Favour College Essays Samples For Students

Apparently, those that argue against gun control have a considerable number of reasons. Firstly, irrespective of the fact that there exist policies and laws that regulate possessions and use of guns by civilians in United Kingdom for instance, the rates of murder are still considerably high. Based on research findings, the homicide rates in UK as of 1996 during the time of Dunblane massacre was 1.12 per 100,000 (Lott 34). It was before the firearm act came into effect. As of 2002, when this act had already been implemented fully in UK, the homicide rates stood at 2.1 per ...

Question 1: Suncal's primary (market) stakeholders are their shareholders, their employees, vendors and potential home buyers and below market renters. The shareholders benefit from revenues which show up as dividends, The employees benefit from the company’s ability to generate income, and its vendors in turn benefit from a continued source of sales revenue, but also, potential Suncal home buyers, and below market renters.
Secondary or non-market stakeholders include The Disney Resort Group. Although The Disney Resort Group “Disney” is not involved in direct monetary exchanges with Suncal, they, as well as residents in the city of Anaheim could ...

Abstract

This essay assesses whether Australian federalism has or has not changed dramatically since the Constitution was inaugurated in 1901. It looks at the way the central government (the Commonwealth) and the State governments have interacted, and the various changes along the way that have shifted the balance of powers to reach the point we are at today. In addition to considering the general situation, the essay looks at specific issues such as fiscal changes including taxation, and at specific areas of policy such as education and health (including Aboriginal health issues). From the research undertaken it is evident that ...

“Our kings and emperors, vicars of the Supreme Ruler in this our pilgrimage, are alone Responsible for the appointment of bishops, and this is right, for it would be incongruous. If the pastors, who rule in the likeness of Christ, were set under the authority of any. Except those who are set above other men by the glory of benediction and coronation” (Chronicon, Thietmar of Merseburg 32). Thietmar (975-1018) was the German Bishop of Merseburg. This statement is a representation of the actual situation as it was during the ancient times. It demonstrates how integrated the church and the society ...

Popular opinion refers to the views or opinions that held by the majority of the public about a particular issue of interest which may either be social, economic or political issue. Socialization process refers to the processes through which people come together and interact to discuss on issue that affect their daily lives. Media has a wide influence on the public opinion and can sway the views held by people about a particular topic of interests (Shamir, 2000). They help in shaping the popular opinion. The media influences the way people perceive a particular subject through analysing of the available facts or through ...

1A The leadership of the Virgin Atlantic believes that the success of the business strategy requires them to build their foundations by focusing on business and leisure market. Also, by building foundation by focusing on driving efficiency and effectiveness of the company. They have a simple mission statement, which is to embrace the human spirit and to fly. In contrast, the British Red Cross helps people who are in crisis, irrespective who and where they are. In their effort, they form part of a global voluntary network, who responds to “conflicts, natural disasters, and individual emergencies.”

Virgin Atlantic has a sound ...

Overview

Business ethics are fundamental aspects when it comes to corporate affairs and dealing with organizational members (Alvesson 87). Indeed, the successful organizational culture is heavily reliant on the ethics portrayed by the top management, employees and other members of the organization. Essentially, they must come up with ways of solving issues in an ethical manner such that the integrity of the organization in maintained. In this line of thought, therefore, this paper seeks to answer some fundamental questions regarding the various problems and events that unfold in an organization’s realistic realm. As such, the paper comprise of clarified ...

A few decades ago, beinghomosexual was resentful. Homosexuals were strictly judged and condemned for their sexual preferences and were presented as people with mental illness. In fact, though, homosexual people were not treated as mentally ill, rather than annoying parasites that societies had to ban in order to gain back the lost balance and morals. It was considered unethical to choose a partner of the same sex and have a common life together as a couple. Back in the 1940s and 1950s, gay bullying was worldwide, and homophobia was very serious in the US at that time (McCormack). It seems that societies ...

In an effort to reduce costs across the board, Pilchard wishes to hire recent graduates of MBA programs who have little experience. His firm would be paying them above competitive salaries even if it offered them one-half the salaries of its present staff members who are over age 40. Should Pilchard terminate the older employees in favour of the younger, less expensive workers? What if one or more of the older employees were willing to accept a 50-percent pay cut? Can Pilchard make the 50-percent pay cut a condition on older employees for the remaining employed.
In most countries the ...

Socialism and capitalism represent the two extremes of economic systems that can dominate a political system. Often, the denominator that distinguishes socialism from capitalism lies in the market structure and the contribution and intervention of government in the running of the country’s economy. This paper shall discuss the differences between socialism and capitalism. It shall engage the audience employing two countries for illustrative purposes. These will be the United States of America representing capitalism and Sweden representing socialism. It is the contention of this paper that none of the systems can operate in isolation and that each of the ...

On Social Identity?

Introduction
When a person talks about language, it is generally referred to as a mode of communication between people. However, different cultures and countries have languages that are vastly different from each other. If these societies spoke only their own local languages, communication would have become very difficult as people, even from different states from within a country in some cases, simply would not understand each other. This is where having a common language becomes a convenient mode of understanding, conserving individual social identity while promoting stronger social bonds based on a common identity . However, speaking a common language does not take away from the ...

12 July 2011

Sociological Perspectives

Functionalist, Conflict and Symbolic Interactionist Theory

Sociology is home to a wide range of perspectives which all agree and disagree on a number of social issues and phenomena. The three perspectives which are, arguably, more central to sociological discussion are functionalist theory, conflict theory and symbolic interactionist theory. The first of these, functionalism, refers to the idea of different aspects of society work together in order to procure social order and stability or social disorder and instability (Ferrante, 2010, p28). A primary force in functionalist theory is the work of Émile Durkheim whose attention was devoted to understanding ...

In writing a persuasive memo there are certain principles that must be used so that the audience can be captured, undecided swayed, and opponents converted. According to Bowman there are four principles that must be used by a writer in order to come up with a first class persuasive memo. The principles are: motivation, lead, pace, and blending outcomes (Bowman 1). Furthermore, Cialdini proposed six other principles which are liking, praise, reciprocity, social proof, consistency, and authority all which are essential ingredients for a concrete persuasive memo (25).
The principle of liking which says that people like those like them, who like ...

as Environment Policy

Effectiveness of Carbon Tax as Environment Policy

Climate change has emerged as a global challenge because unrestrained rising of global temperature would cause melting of glaciers and rise of sea level that would submerge land masses, change weather patterns with frequent incidence of hurricanes and floods and droughts. As an effective response to the challenge, global leaders have agreed to cut back emission of Green House Gases (GTG) to contain the global rise in temperature below 2 degree Celsius (Symon, 2013). Carbon dioxide, a major constituent of GTG, is released to the atmosphere on combustion of fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and ...

Introduction

For the last two decades the popularity of the international investment arbitration and legislation has been dramatically increased. The volume of cases considered by virtue of the interpretation of the provisions of the bilateral investment treaties signed between the parties of the commercial relations has been increased. In addition, this trend reflects the preference of the business units and states in signing agreements with the umbrella clauses due to their simplicity and efficiency in determination of the disputes between the parties. The availability of several mechanisms that can be used for the determination of the interests of the parties ...

The word theology can be traced back to an amalgamation of two separate Greek words: θεος (god) and λογος (word). At its most basic, theology is exactly what the name implies: it allows people to have a word about God. More broadly, the study of theology is intended to bring religious leaders to the point in their education where they can easily discourse on the various subjects of religion, with recourse to the thoughts and works of religious leaders who came before them, much like any other serious academic subject. While theology is in itself a field of study that can ...

There is a lot of material about what it means to be a leader, what qualities leaders should have, and the different leadership styles that exist. I was always interested in leadership because since I was in my childhood, I found myself in leadership positions quite often.
I began to play hockey when I was seven years old, and I was the team captain for all my primary and high school years. At school, I was also a 'prefect' student and a House-Captain. I developed many of my leadership skills I believe through sports. In my recent years, I ...

Question 1.

Distributive negotiation is a bargaining approach, which is used by parties that are attempting to divide something or distribute something. Distributive negotiation is opposite of integrative approach as both parties are trying to get more on one thing. In case of distributive negotiation, the goal is to assure that one party wins much more than the other party. This results in the other side losing their share for the other side and ending up with less than they expected (University of Colorado, n.d.). Distributive negotiation is also called “win-lose”, “zero-sum”, or “claiming value”. It is a competitive form of ...

Moral Compass

This essay is a discussion of what I feel on a personal level as what is right and also what is wrong. The essay will demonstrate how I can act accordingly when I am faced with decisions or judgment involving right or wrong. It is a reflection of myself in the context of moral values. The essay is a synthesis of personal value system and will incorporate experience, observations, independent inquiries, and ideas gained from learning wisdom traditions. There will also be a critical review of human values as well as the ethical challenges faced by business leaders. Further, ...

Introduction

The world of trade and commerce has changed a lot in relation to labour and employee interaction with firms since the 1700s when the concept of work became more advanced. The purpose of this essay is to analyse the concept of employee relations and how it has evolved over the years. In order to attain this end, the following objectives will be explored:
A critical evaluation of the concept and theory of employee relations in various forms of organisations – large, indigenous, multinational, private and public entities;
An assessment of the concept of employee relations as it evolved in the ...

Throughout history, China has remained at the forefront of innovative development and has remained active, in terms of driving capitalist attitudes on a worldwide scale. Whilst this remains, China is becoming under increasing pressures in terms of economic growth and how the country ‘positions’ within the global market. Issues in terms of the economic shifts from rural to urban lifestyles and industrialisation have had profound effects on the country’s demographic, furthermore, concerns with population legislation and the growth of neighbouring economic entities such as Hong Kong and Singapore have positioned China within the complex of the ‘Middle Kingdom’ ...

Human Relations Thinking – A break from the past

Introduction
Human Relations in an organization is the attitude and interaction that the employees and employers exhibit towards each other. Human Relations thinking and studies have gained significance in the current atmosphere of tough competition and transformation of business methods. There are certain indications that organisational behaviour modifications can affect performances to a large extent. Human relations in workplace is a part of organisational behaviour and invited the attention of scholars as a tool to improve workplace environment and thereby individual and group performances.
Before the introduction of Taylor’s scientific management, the humanitarian aspect of labour was neglected ...

Is the “Beijing Model” Applicable in Other Countries?

Introduction
The Chinese economical development is under close examination of the experts across the world as the country has succeeded to achieve the leading positions across the world based on its economical model. Some experts believe that Chinese model of economical development may be applied by other countries, while the opponents to this position state that this approach may exist under the circumstances available in China. Since second half of the twentieth century, Chinese development is featured with permanent growth with annual rate of 10%. In the contemporary economical society, the GDP in the country is higher up to ...

Terrorism is a global threat that involves acquiring individuals especially the youth to carry out terrorist and violence attacks for various reasons. Recruitment into terrorist groups is a process met by both successes and failure by the recruitment personnel. The positive side involves the fact that the terrorist groups can attract new members, and consequently the terror groups can acquire approbation to help them carry out their activities. The downside of the terror groups involves high chances of the arrest of the terror suspects and offenders and compromise of intelligence chattels. There are various techniques used by terrorist groups ...

The process of writing an essay requires the analysis and assessment of some specific rhetoric factors and situations and this leads to the development of the structure and content of the essays. During my semester in the 188 class, I have done two interpretive essays (‘Tohe’ and ‘Behar’ essays) which were based on the social issues and involved the entire rhetorical composition based on the learning acquired for writing such essays in the class. This essay aims at reflecting the involved writing situations, processes, motif , and social factors behind the development of these two essays and how I used ...

Most families today are dual-earner, as many women have entered the workforce, either because of financial needs, or because of their wish to pursue a career and to be financially independent. While the gender gap is closing on the labour market, at home, the patriarchal ideology is reaffirmed by means of the division of household chores. Whereas men had to assume a share of the household chores, in most families, women continue to perform most of the chores which have been traditionally assigned to them. The purpose of this paper is to analyse how the current gender division of ...

In order to avoid data discrimination that can be committed by telecommunications corporations, the United States has already enacted a law called network neutrality or net neutrality. This law reclassified the internet service providers as public utility which will allow every person, organizations, or companies to have equal access to internet. The law will avoid the restriction or blocking of a certain data without court order. Net neutrality will also disallow corporations to give priority or lesser priority to groups of people with regards to the quality of internet service. The guiding principle of this law is to protect ...

The Moche culture is also referred to as Mochica culture. Their civilization is present in the Northern Coast. This region is the present day Peru. The civilization was dominant in from the beginning of the 1st century up to the onset of the 8th century. This was the early intermediate period which ran from 400 years before Christ to 600 years before Christ. The Moche civilization was characterized by artistic work. The name is derived from an ancient site in the region which is the capital city of the people of Moche.
Their settlements stretched along the coast ...

Thesis

Antigone is a tragedy by Sophocles that begins with the deaths of two brothers, Eteocles and Polyneices; their deaths are caused by their own swords in a struggle for the throne after their father, Oedipus, dies. Creon, the relative who takes up the throne allows for an honourable burial of Eteocles but denies Polyneices the same respect. He issues a decree that Polyneices’ body be dumped in the wild and no respect to be paid for it. Antigone, Polyneices and Eteocles’ sister, learns of the decree but goes ahead to bury her brother, Polyneices, despite the orders given by the king, Creon ( ...

Covenants were and are still an important part of the relationship that God shares with his people. It was important for God to give out rules, which are to be observed by people if they want to enjoy his blessings. This was also a sign that God was in the business of fulfilling what he had promised and hence motivated the people to serve him. One of the very first covenants we encounter in the bible is between Noah and God. Even though a specific person was used as a point of contact for God, the covenant was not just applicable to ...

Ivana Susic

Before Federation (prior to 1901), Australia was not a nation; each of the British colonies was its own self-ruling state. Each had separate laws and regulations and functioned effectively as a separate country. Those colonies were: New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia, the last one to join (Singleton et al. 2013, pp.55-56). According to “Federation 1890-1910” published by the government of Western Australia (n.d.), that state had delayed its decision because it had seen such rapid changes in the previous decade, including the discovery of gold and a population increase from 50,000 to near 200,000. ...

Volunteer Initiatives and its larger Contexts: The case of New York Cares

Volunteer Initiatives and its larger Contexts: The case of New York Cares
New York Cares is a volunteer organization that boasts of a unique approach to volunteering. It was established in the 1980s in order to contribute to combating the social problems hounding American society. This volunteer organization capitalizes on its claim to broadness that enables it to welcome participants and volunteers from any class, political affiliation, religious beliefs, or persuasion. It is founded on the idea of uniting for making New York communities a better, more liveable place – arguably one of the more prominent calls of volunteer organizations striving to ...

English

The role of a woman in the society and the problem of equality between men and women has been discussed in lots of articles and gender studies books. An article “Why I Want Women To Lean In” by Sheryl Sandberg discusses a burning problem of women leadership and social role as well. Nowadays Sheryl Sandberg is one of the most successful female CEOs in the United States and an excellent organizer, activist and author. Sheryl is the Chief Operating Officer at Facebook, who works in the company mostly led by men. Before working for Facebook, Sherylheld a position of Vice President of ...

The articles “The Reluctant Hunter” and “Serve or Fail” propose two different topics, but both share the same conviction—show respect for something to appreciate it. Basing from the arguments presented by both authors, I think they both have their points that warrants one’s favour, but then again both have their flaws. Nickola has a point that killing animals should not be done out of sheer fun, adrenalin rush or as a game. It deserves a meaningful purpose. However, not because we buy our food from the grocery and we do not use our hands to slaughter the animal does not ...

The economy of the modern world reflects the two prominent theories of Adam Smith and Karl Marx. The world economy currently marked with free trade which Adam Smith theorizes in his book, the Wealth of the Nation. A small part of the world, however, is in the close trade applying the principle of communism. The western part, for example, engages in a free trade or capitalism form of economy, while a minor part of the world is in communist/socialist state.
According to an online encyclopaedia, communist/socialist states include People Republic of China, Republic of Cuba, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, ...

The case involving students and their right to wear armbands caused a spur about the implications of the first amendment rights. The differences in ruling were about the ability of the students to express themselves and the motive behind their actions. The district court ruled in favour of the school administration with claims that the action of wearing armbands disrupted discipline among students. The case was taken to the Supreme Court after the court of appeal judges failed to agree. The Supreme Court ruled in favour of the students saying the wearing the armband was a form of expressing themselves through ...

Political science

Essay questions:
- What are the nature of the American political system and the importance of political participation?
- What is the importance of public opinion in politics and the various ways political opinions are developed.
- What are the branches of the United States government and what are their significance and importance.

Political participation

Political participation is a very crucial aspect of the American political system. It involves how citizens get to influence policy formulation their implementations, as well as selection of their political leaders. It is attributed to the fact that the people have the freedom of ...

In the article titled” Optimism on GCC-Singapore free trade deal despite lower exchange”, they talk about increased partnership between Singapore and Gulf Coast Countries. Against the background of decreasing trade, they have just signed a free trade agreement. This agreement lowers the tariff for goods prepared in Singapore, and give GCC preferential treatment in latter’s industrial sector. In specific terms, Singapore has inspired Abu Dhabi’s economic development, and latter’s national oil company has upgraded its representative office in Singapore. This is an important development as Singapore is positioning itself as gateway to Asia; and UAE is positioning ...

There is a vast sea of inequality stretching infinitely across borders, flowing freely throughout our so-called society. Inequality comes in different shades and hues: masters and slaves, feudal lords and peasants, males and females, bourgeoisie and proletarians, Christians and Jews, Westerns and non-Westerns, and whites and blacks – just name it, our society has it. In the context of a highly polarized society, deep-rooted culture of discrimination becomes air that we breathe; coupled with a varying degree of violence, it has been a part of life in a protracted way, as if of an essence. Wars such as the Civil War, Thirty Years’ War, World ...

Using examples, explain how stakeholders could affect an organisation and its activities. Discuss how organisations might attempt to understand stakeholders and control them

Business

The main objective of this essay to describe how the stakeholders can affect the organisation and the activities associated with it. The main focus in this essay is to explain the stakeholder’s responsibility in the organisation. It also describes the procedure that helps the companies or organisations to understand their shareholders. Furthermore, in this paper also shed light on the stakeholder’s position in order to ensure and strengthen the image, gaining loyalty of the ...

The debate on the role of culture in country’s economic and social development has been a contentious issue among contemporary critical thinkers and economists. With some supporting the role of culture in global economic development, others do not acknowledge the relationship between culture and economic development. In some societies, cultural beliefs and practices have proved influential in shaping the economic development trend while in other society, culture has limited role in their development. As defined, culture is society practices, norms, beliefs and myths that define members’ activities and the way of interaction.
In Guns, Germs, and Steel, Diamond ...

Introduction

Henry Kissinger was perhaps one of the most active and important Secretaries of State. His forceful intervention in several questions such as the Vietnam War as well as his propping up of General Gustavo Augusto Pinochet makes him a reviled figure amongst those who have democracy at heart (Bass, p 275).
This paper seeks to argue that Kissinger should indeed be hauled in front of an International War Crimes Tribunal largely due to his intervention, covert or non-covert in several mass genocides. Two of these are those in Bangladesh in 1971 where the Pakistani Army was given US backing to ...

Introduction

Free trade entails an unhampered sale and purchase of goods and services between different countries with no apparent constraints that stems from tax levy, tariff execution and implementation of duties (Fridell 9). Essentially, free trade enables a country to profoundly concentrate on their competitive advantages hence maximizing output and fuelling the economic growth of the citizens consequently. Evidently, the economy of those countries that adopted free trade much earlier are seen to prosper a fact that concur with the notion that free trade is a possible route towards developmental catch up. The growth of those countries that adopted free trade earlier particularly ...

Project Title: To Analyze Relationships and Trends of Stock Prices in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and New York

Tools: R-Programming for advanced statistics and Microsoft Excel
In our data analysis, to start with linear regression, the following linear model equations for the seven stock markets are as follows:
x.Amsterdam=0.1541 t +127.2803 x.Frankfurt=0.6327 t + 897.7938
x.London =0.9158 t + 1304.6411 x.HongKong=3.975 t -103.148
x.Japan=-2.322 t + 26004.867 x.Singapore =0.1031 t + 253.0322
x.NewYork=0.1809 t + 153.5884

The analysis of correlation of the stock prices between the seven markets

We want to determine whether the relationship of the variations in these markets.
The following is the correlation Matrix.
...

R. v. Williams

R. v. Williams
In the case of R v Williams, the accused was an aboriginal who pleaded not guilty to a robbery charge filed against him and elected a trial by judge and jury. During the initial trial, the trial judge authorized the asking of questions to the potential jurors. However, the Crown filed for a mistrial on the ground of procedural errors and giving too much publicity and exposure on the jury selection process. At the second trial, the judge who heard the motion of the accused issued an unfavourable decision against him to challenge the jurors ...

Introduction:

The state Appeals Court of New Jersey found in favour of a gay scout who had been excluded from the state’s boy scout association on the basis of his sexual orientation. This was later overturned by the Supreme Court in a majority opinion written by the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist who stated for the majority that if someone whose sexual orientation destabilizes the operation of an organization then that organization has a right to exclude him/her from the group. Ina minority opinion Justice John Paul Stevens ruled that the decision was a violation of civil rights and was discriminatory based on ...

Introduction

Whales pose as important components of the world’s marine ecosystem (NRDC, n.d.). Those stand among the most fascinating mammals; they manifest intelligence akin to that of human intellectual capacity such as linguistic communication, with their distinctive nervous system features credited for such (D’Amato and Chopra, 2010, p.1). Nevertheless, whales face threats to their existence due to incessant hunting activities. While the International Whaling Commission (IWC) sought to ban whaling activities in 1986, countries such as Japan and Iceland have refused to abide due to their own reasons (NRDC, n.d.). Japan ...

Maintained and Challenged by some Hospital Staff Members

Anthropology

The Ways that Prestige or Hierarchy is Produced,
Maintained and Challenged by some Hospital Staff Members

A hospital’s main goal is to ensure the well-being of the patients. The doctor is most often perceived as the authority at the top of the hierarchy of hospital organization. After the doctors in perceived importance are the nurses and then lab technicians. Hierarchy is based on more than the professional titles of people in the organisation because the culture outside the hospital has an effect on the hospital organisation. There are other hierarchical patterns in the chain of power ...

The issue of collective bargaining first rose into public consciousness after the Supreme Court verdict in 2007 in favour of the BC health workers and their unions. In doing so it not only awarded the plaintiffs a $100 million in compensation but also recognized collective bargaining as a fundamental right protected by the 1982 Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Collective Bargaining is defined as "the negotiating process that determines the terms and conditions of employment between an employer or employers' association and a collective group of employees, or their representatives". As a concept it is designed to protect the rights of individual ...

Introduction

The redistricting process borrows from a rich political history on the political systems and the democratisation of the state. Politics of redistricting and reapportionment have for a long time occupied the minds of scholars and critics. In his analysis of the political effects of redistricting, Engstrom (36) argues that one of the seminal effects of the redistricting process is the gerrymandering on the political platform. There are also other effects bound to occur. For instance, the process leads to new leaders assuming power with new leadership styles and collaboration among the new faces of leadership unlike the old regimes and also ...

There is often a trade-off for our society between consumption and the environment. The faster the economy grows the more resources it needs for further development and hence the more stress it puts on the environment. Consumerism in the contemporary society is often blamed for continuous pressure to produce and for the wasteful use of resources for manufacturing unnecessary material goods. However, there are always numerous sides of the issue to consider and it is impossible to find a unique solution to the dilemma between consumption and environment.

The article “The Consumer Culture. Are Americans becoming materialistic?” gives a comprehensive analysis of ...

EU Neighbourhood Policy in the context of common foreign policy: the possibilities and limits of joint actions

Since its inception, the European Union has maintained its influential capacity in the European region, and it enabled a peaceful co-existence between member states and mutual development to flourish. When the Maastricht Treaty was implemented, and applications for accession of the Central and Eastern European countries increased, questions have evolved as to how the CEE countries would be able to adapt to the current policies of the European Union. There is also a concern as to how the current member states would have to bear the new addition in the organization and its effects in their respective countries. However, each member ...

Is universal healthcare the right solution for the United States?

Last year, after much acrimonious debate and threats to shut down Congress and the whole American political system, President Barack Obama managed to push a universal healthcare bill which provides universal cover for everyone in the United States through to Congress although the political ramifications of such bill remain to be seen. In fact as we speak today, the Supreme Court is preparing to hear a case on the unconstitutionality of the healthcare bill based upon a ruling by a state court in Georgia. The main political actor in this issue must be the President but there were also other legislators in play ...

Timberjack Parts: Packaged Software Selection Project.

The case study “Timberjack Parts: Packaged Software Selection Project” discusses the process of selecting a packaged software for Timberjack, that could be used by the company globally. Timberjack is the leader in manufacturing professional logger equipment and machinery. The company has two service parts operations departments, one in Sweden and the other in the USA. The list of the requirements for the software package from both offices included UNIX software platform, strong support both in Europe and in the USA and excellent experience of the current wholesale users. Their goal, however, was to find a vendor, who would be able to provide ...