Essays on Imitations

Final Business Plan

Executive Summary 3 Introduction 4

SWOT Analysis 6 Balanced Scorecard 9 Organizational Assessment 9 Mission 10 Vision Statement 10 Value Statement 10 Strategy and Tactics to realize Strategic Objectives 10 Marketing Strategy 11 Monitoring and Control 11 Ethical Issues including Legal and regulatory Issues 11 Corporate Social Responsibility 12 Conclusion 12

References 13

Executive Summary The Eco Food Company was incorporated in the year 2012 as an entity to provide eco-friendly and high-quality food to the consumers. The sales were executed against the orders gathered. However, with the help of its talented and dedicated staff, the organization was able to attain ...

The Nehan zu painting depicting the death of Sakyamuni, the historical Buddha is one of the oldest and greatest work of art ever to be made. Its significance emerges in the fact that it communicated an open and easy to elaborate message to the lovers of art and the general public at large, but more so to the Buddhism community of faithful. Sakyamuni is deemed as lying on a dais that is constructed with lots of jewels and marbles, with his head been laid on his right arm, facing the right side of his arm. Sakyamuni’s dais is ...

When the Genius Failed-The Rise &Fall of Long Term Capital Management (LTCM) provides in depth insight into the world of hedge funds (Lowenstein, 2001). It outlines useful lessons to investors by illustrating the way capital markets can be severe on individuals and entities that have reduced capital markets to precise mathematical and scientific analysis. The text explores who the leading characters are, how they grew, marketed and managed the long term funds, and the factors that led to their collapse. Ideally, the author attempts to make complex financial concepts and structures easy to understand. The book provides examples suggesting ...

CONTENTS

Introduction 3

Te Triti o Waitangi – Purpose, Scope and Interpretational Variances 4 Waitangi Tribunal and its impact on Maori Business Development 5 Te Tiritii of Waitangi and Information Technology Contexts 6 Conclusions 7

References 9

Introduction Triti of Waitangi or the Treaty of Waitangi was signed on 6 February 1840 between the Government of the Her Majesty and chieftains of the major Maori tribes of New Zealand. Though its long-term ramifications in property (real and intellectual), environmental, constitutional, economic, social and other contexts are vehemently contested by the politicians and the academicians (Zepke, Nugent & Leach, 2003), Orange argues (1989) that it is ...

The report talks about strategies that a business can use to avoid its competitors from stealing their ideas and using them to further their will and increase the sales of their products. The report gives nine pointers that a company would use that are particularly useful in safeguarding the ideas, strategies and tactics. In the article, companies are advised to protect their intellectual property. Firms should use all legal forums available to them to ensure that the business logo, trademark name, slogans, patent inventions and other measures to protect the product designs are safeguarded and are hard to imitate. In addition, ...

There is a great comparison between the Roman art and the ancient Greek art in terms of the inspiration and the contribution to the history of creative art. The ancient art work from the Romans and the Greek is known as classical art. While the two depicted a high level of creativity and influence to the population at the time, it is their relationship and inspiration to the modern art that interests many scholars. The roman art borrows a lot from that of the Greeks and is sometimes seen as the replica of the works of great Greek artists such as Callimachus, ...

Valuation of Vlisco’s acquisition

Vlisco Group currently has four brands under its portfolio. Each brand offers its own style and targets different segments of customer. The luxury and internationally recognized brand, Vlisco, appeals to sophisticated women of Africa and other parts of world. Uniwax and GTP are the first and the only kind of nationally oriented brands serving the customers in Ivory Coast and GTP, respectively. The newly launched brand, ‘Woodin’ targets younger consumers of West Africa and offers ready to wear collections.

The company has its production facilities laid in Holland but around 90 percent of its sales originate from African Continent. ...

Management

Introduction Zongshen motorcycles started off with assembling engines for motorcycles which then also started developing core components of the engine. With the change in government policies, Zongshen began manufacturing gasoline powered motorcycles. Since it was a smaller company then, it lacked the capital to be spent on Research and Development and hence it imitated the designs of Japanese products. As the company expanded in its operations, it entered into a joint venture with Piaggio, Italy to develop motorcycles with globally applied European standards since Zongshen is looking for innovative products best suited for Chinese markets as the earlier ones were ...

Plato's Influence on Medieval Thought

Plato's Influence on Medieval Thought

Introduction

Plato was born in 428/427 BCE in Athens, Greece. He was a Greek philosopher and Socrates’ student. Plato founded the Academy and best known for his efforts in philosophical works depicting unparalleled influence. Building on various demonstrations by individuals like Socrates that those considered as experts in every ethical matter did not have proper understanding necessary for a prompt human life, Plato came up an idea that the mistake were caused by their lack of proper engagement with a class of identities that he referred to as forms. Key examples of these forms include equality, beauty, and ...

Publisher: USA Today

The article enumerates the nine most counterfeited products in the USA. Topping the list are handbags and wallets which accounted for 40% of the total seized goods in 2013 and valued at approximately $700.2 million based on the manufacturer’s suggested retail price (MSRP). Others in the list are optical media, labels/tags, computers/accessories, footwear, pharmaceuticals/personal care, wearing apparel/accessories, consumer electronics/parts and watches/jewelry. According to the data from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the value of counterfeit goods seized rose from $1.2 billion in 2012 to $1.7 billion in 2013, which is an increase of 38.1%. (Frohlich et ...

Abstract

Corporate strategy is the effective use of resources at the disposal of the management of the organization in ensuring that the company meets its goals and objectives. This paper looks into the corporate strategy adopted by Dyson Company drawing inferences from its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in the home appliance manufacturing market. It also presents an overview of strategy that the company can employ that is effective in ensuring that the firm achieves its goals. Further, the paper examines the McKinsey’s 7s Framework as a potential strategy implementation approach for Dyson Company. It relies on corporate strategy theory ...

Abstract

This paper analyses Corporate Strategy approaches employed by Dyson-a home appliances manufacturing company based in the United Kingdom. It presents an analysis of the advantages and disadvantages that in turn influence its competitiveness in the home appliances manufacturing industry on a global scale. Subsequently, the discussion analyses the position of Dyson in comparison to competitors in the market. An evaluation of PESTEL and Potter’s Five Forces is presented with regard to the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats that Dyson faces given the current economic setting in the world. Later, the discussion presents suggestions for strategy implementation that can be ...

ESSAY # 1

In the film Imitations of life, we meet four women who try so much to make their lives more than mere imitations of life. Together they struggle to make it in New York City. It is the story of two mothers and their daughters, both of whom take different paths in regard to the roles they play in the lives of their children. The daughters too, have a different way of seeing or appreciating their mothers. This movie is a clear representation of a genre called the women’s film because all it does is talk about the struggles that women have ...

Edwin Sutherland’s Theory of Differential Association

In the field of criminology, this theory recommends; that it is the interaction among other individuals who can learn proper actions, techniques, attitudes, and intentions for advance criminal behaviors. Its differential association expects that individuals choose the criminal paths in accordance to the definitions for law-breaking balance that exceeds on law-abiding acts. A critique leveled that differential association stems from the fact that an individual is independent, a rational actor, and with proper motivation as an individual.

Differential Association Theory

The theory is the major sociological contribution to criminology by Edwin Sutherland. This theory has a similarity on strain theory and social control theory ...

1.0 Pivotal response therapy (PRT) Pivotal response therapy/treatment/training is one of the early behavioral intervention techniques developed for management of autism. This techniques is built on the premise that autism interferes with “pivotal behaviors” that ultimately underlie other behaviors are deficient in autistic children. The pivotal behaviors/areas are initiating activities, motivation, self-management, feelings and responding to multiple/complicated cues (signals). PRT therefore aims at increasing pivotal behaviors, particularly motivation, which would in turn enhance generalization. The autistic child chooses the activity and is rewarded (positive reinforcement) for every correct responses or attempt. As such, PRT trains the child to ...

Introduction

The product lifecycle theory is not a new concept; it has been implemented in the product market for a long time. The significance of the product lifecycle theory is manifested through the number of studies, which have been conducted to understand its concepts. For instance, Mullor-Sebastian conducted a study, which intended to test the product lifecycle theory using three empirical tests. In his study, Mullor-Sebastian (95) states that developed countries are internationally competitive when it comes to growth products while less developed countries are competitive in mature products. Mullor-Sebastian’s tests for the product lifecycle theory are based on world production ...

Never judge culture by one man and never judge a man by popular culture.

- Anonymous

Abstract

In “The Death of the Author,” structuralist thinker Roland Barthes suggested the notion of the author as a distinct identity in the creation and interpretation of a text was a thing of the past. Instead, he preferred the use of the word “scriptor” to refer to the person writing or typing a work for the first time. The ideas in the scriptor's mind would have to travel through his or her semiotic filters to make it to the paper – those filters take the ideas and shape them – for ...