Site Case Studies Samples For Students

Executive Summary

This paper explores and analyzes the case of Maritime Trading Company with its desire to utilize the Internet to generate more revenue for the company. The plan is to have a Web site that will be truly responsive to the customers through the fostering of closer buyer-seller relationships. In order to explore the existing business scenario, analysis will be conducted through: 1) a summary of the situation; 2) an examination of material exhibits; 3) strengths of the business situation, and; 4) weaknesses of the business situation. In this manner, alternative approaches can be identified and recommended courses of action ...

Introduction

Sub- capital fracture of the femoral neck is a common injury among the ageing population and is regarded as “unsolvable fractures”. This is a growing health concern in every country as the healthcare expenditure is very high. The surgical options, especially for elderly population, highly depend on the patient’s profile, their preference and the experience of the surgeon . Mrs. Pollard, 75- year- old, sustained a left sub- capital fractured neck of femur. Due to her age and her other complications such as hypertension and Type- 2 diabetes, a total hip replacement might be a better surgical option as ...

The latest annual report for the Amazon.com, Inc. was released on 14^th December, 2010 and covers 2009 financial year. The year officially ended or dates 31^st December 2009. The report is titled ‘2009 Annual Report’ and begins with a brief statement addressed to its shareholders. Like the last thirteen annual reports since the year 1997, the report contains a brief statement as a letter directed to the firm’s shareowners which bears a signature of the firm’s founder: Jeffrey P. Bezos. The statement also shows an executive post of Chief Executive Officer (C.E.O) being held by ...

Business

2016-06-02

Company Overview

The company for this study is American Airlines (AA). It is an American company and nowadays it is in the first place by the total number of passenger-kilometers in the world. The history of this company has started in 1926. The huge growth was characteristic for the company in 1980-1990s. Today the company American Airlines has 964 aircrafts in its fleet. The company offer flights on four continents. At the same time, the majority of flights are in the US. There are at least five hubs in the US, which are used by the company for regional flights ...

GrammarNow is a site that provides grammatical, punctuation as well as other writing skills. There is a Q & A club provision that makes sure that questions are answered as soon as they are asked. The language page makes it easy for the visitors to keep up with modern words and their usage.
The small business advisor who is currently being modified to provide more information. The site provides the interested viewers to get tips on how to start small businesses as well as keep the current ones profitable. Law Guru, on the other hand, is a legal site that ...

In the early years of the auction is rapidly gaining momentum, turning out of the ordinary "flea market" into serious "B2C" portal, where customers have been both legal and natural persons. Its main advantage was due to the availability of the complete absence of commission. Other auctions at that time took about 30% of the transaction value.
After AuctionWeb had become the most popular auction in the US, Pierre Omidyar realized that this business becomes complete. After the business maintenance costs began to grow, he decided to introduce a fee of 6% of the value of the goods. The ...

The Columbine High School experienced a horrific turn of events on the 20^th of April 1999. Two of its students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were on a mission that led to the death of 12 students and one teacher. The two teenagers had been planning for this massacre for quite some time. They been collecting guns, ammunitions as well as bomb components that they would use on the day of 20^th April. It is said that they had even created a website which they posted blogs with statements that pinpointed several individual likely to be ...

Question One

Apart from being punctual and efficient in response to the customers’ needs, a convenient store can be more responsive by offering additional services to the customers. The additional services may include the transportation of the commodities to the customers’ place of preference, or the provision of discounts on various amounts of purchases made by their customers. Moreover, the store can be more responsive by adding more value to their products, for example, giving additional items after the customer purchases certain items from the store.

Question Two

The challenges associated with the micro matching of supply and demand as is evident in ...

The crash of Air France 447 is considered the biggest disaster ever to hit Air France and Airbus since the beginning of their venture into this industry. All of the 228 passengers and crew of the flight were killed in this accident (Palmer, 2013). Due to the delay in the recovery of the black box from the ocean bed, the investigations and final report, published by BEA, took nearly three years for completion (Jonathan, 2011). The final investigation revealed that the accident occurred due to the inconsistent data indicated by the FMC (Flight Management Computer System) regarding the fluid ...

National Holistic Healing Center

National Holistic Healing Center (NHHC) provides healing services to its customers and its services are presented on its website, i.e. http://www.holistichealingdc.com/ whereas, they also incorporate customers’ queries via .

Description of Facility

National Holistic Healing Center (NHHC) is a premier medical dispensary and is located at Connecticut Ave, Washington DC, New York. The facility is located approximately 100 feet away from the Metro bus line. The facility operates a dispensary where patients are assisted for ailment-strain alignment. It facilitates seminars and workshops to promote the cultivation of strains and offers cooking classes to educate its clients with the edible use of infused strains. ...

Scenario #3

1. Should the oily rags stay on the plant site?

Oily rags are classified as contaminated debris under EPA’s definition of hazardous waste because the rags are contaminated with oil which has the characteristic of being highly ignitable. As such, the oily rags should not be kept at the site since the high temperatures at the plant site could easily ignite the oil-air mixture in the dumpsters causing a fire. Therefore, their continued stay at the plant site poses a high preventable risk for fire (Hackman, Hackman & Hackman,2002).

2. What responsibility does Fleet Operations have?

Fleet Operations are the generators of the hazardous waste in ...

Operational Feasibility Study

The adoption of an operational feasibility study remains instrumental to business as it facilitates the determination of the viability of a proposed system concerning the provision of solutions to the existent problems (Sinha & Labi, 2011). Additionally, the adoption of a feasibility study remains instrumental to the determination of the potential benefits derived from the presented solutions and viability of the processes in system development. The passage of an online platform by Wow Munchies has developed into a crucial need for the company. The operational feasibility of the company will incorporate a review of the viability of the proposed system ...

Describe briefly your topic of interest/research question (15 possible points):

The research will seek to compare the comprehensiveness of treatments that older adults receive for mental health problems diagnosed in the assisted living setting with treatments for similar conditions received by those who were diagnosed prior to moving into assisted living. The comparison will show whether mental health care within assisted living facilities is better than care received in other settings.
#1 Database (or collection) (30 possible points):

Owner or publisher of Database: America Psychological Association

Describe (in your own words) the research database or collection of research including the purpose and the subject matter it covers:
The database provides access to more than 4 million ...

In the early years of the auction it is found to have been rapidly gaining momentum, turning out the ordinary "flea market" into serious "B2C" portal, where customers have both legal and natural persona. Its main advantage was that this auction did not charge commissions while their contemporary competitors i.e. auctions charged 30% of the transaction value.
After AuctionWeb had become the most popular auction in the US, Pierre Omidyar realized that this business strategy has reached its conclusion. After the business maintenance costs began to grow, he decided to introduce a fee of 6% of the value of ...

The most important reason that pushes Akamai Technologies to disperse its servers geographically is infrastructural issued. The system of Akamai’s products works in the next way: after receiving the request from the user about any file (video\images\music\etc.) system pass this request to the nearest Akamai’s server, where a copy of web-site that is needed is situated. So there is no need to pass the whole way from the user’s computer to the server of web-site (it could be even in the opposite part of the world!), but only to the nearest Akamai’s ...

Acknowledgements

The research was supported by [name of foundation] who provided the information on the company present and past. I would like to thank [name] for assistance with the information, sharing and evaluation the process of strategy building, sharing the ideas about the built strategy and telling what was done before to develop the company.
I would also like to show my gratitude to [name] who gave some precious comments about the work of the company that helped to process the research and work out some ideas of improvement.

Approval Sheet

Executive Summary
The case study of the Golden Horizon Placement Agency ...

H&M is a private company that operates only in the developed markets that will be able to generate the revenue. According to Statista.com, more than 60% of the sales are made in ten developed countries of Europe and North America (Statista.com). So there is no point in opening the new stores in some of the regions of the world where the people’s incomes are very low. The running costs are very high for H&M and it may be very difficult to adjust the supply chain in order to deliver the products in the new locations.
When H&M subcontracts ...

PART ONE

The online services make many risks much higher. When it comes to security issue especially for the starters, it is both physical and intangible information that have to be of great concern. Otherwise, you will face the risk of hardware thefts as well as hack into your services. Regarding the availability in this scenario, we are considering the available services for the clients and that it offers the required necessities for the customers. Therefore, if customers are in need of some goods online, then the website should be in a working condition, and it should have adequate information concerning ...

Answer 1

The role of the US-CERT is to respond to cyber threats on the US industrial sectors through prevention, detection of the attacks, and responding to them before damage is done. US-CERT has some efforts towards preparedness and incident and recovery management (Reiter & Rohatgi, 2004). US-CERT have invested in analysis systems that enable them to review, research, vet, and document computers defense attributes to enable them to respond to threats that they consider to be credible. Actually, there are many threats that have been detected by the US-CERT, but only a few of them have forced rapid report because they ...

Toyota Motor Corporation

The company developed in 1937. In 1938, it launched Just in Time (JIT) system. In 1991 Prius was introduced. In 2000s, products like Passo, Porte, Rush, and LS 600h were announced and with the focus on sustainability in relation to Toyota’s Way, energy efficient cars like SAI, Prius Plug-in Hybird were introduced (Toyota’s History). The company designs, manufactures, assembles, and sells passenger vehicles, minivans, and commercial vehicles along with related parts and accessories. The products that are offered by the company include hybrid cars under Prius, Corolla, Harrier; fuel cell passenger cars under the MIRAI; and conventional ...

Introduction

Recreational Living Limited (RL) is a boat manufacturing company that specialises in building fibreglass for boats and canoes that are powered by outboard motors. They also manufacture sailboats that are up to eight meters high.
James MacPherson, the CEO of Recreational Living Limited (RL), is currently facing a dilemma of whether he should relocate the company’s canoe and leisure manufacturing operations to a different location. Two reasons have mainly contributed to him being in such a situation;
A residential neighbourhood that was developed around the company's site and enclosed the company's physical premises. The residents of these neighbouring ...

Drug metabolism is the enzymatic break down of drugs-a process that takes place in the liver. While drug metabolism can take place at the cellular level, the liver is the major site for this process due to its size-translating to a big supply of enzymes. Drug metabolism is classified as one of the liver’s processes to detoxify the body or get rid of foreign compounds (Law et al., 2014). When the drug reaches the target site and finished working, the remaining amounts may accumulate in the body to levels that may be poisonous or toxic. Drug components are ...

Background Information

Harley-Davidson Inc. is one of the largest motorcycle manufacturing companies that has not only dominated the United States market, but also other parts of the world. The Company has 100 years experience in terms of motorcycle manufacturing and has attracted a broad base of clients across the United States (Brannen, Jeffrey and Nabil, 11). Economists have mentioned that Harley Davidson Inc. is one of the two motorcycle manufacturing companies that did not experience significant impact as a result of the Great Depression (Zarco and Morgan, 47). Besides, the company has undergone a series of management as well as ownership ...

Introduction

The airline industry had long been using online service to sell tickets. Online ticket sales have continued to grow at about 10-15% every year. Air France has been among the early users of online ticket selling and has benefitted greatly from it. The airline has enjoyed some growth and respectable performance in spite of the crises within and outside the industry.

The Internet and the Airline Industry
Since the early years of the internet, the airline industry has been among the first to embrace the power of the internet. It had been among the first industries to begin selling ...

Feasibility Study: Proposed solutions and recommendations

The modern day business environment is characterized by a multiplicity of the risks that face organizations. The implication is that successful organizations have to put in place strategies that enable them to recover once disaster strikes, whether natural or man-made. In this case, the company is lacking in regards to disaster preparedness. The company is ill-prepared to deal with a disaster once it occurs, meaning that the chances of recovering once the organization is hit by a disaster are minimal. The solution to the challenge that this business faces is coming up with a Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity ( ...

Tata Steel UK – Port Talbot

Introduction
This paper entails a critical analytical review of a business entity which operates in the United Kingdom and which has recently encountered operational difficulties that have necessitated the formulation of a solution from a strategic management stand point.
The business entity which will be evaluated in this paper is Tata Steel, which has vast interests across the United Kingdom as well as in other parts of the globe. The paper will analyze the problems that the entity currently faces as well as propose viable solutions that will lead to the resolution of these operating issues going forward.

Tata Steel UK Background

The ...

Business with online customers and intellectual properties are using cyber forensic investigators to deal with electronic crimes and employee’s wrongdoing. PayPal scam is one of the cyber crimes that required the knowledge of forensic scientists. Database and Internet investigators played a tremendous role in discovering credit card thieves. PayPal merchants reported being redirected to mock PayPal site. Forensic investigators discovered that the PayPal accounts were opened using the same IP address. The team used Sam Spade, trace route, and freeware network discovery to investigate the matter. Based on the investigation, there is evidence that could be used in ...

Role of GIS in Promoting a More Sustainable Future in Energy: A case study of theStädteregion Aachen in Germany
In the last decades, the world has experienced unprecedented population growth. Populations in the cities have doubled up with more than 74% of the country’s population live inside urban centres in developed countries. In developing countries, approximately 44% of the population are living in urban settings. With the influx of people in urban areas, there has been an increase in the consumption of energy. With increased use of fossil fuel, there has been constant pollution by gases like ...

Business

2016-03-24
The current paper is devoted to the company Samsung Electronics and its functioning in the 1990s-2000s. Samsung Electronics Company is a part of the Samsung Group that it the largest conglomerate in South Korea (Official Site of Samsung, 2016). The main business directions of the Samsung Group were electronics, trade and services, finance. There were five directions of Samsung Electronics at those years. One of them is the Semiconductor Business. Let’s analyze this sector and its competitive environment in the 1990s-2000s in more detail, analyze data and evaluate the advantages of Samsung Electronics (Ellet, 2007).

Chinese Firms on the Market of Semiconductor Products

A lot ...

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 ...