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Understanding health care utilization and the underlying processes, as well as attitudes from the point of view of patients and providers, is important in today’s complex health care environment. One of the principal objectives in the management of health care utilization is the reduction of practice variation through defined parameters that seek to ensure a cost-effective use of health care resources. However, factors related to individual determinants of utilization of health care services as well as the enabling factors must be taken into consideration in the discussion of health care utilization. Looking at the case of San Antonio, ...

Part 1 - Executive Summary

Most people are in need of organic foods which do not have any chemicals. Establishing an organic food supermarket will be able to provide the fresh fruits and vegetables to the people. The business will be hoping to offer best-quality feeds to the people which will promote their wellness. The venture is hoping to make profit through distributing the organic food and promote the environmental wellness. The potential growth of the business is diversifying through providing the food material, producing their own suppliers and manufacturing natural products such as creams (Canavari and Olson, 2007). When carrying out organic food ...

Product Life Cycle

While going through the product report for Alikay Naturals Moisturizing Black Soap Shampoo, it seems that the product stands in the decline stage of the product life cycle. Obviously, decline is the final stage of the product life cycle where a product is about to go out of the market. The major characteristic of the decline stage is that there will be long-run drop in sales due to customer taste changes and increased availability of substitute products (Lamb, Hair & McDaniel, 2016, p.202). This long-run drop in sales would naturally lead to a decrease in revenues. While going through the ...

Introduction

People all over the world are affected by this issue as the mixing of politics and religion remains a heated discussion several parts of the world. Politics and Religion are two facets of life that often leads to debates and confrontations among different sections of society. Both issues are able to generate particular interest among the majority, as people have their own point of view on certain political and religious issues. It can also be said that politics and religion are able to bring people together as the populace are able to put their support behind one god or ...

In extensive coverage, companies focus on seeking distribution via several retailers in order to ensure thorough coverage of the physical geography (Lamb, Hair & McDaniel, 2011). Examples of intensive coverage are cigarette brands such as Marlboro, and brewing organizations such as Budweiser, and soda companies such as Pepsi and Coke. Extensive coverage represents that consumers have many choices when they are finding consumer products. In selective coverage, majority of manufacturers select the retailers for avoiding market saturation as well as for ensuring proper management of marketing mix at point of sale (Solomon, Hughes, Chitty, Marshall & Stuart, 2013). Examples of selective ...

Executive summary

Tesla is an example of a company that is able to disrupt an industry. Before Tesla, the fully electric car was an idea in the research and development laboratories of gasoline-powered cars. After Tesla, the fully electric car is almost synonymous with the name of the company. The technologies behind the car are still expensive and this means that it is still a niche product. However, Tesla is working towards making it a more mainstream car. This paper looks at the efforts of Tesla to get its Model S into the Singaporean market. This paper begins with an introduction ...

Abstract

This paper explores the concept of Marketing Mix as it applies to the effective selling of used textbooks. This product has been chosen because of its wasted earning potential for students who need to adapt to the rising cost of education. The Four Ps of Marketing – Product, Price, Place, and Promotion – are discussed in this paper as the application of each marketing component is vital to success in the sale of used school books. Like the four legs of a table, the four Ps complement each other and as such, weakness in one component can cause a collapse of ...

Influence of Social Media on Marketing Strategies

Influence of Social Media on Marketing Strategies There is no denying the fact that social media has a huge and valuable impact on people lives nowadays. Moreover, person’s ordinary lifestyle, habits, and desires often depend on content or discussions there. For instance, some posts in Pinterest may become a good reason to buy a new dress or a necessary gadget. Different tweets help users to express their opinions, expand their knowledge about situation in the world and follow some of the famous people. In addition, humans start to build their view on products and services by reading others ...

With more than 500 stores in at least 37 states and eight countries, Costco has continued to dominate the retail industry in America. Northouse (2015) noted that Costco’s competitive advantage in US retail industry can be explained by three key performance determinants in the flexible leadership theory: efficiency, adaptation, as well as human capital. In light of the company’s success in the retail industry, this paper provides a discussion on three key determinants in the flexible leadership theory and give an explanation of how the company can offer higher compensation to its workforce and still show success ...

INDIVIDUAL REPORT ON ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS OF A BRAND

Individual Report on Environmental Analysis of a Brand Introduction Hamleys has been in existence for over two centuries, and the company prides itself on the fact that it has stood the test of time. The future of Hamleys looks bright only if the company addresses the business analysis aspect. Business analysis is a valuable tool in assessing any given business type. The results obtained at the end of a given analysis are useful in determining a lot of information that are necessary for the business. Some of the emerging topics addressed by business analysis with regards to the outcome ...

Development of new technologies and wide use of mobile devices have inevitably entered lives of nowadays society. There is absolutely no doubt that ‘mobile communication is a characteristically personal medium with the technological affordance of individual addressability in ways that fixed and even portable media cannot offer’ (Campbell). Today phones do not serve for businesses or emergency purposes only. Every now and then we experience the desire to dial up the number of someone we want to share our emotions or news with. Moreover, mobile devices take a lot of our time, they make us more dependent and, to ...

Psychology of Religion

Psychology of Religion Almost all religions in existence believe in exclusive answers with regards to absolute truth. However, from a psychological perspective, in essence, all religions are equal thus resulting to various research on whether religion is universally present amongst all people. Though religion searches for the sacred, it also associates with certain non-sacred goals such as belongingness and identity, therefore, making religion constitute socially constructed beliefs as well as rituals. Religion is an objective fact of the existence of humans. Various scholars have had different meanings of religion with each having an explanation to why they believed religion ...

Introduction

Leadership is a process whereby one person directs members of a group towards the attainment of a common goal. Like all phenomenon, leadership is susceptible to changes over time as variables in society changes. The evolution of leadership has changed from autocratic models to democratic systems whereby the concern for people is a very important aspect of attaining group goals and objectives. Health Science Education is now complicated and designed to cover a wide array of issues and matters in the 21st Century. This includes amongst other things, cross-specialization, interaction of people from different professional backgrounds, a high rate ...

Television has profoundly influenced the understanding of pop culture and people’s intellectual development in the sense that it takes other powerful texts that have to be read, that has to be interpreted, and that has to be consumed. This self-understanding to ascertain degree both shaped by and articulated against the images, ideas, and ideologies on television, as they enable an on sight and site negotiation of black identity. The evolution of television along with the evolution and influence of film, sport as well as music has coincided with the development of thepopular conception of black people in the ...

The Yuan was devalued by 1.9% against the US dollar and made less revenues when converted to US dollars. Selling the device at in china will bring less revenues compared to the same price tag in US and hence opening channels for the device in US market is a promising return venture. This means that the raw materials are cheap in China homeland and hence less costs in production. Selling at a high dollar value in US will generate more revenue. The labor in US is cheap and readily accessible to produce promising quantities of the device enough to ...

2016-04-09

References 12 Introduction As we know, the labor resources are the main resource of enterprises. The results of the company and its competitiveness depend largely on the quality and effectiveness of the above mentioned resources. The difference between the labor force and other types of resources lies in the fact that each employee may waive the conditions offered to him and can require changes in working conditions, retraining or even voluntary redundancy. The concept of “labor resources of the enterprise” characterizes its potential workforce. Employees can be organized in labor unions and to act as a separate subject of ...

Results and Literature Review

Slavec & Prodan (2012) found out that the strength of an entrepreneur’s social links is a significant factor in financing choice. The bigger the strong-tie network, the less the need for seeking finances to offset debts as the strong ties the entrepreneur has will enable him or her assemble the necessary financial resources. A majority of the respondents indicated that they have strong social ties with family members, financial institutions, accountants and friends whom they play an important role in supplementing the start-up and working capital of their business. This is in line with Slavec & Prodan’s research on ...

1.0 Introduction Operating in a constantly changing business environment is a challenging task. Therefore, those organizations are most likely to develop and expand that take strategic initiative and avail opportunities available to them. However, the expansion could be international or regional where decision is made on the basis of target market and competing regions. This paper overviews case of Southwest Airline and proposes a marketing plan for expansion in a new market. 2.0 Overview of South West Airlines South West Airlines is one of the largest low-cost airline in the world. The airline was founded on 1967 by Rollin ...

Reflection

The overall feedback on the presentation was positive with some aspects highlighted that could have been discussed in more detail with appropriate attention. Among different comments made for the study, it was mentioned that the some of the work was done was though related to the business; however, it was less relevant to the course assignment. The aspects that were considered irrelevant to the assignment were sustainability and the sweatshop. As far, I have managed to understand these aspects are of much significance in the business. Businesses in the modern world are winning a competitive edge over the competitors ...

Importance of Innovation to AutoZone

Innovation is very important for the division and the entire organization. It is for this reason that innovation will be embedded in the core values as well as the mission and vision of the division. The main objective of making innovation part of the AutoZone statements is to help in reinforcing it. This will change the way innovation is viewed. Instead of being seen as just an aspirational concept, the idea is to make it as part of the everyday experience. It has to be embedded in everyone’s job responsibility. It will be used to further positive employee ...

Organizations are always interested in attracting and retaining qualified personnel that will do the actual work that the company engages. The duty of attracting and retaining suitable employees is usually tasked to the managers of the organization. Different compensation policies have been advanced that detail to potential employees the benefits that are associated with them working for that particular company. Total rewards design is an example of such a compensation package that is of benefit to employers because it ensures that best performers are attracted and retained to work for the company. The total rewards design explains the several ...

Company/Product Description

Angel wholesale foods are a company that specializes in the supply of vegetables, fruits, and fresh foods. It specializes in the supply of these products to supermarkets at a wholesale price. We purchase fresh vegetables and fruits from our farms. We also outsource other farmers for their fresh products. This practice enables the company to have an adequate supply of the fresh product that meets their customer demands.

Strategic Focus and Plan

Mission The primary mission of our business, as explained earlier, is to offer quality products to our consumers all over the region.

Goals

It is the company's objective to ensure that there ...