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Background of Trucking Deregulation in the US

Trucking was primarily a highly regulated industry in the United States (US), mainly because rail freight was initially preferred for transporting goods, particularly heavy materials. The Motor Carrier Act of 1935 imposed a restriction on the entry of new players in the trucking industry and the specification of certain truck routes under the administration of the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC). Yet, the emergence of antitrust laws towards the 1950s and the growing financial stability of the trucking industry led to the passage of the Reed-Bullwinkle Act. The Reed-Bullwinkle Act further oversaw the growing prosperity ...

A Case Study Analysis

Step I: Understanding the Situation
Step I (A). List and number of relevant facts of the case
Step I (B). Facts in (A) that raises an ethical issue, reasons, and potential or resulting harms.
Step I (C). List and number of all stakeholders involved in the case.

List of principal stakeholders (here you should use a bulleted list).

- National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
- Legislative branch of the government (e.g., solons, courts)
- Other state and federal government agencies
- Other concerned stakeholders (especially the public)
- Gigantic Motors Corporation (GMC)
- GMC’s Rugged Trucks Company (RTC)
- Dynamic ...

Wannasri Sriphatsaraphikhup

Strayer University
ENG215: Research and Writing
Revision of Part One A: Problem exists
Introduction
The increasing use of cell phones on our roads has become a major issue, not only for those who use them while driving, but for others who use the road as well. Cellphones are a major distraction, and many deaths have been reported largely due to its use while driving. Texting while driving is a common phenomenon, as it takes the risk of being detected by law officers away, and while it has become an alarmingly growing trend, it has also become one of ...

Revision of part one a: Problem exists

Introduction
Increasing cellphone usage in our roads, today, is a major problem. It increases the risk of accidents and has led to the loss of lives. Cellphones are an important means of communication which will remain in use for a long time. A solution must then be sought to curb mobile phone usage while driving. The following thesis proposes a solution for curbing cellphone usage while driving.

Discussion

In part one, a problem exists cellphone use while driving is under discussion. The Professor and classmates agree that cellphone use while driving is a major problem as it may result to fatal accidents and loss ...

It is vital for the companies to increase their financial belongings holdings in order to compete with other peer companies. The main perspective of this assignment relates to a case study of a company with the name of “Kids R People 2 Transportation Limited”.

Kid’s R People 2 Transportation LTD (KRP2) was mainly operated from two divisions in the Greater Montreal, Quebec area. Some of the key success factors relating to the company are mentioned below:
- According to the case, the network of the company is large and effective, there are around 400 schools’ vehicles on the road
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Business

Environmental and Root Cause Analysis
Totalline Transport is facing the problem of unloading the goods in a timely manner for delivering it to the Electronics International. Because of the unloading the drivers of the trucks are late to deliver the product in a timely manner. The unloading problem is because of the complexity of the products, and the size of the products. the huge size products such as refrigerators take more time, and the drivers become late to deliver the other products in a timely manner. The carrier is charged because of arriving late. The General Manager and the ...

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 ...

Summary of the Decision Situation

Just like any other company venturing into a new business, Uber is facing both marketing and pricing challenges. Uber has placed various services into use to ensure that it beats its competitors in providing ride-sharing services in the United States and other parts of the world, such as Europe, Asia, and Africa. Lyft is the main competitor Uber is facing in most of the United States cities. In the international platform, Uber faces a bigger competitive challenge more so in the Chinese market from companies such as Didi Kuaidi. Some of Uber’s services include charging their customers based ...

The situation at Zyedego illustrates how difficult ethical leadership and decision making can be for many HR managers. The situation also symbolizes the increased importance for addressing matters that touch on ethical and legal considerations for many an organization (Linda, Ferell, and Fraedrich, 147). Many managers often encounter situations where determining what is right or wrong is a challenge. For this reason, ethics always becomes an issue of concern for many managers. Despite the importance of ethics in decision making, widespread moral lapses in the corporate world has contributed to the collapse of respected organizations. Adopting appropriate code of ethics ...

Abstract

Intoxication is being in a state of alcoholic or narcotic intoxication. The government is increasingly sensitive to the cases of operating a vehicle while intoxicated, explaining that the drunk driver is endangering both for their life, health and property, and other road users. However, as practice shows, the number of the detained drunk drivers increases dramatically around the holidays.
If the circumstances of the crime are clear, and in a short time collected all the necessary evidence, the Prosecutor may apply to the court to hear the case under expedited proceedings. Basically, criminal cases associated with DUI are dealt ...

Introduction
United Parcel Service (UPS) is a private company that deals with package delivery. It has it’s headquarter in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Due to technological advances, human population’s growth coupled with an increase in the world’s competition and consumer demands, companies have designed new methods in order to meet the increased consumer needs. This has called for changes in the service delivery systems.
Companies dealing with service delivery such as United Parcel service have focused on improving their delivery services at affordable costs by developing new technologies.
United Parcel Service has developed new ...

RE: EXPRESS OF NO MERIT ON THE CASE FILED BY SOFIA LUI’S FAMILY

Question Presented
The question I raise is that, was Uber system responsible for the death of Sofia Lui, and was the case filed by Sofia’s family has any merit?

Short answer

According to the arguments raised by the plaintiffs, Sofia Lui family represented by Attorney Christopher Dolan; there is no evidence linking Uber System to the death of Sofia Lui. The driver in contention was a contractor who had been given a job by Uber System but at the moment of the accident, the driver in mention did not have any account with the company. Mr. Muzaffar, the driver, was not ...

The VRIO analysis is a section of a bigger strategic plan of a company. The first strategic process that any company goes through is the vision statement followed by the objectives, then the external and internal analysis, strategic choices, and finally the strategic implementation. Any particular firm will hope that the scheme consequence is a competitive advantage in the marketplace that the company operates in. The VRIO framework is used to analyze Uber to determine whether it is positioned for a sustained competitive advantage. VRIO is an abbreviation for the four basic questions that one asks in order to ...

Summary: Investigate and Analyze the Company’s History and Growth

AT&T is an American company formed in 1983. Since its formation, the company has been one of the market leaders when it comes to offering telephone services in the United States. In terms of customer volume, the company is the second largest communication company with an estimated 81.6 million subscribers and users. Furthermore, globally, AT&T is one of the leading telecommunication provider as it offers its basic services in 215 countries around the world (AT&T, 2015). The company was able to grow into the digital age and provide customers with digital services such as internet services, SMS, and voice ...

1. Immense amount of resources of a company goes into planning the structure of the company. The costs and benefits of every form of structure are weighed. For example, it is often difficult to choose between centralization and decentralization or between a tall hierarchy and a short one. All of these factors are given so much consideration because they ultimately determine the amount of productivity of employees. A firm’s success depends on the willingness of its employees to steer it on a prosperous path. Therefore, it is absolutely indispensable to take care that the employees do not go through a burnout.
Employee ...

Alistair is a chief legal officer in a well-respected company involved in making lifesaving drugs. He has been asked by the board of the company to investigate rumors of price-fixing within the firm’s European offices. In the course of him doing his mandated duty, he encounters a breach in the operation of one of his firms, involving a Bosnia contract in which a very large commission was paid to Romanian distributor to deliver the kits into Bosnia.
Problem statement: Alistair as a chief legal officer has to make a decision whether this is a form of bribe and if so, whether to write a report to ...

Introduction

Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (MEEI) is a non- profit organization which for the past decades has had problems in its evaluation on the way the cost are being evaluated and appropriated to patients. The system that was being employed in the hospital was insinuated to be ineffective in the sense that it did not put into consideration all the necessary measures that are required before allocating costs. According to the executive director, Mr. Charles wood, there is a need to change the traditional method used in evaluating the costs and instead embrace the new method. Central to his thoughts, the ...

Energy drink is among the alternative beverages that have shown rapid growth in the beverage industry in the mid-2000s in the United States. As a response to the declining demand for carbonated soft drinks due to shifting consumer preferences towards beverages like energy drinks, sports drink, bottled water, fruit juices, ready-to-drink tea, vitamin-enhanced beverages, ready-to-drink coffee, and other types of beverages, PepsiCo had relied on these alternative beverages for its sustained growth in mature markets, and prospectively, market expansion for alternative beverages to emerging international markets.
In 2009, PepsiCo led in the beverage industry in most beverage categories other ...

1. Using the information presented in this chapter, what changes would you suggest to Jim?
Jim, on the advice of Stacey, may proceed with a number of changes such as the use of relay terminals, sleeper teams or break-bulk terminals to reduce the time its drivers are on the road. With the help of relay terminals, Jim’s drivers would stay within the limit of 10 hours’ time while sleeper teams would enable drivers to relax while other teams may be driving the carrier through the route. Use of break-bulk terminals would further allow unloading entire trailers at a ...

Uber has been a very aggressive company when it comes to its marketing and operation strategies. The transportation network company (TNC) has managed to abolish any obstacle that has stood in its way in terms of legal authorities, competitors, transportation delays, and high demand, etc. Despite the fact that the company has experienced massive success in recent years due to its unique business model, the young company continues to face various obstacles in its operations and their growth.
The key problem that the company seems to be facing is that of the effect of aggressive opponents on its customer ...

Managing Organization Change

An organization’s existence and operation are always influenced and shaped by different environmental drivers that surround it. These drivers may have their genesis within and outside that particular organization. The sensitivity or insensitivity to these environmental dynamics may contribute to the survival or the fall of an organization respectively (Dixon & Day 2010, p. 275). The institutional environment is always changing with time and knowledge advancement. What may have worked and led to success in a given organization at one point may become outdated and obsolete. Failure of an organization to evolve in relation to these changes may result ...

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Introduction

A seldom noted observation device geared to monitor the movements of every passing motorist is rapidly spreading on America’s thoroughfares. “Automatic license plate readers” that are placed on police cruisers or on stationary locations such as bridges-utilize small high speed cameras to take pictures of thousands of license plates every minute. The data taken by the readers-inclusive of the plate of the vehicle, the date, time and area of the scanning-is then gathered and at times lumped together into regional data pools. As a result of these activities, innocent motorists have their private information taken and pooled into ...

- Hardware specification for server and client’s compatibility
The hardware requirements specification for server and client’s compatibility will involve network adaptor which consists of hardware and software that allows communication between interface and physical network as well as operating system to communicate with the interface. PCMI card, USB or Serial devices are some of the hardware choices. The firmware and operating system driver will be needed to run card and enhance communication with the device respectively.(Wepman,2014).For 100 clients(fewer than 250 users) in this case,1 single core CPU(2.13 GHz),2Gb of ...

Fitness industry business is one of the booming activities in the present business milieu. A fitness business focuses on offering individual training, fitness instruction and utilization of the fitness facility to those interested in pursuing their individual fitness objectives. Starting a fitness business does not require the initiators to be fitness gurus, but a passion in fitness or readiness to adopt a fitness lifestyle such as Zumba forms a critical part of success in the industry. This response to the case study seeks to consider various business models that Zumba could use to establish a successful business. In addition, a recommendation will be offered on ...

Many people have been away from home where they searched the area for unsecured networks and used them to access the internet. Many people rationalize this behavior with the assertion that if a network is accessible they are not breaking the law by using it for legitimate purposes. However, internet service contracts specify that there can be no sharing of bandwidth. This means using unsecured networks, with or without the permission of the owner, is illegal. While it may be legal to locate unsecured networks, using them can lead to jail time. Given that the person may leave it on a ...

Critically evaluate the macro and micro-competitive environments facing airline companies using module and framework?

For the micro-competitive environment, I will be analysing Ryanair against The Five Forces Framework. Under this framework, the competitive rivalry is linked to threats from potential entrants, bargaining power of buyers, threat from substitutes, and bargaining power of suppliers. The threat from potential entrants is relative less due to the nature of the aviation industry. The major reason being the capital required to start a new airlines. Any new entrant will have a well thought of strategy to take on Ryanair. From the case study it seems they have most of the things correct. Any new entrant, besides the capital requirement, ...

Q1. Qualitative Analysis:

The quality of chemicals outsourced was in question hence the company had to do something about it. It could choose another company to outsource especially if in sourcing would be expensive.

This would reduce the expense of recruiting new employees, building a new facility and paying for all the permissions and certificates required. It would also save the company operational additional operational cost (Brown, and Wilson, 2005).

Demerits of Continued Outsourcing

The company would continue to experience quality problems and the high cost of transportation would persist.
Merits of In Sourcing
The company would be in control of production hence producing high ...

Andrew is Alberta Branch manager for Dominion Tanking Limited. He needs to be assigned a trucking contract by Natural Fertilizers Limited. If assigned, his company will do liquid fertilizer delivery for Natural Fertilizer Limited. This particular contract is very essential to Andrew since it highly contributes to the future existence of his branch. In other words, the head office can decide to close his branch down since it will bring any financial gain. Andrew is very certain about this action since another branch named Wetaskiwin was just closed down a year earlier, based on the same grounds. In addition, Andrew could ...

Background

Successful modern business marketing lays emphasis on meeting the needs of the customers. This focus is a departure in the opposite direction from the traditional business whose major concern was selling its products or services. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is one way of meeting not only the direct customers’ desires but also the needs and expectations of all the stakeholders of a business (Ortenblad 2016). Unethical profiteering practices of large companies and customer awareness due to free flow of information have forced many companies to make CSR a key strategic focus in their conduct of business. Besides enabling a ...

Visualize a particular time when you needed to acquire a new mobile phone. The processes of deciding on a particular model are usually complicated and thus as a prospective buyer, you may have opted to acquire one of the most popular brand. Another method of simplifying that decision would have been going for the brand that worked well for you in the past and opt for the newer improved version of the same. In other cases, a recommendation from a friend or just copying what your peers are using may have influenced your decision to go for a particular ...

Where in the World We Might Be Headed Next?

It is almost certain that the world order that it was – when the United States was the only superpower – is now changing. In fact, the profound social change from the initial simple world characterized by democracy and common desirable goals seems to be less dominant. Today, nations are more divided as they lack a particular common drive that is truly an international agenda. Expertise commentaries suggest that there are several possibilities that could happen in the next decade. According to Doug Saunders (2014), the possibilities can be forecasted according to five contemplates scenarios. This paper selects “a New Cold ...

GPS-to-GO Takes On Garmin Case Analysis

Central Problem
The case study highlights the challenges faced by GPS-to-Go, a Global GPS’s subsidiary when venturing into consumer GPS market. GPS-to-Go had already succeeded in creating complex GPS systems for air traffic and logistic. The company’s management led by Michael Scott now wanted it to venture into the consumer GPS market by developing new products including GO I GPS, GO II GPS, and GO III GPS. The management was optimistic that the company could outdo the well-established competitors in this market due to a vast portfolio of patents from Global GPS, its parent company. Nonetheless, the ...

TEOCO (the employee-owned company)

Introduction
TEOCO positions itself as the key provider of Engineering, Analytics and Assurance services to the providers of communication services worldwide (TEOCO, 2016). The predecessor of TEOCO, a Strategic Technology Group, was launched in 1994 and focused on providing consultancy services for IT projects. In March 1998 the company was given a new name TEOCO (the employee-owned company). The renaming of the company was concerned with its recent strategic decision to turn from consultancy services to product development, as well as shift from IT projects to the telecommunications industry. At the same time, the company also launched a range ...

Google has been developing many various technologies that can improve human life and make it easier and handy to use. The company has been present in the market a long time and has so far provided many interesting and useful technologies. With the evolving of sophistication of information technologies the more complex systems are being built for individual usage. Almost everyone on this planet in developed world has the access to the internet or the communication tolls that are sometimes needed in the rear to use the google technologies. The research paper will examine five Google technologies implemented or ...

What where the Arthur Anderson employees and managers supposed to do and what did they do instead?

Arthur and Anderson employees and managers being stakeholders of the AA auditing company were supposed to exercise professionalism by practicing independence as required by the accounting profession. In addition, they were supposed to be independent from Enron Company to which was their client as international standard on auditing and internal. For example they were not supposed to be part of Enron’s employees and should not have taken part in the internal audit of the company. Besides they were supposed to give a true view of Enron’s financial statements as per there knowledge and skills in accounting and auditing.
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Section 1: Introduction and Situational Analysis

In 1971 Ford released the Pinto in an effort to compete with foreign car makers, specifically Volkswagen, and their more compact cars (Dowie, 1977). In order to get into the compact car market quickly, Ford compressed the time the pinto took to go from draft to the showroom from 3.5 years to 2 years (Philosophia.uncg.edu, 2015). While the Pinto was being built in the factory, Ford was testing the Pinto. They found that rear-end crashes would very easily rupture the Pinto’s fuel system, risking a fire (Dowie, 1977). Engineering teams proposed a couple of solutions to the issues; they suggested ...

Executive Summary

China Development Bank is among the most essential financial institutions in China. This is because it is among the vital drivers of economic development and growth within the country. Although the institution was characterized by relatively high levels of growth between 1994 and 1997, it has the potential to exude better performance. The government of China is a major stakeholder of this financial institution, hence this paper will seek to highlight the manner in which it influences the operations of this bank. At the moment, its primary dilemma is how it will manage to carry out market oriented reforms, given ...

Despite displaying the features of an emerging economy and creating a perception that things are improving in the year 2008, a closer look at Egypt reveals otherwise with major economic and political problems hidden underneath. One of the long-term issues was inflation which was relatively high. As the worldwide economic meltdown took the center state in year 2008-2009, the country saw many of their economic drivers slowdown. Tourism one of the drivers in the country economy fell sharply as the economic crisis continued. Also, the Egypt’s working expatriates remittances dropped as the as construction in the gulf region stalled. Earning ...

- Analyze the approach to change taken in this company
Changes are inevitable and considered to be the engine of success in management practice. Though it is always a difficult process of implementing the changes in the company’s everyday life due to various resistance factors. The same is true about the company where John Smithers worked. Let us analyze the approach to changes taken in the company by defining the barriers and drivers of change in the company.
As we can see from the chart above the amount of barriers exceeds the amount of drivers of change. ...

Dear John,

Please find the below report analyzing different costing techniques and how they can be effective to your company.
It is my sincere hope that the contents of this paper will be useful to Mahir International now and in future.

Intern,
Mahir international.

Executive Summary.3

Introduction 3 & 4
Part A: Calculations (in excel) 7 -12
Part B: Analytical Discussions 4 - 7
Recommendations 6.

References12

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Executive Summary
Mahir industrial works with giving unique design for valves and stands at a better position than any other industry. There is loyal customer base that is a result of high-quality valves. ...

Introduction

There has been an efficient addition to the highly dynamic local travel industry, its Lyft’s app that people use to get to places they desire. Being one of the users of the same, I can testify that to enjoy a safe ride and relaxed journey, lyft is the option to take. First of all I downloaded the app and actually wanted to see how it works. With a friend, we organized town service journey because at first we were not sure how it really works. Going a place is as easy as clicking on the tap that checks the nearest driver ...

Human character and attitude seems to be the defining attributes that people value in their leaders, pushing other classical leadership traits such as experience and technical skills on a secondary level. This is what the examined case study indicates, when comparing the leadership skills of Barak Obama and Hillary Clinton, suggesting that neither Obama’s communication skills nor Clinton’s political experience mattered as much as their human character and attitudes in their political confrontation from 2008. While this situation might be true for the political scene, the business environment acts on different principles. The examined study identified fairness and ...

Introduction

International business environment imposes more challenges on contemporary corporations, driven by the complexity of global business, supply chain and the variety of external pressures, which shape and determine the direction in which the organizations develop. The case dwells upon the development and current strategic issues, which are set in front of the Chabros International Group management, looking at the future development of the organization on the edge of global financial crisis and drastically droppings sales. The company´s owner and the president, Antoine Chami, is to take a strategic decision whether to close part of the Serbian sawmill, re-boost the ...

What ‘industry’ are we analyzing?

The industry that we are analyzing today is Australia’s largest integrated hardword and softwood forest products industry titled as Gunns Ltd. The year in which Gunns Company Ltd. established was 1875. This company has 3 major divisions that are forest products, plantations and others. The involvement of this company with the pulp and paper industry was as an exporter of hardwood and woodchips. The key market for this company was Japan. The traditional industry model had used woodchips to produce pulp to proceed with paper manufacturing operations.

What are the key drivers of growth in the industry and what is the expected future industry growth level?

The highly competitive industry in the global market was pulp and ...

H.R. 1412, the Justice and Integrity Act of 2009

H.R. 1412, the Justice and Integrity Act of 2009
A Report from Rep. Steve Cohen (d-tenn.), Discussing Racial Disparities in the Criminal Justice System That He Can Use To Move This Bill Forward in Congress

Introduction

According to Research Advocacy for Reform (2013), male Americans of black descent are six times more likely to be imprisoned than white males. Additionally, they are 2.5 times more likely to be incarcerated that Hispanics. If this trend continues, it is clear that every black American born today should expect to go to prison ...

Self-driving cars

Google has developed self-driving cars. Although the cars are not yet fully developed, they have been tested on the roads. The cars are manned by operators who understand how the technology works. The cars have been developed to make use of cameras, sensors that use sensor technology and laser range finders so that they are able to navigate the traffic. They have also been developed to make use of maps which are detailed. This way, they are able to know the traffic and the road that has been set ahead. This is enhanced and made possible with the well-developed ...

Executive summary p.3

Introduction p.4
Generic drugs vs drug discovery businesses pp.4-6
Specific constraints in high-risk R&D, being faced by emerging markets pp.6-7
Glenmark business model pp.7-8
R&D action plan pp.8-9
Conclusion p.9

References pp.10-11

Executive summary
The following case study analysis is aimed at getting an insight into a wide range of issues, being associated with the activities of Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, one of most well-known pharmaceutical companies in the world, headquartered in Mumbai, India. Ckenmark business is currently being divided between two enterprises, namely Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Limited and Glenmark Generics Limited. Aligned managerial teams of both enterprises pursue ...

Management

Abstract
Companies have come to realize that Human Resource is key element to remaining competitive in the global advance and market towards their goals. Human Resource in Coca Cola Company is facing challenges of fighting racial discrimination in United States. . The issues that Coca-Cola is facing in relation to human resource are critical and more so threaten its survival. The paper discusses racial discrimination in the Coca-Cola Company. The paper analyzes the case study of Coca-Cola Company that dwells on racial discrimination. The recommendations to the problem are also highlighted at the end of the paper.

Summary

The lawsuit, ...

Introduction

Talent management is a vital process that guarantees organizations have the quality and quantity of a position to meet their future and current priorities. The process includes the life cycle of the employee thus; performance management selection, development and succession .

Talent management program that led to success for the company

For the concerned stake holders and contractors, there are three stages that take place from day one and then midpoint after the first quarter and at the end of that first year. The original phase normally takes one month, and at the end, all the new managers must have mastered the business model and must understand the cultural norms and how ...

Allocating Fixed costs

Fixed can be described as those costs the form or organization incurs whether or not it is producing any goods or services in the current period. In simple terms, costs that do not decrease or increase with change in production. They are only affected by structural changes or changes in the rate of inflation (BPP, 2013). Fixed costs are only variable in the long run but constant in the short run hence their name fixed costs. Allocation of cost can be said as the process of aggregating, identifying costs and allocating cost to cost entities. Hence, allocation of fixed ...

The Korea Auto Insurance Co Inc. case study presents an illuminating and interestingly scenario on how cost allocation plays a role towards the overall assessment of the branch performance. Ideally, the contest in the case study relates to the use of the traditional cost allocation method which is pegged on the revenue amounts against the currently popular activity based cost allocation which considers unique cost drivers for unique situations. This paper seeks to discuss the contest in the context of the Taejon Branch under the able leadership of Jin Kim. The paper shall employ the SWOT analysis approach in the ...

The use of computer design tools such as computer-aided design has been extensively utilized in the design of electronic devices because of its ability to create, modify, analyze and optimize the design and manufacturing process. Electronic design automation tools, for instance, utilizes vector based graphics and taster graphics to display the overall look of designed objects such as microprocessor chips. These tools are found on all major platforms such as Windows, UNIX, Linux, and Mac OS and are used to design and estimate the dimension of devices. In addition, they perform graphic and computational intensive tasks that could not ...

There are two main characters in this case study, the First is Harvey Finley, who is the manager and owner of Troupville Business Systems and second is the receptionist Cathy Brennen. Seven years ago Mr. Finley decided to explore the opportunities in business and decided to open up his own firm. Though the conditions of the market were not favorable in Troupville due to recent cases of layoffs, bankruptcies, and plummeting real estate values, he decided to take this as an opportunity and build something to capitalize upon his experience and success as a salesman. He was determined that Troupville ...

Q.1:
Explain to John why it is important to look beyond the “bottom line”.

Bottom line in business is the amount of profit that is deduced after the deduction of all expenses and taxes, this phenomenon helps the investor to determine promptly the current status of the business. JJ and Son are realizing a healthy bottom line for the past four years, yet for John it is important to understand that it is high time to start looking beyond the bottom line. In today’s business world, when the companies have to face so much economic pressures with tighter ...

Question One: Remote Environment

McDonald shares its stories of growth right from the moment when Ray Kroc began the franchising and leasing trademark in 1955 (Ruggless, 1998). The company having developed a loyal domestic reputation among the folks saw a quick growth in the industry through diversification in the foods they served. For instance, Ruggless (1998) notes that the divesting model of the company change from ordinary production of hamburgers to serving of other fast foods like salads, coffee, fruity juices, crisps and other foodstuffs that were in high demand from the consumer base. There was also the idea of collecting royalties of the members ...

Value creation is the ultimate goal of every organizational function and the organization as a whole. However, value can only be created if the company is able to identify the right strategic orientation as well as to set and achieve strategic objectives, which will ultimately become a cornerstone for building competitiveness in the current and potential markets. As all the functions and business units have to align their goals with the company’s strategic orientation (vertical integration), it is also crucial to adopt a strategic approach to human resource management, as Keith Hammonds suggests in the article “Why we hate HR”. Although ...