the service industry with mentioning the peculiarities of development and emphasizing activities that conduct the whole businesses. ...

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Introduction

Technology advancement is a requirement for all public systems where users come in large numbers. One such critical functioning system is the Air Traffic Control system of the America. America’s Air Traffic Control (ATC) system had been running for the past 40 years and catering to the burgeoning traffic at the airports. At any given time in the United States, approximately 7000 aircraft are flying in the country’s airspace. The country’s air traffic system had been catering to the ever increasing demand. However, it ...

Cell phones have changed the way in which people communicate and relate to each other. Largely over the last twenty years or so, cell phones have developed rapidly, and today they are a vital part of society. Cell phones enable their users to make and receive calls, send and receive text messages, and use the internet, wherever they are. Being able to change plans in an instant, rather than relying on someone to be in their house in order to reach them, has revolutionized socializing. Furthermore, many people use their phones for work as internet access and email come ...

Introduction

The concept of leadership is not new in the business world. The management of every company provides the deep focus on the leadership in order to motivate the employees. In order to get the success, the company must create motivation in the employees because the motivation develops the enthusiasm in the employees. The concept of leadership indicates that when the employees of the company become motivated so that they will utilize their full efforts that will help the company in its success. The management of the company is responsible to make the employees more effective that will help to ...

Imaginary Clinic

The clinic is a general practice clinic. It provides person-centred, progressive as well as comprehensive whole-person health care to persons and families in their society. It encompasses the foundations of an efficient health care system (“Capterra” par.1).

Branches of the Clinic

The clinic is a stand-alone clinic. However, satellite offices will be opened in different towns within a year in an attempt to reach more people (“Capterra” par.1). The clinic has four physicians and 7 physician extenders. That is, four nurse practitioners and three physician assistants. More physicians and physician extenders will be recruited as time goes. The new physicians will be sent ...

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Background Business Situational Context Hilton London Bankside is one of the Hilton hotels and resorts that offer hospitality services in the UK. It is accessible from London Bridge and equipped with state of the art facilities to increase its competitive advantage. The resort operates in a highly competitive environment which consists of other Hilton hotels. Nevertheless, product differentiation helps the hotel to compete favorably and maintain high profits. The goal of Hilton London Bankside is combating the high demand for rooms and offering its clients a comfortable stay. It offers complimentary services including fitness facilities and team building opportunities. ...

Apache Distribution

Apache Hadoop refers to an open source framework that provides the users with a distributed platform for processing of large sets of data across collections of machines using simple programming paradigms (Hortonwork, 2011). The distribution allows scalability from one server to several servers, with each server rendering resident processing and storage. One of the features that make apache preferred by several organizations is its capability to hold, manage and analyze huge volumes of both structured and unstructured data quickly and at low cost. Some of the features include: Reliability-Apache distribution is resilient, and when one node fails, then processing ...

The industry for this research will be the telecommunications sector. The industry has consistently been at the center of innovation and growth and has also culminated in the disruption of other industries. Its key elements encompass mobile devices, as well as, broadband connectivity that has also been regarded as important fabrics of the current society which is the information age. The sector has been instrumental in promoting the momentum for other notable technological trends such as video streaming and mobile payments. In this regard, the publicly traded corporation in the telecommunication industry that will be subject to this discussion ...

Introduction

The term ‘social robot’ has become popular in the modern world and is almost being integrated into the modern day cultural constructs as usual. Lamers & Verbeek (2010) maintain that social technology is meant to invoke emotional attributes and to engage the human mind in a way that exceeds what is physical. Lamers & Verbeek (2010) argue that a robot is man’s effort at recreating his own self and it is with this semblance that the conceptualization of human-robot interaction has been captured. Dating back from the 18th century, inventors and scientists alike have been making numerous attempts at making ...

Now the most advanced integration Union is the European Union, the main forerunner of which European economic community was created in 1957 by the Task that stands today in the EU during the agenda - formation and strengthening of economic, monetary and political Union of member countries. Integration in the EU affects almost all aspects of relations between member States of the European Union - politics, Economics, social and cultural sphere. The relevance of the study due to the importance and special role of tax harmonization in the framework of deepening European economic integration, the development of the unified ...

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The church gets its disciples from the societies that surround it. In order to get these followers, the church has to convince them of gospel kingdom and make them tailor their ways of life just as it is taught in the bible. Hitherto developed disciples were once naïve and young Christians in the kingdom. Just as the military gets its personnel from a community at large, the church too does. This calling of new Christians into a church and teaching them on how to be true disciples can be seen as a recruitment process. This paper aims at ...

INTRODUCTION

With the collapse of the USSR towards the stretch of the last decade of the last century, the Cold War – that delicate seesaw balance of power between the United States and the Union Soviet Socialist Republic – ended resulting significant changes, especially in the areas of intelligence and espionage. Russia’s standing in the international community as a superpower has diminished and presumably, its capabilities in intelligence gathering. Prior to the end of th4e Cold War, Russia closely competed with the US in terms of intelligence gathering and collection. Russia’s chief intelligence arm is the notorious KGB known for ...

Introduction

Abuse of alcohol and prescription drugs is a nettlesome problem, as its incidence has risen since the beginning of the century. Long-term regular alcohol abuse sooner or later leads to alcohol dependence, mental shock, nervous system and internal organs diseases. Despite the commonly held belief, active-duty personnel in the military are not quite as tough as to be completely immune to the substance abuse problems that blight civilian populations. However, the exact number of the alcohol abusers is very difficult to determine because people tend not to share this information. Thus, the numbers among civilians are very rough as ...

Introduction

Endpoint protection platform remains a security technology, which ensures that security of an endpoint device is superb in its functionality as a unit. The unit is composed of antivirus, personal firewall, anti-spyware, control application and intruded preventions styles, hosted in it. A number of Enterprise endpoint protection platforms (EPP) with higher advancement are combining patch, vulnerability and capabilities that manage configuration; this eventually enhances the protection. The current products of the EPP have included features of protection like data loss prevention, file and disk encryption and also device control, besides fighting malware. Higher number of EPP market focuses on ...

IE 309 - Human Factors & Ergonomics

Industrial Engineering Department Project (1) 1. Introduction 2. Problem statement 3. Proposed solution 4. Data gathered 5. Data analysis 6. Conclusion Dr.

INTRODUCTION

ERGONOMICS AS A CONCEPT Ergonomics is applied as a science to fit the workplace conditions and job demands to the capabilities of the working population. The goal of the current paper is to make the workplace more comfortable and to improve both health and productivity. To meet the goal stated above, the capabilities and limitations of workers and their tools, equipment and furniture are considered in conjunction with how they relate to particular tasks. Ergonomics when it ...

Business

Industry: NAICS code is 517911- Telecommunications Resellers Market: NASDAQ Symbol: AT&T Inc. Revenue: $40.9 billion Profile of the firm AT&T is a telecommunications company that provides mobile services, landline services, television services, as well as high-speed internet connection. It operates both in the United States and on an international platform. Most specifically, AT&T offers products primarily to the United States, Mexico, and other Latin American countries. According to Reuters (2017), AT&T offers services to businesses, the government, wholesalers, and individual consumers. Between the wireless voice and data provision, which is the most popular service at AT&T, the company offers ...

Introduction

In the wake of multiple aircraft disappearances and accidents, the aviation safety remains a great challenge within the aviation industry today. Human roles on the flight deck, maintenance and inspection are seen to be the leading contributors of most aircraft related accidents. Aviation maintenance and inspection procedures are part of a complex organization where most individuals undertake varied tasks in an environment characterized by time pressures, insignificant and sparse feedback as well as difficult ambient conditions such as poor lighting, long day and night shifts. These situational characteristics and other human erring tendencies have resulted in varied forms of ...

Introduction

IT governance is mainly concerned with decision making and communication. This is because it was brought about by organizations’ desire to make good decisions concerning their IT functions and communicate them effectively. All organizations require IT governance to ensure that they adhere to organizational strategies and meet their objectives. Of utmost importance is compliance with regulations governing IT systems such as the regulation of server power consumption developed by the Environmental Protection Agency (Kadivar, 2011). As such, IT governance can be simply defined as the alignment of IT and business strategies in a structured manner to ensure that organizations ...

Fostering Successful Emergency Planning

Fostering a successful emergency plan ensures that the plan focuses on intensive training and exercises. In doing so, the plan reinforces emergency preparedness for a number of potential emergencies. The exercises that emergency planners can create to test their plans include trial or testing through prototypes and operations, rehearsing the plan and explaining the plan to others and memorizing it (‎Perry, 2016). The best way to access emergencies is through trials. I believe this is true because when accessing emergency systems using trial, one bases the trial on socialist systems. The use of socialist systems in responding to emergencies ...

BUSINESS LEVEL AND CORPORATE LEVEL STRATEGIES

BUSINESS LEVEL AND CORPORATE LEVEL STRATEGIES

Introduction

Amazon.com is the world leading e-commerce websites that took advantage of the internet boom in the 90’s. Through the cautious development of the company’s global strategy, it has turned into a force to reckon regarding leveraging assortment of services and products and creating customer value through affordable products. Both the corporate and business strategies employed by Amazon from its inception match the internal and external environments without which its global footprint would be thwarted. Currently, Amazon is the largest online retailer with net sales amounting to $107B and gross profits of $ ...

Apple Inc. is one of the most premium brand names that one could think of. Apple has been valued as the most valuable brand across the globe i.e. valued around $151 billion. Apple Inc. has successfully grown by more than 6%; whereas, its share values has also ascended by 255% in last 5 years, which is accumulatively double than the overall return of Nasdaq. This incredible success and superior brand image of Apple Inc. is in fact the result of Apple’s distinctive and thoughtful strategic competitiveness. Also, above average returns, revenues and exceptional brand image of Apple clearly ...

Introduction

Samsung is a multinational Electronics company that has existed in the market for the last 70 years. It is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea with regional conglomerates across the world. This company is involved in diverse business operations spanning from the manufacture and supply of semiconductors, digital media, mobile products, consumer electronics, wireless wearable, home appliances and industrial appliances. In 2009, Samsung Electronics Inc. was touted as the world’s largest corporation based on revenues and a market leader in the electronics industry. On top of being the world’s largest semiconductor chip producer, it is also, the world’ ...

Executive Summary:

At the beginning, it is important to say that Riva is one of the famous multinational brands. It is one of the well-known brands under the umbrella of Armada Group. The company was established in 1997. Currently, Riva is operational in five countries of the Gulf region; Kuwait, United Arab of Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabian and Bahrain. Riva has more than thirty outlet stores in the region with an aim to expand to 150 by the end of 2017. The company faces extensive competition globally thus needs continuos development to match the trends in the fashion industry. Riva is ...

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Product 3 Place 4 Price 4 Promotion 5 Social media 5 Televised communication 6 Personal selling 6 SWOT Analyses 6 Threats 7 Findings 7 Challenges 8 Opportunities 9 Recommendations: 9 Conclusion 11 Last US bag 14 Abstract: The Last US Bag company is a leading company which provide its consumers customized products and services and it is the main promotional strategy of the company. The market mix explains that the company is strong in its products and are able to cover maximum areas for its supply chain. There are explanations about the company’s SWOT analysis and recommendations from ...

Executive Summary

Nestlé is a large international company, leader in food and drinks retail sector. The organization is adopting aggressive growth strategy, which involves product line expansion in the Middle East and larger brand presence. The goals of the strategy will be achieved through organic growth as well as M&A. That said HRM strategy is central to the company. Nestlé employs Total Reward Management (TRM) system, Balance Scorecard and incentive-based approach to employee compensation. Importantly, Nestlé believes that retention and motivation of employees are grounded on the personal bonds between the company´s culture and employee. With that, Leadership and Management ...

Introduction

BMW Group is one of the most successful automotive companies in the world and is a considered a brand leader in the premium market segment in the United States. Despite competitive pressures within the market segments and among the low and mid-priced automotive, BMW’s vehicle volume sales continued to increase by 5.2% in 2015, thanks to the normalization of the global economy. Its revenues also increased by 14.6% and reached $92.2 billion while its net income reached $6.4 billion, a 10% increased from the previous year (BMW Group, 2016). As per location, Germany accounted for 42.6% of the ...

Introduction

Essentially, career development is a progressive process that continues even after employment. According to Noe (2010), it all starts from school work where employability happens to be the most primary goal in career development. Upon employment, career development continues through organizational as well as personal efforts. This can involve training in the case of an organization or furthering education in a personal context. Employee training could aim at organizational goals but impacts significantly on an individual’s career development.

The Role of Training in Organizational Development

Employee training refers to the enhancing of employee’s capabilities and knowledge in performing different tasks at the workplace. It ...

Introduction

The success of any business venture is characterized by its ability to manage its assets, with respect to features such as the members of staff, the expenses incurred during the production process of its products as well as its distribution stratagems. The reason why most business entities and conglomerates fail to thrive in the long term is due to poor mismanagement of various core sectors hence leading to the redundancy for income generated and in an increase in the cost of productivity. The overall result is the decline in the trajectory of the business entity. Such was the characteristic ...

Abstract

The study will aim to comprehend the way leadership in the oil and gas sector can be used to increase employee performance as well as how leadership can play a substantial role in enhancing employee morale and performance in oil rigs. The research will seek to fill the knowledge gap regarding leadership in oil and gas industry. I will use a phenomenological design since the study is a qualitative research. I will select the study sample using purposive sampling. Additionally, I will collect data through semi-structured interviews method. After collecting the data, I will identify the common themes and ...

Security and economic development in Africa today are more effectively achieved through regional formations than through the African Union. Discuss.

Introduction

The majority of African countries still lag behind Western states in achievement of similar economic development and power in the international relations. With the beginning of the twentieth century, the African states continued to take actions aimed to improve is economic growth and security protection in comparison to these systems in other countries. In this regard, it should be noted that several African countries stand to the position that these strategic objectives in the advancement of economic group and ...

Impact of Team-Based Approach on Productivity at Nestlé

Introduction

Companies in the contemporary business environment must rely more and more on intangible assets and develop competitive advantage beyond the hard and soft attributes of their products and services. Globalization and internationalization of supply chains demand more flexibility and resilience from the companies, placing pressure on their creative and innovative capabilities (Sims, 2007). That said Human Resource Management (HRM) has gone a long way in transforming from a simple administrative support function to a strategic element in most of the modern forward-looking organizations. Diversity is the key to building sustainable competitive ...

The advancement into globalization raises a controversial discussion about political and economic systems. By its nature, globalization implies setting a singular standard in various aspects of society, like politics, economics, technology, regulations, employment, etc. (Tregakis and Brewster, 2006). While convergence towards a common political and economic system is encouraged by structures such as European Union, which weakens trade barriers, the cultural patterns, the timing of industrialization, the nature of the dominant industries, the density of population or the disparity between rich and poor count as factors of divergence (Ashraf and Galor, 2007). As a result, two most common economic ...

Introduction

The present report comprises of three sections. The first section discusses the recent trends in the business environment, which call for the attention of the Board of Directors as well as the Chief Executive Officer. The next section discusses Porter’s generic strategies including overall cost leadership, product differentiation, and focus strategies and demonstrates the way their implementation will help Partical, Inc. stay ahead of the competition in the global environment. The last section discusses and evaluates both the value chain analysis and Porter’s Five Forces, and indicates how the firms can gain competitive advantage through their effective ...

Introduction

Hiring professional and skilled employees is the key objective of the Human Resource Management (HRM) department. For the purposes of the realization of this strategic objective, the HR manager is obliged to pursue equality in provision of working opportunities for all employees regardless race, sex, nationality or any other supplementary factor giving ground for unequal attitude. In this particular situation, the managers of the company request the Human Resource Department to resolve issue pertaining to division of quotas between ground crew and other employees. With that, the attention of the managers is focused on the age of the employees ...

Ethical Issues

Human trafficking is a worldwide problem. For all practical purposes, this activity is nothing but a form of modern slavery. Every year, about 21 million people are caught up in human trafficking from about 130 countries around the world. Without a doubt, this is a serious issue given that it violates human rights that the United Nations takes very seriously - and should. While this pertains mostly to women who are sold into prostitution while also involving children and young boys as well who are coerced into forced labour as well. Given the atrocities around the world, the purpose ...

Abstract

Computers scientist have been grappling with the challenge of developing cognitive systems. Some of the challenges that have made the creation of such systems include natural language processing and machine learning. However, IBM has been able to produce a system known as Watson that has demonstrated human-like intelligence. The system was able to deal with the challenge of natural language processing by using a parsing process to derive the context of questions. This made IBM Watson have human-like understanding of natural language. The system is also built on active technologies that facilitate adaptation training through data and user changes. ...

E-Commerce refers to electronic commercial transactions that are done over the internet and the web. E-commerce websites were originally used as marketing platforms for companies where organization’s products and services would be posted for visitors to view. Today, an e-commerce website has multiple functionalities where services are requested and delivered almost at the time (Andam, 2014). The internet has had significant contribution to e-commerce with several features being attributed to its success. Firstly, e-commerce websites have been improved customer shopping habits where they can shop from the comfort of their homes (Hernández, Jiménez & Martín, 2010). ...

Introduction

Contemporary business environment makes companies compete in new, creative and more innovative ways, which enable sustainable competitive advantage through intangible assets. While some time ago, radical and breakthrough innovation could guarantee the leading position of the company, the reality of today’s business illustrates the ease of imitability of physical assets and tangible resources. Recognizing the need to differentiate itself through human capital, transition knowledge and unique proposition to the clients, companies more and more focus on flexibility and adaptability to the external market requirements and constantly changing customer expectations. With the above in mind, the investment I technology ...

The internal and external analysis is crucial during the process of logistics strategic plan development. Internal analysis refers to identification process and evaluation of a project’s specific characteristics such as the core competencies, the capabilities, and available resources. The internal analysis elements include the mission, the set strategies, the plan’s current vision and the strategic objectives. The external analysis comprises the identification of different outside factors that are likely to have an effect on the development of the plan. The external analysis can be complex and diverse than the internal analysis. The external factors that the analysis ...

Assignment 1A

Ivan T. Formality

Dear Sir, I am Xyz the employee of WTF and been working since last two years in the marketing department. I have decided to take ENGL 4091 Business Writing and avail the company’s college tuition reimbursement program. Could you please consider my request and approve the college tuition reimbursement that improves my knowledge and education level? I am writing this to get your permission for taking ENGL 4091 Business Writing. I want reimbursement after successful completion of the course as per company policy. The course will help to improve my business writing skills and knowledge. ...

Abstract

The notion of supply chain management (SCM) is not new, but it poses different understanding issues in terms of organizing internal processes and relationships with suppliers and customers. Different companies, different industries require for distinct SCM. The most important thing for organizations is to comprehend that they are part of a SCM and that it is in their power and responsibility to guide activities and processes to best fit their business objectives. By analyzing three SCM dedicated sources, this paper aims to answer several stringent aspects of SCM in the contemporary business world. The challenges of organizing SCM in ...

Discrimination legislation

Even in modern day society, issues of religious discriminations still mar working environments and that should be an issue of concern. Different adherents are affected by what managers in different communities decide to be the basis of their employment terms and conditions. Rather than have a singular platform that allows more people to appreciate the changing strategies as part of addressing their religious discriminations that appear as part of addressing legal policies as defined by the constitution. Based on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, religious conditions should not be included if the applicant’s religion ...

Abstract

This paper explores the challenges faced by women in management positions in international organizations. In order to appropriately discuss the issue, background information on current related problems in the workplace environment is initially discussed. This establishes the context upon which women find themselves in a corporate world ‘built by men, for men’. Women are in a disadvantaged position since they need to maintain a balance between managing the business and taking care of the family; this is in contrast to their male counterparts who can allocate more time for their career. Within such a scenario, organizational as well as ...

IT Technology Implementation

IT Technology Implementation Verizon is a leading provider of telecommunication services including wireless services and equipment and wire line services tapping the mass market, global enterprise, and global wholesales (Verizon, 2016). The company’s wireless services include retail connections and retail postpaid connections. Such include Verizon LTE, 4G LTE, fiber broadband services, FiOS, internet, and cable, and video telematics. Verizon also offers technology such as cloud and security products and interactive products such as video, music, and commerce (Verizon, 2016). The company exhibited a growing revenue and net income in the last five years in all of its business ...

Competitive capabilities are goals set by an organization to give guidance in decision making, while competitive capabilities are forces that an organization has over its competitors, to completely satisfy their customers. I am closely associated with electronic organization that makes electronics such as computers, phones and their accessories. The most prominent competitive priorities in this company are; flexibility, cost, delivery, and quality, but I believe they should also consider sustainability and innovativeness as additional competitive priorities. There are some competitive capabilities such as design and volume flexibility, cost, conformance and advertisement that support competitive priorities, simply because the organization ...