Essays on Service

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Abstract

Nowadays, the role of English can be hardly overestimated. Being a truly global language, a pathway to greater opportunities and the window to broader knowledge and other cultures, English keeps widening the horizons of its possibilities and functions. At the same time, teaching English as a foreign language requires taking great responsibility and, therefore, it often appears as a truly challenging task. This research aims to consider the importance of teaching English as a second language and the implications that may arise during the learning process so as to define key tendencies and principles in ...

Businesses often turn to service marketing as a means of differentiating themselves from competitors or substitutes. The companies target the intangible aspects of the transaction process such as product delivery, superior customer services, rapid feedback programs, B2B services, rental services, amongst others. Martha White (2017) in “Traveling Is Stressful, but Do It With Us, Companies Say” examines how corporations use service marketing to boost their sales and expand the consumer base. The article is useful since it brings out various forms of service marketing which are utilized by hospitality and travel organizations to make journeys and vacations less stressful. ...

Regulation plays a significant function in driving the health care system. The federal government has instituted a series of regulatory agencies tasked with the protection of the public from risks that arise from facility-based activities. This discussion looks at four regulations that affect the LOS/Excess Days program at CGH.

• HIPAA

• HITECH Act • Affordable Care Act (ACA) • CMC’s Rule 1599-F Implemented under CMS, HIPAA requires that CGH reduces costs while providing better healthcare in a patient-centered environment. This regulation works to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of any program that falls under CGH’s jurisdiction (Miaoulis, 2010). The regulation is ...

The following is the outline we had to follow for our paper, the part in yellow is what I need you to complete for me please. The rest I have already done and the content I wrote can be found below.

1. Background (description of the problem or initial assumptions) a. List up the different aspects of the company’s background. b. Precisely identify the problem or challenge to be solved. c. Describe the initial assumptions for the elaboration of the plan. d. Presents a well-founded starting hypothesis, clearly written. 2. Company / Organization internal analysis. a. Develop a ...

The products and services provided in hotels, as a rule, are standard, but sometimes depending on the appointment of a hotel (business, rest) they can have specific nature. For me, the hotel is not just the place for a lodging for the night. It is the temporary house. The house in which everything is brought to perfection. And the most pleasant is that this perfection is not created by me. It isn't necessary to clean, bring things to the order. You can relax, you can behave more freely, it is possible to count on an invisible hand which will ...

A. Integrity

1. Maintaining confidentiality of customers’ personal details A travel agent, during the course of his employment will come across information of a sensitive and confidential nature, like bank statements, business plans, asset information, passport information, educational background, to mention a few, when they apply for overseas tour packages. The agent must take every effort to maintain confidentiality.

B. Commitment

2. Carrying out due diligence in providing cost effective tour packages A travel agent may provide local, national and international ticketing and travel services to customers. He should present the services from different air carriers, trains as well as hotels and resorts, ...

What are the standard logistics operational characteristics of a consumer product company?

Logistics costs reduction, improvement of inventory, and the availability and maintaining optimal service levels are some of the characteristics in standard logistics operations (Gudehus & Kotzab, 2012). Logistics costs management is an essential element in operations of a standard logistics company. Costs determine company efficiencies and earnings. A reduction in logistics cost increases efficiencies and a company’s profit earnings as well as ensuring customer satisfaction. Improving availability of inventory ensures that logistics processes are done in a timely and cost-effective manner. On the other hand, the maintenance of optimal service level ensures that the costs of products are reduced ...

Twitter before anything else a tool of communication, which large companies, such as airlines for example, use to improve the relationships with their clients providing them with a follow-up or additional customer care service. However, there are numerous ill-made decisions and misuse of the Twitter potential in terms of branding and upholding the image of the company.

Discussion

The companies that drew attention to their proficient skill in using the Twitter platform are American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines, and United Airlines. It is obvious that the general principles of use are similar. However, each company has a specific ...

Information technology is a growing industry as more organizations, companies, and industries seek to modernize their workspaces. The automation of most systems makes it easier for the organization to streamline its service delivery and cut costs on inappropriate purchases and supply. Moreover, it helps boosts the organization overall turnover and revenue at the end of each financial year. Therefore, contracts related to information and technology continues to increase on a daily basis as companies, organizations, and industries seek to be ahead of their competitors. It would be ideal for the proposed company to focus on information and technology contracts, ...

Assignment Executive Summary

Introduction Delivery of quality services is a priority in healthcare as excellence determines patient outcomes. Various factors affect quality service delivery in health facilities. Healthcare facilities employ the most competent healthcare professionals yet patients continue to receive poor quality services. The hospital setting is dynamic as different personnel are responsible for the patient’s well being. Proper communication structures between health professionals reduce chances of information misinterpretation or conveyance of erroneous information. Both medical and non-medical factors affect the quality of service. According to Hughes (2008), delivery of poor services occurs because of errors within the healthcare system. For ...

The ethical dilemmas associated with the advocacy campaign are both micro and macro in term of the scope of coverage. The micro level of the ethical issues involves the individual level, while the macro represents the societal level. Therefore, the essay will entail an analysis of the ethical dilemmas in the first section, paying adequate attention to the same based on the wide information base. Firstly, the ethical dilemma arises in determining when to embark in the execution of the advocacy campaign. In particular, it is necessary that the campaign takes place at a time when all the necessary ...

Introduction

Social work is a noble endeavor of the highest order. In the midst of all sorts of negativity, man still finds time to help his fellow beings. A charitable organization can also be a source of income if one has the resources to further this cause. Donations and volunteering are the major source of income for non-profit companies today. Twin Cedars is one such organization that is involved in charity for empowering children, youth, families, and the community in general. This essay begins with the goals and objectives and the formal structure of Twin Cedars. It also discusses the ...

Term limits are an essential part of legislative control, but the processes also detriment the welfare of central actors in the system. Actors in the legislative system especially the members of the Senate are regarded in the office stay, and their careers also conform to the same criteria. Limitations in the American legislature deter the existence of service deliveries in public. Moreover, the fact that the advocacy was acquired through the use of voters has approval enhancing the functioning of the legislature. Principally, the essence of term limits was orchestrated under the participation of Congressmen from large states in ...

Business Project Plan

Business Project Plan In the contemporary age, carefully managing the mental and social health concerns of the veterans is a crux role of every government, and this demands every responsible government to formulate an action plan that can be applied in the management of these health concerns. This is especially so as medical scholars continue to acquire new insights regarding the mental, vocational or physical health of veterans as applies to mental health, as well as the difficult and traumatic experience of the veterans in their transitioning to normal life after completion of service (American Public Health Association, 2014). ...

Project 1: Evaluation Plan

Evaluation Method For a favorable assessment of this QI initiative, the quality control department proposes the utilization of the formative evaluation (FE) approach. There are four main types of FE analyses that can result in an exhaustive evaluation of this program, namely developmental, implementation, progress, and interpretive assessments. For instance, implementation-focused analysis evaluates differences between plan execution and implementation. Here, the sources of data include stakeholder interviews, focus group discussions, observations, and patient charts (McGowan, Cusack, & Poon, 2008). Contrarily, progress analysis concentrates on progress towards improvement and implementation at first intervention. The analysis considers clinical performance data on process ...

Although preventive care service provision has a general guideline, to offer evidence-based practice, the medical practitioners are under obligation to ask the patient the following questions, among others. The family history concerning particular diseases like cancer, hypertension, diabetes, and other genetic diseases. In this regards, the nursing officer would establish the susceptibility of the patient to these conditions. Diagnosing of family members with such conditions may occur along the way and, therefore, it is important the nurse gets to know about it every time the patient visits the clinic. Moreover, the nurse should ask about exercise and weight management ...

Background

Today, the financial industry is more regulated than any other time in the history of economic globalization. However, the lack of fundamental professional behavior, ethics, and compliance raises the important question whether the current financial sector in Australia is destined for an endemic future. The persistent fraud cases in the Australian financial industry paints an impression that behaviors are yet to change even after experiencing the global financial predicament that emanated from the US. The recent ANZ suspected interbank interest rate rigging, CBA’s CommInsure denial of compensation to legitimate claims from terminally ill patients, and the Macquarie Group ...

I agree with the assertions that Air Canada’s innovation team played a significant role in improving air travel experiences for customers. The “data –driven” team led the innovation efforts at Air Canada. Their focus has been on improving the customers’ experience. Data serves as a critical element that allows the innovation team to acquit themselves and comprehend the way customers are using the various Air Canada’s self-service channels. The innovation processes are involved in identifying the programs that work, the ones that do not, and the processes that can be improved. The innovative technology strategy has led ...

Today, terrorism is among the top international threats and the exercise of radicalization is on the rise and civilization is hurting. Led by the misconception of liberalization, rebellious groups are cultivating violence against the public. Usually, these groups are Islamic militants honoring a misleading perception of Islamic faith. Since 9/11 attack, global Jihad is gaining momentum and successfully penetrating and operating in developing regions such as West Africa. This part of the African continent has fell prey to extremism by terror groups and the main ones include Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), a part of the dreaded Al-Qaeda, ...

Purpose

This paper intends to investigate how well the Pakistan pharmaceutical industry’s supply chain system performs. The thesis aims to achieve this purpose by examining the transportation, outsourcing, logistics management, and government regulations, and how these factors influence the efficiency and effectiveness of the pharmaceutical industry of Pakistan. In particular, the paper provides insights into the performance related practices used in the Pakistani pharmaceutical industry. Consequently, it points out the need for more research aimed at capturing dynamics and specific operational characteristics of local networks for development and improvement. Further, by denoting the relationship between system practices and SCM ...

Part 1

A: When working in the home and community, the best practice and current sector approaches to working with clients include: using person-centred practice, working in a consumer-directed care model, and understanding the potential for empowerment versus disempowerment when supporting clients.

The care worker integrates these contexts into their support work on all levels.

Complete the table below by describing each approach and giving an example of how you might integrate this in your support work with a client: B. Case Study. Read this case study and then answer the questions below.

Complete the table outlining:

Two areas where Mrs. Brady and Justin could target in a CDC package What could be arranged for each area of ...

My name is Hoyi Tsui and I was born in 1991 in Hong Kong, China. While I was born in Hong Kong, I immigrated with my family to the United States when I was seven years old and have since lived in Salisbury, Maryland, which I consider my home. I always had a passion for biology and medicine and was thrilled to learn that a career in pharmacy was within my grasp after searching through a local community college catalog in 20011. Not long after this discovery, I found great success as a student in the college’s “Pharmacy ...

Introduction

For understanding how the corn industry and the industry of water, I have interviewed with the marketing professionals from these two industries. Considering that marketing departments monitor the demand conditions, they can give us adequate information about their market.

Interviewer: What type of industry are you operating in? Marketing Professional 1: Producing corn requires using large lands, machinery, and knowledge of cultivating corn. Therefore, a company needs to have a high amount of financial resources to enter this market. Also, producing corn requires having the scientific knowledge for agricultural production. Changing climate and worse environmental conditions force us to ...

Business ethics

Business Ethics

Walmart Stores Inc. is founded on value-based and code of ethics principles. The value based and code of ethics helps the organization’s leadership in making appropriate decisions. The basic beliefs of the Walmart Stores Inc. focus on excellence achievement and code of ethics. The vision of the Walmart Stores Inc. is based on the global ethics in promoting ethical culture to its global stakeholders. Business codes of ethics are essential for an organization in making right decisions and acting with integrity (Kenny, 2007). Walmart Stores has strived in serving its customers with acts of integrity within ...

I. Physical Network Design

Introduction

A. Network Topology Business Needs In order to complete the needed full-time assignment efficiently and effectively, the University of Maryland University College will need a system in addition to tools to help the student attain their objectives. This entails new office space, a library, classrooms and computer labs will be able to achieve this capacity and optimize student learning potential

Proposed Topology

In order to plan for the facility of the network, I am proposing a star network topology for the facilities networking. This kind of network infrastructure is considered expensive due to numerous network devices that ...

Part 4

A. The impact of being a carer can be felt in many different ways.Complete the table below outlining who is the carer, and the impact to the carer in each of the situations from the scenario. B. Now that Kostas is in the CareShore residential facility, Anna’s care relationship with him has changed. State the current or potential risks for Anna with the change to the care relationship. C: In this scenario, Anna is not visiting Kostas. Outline what you could do to assist Anna to visit Kostas and to participate in the changes and transition of moving ...

BUSINESS PLAN

Rahim Chowdhury, Owner 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1.1 Product The main product of the company is wireless and telecommunication device offered by the TMOBILE. The company will be the authorized dealer of TMOBILE to offer the products from TMOBILE to the customers. 1.2 Customers The main customers of the company will be the one who are in need of wireless and telecommunication device offered by TMOBILE. The TMOBILE customers will be able to purchase the product from this retail stores. 1.3 What Drives Us The goal of the company is to provide consumers with all needs of wireless communication. We ...

InstaCart Financial Feasibility

License: InstaCart will obtain a license to engage in food delivery business from Brent council at £52 per annum. Furniture: InstaCart will spend £15,000 on office furniture and fittings. InstaCart being a service business does not have any other capital expenditure.

Marketing: InstaCart will spend £20,000 on pre-launch marketing promotion and 5% of total revenue on on-going marketing efforts.

Revenue: InstaCart will charge customers £1 per mile. Each rider is expected to cover 30 miles per hour. InstaCart will hire 20 riders working 40 hours a week. InstaCart projects revenue to increase by 10% every month for the first year of operations. In addition, InstaCart will earn 10% commission from hotels. Riders will earn a commission ...

With the new invention of technology, marketing is taking another way that might be a threat or beneficial in the marketing industry. The imperative of digital engagement and innovation have emerged in the business and mostly the marketing sector. The businesses now realize the need to use the digital platform to engage with their customers, key stakeholders so as to maintain the relevance and the drive for conversations (Kittaneh, 2014). However, few people in the market realize how fast the change should take place, or how fast the transformational the process should be. Therefore, the business needs to embrace ...

The Effect of Social Media on the Selection or the Desire of UAE Nationals Living in Abu Dhabi to Choose a Tourism Destination- Research Prospectus

Abstract

The study seeks to find out the impact of social media on the choice of travel destinations by UAE national who live in Abu Dhabi. The problem that the survey aims to address is the role of social media factors in influencing decision-making by consumers of tourism services. The study acknowledges that social media plays an imperative role in influencing consumers’ choice of their travel destination, which makes an important aspect for the study. ...

InstaCart: Food Delivery Business

Before venturing into any market, it is imperative to research the various factors which may impact the business in that particular environment. One of the tools widely used to conduct an analysis of the external business environment is the PESTLE analysis (Arline, 2014). A PESTLE analysis refers to a tool employed by marketers to analyze the external factors that may impact the success of an organization. The outcome of a PESTLE analysis can be used by an organization to pinpoint threats and weaknesses facing an organization. In this paper, we shall conduct a pest analysis for InstaCart food delivery ...

JetBlue is an airline company which is good at building long-term customer relationships. The staff take into account their customers’ needs: more legroom when flying coach, the LCD entertainment system embedded in each seat, free beverages and snacks on board, and facilities to use email and messaging services in the air. Moreover, the company offers other services which customers want: reserving ‘Even More Legroom’ seats for extra $10 and watching a movie or television show for another $6 on board; high-ending dining, retail stores with a wide selection of goods, and lounge areas for adults and children in the ...

HR and Information Technology (HRIS)

Introduction Business undertaking involves various pitfalls such as poor organizational traditions, the big squeeze, identity crisis, and organizational failure. These pitfalls continue to be inevitable in an organization until effective HR is adopted. Research has established that the creation of consistent and sustained competitive advantage is achievable through effective HR (Pouransari, Al-Karaghouli, & Dey, 2016). Human resources must be managed well for the success of an organization. Every individual working in an organization plays a contributory role in its management. Tarawneh (2012) argued that since human resources are needed in all aspects of business operations ranging from production to marketing, ...

Pinewood Toronto Studios

Pinewood Toronto Studios is both a film and television studio complex based in Toronto State, Ontario, Canada. The studios operate both locally and internationally in the two field’s film and television industries. Its services include video shooting, music, and video production and airing of televisions shows to its clients. Pinewood Toronto Studios also have on-site media hub, 18 purposes built sound stages, workshop, TV studios, full-service post facility and black lots used for outdoor filming with a big land of natural forests. All these features of the studios integrate to make it a world-class production studio. The studio ...

Promote a healing environment to my patients and their family members that always reflect my most cherished personal values of kindness, unconditional caring and giving without an urge to get anything in return. Recognize that all my patients have a pure limitless soul in temporary physical bodies with several limitations that require a thorough understanding of the holistic healing process that involves treating a person’s body, mind and soul for sustainable well-being. Provide high quality service to all my clients by effectively integrating my knowledge, skills and personal virtues that speeds up the spiritual and physical healing process. ...

Product Introduction and the Market

Technology is developing at a rapid pace. These changes are influenced by the internal organizational strategies as well as an external environment that determines the evolution of consumer demand and expectations. Companies constantly seek for technology-driven solutions to operational excellence and enhanced customer experience (Porter, 2008). One of the most recent trends, driven by technological development are drones and the potential for these devices in the enhancement of customers' e-commerce experience. While academic and business literature outlines the polarization of the views on the use of delivery drones in the commercial market, the potential and attractiveness this service for ...

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 ...

Corporate social responsibility is defined as a business approach in which the long term interests of all concerned stakeholders are taken into consideration instead of only focusing on the company’s profitability. Social responsibility therefore implies that organizations must act in the best interests of their stockholders as well as the society in which they operate. Keeping this perspective in mind, PayPal’s decision to discontinue its services for websites dealing in obscene content is completely ethical, responsible and the right thing to do. The CSR Pyramid encapsulates the four levels of responsibilities that a business organization must ideally ...

Question 1

Dittenhoefer Fine Company of China is competing on several dimensions. To begin with, the company will compete on customer service. Irrespective of how good the product is, the product may start to get bad reviews with bad customer service. If there is no improvement in the customer service, then the number of orders made may experience a sharp decline. The second quality dimension that the company can compete on is reliability. Prior to the introduction of the polymer coating machine, the company boasted of a good reliability record. However, a lot of reliability issues have been experienced over the ...

1. American Customer Outlook of a “Microwave Mentality” in Demanding Quick Service, Instant Food, and Fast Results. Does this describe me as a customer? I am in agreement with this notion to have “microwave mentality” since I have always wanted to get things done in an instant. This is because human psychology is eager to have quick urges about the fulfillment of one’s needs and wants regardless of the resources. To make a profit and gain more customer attention, organizations have applied this human psychology for their own benefit. As a customer, I can observe in various business ...

Lyft’s Profile and Background

Lyft is an American online transportation firm it is a car-hiring company that grounds its services on a mobile app. The San-Francisco-based firm is the second-best in online transportation industry behind Uber. However, Uber outshines Lyft in almost all facets of online transportation network ranging from marketing to revenue generation. For instance, while Uber is swiftly running internationally with even successful operations in developing countries, Lyft is still contained in the US but expanding on the scale of cities (UPI NewsTrack 1). Nevertheless, the company is showing immense efforts to improve and maintain its competitive edge. One of the ...

Question 1

As of 2015, Loganville window treatments were conducting a batch-process type of manufacturing in its line of production. Batch processing involves producing one or several forms of a product or batch. The batches are of a given quantity, and further production of new batches relies on how fast the stock is depleted. The Loganville window treatments would produce 500 -1000 batches of the interior shutters and hold the end products in their stores awaiting an order. The new orders would receive supply form the stored batches and only after depletion of the batches would the company start production of ...

Social work practice in organizations

The logic model for programming and evaluation The article stipulates that a logical model is a tool used by program managers to determine the effectiveness of the created programs. It focuses mainly on planning. The plan is usually based on a verity of elements that entails situations, inputs, outputs and outcomes. The process is also affected by external factors including the environment and other related programs. The results of the process can be a short, medium or long term. For effective planning, the development of measurable goals might help determine whether the planning process is active or not. An ...

Organ donation and transplantation are notable hallmarks in medicine. Medical advancements are significantly confronting complicated conditions through organ transplantation and related practices such as grafting. Over the years, the procedures have grown and developed. However, organ donation and transplantation are surrounded by various ethical and legal issues. This paper discusses these issues in detail and elicits the relationship between them. The analysis is in line with both the support and opposition of organ donation and transplantation, particularly in Australia. The paper will also provide my personal stance and the final ethical decision by leveraging several theoretical perspectives – deontology, consequentialism, ...

When it comes to Human Resource Management, things tend to get a tad bit trickier considering how the HR department’s entire job is to maintain the upkeep of the people to ensure the upkeep of the facility. That being said, there are a few factors the HR department needs to consider before they can perfectly say that have done the best HR planning for the sports complex. For starters they need to make sure there are enough people doing the work and the maintenance of the facility is going as planned. Secondly, they need to make sure that ...

SWOT Analysis

Strengths of Netflix Strong market position Multi-platform streaming Track record of building successful partnerships Ownership of original programming No ads in its programs Weaknesses of Netflix Competitor Redbox has made significant inroads to Netflix’s DVD rental market. The Netflix service is dependent on outside providers of streaming hardware and internet services in order to reach its customers. Opportunities for Netflix Competitors of streaming entertainment are more expensive (Amazon Prime), have ads (Hulu), or are available only over a single platform (Apple). Netflix could make an issue of this in its marketing materials. There may be markets for different ...

In 2015, the Powerwall was launched by Tesla. The powerwall is a rechargeable lithium ion battery that can be mounted on the wall. Tesla manufactures the pack and module while the cells of the powerwall come from Panasonic. The powerwall can save electricity that was generated from solar panels. It gets energy from the utility grid while there are low rates (Muoio, 2016). The energy will then be stored for future use. Aside from this, the powerwall serves as backup source of power in case there would be power shortage. Many changes were already made by Tesla to improve ...

In today’s culture, the world religion means many different things. For some, religion is an ideology, a set of beliefs that guide their daily living and decision making. It provides for them not only a moral compass, but a hope for the hereafter. For others, religion is more cultural. Many people believe that that are a particular religion simply because they have been born in a certain geographic location. They do not practice any particular rituals or attend any services, but consider themselves religious because of their culture and history. The way that religion is defined is deeply ...

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 ...

Psychology

Based on the information provided about Melissa and her performance skills complete the following; List three areas that the occupational therapy services should address within the school environment. The three occupational therapy services to be addressed within the school environment include the physical therapy, speech, and mental therapy. The three services help in addressing the three main points of need according to Melissa’s condition.

Design age-appropriate occupation-based activities that address each of the areas identified above.

The age-appropriate activities for the areas include exercise for the physical therapy, speech lessons for speech therapy and questionnaires for mental therapy. Each therapy helps in addressing the various areas of need for Melissa’ ...

Whether technology by itself is enough to ensure high-quality customer service or not

Although technology improves the quality of services to customers, it does not ensure that high-quality services are offered to clients due to various reasons. First, cyber crimes have been a great challenge to technology. Companies, which have maintained close connections with technology, have been victims of cyber crimes and thus reduced customer service. Through hacking, miscellaneous individuals have managed to tamper with the company data thus causing inconveniences to both the company and its customers. Identity theft has also been observed to be a factor, which lowers the company customer care relationships. Individuals have also managed to gain access ...

I. Company Overview The apparel industry is a highly competitive and almost exclusively based on image. As fashion becomes "fast", i.e. designing and selling apparel becomes more for masses as opposed to a conventional haute couture model, established and emerging players alike are competing over an increasingly powerful market segment, namely Millennials, who continue to shape business across different industries. Forever 21 is one notable example of apparel companies competing, primarily, over Millennial customers. Forever 21, operating in seven countries in addition to Europe, is a notable example of an established apparel player adapting to continuous changes in apparel ...

Introduction

A small accounting firm has 20 computers and two multipurpose printers that are all connected wirelessly to a NETGEAR MR814 device that is connected to a Motorola SB3100 cable modem. The firm also has 20 employees who emails accounts are set up through the organization’s internet service provider. To access their email accounts, the staff use Microsoft Outlook and standard web browsers. The company wants to move from using wireless connection as the primary network connection but want to maintain wireless access for their customers in the building. To do this, the firm has hired a contractor to ...

Management Information Systems

Green Information Technology or Green IT refers to the use of environmentally sustainable computing. It aims at minimizing the negative effects of Information Technology practices on the ecosystem. This is achieved through designing, fabricating, operating and disposing computers as well as other computer related items in a way that is friendly to the environment. The reasons behind green information technology procedures include but not limited to reduction of the consumption of dangerous materials, increasing energy efficiency during the IT products’ lifespan and promoting the recyclability of unused as well as obsolete IT products. The concept of green Information Technology ...

Cloud computing is no longer a buzzword it used to be not so long ago; nowadays it is a full-fledged business with strong competition on the market. Cloud computing is a subscription-based service aimed both at corporate and private clients. In essence, this somewhat ‘cloudy’ term means renting server space and computing power to host websites without having to actually own any of the equipment or needing to have a team of system administrators on a payroll. The status of things such as servers used to be blurred to some degree in the past. While there were companies which ...

LIMITED UNDERSTANDING OF THE PERCEPTION OF AFRICAN WOMEN IMMIGRANTS IN THE UK AS THE RESULT TO THE CURRENT TREND OF INADEQUATE CLINICAL INTERVENTION FOR POSTNATAL DEPRESSION PATIENTS Limited understanding of the perception of African Women Immigrants in the UK the Cause of the Current trend of inadequate Clinical Intervention

Introduction

Over the recent decades, the number of immigrants settling in the UK has grown exponentially to give the country a new outlook on cultural diversity. With these social changes, new demands have been imposed on the healthcare sector to provide health services in ways that promote social justice. According to ...

IT Strategy Report for Starbucks

It is imperative for every company to have a distinctive element in its strategy for drawing in customers and producing a competitive edge. Starbucks has been triumphant in commanding its way in the market since its humble beginnings as a Seattle-based coffee shop back in 2008. Over the years, Starbucks has grown into having a competitive advantage over its competitors. The customer service is top-notch, and the atmosphere is rich that draws in crowds from all walks of life. Starbucks has indeed earned a sustainable competitive advantage by offering the highest quality coffee-based beverages, creation of an emotional attachment ...

Abstract

The Air transport industry is growing globally and specifically in the Asia-Pacific region as the demand for air transport services grows and infrastructural development continues. Singapore has emerged as an important air transport hub in the Asia-Pacific region owing to its strategic geographical location, developed infrastructure, connectivity to other regions of the world, and its well-defined regulatory environment. Singapore is a major air transport hub as it is strategically located in the Strait of Malacca which puts it at the crossroads of important air routes, particularly between major economic blocs such as Japan and Europe. The emergence of Singapore ...

Ever since I came here for educational purposes, I have worked seasonal jobs in various companies because I believed that education was very important in finding a good job. Working on seasonal jobs was a good option for me because I did not want to work full time for any company and then resign when I become swamped with schoolwork later on. Thus, instead of resorting to this option, I decided to work for six months only for every company I worked for. In my opinion, companies do not care so much about an individual’s degree. Rather, they ...

Affiliated Institution

Introduction The concept of Homeland Security was precipitated by the terrorist attacks of 9/11 (Shawn 2013). According to the quadrennial homeland security review (2014), the goal of homeland security department and its partners is to build a safe, secure, and resilient nation. This goal is continuously threatened by the evolving nature of terrorism and natural disastrous among other risk factors. In order to mitigate the effects of the risks and threats to the safety, security, and resilience of the nation, the (Department of Homeland Security) DHS developed the five missions to help the department and its partners achieve its ...