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List of ideas to replace current shipping technologies

- Delivery drones
- Autonomous vehicles
- Autonomous delivery robots
- Dedicated delivery trams
- Autonomous cargo ships
- Delivery boats within cities with waterways
- Delivery pipeline
- Delivering digital good such as books via email
- Delivery people on jetpacks
- Train shipping

Detailed discussion of ideas to replace current shipping technologies

Delivery Drones

Delivery drone will utilize already existing technology, which involves the use of airborne unmanned flights. These flights can be used to deliver small packages to customers within cities. In order for this delivery system to work the individual making an order will be ...

The cyclical process of Performance improvement

Performance improvement is a process through which an organization monitors its performance and ways of working using several methods. It also helps the organization’s management and staff to periodically change the way they work with the aim of improving service delivery and customer satisfaction. In other words, performance improvement involves monitoring the output and performance of a certain procedure or process. Thereafter, necessary and regular improvements are made so as to increase the output, efficiency and effectiveness of the organization. Performance improvement is a process and it involves a series of steps where each step is carefully thought out before being implemented. ...

Work Integrated Learning Experiences’ Reflection

Learning experiences provides insights to the practicality of what we learn in class through practicing the lessons and watching other employees do the same. In that respect, work integrated learning experiences expose us to new ways of doing things on a daily basis as well as an opportunity to reflect on how work place practices conforms or differs with the lessons learnt.. In addition, we are able to reflect on the impact that the practices have on us as well as the impact we have on our work places. Further, the reflection helps us identify what could have been done ...

Strategic analysis of DHL express companyExecutive summary

DHL express is a German based logistic company that provides services at international level such as mail and products delivery. It is one of the world's largest logistic companies. It is a leader in sea and air mail. Founded originally in 1969, in San Francisco, it was meant for delivering the documents to Honolulu. The company expanded its services in the entire world in the late years of 1970s. This was after heavily investing on the offshore and intercontinental deliveries and mostly in the United States (Infrastructure, 2008, p. 86).

The DHL expresses humble start was shipping the papers and ...

Abstract

This paper discusses how collaboration among various players in a health care delivery process can be promoted. It initially emphasizes on the manner in which various tasks in health care delivery are interconnected. Approaches that a health care administrator can apply to foster collaboration among clinicians are discussed. Collaboration is depicted as an important way to minimize human error in order to promote patient safety while also reducing organizational risks. The paper also discusses how physician leadership can encourage initiatives to promote reduction of organizational risks and patient safety.

Delivery of health care services in the current world is shifting towards a ...

Introduction

A contract can be defined as a relation between two parties, who enter into an agreement that will be bidding to them and enforceable by law. The consent of the parties should be a voluntary affair. There are various categories of contracts. The following cases studied below fall under the category of a sale of goods contract. For a sale of goods contract to be legally binding to the two parties, it must fulfill all the legal requirements of a valid contract. This means that there should be adherence to the requisite elements which include an offer, an unequivocal acceptance, and intention between the ...

Change Management and continuous improvement are essential parts of a process and therefore in order to ensure that the quality of delivery is optimum, a technique is always required to manage the shortcomings and to improve the quality of production and service. Project management has been widely used in order to create flawless execution systems to achieve any desired output within a specific period of time. Although, project management is a single concept however there are various methodologies that are used in order to cater to multiple organizations, businesses and domains. Apart from project management there are other techniques to improve process performance ...

Introduction

In Ontario Canada, the use of technology in nursing has advanced with developments in ICTs where nurses are continuously taking advantage of the opportunities that ICTs present in improving the quality of service delivery in the nursing profession. According to the Registered Nurses of Ontario e-health refers to the leveraging of information and communication technology to enhance professional practice in the promotion and the facilitation of the health and wellbeing of individual and families or patients (Registered Nrseses' Association of Ontario, 2009). The importance of ICT knowhow development in the nursing profession in Ontario is in the development of ...

Abstract

The American telecommunication industry has different players that continue to shape the direction of the industry day in day out. Some of the telecommunication companies that operate in this market include AT & T Inc. AT & T is an American incorporated company that deals in telecommunication services like Wireless or mobile telephony as well as landline services coupled with broadband television services. A clear company analysis reveals some industry strategic plan that has been applied by the company in pursuit of its economic goal in the market. This paper seeks to find the different strategic plans AT & ...

Abstract

The Purpose of this report is to analyze and evaluate various services of The Edge Restaurant and prepare exiting and potential blueprint of the services. The services of The Edge Restaurant are evaluated and determined on five dimensions of quality.

Introduction

Restaurant business is continuously growing at a fast pace. Change in consumer habits and preference towards eating out is fueling the growth of industry. Development in restaurant business also attracts new entrants in the industry. Continuously increasing competition increases customer’s expectations in terms of excellent services at affordable prices. Restaurant business is completely service based; hence it is essential ...

1. Healthcare Delivery on Micro and Macro Levels

Managed care is a healthcare plan or system that contract with health care providers and medical facilities to provide care for members at reduced costs. On the macro-level, managed care plans take into consideration on major issues such as system design and organizational structure. The funding system used by Managed care promotes efficient use of resources, such as payment using diagnosis-related groups or other care mix approaches to create an incentive to reduce length of stay and avoid excessive servicing during an episode of care (Andreou, 2011). For example, managed care providers emphasize on keeping enrollees healthy to reduce use ...

1. WebAnalytics
Web analytics is can be defined as the process of collecting, reporting and analyzing web data to understand and optimize a website. Web analytics is a tool for analyzing the website traffic and is also very effective tool for market research. It enables companies to create campaigns and advertisements based on the analytics results. Web Analytics considers the unique visitors, site uptime, bounce rate, new and returning visitors, average page view durations, clicks.
An example of web analytics tool is Spring Metrics. It is a free analytics tool that provides robust web analytics for web data.

2. GA ...

Weapons of mass destruction (WMD) have been emerged as one of biggest threats to the humanity in recent times. WMD are weapons that have very devastating effects on humans and can damage buildings or other human made structures substantially. There are several types of destructive weapons including nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, biological weapons and radiological that are known as WMD’S. These weapons are a major concern for politicians, policymakers, law enforcement agencies, army officials and make up a big threat to United States of America. US is on the top in hit list of terrorists and one major concern is ...

- Expand how marketers rely on partner relationship management to work closely with other departments to form the value chain.

Marketers are relying on using the partner relationship management as a form of business strategy which allows them to communicate effectively with their channel partners in forming a value chain of their business. They use partner relationship management in order to establish a productive dialog with re-sellers, dealers and other business partners through an automated system where all parties involved have a centralized access to information that would improve the sharing of valuable sources that would enhance the supply chain needed in carrying out business (Dyche, 114).

- Explain value chain and how each department carries out value-creating activities to design, produce, deliver and support a firm’s products.

A value chain involves the various activities undertaken by a company and its workers which may involve ...

Discussion #1: Nurse Practice Act and Rules and Regulations in Texas Board of Nursing

Sec. 301.451:
This section sets the precedence upon which the Texas Board of Nursing can take disciplinary action against an individual for reasons that have been proven beyond doubt that they would in one way, or another compromise the delivery of service. This section identifies all prohibited practices within the health care settings for all nurses. Among the issues, it identifies include the use of fraudulent documents or those obtained unlawfully by anyone serving within the workforce. The section also identifies the use of a license that has been revoked or suspended as a prohibited practice (Texas Board of Nursing, ...

Introduction

Home Health Plus is a new service based company. Till date the service offerings available in the retired and old age service market are limited. There are very few healthcare providers offering quality services, and there are very few products catering to the needs of the retired people. Home Health Plus plans to offer some unique products in this market. Currently, the services available for old age people are mainly provided if a person stays in an old age home or community.

Services like light housekeeping, laundry services, preparation of meals and snacks are offered at reasonable price only at old ...

The objective of this report is to present analysis on how RFID are being used to improve the efficiency and quality of organizations, their products and services. The report has been divided into three sections namely introduction, which provides a brief discussion on the general relation of information technology to business most particularly the RFID. The methods used to construct this report is through random research of the topic and used the obtained readings to support the thesis. It was concluded through the readings and findings that RFID was able to improve efficiency of companies in term of securing their ...

Abstract

A large amount of the existing research work that has been carried in mobile networking are mainly based on the assumption that there is an existence of a path between the sender and the receiver. Decentralized mobile systems are however exemplified by network partitions and this has been one of the main driving factors towards the study and implementation of the fully context-aware protocols. This protocol is mainly based on the fact that nodes can be exploited as carrier of messages in the network partitions in order to attain delivery of network components. The nodes in context aware protocol can ...

1.  Executive summary

Sysco Corp (SYY) is the leading foodservice distributor in the world, headquartered in Houston, Texas. The company has achieved gradual growth since it was founded in 1969. Some of Sysco’s growth strategies include acquisitions and developing a wide product line. The company generates its revenues through its four major segments; the Broadline, Specialty companies, International, and SYGMA segments. However, the company is in a dynamic and highly competitive foodservice distribution industry. It is therefore fundamental for Sysco to evaluate the external and industry factors that could affect the growth of the company and constantly come up with ...

International Business – Outsourcing or Reshoring?

Introduction

Companies outsource their key processes to third parties for many years, but, perhaps, at the turn of the 21st century, the term “outsourcing” began to gain momentum. Around this time, the companies began to engage third parties to perform the work in other countries – a process known as offshoring – in large emerging markets. The process of offshoring has attracted political and public attention because of concerns that it is destructive to the internal labor market. In this regard, a process of reshoring (the return of production from abroad), but such factors as cost and efficiency of business ...

Introduction

The world, today, is faced with myriad of challenges. Many people have got themselves as victims of violence, whether, domestic or civil (Jackson, 2009). In fact, many people are experiencing hardships and difficulties and are, therefore, in dire need of help and support. Helping such victims requires combined efforts of different agencies and organizations, both public and private. Such agencies are usually staffed with human service workers who ought to work diligently to ensure that the victims they handle get the best services. Notably, human services are of broad in scope just as the problems and needs.

The clients ...

Management Assignment

As a marketer, I have the philosophy that “the customer is the king”. So, I make my buying decisions as a King. What do I mean? A king is likely to make decisions that will bring benefits to his people and move the community forward. As a customer, I always make decisions in order to buy goods of high quality that are affordable and durable.

- Psychological Motivation:
Like most customers, I must be endowed with a psychological motivation about the product in question. I must be able to identify the need for the product. An interesting situation was where I ...

Analysis of Research & Technology in Nursing Practice

Introduction

Nurses are facing various challenges in the delivery of health care services such as an aging generation and the rise of chronic diseases. One way of improving the quality of care offered by nurse is by leveraging on technology and research. Technology gives nurses new tools to use in diagnosis, treatment, patient monitoring and patient education. Research is the basis of evidence-based care in nursing and improves quality by enhancing the use of safe and effective nursing practices. This essay analyses research and technology in nursing with an emphasis on how nurses should advocate for research, maintain competency ...

Question1

Using the trigger questions it is evident that one of the most critical knowledge that Monsanto needs is what makes it different within the market. By understanding the one thing that distinguishes a business from other businesses and the target important markets to the business.
Monsanto needs to identify its key competencies. The organization needs to understand how its key competence can be used to achieve its goals. The organization also needs to identity its key value-adding processes. The organization should also identity its important goods or services. For example, the organization’s Monsanto’s MON810 is one of ...

Public Health and Health Care

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration or OSHA is a federal agency of the government that is responsible for the implementation and enforcement of safety and health regulations and under the Department of Labor. The head of the agency is the Assistant Secretary of Labor of OSHA who shall be under the supervision of the Secretary of Labor, under the U.S. Executive Department (OSHA, 2013). The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 or otherwise known as the “OSH Act” was created for the purpose of prevent work place fatality or to prevent the ...

OIL AND GAS SUPPLY CHAIN

Supply-chain links involved in the oil and gas enterprise include; exploration, production, refining, marketing and consumption. Various operations are involved in each of these stages. To begin with, the exploration stage involves geological seismic and geophysical procedures. Production involves engineering facilities, reservoir and drilling operations. On the other hand refining involves complex processing procedures resulting products for the market. The consumption stage refers to when the oil and gas products have reached the end user. All the above stages are carried out as separate segments in a company or as specialized companies dealing with a single stage of the supply chain. ...

1. Describe the Master's prepared nurse’s role as researcher.

A research nurse performs a crucial role of guaranteeing the success of research studies. Research nurses also ensure the safety of participants and provide them with adequate information regarding the research topics, benefits and objectives of the research (Finkelman & Kenner, 2013). The role of a research is varied and intricate. Research nurses coordinate the management of the study through established organizational and leadership skills. Their roles in any clinical research entail preparation of protocols and other research–linked documentations. They submit research proposals for regulatory endorsement; coordinate the commencement, management and conclusion of the clinical study.
More importantly, research ...

Question 1:

Managed care has had a significant effect on the service delivery in the US. First of all, it has given the general population a chance to choose the kind of service they wish for and who they prefer to give the services to them. As such, the citizens have a chance to access the services of their choice. This is very important as it makes the people have both physical and psychological relief after getting teh services. This facilitates quick recovery. Managed care system has also helped in raising the standards of service care delivery. The different health personnel ...

Leaders have a great role in establishing and sustaining an ethical climate in an organization. According to Randall (2012), ethical climate is the perception of what the correct way to behave is and how ethical issues should get handled in an organization. There are two broad dimensions of sources of power; positional and personal. Positional power is the kind of power acquired due to the position one holds while personal power is from someone’s personality or skills. Positional power further divides into legitimate, reward and coercive power. Personal power includes expert and referent ...

Unplanned IM/IT and increased costs

The information technology department deals with the collection of standards and tools that the company uses to improve the ability of the system. On the other hand, unplanned information management causes disastrous impacts to the business. First, when the health care sector fails to conduct preventative work makes the problems inevitable. The organization usually incur the repair costs regularly. Many times technicians avoid following the change management process complicating problems. Also, organizational employees usually gain access to many IT/IM components. Such situations increase preventable issues and incidents. Further, unplanned information management increase inconsistencies associated with user applications and configurations. ...

Critically discuss what went wrong with the food supply chains to the supermarkets and manufacturers of processed beef products

In the year 2013, according to the reports of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI), horse meat was found in products labelled as 100% beef sold in some UK and Irish supermarkets. Horse-meat was revealed in products which were labelled as 100% beef and sold in Europe, the United Kingdom and France. The existence of DNA of pigs in products was also discovered during the tests in preserving beef products. The products were associated to supplementary of the ABP Food Group, which is one of the leading beef producer with business activities in Poland, Ireland and the UK ...

In an Undercover Boss USA Program, the Subway’s Chief Development Officer Don Fertman was chosen to go undercover and perform several jobs in different franchises of the subway. This assignment will analyse the job of sandwich artist and a store manager. The Sandwich Artist, Jessi was observed in the store # 562 Orlando, FL. To analyse Jessi’s job, Don Fertman personally practiced the job of sandwich artist. Later, he interviewed Jessi regards her qualification, age, and background information. The other job analysed was of the store manager, Duane at store # 31255 Buffalo, NY. This store was in an unusual ...

Revenue model is a design strategy of e-commerce used to demonstrate models of sales, company products, services and revenue forecasts of accompany. Revenue models also play an important role in value appropriation. It complements business model design just like product design can be complemented by pricing strategy. The statements of cash flow in accompany can thus be demonstrated using revenue model through the development of account receivable.

The first website, that is, www.souq.com comprises of revenue model that can be used for online shopping. It includes selling Microsoft products such as Windows ultimate and other services. The revenue model in ...

Nursing is an ever-changing and complex profession. There are things that should not change however; dedication to excellence in nursing. The excellence is achieved through the best practices, ethics and standards. Professional nursing practice hereby involves execution of primary tasks towards the patients. The nurse should be a leader, teacher, collaborator, guide and sentry. For these key roles to be executed efficiently, it requires that nurses have interpersonal and technical skills, ongoing learning, evidence-based practices, and commitment to quality, ethical practice, caring, critical thinking, leadership skills and cultural competence.

Nurses are required to practice in accordance with their professional philosophical ...

Information Technology and Health Informatics

Information Technology and Health Informatics

Information technology is the terminology used to describe all forms of technological applications in designing the encoding of information (or data), managing, to using the information according to the needs of an organization. In contrast, health informatics streamline technological application of information pertaining to the health care setting. Specifically, health informatics is defined as “the knowledge, skills and tools which enable information to be collected, managed, used and shared to support the delivery of healthcare and promote health” .

Give examples from your work experiences of clinical information systems, administrative information systems and decision ...

Policy Issues on Healthcare

Medicare policies are instrumental in shaping the delivery of quality health care to the society. A number of policies influencing medical service delivery in the U.S today borders on the contribution of the government through the respective ministries. An interview with medical doctor at John Hopkins hospital shows that policies developed by the government influence the delivery of healthcare to the society.

Some of the identified policy issues include:

1. The U.S population has special groups who need special attention when it comes to provision of healthcare. Largely, the care that these groups receive depends directly or indirectly on the choices that the government makes concerning ...

1. How well does Ric Elias support his ideas? Give three examples of how he does this.

Ric Elias supports his ideas through demonstrations that he makes during his speech on matters pertaining the points that he wants to make. When Ric is putting across the point of being a good parent and loving his life, he gives a story about himself whereby, he says that he found himself crying after watching his daughter perform and art. This shows how good he is to his daughter by going to watch her present. Ric puts across the idea of eliminating negative energy from his life. He supports this idea by saying that he has never fought with his wife ...

Introduction

Internet is widely used in health, where patients are being diagnosed by expert systems to know their status. eHealth has several ways in which Information Technology is used to deliver information about healthcare. Consumers are using blogs, search engines, health forums among others to acquire information on health. Application Service Providers are readily available in the Internet and a lot of information is kept in cloud computing about the patients and providers. In addition, doctors send patients’ results through emails. Despite its importance, it also has some challenges. This paper will look at eHealth information between the provider, Internet, and ...

In a general context, consumerism can be defined as a social and economic order that is geared towards encouraging the purchase of goods and services. There is no doubt that consumerism has huge impacts on various sectors of the economy. Particularly, the public health sector has come a long way in terms of advancement in the use of information technology in service delivery. This essay, besides outlining the role of information technology in public healthcare service, seeks to describe the impacts of consumerism in regard to I.T, claims management, and member services when dealing with healthcare providers.

Impacts of Consumerism

Health care providers have an ...

In past years there was a constant increase in the health related costs. The expenditure touched $2.3 trillion in United States in 2008 alone which was just $714 billion in the year 1990. The expenditure was eight times more in 2008 compared to 1980. It accounts to $7681 per capita expenditure spent by US health care in 2008.Adverse effects has been observed amongst citizens and government due to unprecedented rise of health care costs. Obviously, US government is spending less in economic growth and more on health care. Concerns were raised by citizens and businesses to implement health care reforms ...

Organizational Systems and Quality Leadership

The quality of care continues to occupy a center stage in the management of health care facilities as consumers focus shift from just seeking health care interventions to demand for safe and quality care. Nurses occupy an important position in healthcare interdisciplinary in which they play several roles in the delivery of patient care including the role of case managers and care takers among other clinical duties. In a move to promote effective integration of nurses into the interdisciplinary healthcare teams, the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI) has exploited the current technological advancement including internet connectivity to nurses with easily accessible ...

The business environment is constantly reinventing itself with businesses combining new methods to improve efficiency. According to Schoenbachler & Gordon (2002), it is now necessary for businesses to change or risk being driven out of business by competitors. Top of the factors that have been a driving force in the business scene is technology. Through the years, technology has constantly changed due to individual’s demand for efficiency. This continued development has enabled people to connect and communicate more easily. The incorporation of technology into business has contributed to the efficiency of service delivery to consumers. A major technological incorporation ...

1. Project management is often defined as a process of applying managerial tools, knowledge and skills in order to achieve the project goal and to fulfil the requirements set by the customer within a predefined schedule and at a preset cost. The main benefit of the project management is customer satisfaction. It is achieved through the completion of a project in full, on time, in a quality manner and within a predefined budget (Gido, & Clements, 2009). In my career I have often relied on project management in order to define project objectives and to design a plan for project implementation. As pharmaceutical industry is time ...

A help desk can either be centralized or decentralized. The centralized IT support provides help to every user in the company irrespective of location or even department. Conversely, a decentralized support has several helpdesks within an institution.

In choosing the right help desk model, there are various considerations taken into account in determining to choose either centralized or decentralized systems; since each model has inherent advantages as well as well as disadvantages.

The centralized systems usually offer sizeable economies of scale advantage. Also, centralism of tasks eliminates redundancy of responsibility, which offers a united front to completion of duties ...

In recent years, the health sector has become a very competitive field. Health institutions have been forced to develop effective strategies to counter the competition. The only solution has been to improve the quality of health care and create a good rapport with the customers. Gaining ground on the market is not an easy affair in health care as it is a delicate balance between ethical issues and business strategies (Ward, W. J., 2004). Krona Community Hospital is on a mission to remain competitive in the health care sector within this region through ensuring effective delivery of quality care. A comprehensive business strategy ...

Abstract

Global market operations require that a multinational organization considers policy structures that prove effective in the management of its global operations. An examination worldwide operation of Maersk Line in 135 countries around the world reveals that the company has employed investments in innovation and capacity building as the main driver of its supply chain components. Based on this six operational areas that encompass; customers, competition, operational costs, communication, technology and environmental pollution the paper investigates the efforts made by the management at Maersk Line in effectively running its supply chain worldwide. The paper finds that several challenges and opportunities are ...

P1: Marketing is a social process, which identifies, forecasts and satisfies the needs of the customers in a profitable way. Marketing strategies are overall plans, which fulfill the needs of the customers . Marketing techniques ensure the effective delivery of a market plan. The three marketing techniques available are growth strategies, survival strategies and branding techniques. The four categories of growth strategies are “market penetration, market development, product development and diversification” . Market penetration refers to increasing the number of consumers buying the product. Market development refers to marketing an existing product to a new market. Product development refers to selling a ...

Summary of Negotiation Process

The process of negotiation is part of the daily procedures in the faculties of business and no exceptional in engineering. The process is a two-way initiative, a give-take setting making the undertaking an important step in the present and the future status of the company. Poor negotiation attributes can cripple and devastate business and just as swift in loosing clients (ECV 4923, ‘Lecture notes’ 1).

In the case scenario provided it is evident that the supply contract process was elaborate; that is, it involved supplying a wide range of products and encompassing a number of sub-contractors and high prospective risks. However, the ...

An evaluation of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats and trends in the business environment in which the business operates provides an avenue for the growth, and the development of the business in regard to decision making based on the SWOTT aspects affecting the business in one way or the other. According to Kessler (2013, p. 814) such an analysis is particularly “based on brainstorming activities by stakeholders such as customers, investors employees and other knowledgeable parties in an attempt to develop strategies for the future direction of the organization.” Daily Health is a fast food restaurant operating in the ...

Introduction

Reliable and sound information is the key source of decision-making across all healthcare centers worldwide. Effective information systems are essential for the development of health system policies and their implementation. In addition, it ensures good governance and regulation, promotes health research, improve human resources development and high service delivery. Advances in technology, especially the internet, creates a better opportunity to improve healthcare institutions through making communications more efficient and increasing the effectiveness of practitioners. Healthcare centers that have implemented information systems have realized great changes in their operations in terms of speed, safety, efficient communications between parties and cost cutting. ...

Introduction

Over recent times, there was a global economic and financial meltdown and the United States was no exemption to this trend. Typical firms are usually motivated by the profit maximization objective. These firms usually respond accordingly to changes in the market conditions that affect their levels of profitability. However, this is not the case for nonprofit organizations. In spite of the financial challenges that they encounter, these organizations have to continue prioritizing service delivery to the public.

Statement of the problem

The nonprofit sector in the United States contributes more than $322 billion in wages and its workforce outnumbers the combined workforces of the ...

The steps in the business continuity planning process include:
- Scope of the plan and business areas: This involves establishing the services that the organization must deliver. The mission and vision provide such information.

- Critical functions: This involves establishing and prioritizing the functions that facilitate product delivery in order to determine the extent of the likely loss of revenue.

- Dependencies between business functions: This involves identifying internal and external dependencies. Such include employee availability, organization’s assets, support services, suppliers, government services, etc.

- Acceptable downtime for a critical function: This involves identifying the impact of a ...

Activity Summary

Projects initiation was the first activity that we engaged in. It was undertaken after a SWOT analysis of the hotel identified that the POS project was the most valuable and most favorable at that time. The next activities that followed were project scope documentation, project approval and signing off. These activities involved definition of goals and assigning of tasks. They also involved the dividing the project into baselines (technical, functional and management and cost baselines). Project plan execution involved a number of activities that included the following: getting bids from suppliers, auction, procurement closure, enterprise information infrastructure design, training of implementers, ...

SEO and SEM both relate to marketing and search engines. Though both of them are similar in some ways, there are manifest variances between the two. SEO deals with those techniques that ensure the accessibility of a website by a search engine with good chances of the website showing up in the results of a query from the search engine. The definitive goal of any fruitful SEO campaign is the accomplishment of a high-ranking spot in the results returned by major search engine pages such as; Yahoo, Bing and Google. There are also other smaller search engines. After searching, most users on the ...

Introduction

The primary purpose of this project audit method is to carry out a systematic inspection of a point-of-sale at a hotel to assist in automating services. The hotel has for a long time been using an over-the-counter register in its interactions and a manual inventory for its suppliers. The new technology offers a new way by which to increase the speeds of transactions and accuracy of the orders. Installation of the new electronic point-of-sale is done in a bid to maximize customer experience and take control of the inventory, and secure the systems at all points of entry. The electronic point-of-sale would enable the management of ...

Question one

Benchmarking is a systematic process where leaders of an organization conduct a market performance analysis by comparing its practices with those of a similar organization as a strategy to re-assess its own competitive ability in the market. The approach is applicable in health care organizations in order to assist the institution to understand the prevailing best practices in health services delivery to the clients. The process requires internal understanding of its current strategy, comparing with other similar organizations and then implements the comprehensive strategic plan derived from the benchmarking process.

OFI (Opportunity for Improvement) is a standardized form utilized by health organizations to evaluate ...

Question 1

Are there possible criminal aspects of HIV/AIDS? Consider the case law presented in your textbook and elsewhere, and explain. Please provide specific examples.

The intentional spread of HIV is considered a criminal act. Pozgar (2012, p. 362) describes the case of an inmate who knew that he was infected with both HIV and the hepatitis virus. He was also informed of the ways that he can transmit the infection to others. He bit two correctional officers knowing that he can possibly infect them in this way. He was consequently charged with assault and battery. In State of Louisiana v. Schmidt, ...

Executive Summary

Recently, many hospitals worldwide have experienced some setbacks in reference to health care delivery system. This setback was primarily caused by the growing shortage in the number of experienced and competent healthcare workers, particularly nurses in the health profession. One of these hospitals is Renfrey Memorial Hospital, who is facing not major problems related to an aging nursing staff, overworked personnel and migration of able and experienced nurses to other health institutions because of the more promising professional life.

This report would identify the best practices and benchmark techniques used by differently medical facilities that have experienced similar problems. ...

Business Management

Event 1: Rising fuel prices: The constant sorrow of the airline industry

The consistent volatility in oil prices has been a serious concern for airline companies now. Although the mid-east crisis seems to be solved now and oil prices have now returned to a more sustainable level with the current market prices hovering around $105-106/ barrel, however, the upside-downside trend in the oil prices has endowed an unwanted pressure on profitability of airline companies. The issue is not about higher or lower price, but relating to the rate at which they increase or decrease as the airline company has to set ...

Introduction

Coca-Cola Company is one of the most reputable companies in the world today; however, for a company like this with respects to Boxall’s work in (2007) about the management of employment in a modest milieu, an employer has two main aspects to put to his or her consideration. Having started as a beverage, Coca-Cola has stood as the leading drink company in this century. However, there are a number of factors that have to be placed to ensure that a company can remain; not forgetting became the leading company for over 120 years. These factors may include the relationship the company has created ...