Essays on Metric

Strategic Warehouse Management MGT 496

Irina Weisblat

Introduction

Whenever a company is seeking to expand its operations and particularly to a foreign country, it is an important thing for such a company to ensure that it thoroughly considers all the possibilities it has for growth. In order to attain such operational efficiency, the company has to have a set of measures that it adopts to track the progress of its growth in the foreign market as quickly as possible in order to mitigate the losses that come from trying to adjust to the business environment of the host country. One such important measure is the ...

Korea was bisected at the end of the Second World War, as a response to the differing political climates which each half of the peninsula espoused – North Korea preferred the communism of the Soviet Union, while South Korea was more in line with the policies and politics espoused by the west, the U.S. in particular. During the early fifties, hostilities between the two halves of the country reached breaking point, and the Korean War broke out, with the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea attempting to reunify the country by conquering South Korea, and the American army attempting to ...

Introduction:

The main purpose of writing this report is to determine the marketing metrics and marketing effectiveness of Apple. Marketing metrics are the performance indicators, which permits the business to perform overall marketing performance. The marketing metrics help to attain greater accuracy in the business activities. Marketing plays an active role in the business and the success lies in the marketing abilities. The marketing metrics are categorized into various types’ namely behavioral, financial, physical availability and consumer profile etc. In this report, these metrics with respect to Apple Inc. will be discussed. As a marketing consultant, I will provide the ...

Metrics create conditions for comparability of results and in the future they give possibility of a meta-analysis of empirical research strategies. Measure in the effectiveness of the strategy can be achieved as a result of performance of the plan to achieve the strategic goals. Each task correspond to one or more of metrics, and each metric has exactly one metric task (the process task that is evaluated using this metric). Metrics are grouped by task. In strategic terms company can use the metrics for business planning and risk management. These metrics give leaders an understanding of the capabilities and ...

The Mars Climate Orbiter: A Multimillion Dollar Mistake

The Story Grossman (1999) addresses the incident of NASA’s Mars Climate Orbiter in her article named “Metric Math Mistake Muffed Mars Meteorology Mission”. She explains how a simple unit conversion mistake caused the Orbiter to burn up in the Martian atmosphere. The vessel costed NASA a whopping $125 million when it vanished into the Martian atmosphere. The problem, later identified by a NASA review board, owed to a software glitch. The software was used to calculate the thrust in “pounds of force” while the other software took the input in “newtons”. This happened due to the fact that ...

Assignment 2: Middleville Regional Healthcare

Assignment 2: Middleville Regional Healthcare

The Governing Board is objectified towards determining the organization’s strategic direction by means of identifying the external challenges and opportunities and utilizing the internal resources in such manner that it enhance the outcome and efficiency of the organization. The strategic initiatives are incorporated under the strategic plans that are developed by the board members which encompasses the strategies, budgets and responsibilities that are further delegated to the respective departments. In this manner, the continuous analysis of market and the forces that effect the organizational efficiency and productivity takes place and the Governing Board ...

Industry Environment

According to the U.S. Dairy Export Council (2015), there were 9.3 million cows which produced 93.4 million tons of milk in the United States in 2014. The country has about 50,000 farms under dairy farms which are majorly family-owned (U.S. Dairy Export Council, 2015). Dairy farming is practiced in all the 50 states as well as in Puerto Rico, and it is the leading agricultural business in Arizona, California, Michigan, Idaho, New York, New Hamshire, New Mexico, Utah, Vermont, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. 74 percent of dairy farms in the country have less than 100 cows, and the average ...

Leader and Management Development

Introduction Leadership forms the backbone of any organization. This is because it entails offering direction, creating a sense of purpose and defining a strategic plan for the organization. Such aspects of leadership are important in ensuring the success of an organization in the long run (Yukl, 2013). For the leadership functions mentioned above to be successfully implemented, it is critical that the individuals in leadership positions show responsibility in their day-to-day undertakings. It therefore implies that leadership development has become a primary aspect of the overall management function. Leadership development is anchored on the character and behavior of the ...

<<Author>> <<Date>> Apple is a global corporation which is well known for its practices in sustainability and ethical behavior. However, this reputation was not built easily. Apple had to invent and re-invent their supplier conduct and sustainability practices over the years to gain this reputation. Today, Apple’s Supplier Code of Conduct ensures that all suppliers create working conditions which are safe, respect workers and care for the environment (Apple, 2016). Their strict practices ensure that suppliers obey the rules, even if it is above local laws. Apple has a Supplier Responsibility Standards ...

1 The assessment of financial performance of the division managers in each subsidiary can be obtained by taking a difference between budgeted profits and actual profits in US dollars. It can be understood from the table provided below. The table provided above summarizes the information regarding the actual and budget performance of each subsidiary in 2004 . All amounts are expressed in US dollars that are helpful in comparison among them. It can be seen from Table 1 that the subsidiary of Japan has performed below budgeted profits that in dollars but it might have increased its profits as compared ...

Executive Summary

The business plan consists of relevant sections that are useful in introducing new products or services in the market. Traffic Lights offers trips to various European countries, and now it is intended to introduce new trip to Asian countries. The new division is based on the vision and mission of the company that is to provide high-quality products and services to all types of customers. The proposed business model for Traffic Highlights is simple that it requires extending its product line by introducing a new division of the business. The preposition value statement of the company is clear that ...

Adaptive Project Framework is a project methodology that makes use of selected phases of the traditional project management approach focusing on planning for just-in-time as opposed to scheduling the whole project from the beginning to the end (Stare 300). It is normally client-focused, and requirements are expected to change constantly. This approach has five main phases that include version scope, cycle plan, cycle build, client checkpoint and post-version review. During all the phases, planning is primarily founded on functionality, and this is kept at the high level unit for each cycle and is iterative in nature. This paper is ...

In any given organization, it is of great importance to implement a good network for efficient utilization of resources. A good proposal of the company network will reduce the cost, increase the output of the network and will also be of great importance in the determination of the required resources and projection of the achievable output. A network that is well configured and designed will achieve all these. Based on given corporate network design architecture, a proposal on the resolution and the implementation of the various aspects of the network is discussed in this paper. The various deliverables of ...

Beneficial Properties

Some of the beneficial properties of globalization for Coca Cola have been: Increased Market Share Today, Coca Cola is known as an international brand, but their success has been due to globalization and their success in different markets (Collins). Globalization has helped Coca Cola to expand their business beyond the American borders and enter new countries over the years. Due to globalization, Coca Cola has been able to reach different markets all over the world. By entering new countries, Coca Cola has been able to reach new customers and increase their global market share. Stakeholders that benefit from increased ...

INTERNATIONAL RISK MANAGEMENT

Methods used by JPMorgan in the valuations Discounted equity value considering price/earnings recurring in FY 2014-15 of 4.0x to 7.0x: ranging from $7.00 to $13.50 for each stock. Trading multiples earnings/price multiples of 4.0x to 7.0x and consensus EPS of$1.79 per share: ranging from $7.25 to $13.00 for each stock. Analyst price targets of $9.00 to $18.50 for each stock. 52-week dealing range of $9.43 to $18.32 for each stock

Ranges of the JPMorgan methods

DCF using Street agreement case: $15.25 to $19.25 per share. DCF using Street low case: $9.50 to $11.50 per single share. DCF relating Street high case: $19.25 to $ ...

The institutional affiliation

Amazon.com, Inc. is considered as the leading e-commerce retailer in the United States possessing over $70 billion revenue in 2015. The company maintains a lean focus on increasing its operating income by constantly raising its revenue and managing its working capital and expenditures. Thus, the Amazon’s customer base demonstrates a constant increase, mainly because of the low costs; however, prices are not the sole contributor to its success (Becker, Uhr, Vering, & Ehlers, 2001). Amazon pursues a concentration strategy in which it uses the Internet as the major distribution channel. Well-organized product information and sophisticated algorithms make the shopping ...

It is the duty of each and every person to take care of the environment and further to have in place an environment that will enable the world regenerate and in turn be favourable for the day to day living of man today and the future. Various measures have been put in place in order for this to happen. These include the coming up with the bio-degradable products and further, to look for the alternative sources of energy that reduce the amount of harmful emissions. One of these methods is the coming up with the green cars which are ...

Apple has made significant steps in improving the way suppliers treat employees and on the effectiveness their corporate social responsibilities with emphasis on dignity and respects as supplier core values. Progress in the supplier responsibility report is usually done with the objective of reviewing and identifying better ways through which suppliers can create fair employment and safe working conditions as the products move across the value chain. Moreover, incidences of violations are dealt with through termination of the contracts with suppliers or making suppliers pay for their unethical actions.

Apple’s stances with regards to varied key functional aspects are identified below:

Accountability Over the years, changes have been done to Apple’ ...

Jung Typology Score ENJT

The Jung typology score is humane metric that explains different personality type. Today, most recruiters use different types of humane metric in their selection process. Some use it to know which candidates would fit into a position in question especially when they consider hiring two or more candidates for similar positions within the same departments. The Jung Typology Score yields 16 different combinations (personality types) in four dichotomies and each personality type can be assigned a four letter acronym of corresponding combination of preferences.

Extravert (12%):

Extravert (12%) means I have a slight preference of extraversion over introversion. Just like most ...

Apple Company has many suppliers; the suppliers of the company provide jobs to more than 1.6 million individuals in various countries. Each of the employees has the right to be treated with respect and dignity. Apple is devoted to making sure that the working environment in Apple’s chain of supply is safe. The suppliers sign a contract to pledge that in all their undertakings, they will work in accordance with the rules and regulations of their specific countries. Apple’s Suppliers Code of Conduct depicts the internationally recognized standards; this is to help in the advancement of social ...

Organization today are more focused on hiring and staffing skilled personnel that are able to provide quality service leading to the realization of predetermined objectives. This is done through developing hiring and staffing metrics to measure the quality derived from these processes used in obtaining skilled employees (Phillips and Stanley 40-76). This paper will therefore address matters on having measurements for staffing and hiring, providing definition of the measurement, establishing a target, identifying the balance scorecard category, connection to a corporate strategic objective metric and identifying the stakeholders. There is no one specific metric that can be used to ...

Introduction

This paper seeks to conduct an analysis for the financial performance of Lexus in relation to other industry competitors; Jaguar, Mercedes, Porshe and BMW. In order to arrive at objective results, the analysis will compare various financial and performance metrics for the businesses. It is a purely objective analysis that will be based on the figures obtained from the annual reports of the companies.

Return on capital employed (ROCE)

Return on capital employed is a metric for a company’s profitability and the effectiveness of its capital employment. ROCE = Profits before interest and tax/Capital employed. A significantly huge amount of ROCE is a clear ...

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Reciprocity of Marketing & Culture

INTRODUCTION The growing interdependence of global markets has made a more compelling case for culture as an increasingly significant variable in marketing efforts. For one, products and services produced at a global scale find more diverse platforms, particularly across virtual media. The pace, scale and content of products and/or services are, moreover, making an increasing case for more standardized offerings across different marketing contexts. Typically, consumer behavior metrics – including, most notably, conventional market research and more innovative approaches as data analytics platforms and applications – are adopted in order to identify consumer behaviors and needs. This approach to consumer behavior ...

Introduction

LensCrafters is an international optical company with about 860 special service shops with production firms in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. The company creates and delivers eyeglasses within one hour, using readily available resources in their store. LensCrafters are focused on creating customers consistently throughout by offering exceptional customer service, growing the employees and leaders, making the best quality eyeglasses within an hour and delivering value to its customers, in an attempt to achieve its mission. This essay is structured in seven parts. The first part is an introduction of LenCrafters and the essay structure; part two ...

Business: Customer Relationship Management (CRM) For Wynn Hotel.

Introduction Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is a word that in used in reference to the well detailed strategies, practices and technologies that organizations use for the analysis and management of customer information. Customer relationship management has the capacity to hold a client’s information as long as he is still a customer of the organization. In a nutshell, it stores and handles information relating to the clients throughout the business period. It has the capacity to analyze and store even the most vital and sensitive information relating to a client’s interaction with the company (Greenburg, 2009). The primary ...

Interest rates are majorly influenced by inflation rate and monetary policy. Therefore, the two economic factors will be evaluated to project the movement if interest rates. Growth in developed countries is expected remain modest. Therefore, IMF projects that developed economies, including the USA, will apply an accommodative monetary policies to spur economic growth. Businesses will benefit from the expansionary monetary policies through a reduction in the retail interest rate as well as access to a wider pool of loanable funds. The inflation rates in the USA and other developed countries has remained close to zero and negative in some ...

The problem of terrorism is one of the most dangerous and prevalent in today's society. Over the past decade, the actions of terrorist organizations have reached a new level. The attacks occur more often, while it becomes more and more difficult to find the perpetrators of the attacks. Terrorism has become a global problem, and it threatens more and more people with each passing day. The US government and a number of leading European countries introduce various technical and design elaborations to combat international terrorism. Today it is possible to prevent the increasing number of terrorist attacks by means ...

Healthcare financial metric that shows unique aspects about a financial data. Each financial metric just like in descriptive statistics shows unique aspects about cash flow or financial figures. From the financial metric, the characteristic of the whole body of data may be simpler while reviewing financial figures for individual healthcare setups. The healthcare industry is key because of its effects on everyone making the use of matrices in measuring performance critical. The general focus of healthcare system includes among other things diversity of services and the quality checks of the different services offered. Matrices used in Healthcare systems include; ...

Routing Information Protocol version 2 (RIP v2) is a routing algorithm that is based on the Bellman-Ford algorithm. As a routing algorithm, it is used to determine the best path between two nodes on a network using distance-vector for path estimation. It makes use of hop count, which is the number of intermediate routers and gateways between a source node and a destination node, to estimate the best path with the maximum hop count put at 15 (Kalamani et al., 2014). This ensures that there are no routing loops in the network. The Bellman-Ford algorithm is based on dynamic ...

List of Figures

Figure 1: Simon Sinek's Golden Circle 4

List of Tables

Introduction Subway, the world’s largest restaurant franchise, was founded in 1965 by a 17-year old college going kid, Fred DeLuca as a means of fulfilling his dream of becoming a medical doctor. He was looking for a way to earn money to pay for his college and had money only to eat burgers in restaurants. His family friend, Dr. Peter Buck, loaned him a 1000 USD and suggested that he open a submarine sandwich restaurant in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Based on his experience of eating unhealthy burgers, Fred DeLuca wanted to focus ...

Routing Information Protocol version 2 (RIP v2) is a distance-vector routing algorithm that makes use of the hop count as metric for routing (Archana, 2015). The hop count is simply a path between a source and destination, which simply could be the number of intermediate routers, bridges or gateways between the source and the destination. A maximum of 15 hops is allowed in RIP v2, placing a limitation on the size of networks that can be supported by the protocol. The Bellman-Ford algorithm determines the shortest path to a destination using the principle of relaxation where the correct distance ...

1.0 Introduction KFC, the world’s largest fried chicken chain restaurants, was started in 1952 by Harland Sanders, under the name Kentucky Fried Chicken though the idea was first discovered in 1930 when Sanders started to sell fried chicken to visitors in Corbin Kentucky. It is the second largest restaurant chain, with about 1800 locations, with over 3000 stores in China, and a revenue of about $ 15 billion, McDonald’s is the first (Hu & Xie, 2013). In 1939, Sanders came up with an original recipe for fried chicken incorporating 11 spices that are kept at the Company's headquarters in ...

Individual’s productivity in any working environment is measured by tracking that person’s performance. People work differently depending on the environment they are based in. Individuals who work on a commission based salary tend to work harder and efficiently than an individual who is working for no salary or someone who works for the government. The best industry that monitors one’s productivity is baseball. It uses a wide range of statistical tools to analyze one’s performance in the game. Statistics plays a very important role in baseball than any sport because it has structured flow; and ...

Individual Project of McDonald’s

Individual Project of McDonald’s Different organizations belong to different industries. One of the most distinct among them is the food and service industry. Thousands of organizations belong and operate within this industry. It is otherwise defined as catering industry, which provides prepared meals such as restaurants and fast food chains. Food service industry is important when it comes to sustaining the supply of food products in the market. Thus, food service companies are known to influence the people’s eating habits (United States Healthful Food Council, 2012). For many individuals, eating out became a necessity more than luxury. ...

Golden Circle

Starbucks Coffee Company is a story of success for many. The relity is that the copmany’s business path is contimuously fascinating for many reasons. First of all, it has become an example of an integrated supply chain, which involves all the stakeholders on the upstream and downstream and brings forward global business with local business model. Secondly, Starbucks built a strong brand, based not only on innovative and forward-thinking business model in operations and Human Resource Management, but also due to its pioneer projects in Corporate Social Responsibility and the special way it treats its suppliers. Finally, for ...

Patient Check out Flow Chart

The first step in the flowchart is that the patient completes clinic visit and appears at the checkout desk. This is the time when the patient is ready to be discharged and has already completed the necessary requirements for the release (“Patient Check Out,” n.d). The people involved in this step are the patient, the main concern of the process; the personal doctor, to verify if the patient truly satisfies the requirements; and the personnel in-charge of the checkout desk, to hold the patient before release is granted. No technology is involved, as the patient only waits for the ...

The Apple organization is a company that was established by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne in 1976. The headquarters of the company is at Cupertino, California. The company deals with the sale of electronics such as computers and cellphones that are needed in the current digital world. Its products that top the market sales include: iPhone smartphone, iPad tablet, Mac Personal Computer, iPod portable media player, Apple Watch smart watch. It has established products that match with current technologies in the market and the technology they use supersedes the technology used by their competitors. Its innovative nature ...

The use of collinearity in imaging is a very versatile technique for image correction. The process is applicable in taking of picture using sensors from above the ground. The science behind the process is helping in converting several images taken into an orthographic image format. The camera does a transformation to a 3 x 3 matrix system which removes relief from the picture and making it machine readable. This form of change does its conversations within the ranges of changes in the X Y and Z axes of telemetry (Han, Guo, and Chou 313-316). The imaging dimensions taken have ...

Regression Analysis

Using the regression analysis, we are willing to reveal the real trend behind the growth multiples of the company, i.e. whether the trend in the financial multiples posted by the company is real or just inflated numbers. Stated otherwise, regression analysis is performed to understand how sustainable are the financial numbers and how can these historical trends help us in forecasting the future performance of the company. The first two multiple analyzed were sales per share and EPS as these multiples reveals the amount of money the entity is making. Analyzing the trend, we witnessed that while the sales ...

The agenda for population and development seeks to establish the knowledge of how population and social, economic, and environmental change relate to each other (Finkle, Jason, and McIntosh, 1995). By so doing, a forum for discussion of the related matters is created. Population and development exercise is the enhancement of personal opportunity and freedom. It’s inherent in member states of the United Nations to attain universal human rights and dignity for their citizens (Martínez, Rodrigo, and Andrés, 2007). It’s a representation of aspirations of the governments to ensure that all individuals are free from fear, ...

Influence for Nuclear Waste Storage in Minnesota

Storage of nuclear waste in Minnesota is a huge problem. Over the years, this issue has been creating constant stirs among the public, the government and the company running it. While solutions have been provided over time, anything substantial is yet to be realized. As a result, the state has issued a moratorium on any further expansions of nuclear facilities in Minnesota in exchange for a limited storage of the nuclear waste generated by the plants on the Prairie Island. However, considering the license to operate the plants are due to expire in early 2030s and no substantial solution ...

Introduction

When we consider the sector of professional services, the greatest firm is PricewaterhouseCoopers. It is listed in stock as PwC and is operational in about 157 nations around the globe. The year of establishment of the Company is 1998. It so happened that the two Companies, Price Waterhouse, established in 1854, and Coopers and Lybrand, established in 1849, decided to merge and thus the Company was formed. The numbers of offices that function under the Company name are about 756. The total number of staffs employed by the Company reaches to about 208100. The purpose served by the Company ...

Introduction

For the specification of the control of an aircraft, other parameters and equipment’s other than the basic aircraft control are required. This is because there are various dynamic performance criteria that need to be factored in the aircraft control system design. The basic aircraft system requires a navigation and control so that it works efficiently. The basic structure of the aircraft system is identified as below with the various parts performing various functions:

Aircraft system block diagram

The stability augmentation and transient response improvement are provided by the estimation control of the linear feedback block of the system. The forward loop provides ...

Executive Summary

The paper analyzes the financial standing of Genus PLC using time-series and cross section analysis, and through intrinsic stock valuation. Our analysis revealed that during 2015, the company recorded an astounding profitability performance although its short-term liquidity was a concern of worry on account of the declining cash position and increasing receivables. On the other hand, the company is trading with significantly lower leverage relative to the industry average, and this trend will favor the company as it is generating higher profitability with minimal risk. In addition to the fundamental analysis, we also calculated the intrinsic stock value of ...

About the paper

The paper is commissioned to conduct financial analysis of UK based retailer, Morrisons PLC. As part of this analysis, we will be using the raw financial figures for the year 2014 and 2015, and will take the assistance of ratio analysis to unearth the financial trend in the company. In addition, we will also calculate the intrinsic value of the stock using the dividend discount model, and will then culminate the paper with a final conclusion on the financial standing and stock valuation of the company.

About the company

Founded in the year 1899, Morrisons Supermarket is a UK based food retailer. ...

The epic poem The Odyssey by the ancient Greek writer Homer takes us into the life of a man named Odysseus. As the reader learns about Odysseus multiple facets of his character are exposed through the challenges it faces. Although he and his crew face danger and obstacles at every step of the way the character of Odysseus hardly changes. The entire book Odysseus longs to see his wife, but he is a good man and a courageous leader. (Homer. And Lattimore) Homer is one of the most famous Greek poets, the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, ...

Facts

With the pending merging of two businesses on the basis of family, the valuation of the newly formed Messina Propriety Inc. is suggested to be a direct market value combination of the values of the two companies. This cumulatively stands at $ 3,600,000. The merger will see the three Messina’s has a 62.2% holding for Tony Messina, 15.6% for Martin Messina and another 22.2% for Tony Jr. Looking at the basis of shareholding in the two companies, Tony holds 600,000 ordinary shares , which is double what Martin owns in their company. On the other end, Tony ...

What does it take to be a Good Project Manager?

A professional in the field of management is called as Project Manager where the main duty and responsibility of the project manager are the project management. The planning, execution and procurement of the project are handled by the project manager. Any issues or discrepancies are first reported to the project manager by the team before reporting it to higher authorities. The project manager should have the managerial and personal characteristics, as well as, he/she should be able to lead a team, regardless of the project. There are three key factors that define how to meet the objectives of a ...

Memorial Hermann Katy Financial Plan

Memorial Hermann Katy Hospital has two main sources of income. These are the income generated from the services offered in the Rapid Admit Unit and Convenient Care Unit. The hospital’s Financial Plan includes the projected revenue that the project is expecting to generate from its two units, Rapid Admit Unit and Convenient Care Center. The plan also presents the expenses that are expected to be incurred over the period of projection. The financial plan includes the revenue earned for each unit for the next five years. According to the financial projection presented in the spreadsheet, the hospital’s ...

Identify a set of metrics for each of the following categories: 1) time, 2) service quality, 3) cost. Explain what each metric involves and how it is measured. There should be 5-10 metrics for each of the three categories.

Metrics under the time category:

Order Fulfillment Cycle Time: It is the consistently achieved average cycle time that is spent to fulfill the customer orders. The cycle time is calculated from the start of the order receipt till the end, which happens when the customer accepts the order. The time that is calculated from the time that a customer places an order to the time ...

Cash Conversion Cycle is a financial metric that attempts to measure the amount of time for which each input dollar is tied up in the inventory and sales process before it is converted to cash through sales. Stated otherwise, conversion cycle is the net amount of time period required to sell inventory,collect receivables and make payments to the suppliers. The metric is calculated using the following formula: Cash Conversion Cycle: Days of Inventory+ Days of Receivables- Days of Payables Important to note, it is always undesired for a company to hold cash levels in the inventory levels and ...

Introduction

Bullying is a major issue in the school system. This has been going on for centuries but has worsened with the advancement of technology and students are now able to bully each other even after school hours through channels such as social media. This issue has gained worldwide attention since bullying is reported to be responsible for a very large percentage of suicide cases in teens (Carr, & Beresford, 2012). It also affects the children’s academic performance, therefore raising an alarm even with the teachers. Students who are constantly bullied either through verbal confrontation, threats, physical confrontation such as ...

Introduction

In the hotel sector, “Revenue Management” refers to the numerous systems put in place to set up room rates for their benefit. Conventionally, revenue management (RM) is essential in providing direction to hotels rooms’ allocation to the demand with the aim of maximizing profits. While revenue management is still a relatively new concept, it has been effective in helping the hotel managers to maximize profits (Haley and Inge, 2004).

Why Measure Revenue Maximization?

Measuring revenue maximization is critical because it acts as an indicator as to how the hotel is performing. Since the very first days of RM, it has been credited with ...

Personal Improvement Process

Vision/mission statements The main goal I am determined to achieve is the correction and improvement of homework delivery process due to my usual lateness in this field, thus the vision statement is to improve timing of my homework delivery. At first, it is necessary to create the system of values, principles, standards, according to which I will be acting as well as measuring the effectiveness my activity, namely the mission statements (Talbot 2003). The following mission statements, aimed at proper regulation of homework delivery process, can be set:

The tasks I am given are to be finished as soon ...

Objectives for improving the USPS' internal business processes

The Universal Service Obligation (USO) The United States Postal Service has a universal service obligation (USO) as it's key objective to encompass multiple dimensions: range of products, geographical scope, delivery frequency, access to facilities and services, security of the mail, uniform and affordable pricing, and service quality. The crucial level of performance in this objective is that USPS is the only carrier that has the obligation to provide all the aspects of universal service at affordable prices. The successful implementation of this universal service obligation (USO) strategy is pegged on it’s funding in which there is an establishment ...

How to measure tape for engineers

Introduction The measuring tape is a working instrument used in construction and craftsmanship to measure lengths without the appreciation of a laboratory vernier. The measuring tape may have one or two scales of length measures according to the market where the measuring tape is used. The imperial and metric scale is the two most used measure scales. The measuring tape has length range from 3m (10ft) to 30 m (100ft). The process of using the measuring tape has the following steps: catching the hooked end on one side of the object or space, stretching the tape across the object ...

Introduction

Over the past few months, the Customer Service department is facing a serious challenge in filling up the growing need for Customer Service Representatives (CSR) positions. This situation, if sustained much longer, may negatively impact on the superior quality that the company is providing its customers to support its high-quality products. The problem appears to be multi-faceted, which can only be determined until a thorough review of the job, the work flow, and job requirements (i.e., CSR knowledge, skills, and experience), in relation to current workloads and expectations, has been conducted. To insure an effective and efficient problem determination ...

Green Metric

1. Green Metric Green Metric is an energy management solutions company. It operates in a very relevant time period in the history of humankind. Today, conserving energy and improving returns is on the mind of every business manager globally. Green Metric offers cloud-based scalable solutions to measure and monitor facilities independent of their location. It helps organizations save not only energy cost, but also assists them in reducing downtime as well as expensive repairs. 2. Ranked Colleges/Universities in North and South Carolina

The top 10 ranked colleges in North and South Carolina, according to the report released by Green Metric are as follows:

North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University North Carolina Central University 3. Ranked Top 10 Colleges/Universities in the ...

“Effectiveness of Social Media Performance Metrics in the Attraction and Retention of Customers.”

CHAPTER ONE Problem Statement Social media has emerged as a contemporary platform of communication which has revolutionized the way people communicate with one another by creating a seamless network through which social media users can engage and interact with one another across the world (Marshall, 200, pg.20). The effectiveness and ease of use of these platforms has subsequently resulted in the emergence and mass subscription to these pages by millions of users across the world since they were first created over the last ten years (Sponder, 2011, pg67). These social media websites include Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Pintrest and Snapchat ...